abcnews.go.com - 2/27/2009
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In just one day, the president of Bank of America, Ken Lewis, managed to defy both President Barack Obama and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. On Thursday, Lewis refused to provide a list of bonus payments to the New York Attorney General, after arriving in New York in his $50 million ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 2/25/2009
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Here is the text of President Obama's first
address to a joint session of Congress, as released...
by the White House moments ago: Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I’ve come ...
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Full text of Obama's speech to Congress and the nation
bankofobama.org - 2/25/2009
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bankofobama.org —
Bail Out Your Friends Today! Bad mortgage, student
loan, credit card debt, Vegas trip...you know someone who...
needs a personal bailout for it. Bank of Obama believes everyone should get their share of the stimulus package. We provide a novel way to ...
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Bank of Obama - Home
rushlimbaugh.com - 3/7/2009
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RUSH: Let's go back to Election Day, 11/4/08.
That was the day of hope. The Dow Jones...
Industrial Average closed at 9625. At this moment, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hovering around 6580. It is down over 3,000 points. That means that just since ...
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Stonewalling in Style: Bank of America Subpoenaed
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Merrill Lynch executives who received $3.6 billion in questionable bonuses right before the banks merged late last year. "Bank of America has made the decision they don't want to turn that information over to us and we, therefore, tonight served Bank of America with a subpoena to turn over that information," said Special Assistant to the New York Attorney General Benjamin Lawsky Thursday evening, "and we intend to get that by whatever means is necessary going forward." Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6969628
Bank of America Stonewalls on Executive Bonuses
Crooks and Liars —
Gee, what do you suppose Lewis is hiding?
A major legal battle is brewing between Bank of America President Ken Lewis and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo because the CEO is refusing to hand over a list of Merrill Lynch executives who received $3.6 billion in questionable bonuses right before the banks merged late last year.
"Bank of America has made the decision they don't want to turn that information over to us and we, therefore, tonight served Bank of America with a subpoena to turn over that information," said Special Assistant to the New York Attorney General Benjamin Lawsky Thursday ...
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openleft.com 4/29/2009 — "There's literally billions of reasons to fire Ken Lewis," said SEIU's Stephen Lerner, slamming the controversial Bank of America CEO yesterday on CNBC's "Power Lunch." Just what are these billions of reasons? Well, there's over $5 billion ...
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/9/2009 — We're getting way past flogging a dead horse territory here, but yesterday, in a rich and lengthy rundown on the troubled Merrill-Bank of America marriage, the New York Times had some great new details about John Thain's narcissism and self-delusion ...
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 4/9/2009 — Now that the Obama Administration has started sacking CEOs, MoveOn asking its 3.2 million members to petition Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to issue Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis's pink slip next, in a move that appears to be related to the union ...
Bank Of America Planning To Cut 10 Percent Of Branches: Report
huffingtonpost.com 7/28/2009 — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bank of America Corp.'s CEO Ken Lewis said he is planning to shrink the bank's 6,100-branch network by about 10 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
The newspaper said Lewis told investors of the plans at a ...
Time to Go: Bank of America must fire CEO Ken Lewis
seiu.org 1/27/2009 — Over the last few months, it's become abundantly clear that Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis just doesn't get it. The era of greed and irresponsibility is over. Bank of America tellers make about $24,000 a year. That's less than what the CEO of a company ...
Video: Fire Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis
bravenewfilms.org 4/29/2009 — The economic crisis is out of control , as Bank of America and the corrupt corporate elite continue to wage class warfare. It’s time we hit back hard. It’s time we fire CEO Ken Lewis. Our good friends at SEIU have been courageously leading this fight. ...
House targets Fed in Bank of America investigation - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 6/19/2009 — WASHINGTON A House panel has subpoenaed documents that lawmakers say could shed new light on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's role in Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch . The subpoena comes ahead of a hearing next week in which ...
John Thain's Top Ten Greatest Moments
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/23/2009 — If there's one corporate honcho who's emerging as the poster boy for all the varied Wall Street sins that the financial crisis has exposed -- not just greed, but callousness, obliviousness and general incompetence -- its Merrill Lynch's former CEO ...
On Merrill Bonuses B of A's Statements Don't Match Reality
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/3/2009 — As New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's investigation continues, it's becoming increasingly clear that Bank of America, and its CEO Ken Lewis, haven't been straight on the subject of what they knew about those outlandish Merrill bonuses.
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Congress: Unprepared for the frenzy —
First Read 2/23/2009
Politico writes, “In multiple interviews, several Senate aides and Burris confidants say the senator was unprepared from a public relations and political perspective to deal with the national media frenzy and ethics problems he now confronts."
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2010: Guns blazin' —
First Read 2/27/2009
NEW YORK: "Attorney General Eric Holder’s push for the renewal of the assault weapon ban has put Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) between a rock and a hard place," The Hill reports. But "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will join Speaker ...
Bush Justice memos released —
First Read 3/2/2009
From NBC's Pete WilliamsThe Justice Department today released several Bush-era legal memos, issued in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, that were rescinded in the later days of the Bush presidency or since President Obama took office.
"Americans ...
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