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Do financial institutions specially approve loans to pay the Church of Scientology?
This is about claims made by Steven Mango (who appeared also in the "My Scientology Movie", directed by John Dower) between the 1:00 - 2:30 points in this video titled "Top 5 Craziest Experiences I Had In Scientology".
According to Mr Mango, a…
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Did a non-US Hungarian citizen get extradited to the United States for not reporting an American customer of his bank?
I was reading about this case in the news - Former Executive of Loyal Bank Ltd Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States by Failing to Comply with Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
Here is an excerpt from the opening…
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Did radically fewer new banks open after Dodd-Frank was enacted?
According to the WallStreet journal (non-paywalled quote on OverLawyered):
Based in a rural village in the heart of Amish country, Bank of Bird-in-Hand is the only new bank to open in the U.S. since 2010, when the Dodd-Frank law was passed and…
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Do financial institutions have a legal obligation to reopen a closed account if money is sent to that account?
This is a follow-up to a question I asked on Money.se:
The credit union cited the Automated Clearing House regulations as the reason they reopened my closed account when a third party tried to send money to it.
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Is it unsafe to write personal checks to random strangers?
According to Donald Knuth:
Leading banks and investment funds have been foundering, because of bad debts and lack of trust; and other, less well-known kinds of fiscal chaos are also on the horizon. For example, due to an unfixable security flaw in…
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Is the United States bankrupt?
According to this Doc,
United States did go "Bankrupt" in 1933 and was declared so by
President Roosevelt by Executive Orders 6073, 6102, 6111 and by
Executive Order 6260 on March 9, 1933, under the "Trading With The
Enemy Act" of October 6,…
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