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Twin brothers sentenced to prison for robbing Landover bank
A federal judge sentenced twin brothers to more than eight years in federal prison Monday for robbing $90,000 from a Landover Wachovia bank with help from a corrupt employee and others, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Darnell and Ronnell...Tags: Prisons, Punishment, Washington, DC, Trials, Landover
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Man sentenced in ATM skimming conspiracy that affected Harford, region
A Bulgarian citizen, who was involved in an international conspiracy to skim debit and credit card information from bank and other ATMs, including at least one in Bel Air early last year, was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison by a judge in...Tags: Howard County, Defendants, Harford County, Court Preliminary, Bank of America Corp.
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$1 billion in aid coming to Maryland foreclosure victims
A federal judge finalized on Thursday a landmark settlement that will bring nearly $1 billion in aid to Maryland homeowners who were victims of deceptive and illegal foreclosure practices. The settlement, for $25 billion in total, was first reached in...Tags: Bank of America Corp., Judges, Finance, Banking, Wells Fargo & Co.
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Wells Fargo agrees to pay restitution to mortgage borrowers
Under an agreement announced Thursday by the Maryland Attorney General's Office, Wells Fargo has agreed to make loan modifications and pay nearly $1 million in restitution to customers of two lenders acquired by the bank. The office's Consumer Protection...Tags: Finance, Marketing, Lawyers, Wells Fargo & Co., Finance
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Wells Fargo moves into a city it helped devastate
This weekend you may notice former Wachovia branches around Baltimore getting a makeover, swapping out their old logos for brand new Wells Fargo signs. While Wells Fargo has been busy promoting the new and improved services customers will receive,...Tags: Loans, Interior Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Wells Fargo & Co., Housing and Urban Planning
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Wells Fargo has been good to Baltimore
As mentioned in a recent op-ed article in The Sun, a host of bank branches and offices were renamed Wells Fargo (formerly Wachovia) over the weekend ("Wells Fargo not a good neighbor in Baltimore," Sept. 16). The op-ed did not mention that before and...Tags: Wells Fargo & Co.
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Consumer advocates fear that more traditional banks will be offering payday loans
If you are offered a short-term advance on your paycheck at a triple-digit interest rate, you might think you're being pitched a payday loan — a product that's basically banned in Maryland and other states with rate caps.
But what if that deal came...Tags: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Money and Monetary Policy, Wells Fargo & Co., Finance, Wages and Pensions
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Earthquake causes Baltimore traffic congestion, transit delays
Commuters experienced delays on roads, bridges and transit systems around the state as Marylanders felt the effect of a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Virginia Tuesday, but most of the disruptions were clearing up by late afternoon. Jack Cahalan, a...Tags: Disasters, Dundalk, Natural Disasters, Bus Accidents, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Man who robbed 2 Baltimore banks sentenced
BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a man who robbed two Baltimore banks with what he claimed to be were bombs has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Thirty-year-old Nathaniel Green of Baltimore was also ordered at sentencing on Tuesday to...Tags: Punishment, Theft, Pratt Street
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40 million credit card numbers are at risk
Los Angeles TimesIn the largest reported breach of personal data, hackers infiltrated the computers at a credit card processing center and stole as many as 40 million card numbers, MasterCard International disclosed yesterday. MasterCard said card numbers and...Tags: Gartner Incorporated, Fraud, Security, Theft, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Missing data is latest in rash of breaches
Sun StaffWhen CitiFinancial, the Baltimore-based consumer-finance division of Citigroup Inc., put a box of computer tapes that documented the financial habits of its customers on a UPS truck in Weehawken, N.J., last month, the shipment represented one routine step...Tags: Time Warner Inc., Fraud, Theft, Social Security, TD Ameritrade Holdings Corp.
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Aiding potential victims of data theft
The Wall Street JournalIn the past several months, a parade of household names -- from Polo and Time Warner to MCI and Bank of America -- have been sending out "oops" letters apologizing for leaving laptops around that are chock full of private data or issuing news releases...Tags: Time Warner Inc., Fraud, Theft, Social Security, Equifax Incorporated
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