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"Bank on Los Angeles": city helps corrupt banks profit from illegal activity - 3/25/2009

The City of Los Angeles recently announced a new public-private partnership called "Bank on Los Angeles" (bankonla.com) that's designed to help 10,000 low-income residents who don't have bank accounts ("the unbanked") open up accounts. It's also open to illegal aliens [1], and that means that Los Angeles City will be encouraging corruption by helping major banks ...

San Francisco approves ID card; corruption in plain sight; Tom Ammiano? - 11/14/2007

... America, Washington Mutual and US Bank had expressed interest in accepting the ID cards. Bank on San Francisco is a city partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank. Although criteria for opening bank accounts are set in part through the USA Patriot Act, "to our knowledge that law is not a bar to a municipal ID," said David Augustine, spokesman for the city treasurer's office, whi...

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