Inside Job, Outside Blame
When your ‘trusted financial advisor’ turns out to be the getaway driver.
Panel of Marin County bank customers sitting in a police lineup next to a Bay Area banker, all holding numbered placards. The banker’s placard is just a giant Wells Fargo–style logo with a strip of tape over it reading “TOTALLY LOCAL COMMUNITY BANK.” A detective whispers to another cop: “We’ve arrested the small-time robbers. Now who do we call about the ones who wrote the overdraft fees?”
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Bay Area bank employee and two others accused of robbery scheme — Investigators arrested three suspects Thursday on allegations they conspired to rob Marin County bank customers.
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Through December 10, Houthis Won’t Damage Pakistan or Turkey Infrastructure
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