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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Criminals running banks go untouched,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Wed Aug 29 15:31:28 2012
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:21:34 -0700
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Criminals running banks go untouched, while low level workers being
fired for minor crimes many decades ago
http://j.mp/UbIZyS (Huffington)
A "stupid stunt" that took place nearly 50 years ago has cost one Iowa
man his job at Wells Fargo. The bank fired Richard Eggers from his
job of seven years as a customer service representative after the
company found out about a decades-old run-in with the law, the Des
Moines Register reports. In 1963 Eggers got caught putting a cardboard
cut-out of a dime in a washing machine at a laundromat ... Eggers'
firing is one of thousands now occurring due to stricter guidelines on
bank and mortgage lender employees that went into effect last year.
The new rules are meant to gut the institutions of workers convicted
of various types of fraud, but the casualties have largely been
low-level workers like Eggers, according to ABC5 News.
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