Wachovia
Wachovia has joined the parade of commercial and investment banks announcing first quarter losses and an intent to raise capital to carry it through the looming months of credit reversals. The company's problems began when it purchased Golden West a California bank and mortgage lender for $25.5 billion two years ago. Wachovia had coveted...
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Wachovia Settles One Suit, Confronts Money Laundering Charges
In the morning it was announced that Wachovia Corp. had agreed to a settlement with The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) of as much a $144 million to end an 18 month investigation into its role in a telemarketing scheme that allegedly affected between 350,000 and 500,000 Wachovia customers, many of them elderly.
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