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    February 22, 2009

    Update: Scandal-Plagued Daly City Banking Regulator Confirms Resignation

    Office of Thrift Supervision Darrel Dochow Darrel Dochow, the banking regulator found to have allowed IndyMac Bank to falsify financial records just before the Southern California lender collapsed last summer, confirmed in an e-mail that he will resign his post in March. In his resignation le ... More >>

  • News

    April 3, 1996

    A Message to Our Customers

    Office of Thrift Supervision Darrel Dochow Darrel Dochow, the banking regulator found to have allowed IndyMac Bank to falsify financial records just before the Southern California lender collapsed last summer, confirmed in an e-mail that he will resign his post in March. In his resignation le ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    Office of Thrift Supervision Darrel Dochow Darrel Dochow, the banking regulator found to have allowed IndyMac Bank to falsify financial records just before the Southern California lender collapsed last summer, confirmed in an e-mail that he will resign his post in March. In his resignation le ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2009

    Flubbers

    How Federal Home Loan Banks and their execs exacerbated the banking meltdown.

  • News

    March 4, 2009

    Bonfire of the Profanities

    An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Apparent Ponzi Scheme Advertised in Sunday Chronicle, Fraud Investigator Says

    Banking experts qualify the service being hawked in this San Francisco Chronicle ad as a potential Ponzi schemeReaders skimming the ads on page D-2 of the Sunday, July 12 San Francisco Chronicle might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a quarter-page advertisement ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2009

    Advanta Corp.'s dubious investment offer in the Chronicle

    Banking experts qualify the service being hawked in this San Francisco Chronicle ad as a potential Ponzi schemeReaders skimming the ads on page D-2 of the Sunday, July 12 San Francisco Chronicle might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a quarter-page advertisement ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2009

    No Justice

    Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Department of Can't Say We Didn't Warn Ya: Dicey Investment Offer Advertised in Chronicle Goes Bad

    ​On Friday, July 17 The Snitch warned readers that an advertisement published in the previous Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle seemed intended to lure mom-and-pop investors into possible financial disaster.News headlines Monday suggest our warning was valid. Advanta Corp., a bank holding company s ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2010

    Is Winston Lum a criminal mastermind or a patsy?

    ​On Friday, July 17 The Snitch warned readers that an advertisement published in the previous Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle seemed intended to lure mom-and-pop investors into possible financial disaster.News headlines Monday suggest our warning was valid. Advanta Corp., a bank holding company s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Kaushal Niroula, Purported New College Grifter, May Have Ravaged Bank

    What's next?​Los Padres Bank -- the Solvang lender hit by a Rincon Hill real estate scam created by alleged con man Kaushal Niroula -- has been taken over and sold by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to a Friday press release.The FDIC estimated the cost to the deposit insurance fund ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2010

    The Mad Quest of Mr. Wu

    How a wannabe banking magnate from S.F. built an empire on deception.

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Mayor Ed Lee's New Port Commissioner Clarifies Role in 2009 S.F. Bank Failure

    What did Doreen Wu Ho Know About Tommy Wu? And When Did She Know It?​Earlier this month, Mayor Ed Lee appointed a new port commissioner, which raised many eyebrows here, given that Doreen Woo Ho was a top official at the failed United Commercial Bank. In November 2011, United Commercial Bank was s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Feds File Suit Against Disgraced Chinatown Banking Magnate Tommy Wu

    ​The federal government filed criminal charges and civil suits yesterday against several top officials of United Commercial Bank, a San Francisco financial institution that did hefty business among Chinese-American immigrants before it collapsed in 2009.Tommy Wu, the bank's CEO, was the subject of ... More >>

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