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Regional Banks and Savings Institutions

  • 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

    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

    July 29, 2009

    Advanta Corp.'s dubious investment offer in the Chronicle

    ​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

    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

    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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2007

    CHP Aids Oakland Crime Surge

    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 >>

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Reagan-Era Road Trip Tapes

    Community Thrift

  • News

    June 7, 2000

    Thrift and Consequences

    How a supervisor with just $42,500 in income services $1 million in mortgages

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