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  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    First Republic Bank Discouraged Internal Investigations Into Customers' Suspicious Activities, Lawsuits Claims

    First Republic Bank instructed compliance officers not to investigate clients' suspicious activity, two former employees charge in a lawsuit. The employees, Frederick Casissa and Elizabeth Riggins, claim that the bank fired them because they pursued the investigations. The lawsuit, filed in the U. ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2010

    The Mad Quest of Mr. Wu

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

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

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

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Recession's Latest Victim: Plans to Restore Old Mint

    Were local tycoons too cheap to bankroll this? ​Nine years after Mayor Willie Brown put in motion a plan to turn the 136-year-old San Francisco's Old Mint at Fifth and Mission Streets into a "21st-century mixed-use cultural center dedicated to the residents and visitors of the Bay Area," the San F ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2010

    Why Obama's mortgage-relief program failed

    Were local tycoons too cheap to bankroll this? ​Nine years after Mayor Willie Brown put in motion a plan to turn the 136-year-old San Francisco's Old Mint at Fifth and Mission Streets into a "21st-century mixed-use cultural center dedicated to the residents and visitors of the Bay Area," the San F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Bayview Man Claims Chase Bank Trashed His Loan Modification Agreement

    ​Robert Davis was profiled on the radio as a success story -- a Bayview resident facing foreclosure who beat the odds and secured a home loan modification from Chase. In March, it looked like his story had a happy ending: Chase approved him for a permanent loan modification that allowed him to kee ... 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.

  • 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 >>

  • News

    November 5, 2008

    Train Wreck

    Major public transit agencies around the country — including San Francisco's — may pay billions for risky deals with bankers.

  • Music

    October 10, 2007

    Metalocalypse Takes an Adult Swim in Blood

    Major public transit agencies around the country — including San Francisco's — may pay billions for risky deals with bankers.

  • News

    September 12, 2007

    Leno's Hemp Screen

    Just say "no" to more hemp. Focus on the weak dollar and apocalypse tomorrow!

  • News

    August 10, 2005

    Noir You See It, Noir You Don't

    Naming one of the masterminds of the SFO Enterprises scandal as a "watchdog" over billions in public investment: city government or pulp fiction?

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    The Tax Man Cometh

    The federal government looks to eliminate abusive tax shelters, and it may cost San Francisco tens of millions of dollars

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    The World According to Bechtel

    There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Solitary Refinement

    Love would be so much easier if we all lived by the credo of the quirkyalone

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    A Smuggler's Tale

    A Berkeley woman's efforts to deliver banned medicines and other goods to Iraq arouses federal ire

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Dog Bites

    Au Couture, Mon Frére! Is It Good or Bad to Be Libeled by an Idiot? Writing Wrongs

  • News

    October 10, 2001

    Cleaning House

    To work against terrorism, new money-laundering laws will have to be enforced in the world headquarters of cash-washing: the U.S. of A.

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    Dim Bulbs

    Greedy out-of-state profiteers make easy targets, but the real villains of California's energy debacle are the ones under the state capitol dome.

  • News

    January 17, 2001

    A Sentence Without an Ending

    The "used-car rabbi" gets probation instead of jail, but the question of what he did with millions of dollars in donations remains unanswered

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    South to the Future

    Community or Crime Syndicate? Feds bust online trading scheme

  • News

    March 5, 1997

    Taking Howard Stern Seriously

    Community or Crime Syndicate? Feds bust online trading scheme

  • News

    January 10, 1996

    Off-Base (Part II)

    The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

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