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L0laL33tz | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +27 
 TD Bank's plea is an interesting read for anyone who believes that justice has been served in the US banking industry.

If its “historic fine” tells us anything, it's that that crime pays when you're a banker.

Full story: 
https://www.therage.co/untitled-2/
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Brian | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's a nice advertisement to get all the other banks to compete to take the business TD left behind
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Tim Bouma | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 For bankers, it’s calculated risk; for everyone else, it’s organized crime.
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Horszt | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They are all ridiculous and people are not doing a thing. Breaks my heart. 💝
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JCHCG | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Left TD over 15yrs ago…
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zCat | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Free TornadoCash or Samurai wallet devs! 

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cryptowolf | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 this is the icing on the cake.
as much as I try to transact in BTC only, i still need a fiat bank to pay my mortgage and keep some amount to pay bills there.

I am done with this shitty bank and their fees and their theivery.
As soon as i finish my last ordeal with them im switching to an online only bank like Tangerine.
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JCHCG | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Their fees were always higher and so was their insurance.
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Ape Mithrandir | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Use of money should not be criminalised. Theft, murder and kidnapping are already crimes. You do not need to make the use of the money from crimes illegal.
The use of money can form evidence in a criminal prosecution, but the making the use of money alone criminal is a short cut to conviction, which places such a burden on the financial system as a whole, that is simply not worth it.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1725366#d1e146
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elsat | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What were the proceeds from crime, and what percentage was the “historic fine” of total proceeds. 

If the latter is smaller than the former, I wonder if the CFO and finance dept planned this “fee” as a cost of doing business.