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Cuomo Hits 5 BofA Directors With Subpoenas

Bank's board may have hid Merrill losses from shareholders

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 16, 2009 1:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed five members of Bank of America’s board of directors today in his probe to uncover whether the bank was truthful to shareholders about losses at Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street Journal reports. The New York Attorney General suspects that the board was fully informed of the trouble Merrill was in before a Dec. 5 shareholder vote to approve the merger, but may have kept shareholders out of the loop.

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2008 file photo, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo speaks during a presentation in Albany, N.Y.
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2008 file photo, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo speaks during a presentation in Albany, N.Y.   (AP Photo/Mike Groll, file)
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, a Bank of America branch office is shown in New York.
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, a Bank of America branch office is shown in New York.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
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Guest
Sep 18, 2009 6:30 AM CDT
Done that. My savings and loan is actually paying better money market rates than the commercial banks are now. I won't go back, unless they really pop the rates to an extremely high level.
Guest
Sep 18, 2009 6:28 AM CDT
true brother, so let's keep watching them. They are on thin ice with me; if there is no public option in health care, I am finished with them. I'll start voting for those that really reflect my views, even if it takes votes away from them.
Guest
Sep 17, 2009 5:46 AM CDT
honestly I was worried too , still am , sometimes they hafta through a dog a bone to get him to look away

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