Robber Told Bank He Was Fed Up With Bailouts

Gets away after SF bomb-threat heist

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 22, 2009 3:20 PM CDT

(Newser) – Police are looking for a man who robbed a San Francisco branch of Bank of America—ostensibly out of disgust for corporate bailouts, the Chronicle reports. The man requested a meeting with a manager and told him he represented “a corporation” concerned with the... Read full story »

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