Suspicious envelopes close 3 Wells Fargo branches

[shawn703]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co has closed three branches in New York City after they received suspicious envelopes containing white powder, a bank spokesman said on Monday.

The branches will remain closed pending further investigation by the police, bank spokesman Ancel Martinez said. The branch locations are at Third Avenue and 47th Street; Madison Avenue and 34th Street; and Broadway and 85th Street.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/wellsfargo-branchclosures-idUSL1E8FUGIW20120430

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In the last paragraph at the link, they of course mention the protestors, probably to insinuate they are responsible.

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Probably did it to themselves to garner sympathy. Boo Hoo poor wells fargo theives.

[canuckledragger]

2. you beat me to it

..I had the same thoughts, but thinking that it's more to paint the occupy movement in a sinister light just before May Day

[Proletariatprincess]

3. that was my first thought too....

cheaper than a PR budget, I guess. But we are pretty cynical now adays, aren't we?

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. We're not cynical, we just figured out how they operate.

[saras]

6. Nowhere near cynical enough, as we find out every time something is leaked.

[got root]

7. yep, thats how i read it, too

[sabrina 1]

10. I was just going to say that. Wouldn't put it past them.

[KansDem]

12. It's a Karl Rove tactic...

1986 William Clements, Jr. gubernatorial campaign

In 1986, Rove helped Clements become governor a second time. In a strategy memo Rove wrote for his client prior to the race, now among Clements's papers in the Texas A&M University library, Rove quoted Napoleon: "The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack."

In 1986, just before a crucial debate in campaign, Rove claimed that his office had been bugged by Democrats. The police and FBI investigated and discovered that the bug's battery was so small that it needed to be changed every few hours, and the investigation was dropped.[23] Critics, including other Republican operatives, suspected Rove had bugged his own office to garner sympathy votes in the close governor's race.[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove

[golddigger]

4. How convient, right before Mayday.

[annm4peace]

8. agent provacators

[lonestarnot]

9. Bank employees. Underpaid and shit from both sides.

[slackmaster]

11. It's utterly inconceivable that someone might honestly hate WFB enough to do something like that

It's such a lovable institution, viewed by all of its customers, employees, former customers, and former employees as a foundation of the community. A tight-fisted but loving benefactor who has always been there and always will be.

Yeah, it had to be an inside job or agents provocateurs or a false flag operation or black propaganda, or something like that. Makes sense to me.

[Proletariatprincess]

13. I think you are right on

Just the thought of May Day scares the hell out of these banksters and capitalists everwhere...lol.

[randome]

15. Yes, who would have thought...

...that it is the right thing to do to terrorize mail clerks? I bet those corporate bigwigs are shaking in their boots now!

[JoePhilly]

14. Maybe the envelopes were filled with tears.

About a year ago, I was looking to refinance my house. Wells-Fargo has purchased my mortgage from some other lender, who had purchased it a few years earlier from a prior lender, who had purchased it from the original lender.

So I called Wells Fargo to see if they wanted to refinance my mortgage. It was at ~6.25% with 20 years remaining on a 30 year fixed. I'd already determined that I'd have no trouble refinancing through some one else for a much better rate. They said no, they were uninterested in giving me the better rate.

So I refinanced through a local bank and got down to 15 year fixed, 3.75%, and my monthly payment hardly changed.

Then 3 months after ... Wells Fargo bought my mortgage from the new lender.

[slackmaster]

16. I went through exactly the same process in 2003...

...except the lender was Countrywide rather than WFB. Originating a loan is a hassle. It's more profitable to service them.

BTW, mine is owned by Fannie Mae and now serviced by the criminal organization known as Bank of America.

[JoePhilly]

17. Haha ... Countrywide and BoA both held mine at one time.

Its like these folks pass our mortgages back and forth and somehow that generates more money.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Thank god for Countrywide.

Seriously.....sorta.

When we retired and moved back here, neither of us had a job any longer, altho we did have a large hunk of money from selling a house in SF.
So Countrywide was of course the perfect place to get a no doc loan.
No other place here in our small town would do the loan.
We put 25% down, have very small payments. ( and have a small income)
At the time I had no idea about the mortgage fraud issues.
BOA is now our servicer, and continues to try to "force place" homeowner's insurance on us every year.

Countrywide's existance at the time we bought was actually very good for us, perfect timing, then.