Chase Gets Man Thrown In Jail For Fraudulent Check. Except The Check Is Legit.

[meegbear]

Ikenna, a 28-year old construction worker, went to deposit a $8,463.21 Chase cashier's check at his local Chase branch, only for the teller to decide that neither he nor his check looked right and he got tossed in jail for forgery, KING5 reports. The next day, a Friday the bank realized its mistake and left a message with the detective. But it was her day off, so he spent the entire weekend in jail.

By the time he got out, he had been fired from his job for not showing up to work. His car had been towed as well. It ended up getting sold off at auction because he couldn't afford to get it out of the pound. He had been relying on that cashier's check for his money but it was taken as evidence and by the time he got it back it was auctioned off.

All this while the cashier's check had been issued by the very bank he was trying to cash it at.

Chase didn't even apologize, not even after a year. A lawyer volunteered to help write a strongly-worded letter requesting damages. After trying hard to get a response, they sent KING 5 a two-sentence reply: "We received the letter and are reviewing the situation. We'll be reaching out to the customer."

http://consumerist.com/2011/07/chase-gets-man-thrown-in-jail-for-fraudulent-check-except-the-check-is-legit.html

[trumad]

1. Sounds like the Onion.

[bemildred]

2. Sue. nt

[malaise]

3. I hope he sues the pants off of them

These scumbags are something else.

[damntexdem]

4. A lawyer needs to work on contingency, reaching out and touching Chase with a subbpoena ....

to appear as the defendant in a lawsuit, asking for big damages.

[Rex]

5. Fuck banks...stick your money under the mattress.

A lot safer and you won't end up in jail over a huge corporations fuckup. Banks are stuck up assholes.

[stockholmer]

7. no, buy gold and silver, and hold it in NON-BANK physically allocated accounts

Holding fiat dollars guarantees massive losses in actual purchasing power.

Gold has increased by double digits as a percentage gained for the last 10 years in a row. Can you say the same of the NASDAQ? The Dow? The S&P? The US dollar? US Treasuries? The average US IRA? LOL! How about your paycheck? How about the value of the average American house? Hmmmmmmm.

I have been long gold AND silver since 1998 (in physically-held, allocated non-bank secure vault accounts), when the US trashed the Glass–Steagall Act and legalized derivatives under the Clinton/Rubin/Greenspan troika. I have an average gain of over well over 300%, whilst the Dow is utterly stagnant from the tech bubble crash of early 2001 till now. In fact, it is off greatly, due to inflation, and many were crushed in the stock crash of 2008-2009, and pulled out, locking in huge losses that they could have somewhat recovered in the QE 1 and QE 2 fueled bubble that is now unraveling. Check back with me in 3 or 4 years when those 300% figures are closing in on 1000% profits.

In 1970, the average US car cost $3900 and it took 114 ounces of gold to buy. In 2011, that same car is around $29,000 yet takes less than 19 ounces of gold to buy. Hello dollar debasement!

[Rex]

9. Someone just posted in GD that the gold bubble is about to burst.

Maybe I should buy diamonds?

[stockholmer]

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[Rex]

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[lpbk2713]

6. Banks can defruad millions out of the public and it's business as usual.

But let them just think Joe Sixpack is trying to squeeze
a nickel out of them and they will call out the dogs.

[Dawson Leery]

15. And the "dogs" do their job as good little whores and protect

the ruling class.

[sakabatou]

8. Fuck Chase!

[LiberalAndProud]

10. If I could design justice,

I would have Chase pay an amount equivalent to the man's lost salary for as long as he is unemployed. No limit. That might make tellers think before calling a cop on one of their customers.

[EC]

11. I would never do business with Chase

just because of the way I was treated by them, every time I went to cash checks drawn on their bank given me by one of my renters. It got to the point where I would make the renter pay me in cash. The last time he gave me a check, they wouldn't cash it, so I asked the renter to go cash it, which he did and gave me the cash...this was all in an hour's time, so he had the money in the bank, they just would not cash it. And every single time, they'd make me go see the manager and sit at his desk, it was embarrassing, they treated me like I was trying to cash a fake or forged check.

[saras]

12. AFAIK, credit unions don't do this kind of thing

But then, given the "union" word in their name, I expect the banks to mount another offensive against them soon.