American Casino

Banks Try to Walk Away — Nice Try

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:47:46 +0000

Read how the Fraudsters want to beat the rap with a small fine, then go back to business as usual.

PBS finally learns what Casino fans already know.

admin — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:07:21 +0000

True cost of bailout was $12.8 trillion. Watch PBS discover the shocking truth.

Banks’ Cruel Foreclosure Game

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:36:48 +0000

American Casino’s foreclosure expert Sean O’Toole explains the cruel game that banks are playing with mortgage victims. Read his chilling insights here

How Subprime Killed Hope for Memphis Blacks

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:52:19 +0000

The story we broke in American Casino — what Wells did to Baltimore. Now lawsuit against Wells Fargo for subprime minority targeting in Memphis reveals how they killed Soulsville.

Read it here

Baltimore Refiles Wells Suit

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:33:47 +0000

Baltimre City’s lawsuit against the Wells Fargo Bank for discriminatory “reverse redlining” of African American subprime borrowers has been refiled with the court. In January 2010 Judge Frederick Motz of the U.S. District Court dismissed the suit without prejudice on the grounds that it was too broad. Baltimore’s legal team refiled an amended complaint, seeking damages for city costs directly attributable to Wells foreclosures, on April 7. The case goes forward. The full complaint can be seen here.

Pittman Lives. Appeals Court tells Fed: Fess Up!

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:36:18 +0000

Court affirms ruling that Fed must respond to FOIA suit launched by Bloomberg’s late great Mark Pittman demanding it come clean about toxic collatoral it accepted from banks.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=aB3yIaXayz4g

Cummings drafts feds to probe Wells

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:10:12 +0000

Congressman Elijah Cummings, whose district covers inner-city Baltimore, has asked the justice department’s Civil Rights division to investigate the giant bank’s lending ptractices. Read the full details here

Judge Trims Baltimore Suit

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:56:47 +0000

The Judge in charge of Baltimore’s suit against the Wells Fargo Bank has rejected the suit on the grounds that Wells could not have been responsible for the entire devastation of inner-city neighborhoods. Read about the decision here.

American Casino on C-Span!

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:32:05 +0000

Leslie and Andrew Cockburn were interviewed on Brian Lamb’s terrific Sunday night show “Q&A” on Sunday, January 3, at 8 pm. In the hour long discussion they talked about the background to the film, how and why they made it and many other fascinating details. To watch the show or read the transcript, click here

Women Film Critics Circle awards AMERICAN CASINO Best Documentary 2009

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:12:39 +0000

The Women Film Critics Circle is honored to award AMERICAN CASINO as Best Documentary 2009: Above And Beyond.

The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of 47 women film critics from around the country and internationally, who are involved in print, radio, online and television media.

We came together in 2004 to form the first women critics organization in the United States, in the belief that women’s perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognized fully, while offering a fresh and differently experienced perspective.