1) Democrat Mass. Rep. Barney Frank, Fannie Mae Conflict of Interest... Democrat Corruption/Economic Melt Down
2) Russia Pledges to Join Battle Against Piracy as U.S. Warships Circle Kidnapped Vessel... Piracy/Russia/USA
3) Palin gives more to charity than Biden... Democrat/Republican/Charity
4) The record of the ACORN and leftist connection to Obama... Obama/Liberal Leftist/ACORN
5) ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation... ACORN/Voter Fraud
6) Kenya Reportedly Deports American Author of Anti-Obama Book... Obama/Cover Up
7) Prosecutors talking to Rezko, seek to delay sentencing... Obama/Rezko/Election
8) If George Washington had been made monarch Paul Emery Washington would be King... Fun/Pointless
9) Obama Sued Citibank Under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans... Obama/Economic Melt Down


1) Democrat Mass. Rep. Barney Frank, Fannie Mae Conflict of Interest... Democrat Corruption/Economic Melt Down
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,432501,00.html

Friday , October 03, 2008
Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s. So did Frank’s partner, a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of the agency’s push to relax lending restrictions.

Now that Fannie Mae is at the epicenter of a financial meltdown that threatens the U.S. economy, some are raising new questions about Frank's relationship with Herb Moses, who was Fannie’s assistant director for product initiatives. Moses worked at the government-sponsored enterprise from 1991 to 1998, while Frank was on the House Banking Committee, which had jurisdiction over Fannie. Both Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal in 1992 that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest. Critics, however, remain skeptical.

"It’s absolutely a conflict," said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute. "He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane? "If this had been his ex-wife and he was Republican, I would bet every penny I have - or at least what’s not in the stock market - that this would be considered germane," added Gainor, a T. Boone Pickens Fellow. "But everybody wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard."

A top GOP House aide agreed. "C’mon, he writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws?" the aide told FOX News. "No media ever takes note? Imagine what would happen if Frank’s political affiliation was R instead of D? Imagine what the media would say if [GOP former] Chairman [Mike] Oxley’s wife or [GOP presidential nominee John] McCain’s wife was a top exec at Fannie for a decade while they wrote the nation’s housing and banking laws."

Frank’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Frank met Moses in 1987, the same year he became the first openly gay member of Congress. "I am the only member of the congressional gay spouse caucus," Moses wrote in the Washington Post in 1991. "On Capitol Hill, Barney always introduces me as his lover." The two lived together in a Washington home until they broke up in 1998, a few months after Moses ended his seven-year tenure at Fannie Mae, where he was the assistant director of product initiatives. According to National Mortgage News, Moses "helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs."

Critics say such programs led to the mortgage meltdown that prompted last month’s government takeover of Fannie Mae and its financial cousin, Freddie Mac. The giant firms are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector. Although Frank now blames Republicans for the failure of Fannie and Freddie, he spent years blocking GOP lawmakers from imposing tougher regulations on the mortgage giants. In 1991, the year Moses was hired by Fannie, the Boston Globe reported that Frank pushed the agency to loosen regulations on mortgages for two- and three-family homes, even though they were defaulting at twice and five times the rate of single homes, respectively.

Three years later, President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development tried to impose a new regulation on Fannie, but was thwarted by Frank. Clinton now blames such Democrats for planting the seeds of today’s economic crisis. "I think the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was president, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," Clinton said recently.

Me: And guess WHO the Democrats put in charge of finding the "wrong doers"? B. Frank Democrat! So you can bet one of two things, either they will find some escape goat Republican to lay the blame on or some poor sap executive OR the investigation will quietly fade away producing no results at all. BUT you can be assured of one thing! The Democrats behind this melt down that cost the world trillions of dollars will not be investigated, charged, or removed from their positions or from government.


2) Russia Pledges to Join Battle Against Piracy as U.S. Warships Circle Kidnapped Vessel... Piracy/Russia/USA
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432161,00.html



Friday, October 03, 2008
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Moscow will work with the U.S. and the European Union to fight piracy off the African coast and elsewhere, Russia's foreign minister said. The state-run RIA-Novosti news agency quoted Sergey Lavrov as saying Friday that Russia "aims to prevent pirates from causing mayhem." Lavrov called for closer cooperation with the U.S. and EU against piracy. He said Russia and other nations will act on the basis of a U.N. resolution that authorized countries to enter Somalia's territorial waters and use "all necessary means" to stop piracy.

Somali pirates are holding a Ukrainian ship with a cargo of battle tanks and two Russian crew members aboard off Somalia's coast. Russia has dispatched a warship to the area but has not said what it will do when it gets there. The pirates gave no indication they planned to surrender, as six U.S. warships circled the vessel Friday with clearance from the Somali government to attack it. Meanwhile, activists condemned Kenya's arrest of a Kenyan maritime official on Wednesday night who had been the first to tip off media that the weapons aboard the ship hijacked nine days ago were heading to Southern Sudan. His account was later confirmed by the U.S. Navy and Western intelligence sources. Kenya has vehemently denied statements by the official, Andrew Mwangura, that the 33 Soviet-designed tanks and weapons onboard the MV Faina were destined for neighboring Southern Sudan. The Kenyan government insists Kenya is the final destination. The allegation is highly embarrassing to Kenya, which brokered Sudan's north-south peace deal in 2005. Southern Sudan is due to have a referendum on independence in 2011. Many analysts believe the north will be reluctant to let the oil-rich south break away, risking a return to the civil war that has already claimed 2 million lives.

The Somali government has given foreign powers the freedom to use force against the pirates holding the Faina and its 20 crew members. It is anchored near the central Somali town of Hobyo, with six American warships within 10 miles of it. Russia, whose warship is not expected for several days, has used commando tactics to end several hostage situations on its own soil, but dozens of hostages have died in those efforts. On Thursday, pirate spokesman Sugule Ali told The Associated Press via satellite telephone that the pirates were prepared to defend the ship and would not take less than their stated ransom of $20 million. It was not immediately possible to reach Ali on Friday morning. The American Navy warships have been tracking Faina amid fears that its weapons might fall into the hands of Al Qaeda-linked Islamic insurgents in Somalia, and this week, eight European countries have offered to form a combined anti-piracy force at the invitation of the Somali government. Some 26 ships have been hijacked off the notorious Somali coast this year already.

In Kenya, government spokesman Alfred Mutua refused to comment on Friday about the arrest of Mwangura, who was charged with making "inflammatory statements." Leonard Vincent, a spokesman for Paris-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders, said the charges against Mwangura might stop other officials coming forward with information in a country rated as one of the most corrupt in the world. "We think it is a dangerous precedent and a signal sent to those who have information contradicting the Kenyan government," he said. "We are not used to seeing this in Kenya, that is why we are outraged and surprised."

Hassan Omar Hassan, a commissioner of the Kenya National Commission of Human Rights, said Mwangura told Hassan he had been warned by intelligence officials, police and local officials not to comment publicly on the weapons' destination. "He has caused a public relations nightmare for the government," Hassan said. "If its a matter of public interest, the public has a right to information."

Mwangura also was charged with possessing four joints of marijuana on Thursday. A judge ruled he should be held for five days in prison while further investigations were made. Mutua, the Kenyan government spokesman, accused Mwangura at a televised news conference of being a go-between for the pirates. Those charges were not brought before a court.

Me: I am not surprised that Russia is coming in to this, the tanks in that ship are likely theirs. But, hey I can be helpful.


3) Palin gives more to charity than Biden... Democrat/Republican/Charity
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/palin-gives-more-to-charity-than-biden-despite-less-income-2008-10-03.html

10/03/08 05:07 PM
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made considerably less money than rival Sen. Joe Biden, but the Palin family gave more to charity in the last two years than Biden has in the last eight combined, according to Palin's tax records released Friday afternoon.

Palin, the running mate of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and her husband Todd reported meager earnings from 2006 and 2007, at least by presidential-politics standards.
In 2006, the Palins paid $11,944 in taxes on $127,869 in income. In 2007, they paid $24,738 on $166,080. But in 2006, they donated $4,880 to charity, and in 2007, they donated $3,325.

By contrast, Biden (D-Del.), Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's running mate, has donated a total of $3,690 since 1998 despite his higher Senate salary, according to an analysis posted by National Review. The timing of the release of the Palins tax records has become something of a tradition. Campaigns wait until Friday afternoon, when the news cycle slows to a grind and reporters are focused elsewhere — in this case, Congress's passage and the president's signing of the financial rescue package.

Me: SO as normal the Republican give more to the needy and the Democrat tells the government to take other peoples money to give to the needy that they choose. Typical.


4) The record of the ACORN and leftist connection to Obama... Obama/Liberal Leftist
http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

Me: I am sorry but you will have to open the link.


5) ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation... ACORN/Voter Fraud
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07/acorn-vegas-office-raided-voter-fraud-investigation/

October 07, 2008
Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

"Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev. Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.

"Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," Miller said. Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada attorney general's office conducted the raid at 9:30 a.m. local time, and "took a bunch of stuff." Miller's office reported seizing eight computer hard drives and about 20 boxes of documents.

Bertha Lewis, interim chief organizer for ACORN, released a statement saying the group has for months been turning over any suspicious registration information to elections officials. She said those officials routinely ignored their tips, and called the raid a "stunt." "When we have identified suspicious applications, we have separated them out and flagged them for election officials. We have zero tolerance for fraudulent registrations. We immediately dismiss employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations," she said. "Today's raid by the secretary of state's office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls."

Neither the group, which hires canvassers to register voters, nor any employees have been charged or arrested for fraud or other crimes, said Miller, a Democrat. But it's not the first time ACORN's been under investigation for registration irregularities. The raid is the latest of at least nine investigations into possible fraudulent voter registration forms submitted by ACORN -- the probes have involved ACORN workers in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Indiana and other states. In response to the Las Vegas raid, Republican Nevada Sen. John Ensign and seven other senators penned a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency calling for the suspension of taxpayer dollars to "controversial groups like ACORN." The letter referred to contributions that potentially could come from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

In 2006, ACORN also committed what Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the "worse case of election fraud" in the state's history. In the case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake. More recently, 27,000 registrations handled by the group from January to July 2008 "went into limbo because they were incomplete, inaccurate, or fraudulent," said James Terry, chief public advocate at the Consumers Rights League.

Me: ACORN is well known for the leftist leaning and it has been established that Obama worked with and for them, so we find out they are commiting Fruad.


6) Kenya Reportedly Deports American Author of Anti-Obama Book... Obama/Cover Up
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433701,00.html

October 07, 2008
NAIROBI, Kenya — The American author of a controversial book accusing Barack Obama of seething with "black rage" and of being unfit for the U.S. presidency was kicked out of Kenya on Tuesday. The deportation of Jerome Corsi came just hours before he was to launch his book in a country where the U.S. Democratic candidate for president is wildly popular. Corsi, who wrote "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," was detained at immigration headquarters in Nairobi for not having a work permit before being ordered to leave Kenya, said Joseph Mumira, head of criminal investigations at Jomo Kenyatta
Corsi was scheduled to leave on an evening flight to London, Mumira said. Airport officials would not allow journalists access to Corsi at the airport and a message left on his mobile phone was not returned.

A spokesman for Obama said the campaign had no comment on the deportation. Obama's Kenyan uncle, Said Obama, said he was unaware of Corsi's detention and had no comment. A government spokesman did not return calls for comment. In the past, the Obama campaign has called Corsi a bigot peddling rehashed lies to hurt Obama in the U.S. presidential race against Republican Sen. John McCain.

Obama's late father, whom he barely knew, was a Kenyan economist and the candidate is considered by many here as a "son of the soil." Obama's last trip to Kenya, in 2006, drew thousands of Kenyans who thronged every stop of his tour. Ahead of the Nov. 4 election in the U.S., minibuses here are emblazoned with Obama's picture and vendors sell T-shirts bearing his image. But Obama was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood raised by his mother, a white American from Kansas. Corsi's best-selling book, released earlier in the U.S., claims the Illinois senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president and includes innuendoes and false rumors — that he was raised a Muslim and attended a radical black church.

Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and his campaign picks apart the book's claims on the Web site FightTheSmears.com. The campaign's rebuttal is titled "Unfit For Publication," a play on the book Corsi co-authored against 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military service called "Unfit For Command."

Me: Obama and his supports have had a history of covering up his past. In Obama's own books he isnt specific or accurate with the dates and people. The Kenyan government has a very real reason to keep investigators out of Kenya. If Obama gets the Presidency Kenya hopes they will have a allie who will channel moneys to Kenya.


7) Prosecutors talking to Rezko, seek to delay sentencing... Obama/Rezko/Election
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/rezko/1205307,rezko100608.article

October 7, 2008
Federal prosecutors asked a judge Monday to indefinitely postpone Tony Rezko's scheduled Oct. 28 sentencing on corruption charges, acknowledging they are engaged in talks with the former top political fund-raiser for Sen. Barack Obama, Gov. Blagojevich and others "that could affect . . . sentencing."

The Chicago Sun-Times first reported in August that Rezko might be cooperating with prosecutors. Since then, the talks, and the prosecution's efforts to confirm information Rezko has provided, have been an open secret. In September, sources close to the investigation confirmed the talks to the Sun-Times but said there was no deal with Rezko. The 53-year-old Wilmette businessman, who at one time was a top adviser to Blagojevich, was convicted in June of wide-ranging corruption tied to state deals. He could face a lengthy prison term and still faces two more criminal trials. Several criminal-defense lawyers, who spoke to the Sun-Times only on the condition they not be named, said prosecutors have asked to interview or reinterview their clients about allegations that Blagojevich's campaign took contributions in exchange for state contracts or appointments. One lawyer said prosecutors told him they sought the interview in response to new information provided by Rezko.

On Sunday, the Sun-Times reported the FBI has interviewed witnesses about a rehab project at the governor's home that was done by a Rezko-owned contractor. Federal authorities also have been reviewing real estate dealings involving Blagojevich's wife Patti, who works in real estate, and campaign contributors including Rezko. A U.S. attorney's office spokesman would not comment Monday. Rezko's lawyers could not be reached. If a judge agrees to delay Rezko's sentencing, it could be good news for Democratic presidential nominee Obama because the former Obama friend and fund-raiser was set to be sentenced just days before the Nov. 4 election.

Me: Rezko has connections to Obama as it was Obama who used his position in the government to direct funds to Rezko who then pocketed much of this money instead for fixing up run down low income houseing. BUT Obama did get a special land deal with Rezko in exchange for the moneys that Rezko later took.


8) If George Washington had been made monarch Paul Emery Washington would be King... Fun/Pointless
http://www.newsweek.com/id/162914?GT1=43002



Oct 8, 2008
The Man Who Would Be King
If George Washington had been made monarch, this Texas family would be American royalty today. The children of Paul Emery Washington think of their father as an unpretentious, generous guy who climbed the corporate ladder to become regional manager at CertainTeed manufacturing, a building-supply company. Now 82, he takes care of his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, while spending time on the San Antonio, Texas, property that he shares with his children. "I think he would've been a great king," says son Bill Washington—a statement, we admit, that might seem a little odd. Except that Paul Emery Washington is a direct descendant of George Washington, our nation's first president and perhaps the only man in history who turned down the position of monarch. Had George Washington ascended to the throne, Paul Emery Washington (Joe Six-pack, incarnate) could now go by King Paul, the first. Lore has it that President Washington was so well liked after his Revolutionary victory that a group of citizens frustrated with the Continental Congress floated the idea of a coup-d'etat and the installation of King George and the creation of an American monarchy. But Washington, who believed that anyone (anyone!) might make for a good leader, staunched the idea and eventually relinquished his power as commander-in-chief.

Since then, genealogists have been pondering the possibilities had President Washington been a bit more power-hungry. As early as 1908, newspapers published accounts of history buffs who worked their way through the Washington family tree using rules of succession to determine the rightful heir to the theoretical American throne. But without the Internet, branches of the Washington tree would be lost in Ohio, say, or forgotten by lineage sleuths who couldn't quite decipher a family tree made complicated because Washington himself didn't have any children. But while brainstorming ideas for their election-themed coverage, Ancestry.comturned to their Chief Family Historian, Megan Smolenyak, for an answer to the historical mystery. Smolenyak first turned to Google where she figured out that, because kinship rules vary by country and because Washington was childless, there were four possible kings (or queens) among the nearly 8,000 descendants of Washington who are alive today. Of the 200 men that carry the Washington name, though, Paul Emery is the end result of two lines—a very rare possibility that makes him the likely heir.

That's a concept that Paul would rather not think about. "I doubt if I'd be a very good king," he says. "We've done so well as a country without a king, so I think George made the best decision." His family, which includes three sons and one daughter, are fifth-generation descendants of George's oldest brother, Samuel. But Paul would've been the ninth or tenth king of America depending on which of the lines you follow. "A guy would get the crown and then live forever, or have no children, or just have a girl and that would send the crown careening across the family tree," Smolenyak says of the lineage, which she spent a month whittling down using a process of elimination, usually while looking at genealogical software on two computer monitors, often while singing Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust."

She concluded that leadership would have passed not to men named Abraham or Teddy but to those named Lee, Felix or Frank. "We would have had a King named Spot, how cool is that?" Smolenyak muses of the son who would've fallen between King Bushrod, the first, and Bushrod II. And term limits? Not so much: King Larry would have been in power from 1935 to 1997, she says. Many historians question the legitimacy of the King George myth, especially since most royals endure stricter marriage restrictions than the ones faced by today's Washingtons. And even among Paul's own children, there is varying skepticism. Richard, the eldest heir, has little interest in his supposed birthright while his younger brother, Bill, fills the upstairs floor of his home with George Washington memorabilia—paintings, coins, tobacco tins—and claims membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. He's also visited ancestral homes in Mount Vernon and manses in England where the British Washingtons lived. "With my brother, there's always that jealousy thing involved," the second heir says. "I go out and do the parades—but he's still got the claim." Paul Emery Washington's family has known for some time that they are descendants of America's first president, but Ancestry.com has used the latest technology to make a definitive case for Paul being the "lost king." And though he isn't the crown prince, Bill Washington still wouldn't mind if dad was King. "It couldn't be much worse. I thought we already had a monarchy?" he asks of the current administration before describing himself as an Obama-supporting Democrat. "Our government has gotten away from everyday people serving and then stepping down—like [George Washington] wanted." But perhaps the wisest thing that Bill has learned from studying his own hypothetically royal family is that you have to watch what you say around the "king." Nearly all of his relatives, including his father, are Republican supporters who appreciate the legacy of George W. Bush and will probably vote for the McCain/Palin ticket. And recently, when Bill ordered a copy of "The Tudors," a television show about Henry VIII, he realized the consequences for his personal dissension. "I don't think I'd be a very good subject," he says, "I would have my head chopped off a long time ago." So for Bill Washington's sake, God save the president.

Me: It is fun to think of who would be King if Washington had become King, BUT if Washington HAD become King clearly a whole different series of events would have occured and considering the time and distance in history it is very likely that someone we have no clue about would be King.


9) Obama Sued Citibank Under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans... Obama/Economic Melt Down
http://www.mediacircus.com/2008/10/obama-sued-citibank-under-cra-to-force-it-to-make-bad-loans/

03 October 2008
Do y­ou rem­em­ber how we t­old y­ou t­hat­ t­he Dem­oc­rat­s an­d group­s assoc­i­at­ed wi­t­h t­hem­ lean­ed on­ ban­k­s an­d ev­en­ sued t­o get­ t­hem­ t­o m­ak­e bad loan­s un­der t­he C­om­m­un­i­t­y­ Rei­n­v­est­m­en­t­ Ac­t­ whi­c­h was a f­ac­t­or i­n­ c­ausi­n­g t­he ec­on­om­i­c­ c­ri­si­s (see HE­RE­ ) … we­ll lo­o­k­ at­ wh­at­ so­me­ fe­llo­w blo­gge­r­s h­ave­ dug up wh­ile­ r­e­se­ar­c­h­in­g O­bama’s le­gal c­ar­e­e­r­. Lo­o­k­s lik­e­ a t­y­pic­al AC­O­R­N­ lawsuit­ t­o­ ge­t­ ban­k­s t­o­ h­an­d o­ut­ bad lo­an­s.

In­ t­h­e­se­ lawsuit­s, ACORN­ m­ak­e­s a b­ogus claim­ of Re­dlin­in­g (de­n­y­in­g p­oor p­e­op­le­ loan­s b­e­cause­ of t­h­e­ir e­t­h­n­ic h­e­rit­age­). T­h­e­y­ p­rot­e­st­ an­d ge­t­ t­h­e­ local m­e­dia t­o raise­ a b­ig st­in­k­. T­h­is st­in­k­ m­e­an­s t­h­at­ t­h­e­ b­an­k­ face­s t­h­ousan­ds of p­e­op­le­ closin­g t­h­e­ir accoun­t­s an­d ge­t­ local p­olit­ician­s t­o lob­b­y­ t­o st­op­ t­h­e­ b­an­k­ from­ doin­g som­e­ fut­ure­ b­usin­e­ss, e­xp­an­sion­s an­d m­e­rge­rs. If t­h­e­ b­an­k­ goe­s t­o court­, t­h­e­y­ will win­, b­ut­ t­h­e­ dam­age­ is alre­ady­ don­e­ b­e­cause­ wh­o is goin­g t­o laun­ch­ a b­ig cam­p­aign­ t­o ge­t­ t­h­e­ b­an­k­’s re­p­ut­at­ion­ b­ack­?

It is­ im­po­rtant to­ unders­tand th­e nature o­f­ th­es­e law­s­uits­ and w­h­at th­eir purpo­s­e is­. AC­O­RN f­iled to­ns­ o­f­ th­es­e law­s­uits­ and ALL o­f­ th­em­ allege rac­is­m­.

Thank­s to­ the IUSB V­ision Webl­og­ fo­r­ pr­o­v­id­in­g a­d­d­it­io­n­a­l­ d­et­a­il­s o­f t­h­is st­o­r­y.

We pu­l­l­ed­ th­e d­oc­ket d­own­, b­ut­ h­ere’s a b­rief for your sum­m­ary:

C­ase­ Name­
Bu­y­cks-Ro­be­rso­n­ v. Citiba­n­k Fe­d. Sa­v. Ba­n­k Fa­ir H­o­u­sin­g/L­e­n­din­g/In­su­ra­n­ce­
Do­cke­t / Co­u­rt 94 C 4094 ( N­.D. Il­l­. ) FH­-IL­-0011
Sta­te­/Te­rrito­ry­ Il­l­in­o­is
Cas­e S­ummary
Pla­in­­tiffs­ filed­ th­eir­ cla­s­s­ a­ction­­ la­w­s­uit on­­ J­uly­ 6, 1994, a­llegin­­g th­a­t Citiba­n­­k h­a­d­ en­­ga­ged­ in­­ r­ed­lin­­in­­g pr­a­ctices­ in­­ th­e Ch­ica­go metr­opolita­n­­ a­r­ea­ in­­ viola­tion­­ of th­e Equa­l Cr­ed­it Oppor­tun­­ity­ A­ct (ECOA­), 15 U.S­.C. 1691; th­e Fa­ir­ H­ous­in­­g A­ct, 42 U.S­.C. 3601-3619; th­e Th­ir­teen­­th­ A­men­­d­men­­t to th­e U.S­. Con­­s­titution­­; a­n­­d­ 42 U.S­.C. 1981, 1982. Pla­in­­tiffs­ a­lleged­ th­a­t th­e D­efen­­d­a­n­­t-ba­n­­k r­ej­ected­ loa­n­­ a­pplica­tion­­s­ of min­­or­ity­ a­pplica­n­­ts­ w­h­ile a­ppr­ovin­­g loa­n­­ a­pplica­tion­­s­ filed­ by­ w­h­ite a­pplica­n­­ts­ w­ith­ s­imila­r­ fin­­a­n­­cia­l ch­a­r­a­cter­is­tics­ a­n­­d­ cr­ed­it h­is­tor­ies­. Pla­in­­tiffs­ s­ough­t in­­j­un­­ctive r­elief, a­ctua­l d­a­ma­ges­, a­n­­d­ pun­­itive d­a­ma­ges­. U.S. Dist­r­ict­ Co­ur­t­ J­udge­ R­ube­n Ca­st­illo­ ce­r­t­ifie­d t­h­e­ Pla­int­iffs’ suit­ a­s a­ cla­ss a­ct­io­n o­n J­une­ 30, 1995. Buy­cks-R­o­be­r­so­n v. Cit­iba­nk Fe­d. Sa­v. Ba­nk, 162 F.R­.D. 322 (N.D. Ill. 1995). A­lso­ o­n J­une­ 30, J­udge­ Ca­st­illo­ gr­a­nt­e­d Pla­int­iffs’ m­o­t­io­n t­o­ co­m­pe­l disco­ve­r­y­ o­f a­ sa­m­ple­ o­f De­fe­nda­nt­-ba­nk’s lo­a­n a­pplica­t­io­n file­s. Buy­cks-R­o­be­r­so­n v. Cit­iba­nk Fe­d. Sa­v. Ba­nk, 162 F.R­.D. 338 (N.D. Ill. 1995).

The­ parti­e­s vo­­l­u­ntari­l­y­ di­smi­sse­d the­ case­ o­­n May­ 12, 1998, pu­rsu­ant to­­ a se­ttl­e­me­nt agre­e­me­nt.

Pl­ai­nti­ff’s L­awy­e­rs Al­e­x­i­s, Hi­l­ary­ I­. (I­l­l­i­no­­i­s)
FH-I­L­-0011-7500 | FH-I­L­-0011-7501 | FH-I­L­-0011-9000
Chi­l­de­rs, Mi­chae­l­ Al­l­e­n (I­l­l­i­no­­i­s)
FH-I­L­-0011-7500 | FH-I­L­-0011-7501 | FH-I­L­-0011-9000
Cl­ay­to­­n, Fay­ (I­l­l­i­no­­i­s)
FH-I­L­-0011-7500 | FH-I­L­-0011-7501 | FH-I­L­-0011-9000
Cu­mmi­ngs, Je­ffre­y­ I­rvi­ne­ (I­l­l­i­no­­i­s)
FH-I­L­-0011-7500 | FH-I­L­-0011-7501 | FH-I­L­-0011-9000
L­o­­ve­, Sara No­­rri­s (Vi­rgi­ni­a)
FH-I­L­-0011-9000
Mi­ne­r, Ju­dso­­n Hi­rsch (I­l­l­i­no­­i­s)
FH-I­L­-0011-7500 | FH-I­L­-0011-9000
Obam­a, Bar­ac­k H­. (Il­l­in­ois)
FH-IL­-0011-7500 | FH-IL­-0011-7501 | FH-IL­-0011-9000
W­icke­rt, Jo­­hn He­nry (Il­l­ino­­is)
FH-IL­-0011-9000

Me: So "Obam­a, Bar­ac­k H­. (Il­l­in­ois) FH-IL­-0011-7500 | FH-IL­-0011-7501 | FH-IL­-0011-9000" did force backs to give sub prime loans, the very sub prime loans that caused the economic melt down.