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Toronto Dominion for Money Laundering Pays $3B First Horizon Denied Why Not Capital One

by Matthew R. Lee

SOUTH BRONX, Oct 10 – Toronto Dominion had to walk away from its planned merger with First Horizon, due to then unspecified regulatory issues. Now on October 10, the Federal Reserve has announced it had "fined Toronto-Dominion Bank $123.5 million for violations related to anti-money laundering laws. This action is being taken in conjunction with criminal and regulatory actions that are being taken by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The penalties announced by the agencies total approximately $3.09 billion." Ah.

Meanwhile Capital One has applied to buy Discover, in an anticompetitive deal that should be rejected by regulators if they mean what they have been saying. After they applied late March 20,  Inner City Press submitted a second Freedom of Information Act request to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (and to the Federal Reserve).

On July 26, after a FOIA appeal - and after closing the public comment period - the OCC belatedly gave Inner City Press documents showing Capital One briefed the OCC on a "big" deal in November 2023; it was code named "Project Sirius."

Then overly chummy texts from Andy Navarrete, who testified at the public meeting, and Pient Tran to the OCC's Marci Heppner and others.

For example, Andy to Marci, sorry for the late ping, if Richard wanted to call, could you do a 1:1 Zoom at 7:30 [pm]. But of course. That and more now on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here

  Inner City Press continues to dig through the records - and to prepare another FOIA appeal.

Back on June 25 the OCC belatedly responded to Inner City Press' FOIA request - by withholding in full 185 pages. OCC FOIA production on DocumentCloud here. Inner City Press appealed.

  On July 24, the very day on which the OCC and Fed said they were closing the written comment period, the OCC upheld in full its FOIA denials, determination letter on Inner City Press' Document Cloud here. Inner City Press has requested an extension of the comment periods - the Fed hasn't even responded. When did the Fed start secret talks with Capital One?

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