SOUTH
BRONX/SDNY, June 5
– The
Federal Reserve and OCC are entertaining
applications by Enova, the parent of high
cost lender CashNetUSA, to acquire
Grasshopper Bank, already deeply engaged
in AI banking.
Inner City
Press requested documents including the
Federal Reserve's communications with
Enova, under the Freedom of
Information Act. The Fed denied
the request, then on Inner City
Press' appeal provided
entirely redacted pages and a denial, which said if
you don't agree, you
can sue.
Among
with the denial, the
Fed sent Inner City
Press entirely
redacted pages from
its Additional
Information letter
to Enova, which we
put on our
DocumentCloud here
Inner
City Press has now
filed a FOIA
lawsuit against
the Fed for its
communications
with Enova - copy
of complaint,
which went live
on PACER on June
1, on now on
CourtListener,
here.
After the
Fed had been
mailed the complaint,
and its lawyers
told about it by
email, on June 6
Grasshopper Bank
filed to
remove to SDNY
a case filed
against it by
its former
Compliance
Officer, who
alleged
discrimination
including
false charges
of
having "taken
an extended
trip to Egypt," and said it
was untrue.
And
discriminatory.
The case is
26-cv-4795;
the FOIA case
is 26-cv-4556.