Bank of America Corporation

Obama & Romney's Country-Club Sopranos

American banks are on a massive crime spree. The Presidential candidates hope you won't notice.

In Nine Years, Bank of America Manager Pamela Cobb Stole $2 Million From Customers. Now, She's Going to Prison.

Pamela Kay Cobb was systematic about how she stole. The branch manager of the Bank of America in Red Oak targeted only those customers with whom she had a longstanding relationship. When she took money from their accounts, she would fill out a fake withdrawal slip, sometimes forging a customer's sig ... More >>

Police Looking For Submachine Gun-Toting Kidnappers Who Took Man on Whirlwind ATM Tour Monday Night

Rudolph Dinwiddie had a rough night on Monday. As he withdrew cash from a Bank of America ATM in the 3900 block of Cedar Springs Road, a car pulled up behind him, and three people stepped out. One was pointing a submachine gun. "If you don't cooperate, we are going to kill your fucking ass," they t ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists

How greedy speculators bought politicians and drove up the price of oil.

Riley Gale of Power Trip: "If We Fail, We Fail. We'll Just Come Back Home and Get Day Jobs."

Led by the energetic and enigmatic Riley Gale, Dallas metal-punk trio Power Trip has been stuck in a creative lull since releasing the killer Armageddon Blues EP back in 2010. However, since changing drummers and getting the guitarist to commit full time, Power Trip is once again forging ahead, havi ... More >>

Ken Robinson Says He's Leaving His $16 Flower Mound House Without a Fight

Seven months after citing an uncommon application of the law of adverse possession and moving into an abandoned suburban homestead in Flower Mound, Ken Robinson is on his way out. At a hearing this morning regarding his recent eviction notice, a Flower Mound judge ruled that Robinson, who did not ap ... More >>

Man With The $16 House Faces Eviction, But Says, "It's Not Over Till It's Over"

Surely you recall for the tale of The Man With the $16 House, a September cover story about Kenneth Robinson, who occupied a $340,000 Flower Mound home for the cost of filing paperwork with Denton County. Now, Robinson faces eviction from the place that's been his home since June, according to WFAA ... More >>

DPD Chief Brown Suspends Officer Who Shoved Occupy Dallas Protestor For One Day

At the top, that's Hollis giving Benavides a shove off the planter, as seen in this video that led the DPD chief to open his investigation​Seems like forever ago, but it was just last month that Stephen Benavides spent a few days in county lock-up on charges of assaulting a police officer and resi ... More >>

Protestor Accused of Assaulting Cop Now Accused of Punching a Fellow Occupier

Photo by Brantley HargroveStephen Benavides​Earlier this morning, Occupy Dallas posted to its website an item headlined: "OccupyDallas supporter assaulted." That supporter: Glynn Wilcox, who was among those who helped hash out the agreement between City Hall and the protesters that allowed them to ... More >>

Stephen Benavides, Protestor Accused of Assaulting Police, Says, No, the Cops Got Rough

Photo by Brantley HargroveStephen Benavides​Stephen Benavides, an organizer with the United Steelworkers, was one of eight arrested Saturday at the Occupy Dallas protest at the downtown Bank of America tower during Bank Transfer Day, aimed at encouraging the use of not-for-profit credit unions ... More >>

DPD Chief Puts Officer Who Shoved Protester on Restricted Duty, Opens Investigation

From the video of Stephen Benavides being shoved off a sidewalk planter last Saturday​This morning, Brantley spoke with ​Stephen Benavides, the protester who spent several days in jail on charges that he assaulted a police officer and resisted arrest. We also posted that video now making the ro ... More >>

Time for Occupy Dallas to Push Back

We can't roll over for DPD's goon-squad tactics.

Suhm's "Very Disappointed" By Turn of Events as Occupy Dallas, City Head Back to Courthouse

Photo by Chris Howell​Below you'll find the original agreement the city of Dallas and Occupy Dallas entered into last month after that trip to the courthouse that was all fist-bumps and high-fives. Problem is, the agreement is affixed as an exhibit to even more legal docs Occupy Dallas's attorneys ... More >>

So Close to Getting Away With Armored Truck Robbery, This Is What Finally Did Them In

​The U.S. Attorney's Office sends word that a man named Ennis Harris Jackson will be going to federal prison for more than 17 years for his role in holding up a Loomis armored truck in May 2010 outside a Mesquite Bank of America branch. Jackson was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Barbar ... More >>

Occupy Dallas's Bogus Arrests: We Got to Get Up and Organize

​No way is this over. No way should anybody let this drop. The Occupy Dallas arrests last Saturday should be taken as a direct challenge, not a lesson or defeat. The Dallas Police Department is already trying to paper over the outrageous arrests of seven bank protesters last Saturday on trump ... More >>

City, Occupy Dallas at Odds Over Who Began Melee That Ended With Eight Arrested

Photos by Anna Merlan, more in the slide show​An Occupy Dallas march and protest turned ugly this afternoon when police used pepper spray to subdue the crowd outside of the Bank of America building on Main and Lamar, protesters told Unfair Park. Eight people were arrested from the crowd of abo ... More >>

Selling Out is Kind of OK Now, Right? So Why is Titus Andronicus So Angry at Kurt Vile?

No more Bank Of America overdraft fees for Kurt Vile​Today, Pitchfork reports that Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles was pretty unhappy after learning Kurt Vile's song, "Baby's Arms," was used in a Bank Of America commercial. He ranted about it on his Twitter account, tweeting things abou ... More >>

On Thursday, "Occupy Dallas"

​There's a HuffPo piece this morning about how the pepper-spray-flavored Occupy Wall Street protests moved to the West Coast yesterday -- San Francisco, specifically, and the Bank of America building in the Financial District. Next Thursday, though, they hit a little closer to home. Without Radioh ... More >>

Craig Watkins Makes Good on Threat to Sue Mortgage Processor Over "Tens of Millions"

​Back in August, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said he was taking a long, hard look at Mortgage Electronic Registration System, which, as we noted at the time, was created in 1995 by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other financial institutions to speed up the recording and transfer of ... More >>

Sure, Bank of America Has Bigger Problems, But Dallas Man Wants His Few Bucks Back. Now.

Via.​Bank of America's got plenty to worry about right now, between tumbling share prices, threats of a $10-billion A.I.G. suit and renewed concerns over its long-term viability. So a lawsuit filed late last week in Dallas County District Court by Robert Long may not top the pops 'round Charlotte, ... More >>

Best Of SXSW Friday: Cass McCombs, Turbo Fruits and Crawfish

All photos by Nick RalloThe award for Best Pissed Off Art Installation goes to this piece outside the Bank of America on 6th.​Around 3:30 yesterday, Cass McCombs played a strikingly perfect set at Gorilla vs. Bear's SXSW Day Party. It was only half way through the day, the place was sweltering, an ... More >>

If You're Going to Mail Crazy, Threatening Letters From Downtown, Don't Make Copies

​This just in from Dallas Police spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse: About two hours ago, officers were sent to the Bank of America building at 901 Main Street. Something to do with "a man sending letters from that location." Janse explains why below:The suspect had made copies of a letter in t ... More >>

Can WikiLeaks info dump of state secrets make for a more just society? Well, that's what Russell Fish thinks.

Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater Is In The Clear--Maybe

​There's been a lot of uncertainty about the future of Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater ever since its owners filed for bankruptcy last summer. For a while there, it looked like Bank Of America was going to purchase and remodel the historic theater--and they had every right to, seeing as the theater i ... More >>

Ernie and Elisa Santos, R.I.P.

​I was supposed to meet Ernie Santos Saturday morning at Twin Peaks in McKinney. I'm digging into an Observer cover story on metroplex motorcycle clubs/gangs and he, being a member of the Dirty Bastards, invited me to a sort of meet 'n greet with his crew. Seems one of their members was rece ... More >>

Update: Ridglea Theater's Future Remains Up In The Air, And Hank III Ain't Happy About It.

Jennifer TzarHank III's got Fort Worth bankers in his sights.​Things still very much appear up in the air as far as the future of Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater is concerned. Last we checked, it seemed the venue was on the verge of becoming a Bank of America. Still could be, actually, but a Facebook ... More >>

Czeching out the National Polka Festival

Man! Man in tights!​Maybe everyone who attended the National Polka Festival over the weekend in Ennis is too hungover from copious amounts of kolache and Czechvar to hop straight on the Craigslist to post their missed connections. Maybe that's why there's only this one lonely missed polka connecti ... More >>

Today's Advice from a Billionaire: "Don't Be an Overdraft Sucker!"

This is Bank of America's overdraft protection diagram. Seriously.​There's a story in today's New York Times about banks' aggressive efforts to keep customers paying overdraft fees. That's because, come July 1 banks will have to get their customers to opt in to the service that covers purchases ma ... More >>

NBA Dunkers Do Dallas In One Wild, Wintry Wonderful All-Star Weekend

Planning for the NBA All-Star Weekend, From the Parties to the Dallas Police Department

​The in-box is filling up with NBA All-Star Weekend party announcements -- no actual invites, though, which is just as well, as that's the weekend I'm planning a spiritual retreat or a lost weekend of drinking, either/or. The most recent: a three-day "epic extravaganza" spread out at the Ghostbar ... More >>

What Does Elm Place's Closure Mean for Downtown Dallas? Is the City Worried? Well ...

Elm Place​Elm Place's closure, announced this morning, comes as no surprise: A section of George Dahl's 52-story office tower, at Elm and Akard Streets, fell into foreclosure in the early part of '09, and the former First National Bank of Dallas and Bank of America building been shedding tenants f ... More >>

Still No Plans for Samuell Farm. But We Do Have the First-Ever Samuell Parks Report.

Oak Cliff's Founders Park, among the Samuell properties​We attended this morning's Dallas Park and Recreation Board meeting at Dallas City Hall hoping to learn more about one item of interest we noticed on the agenda: "Museum of Nature and Science Charter School," which, we assumed, would have fle ... More >>

Breezeway: El Centro Wants to Put Wind Turbines on Top of Old Sangers Building

View Larger MapThose Landmark Commission meeting agendas are full of interesting hints -- like, oh, that green house the State Fair of Texas wants to build in Fair Park. Or, now, this vague note concerning the installation of 21 wind turbines on the rooftop of 801 Main Street. We should have more ab ... More >>

No Justice: We've Bailed Out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?

Whitt's End: 10.23.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Last night I got a foot massage. By a guy. And thoroughly enjoyed it. Now, now. Settle down. It's not what you think. Friend of mine tells me of a place where at 11 p.m. you can get an hour-l ... More >>

Macon Greyson Is Smarter Than You Think.

If You Think There's a New Bank Branch on Every Dallas Block, You're Only Half Right

​Even the 6-year-old who lives in my house has noticed it: "There's a new bank on every corner." To which the Associated Press responds: Yup, you're damn right, little man. The AP reports today that per its investigation of the invasion of the money-snatchers, 10,000 bank branches have popped up i ... More >>

All My Excess Lives in Texas

Fingers crossed, WE will duplicate this joy tonight. Right?So I'm watching the Channel 8 news Monday night at 6:29 and after a sparkling fill-in sportscast by Ted Madden he alerts viewers that: " ... in the game, Texas already trails, 1-0." To which anchor Gloria Campos valiantly responds, "A ... More >>

City, Texas AG's Office Close to an Agreement Concerning W.W. Samuell Land, Trust Fund

View Larger MapOn Wednesday, the Dallas City Council is expected to get a look at the Texas Attorney General's Office's findings concerning its yearlong look into how the city manages the W. W. Samuell Permanent Foundation, the Samuell Trust Fund and the properties willed to the city by the physicia ... More >>

Trinity Project Director Says, "We've Always Been Upfront That This is a Risk." Say Wha?

Rebecca Dugger, director of the Trinity River Corridor ProjectSchutze and Merten are on vacation today, which means no one's going to Mayor Tom Leppert's Trinity River Corridor Project summit this morning on the 69th (heh) floor of the Bank of America building downtown. Schutze, though, did ask for ... More >>

And Here We Thought Videogames Were Recession-Proof. Guess Not.

Back in August, Grapevine-based GameStop posted big second-quarter gains, but the stock price dropped nonetheless, because, as The Wall Street Journal pointed out at the time, there were "sign the results and outlook may not be good enough for investors." Also, even in August folks were scared t ... More >>

Bank of America Bails Out Jeffries Street Learning Center in South Dallas

A Horse, Of Course

On the Real-Estate Cannibals Devouring Oak Lawn

If You Got the Money, I Got the Time

¡Ask a Mexican!

Best Place to Buy Smokes and Roses

Greenville Ave. Tobacco Co. & Flowerama

Lost and found

Poor, brown, and inner-city. These Adamson High School kids weren't supposed to make it. They did anyway.

Letters

No Dough

Richard and LaJeanne Williams had big dreams for their bakery--until a bank figured their plan was just pie in the sky