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3DHS / Question for the house
« on: October 24, 2012, 09:46:24 PM »
Does the President have the constitutional power to grant a pardon to a class of people, say illegal immigrants?
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3DHS / Anyone else having problems posting?
« on: October 06, 2012, 08:52:35 PM »
If so, let me know
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3DHS / The circle is unbroken
« on: September 23, 2012, 04:12:46 AM »
THE LEFT IS THE RIGHT:
The radical right-wing roots of Occupy Wall Street (Maureen Tkacik, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012, Reuters)
If there's one thing that united Occupy Wall Street with the Tea Party movement from the very beginning, it's a virulent aversion to being compared to each other.
The Tea Partiers started sharpening their knives before the Occupation even began. Two weeks before last year's launch Tea Partisan blogger Bob Ellis wrote a post entitled "Socialists Plan to Rage Against Freedom on Constitution Day" - all but daring the lamestream punditry to compare the "infantile" plans of "spoiled children" to "throw tantrums" and "thumb their nose at the American way of life" to the beloved movement that "sprang up from nothing a little more than two years ago in the face of a Marxist president and Marxist congress."
In reality, of course, no political movement springs "from nothing." Indeed, both of them have roots in the same man. Fifty-five years earlier that fall, the Tea Party movement's direct ancestors met in Indianapolis to launch their first bid to rally citizens against the "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy" occupying the White House, Dwight Eisenhower. But when their beloved anti-communist Barry Goldwater was buried in the 1964 presidential election, the Republican Party moved swiftly to officially renounce the "radical organizations" that had sullied its public image. Then the most radical of the right-wing radicals, Goldwater's beloved speechwriter Karl Hess, moved into a houseboat, renounced politics altogether and dedicated the rest of his life to peacefully protesting the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of the new aristocracy he dubbed "the one percent."
The radical right-wing roots of Occupy Wall Street (Maureen Tkacik, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012, Reuters)
If there's one thing that united Occupy Wall Street with the Tea Party movement from the very beginning, it's a virulent aversion to being compared to each other.
The Tea Partiers started sharpening their knives before the Occupation even began. Two weeks before last year's launch Tea Partisan blogger Bob Ellis wrote a post entitled "Socialists Plan to Rage Against Freedom on Constitution Day" - all but daring the lamestream punditry to compare the "infantile" plans of "spoiled children" to "throw tantrums" and "thumb their nose at the American way of life" to the beloved movement that "sprang up from nothing a little more than two years ago in the face of a Marxist president and Marxist congress."
In reality, of course, no political movement springs "from nothing." Indeed, both of them have roots in the same man. Fifty-five years earlier that fall, the Tea Party movement's direct ancestors met in Indianapolis to launch their first bid to rally citizens against the "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy" occupying the White House, Dwight Eisenhower. But when their beloved anti-communist Barry Goldwater was buried in the 1964 presidential election, the Republican Party moved swiftly to officially renounce the "radical organizations" that had sullied its public image. Then the most radical of the right-wing radicals, Goldwater's beloved speechwriter Karl Hess, moved into a houseboat, renounced politics altogether and dedicated the rest of his life to peacefully protesting the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of the new aristocracy he dubbed "the one percent."
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3DHS / No smiling on Drivers licenses in Jersey
« on: September 23, 2012, 01:19:13 AM »
Why because it confuses facial recognition software.
The TV story had all kinds of people agreeing with the new policy because of 9-11.
Is there any doubt that terrorists have won? Hello security, goodbye liberty.
The TV story had all kinds of people agreeing with the new policy because of 9-11.
Is there any doubt that terrorists have won? Hello security, goodbye liberty.
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3DHS / What the Democratic Convention Talks About When They Talk About Jobs
« on: September 07, 2012, 12:55:58 AM »
What the Democratic Convention Talks About When They Talk About Jobs
The Black Eyed Peas's will.i.am travels to the Democratic convention to offer his thoughts on job creation.
Mark Hemingway
September 6, 2012 2:09 PM
Charlotte
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: So, will.i.am, Arianna Huffington, Tom Brokaw, and one of the President’s economic advisers walk into the ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton for a panel discussion on job creation...
There is no punchline, except to say this hellbroth of personalities were all participating in a real event at the Democratic convention, and it was about as bad as it sounds. Officially, it was called “Opportunity: What Is Working - A Bipartisan Search for Solutions to the Jobs Crisis,” and it was sponsored by the Huffington Post. In total there were 16 people on the panel, which they accommodated by stopping after an hour and playing musical chairs. Aside from the aforementioned Big Names, the panel was rounded out with a smattering of tech CEOs, leaders of charitable organizations, and, yes, politicians.
Alan Blue, the co-founder of LinkedIn offered some remarks, though I didn’t pay too close attention because I was just waiting for him to personally apologize to everyone in the room for spamming their inbox with pleas to join his also-ran social network. (I currently have 58 email invites waiting to be deleted from acquaintances foolish to turn their address books over to Mr. Blue.)
Gerald Chertavian, the CEO of Year Up, an intensive one-year training program that teaches job skills to low income youth, was also a font of ideas. To juice the job market, Chertavian has created a PTC program—Professional Training Corps—which is analogous to the ROTC. It would be “swapping fatigues for business attire [and] rather than learning military moves, you learn about Microsoft mouse moves,” a tradeoff that sounds like all of the drudgery of the military but none of the adventure. Cheratavian also talks of a “G.I. Bill for urban young adults . . . to help them realize their potential.” Of course, there is a G.I. Bill to help realize the potential of urban young adults. It’s called the G.I. Bill. And ROTC grads would probably say that the leadership skills, discipline, and logistical management taught in the program are directly applicable to cultivating business skills and professional growth. But for some reason, encouraging young people looking for quality job training and a sense of purpose to join the military isn’t really an option on this panel.
San Antonio Mayor and Rising Democratic Star™ Julian Castro, outlined his city’s recipe for job growth in a surprising amount of detail, though all of the policies seemed unified by a tired theme—the city strong arms anyone who wants to do business with them into reinvesting in various municipal programs. Asked where he gets his job growth ideas, Castro said, among other things, “I have to confess I’m boring enough to read things like Governing magazine.” (Castro said nothing about benefiting from the aggressively pro-growth, anti-tax policies of the Republicans who run Texas at the state level.)
The only person on the panel capable of making real news was presidential economic adviser Gene Sperling. But his comments were brief and anodyne and he left before the second panel. But judging by the crowd reaction, no one was there to get an idea of what the president might be thinking about job creation.
The big draw was will.i.am, the leader of the wildly popular hip-hop group, the Black Eyed Peas. (Anyone who saw the Black Eyed Peas’s Superbowl half-time show a few years ago might better know will.i.am as History’s Greatest Monster.) Mr. will.i.am was wearing what appeared from the back of the room to be a black velvet tuxedo jacket over a t-shirt, and his hairstyle was vaguely cubist. Objections to will.i.am’s music aside, there’s no point in pretending will.i.am isn’t a very, very successful businessman who might have something interesting to say about job creation. Aside from his musical endeavors, he’s one of the founders of the wildly popular Beats headphone company. Much of his de rigueur charity work is directed at math and science education for public school kids, an unorthodox cause for a celebrity--and a very worthy one.
As one of the last remaining media dinosaurs—a consensus figure—moderator Tom Brokaw never seemed so old and so out of touch as when mustered all the gravitas his nasally baritone would allow to ask the writer of the hit song “Let’s Get Retarded In Here,” the following question: “How do you do what you do?” Brokaw further emphasized will.i.am’s relevance by telling the audience. “music has such an enormous influence on the generation we’re trying to reach now.” Anyway, here’s will.i.am talking about a science, technology, engineering and mathematics education for kids (STEM programs). I have reproduced his remarks in full, though to get the full mental picture, you’ll have to imagine his wild hand gesticulations throughout:
I think it should be mandatory that a STEM program is in every single school across America. A STEM program should be mandatory for kids at an early age. If you look at every single high school, junior high school across the country, there’s a basketball court and a football field. For that football field, there’s one company that benefits from that training, that’s the NFL. The NFL is a corporation. It's a company with a logo and they benefit from the people's skill set and their interest in football. It isn't necessarily for health because if you look through those high schools a lot of those kids are unhealthy, [have] obesity and they're going to have diabetes in the next couple of years. That basketball court, only one company benefits from that basketball court. It's called the NBA. All the great athletes that we see, a lot of them, the heroes, didn't go to college. They went straight from high school straight to the NBA. Now if we have STEM, when you think of STEM, you don't really think of a company that is connected to STEM. When we should start connecting companies to STEM and stimulate these kids to come up with new entrepreneurial, innovative technologies so that Black Friday every Thanksgiving a 15-year-old can have the bestselling product. Once you have that you'll have new job creation and a whole new vision on kids wanting to be scientists, technicians engineers and mathematicians. We can start that in America. Just like we started Santa Claus. Coca-Cola is responsible for that. So companies help define what we did fourth quarter. They helped create this whole new Disneyland and Kodak. Now if it wasn't for Instagram, Kodak would still be around, but that was the juggernaut that killed Kodak. And from there goes News Corp. because of Twitter and the combination of Instagram, Facebook and the whole new way of taking images. But those are all new innovative, disruptive technologies that came from the youth. So we need to see what's happening right now. I'm on a mission to change Boyle Heights where I'm from. It's the reason why I gave a million dollars Prince Charles to build a STEM center in East London. Why? Because I'm from East L.A. and I'm going to need other people to see you have to go help other folks so they can help you out in your neighborhood. I am not stoppin' until it is poppin’!
If will.i.am’s stemwinder sounded like he’d put 20 TED talks in a blender and produced an incoherent mess, the audience still greeted him with raucous applause. Then again, if there was any watchword for this event, “self-awareness” wasn’t it. As far as revealing tableaus go, it's hard to top a few hundred obviously posh attendees gathered in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton, just down the street from the Democratic convention, to enjoy the salmon and polenta while they hashed out what to do about job prospects for urban youths. The elites on the dais even wore those little headset mics favored by inspirational speakers and televangelists and greeted Arianna Huffington with “Hello, Love.”
And this lack of self-awareness is ultimately why we shouldn’t be too hard on will.i.am. Of all the panelists, he was the only one that could be said to have both impressive business success and experience being one of the poor urban youths they’re all trying to help. At this point, will.i.am’s career goes well beyond selling records, and it’s hard not to look at his career and say He Did Build That—a marked contrast to most of the politicians and foundation heads surrounding him. Sure Arianna Huffington laughed nervously when will.i.am said Coca-Cola invented Santa Claus, and an earlier digression on Nikolai Tesla and HI-B visas did not inspire confidence in his knowledge base. But before you laugh with Huffington, consider that maybe will.i.am is so passionate about education precisely because he’s aware of the limits of the education he received as a poor kid in East L.A.
If you go back and really think about what will.i.am is saying above—and admittedly it took me a while to stop rolling my eyes and gloss over a lot of seeming nonsense—the underlying message is this: If you want to fix America’s job market, that means letting corporations have significant influence over the smoldering ruins of America’s public schools.
will.i.am is a big Obama booster—he produced the cultish, celebrity-laden “Dip Dive” Obama video that boosted the president’s campaign in ’08—so I doubt even he realizes he’s preaching a message that’s far more at home at a Republican convention. His unquestioning belief in the power of capitalism to fix governmental failures is startling, when you consider how anathema it is to the message that’s been put out in the Democratic convention hall all week. He inadvertently told the truth to a roomful of liberal elites, and for that, will.i.am might actually deserve to be applauded.
But that’s not what happened. will.i.am finished his remarks, and the Ritz-Carlton ballroom put their hands together, not because they had any idea what he was saying, but to pay tribute to the celebrity in their midst.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/blogs/what-democratic-convention-talks-about-when-they-talk-about-jobs_651843.html?page=2
The Black Eyed Peas's will.i.am travels to the Democratic convention to offer his thoughts on job creation.
Mark Hemingway
September 6, 2012 2:09 PM
Charlotte
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: So, will.i.am, Arianna Huffington, Tom Brokaw, and one of the President’s economic advisers walk into the ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton for a panel discussion on job creation...
There is no punchline, except to say this hellbroth of personalities were all participating in a real event at the Democratic convention, and it was about as bad as it sounds. Officially, it was called “Opportunity: What Is Working - A Bipartisan Search for Solutions to the Jobs Crisis,” and it was sponsored by the Huffington Post. In total there were 16 people on the panel, which they accommodated by stopping after an hour and playing musical chairs. Aside from the aforementioned Big Names, the panel was rounded out with a smattering of tech CEOs, leaders of charitable organizations, and, yes, politicians.
Alan Blue, the co-founder of LinkedIn offered some remarks, though I didn’t pay too close attention because I was just waiting for him to personally apologize to everyone in the room for spamming their inbox with pleas to join his also-ran social network. (I currently have 58 email invites waiting to be deleted from acquaintances foolish to turn their address books over to Mr. Blue.)
Gerald Chertavian, the CEO of Year Up, an intensive one-year training program that teaches job skills to low income youth, was also a font of ideas. To juice the job market, Chertavian has created a PTC program—Professional Training Corps—which is analogous to the ROTC. It would be “swapping fatigues for business attire [and] rather than learning military moves, you learn about Microsoft mouse moves,” a tradeoff that sounds like all of the drudgery of the military but none of the adventure. Cheratavian also talks of a “G.I. Bill for urban young adults . . . to help them realize their potential.” Of course, there is a G.I. Bill to help realize the potential of urban young adults. It’s called the G.I. Bill. And ROTC grads would probably say that the leadership skills, discipline, and logistical management taught in the program are directly applicable to cultivating business skills and professional growth. But for some reason, encouraging young people looking for quality job training and a sense of purpose to join the military isn’t really an option on this panel.
San Antonio Mayor and Rising Democratic Star™ Julian Castro, outlined his city’s recipe for job growth in a surprising amount of detail, though all of the policies seemed unified by a tired theme—the city strong arms anyone who wants to do business with them into reinvesting in various municipal programs. Asked where he gets his job growth ideas, Castro said, among other things, “I have to confess I’m boring enough to read things like Governing magazine.” (Castro said nothing about benefiting from the aggressively pro-growth, anti-tax policies of the Republicans who run Texas at the state level.)
The only person on the panel capable of making real news was presidential economic adviser Gene Sperling. But his comments were brief and anodyne and he left before the second panel. But judging by the crowd reaction, no one was there to get an idea of what the president might be thinking about job creation.
The big draw was will.i.am, the leader of the wildly popular hip-hop group, the Black Eyed Peas. (Anyone who saw the Black Eyed Peas’s Superbowl half-time show a few years ago might better know will.i.am as History’s Greatest Monster.) Mr. will.i.am was wearing what appeared from the back of the room to be a black velvet tuxedo jacket over a t-shirt, and his hairstyle was vaguely cubist. Objections to will.i.am’s music aside, there’s no point in pretending will.i.am isn’t a very, very successful businessman who might have something interesting to say about job creation. Aside from his musical endeavors, he’s one of the founders of the wildly popular Beats headphone company. Much of his de rigueur charity work is directed at math and science education for public school kids, an unorthodox cause for a celebrity--and a very worthy one.
As one of the last remaining media dinosaurs—a consensus figure—moderator Tom Brokaw never seemed so old and so out of touch as when mustered all the gravitas his nasally baritone would allow to ask the writer of the hit song “Let’s Get Retarded In Here,” the following question: “How do you do what you do?” Brokaw further emphasized will.i.am’s relevance by telling the audience. “music has such an enormous influence on the generation we’re trying to reach now.” Anyway, here’s will.i.am talking about a science, technology, engineering and mathematics education for kids (STEM programs). I have reproduced his remarks in full, though to get the full mental picture, you’ll have to imagine his wild hand gesticulations throughout:
I think it should be mandatory that a STEM program is in every single school across America. A STEM program should be mandatory for kids at an early age. If you look at every single high school, junior high school across the country, there’s a basketball court and a football field. For that football field, there’s one company that benefits from that training, that’s the NFL. The NFL is a corporation. It's a company with a logo and they benefit from the people's skill set and their interest in football. It isn't necessarily for health because if you look through those high schools a lot of those kids are unhealthy, [have] obesity and they're going to have diabetes in the next couple of years. That basketball court, only one company benefits from that basketball court. It's called the NBA. All the great athletes that we see, a lot of them, the heroes, didn't go to college. They went straight from high school straight to the NBA. Now if we have STEM, when you think of STEM, you don't really think of a company that is connected to STEM. When we should start connecting companies to STEM and stimulate these kids to come up with new entrepreneurial, innovative technologies so that Black Friday every Thanksgiving a 15-year-old can have the bestselling product. Once you have that you'll have new job creation and a whole new vision on kids wanting to be scientists, technicians engineers and mathematicians. We can start that in America. Just like we started Santa Claus. Coca-Cola is responsible for that. So companies help define what we did fourth quarter. They helped create this whole new Disneyland and Kodak. Now if it wasn't for Instagram, Kodak would still be around, but that was the juggernaut that killed Kodak. And from there goes News Corp. because of Twitter and the combination of Instagram, Facebook and the whole new way of taking images. But those are all new innovative, disruptive technologies that came from the youth. So we need to see what's happening right now. I'm on a mission to change Boyle Heights where I'm from. It's the reason why I gave a million dollars Prince Charles to build a STEM center in East London. Why? Because I'm from East L.A. and I'm going to need other people to see you have to go help other folks so they can help you out in your neighborhood. I am not stoppin' until it is poppin’!
If will.i.am’s stemwinder sounded like he’d put 20 TED talks in a blender and produced an incoherent mess, the audience still greeted him with raucous applause. Then again, if there was any watchword for this event, “self-awareness” wasn’t it. As far as revealing tableaus go, it's hard to top a few hundred obviously posh attendees gathered in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton, just down the street from the Democratic convention, to enjoy the salmon and polenta while they hashed out what to do about job prospects for urban youths. The elites on the dais even wore those little headset mics favored by inspirational speakers and televangelists and greeted Arianna Huffington with “Hello, Love.”
And this lack of self-awareness is ultimately why we shouldn’t be too hard on will.i.am. Of all the panelists, he was the only one that could be said to have both impressive business success and experience being one of the poor urban youths they’re all trying to help. At this point, will.i.am’s career goes well beyond selling records, and it’s hard not to look at his career and say He Did Build That—a marked contrast to most of the politicians and foundation heads surrounding him. Sure Arianna Huffington laughed nervously when will.i.am said Coca-Cola invented Santa Claus, and an earlier digression on Nikolai Tesla and HI-B visas did not inspire confidence in his knowledge base. But before you laugh with Huffington, consider that maybe will.i.am is so passionate about education precisely because he’s aware of the limits of the education he received as a poor kid in East L.A.
If you go back and really think about what will.i.am is saying above—and admittedly it took me a while to stop rolling my eyes and gloss over a lot of seeming nonsense—the underlying message is this: If you want to fix America’s job market, that means letting corporations have significant influence over the smoldering ruins of America’s public schools.
will.i.am is a big Obama booster—he produced the cultish, celebrity-laden “Dip Dive” Obama video that boosted the president’s campaign in ’08—so I doubt even he realizes he’s preaching a message that’s far more at home at a Republican convention. His unquestioning belief in the power of capitalism to fix governmental failures is startling, when you consider how anathema it is to the message that’s been put out in the Democratic convention hall all week. He inadvertently told the truth to a roomful of liberal elites, and for that, will.i.am might actually deserve to be applauded.
But that’s not what happened. will.i.am finished his remarks, and the Ritz-Carlton ballroom put their hands together, not because they had any idea what he was saying, but to pay tribute to the celebrity in their midst.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/blogs/what-democratic-convention-talks-about-when-they-talk-about-jobs_651843.html?page=2
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3DHS / Name the bad guy
« on: August 29, 2012, 08:49:40 AM »
Wells Fargo Fires Iowa Worker for Minor 1963 Crime
Associated Press – 17 hours ago
Richard Eggers (ABC5 News)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wells Fargo Home Mortgage (WFC) has fired a Des Moines worker over a 1963 incident at a Laundromat involving a fake dime in the wake of new employment guidelines.
Richard Eggers, 68, was fired in July from his job as a customer service representative for putting a cardboard cutout of a dime in a washing machine nearly 50 years ago in Carlisle, the Des Moines Register reported Monday.
Warren County court records show Eggers was convicted of operating a coin-changing machine by false means. Eggers called it a "stupid stunt," but questions his firing.
Big banks have been firing low-level employees like Eggers since new federal banking employment guidelines were enacted in May 2011 and new mortgage employment guidelines took hold in February, the newspaper said. The tougher standards are meant to clear out executives and mid-level bank employees guilty of transactional crimes — such as identity theft and money laundering — but are being applied across the board because of possible fines for noncompliance.
Banks have fired thousands of workers nationally, said Natasha Buchanan, an attorney in Santa Ana, Calif., who has helped some of the workers regain their eligibility to be employed.
"Banks are afraid of the FDIC and the penalties they could face," Buchanan said.
The regulatory rules forbid the employment of anyone convicted of a crime involving dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering. Before the guidelines were changed, banks widely interpreted the rules to exclude minor traffic offenses and misdemeanors.
Wells Fargo confirmed Eggers' termination.
"The expectations that have been placed on us and all financial institutions have never been higher," said Wells Fargo spokeswoman Angela Kaipust.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. provides a waiver process employees can follow to show they're still fit to work at a bank despite a past criminal conviction, but it usually takes six months to a year to be approved. There is also a process for automatic waiver that works more quickly but is limited to people who were sentenced to less than year of jail time and never spent a day locked up.
Eggers, who was jailed two days, doesn't qualify.
American Bankers Association spokeswoman Carol Kaplan said the public clamor for tighter regulation also is responsible for the stricter interpretation of the rules. The safest route is to fire the employee and let them pursue an FDIC waiver.
"There's no question that there was an appetite for tighter bank regulation as a result of the global financial crisis," Kaplan said.
There is no government or industry data on the number of bank firings due to criminal background checks. The FDIC is on pace to grant 74 waivers, up from 21 waivers approved in 2009. The agency was not able to provide any information on annual waiver application data.
Des Moines attorney Leonard Bates is helping Eggers navigate the FDIC waiver application process.
"These guidelines are really meant for executives and people who can perpetuate widespread fraud," Bates said.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-fires-iowa-worker-for-minor-1963-crime.html
Associated Press – 17 hours ago
Richard Eggers (ABC5 News)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wells Fargo Home Mortgage (WFC) has fired a Des Moines worker over a 1963 incident at a Laundromat involving a fake dime in the wake of new employment guidelines.
Richard Eggers, 68, was fired in July from his job as a customer service representative for putting a cardboard cutout of a dime in a washing machine nearly 50 years ago in Carlisle, the Des Moines Register reported Monday.
Warren County court records show Eggers was convicted of operating a coin-changing machine by false means. Eggers called it a "stupid stunt," but questions his firing.
Big banks have been firing low-level employees like Eggers since new federal banking employment guidelines were enacted in May 2011 and new mortgage employment guidelines took hold in February, the newspaper said. The tougher standards are meant to clear out executives and mid-level bank employees guilty of transactional crimes — such as identity theft and money laundering — but are being applied across the board because of possible fines for noncompliance.
Banks have fired thousands of workers nationally, said Natasha Buchanan, an attorney in Santa Ana, Calif., who has helped some of the workers regain their eligibility to be employed.
"Banks are afraid of the FDIC and the penalties they could face," Buchanan said.
The regulatory rules forbid the employment of anyone convicted of a crime involving dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering. Before the guidelines were changed, banks widely interpreted the rules to exclude minor traffic offenses and misdemeanors.
Wells Fargo confirmed Eggers' termination.
"The expectations that have been placed on us and all financial institutions have never been higher," said Wells Fargo spokeswoman Angela Kaipust.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. provides a waiver process employees can follow to show they're still fit to work at a bank despite a past criminal conviction, but it usually takes six months to a year to be approved. There is also a process for automatic waiver that works more quickly but is limited to people who were sentenced to less than year of jail time and never spent a day locked up.
Eggers, who was jailed two days, doesn't qualify.
American Bankers Association spokeswoman Carol Kaplan said the public clamor for tighter regulation also is responsible for the stricter interpretation of the rules. The safest route is to fire the employee and let them pursue an FDIC waiver.
"There's no question that there was an appetite for tighter bank regulation as a result of the global financial crisis," Kaplan said.
There is no government or industry data on the number of bank firings due to criminal background checks. The FDIC is on pace to grant 74 waivers, up from 21 waivers approved in 2009. The agency was not able to provide any information on annual waiver application data.
Des Moines attorney Leonard Bates is helping Eggers navigate the FDIC waiver application process.
"These guidelines are really meant for executives and people who can perpetuate widespread fraud," Bates said.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-fires-iowa-worker-for-minor-1963-crime.html