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Fraudsters obtain BINs from breached datasets, insider leaks, and specialized underground markets, then validate them by low-value test transactions and automated “checkers” or balance lookups to find...
Impostor Mega Millions scams typically contact targets by phone, text, or email claiming they’ve won a large prize and then demand fees, “insurance,” taxes, or other payments to release winnings; vict...
generally allow people with past arrests or convictions to compete for civilian federal jobs and bar agencies from asking about criminal history until a conditional offer is made — a policy formalized...
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) publicly claimed large, headline-grabbing savings—figures that ranged from tens to hundreds of billions on its online “wall of receipts”—but multiple ind...
Surviving spouses’ Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) payments rose with Social Security COLA adjustments: a 2.5% increase made 2025 base spouse DIC about $1,653 (effective Dec. 1, 2024) and ...
Federal deficits were essentially flat from FY2024 to FY2025: most official tallies put both years at about $1.8 trillion, with FY2025 recorded as $8–$41 billion lower than FY2024 depending on the rep...
Since 2025 the federal debt climbed mainly because large annual deficits continued to add new borrowing, the government’s interest costs surged as debt outstanding and market interest rates rose, and ...
Advance-fee “you’ve won” scams tell victims they won Mega Millions prizes they never bought, then demand upfront “taxes,” “processing” or other fees; Mega Millions and state lotteries say there is nev...
JPMorgan Chase bought the substantial majority of First Republic’s assets and assumed its deposits (insured and uninsured) after the FDIC seized the bank on May 1, 2023; JPMorgan said it is assuming a...
Scammers routinely pose as Mega Millions to extract fees or personal data; Mega Millions officials say you cannot win without buying a U.S. ticket and “there is never a fee to claim a real lottery pri...
Scams impersonating Mega Millions in 2025 continue long‑standing patterns — fake emails, texts and phone calls promising prizes and insisting on advance fees — but reporting and industry analysis show...
Regulators long treated “” as a real supervisory concern that could influence bank behavior—including account closures—while courts have sometimes upheld banks’ contract freedom to sever relationships...
in the supplied sources identifies any federal enforcement action specifically targeting the company since 2025; available materials instead document broader shifts in federal enforcement priorities, ...
There is no credible reporting in the collected sources that a generalized is happening today; the materials include warnings and historical context about bank runs, predictions of stress in and , and...
U.S. data on banks closing customer accounts—commonly called “”—is fragmented: regulators and industry surveys document account ownership and branch exits, but systematic national statistics on involu...
Yes — can and do lend to foreign small enterprises, but that ability is governed by a mix of federal supervision, state rules, tax and treaty considerations, and bank risk-management and reporting obl...
as a share of U.S. national income after 2020 largely for mechanical, accounting reasons: and shifts in proprietors’ income reduced the denominator shares available to noncorporate income categories, ...
The Supreme Court created the Bivens cause of action in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents , then extended it only twice in the 1970s before sharply curtailing its reach in the 21st century; recent de...
A conventional financial “reset” — a banking collapse, sovereign debt shock, or systemic overhaul — would not automatically wipe out insured deposits or properly held retirement assets because federal...
Two large bank settlements tied to Jeffrey Epstein — Deutsche Bank’s $75 million deal and JPMorgan’s $290 million deal — created centralized victim-compensation funds that used court‑supervised claims...