Maggie's Farm

With regard to Russian corruption and your request for information pertaining to crimes against the MF reader: In 2006 all of my bank accounts were emptied electronically. First withdrawal was from an ATM machine down on the docks in New Jersey. A few minutes later withdrawals were made from Vladivostok, Novosobirsk, Moscow, Leningrad and one other Russian city. Within 40 minutes time they had emptied all accounts, all credit accounts. While working with the fraud department of the bank in a western state, I was told that the Russians had "hit 250,000 accounts in the western states." Banks hit were B of A, Wells Fargo, First Interstate and Washington Mutual. The local news program announced the story with less than two sentences--one time. We never heard anything more about the Russian take over of 250,000 bank accounts. However, a few weeks later when President Bush went to Moscow to meet with Putin over economic issues, I could not help but think how he must have felt knowing that the Russians had just demonstrated their ability to destroy our banking system electronically.

We moved on with our lives and three years later while travelling in the east we met a gentleman who had had the same experience. He also reported that the local news station had only one mention of the event with no follow up. He reported that the fraud department of his bank (PNC) had also told him that there were approximately 250,000 accounts that had been hit in the eastern states. Would someone here like to investigate that story?