Faith groups, lawmakers, activists, and Jersey City are escalating pressure on Citizens Bank over financing tied to CoreCivic and GEO Group, two private companies that operate ICE detention centers.
The most corrupt member of the city council in Truth or Consequences, NM back in 2009, when they (illegally) voted on whether each individual citizen could speak to them during public comments… was the president of the local Citizens Bank branch. He violated federal law by allowing a corporation run by Greg Neal to use the banks address as their official location.
He also conspired with Greg Neal (and others), to con the city into annexing 9,000 acres of empty desert on the promise Hot Springs Development Corporation would build a NASCAR race track and high-end fly-in condominium development. Neal is the same guy who scammed Hillsdale College (yep, that conservative toilet of a school near Tampa, FL) out of $1 million for a sports medicine facility that he never built.
Not sure if it was shame, threat of arrest, or just fatigue that drove him to resign from office, but Citizens Bank never held him accountable for anything
The most corrupt member of the city council in Truth or Consequences, NM back in 2009, when they (illegally) voted on whether each individual citizen could speak to them during public comments… was the president of the local Citizens Bank branch. He violated federal law by allowing a corporation run by Greg Neal to use the banks address as their official location.
He also conspired with Greg Neal (and others), to con the city into annexing 9,000 acres of empty desert on the promise Hot Springs Development Corporation would build a NASCAR race track and high-end fly-in condominium development. Neal is the same guy who scammed Hillsdale College (yep, that conservative toilet of a school near Tampa, FL) out of $1 million for a sports medicine facility that he never built.
Not sure if it was shame, threat of arrest, or just fatigue that drove him to resign from office, but Citizens Bank never held him accountable for anything
That is a long pattern of local power, banking access, public office, and no real accountability.
The same question keeps coming back: who gets protected when money, political influence, and institutional silence all line up?