I hope he gets a civil rights lawsuit out of it. His last name is the winning color.
Lets see, 28 years old, $9000.00 + IRS refund?
I definitely have to change my tax preparer.
Hell for half my life 9000 was considered a decent wage and this construction worker in the state of Washington is getting that much in a refund????
I am going along with the “Nigerian Internet People” angle on this story.
Has the IRS weighed in saying this is/was a true story?
My cynicism really is kicking in on this entire story.
Also, I can’t really see someone leaving an $8300 check, his credit card AND drivers license at the bank then leaving (apparently) just before closing time.
Something very fishy here.....
Scary story. A cascade of incompetence, beginning and ending with the bank and an idiot teller. Like most Freepers, had this horror happened to me, I would have been hopping mad but instead of ranting would have immediately went to a barracuda-type attorneys office and demanded they help me sue Chase. Sue the police department, maybe, but they thought they had sufficient reason to hold the man, although they didn’t try very hard to learn the facts. Anyway, Chase bank is the real culprit here. I suspect some racial profiling was involved. Plus, as a construction worker, if the victim was dressed in his work clothes he probably didn’t look prosperous enough to have an $8,000-something check. Not that it should have mattered. Of course, in this situation, most people would have asked to see the manager and not left the bank until it was cleared up and they had their money. Still, he was treated badly and illegally. Chase sucks. I hope this fellow sues and collects, big. He deserves it.
The sad truth is that Chase Bank knew that any check issued by Chase Bank would undoubtly bounce.
But as Chase Bank knew, there would be no consequences for them if they simply confiscated the customers check and had him tossed in jail.
Did you know that our American banking industry is to big to fail btw?
Without a shadow of doubt Chase is the worst bank I have ever dealt with and I fail to understand why anyone would continue to keep an account with them.
Sue the Hell out of Chase for making a false criminal report and everything that went along with it.
Something tells me there is a new car in this mans future.
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And a paid off house.
Time to file a lawsuit. My Lawyer dreams about this situation. It would be a gold mine. And so it should.
There’s a clerk who needs to hear, “Your ass is fired.”
Not so sure this is the whole story. This guy was no longer a Chase account holder. He did not have an open account to deposit the check into. But he still expected the bank to hand him over $8000, even though he had a bad history with them, acted ‘shady’, and had no account. Even if he had a valid account, the bank would likely hold the check for a number of days before making the funds available, regardless of where the check originated from.
And can you be arrested in a bank lobby because someone at the bank ‘suspects’ fraud? It doesn’t sound right. Seems there would be some kind of investigation before an arrest is made.