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House GOP Budget to Target Tax Rates By NAFTALI BENDAVID House Republicans, seizing on what they hope is a potent campaign issue in the midst of a muddled political and economic landscape, will introduce a 2013 budget Tuesday that cuts tax rates and provides for two individual brackets of 10% and 25%. The budget would end the Alternative Minimum Tax, which was originally aimed at the wealthy but which ensnares a growing number of middle-class taxpayers each year. The plan would nearly eliminate U.S. taxes on American corporations' earnings from overseas operations. The proposal, to be offered by Rep. Paul...

SPD releases surveillance images of firebomb suspectPosted: 1:42 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 **SNIP** The face of the suspect cannot be seen but police are hoping someone will recognize the suspect from what the person is wearing. Police described the suspect wearing a blue-hooded jacket with a grey-hooded sweatshirt, a baseball cap, a black mask covering the face below the eyes, blue jeans, dark shoes and black gloves. A white logo was on the black bag the suspect was carrying.

Bank of America plans to start charging customers a $5 monthly fee for using their debit card for purchases. The fee will be rolled out starting early next year. [snip]...Anne Pace, a Bank of America Corp. spokeswoman, said Thursday that customers will only be charged the fee if they use their debit cards for purchases in any given month. Customers won't be charged if they only use their cards at an ATM. The fee will apply to basic accounts and will be in addition to any monthly fees customers are already being charged. For example, one of the bank's basic...

"One of the challenges in terms of rebuilding our economy is – businesses have gotten so efficient, that, uh, when was the last time somebody went to a bank teller? Instead of using an ATM. Or, used a travel agent instead of going online. A lot of jobs out that that used to require people now have become automated."

7-14-2011 SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. announced today that he has signed the following bill: • SB 48 by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) – Pupil instruction: prohibition of discriminatory content.

President Barack Obama says technological innovations such as robots can help pump jobs into the economy and spur growth in clean energy and advanced manufacturing. In his radio and Internet address Saturday, the president echoed a plan he unveiled Friday in Pittsburgh to join the federal government, universities and corporations and re-ignite American manufacturing with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and new technologies. "Their mission is to come up with a way to get ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor to the marketplace as swiftly as possible, which will help create quality jobs, and make our businesses...

Speaking at the Saul Alinsky & Luddite Alliance Institute in Sant Cruz, California yesterday. President Obama expanded his popular ATM initiative. The initiative to rid the country of job-killing ATM's and replace them with people. The President explained that the first ATM was introduced December 1972 at Lloyds Bank by IBM in the UK and that is when high tech started killing jobs. Then he said, "Why not other inventions since 1972? Why should they get a pass? If we can change the borders of Israel to 1967, why not the borders of job-killing technology?" Obama said with his preacher...

Three minutes of silly fun from MRC TV saluting The One’s goofiest soundbite of the week. Turns out goofiness plays pretty well politically these days: We had a lot of people who thought it made sense to get rid of cash machines and for a variety of reasons.Some didn’t like the usage fees and concluded that the best way to get rid of the hassle was to get rid of ATM’s altogether.Other’s wanted to see America return to a simpler time when we all got our money from our friendly neighborhood banker who knew your name, smiled at you and...

When we went out on the street and started asking people to sign a petition to ban ATM machines, we expected most of them to call us crazy or to simply ignore us. But in Barack Obama's America, banning cash machines as economic stimulus actually seems like a fairly reasonable idea to many folks. When we went out on the street and started asking people to sign a petition to ban ATM machines, we expected most of them to call us crazy or to simply ignore us. But in Barack Obama's America, banning cash machines as economic stimulus actually seems...

The Automated Teller Machine industry is not happy about President Obama's comments that the development of ATMs has cost jobs. Here's a sampling of some of the feedback I've been getting. Mike Lee, CEO of the ATM Industry Association, emailed me the following response: ‘President Obama should never use ATMs as an example of how technology replaces human labor because ATMs today play a critical role in providing extensive employment in the ATM and cash-in-transit industries. In addition, ATMs provide an indispensible range of services to customers, including all-hours access to their own banked cash. With over 400,000 in America alone, ATMs have become the...

Boehner Mocks Obama for Pinning Unemployment on ATMs Wednesday, June 15, 2011 By Matt Cover (CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) issued a mocking press release Wednesday chastising the president over remarks Obama made claiming that ATMs and airport ticket kiosks were partly to blame for persistently high unemployment. The release, cheekily written from the point of view of an everyday ATM, poked fun at Obama for claiming that greater efficiency from automated machines like ATMs was to blame for high unemployment. “This is a guest blog post from the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in your favorite convenience store...

Obama better pray that one of his devoted fans doesn’t shoot up an ATM tomorrow… But I digress. Let’s go straight to the horse’s mouth, shall we? Obama, yesterday: “A lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate.” Is the President of the United States trying to jump-start the buggy whip manufacturers? Wait a...

<p>President Obama explained to NBC News that the reason companies aren't hiring are not because of his policies, it's because the economy is so automated.</p>

09 June, 2011 - 11:03 Russia's Sberbank plans ATM with built in lie-detector - NY Times Russia's Sberbank is planning to roll out ATMs that use voice analysis software to tell whether customers are lying when they apply for credit cards, according to the New York Times The bank wants to introduce machines that let Russians apply for cards without having to talk to staff. To enable this, the ATMs will use a raft of high-tech systems - including passport scans, fingerprint recording and three-dimensional scans for facial recognition - to verify people. However, the most controversial feature is voice...

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Shoppers who are looking for something sparkly to put under the Christmas tree can skip the jewelry and go straight to the source: an ATM that dispenses shiny 24-carat gold bars and coins. A German company installed the machine Friday at an upscale mall in Boca Raton, a South Florida paradise of palm trees, pink buildings and wealthy retirees. Thomas Geissler, CEO of Ex Oriente Lux and inventor of the Gold To Go machines, says the majority of buyers will be walk-ups enamored by the novelty. But he says they're also convenient for more serious...

BAY COUNTY - A man being booked into jail gained another charge when detention officers found dollar bills falling out of his posterior. Nicholas Ryan Harris, 19, of 503 Wood Trail, was undergoing a strip search after being booked into Bay County Jail on charges of driving under the influence, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia when “several dollar bills … fell from Nicholas’ buttocks area,” according to an incident report. There were $45 total recovered. According to the report, Harris had been asked prior to the search if there was anything hidden on his body and he said...

NOTE The following text SNIPPET is a quote: International Hacker Arraigned After Extradition Elaborate Scheme Stole over $9.4 Million from Credit Card Processor ATLANTA, GA—SERGEI TŠURIKOV, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, has been extradited to the United States. TŠURIKOV appeared today and was arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge E. Clayton Scofield III, on federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, computer fraud, and aggravated identity theft. TŠURIKOV was indicted by a federal grand jury on these charges on November 10, 2010, along with VIKTOR PLESHCHUK, 29, of St. Petersburg, Russia; OLEG COVELIN,...

NOTE The following text SNIPPET is a quote: Serbian National Arrested in Fraud Plot A Serbian national living in Chicago’s north suburbs was arrested yesterday on charges he attempted to purchase a device commonly used for ATM skimming, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). LOUIS SOKOLOVIC, also known as Ljubisa Sokolovic, age 59, whose last known address was 8047 West Foster Lane in Niles, Illinois, was arrested yesterday morning, without incident, by FBI Special Agents at his residence. Special Agents from the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs...

John Shepherd-Barron, 84, the Scotsman often credited with devising an ancestor of the modern automated teller machine, died May 15 at a hospital in Inverness, Scotland. No cause of death was reported. ATMs had been attempted for decades before Mr. Shepherd-Barron, then an employee of a company that specialized in printing technology, came up with his idea for a workable machine while taking a bath.

LONDON – John Shepherd-Barron, the Scotsman credited with inventing the world's first automatic cash machine, has died after a short illness. He was 84. Shepherd-Barron died peacefully in northern Scotland's Raigmore Hospital on Saturday, .. Shepherd-Barron once said that he came up with the idea of the cash dispensers after being locked out of his bank. He also said that his invention was inspired by chocolate vending machines.

'The man credited with being the inventor of the world's first hole-in-the-wall cash dispenser has died in hospital following a short illness. John Shepherd-Barron, who was born in India, to Scottish parents, had been living in Portmahomack in Ross-shire. He died at Inverness's Raigmore Hospital on Saturday, at the age of 84. Mr Shepherd-Barron came up with the idea for a cash machine while in the bath. The first ATM machine was installed at a bank in London in 1967.'

This week the plush Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates rolled out the ultimate ATM machine in its lobby: It dispenses gold instead of cash. Guests can now get booty that comes in the form of 1-, 5- and 10-gram bars, as well as gold coins, at a price that the machine updates regularly, according to the website for Gold to Go.

What's Hidden in the Dodd BillApril 30, 2010 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Some interesting things are being gleaned from the financial regulatory reform bill. The Washington Times has an editorial today, and I'm waiting for the liberals in this country, when they find out about this, to start screaming fascist like they did at Bush over the Patriot Act. Remember, they hated Bush because they were going to spy on them, they're gonna monitor their phone calls out there. Why, why, that's a civil rights violation, human rights violation, fascism, they were just in sheer panic. "The next time you make...

Thousands Ripped Off In Suburban ATM Scam $20,000 Stolen From Accounts Through Mount Prospect ATM MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (CBS) ― Hundreds of people have been ripped off by an ATM scam making the rounds in the north and northwest suburbs. This time, the Daily Herald reports thieves installed a skimmer to steal users' PIN numbers at a drive-up Bank of America ATM in Mount Prospect, and made off with more than $20,000 from 316 bank accounts. The device was used for several days in October and November at the Bank of America at 200 E. Kensington Rd. in Mount Prospect,...

The FBI on Wednesday announced that it had charged 53 defendants, the largest number ever charged in a cybercrime case, following a multinational investigation into a phishing scheme that operated in the United States and Egypt. Thirty-three of the 53 defendants named in the indictment have been arrested, the FBI said, and several others are being sought. The investigation, dubbed "Operation Phish Phry," began in 2007. Authorities in Egypt have charged 47 defendants linked to the phishing operation. Phishing is a form of social engineering that attempts to convince Internet users, via e-mail or other means, to provide online credentials...

At approximately 2 a.m. on Sept. 25, a small improvised explosive device (IED) consisting of three or four butane canisters was used to attack a Banamex bank branch in the Milpa Alta delegation of Mexico City. The device damaged an ATM and shattered the bank's front windows. It was not an isolated event. The bombing was the seventh recorded IED attack in the Federal District - and the fifth such attack against a local bank branch - since the beginning of September. The attack was claimed in a communique posted to a Spanish-language anarchist Web site by a group calling...

A Fayette County woman is accused of robbing a man of $500 at an automated banking machine then stashing the cash in a body cavity to hide it from police. Shannon Jo Fisher, 25, of 278 Greenfield Road, Perryopolis, is charged by Uniontown police with robbery, theft and receiving stolen property. In a criminal complaint, Detective Donald M. Gmitter alleges Fisher grabbed $500 cash 3:40 p.m. Monday from a Charles Rodgers, address unavailable, immediately after Rodgers withdrew the money from a banking machine outside the PNC Bank branch at 2 E. Main St. Fisher then ran into the nearby Public...

Mouse STRIKES ATM Written by Dick Mason, The Observer August 07, 2009 02:11 pm A mouse robbed the Gem Stop Chevron convenience store on Island Avenue Thursday. A mouse with no larceny in its heart but a taste for $20 bills. The tiny rodent squeezed into the automated teller machine inside the store and made a nest with $20 bills. The ATM was operating well and nobody suspected anything. That is, until Millie Taylor, a Gem Stop employee, opened it around 9 a.m. Thursday and received the surprise of her life. “I saw these beady eyes and a lot of...

Note: The following text is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Ecuador Conterfeiting Problems CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Americas - Ecuador 30 Jul 2009 U.S. Embassy Quito issued the following Warden Message on July 30, 2009: The U.S. Embassy and Consulate General in Ecuador wish to inform American citizens visiting or resident in Ecuador of the continuing problem of counterfeit U.S. dollars circulating within Ecuador. We remind American citizens to check your currency carefully when leaving any banking institution or private business within Ecuador. Recently, we’ve received reports of counterfeit bills...

Four financial whizzes forged a bond at NYU -- then joined forces to devise an incredibly simple ATM scheme that wound up bilking up to $1 million from scores of banks, authorities said yesterday. The conniving quartet included a well-connected lawyer who interned with the Queens DA's Office, a Vietnamese refugee-turned-financial-broker, and a married bank-executive couple, officials said yesterday. "This was a beaut of a scam," said Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes. The scheme involved the four setting up bank accounts, then disguising themselves when they went to withdraw the money at ATMs and later claiming they were the victims of...

"SKULDUGGERY," says Andrew Henwood, "is a very good word to describe what this extremely advanced, cleverly written malware gets up to. We've never seen anything like it." What he has discovered is a devious piece of criminal coding that has been quietly at work in a clutch of cash machines at banks in Russia and Ukraine. It allows a gang member to walk up to an ATM, insert a "trigger" card, and use the machine's receipt printer to produce a list of all the debit card numbers used that day, including their start and expiry dates - and their PINs....

A vending machine selling tiny gold bars was launched at the main railway station in Germany’s Frankfurt-am-Main. The ATM machine, the size of a phone-booth and shaped as a gold bar, was installed in the financial metropolis of the European Union, Itar-Tass news agency reports. The new service appeared because of the aspiration of the Germans to rescue their savings during the crisis converting the funds on their bank accounts to gold bars. About 59 tons of gold bars and coins were sold to natural persons during the first quarter of the current year in Germany. The gold sales exceeded...

Note: The following text is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Guayaquil, Ecuador Taxicab Warning CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Americas - Ecuador 24 Apr 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 23 Apr 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: ECUADOR NATIONAL ELECTIONS- APRIL 26 12 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: CAUTION URGED OVER ECUADOR'S CHAQUINAN CYCLING PATH 29 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: QUITO, ECUADOR, HOME INVASIONS 16 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: ECUADOR DEMONSTRATION JANUARY 20 14 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: QUITO, ECUADOR, PROTESTS ANTICIPATED JANUARY 15 U.S. Consulate Guayaquil released the following Warden Message on...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A regular customer at a San Francisco bank was arrested after he allegedly robbed the branch and left his ATM card behind, police said today. . . . Investigators also had no problems identifying him because he left the ATM card behind, police said. Officers arrested him shortly after the holdup.

The FBI has released pictures of two suspects linked to a multi-million dollar ATM heist. The man and a woman are thought to be street-level accomplices in a global cash machine heist the netted $9m from 130 ATM machines in 49 cities around the globe in a co-ordinated attack that lasted just hours. Investigators reckon the gang used data stolen from RBS WorldPay to create counterfeit payroll cards. These bogus cards were subsequently used to withdraw money from machines across the US as well as Montreal, Moscow, and Hong Kong on the night of 8 November 2008. Around 100 payroll...

Ashley Todd, 20, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police Police say a campaign volunteer confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.  At a news conference this afternoon, offiicals said they believe that Ashley Todd's injuries were self-inflicted.   Todd, 20, of Texas, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police. Todd initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on...

A 20-year-old woman got robbed at an ATM in a Pittsburgh suburb, and normally that would not make national news. However, her robber wanted to make a political statement as well. After seeing a McCain bumper sticker on her car, he beat the woman and scratched a “B” into her face: A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.

PITTSBURGH -- A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said. Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m. Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard...

Not exactly criminal masterminds, but the three Ukrainian nationals busted for stealing PINs and debits, creating false cards, and pocketing the cash did have a pretty good run. And reading the legal documents on the case in the U.S. Eastern District Court offers a handful of lessons about ATM fraud and pre-paid card fraud—including the value of rotating your wardrobe. First, some of the facts in the case: three Ukrainians are charged with using fraudulent debit cards they used to withdraw hundreds of thousands of dollars from Citibank, WaMu and other bank ATMs in New York City. The thefts appear...

On Saturday morning just before 9am, KCMO police were called to the Bank of America, 8320 North Oak Trafficway, in regard to a shooting. Upon arrival officer's located a black male (approx. 20yrs old) in the parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. He was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. It appears he was attempting to rob two victim's at gunpoint near the ATM when one of the victim's brandished a handgun and shot him in self defense. Both victim's along with several witnesses are being interviewed in regard. Anyone who may have witnessed...

Double click on the arrow to step through the video a frame or two at a time. I'm never going under such a canopy again, whether on foot or in a car. One yo-yo comes along and you're a pancake. Thank God no one else was under the awning at the time. Also, what IS that "angelic" figure that appears three or four frames after the video initially goes black??? It's laying on its right side. Its head fills the frame and it's facing the camera.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A security breach at an East Coast supermarket chain exposed more than 4 million card numbers and led to 1,800 cases of fraud, the Hannaford Bros. grocery chain announced Monday. Hannaford said credit and debit card numbers were stolen during the card authorization process and about 4.2 million unique card numbers were exposed, placing the case among the largest data breaches ever. The breach affected all of its 165 stores in the Northeast, 106 Sweetbay stores in Florida and a smaller number of independent groceries that sell Hannaford products. The company is aware of about 1,800...

A new debit card that lets consumers use ATMs to withdraw money from their 401(k) plans is drawing a sharp reaction from financial planners. The ReservePlus card is marketed by Reserve Solutions Inc., a New York financial firm that says it has 10,000 cardholders already. The debit cards allow cardholders to take out loans from their employer-sponsored 401(k) retirement funds. Normally, restrictions on the funds discourage account holders from making withdrawals before they are 59½ years old. Early withdrawals from 401(k) plans come with taxes and fees, which could deprive account holders of their nest eggs if they fail to...

A jump in ATM fraud led Citibank to slash the maximum amount of cash available to customers from their accounts - a security move greeted warily Wednesday by its patrons. The new cap on cash kicked out by the company's ATMs began in mid-December after what Citibank called "isolated fraudulent activity" around the city. The bank, with 134 branches around town, would not say how many customers were affected or how much money was involved. One Brooklyn woman said she went to her bank branch on Christmas Eve and was unable to take out her normal cash limit, so she...

Pittsburgh police detectives this morning recovered a truck they believe was used to steal an ATM machine from a Morningside convenience store overnight. A witness called police around 3:40 a.m. today to report the robbery at the Buy 'n Fly market in the 7300 block of Butler Street.......

This afternoon I found out that in the last three days someone did ATM withdrawals of $500 ea, the maximum daily withdrawal, from my bank account each day. So now I'm out $1500 for about 10 days which is when the bank said they'd refund me. Somehow they had not only my card number but also my pin number and I have absolutely no idea how they could get both. I was lucky that the bank put a hold on my account due to suspicious transactions and this is how I found out. BTW, this happened in Seattle.

Somebody arrest the CEO of Bank of America. The knave is forcing poor Amy Robach to use his bank's ATM machines. At least, so it would seem from Amy's statement on this morning's "Today." "Today" ran a segment this morning about the fact that BoA has raised its ATM fees for non-customers to $3. When things were kicked back to co-anchor Robach in the studio, she unloaded.View video here. AMY ROBACH: It is an outrage! Three dollars, to take out twenty or forty bucks? Co-anchor Lester Holt sympathized. LESTER HOLT: And I get it, it's for non-customers. But for example,...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Bank of America Corp. has raised surcharges for non-customers at most of its ATMs nationwide to $3 from $2. The Charlotte-based bank, which has more than 17,000 ATMs, made the change in most markets in July and August, spokeswoman Betty Riess said.

SAN FRANCISCO—Service problems disabled ATMs and online accounts at Wells Fargo & Co. for at least 24 hours starting Sunday afternoon, leaving some customers of the nation's fifth largest bank unable to get cash or use debit cards to pay for goods. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo would not say how many customers or machines were affected but acknowledged that services were down throughout the company—from personal banking Web sites and ATMs to the processing of mortgage and student loans. "Customers may continue to experience transaction difficulties or delays in our stores, at ATMs and at the point-of-sale ... and processing...

Is that an ATM in the church lobby? Credit and debit card swipe machines in churches may startle some of the pious, but such kiosks, already present in some houses of worship, might become even more commonplace now that a new IRS regulation is in effect. Beginning with gifts given in 2007, the IRS will demand documentation for charitable contributions under $250. Once, all one needed was a diary entry to vouch for such donations. Specially designed ATMs at church will help document such spur-of-the-moment cash gifts, as well as planned giving. Also as a result of the new IRS...