MUST READ OUTRAGE: Man Rots In Jail For Five Days, Loses Job & Car - All For Cashing A JPMorgan Chase Check At Chase Bank, Bank Admits Error One Year Later ONLY After Story Hits The Media
This is an unbelievable story befitting the U.S. Kleptocracy. Meanwhile Jamie Dimon gets a trillion or so of your money thru stealth bailouts, and the media gushes and celebrates.
It's been a year since the incident, and Chase didn't apologize until the story hit the local Seattle media, after the wrongly-imprisoned man lost his job and his car as a direct result of JPMorgan's error.
You are not going to believe these details.
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Njoku was taken to jail on June 24, 2010, which was a Thursday. The next day, Chase Special Investigations, realized it was a mistake. The check was legitimate. The Investigator called Auburn Police and left a message with the detective handling the case, but it was her day off. So Njoku stayed in jail for the entire weekend. Finally, on Monday, he was released.
Auburn Police Commander Dave Colglazier said Chase could have done a lot more to let them know they’d locked up an innocent man.
“We do have a main line that comes into our front office,” he said. “There are ways to reach someone 24/7 at a police department.”
For Njoku, going to jail for five days meant a lot more than just losing his freedom. He said the entire time he was “just stressed out…trying to figure out what was going on with my vehicle. I love my vehicle,” he said.
Njoku’s car had been towed from the bank parking lot and his check seized as evidence.
“I had to wait a couple of weeks,” he said, “and my car got sold, auctioned off."
Njoku says he didn’t have the money to pay the impound fees and fines to get his car back before it was sold. He said he also lost his job because he didn’t show up for work while he was in jail.
After all of that, Njoku said he never heard a word from Chase.
“They haven’t even sent me a letter or apologized,” he said. “It’s been a year we’ve been trying to contact these guys.”
Finally, A Seattle attorney offered to help. Last week, Felix Luna sent Chase a scathing letter. Read the attorneys' letter to Chase.
“It’s one thing to make a mistake,” Luna said. “It’s one thing to make multiple errors of judgment like Chase has made and then, once you realize that your error has caused such harm to somebody else, to just ignore it for a year. I think he deserved better. I think all their customers do.”
Read the full story at Seattle's KING 5 News...
And the follow-up with JPMorgan's hollow apology...
Jul 16, 2011 at 4:09 PM
Reader Comments (15)
This kind of story is a reminder that the truth ultimately emerges and that justice related resolutions always come.
Justice for the enablers of banking crimes will be very painful,public, and long lasting when the American citizens finally lose their collective tempers.
Sue the hell out of them!
The Courupt judge, that would be every dam one of them, will take the IGA store bag full of "Cash" and sweep it under the table and it will go away.
Yes you can still find a good Lywer that would see it threw but, whAre you gona find a judge that aint already been bought off by the Democrat Squm..............?
None of this ever needed to happen........1 phone call could of saved the life of hell, and its all started with her.
I know the felling of loss and humiliation on a grand scale. When I turned to the local media for help... there simply was none. One person asked me after a fairly long story of hardship and wrongdoing with TONS of evidence to support it. "I'm so sorry to hear that, But where is the story in this?"
It just depends on several factors. God bless anyone who finds justice where it is deserved. I hope he will get all that he deserves. Chase is just another poor example as a banking institution and how they are supported on their word alone. I found this article yesterday in Yahoo news. I believe it to be a great idea that is of course if people would stand together to do it.
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113093/reasons-cancel-credit-cards-smartmoney?mod=bb-budgeting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKnEAC-7WVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4e3-YK3rVA
http://www.businessinsider.com/tex-grebner-shoots-himself-leg-2011-7
Chase had processed known fraudulent charges that over drafted my account and refused to refund the overdraft fees. The company that committed the fraudulent drafts returned 100% of my money... I ask: Which is the criminal organization?