Wells Fargo To Foreclose On Dying Cancer Patient

I've never seen anything like this before.  A fire-tornado in the Aussie outback Monday.

Evening links:

• Bailed Out Wells Fargo To Foreclose On Dying Cancer Patient
• National deadline to request a free foreclosure review extended to Sept. 30
• $1.8 Trillion Annually: Obama Regulations Will Cost 20X Estimate
• Is This A Joke? - DOJ Review Says Holder did not know about 'Fast and Furious'
• Flashback: House committee suspects ‘Fast and Furious’ cover-up
• ATF Agent In Charge Of Fast 'N Furious Was Also Working For JPMorgan
• PRESENTING: The Most Corrupt Members Of Congress
• American Airlines expects to layoff 4,400 workers
• Time for Congress to Wean Banks From Outdated Crisis Backstop - WSJ
• Obama store sells Obamerican flag
• Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Bad Math on AIG - Naked Capitalism
• More Lawyers Become Defendants in Mortgage-Fraud Cases - WSJ
• Peregrine customers to get 30% of money back
• Sorkin’s AIG Fairytale Debunked by Sorkin - Barry Ritholtz
• Mortgage Lending Slid to 16-Year Low in 2011 - WSJ
• Sheila Bair: Two Years After Dodd-Frank, Why Isn’t Anything Fixed?
• Forbes' list of 400 Richest Americans got richer in 2012
• U.S. Seafood catch largest in nearly two decades
• Uruguay Pushes for Legal Marijuana to Stem Violence - Bloomberg
• PHOTOS - NYPD deployed mysterious surveillance truck at OWS anniversary

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Finally, 3 Occupy Wall Street signs from today:

• Sign 1
• Sign 2
• Sign 3

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Wells Fargo strikes again.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wellsfargo-accounts-lawsuit-idUSKBN13J1WX