Chase, Once Considered "The Good Bank," Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement

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RollingStone.com - 7/18/13, Matt Taibbi

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James "Jamie" Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
 
Well, there's some more news about the "good bank" – Chase is about to pay yet another ginormous settlement for cheating and stealing from the public. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will fine Chase "close to $1 billion" for manipulating energy prices in Enron-esque fashion in Michigan and California. The story is interesting in itself – and we'll write more about it later – but for now, it's just the fact of yet another massive settlement for this bank that's so interesting.
 
For sheer curiosity's sake, I thought I'd list, in capsule form, some of the capers Chase has been caught up in in recent years:

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