By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 3 – HSBC was sued for charging its customers multiple NSF fees for the same item, driving their account balances deeper into negative territory. HSBC settled.
On October 20, 2022, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Edgardo Ramos held a proceeding. Inner City Press covered it.
It provides $1,975,000 with $658,333.33 in attorneys' fees.
Now in June 2024, HSBC misdeeds continue all over, including in India: HSBC Employee Accuses Colleague Of Ethnic Humiliation... According to the employee who wrote the letter, this incident came to pass on April 22, 2024. And the alleged incident came to pass during lunch time. She gives details of her ordeal by saying, "The exact remarks which was used by him is 'Ek chamaat maarenge, Bihar pahuch jaegi'. She was intimated with a physical threat and was ethnically abused in the process.
The above case is Chambers v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., 19-cv-10436 (Ramos) There may be more, here in the USA. Watch this site.
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