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October 24, 2008

PNC to buy National City with Your Money

PNC said it would sell $7.7 billion preferred shares to the government and then announced it would buy National City for $5.2 billion in stock.  The acquisition was a "take-under";  the value of the PNC shares exchanged for National City shares was under the closing price of the stock Friday.  In essence, the government financed the acquisition.

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The FED just gave PNC Bank $5.56 billion in the bailout with which the bank did an acquisition.

The link below details corruption at PNC Bank:
http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/11/fraud-corruption-and-power-what-our.html

Should the FEDS not be regulating PNC?

Posted by: susan diamond | Nov 20, 2008 5:45:48 PM

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