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Madoff's fraud 'was conducted almost exclusively' through JPMorgan accounts.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2014-01-07","source":{"title":"Manhattan U.S. Attorney And FBI Assistant Director-In-Charge Announce Filing Of Criminal Charges Against And Deferred Prosecution Agreement With JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.","url":"https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/January14/JPMCDPAPR.php","publication":"U.S. Department of Justice"}},{"id":20591,"text":"On January 7, 2014 entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, paying $1.7 billion in forfeiture (plus $543M in additional civil settlements, ~$2.6B total) for two felony violations of the Bank Secrecy Act in connection with its banking of Bernard L. 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Six months later, it acquired Washington Mutual's banking operations from the FDIC for $1.9 billion — the largest U.S. bank failure in history.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-03-17","source":{"title":"Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/business/17fed.html","publication":"The New York Times"}},{"id":10533,"text":"<cite index=\"23-2\">The Federal Reserve provided $853 billion in secret loans to Bear Stearns; $851 billion from its Primary Dealer Credit Facility and $2 billion from its Term Securities Lending Facility</cite>","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2007-12-01","source":{"title":"GAO audit findings reported by Wall Street on Parade","url":"https://www.sec.gov/files/form8-k.pdf","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":48964,"text":"JPMorgan Chase merged with Chicago-based Bank One in July 2004 for $58 billion, creating a $1.1 trillion asset bank with 2,300 branches in 17 states. 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