🗞️ Story file #429
U.S. fines Bank of America $1.2 billion for money laundering violations
Oct 13, 6 PM ET to Oct 15, 9 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 25outlets carried it
- 🫏9 · 6 · 9🐘left · center · right
- 2.1 dayson the front pages
- 25front pages at once, at its peak
- 3 minof TV captions
- 3radio newscasts
- 14people retold it online
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 13, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Oct 13, 9 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 13, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 14, 12 PM ETpeak: on 25 front pages
- Oct 15, 4 AM ETretold online by 14 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost, PBS NewsHour)
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “The biggest financial institutions are not above the law”
🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 1 2b
✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- CNBC (4 wordings): “Bank of America fined $1.2 billion over money-laundering violations” → “Bank of America shares drop 8% after third-quarter revenue miss and regulatory penalty”
- Financial Times (2 wordings): “Bank of America fined $1.2bn over money laundering failures” → “BofA profits drop 17% after $1.2bn money laundering fine”
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Bank of America hit with $1.2B fine for money laundering, sanctions violations” → “Bank of America profits hit by $1.2B fine for overlooking Chinese money laundering, narco trafficking”
- Red State (3 wordings): “Bank of America Hit With Huge $1.2B Treasury Fine” → “Crime Bank of America Hit With Huge $1.2B Treasury Fine Ward Clark”
- Reuters (3 wordings): “Bank of America fined $1.2 billion by US government for failing to police suspicious activity” → “Bank of America profit hurt by $1.2 billion fine over anti-money laundering shortcomings”
- The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “US Hits Bank of America With $1.2 Billion in Penalties for Security Violations” → “Bank of America Earnings Hit by $1.2 Billion Regulatory Fine”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Bank of America fined $1.2bn for money laundering failures” → “Bank of America fined $1.2bn for money-laundering failures”
Every outlet's first headline (25), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Bank Of America Fined $1.2 Billion By U.S. Government For Failing To Police Suspicious Activity Oct 13, 6 PM ET
The Guardian
Bank of America fined $1.2bn for money laundering failures Oct 14, 8 AM ET
AP
US hits Bank of America with $1.2 billion fine, saying it violated money laundering, sanctions laws Oct 13, 5 PM ET
Axios
Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering allegations Oct 13, 5 PM ET
Business Insider
The Treasury just fined BofA $1.2 billion, saying it didn't report Chinese money laundering networks Oct 14, 2 AM ET
CNBC
Bank of America fined $1.2 billion over money-laundering violations Oct 14, 12 AM ET
NBC News
Bank of America ordered to pay historic $1.2 billion over alleged sanctions law violations Oct 14, 3 AM ET
PBS NewsHour
U.S. hits Bank of America with $1.2 billion fine, saying it violated money laundering and sanctions laws Oct 14, 12 PM ET
Yahoo News
Bank of America fined $1.2 billion, the 3rd-largest penalty in Treasury Dept. history Oct 13, 5 PM ET
BBC
Bank of America hit with $1.2bn fine for money laundering failings Oct 13, 11 PM ET- Financial Times Bank of America fined $1.2bn over money laundering failures Oct 13, 5 PM ET
Fortune
‘The biggest financial institutions are not above the law’: Bessent hits BofA with $1.2 billion fine for money laundering—the third-largest in history Oct 14, 12 PM ET
MarketWatch
Bank of America adds a profit miss to the misery of a $1.2 billion government fine Oct 14, 8 AM ET
Reuters
Bank of America fined $1.2 billion by US government for failing to police suspicious activity Oct 13, 6 PM ET
The Hill
Treasury fines Bank of America $1.2B for violating money laundering, sanctions law Oct 13, 11 PM ET
Just the News
Treasury fines Bank of America $1.2 billion for alleged money laundering, sanction law violations Oct 13, 7 PM ET
The Epoch Times
US Hits Bank of America With $1.2 Billion in Penalties for Security Violations Oct 13, 7 PM ET
IJR
Bank of America Hit With $1.2B AML Fine Oct 13, 7 PM ET
New York Post
Bank of America hit with $1.2B fine for money laundering, sanctions violations Oct 13, 5 PM ET
Newsmax
US Hits Bank of America With $1.2 Billion Fine Oct 13, 6 PM ET
Red State
Bank of America Hit With Huge $1.2B Treasury Fine Oct 13, 8 PM ET
The Daily Caller
Treasury Dept. Hits Major US Bank With Third-Largest Fine In History Oct 13, 9 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
NEW: Bank of America Hit with MASSIVE $1.2 Billion Fine Over Anti-Money Laundering Violations Oct 13, 6 PM ET
Townhall
Why Scott Bessent Slapped Bank of America With the Third-Largest Fine in Treasury History Oct 14, 12 PM ET
Punchbowl News
Treasury hits Bank of America with historic penalties The Treasury Department slapped Bank of America with more than $1.2 billion in penalties for violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. Vault Finance + Economy Oct 13, 6 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Bank of America fined $1.2 billion over money laundering BBC News, 72 s
- Bank Of America Fined $1.2 billion CNN, 53 s
- PAY THE PRICE. NATIONWIDE TAX SCHEME CRACKDOWN OPERATION Fox News, 34 s
- Bank of America Fined $1.2b by Treasury Department CNN, 12 s
- TAX FRAUD CRACKDOWN Fox News, 10 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 14, 5:10 AM ET: story 3 of 4
- NPR News Now, Oct 14, 12:09 AM ET: story 3 of 5
- NPR News Now, Oct 13, 9:09 PM ET: story 3 of 5
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Bank of America was fined $1.2 billion by the U.S. government for anti-money laundering and sanctions violations. Oct 15: told by 14 people; told before on Oct 14
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🗣️ names in it: Bank of America U.S. Government
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