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A disgruntled New Yorker is suing the Bank of America for "1,784 billion, trillion dollars." It gets weirder: The suit, filed by Dalton Chiscolm last month, is being reviewed by the same federal judge who sentenced Bernard Madoff to a 150-year prison sentence. Judge Denny Chin has called the lawsuit "incomprehensible" and demanded that Chiscolm explain his claims, and elaborate on charges that he received "inconsistent information from a 'Spanish womn" reached by phone at the bank.
When he filed the lawsuit, Chilsom also demanded that the money be deposited into his account the next day, plus an additional $200,164,000. Go ahead and laugh, but if Chiscolm pulls this off, he'll be living large; the sum dwarfs the world's 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion. NYU mathematician Sylvain Cappell tells Reuters, "These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale. If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense."
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When judges start treating jackasses as badly as club bouncers do, then the courts won't be so overwhelmed.
I wish this case had been assigned to Judge Judy.
Perfectly plausible and just cause. And I hope Mr. Chiscolm doesn't settle out of court because the right jury will undoubtably award punitive damages of at least 29.65 billion, trillion dollars.
True true, but anyone with the name Dalton Chiscolm deserves what he gets.
But at the same time he has lawyers fees, lost time (without pay) from work to follow this through, expenses for being counter sued by the bank, travel expenses to Chicago to be on the Oprah show. These things add up. And what appears to be a lot of money to most people is really not that much. And don't forget Federal, State and Local taxes. The guy would be lucky to walk away with a decent yearly stipend. Almost at the same level that the NY State lottery tickets payout for a good scratch off ticket.
You really think this guy is represented by a lawyer? This pretty much SCREAMS "nutbar with nothing better to do filing pro se lawsuit" to me.
At the same time it is about time that those that file these ridiculous lawsuits are charged for the time they are wasting both privately and publicly and their lawyers should be fined at the same cost as they propose to charge if they win the case.
Then we shall see the true day of atonement.
Thats about how much they will be paying out in corporate bonuses, so I would think it's a fair suit.
How many 0's is that exactly?
24, by my count. Still not a mole. Sorry, minor dorkout.
I like how Reuters actually consulted a MATH PROFESSOR to figure out exactly how much money that is.
Bank of America's NOT stupid. Watch ... they'll settle outta court for like maybe 20, 22 billion trillion to avoid the negative PR. Bastards! And Dalton Chisholm, wuss that he is, will probably accept, not realizing the capital gains hit would probably net him like maybe 5 billion trillion. What a NUT ... DUUUH!