Shyt
Things like that are a daily occurrence:
New York(CNN Business)After committing one of the "biggest blunders in banking history," Citibank won't be allowed to recover the almost half a billion dollars it accidentally wired to Revlon's lenders, a US District Court judge ruled.
Citibank can't get back $500 million it wired by mistake, judge rules
At the heart of the epic legal battle of Dumb vs. Dumber appeared to be the question of just who, in fact, was dumbest. The winner of that dubious distinction, it seemed, would also win the case, and as such both sides went to
great disingenuous lengths to appear as inconceivably stupid as possible.
Slow down, there, pardner, cried the hedge funds! Who in tarnation would believe—could believe—that a big, fancy, sophisticated bank, even one as shytty as Citi, was even capable of making so colossal a mistake? Hadn’t never happened before, after all. And even we plain, rustic hedge funds can’t help but notice that this was no fat finger; we got paid back to the penny. And we’re so dumb that even after all of it we
still want to do business with them! Did his honor really think that we simple folks were just supposed to
assume stupidity on the part of a bank that had been pretty sophisticatedly trying to screw us over?
Turns out, his honor didn’t have to think too much about the question at all, thanks to the
little-known legal doctrine of “finders keepers
Citigroup Stupid Beyond Belief Legally Speaking, Can’t Have Its Half-Billion Dollars Back
If y’all only knew The number of “world star moments” that happen in legal circles.
I guess we can say, Citibank .........got the axe