JPMorgan Chase: A Tale of Trust, Turmoil, and Termination

Malik, a 28-year-old New Yorker with the audacity to expect banking systems to function like basic arithmetic, presented the check at a Chase branch on January 9th. The check in question had been issued by an annuity set up by his mother, Kiesha Washington, for her children. One might assume this is the kind of thing banks are meant to handle, like how teapots are meant to hold tea. But no! Chase staff, armed with the deductive brilliance of a goblin with a spreadsheet, decided to flag the transaction as fraudulent. Presumably, they thought the 9/11 memorial fund was secretly a front for international cheese smuggling.






