[kevcol]

"You don't expect this from your government."

well...maybe you don't.

[mabelkitty]

That was funny.

[Oldexpat]

Why were they dumb enough to give bank info to the govt?

[dfwgator]

"The money was basically stolen from me. You expect this from the bad guys," he said. "You don't expect this from your government."

Talk about being naive.

[Cementjungle]

Probably testing out the new software the establishment in Washington plans to use in December if Trump wins the election. Tens of thousands of government “workers” will suddenly become wealthy, resign and retire to a sunny Caribbean island.

[VRWCRick]

D.C. - District of Crime

Nothing new here.

[NohSpinZone]

No f’ing way I’d let these clowns have withdrawal privileges directly from any of my accounts. I render unto Caesar but I make the payments myself.

[Lazamataz]

"The money was basically stolen from me. You expect this from the bad guys," he said. "You don't expect this from your government."

The government IS the bad guys.

[Iron Munro]

people who had previously authorized electronic bank ­withdrawals

Right there is the problem.

Giving anyone or any entity (especially government) access to your bank account is something a wise and cautious person would never do.

"We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean we are wrong."

[Pontiac]

"The money was basically stolen from me. You expect this from the bad guys," he said. "You don't expect this from your government."

I guess he has heard about ObamaCare.

Don’t pay your ObamaCare bill. They just raid your bank account.

[Boomer One]

Mistake or trial run?

[Iron Munro]

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION in action!

[rawcatslyentist]

Error? The CIC is an ID THIEF!

It's what ID thieves do!

[justa-hairyape]

Actually the feds can access any of your federally registered accounts. You can thank that worthless FDIC agency.

[griswold3]

I’d laugh if that was a joke.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is a test. It is only a test. One of these days it won’t be a test.

[DoughtyOne]

[upchuck]

Shades of Greece :)

[EDINVA]

and the DC Republican Committee grows from 25 to 26 !!

[AZLiberty]

It’s just an escalation of “negative interest rates”.

[Moltke]

Bezalel Stern, a D.C. lawyer and resident, said he realized that $6,500 had been taken from his bank account Wednesday morning after his attempts to withdraw money from two ATMs were declined because the account had been emptied. It took several calls to his bank before he found out that the D.C. government had cleaned out the account — leaving him with an overdraft fee.

A D.C. lawyer with only $6.5k to his name? LOSER!