California man says his $33K deposit temporarily vanished after the BofA branch shut down later that day. He was told, 'There's nothing we can do.'

A California man was thrown into a panic this week after he deposited $33,000 at his local Bank of America branch, only for the branch to shut down hours later before the deposit had a chance to post.

What are the details?

Brian Leonard of Oakland told KGO-TV on Wednesday that he and his wife had been saving for months for a major kitchen remodel, but they almost lost it all due to an abrupt bank closure.

Leonard had visited his local branch to deposit a cashier's check of $33,000 into his account. But just a few hours later, the branch was closed and his money had seemingly disappeared.

When he frantically sought help from bank representatives, they all reportedly kept peddling the same frustrating line: "Sorry, there's nothing we can do."

"I'm starting to think I may not see the money ever," Leonard said to the news outlet. "You're telling me that 'Bank of America lost $33,000 of my money, and you're telling me right here to my face, 'There's nothing you can do?' 'That's right, sir.'"

"Nobody said, 'We'll find out where the money is, we'll make good on it, we'll take care of it,'" Leonard recalled.

What happened?

According to KGO, Leonard needed to pay a contractor for the kitchen remodel, so he set off to transfer the large sum of money from his Wells Fargo account to his account with Bank of America. He went to his local branch with a cashier's check in hand, in hopes that it would clear right away.

"I deposited the cashier's check … she said it would post that afternoon or next morning at the latest," Leonard said.

But when he checked his account the next day, there was no record of the deposit. He called Bank of America to check in on the matter, and they essentially told him it was as if the deposit never happened.

"The woman said that there was no record of the transaction. So as far as she was concerned, no transaction happened," he said.

So he got in his car and drove to the branch to speak to a teller face to face. To his surprise, when he arrived, he found out that the branch had been shut down just hours after he deposited the check.

What else?

Leonard then immediately visited two more branches; however, the second one was also shut down, and at the third, the manager was either unable or unwilling to help.

Once again, Leonard was told "there's no record of the transaction," so there was "nothing" that could be done, even after he reportedly presented his cashier's check and deposit receipt.

Desperate, he eventually decided to contact Bank of America's CEO, the federal government, and the local news. Finally, things started going his way.

A bank representative informed him that a delay may have resulted due to a problem with the check itself. They said the cashier's check was made out to Bank of America, not Leonard. The bank, however, reportedly did not tell him why he was unable to receive help with the matter until then.

Nevertheless, it appeared things would be getting resolved in short order.

"Within the course of a couple of hours, Bank of America contacted me, they said they're gonna give me $33,000. 7 On Your Side, man, you guys were on it," Leonard said.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/33k-deposit-vanished-bank-closed

Trump on Durham Probe: ‘I Hear There’s a Lot Coming’

Former President Donald Trump has heard that “there’s a lot coming” from the wide-ranging investigation led by Special Counsel John Durham, who is probing the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“I hear there’s a lot coming,” Trump told former top aide Kash Patel on The Epoch Times’ “Kash’s Corner.” The interview will premiere at 8 p.m. Eastern on Feb. 7 on EpochTV.com.

“We’re gonna see what happens. But what he’s doing is one of the most important jobs being done right now in America.”

Attorney General William Barr assigned Durham on May 13, 2019, to investigate the origins of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane. In October 2020, with the presidential election approaching, Barr designated Durham as a special counsel to protect the criminal investigation in case of a change of guard at the White House in 2021

Durham secured the first guilty plea in August 2020, prior to his appointment as a special counsel. Former FBI assistant general counsel Kevin Clinesmith admitted to forging an email used to prepare an application to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith was sentenced to probation for a single charge of making false statements related to the forgery.

In September and November last year, Durham brought indictments against Russian national Igor Danchenko, the primary source of the infamous Steele dossier, and against Michael Sussman, the attorney for the Clinton campaign in 2016.

https://www.ntd.com/exclusive-trump-on-durham-probe-i-hear-theres-a-lot-coming_735756.html

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1489311296399056896?cxt=HHwWgIC93feujKspAAAA

Oil Spikes On White House Report Russia Planning False Flag Against Ukraine Using 'Graphic Video', Crisis Actors

The Washington Post is reporting Thursday bizarre and sensational claims by US intelligence saying that Russia planned to stage a false flag to justify a massive invasion of Ukraine. Specifically Russian intelligence is being accused of producing a fake video showing a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB-2 drone attacking pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's eastern regions, which was to "fabricate a pretext for an invasion."

Oil surged as the bombshell claims against Moscow quickly grabbed world headlines, emerging as the NY Times and CNN top story by early afternoon.

The accusations are positively staggering, especially given how over the top the detailed claims are - all while sourced to US intelligence assertions - but lacking completely in any specific evidence.

Here are the details an unnamed senior Biden admin official told CNN:

A senior administration official told CNN that the US has intelligence suggesting that the Russian government, with the help of Russia's intelligence services, has been planning to produce a propaganda video depicting graphic scenes of a "staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations and military equipment," the official said. The US believes Russia has already recruited actors to be involved in the fake attack.

"This video, if released, could provide Putin the spark he needs to initiate and justify military operations against Ukraine," the official added. It follows claims last month that Russia could be plotting false flag attacks against its own proxies in Donbas.

Interestingly, The Washington Post - which was the first to report the story - alongside other like CNN has introduced some level of doubt within their own reporting…

"It shows the level of cynicism, frankly, that is on the other side of this conflict," deputy national security adviser Jon Finer told MSNBC on Thursday. "We're not saying definitively this is what they're going to do. We are saying that this is an option under consideration, and that they have used these sorts of pretext in the past to justify military action."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-claims-russia-planning-false-flag-against-ukraine-using-graphic-video-crisis-actors