Wachovia Bank has agreed  to pay more than $178 million to settle a class action RICO suit that accused the bank of allowing two telemarketing firms to swindle elderly victims by obtaining their bank account information and then drawing from their accounts through the use of “remotely created checks.”

The proposed settlement in Faloney v. Wachovia Bank replaces a previous $125 million settlement between Wachovia and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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