Jonathan Joseph’s Advocacy for Bank Client Featured in a Special Report to the Washington Examiner: “The Little Bank That Fought Back”
April 14, 2010
In a special report to the Washington Examiner, Jonathan Joseph is featured as part of the story of Westamerica Bank’s 2002 faceoff with the Greenlining Institute. The article notes that Westamerica Bank has the distinction of being the one bank that fought back against the Greenlining Institute. After Westamerica filed a bank merger acquisition with the Federal Reserve Bank in 2002, the Bank endured the then standard protest and negative press campaign initiated by the Greenlining Institute. However, rather than capitulating to demands of Greenlining officials the Bank called upon its attorney, Jonathan Joseph, to assist it in achieving its