While Bank of America is financially strong, huge losses tied to credit cards, home equity loans and troubled mortgages from the Countrywide deal could erode its financial position.
They said the cost to Frost, both emotionally and financially, had been huge, adding: "The MoD has access to unlimited public funds with which to fight him".
He is also struggling financially, having accumulated huge debts during the campaign and suffered the indignity of seeing a $500 cheque to the Utah Republican party bounce.
However it may turn out to be one of the last; fewer dramatic old-school heists and stick-em-ups tend to happen these days as huge, financially lucrative, crimes shift into the cyberworld.
If Boston acquires shortstop Alex Rodriguez from Texas for Manny Ramirez in what would be a huge, financially focused deal, there has been speculation Boston would send shortstop Nomar Garciaparra to the Angels for Washburn and infielder Adam Kennedy.
That's important because, to date, the company has struggled financially despite its huge and very active userbase.
And the Scottish top-flight outfit held on to record a stunning victory against a team who outgun them financially by a huge margin and St Johnstone now have a decent chance of progressing in the competition.
For a company that makes $25B in revenue yearly, the $5M fine could be a drop in the bucket financially, but a huge ugly mark on the company's reputation.
"It helped financially in a huge unexplainable way, but emotionally and mentally, it got me going again," she said of the agency's generosity.
Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, and Lawrence H. Summers, a Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, along with many other critics, have long maintained that the companies were too powerful politically and financially, and that their huge portfolios posed enormous risks to the financial system.
