New York Clears the Way for Critical Bank of America Settlement

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Bank of America shareholders got good news at the end of last week. On Friday, the attorneys general offices in Delaware and New York said they will no longer challenge Bank of America's $8.5 billion settlement with the Bank of New York Mellon and a group of institutional investors. In the video below, Motley Fool contributor John Maxfield discusses what this means for the nation's second-largest bank by assets.

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