Vincent McCrudden, a mad-as-hell hedge fund manager from Long Island, was arrested last night for threatening to kill 47 officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Recent laws have limited what fees banks are allowed to charge for certain services. So naturally, banks are dreaming up an entirely new set of fees on other services to make up for it. Below, a quick guide.

On one hand: Wall Street is back! Morgan Stanley and Bank of America may post their biggest revenues in history this year. But don't be fooled. It's a hard holiday season for the little people. (The bankers.)

Julian Assange has a Bank of America executive's hard drive. Guess what he's going to do with it!

Brace yourself for some shocking news: The feds are preparing "vast" insider trading charges against a slew of investment bankers, analysts and hedge fund executives. Included are some loose-lipped Goldman Sachs bankers who leaked health-care merger information to benefit investors.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp yesterday announced it was closing four more banks, bringing this year's total to 143 — up from 140 banks closed all of last year. But hey, their total assets should be lower, says the FDIC!

Has Wall Street not suffered enough? Don't answer that. The point is, more and more studies are coming to the conclusion that Wall Street pay will be up this year. How can we say this, euphemistically?

Average Goldman Sachs pay is down to a meager $370,000 per year. Poor babies! Etc.

Jérôme Kerviel, the Société Générale trader who lost $6.7 billion of the bank's money, was sentenced to five years in prison today.

Goldman Sachs' new mass-market ad campaign touts the firm's "job creation." Ballsy.

The hottest banker of all time, Debrahlee Lorenzana is back in the news cycle! The super-sexy financial wiz spoke to the Daily News, telling the paper, "I don't want to be famous. I try to stay away from that." Sure!

There's a new survey out ranking the best financial firms to work for and (surprise!) Goldman Sachs is number one. It's no contest, especially when Goldman offers fun, camaraderie, and big ass bonuses. The past is history at Goldman Sachs.

Fitness website Social Workout was able to get an operative inside the 54,000 square-foot gym deep within the bowels of Goldman Sachs mission control at 200 West Street in Manhattan. What did they find?

Beloved America-owner Goldman Sachs has "quietly revised" its stance on political activity, pledging "not to spend... on political advertising." What noble restraint, in this age of oligarchy. Or is it just that they've already bought out the store?

The Way We Live Now: for the bank. Whereas formerly we only ordered the financial aspects of our lives with an eye towards impressing bankers, now we do everything to impress bankers. They're so influential!

The Way We Live Now: Throwing everything against the crumbling wall to see what sticks. What sticks: cutting back every penny of spending. Then the wall falls down. Then we rob the bank the wall was attached to.

Over 1,400 former federal employees have been hired by financial sector lobbying groups since 2009, according to a new study. And 73 of them are former lawmakers, like opposing congressional Dicks Armey and Gephardt. It's financial regulation overhaul season!

Goldman Sachs is trying its own brand of top kill: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report the investment bank plans to settle with the SEC for a lesser offense, so it doesn't have to admit to fraud.

We chuckled derisively when Goldman Sachs announced it had a perfect trading quarter without a single day of losses; now, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup have said they also had perfect quarters. How easy are their jobs? [NYT]

For whatever reason, Lloyd Blankfein is getting to keep his job as Goldman Sachs' chairman.