In other incidents, cranes have dropped loads or come close to falling apart, including a dramatic episode in which a crane's arm, or boom, nearly snapped off during Superstorm Sandy and dangled precariously over a midtown Manhattan block.

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Charlton plans to use the money to support baby boomers who want to go the entrepreneurial path via a new arm of TechTown called BOOM!

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Her natural targets other big banks with units that underwrote large amounts of subprime, Alt-A, or option ARM mortgage-backed securities during the housing boom include JPMorgan Chase , Royal Bank of Scotland , Wells Fargo , Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley , Citigroup , Goldman Sachs and Ally Financial.

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