A Christian addition to her TD Insurance email signature has cost a senior manager her $210,000-per-year job
In a statement of claim filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, Sonja Denobrega seeks more than $400,000 in damages from TD, alleging she was wrongfully dismissed after tagging “I am HIS ??” on to the end of her email signature in a stand against a company policy that she says “only allowed for gender/sex identification and allowed no room for other identities.” […] According to Denobrega’s claim, she told a HR representative that she wanted TD to remove pronouns from its signature lines. However, the company’s response says that its policy of permitting – but not requiring – employees to identify their pronouns was non-negotiable. […]
According to TD’s account of events, that’s when its HR department received a complaint about one of Denobrega’s colleagues, who had modified her email signature to add “Pronouns: I am HIS ??,” which the complainant said could be taken as a micro-aggression against members of the LGBTQ+ community.
2. TD Bank actively ratted out account holders who contributed to the Freedom Convoy according to Helen Grus’ lawyer, Bathsheba
3. TD Bank fined $3.1B USD for money laundering in the US.
In October 2024, TD Bank agreed to pay a record $3.09 billion in fines to U.S. regulators after pleading guilty to violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering. This settlement marks the largest penalty ever imposed under the Bank Secrecy Act and is the first time a major U.S. bank has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money.
The massive fine resulted from systemic failures between 2014 and 2023, during which the bank failed to monitor approximately $18.3 trillion in transactions, allowing three money laundering networks to transfer over $670 million in illicit funds, including proceeds from fentanyl sales. The penalties include $1.8 billion to the U.S. Department of Justice, $1.3 billion to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and additional payments to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve.
As part of the historic resolution, TD Bank faces a four-year independent monitorship, a five-year probation, and strict growth restrictions on its U.S. retail business. The bank also agreed to hire hundreds of new anti-money laundering specialists and relocate its compliance office to the United States to remediate its deficient safeguards.
TD Bank, N.A. (the entity fined in the US) is a wholly-owned US subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. They’re both part of TD Bank Group (trading under the ticker “TD” on both the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges).
Something to think about for account holders.
