WikiLeaks, the controversial website that released thousands of classified State Department cables this week, says it plans to reveal potentially damaging documents from a major U.S. bank early next year.
The site's founder, Julian Assange, told Forbes of his plans in an interview earlier this month, the magazine said on its website Monday.
Assange wouldn't say exactly when the documents will be unloaded or which bank they are from, but "it will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume," he told Forbes. "For this, there's only one similar example. It's like the Enron emails."
The nation's largest depositories – Bank of America, Wells Fargo & Co., and JPMorgan Chase – are also the three largest players in mortgage banking in terms of lending and market share, but it's unclear if the information WikiLeaks publishes will be related to housing finance.
Assange has rattled governments around the world this week with his leak of confidential conversations among U.S. diplomats that cast some countries in a negative light. The site has also published classified Pentagon documents dealing with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
