By Joe Adler

DEC 4, 2009 5:37pm ET

AmTrust Largest of Six Failures Friday

Less than a week after its parent's bankruptcy filing, Cleveland-based AmTrust Bank failed Friday at a cost of $2 billion to the government.

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