Columbia Bank

The Columbia Bank was a financial institution located at the intersection of Canal Street and Broadway in New York.

John A. Haas worked for this bank as a bookkeeper until his dismissal on 2 December. He was arraigned four days later, along with alleged accomplice William Friend, of defrauding the bank of $121,000. Mayer and Brown, the detectives in charge of the case, stated they had never seen such a "slovenly, almost unbelievably simple" system of forging accounting records to hide fraud as that used by Haas and Friend. The case was reported on in the 6 December 1926 issue of the New York Chronicle.