A federal judge has refused to side with a man from Belarus in a lawsuit against the $1.4 billion Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union in New York.

Andrei Chizh had charged that Brooklyn-based credit union, which has recently branched out into Chicago, had discriminated against him because he was from Belarus.

Chizh had approached the 72,000-member CU in January 2010 to open a savings and checking account but Polish & Slavic declined.

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