About Vineyard National Bancorp

The company is a $2.1 billion bank holding company headquartered in Coronaand the parent company of Vineyard. Vineyard, also headquartered inCorona, operates through sixteen full-service banking centers and tworegional financial centers in the counties of Los Angeles, Marin, Monterey,Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara and Ventura,Calif. The company's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global MarketSystem under the symbol "VNBC." For additional information on the companyvisit www.vnbcstock.com or for additional information on Vineyard and toaccess internet banking, please visit www.vineyardbank.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements as referenced in thePrivate Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-lookingstatements are inherently unreliable and actual results may vary. Factorswhich could cause actual results to differ from these forward-lookingstatements include changes in the competitive marketplace, changes in theinterest rate environment, economic conditions, outcome of pendinglitigation, risks associated with credit quality and other factorsdiscussed in the company's filings with the Securities and ExchangeCommission. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update orrevise anyforward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, futureevents or otherwise.

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