Deposits (Details 1) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Interest expense on deposits
Time certificates, less than $100,000	$ 2,706,666	$ 3,380,456	$ 5,761,993
Time certificates, $100,000 or more	2,225,726	2,567,071	3,961,176
Money market	71,808	88,813	891,710
Savings	330,842	235,628	489,176
NOW	16,435	11,610	74,738
Total Interest	$ 5,351,477	$ 6,283,578	$ 11,178,793

Interest expense domestic deposit liabilities less than one lakh.

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Interest expense domestic deposit liabilities one lakh or more.

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Aggregate amount of all interest expense on domestic deposit liabilities.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 942

-SubTopic 225

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04.6)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6879574&loc=d3e536633-122882

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-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 04

-Paragraph 6

-Article 9

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Amount of interest expense on domestic money market demand account deposit liabilities.

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Amount of interest expense on domestic notice of withdrawal demand deposit liabilities.

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Amount of interest expense on domestic savings deposit liabilities.

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