Posted on 12/22/2016 9:43:45 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Two financial firms raked in billions of dollars of business from the New York State Common Retirement Fund, the $184-billion retirement fund serving many state employees, after their agents bribed one of the pension fund's employees with cash, watches, travel, bottle-service, cocaine, strippers, prostitutes, and Paul McCartney tickets, according to indictments announced today by Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
The two indictments announced today only cover three people: Navnoor Kang, 38, the director of fixed income and security for the $185 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund; Gregg Schonhorn, 45, the vice president of fixed income sales at FTN Financial Corp; and Deborah Kelley, 58, at the time the managing director of institutional fixed income sales at Sterne Agee. Kang, who worked for the fund, was considered a public officer under the law.
In exchange for plying Kang with drugs, women, jewelry and vacations, the indictments allege, Kang directed more than $2 billion in business to FTN Financial and Sterne Agee. Initially, Kang did this through front companies, since FTN Financial and Sterne Agee were not approved brokers for the fund. Since both the front brokers and the actual brokers took commissions, the fund got soaked.
Later, in 2014, as the agents of FTN Financial and Sterne Agee continued to bribe him, Kang added the companies to the list of approved brokers, allowing them to do business with the fund directly. . .
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Big Government + fiat money = massive corruption.
Have to keep after this one.
the village voice is now a respected source at FR . . . srsly?
what, do they pay the women more money since they ain’t getting the female whores or what?.....seems unfair...:)
Sounds like True News. It only takes one truth finder to rreport and get “published” True News.
HOORAY Preet Bharara
Kang=The WOLF of Wall Street?
Another step closer to Prince Andrew of Albany’s castle gates. The Village Voice has always had a way to uncover the truth about crooked New York politicians.
Did Navnoor get bribed w/ female.....or male prostitutes? (smirk)
Go Preet Go! Drain the swamp in Albany NY and then go after the Clinton Foundation NYC headquarters!!
Add no accountability, I heard the state comptroller and governor say they didn't know anything, until they read it in the paper.
Good point, especially when you consider the NY factor.
crap news from a crap source doesn’t become less crap because you like one of their factoids. I question their motives, I question their integrity, and I question their honesty.
if a conservative is looking at the freaking village voice for information, that conservative needs to think really hard at what he’s doing and why.
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