Aha---pols offshore accounts---I knew Wikileaks would come in handy. Course, I'm not surprised in the least. Gangsters in govt have been been looting and pillaging the US Treasury for ages.
However, I nominate the Chi/mob now in the WH as the plus-perfect looting operation. Read on:
CIRCA OBAMA---The Con of the Decade
Of Two Minds Blog | 7/8/2010 | Charles Hugh Smith
FR Posted by delapaz
The Federal government could potentially inflate away these trillions in Treasuries, buy enough elected officials to force austerity so inflation remains tame. In essence, these private banks and corporations now own the revenue stream of the Federal government and its taxpayers.
Neat con, and the marks (us taxpayers) will never understand how "saving our financial system" led to their servitude to the very interests they bailed out. The circle is now complete: in "saving our financial system," the public borrowed trillions and transferred the money to private Power Elites, who then buy the public debt with the money swindled out of the taxpayer.
Then the taxpayers transfer more wealth every year to the Power Elites/Plutocracy in the form of interest on the Treasury debt. The Power Elites will own the debt that was taken on to bail them out of bad private bets: this is the culmination of privatized gains, socialized risk.
In effect, it's a Third World/colonial scam on a gigantic scale: plunder the public treasury, then buy the debt which was borrowed and transferred to your pockets. You are buying the country with money you borrowed from its taxpayers. No despot could do better. (Excerpt) Read more at oftwominds.com
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SO HOW DID GANGSTER GOVERNMENT SCAM $14 TRILLION BAILOUTS INTO THEIR POCKETS? Bernie Madoff used the time-tested Wall Street MO----creating a super-secret labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in multiple places overseas that hid thievery, money launderering and tax evasion.
"Wall Street Rahm, take a bow" (/snix) (remember that Emanuel took contol of Dept of the Treasury activities when he went to the WH). Rahm also put his brother in charge of Obamacare, and Medicare/Medicaid billions.
<><> KEEP IN MIND Fannie/Freddie are the key criminal mechanisms of the criminal enterprise that is the thieving Democrat party and its minions. <><>
Rahm Emanuel was also appointed to Fannie Mae's board by Clinton----- Rahm's financial activities were protected by Obama's refusal to release Fannie documents requested under FOIA.
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"Hi there, Americans. Obama put me in charge of the trillion dollar
stimulus. My son and brother are gonna help me disperse the money. "
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Fraudster had links to offshore fund run by Bidens
Reuters on Yahoo | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran
(Reuters) A fund of offshore hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by offshore firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.
The Bidens $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and the offshore Stanford Financial Group entity headquartered in Antigua, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said. Stanford-related offshore companies marketed the Biden fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.
Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president Biden's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the WSJ. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million.
Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden told the paper the Bidens NEVER met or communicated with Stanford. (/snicker)
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Swiss whistleblower to hand over offshore banking secrets...to WikiLeaks----will show approximately 40 politicians with offshore accounts.
Oh boy. Now THIS will be sweeeeeet.
My bets are:
As Abe Foxman and his ADL, along with AIPAC, will scream 'ANTISEMITISM' and 'McCarthyism Witch Hunt' (which is why the HUAC hearing came to s sudden halt. Too many commie spies / traitors were Jewish) (True Fact).
OH BOY.
2009 Sales - $1,815M
2009 Income - $375M
Employees - 3,078
Chairman - Raymond J. Baer
CEO - Boris F.J. Collardi
Fees & commissions comprise 53%; Interest - 31%; Trading & other - 16% of revenues.
The financial services firm provides private banking and investment advisory services to wealthy individuals and asset managers around the world. Through the subsidiary Bank Julius Baer and other units, the firm is the largest independent private bankers among the traditional Swiss banking companies. Julius Baer has more than 40 offices in many of the world's financial centers, from Dubai to Tokyo. In 2009 the company spun off GAM Holding and divested its stake in advisory firm Artio Global Investors to focus on its private banking business.
In early 2010 the company acquired ING's Swiss private bank, which also has operations in Monaco and Jersey, to add to its Monaco-based previous acquisition Capital Invest. It also plans to buy Italian asset manager Alpha SIM, which specializes in advisory services for high net-worth individuals. The firm recently opened a branch in Abu Dhabi and is looking for merger or acquisition opportunities in Asia.
Company also has branches in Tokyo and does business in Grand Cayman under the name Ursa Company Ltd., and as Bronte International SA in British Virgin Islands. Other affiliates include Arpese SA, Bank Julius Bär Europe AG, Ferrier Lullin Trust Management SA, Infidar Investment Advisory Ltd. and JB Swiss Capital Market Research Ltd.
Swiss whistleblower to hand over offshore banking secrets...to WikiLeaks ---- will show approximately 40 politicians with offshore accounts.
Well, since he already has his own website ( http://swisswhistleblower.com ) why couldn't he post the info there, and/or give it for publication to NYT, WaPo, The Guardian, Le Figaro etc. etc. - why give it to Wikileaks to publish? To gain "credibility" because it would come out of highly "controversial" and "credible" source?
Wikileaks is trying to claim credit for Tunisian revolution / coup, which means it is on 10+ minutes of its 15 minutes of fame, and Assange must now rely on unspecified threats blackmail tactics to save his skin from jail. As such, he needs and attracts fellow scoundrels who think this tactic will work for them.
Sounds like one weak hand is trying to wash another weak hand, in an attempted fuzzy blackmail threats, going on the theory that "there's the strength in numbers". So far it has already backfired on Wikileaks recent dumps, so I'd like them (and the spinoff OpenLeaks outfit) to keep going with the documents dumping. How does it go, "you can't cheat an honest man"?
From Elmer, whistleblower or a bitter ex-banker? - AAP (Australia) | 2011 January 18
..... His main aim is to challenge banking secrecy before the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the Swiss justice system that he will face on Wednesday. < snip > ..... The public prosecutor accused him of seeking to blackmail the bank by threatening to publish documents and is seeking a suspended eight month jail sentence as well as a 2,000 Swiss franc (1,555 euro) fine. The former banker nonetheless believes that it is possible to have an "ethical and moral" system of wealth management. When Elmer was sacked in 2002 he left the bank with a ream of internal documents, a claim confirmed by Julius Baer in 2005 when it lodged a formal legal complaint against persons unknown. In 2008, data Elmer provided was published on Wikileaks, promoting a US court to serve a temporary injunction closing down the whistleblowing website at the request of the bank. Swiss television SF1 reported some of the documents turned out to be false. ..... < snip > < snip > ..... Swiss private bank Julius Baer portrays Elmer as a disgruntled former employee who is waging a personal vendetta after being fired in 2002. ..... < snip >
Any "dumped" documents (from supposedly 2,000 Grand Cayman accounts) are not likely to be fresher than 2002 and have been mostly "out" already, on Wikileaks in 2008 and through court filings since 2005, so don't expect much in the way of "grand" disclosures, especially if it affects 1990's U.S. Capitol Gang.
Does it sound a bit (a lot?) like The Informant!, a 2009 movie about corrupt cheater Mark Whitacre, the whistleblower against corrupt price-fixing agricultural (corn, soy and wheat) giant ADM and Andreas family, only in this case there is, so far, no evidence of wrongdoing (i.e., inconsistency with banking secrecy laws of Switzerland, Grand Cayman, Bahamas etc.) by Julius Baer Gruppe AG?
Also, is this the "big bank" document dump that Assange threatened, which almost everyone took to be the Bank of America? If so, then it sounds like another thud...