I’m sure Bill and Hillary are worried.
Going to be funny them hiding assets and on the other hand wanting higher taxes.
If anyone is dumb enough to actually believe that the Obama administration isn’t behind these “leaks”, they may be interested in that bridge in Brooklyn that’s for sale cheap.
Listen to Obama talking about closing offshore tax havens in his own voice in October _2008_ here: http://www.panamalaw.org/obama_and_the_tax_havens.html
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Rush “How Many Dems Evaded Taxes in Swiss Banks?” 2/19/09
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021909/content/01125104.member.html
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February 19, 2009
Story #1: How Many Democrats Evaded Taxes in Swiss Banks?
http://www.reuters.com/article/americasRegulatoryNews/idUSLJ53205620090219
RUSH: This just in. The Obama administration is now going after Swiss bank accounts. “The curtain is being peeled back on the infamous secrecy of Swiss banks. The largest bank in Switzerland, UBS, agreed Wednesday to reveal the names of wealthy Americans whom the authorities suspect of using offshore accounts to evade taxes. The change in policy is the result of UBS’ admitted role in conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. As part of the agreement, the bank will pay $780 million in damages, and also close all offshore accounts of its American clients. It is not clear how many names will be divulged, but the Feds have been looking into roughly 19,000 accounts, according to the New York Times. The deal could mark the end of Swiss banking as we know it, as many offshore clients may no longer trust the anonymity of the country’s banking system. Prosecutors suspect that UBS helped its American clients hide $20 billion from the government, or about $300 million a year in taxes, from late 2002 to 2007. UBS has admitted that some of its employees “participated in a scheme to defraud the United States” They didn’t volunteer here; they were forced to admit it.
Now, the thing I’m going to be looking for, how many members of the Obama administration, how many high-ranking Democrat, high profile Democrat or Democrat supporter’s names will be on the list of UBS account holders who tried to evade US taxes? We know that Tom Daschle tried to evade taxes. We know that Geithner didn’t pay taxes. This guy down in Houston, this Stanford guy, this guy was all over the Democrat Party. His level of fraud may be between eight billion and $50 billion. This guy had banks all over the world and clients were lined up at these banks to try to get their money out yesterday in the Caribbean, in Venezuela, Mexico City. They were shut down. This guy’s picture was taken with Nancy Pelosi at the Democrat convention. This guy underwrote some program they had that was chaired by Bill Clinton. Pelosi and Bill Clinton both praising this guy Stanford. The level of financial corruption that has become the Democrat Party is breathtaking. Even those who are corrupt and found guilty of it, some have ended up in Barack Obama’s cabinet.
But there was no anger from the Drive-By Media. There was just, “Their people are, too, important, Mr. Limbaugh. We can’t really get rid of Geithner and Daschle, he’s the only guy that knows what to do with health care; he wrote the book on it. We can’t get rid of these people; it’s too crucial of a time in America.” So now the Swiss banking industry probably changed forever, no secrecy, if Obama gets his way on this. It’s an all-out assault, folks. It is an all-out assault. But I just want to see, 19,000 accounts at the United Bank of Scotland. Well, wait a minute. I’m not right when I say United Bank of Scotland. Obviously I’m wrong. UBS is a Swiss bank. I take it back. I watch golf tournaments and I’m getting caught up with the confusing initials for a bank in Scotland. I apologize. I caught my own error. Note that none of my staff caught it, I caught it myself. As far as my staff concerned, I could be left out there dangling all by myself.
I don’t have a Swiss account, either, but 19,000 accounts in this Swiss bank, and will we find out if there are prominent Democrats among these people? ‘Cause you know there have to be. We know prominent Democrats evade taxes. They sit on Obama’s cabinet. This is not a stretch. It’s a good thing that Obama is going after these tax evaders, folks, I just have to tell you. I question, will Obama’s new attorney general be going after onshore tax cheats, like Geithner, Tom Daschle? Or will Eric Holder, the new attorney general, be a coward like the rest of us Americans, will they be going after Charles Rangel and his tax violations? Will you authorize that, Mr. Holder, are you going to chicken out going after Democrat tax cheats?
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Swiss bank accounts really haven’t been secret for decades. Secretive, maybe. Secure? No.
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 F/M financial activities were protected by Obama's refusal to release Fannie documents requested under FOIA.
I understand IRS does pay finders fees (whistleblower’s rewards)
maybe a good income for wickedleaks.
Jan 17, 9:42 AM EST
Swiss bank UBS changes much-mocked dress code
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss bank UBS AG is revising its dress code after getting roundly mocked for suggesting employees wear skin-colored underwear and avoid garlic breath.
The bank said Monday it is whittling down its 44-page style guide to a more modest booklet that will concentrate on how to impress customers with a polished presence and sense of Swiss precision and decorum.
“We’re reviewing what is important to us,”
As silly as it sounds on the surface, it would not be beyond the pale to imagine what Wikileaks is doing is actually, unintentionally or intentionally, a scheme by the US government.
To start with, there is the “Byzantine problem”.
The expression “Byzantine scheme” comes from the Byzantine court of the 1000 year long eastern Roman Empire. Intrigues within that court achieved such a staggering level of complexity, of favors owed, betrayals, politics and the struggle for power, that government at times almost came to a standstill, because nothing it did was based on the merits of the thing in itself, but only internal arguments.
And the same problem happens today in international diplomacy. There are so many lies, debits, credits, arguments and linkages that diplomacy sometimes grinds to a halt, even over petty things.
The US State Department and Intelligence community of 16 Agencies has made a point out of collecting vast amounts of information about who is doing what to whom. As such it is glaringly obvious to us what the big international logjams are.
Imagine the “clearing the air” effect of leaking a lot of that. If lies are known to be lies, then there is no reason to keep up the pretense that they are true. If a politician is horribly corrupt, to the point where it is harming his country, he needs to be removed.
This, and that, and that. Suddenly diplomacy gets a lot easier all the way around.
If the Wikileaks leak hadn’t happened, it might have been worth it to bring it about.
Unfortunately, because of a century of socialist propaganda the lumpen masses tie Wall Street in with those heartless, rich, country club, big business, evil Republicans and conservatives.
So we will not come out unscathed.
Leni
In other news, Julian Assange has just announced that Wikileaks has secured an anonymous donation that will allow it to stay in business for the next 40 years.
I’ll bet now that the US government will see WikiLeaks as its “bestest friend evar!”
I wonder if the regime sends him a paycheck?