Posted on 11/29/2010 4:39:13 PM PST by kristinn
Attorney General Holder heads to Zurich, Switzerland tomorrow to lobby to bring the World Cup to the U.S. in 2022.
Justice Dept. says Holder is making the trip to Zurich at the request of Pres. Obama to show US commitment to host World Cup in 2022.
Pres. Obama lost U.S. effort in '09 to host 2016 Summer Olympics. WH hopes Holder's mission to Zurich doesn't end up a Swiss miss.
Perhaps we'll find out more about the World Cup mission from Holder's cables in the next WikiLeaks document disclosures.
They are all going to check on their Swiss banking accounts....just a hunch.
-PJ
This administration is pathetic. They are damaging black people for the next three generation with their childish behavior.
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From the AP:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will join former President Bill Clinton and Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman on Wednesday at the final presentation to FIFA’s executive committee of the U.S. bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
Holder also will meet with executive committee members, who will vote the following day.
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PING!
Holder is the one who pardoned Marc Rich before Clinton left office in 2000. Rich lives just outside Zuerich in Zug. Maybe they can get together to talk about old times.
The other frightening thought is that Holder is going over there to help set up the New World Order — ie.,figure out how to push international law into the US Constitution or circumvent it.
I was thinking that it may have something to do with Wikileaks.
-PJ
22 posted on Monday, November 29, 2010 7:02:27 PM by Political Junkie Too
What? Insanity.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is considering applying for asylum in Switzerland because he fears for his safety.
The controversial intelligence hacker said he was still looking into the process, the Associated Press reports.
“The Swiss have a history of fierce independence,” he told reporters.
Assange applied for residency in Sweden in October, but his application was rejected as Swedish authorities look into allegations he sexually assaulted two Swedish women.
The 39-year-old Australian denied those charges.
"First you hate 'em. Then you get used to 'em. After long enough, you get so you depend on 'em. That's institutionalized."--Red
What makes Obama think he’ll even be around in 2022? With his smo0king and drinking and eating fatty foods and a family history of heart disease?
I can hear their sales pitch now....”by the year 2022, we will have complete control. We will be happy to spend gazillions of dollars to build more stadiums and venues because with all the 401k money we will have by then we will be on easy street.”
Good grief! Doesn’t the man have other more important things to do? Can someone please stop the insanity!!
IMPEACH..IT’S TIME!!
Three words for Eric Holder:
REMEMBER RON BROWN!
Didn’t know this was part of his job...sounds more like a “free trip paid for via the tax payers”.........
Oh for goodness sake- do you begrudge him a wee break from his tireless criminal investigation of Assange and Wikileaks?
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I think Valerie Jarret is trying to corner the US vuvuzela market.
Apologize for the link ...
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=986
WHISTLE-BLOWING: Whistle-blower advocates seek review of former UBS banker’s treatment - Whistle-blower advocates say the federal government’s treatment of an ex-UBS banker will have negative effects.
Miami Herald, The (FL) - Saturday, November 28, 2009
Author: MARTHA BRANNIGAN, mbrannigan@MiamiHerald.com
Whistle-blower advocates are asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to review the treatment of tipster Bradley C. Birkenfeld, the former UBS banker who was sentenced to 40 months in prison despite his pivotal help in the groundbreaking case against the Swiss banking giant.
Birkenfeld, 44, laid the foundation for the federal government’s most devastating assault ever on Swiss banking secrecy and offshore tax cheats, and his revelations could result in numerous prosecutions of tax cheats. But in August, a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale surprised even prosecutors by imposing the lengthy sentence, followed by three years’ probation.
The ex-banker, who once smuggled diamonds inside a toothpaste tube past U.S. Customs, filed a whistle-blower claim with the Internal Revenue Service in 2007, seeking millions of dollars in reward for his star role in the case, but his criminal conviction casts doubt on whether he will collect.
$780 MILLION FINE
Zurich -based UBS, in a bid to avoid criminal charges, agreed in February 2009 to pay a $780 million fine and to close its cross-border operation, which helped wealthy Americans to hide money from the IRS in secret offshore accounts.
A Nov. 25 letter to Holder, signed by the National Whistleblowers Center and other advocacy groups, said the harsh punishment of the key whistle-blower in the UBS investigation will have a chilling effect on others who may be considering stepping forward to reveal serious wrongdoing.
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PLOTTING A PARDON - Rich Cashed In a World of Chits to Win Pardon
New York Times, The (NY) - Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Author: ALISON LEIGH COWAN
Abstract: Special report, Plotting a Pardon, relates how billionaire businessman Marc Rich, one of nation’s most-wanted fugitives, won last-minute pardon from Pres Clinton by orchestrating use of every imaginable chit and every bit of influence; campaign began last year when Avner Azulay, retired Mossad agent who works for Rich, persuaded Rich’s estranged former wife Denise, who had spurned earlier pleas, to help for sake of her children; she adopted mission as her own, using influence as lavish Democratic fund-raiser and Clinton friend, and appealing to president at White House dinner in December; global campaign was organized around personal connections; Israeli officials joined in gratitude for Rich’s philanthropy and helped with intelligence operations; then-Prime Min Ehud Barak hardly knew Rich but pressed Clinton because of longtime ties to Azulay; Rich’s lawyer Jack Quinn is former Clinton counsel and close to Eric Holder , deputy attorney general who delivered lukewarm but crucial endorsement of pardon; Michael Steinhardt, retired hedge fund manager and philanthropist, says he vowed to help after witnessing Rich’s grief at death of his daughter from leukemia in 1996; Rich himself, son of Belgian refugees, began career in commodities trading at in mailroom, at age 19; his international operations, illegal trading and 1983 racketeering indictment, along with partner Pincus Green, reviewed; Quinn’s savvy lobbying and end run around Justice Department also detailed (L)
EXCERPT
The lawyer Mr. Rich selected, the former White House counsel Jack Quinn, turned out to have the connections that counted most. He had a close relationship with Eric Holder , the deputy attorney general at the time. It was Mr. Holder who delivered a lukewarm but crucial endorsement of the pardon in the waning hours of the Clinton presidency.
Mr. Quinn also had the confidence of the president, having helped manage the White House’s response to the travelgate investigation and other dicey problems. When a White House aide found a reference to Mr. Rich trading arms in the government’s computerized intelligence files around midnight on Jan. 19, she called Mr. Quinn for an assessment. Mr. Quinn said the accusation was off base, and that was good enough for Mr. Clinton, who signed the papers granting the pardon early the next morning.
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