(Marc) Rich linked to money laundering

Washington Times ^ | 6/21/02 | P.K. Semler

[rdavis84]

Robert M. Friedman, Esq.

Names Rattle around in my Haid. Why don't we just use our numbers? :-)

[rdavis84]

Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert I. Friedman

vs. Robert M. Friedman (deceased)

[Nita Nupress]

Never mind. The deceased one is Robert M.

Hey, at least is wasn't a name like Fuad Amoud Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Mohommed Efron. Personally, I think the FBI deserves combat pay just for having to deal with the names. :-)

[LarryLied]

Semyon Mogilevitch is the key man...he's the big fish. His base is in Budapest, but he has some 5 or 6 passports, including a Croatian one. He dealt arms to all sides in the wars in the Balkans this past decade.

You would think one of his passports would be pulled:

Why Russian Mafia Boss Still Allowed To Travel On Israeli Passport

www.topica.com
| May 6, 2002 | Gordon Thomas
Posted on 5/13/02 by Ivan the Terrible

Substantial sums of hard currency provided to Saddam Hussein from the sale of Iraqi oil allowed under United Nations sanctions have been laundered through banks around the world by a Russian Mafiya boss described in an MI5 report as "one of the world's top criminals."

Despite that, Israel continues to allow Semyon Yukovich Mogilevich to travel openly on one of its passports. Even more remarkable, the MI5 description was reinforced by an investigation by Mossad. Its report concluded that Mogilevich is a "major criminal - but has taken great care to commit no crime against Israel."

His supply of arms to Iraq has come from the former Soviet Unions vast stockpile of weapons. . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/683006/posts?page=9

[rdavis84]

"Fuad Amoud Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Mohommed Efron."

FAAMME for short.

Or just FA to his friends.

[Nita Nupress]

An oldie but a goldie...

 

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion.

The New York Post 
September 5, 1999, Sunday 
Pg. 058 

THE RUSSIAN MONEY SCANDAL 

First, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers gave an interview in which he said the Clinton administration opposes any further International Monetary Fund loans to Russia without adequate safeguards and accounting. Hours later, the White House insisted that the administration hasn't reached a  decision on whether to support new IMF loans. Then Summers' spokeswoman said flatly that the U.S.  opposes any delay in new loans. Welcome to the wonderful world of Bill Clinton's Russia policy. The White House is scrambling, and with good reason - mounting reports indicate that billions in foreign-loan payments were siphoned off by top Russian political officials and laundered through western banks. 

Like the Chinese nuclear-espionage scandal, the question here is what did the Clinton administration - and most particularly in this case, its point man on Russia, Vice President Al Gore - know, and how did it respond. 

The IMF has sent more than $20 billion to Russia since 1992 in an effort to ease the former Soviet Union's transformation from communism. Last year, the agency froze its bailout of the crumbling Russian economy after Moscow devalued the ruble, defaulted on its foreign payments and fired a team of economic reformers. 

Now, with the ever-changing Russian government ostensibly committed to a series of economic reforms, the IMF is set to release an additional $640 million as part of a $4.5-billion loan package. 

But the reports of widespread embezzlement and money laundering - some of it said to be traceable to  Russian President Boris Yeltsin's immediate family - have prompted calls for a closer look at the Clinton policy of aggressive economic assistance to strengthen Yeltsin's political hand. 

Ironically, the real tipoff may have come from Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the architect of Clinton's Russia policy. "We have been aware from the beginning that crime and corruption are a huge prob-lem in Russia and a huge obstacle to Russian reform," Talbott recently told Newsweek in urging the West to "calm down." 

By all accounts, Talbott is entirely correct - except that new reports suggest strongly that Clinton and Gore tried to keep a lid on the stunning extent of government fiscal corruption. Which means Talbott was himself involved. Which means his reassurance isn't very reassuring. 

The New York Times reports that Gore was shown a CIA report in 1995 detailing the personal corruption of the vice president's Russian counterpart, Viktor Chernomyrdin. According to the Times, Gore "rejected their report - a move that [CIA analysts] said had led them to understand that Gore was not interested in further information on the topic." 

David Ignatius, writing in The Washington [Com] Post, quotes a former government official as saying that evidence of Chernomyrdin's personal corruption "was all laid out for Gore and he didn't to hear it. Our government knew damn well what was happening." Indeed, adds Ignatius, "the CIA reported extensively during the Clinton years on the pervasive corruption surrounding the Yeltsin government, but the administration nonetheless chose to embrace Yeltsin and his crew." 

In 1993, for example, the CIA and FBI began monitoring the activities of mobster Grigori Loutchansky, whom they'd linked to a money-laundering scheme. Yet who should show up shaking hands with President Clinton at a fund-raiser later that year? Loutchansky, of course. 

It's unrealistic to expect Russia to effect an overnight transition from communism. But by deliberately closing its eyes to evidence of widespread high-level corruption, the administration has, in effect, soured the Russian people on the benefits of capitalism and democracy. 

The House Banking Committee will hold hearings on the Russian corruption scandal later this month. Here's hoping the American people start getting some answers.

Three months later, Edmond Safra was dead.

[Ann Archy]

Henry Kissinger knows why Edmond Safra was killed....he said it in an interview!! ASK HENRY the K!!

[PhilDragoo]

Natasha Kagalovsky of Bank of New York was successfully defended by Stanley Cohen, Lily Safra's lawyer.

The Geneva chief prosecutor said Safra was killed for cooperating with the FBI regarding the laundering of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia through Safra's Republic Bank.

Framed innocent American Ted Maher was interrogated three days in four-point restraint, deprived of sleep, his wife kidnapped by Monaco police, her passport stolen, their children threatened to extort a false confession.

Maher gave U.S. Consular official from Marseilles Patricia Feitz a slip of paper on which he'd written "Russian Italian" to thwart prison cameras and microphones.

Safra's penthouse "La Belle Epoque" at 17 Avenue d'Ostende in Monte Carlo housed a branch of his then-Republic, now HSBC Republic AND a branch of Banco del Gottardo the conduit by which Pavel Borodin was paid Kremlin kickbacks from Mebatex.

Denise Rich's father Emil Eisenberg a Holocaust refugee made certain she married Marc and bankrolled him. Is there more than a coincidence of surnames in Shaul Eisenberg a Holocaust refugee setting up the Israel-China arms trade in 1980, dying of a heart attack in Beijing in 1997?

Anne Williamson author of Contagion answered my lengthy query with an email in which she said she always knew Ted Maher was a scapegoat, that the laundering benefited the Clintons, Rubin, Summers, the Harvard Econ faculty and a half dozen bright and shining Russian reformers.

How much did Rich deal with Armand Hammer? Hammer's father Julius founded the CPUSA in 1919. Hammer was the paymaster to U.S. Communists for Lenin, Stalin and their successors. Hammer was the patron of the Senators Gore. Joseph Farah suggests that Al Gore's middle name is Armand--he was Gore's GODfather for Marx' sake!

Gore was given the 1995 CIA briefing report on Chernomyrdin's corruption and famously wrote on its cover, "Bullshit". Tim Russert confronted him with it on Meet the Press.

Nothing to see here, comrades. Nyet.

[sayfer bullets]

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[Pagey]

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[OwenKellogg]

The article at the beginning of this thread is datelined in Milan. On April 18, a Swiss geezer flew his plane into a government building in Milan after some financial woes. Wonder if there is a connection?

[satchmodog9]

Someone associated with Clampett is a money launderer. Say it ain't so.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Phil, thanks for the ping.I am just so swamped.

[Ann Archy]

Never forget that Marc Rich was guilty of dealing oil from IRAQ...our enemy...and a multi-million dollar TAX CHEAT!! These are the kind of friends the Clintons have.

[Nita Nupress]

The article at the beginning of this thread is datelined in Milan. On April 18, a Swiss geezer flew his plane into a government building in Milan after some financial woes. Wonder if there is a connection?

Good observation, Owen! I wonder also.

[philman_36]

An old thread that may be helpful...Need help...How do ya post a picture that's saved in your computer?
Thank you Marianne for bookmarking that thread.

[Don Corleone]

What did clinton know, and when did he know it?

Rather..Who did Klintoon know and when did he know her?

[DeBug=int13]

 

Hey folks - may have a pic or two for your harddrive.

The server they're on is being a bit moody tonight (at least towards me it is), so your "viewing mileage" may vary.

 

Klinton, Sam Domb in the Middle, Grigori Loutchansky		Grigori Loutchansky at "work"

 

 

A little gamma and size adjustment worked wonders for the black & white pic. The orig was plain nasty. It originally appeared in the Latvian newspaper SM Today. Tried to find a pic of Domb for comparison, but the only one I had showed him with a microphone stuck right in the middle of his face, wouldn't you know it. Oh well, just think somewhere along the lines of Jeopordy's host Alex Trebek (before he cut his hair back).

 

 

[LarryLied]

Good find!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Very good work - thank you!!!!