The money laundering thread: A DU collaborative investigation

Let's start this DU collaborative exercise, an education in various ways that $$$ (including OURS) derived from all kinds of illegal sources is circulated-and disappears.

The bail-outs of those too big to fail, the capture of terrorists and spies via examining money transfers , the financing networks of black budgets-let's talk about these realities.

I'm just starting this thread-your contributions will make it grow.

Below a few links to start with, add your comments and related articles.

Identifying Suspicious Short Selling, But Not Who's Behind the Trades (by Karen Weise 7-8-10 ProPublica.org)
http://www.propublica.org/article/identifying-suspicious-short-selling-but-not-whos-behind-the-trades

Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence/TFI page (last updated one year ago) U.S. Department of the Treasury
http://ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/money_laundering.shtml

What was AIG "insuring" for all those black budget networks? (archived DU thread started 10-4-08)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4169766

A.I.G (by Michael C. Ruppelt 8-14-01)
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/part_2.html

Follow the Money? God forbid. (by Jim Hogue 1-29-08 Baltimore Chronicle)
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/012908Hogue.shtml

I'm looking forward to what you add to this thread DU.

The BAE Files (Guardian UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/bae

There's so much out there that has literally been taken from US, our children and their kids-by those too big to fail/national security/fill-in the blank...

UBS Banker Khan Named As Key Money Laundering Link For Fugitive Timmis
by Steven Gregg (6-9-10 Financial Fraudster News)
http://financialfraudsternews.com/content/view/106/101/

Then there's Afghanistan related networks as detailed in the two Corp Watch links below

U.S. Congressional Wartime Commission Targets Armed Contractors
by Pratap Chatterjee 6-23-10
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15604

Afghanistan, Inc.: A Corp Watch Investigative Report (2006)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15571

(knowing that there are DUers familiar with her work, as well as the topic at hand)
visit her website

The Komisar Scoop
http://thekomisarscoop.com/

of laundry-historical context--it was posted on June 24, 2004. Geopolitical context is still with US today.

The Complete Saudi Primer
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/06/b99415.html

Time to add your own post about the networks involved in the concealment of cleaning out and cashing in to this thread DUers.

...discusses this from a government insider's perspective:

Wachovia Bank Laundered Millions In Mexican Drug Money

Seems the government joined the mafia, about 50 years on now.

then there's all that dope money aka "the war on drugs".

Adam Engel posted a handy political synopsis of David Valentine's "The Strength of the Pack" today on Robert Parry's Consortium News website.

"Valentine's PACK Traces Real Drug War" by Adam Engel (7-12-10 Consortium News)

"Relentless is the pack in search of prey, relentless are the wolves. Meticulous is the disclosure about the real 'war on drugs' as chronicled by Douglas Valentine..."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/071210a.html

http://electionfraudnews.com/

Autorank's site (Michael Collins)

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38222170

I know this isn't an off-topic post in this thread.

What do you have to say today in regards to the plethora of money laundering networks?

from not only libraries-but government agencies and offices.

Take a look at today's DoJ Office of the Inspector General's Special Reports backlog regarding these previous crimes committed by people like Gonzales-whereas I can only imagine what the black budget stuff is about, the DoJ/OIG page is illuminating now that highly politicized people like Paul McNulty and Alice Fisher are no longer in charge of the Criminal Division. They should all be in prison but that was taken off our table.

U.S. Department of Justice/Office of the Inspector General
Special Reports
http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/index.htm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8485278

I'd say that thread fits right into our topic. What do you say?

Riggs Bank is often cited, for any number of reasons.

Riggs Bank N.A. (Source Watch page)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Riggs_Bank

Riggs Bank (Wikipedia entry)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riggs_Bank

Post away, DUers-this is an open source collaborative investigation thread.

CASH. Apparently he told his secretary it was his walkinn' around money.

There are several DUers conversant with this-Stephanie posted one of the best threads about the networks involved in BCCI on February 22, 2006 so I'll lead off with hers

UAE and BCCI (started by Stephanie 2-22-06)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x490176

Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown prepared a report for the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee in 1992, The Federation of American Scientists/FAS has an unedited copy, as Sen. Brown insisted on some changes that apparently were more favorable to Henry Kissinger & Associates after publication of the original report linked below

The BCCI Affair (US Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1992)
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/

BCCI (Wikipedia entry)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International

That's my money laundry entry for today-add to this thread DU, it's called a collaborative effort.

Nugan Hand

Sort of a dry run for criminal patriots.

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Wall Street got in the act, so to speak, at the grass roots level.



NYSE's Richard Grasso and the Ultimate New Business "Cold Call"

The Spook Bank: More on the Riggs-CIA connection.

Riggs was Jonathan Bush's stomping grounds.

Russia: Bank of N.Y. Mellon settles money laundering case

Mellon Scaife wring any bells?

Madoff's Banker: Where Was JPMorgan Chase?

Bernie never did cooperate on the money-laundering side of things.

Bank of America Acknowledges Illicit Funds Moved Through a Manhattan Branch

Nothing to see here. Just a few bad apples. Let's move on to Lindsey Lohan.

and we, the people, are left with emptied accounts, empty promises and empty hearts.

Woe.

BofA, Citi, Wells Fargo Outlook Negative: Moody's
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38436527

Woe, woe, we got the moody's blues...

by Kevin G. Hall/McClatchy via Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100728/pl_mcclatchy/3579899

Yep, the Moody's blues continues...

great job already.

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A legalistic Caribbean link (Anti-Money Laundering.org)
http://www.anti-moneylaundering.org/Caribbean.aspx

Caribbean Financial Action Task Force/CFATF link
http://www.cfatf-gafic.org/

Remember all those gunfights in the streets of Kingston recently? Here's the CIA's World Factbook page on Jamaica-well, they changed the address on this one in the past 30 minutes-it's in their World Factbook somewhere, I'll just leave it as it is...
http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/jm.html

Finally a worldwide page about the Financial Action Task Force/FATF historic lists of countries considered non-cooperative in regards to investigating and stopping money laundering

FATF Blacklist (Wikipedia page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FATF_Blacklist

Post away DUers.

by Thierry Leveque (7-19-10 Reuters via CNBC)

"France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, is to be questioned by police about alleged tax evasion and money laundering in a scandal that has hit the government, a public prosecutor's spokeswoman said on Monday."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38307591

Remember the installed BUSH/CHENEY criminal administration's GOP too big to fail lobbyists/contributors-the socalled Rangers? It's beyond US to compete with former Secretaries of the Treasury when it comes to $$$-most of it laundered, rinsed and drip, drip, drip dryed...

The Center for Media and Democracy has a trusted, useful website linked below for those of US interested in following the money taken from all of the small people

Bankster USA
http://www.banksterusa.org/

Contribute to this thread DUers.

in money laundering and major crimes (including murder) by terrorists using the shield of national security.

The Oliver North File (The National Security Archive/Electronic Briefing Book 113 posted 2-26-04)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htm

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http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/analysis/conclusions/taxhavens.html

Gee, the G20 has plenty of laundries too.

Add to this thread DU.

http://www.haaba.com/news/2010/04/01/1-400889/german-market-watchdog-bafin-probing-ubs-unit-report

UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know? by Robert Scheer (8-19-09 Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/ubs-money-laundering-what_b_262719.html

Add your posts.

A couple of recent posts bear that fact out-yet many US citizens, aka small people, are held accountable for a parking ticket or overdue library book and sometimes face extreme measures over trivial junk-whereas big $$$ literally gets away with murder.

This thread needs your input as we head into another weekend DU.

Below are those recent money-laundering related articles (since Congress is the biggest money-laundry we have-as everything continues to be "privatized")

CREW Asks Appropriations Committee To Ban Earmarks To Non-profits That Funnel Funds To For-profits (7-22-10 CREW)
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/45439

New Fin-Reg Law Only a Half-Measure by Danny Schechter (7-22-10 Consortium News)
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/072210c.html

an excellently researched DU money-laundering thread started by leveymg 6-4-08

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3384539

Another classic political money-laundering statement is Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez's reading about Banca Nazionale del Lavoro/BNL et al into the Congressional Record on April 24, 1991
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1991/h910425g.htm

Cocaine plane that crashed in Mexico this week linked to Government? (archived Ghost in the Machine thread started 9-28-07)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1927518

She was a recess appointment, a loyal Bushie mentored by Michael Chertoff and despite the many concerns of those with ethics her first assignment was the Jack Abramoff case.

Well, Alice is back with Latham & Watkins LLP as a Partner and Deputy Office Managing Partner (link below) helping out those too big to fail when they are investigated by officers of governments seeking to stop money-laundering and tax evaders.

Alice S. Fisher Latham & Watkins LLP page
http://www.lw.com/attorneys.aspx?page=attorneybio&attno=02384

I remember the politicized BUSH DoJ-and below is a very intense archived thread about it--Alice S. Fisher is featured in a few posts in it.

A DU collaborative investigation: Thelma Colbert, Shannon Ross and other deaths at DoJ (started 5-8-07)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x847120

Add to this thread DU, notice my penchant in subject lines calling for collaborative effort, kicking and kicking as appeals for you to join in- or is everyone just too pooped to participate anymore?

7-29-2010 CREW: Shelby's Pork Parade
http://www.citizensforethics.org/shelbys-pork-parade

Post your money-laundering thoughts, docs, links here DU.

"Sam and Charles Wyly, Dallas billionaire investors known for their support of conservative candidates and causes, made $550 million in undisclosed profits through 13 years of insider trading, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed Thursday."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38482270

Add your money-laundering stories to this thread...

business was almost ten years ago and his was an exception then.

and then the coup de grace for US was no accountability, no rule of law, no democracy, etc...that's where we are at today corporatism, a non-totalitarian form of fascism due to BUSH/CHENEY et al aided and abetted by the DLC ideologues and all those other "privatization" swine.

and Idiot Frat Boy took it to the next level. This is a pure example of the "new" dems bi-partisan ideal.
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http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/45531

"Let it all hang out..."

They are the elite among the elite at Goldman Sachs, highfliers who are the envy of Wall Street.

But on Washington's orders, Goldman is now considering a step that once would have been unthinkable: disbanding the corps of market wizards at the heart of its lucrative trading operation.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38591851

Those Goldman Sachs et al "market wizards" obviously cursed all US small people.

For a better money laundering related resource than CNBC (though I'll use any resource as long as its true) I recommend Bankster USA
http://www.banksterusa.org/

Document Hold Filed Against U.S. Chamber of Commerce & American Crossroads for Alleged Money Launder (sic)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4497351

Add to this thread DUers.

Swiss Banker tells all
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8922512

Please kick or nominate that thread if you want
its a very good investigative report.

by Marian Wang
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/bailout-us-bore-risk-foreign-banks-reaped-rewards