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"Washington's a dangerous place." - Jack
Abramoff
"Executives are in the business
world for themselves first, and public trading of companies' stocks is a thinly
disguised mechanism to allow executives and
directors to profit from inside knowledge
and favors." - Danila Oder
1894 Royal
Society of St George established to foster love of England and to
strengthen England and the Commonwealth by spreading the knowledge of English
history, traditions, and ideals and to combat all activities to undermine the
strength of England and the Commonwealth.
1895
American Society in London
founded by prominent and influential Americans expatriates to promote the
patriotic and social life of Americans residing in London.
1898 Inaugural meeting of the Anglo-American
League.
1902 Pilgrims of Great Britian
meet at the Carlton Hotel.
Some of Reader's Digest most prominent
editors were Pilgrims.
1970
Marc David Rich invents the spot market for crude
oil when he and Pincus Green
became trading legends at Philipp Brothers, the commodities arm of Salomon
Brothers.
Oil giants relied on long-term contracts for future
purchases.
"The highly leveraged, not to say Ponzi business
model Rich patented became the template for modern traders.
Glencore, the opaque and complex commodities
giant founded in 1974, is considered by many analysts the Amazon of the
commodities trade." - Patricia Goldstone
Epstein's Network: Marc Rich's Pardon, Israel's 'Leverage' Over
Clinton
1973 Rich uses his
Middle Eastern contacts
to circumvent the Arab oil embargo and buy crude oil from
Iran and Iraq, which he then
resells to supply-starved US
companies at double the $12 per barrel he paid.
"Iran continued to
be Rich's most important supplier of crude for the next 15 years, and
he bragged to Amman how he
singlehandedly kept both Israel
and South Africa
alive on smuggled oil throughout the
apartheid sanctions of the
1970s and 1980s, not neglecting to make himself $2 billion in the process." -
Patricia Goldstone
Rich trades with
Castro's Cuba,
Marxist Angola,
Qaddafi's Libya,
Ceausescu's Romania and
Pinochet's Chile.
Jack
Abramoff, born in Atlantic City where his father works with Arnold Palmer Enterprises,
graduates high school in Beverly Hills.
1981 Jack
Abramoff, chairman of the College Republican National
Committee($10,000), graduates Brandeis University and Georgetown
Law.
Abramoff distributes on campuses 900 copies of ''Target
America," which posited that the Soviets have planted 4,000
journalist-agents in the American media to pursue a ''massive secret propaganda
campaign."
1983
Rich is indicted by Rudolph Giuliani on charges of
tax evasion and
illegal trading with Iran.
Rich
flees to Switzerland before
a court appearance, and
remains on the FBI's, "Most Wanted List," for many years.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Director Abraham Foxman*
receives $250,000 in contributions from Marc Rich.
"By virtue of the
role of many Mega Group members as major political donors in both the US
and Israel, several of its most notable members have close ties to the
governments of both countries as well as their intelligence
communities.
The Mega Group had close ties to two businessmen who
worked for Israel's Mossad — Robert Maxwell and Marc Rich — and top
Israeli politicians, including past
and present prime ministers with deep ties to Israeli intelligence." -
Whitney Webb, Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad
From "Spook Air" to the "Lolita Express":
Genesis and
Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship
1985 Jack Abramoff founds The International Freedom
Foundation .
Jack Abramoff spent
ten years in Talmudwood,
producing movies like Red Scorpion, an anti-communist film made in
1988 just after his term with the College Republicans ended.
Jack Abramoff: 'The whole system' is corrupt
1990s Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Yeltsin's deputy minister for fuel and
energy, works closely with Marc Rich facilitating a commodities grab in the
former Soviet Union,
laundering the money of the nomenklatura (the former Communist Party ruling
class) out of Russia and into the economy, assisting in the creation of the
oligarch class, particularly those who end up in Israel.
$45 billion in
gold and foreign exchange reserves disappears.
"According to Paul
Klebnikov, chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes, Rich's example helped
oligarch Boris Berezovsky bankrupt the emerging Russia by facilitating capital
flight through international "spot markets" in oil, aluminum, zinc, grain, and
other raw commodities." - Patricia Goldstone
1993
Wendy Gramm, Texas Senator Phil Gramm's wife, headed the Commodity Futures
Exchange Commission.
At Enron's request Enron became exempt from
Commodity Futures
Exchange Commission regulations.
Wendy Gramm resigned her
position and 6 weeks later is appointed to the
Enron board of
directors.
"The lobbyists I met at
Cassidy & Associates and APCO were more than eager to help
out.
In exchange for fees of up to $1.5 million a year they offered to
send congressional delegations to
Türkmenistan and
write and plant opinion pieces in
newspapers under the names
of academics and
think tank experts
they would recruit." - Ken Silverstein
Congressman Tom DeLay, former
Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, during a New Year trip
to the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan in 1997, "... one of my closest and
dearest friends, ...".
After the trip, Jack Abramoff helped Tom DeLay
craft policy that extended exemptions from federal immigration and
labor laws to Saipan industries,
even though the products were allowed to be labelled 'Made in the USA'
as part of the US commonwealth.
Brian Ross at
ABC News for 20/20 on March 13,
1998 noted factories in Saipan
force workers to have
abortions in order to keep their jobs.
2000
William Jefferson Clinton
signs a bill with an amendment sponsered by Phil Gramm to exempt
Enron from oversight to
create the private trading floor leading to the
Enron trading
schemes - Fat Boy, Death Star, Get Shorty - and the California energy
debacle which eventualy, with the help of
Arnold Schwarzenegger, lead
to quite a nice profit
for the Wall Street bond
brokers.
Stock Market Terms coined
after the 2008 meltdown:
CEO –
Chief Embezzlement Officer
CFO - Corporate Fraud Officer
BULL
MARKET – A random
market movement causing an
investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
VALUE INVESTING
– The art of buying low and selling lower.
P/E RATIO –
The percentage of investors wetting their
pants as the market keeps
crashing.
BROKER – What my
financial planner has made me.
STANDARD & POOR –
Your life in a nutshell.
STOCK
ANALYST – Idiot who just downgraded your
stock.
MARKET CORRECTION –
The day after you buy stocks.
CASH FLOW – Movement money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
YAHOO – What you
yell after selling a decline to some poor schmuck.
WINDOWS –
What you jump out of when you're the poor
schmuck.
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR –
big bank trader locked up in a
nuthouse.
PROFIT – An archaic word no longer in use.
If
you had purchased $1000 of shares in
American Airlines in
2008, you would have $49.00 in 2009.
If you had purchased $1000 of
shares in AIG in
2008, you would have $33.00 in 2009.
If you had purchased $1000 of
shares in Lehman
Brothers in 2008, you would have $0.00 in 2009.
If you had purchased $1000 worth of
beer in 2008, drank all the beer,
then turned in the aluminum cans for the recycling refund, you would have
received $214.00.
Based on the above, the best investment plan is to
drink heavily &
recycle.
It's called the
401-Keg plan.
"Lobbyists are almost always former officials in
Congress or the executive
branch
and thus friends of those who are still in political office." -
Glenn Greenwald
"The revolving door between
Washington government offices and lobbying firms is so lucrative and so
established that anyone pointing out that it is
institutionalized corruption is seen as
baying at the moon." -
Fareed Zakaria
"The same revolving door that exists between the military
establishment and defense contractors is also observed to exist between the
Washington based think
tanks and US government departments."
- Rodrigue Tremblay
January 20, 2001
Hours before leaving office
William Jefferson Clinton
grants Marc Rich a presidential
pardon.
"Daniel Amman says that while Clinton's pardon may have had
something to do with more than $1.5 million in contributions from Rich's
extremely friendly ex-wife Denise, Israeli pleas for clemency from Ehud Barak
and Shimon Peres were
also a factor.
Rich's and Green's special pleader before US prosecutor
Rudolph Giuliani was rabbi Ronald Greenwald, who had himself been investigated
by the FBI for defrauding the Dunes casino in Las Vegas out of more than $1
million." - Patricia Goldstone
Abraham Foxman assists Marc Rich in
obtaining a presidential pardon from Bill
Clinton.
2003
Richard Norman Perle, 1st
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs for
Ronald Reagan and chairman
of Defense Policy
Board for George Walker Bush, advisor to Defense Secretary
Donald Henry Rumsfeld, is
employed as an advisor to Global Crossing, a
major telecom with strong financial interest in lobbying the DoD.
Richard Norman Perle is paid a
several hundred million dollar commission to procure government approval of the
sale of Global Crossing to Hutchison Whampoa and Singapore
Technologies Telemedia Pte.
March 21, 2003
New York Times
article notes the conflict of interest of
Richard Norman Perle forcing
his resignation.
Of the major corporate melt downs at the turn of the
millennium Gary Winnick of Global Crossing alone remained unscathed.
Andrew H Card Jr. is General
Motors vice president of government relations.
Card represents
General Motors on
matters of public policy before Congress.
Andrew H Card Jr. becomes GW Bush'
White House Chief of
Staff.
Jacqueline Glassman was a senior
regulatory counsel at Daimler-Chrysler.
She became head of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
Jeffrey A. Rosen was a senior partner at
Kirkland & Ellis, a law firm that has defended General Motors
in numerous product
liability suits.
Jeffrey A. Rosen became Department of Transportation
general counsel.
"The reason there are tens
of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding US government creates
ever-increasing opportunities for abuse.
The more the US government
does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interests at the
expense of the common interest.
You can't take a congressman to lunch
for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that.
But
you can take him to a fund-raising lunch and not only get him a steak, but give
him $25,000 extra and call it a fund-raiser - and have all the same access and
interactions with that congressman." - Jack Abramoff
August 2005 Jack Abramoff:
Tyco White House lobbyist.
Tyco claims Jack
Abramoff has been paid $1.7 million for an 'astroturf campaign'
to create a 'grass roots campaign' to oppose proposals to penalize American
corporations registered abroad for tax reasons.
Timothy Flanigan,
Tyco general
council, states to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Jack Abramoff bragged he
could help Tyco avoid tax liability aimed at off-shore companies because he
"had good relationships with members of Congress."
November 28,
2005 Randall Harold Cunningham resigns from the
House after pleading guilty
to federal charges of conspiracy to commit
bribery,
mail fraud,
wire fraud, and
tax evasion.
Randall Harold
Cunningham aka Randy or 'Duke' Cunningham was an F-4 Phantom Pilot, Navy
♠ in Vietnam. As a California
represenative in the House he voted in 2003 for the "Can Spam Act,"
which legalized spam and invalidated a tough anti-spam California law before it
could go into effect.
January 3,
2006 Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to
fraud,
tax evasion and
conspiracy to bribe public officials in
a deal that requires him to provide evidence about
members of Congress.
October
2006 Bob Ney, an Ohio congressman,
pleads quilty to
bribery.
Bob Ney accepted several thousand dollars worth of gifts
from Jack Abramoff for legislative
'favors'.
2009
"Those of us who manage public dollars will be held to account, to
spend wisely, reform bad
habits and do our business in the light of day, only then can we restore
the vital trust between a people and their government.
We need to close
the revolving door that lets lobbyists come into government.
We are here as public
servants, and public service
is a privilege.
It's
not about advancing yourself ." -
Barack Hussein Obama
II, 1/20/09
February 12
Raytheon lobbyist William J.
Lynn III (Pentagon comptroller
Clinton administration)
overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate endorsing
Obama decision to waive ethics
regulations putting a revolving door defense lobbyist/government servant in
charge of day-to-day Pentagon operations.
Jan 12, 2012 Former Southwest Michigan congressman Mark
Siljander, accused of accepting stolen funds on behalf of
a Missouri charity with alleged
terrorism ties, was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison.
Four co-defendants of Siljander, who served in Congress from 1981 until
1987, also were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Kansas City.
Sentences ranged from probation to nearly five years in prison for
Mubarak Hamed, the former
executive director of the Columbia-based Islamic American Relief
Agency.
Prosecutors said Hamed conspired to hire Siljander to lobby
for the charity's removal from a government list of charities suspected of
funding international terrorism.
The charity closed in October 2004
after being designated a global terrorist organization by the US government.
Hamed, a naturalized US citizen from
Sudan, pleaded guilty
in June 2010 to illegally conspiring to transfer more than $1 million to Iraq
and obstructing the administration of laws governing tax-exempt charities.
Siljander, sentenced to 12 months and one
day in prison, plead
guilty to obstruction and acting as
an unregistered
foreign agent.
Prosecutors said Siljander received $75,000 to push
for removal from the list as $50,000 unused grant money was supposed to have
been returned to the US Agency for
International Development after it terminated grants for two relief
projects in Mali, Africa in 1999.
Of the $2 million the charity received, $85,000 was supposed to have
been returned to the agency, according to Don Ledford, a spokesman for the
US Attorney Office of the Western District of Missouri.
The
indictment said Siljander and three charity officers agreed to cover up the
money's origins and use it on the lobbying effort.
Siljander was charged with conspiring to engage in
money laundering by transferring
stolen USAID funds, and obstructing justice by lying to a
federal grand jury and making
false statements to
FBI agents, officials said.
Money was funneled to Siljander through
nonprofits, prosecutors said.
The original indictment alleged the
charity sent about
$130,000 to help Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar, whom the US designated a global terrorist.
The money,
sent to bank accounts in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2003 and 2004, is masked as
donations to an orphanage in buildings owned by
Hekmatyar .
Authorities described Hekmatyar as an
Afghan mujahedeen leader who has participated in and supported terrorist acts
by al-Qaida and the Taliban. |
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