Corrupt Politicians
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/728281 > You may remember the story from the 2016 election cycle: the Uranium One scandal that rocked the Clinton campaign. > > An anonymous informant came forward with credible intel that linked the Clinton Foundation to a Russian company's acquisition of Uranium One. > > This controversial deal allowed Rosatom, Russia's state-owned atomic energy corporation, to gain control over about 20% of the U.S.'s uranium extraction capacity. The sale required approval from nine federal agencies, including the State Department then headed by Hillary Clinton. > > Allegations arose that the approval was directly influenced by donations to the Clinton Foundation by individuals connected to Uranium One, sparking accusations of a "pay-to-play" scheme.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/728055 > Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly used more than $100 million in user funds “in campaign contributions to Democrats and Republicans to seek to influence cryptocurrency regulation.” > > He donated more than $5 million to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden for his 2020 campaign and said he had been a “significant donor” to both Democratic and Republican candidates.
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Or you could just plant a few trees, just as long as the big guy gets his 10%
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/565776 > Sam Bankman-Fried, a 30-year-old Democrat darling, spent more than $40 million to fund the midterms with his Ponzi scheme through the crypto exchange he founded (FTX). Up to $2 billion is ‘missing’ after FTX collapsed last year.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/550667 > And 10% for the "big guy"?
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/199229 > Why only for politicians? > > Why shouldn't everybody have the right to have their personal information removed from the internet. > > Politicians should live under the same rules as the rest of us.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/198554 > Americans were much more united in their assessment of so-called "legacy admissions" in which universities offer favorable admissions practices to the children of alumni or major donors, with 58% of respondents contending such policies should not be legal. Twenty-three percent were in favor of permitting such practices while 18% were unsure.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/198324 > “Colombian lands planted with coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, reached their highest levels in two decades [in 2021], a United Nations agency has said in an annual report.
Ohio Republicans’ Rotten Scheme to Spend Opioid Settlement Money in Secret GOP leaders brazenly skirted a state Supreme Court ruling with a law shielding the money from public scrutiny. Many other states are doing likewise. Are we repeating the tobacco settlement debacle? [https://newrepublic.com/article/174116/ohio-republicans-rotten-scheme-spend-opioid-settlement-money-secret]()
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Leaders who are worried about implementing leftist policies and losing their jobs, as a result, can take solace: They can always find a job in higher ed.
This is mostly BS. I pay for my own DSL internet over the phone line, which everyone who has a phone line should be able to get, and it is fast enough to stream video on my TV. Why should my taxes go to lay optic cable so people can have faster internet than mine? What a boondoggle! What’s next as PA prepares to spend $1.2B on broadband https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/07/pennsylvania-federal-broadband-funding-biden-admin-whats-next-explainer/
cross-posted from: https://narwhal.city/posts/19398 > The Secret Service says it does not have enough evidence to 'single out a person of interest' > > > > https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secret-service-close-white-house-cocaine-probe-without-finding-suspect
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Mayorkas’ loose standards caused people who committed fraud and money laundering to receive visas. The 99-page report eviscerated Mayorkas, saying he had caused “deep resentment” among the staff, who felt “uncomfortable and pressured” to comply with his wishes, and that Mayorkas had “lowered the morale” of the department.
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Leading the league was Grace Napolitano, whose net worth rose from $8,000 in 2008 to $913,004 10 years later — an 11,312.6% increase. In the five years since, she has quintupled that money as her net worth has hit $5 million. Her stick-to-itness is admirable. Being on the Natural Resources Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee helped because they dole out billions with little oversight from the press or the public. Those assignments are donor magnets.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/165934 > What politicians are getting kickbacks from this corrupt deal
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Here is a lesson in crime for you. The easiest way for a politician or government bureaucrat to steal is by overpaying for government contracts with taxpayer money. You overpay by millions, and then you either keep the overpayment, or split it with the company you bought it from. Everyone gets rich. This goes on every day in our government. I believe virtually every government agency official is stealing taxpayer money by the millions by overpaying for government contracts. As an example, every time the government pays $1 billion for tanks, or ships, or fighter jets, or bullets, what makes you think the real bill wasn’t $900 million? That leaves $100 million to split up between politicians, government bureaucrats and the defense contractor. Who’d ever know? Who’s gonna talk? Everyone got rich.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/163540 > This is a woman who lied about her ethnic background in order to advance her academic career. Maybe she isn’t the best person to speak out on this particular issue.
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Akron-based FirstEnergy, which bankrolled much of the operation along with its subsidiary FirstEnergy Solutions, admitted in July 2021 that it bribed Householder and another public official: ex-Public Utilities Commission of Ohio leader Sam Randazzo. The company agreed to a $230 million fine. Randazzo, who has not been charged, says he did nothing wrong.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/161216 > Joe Biden had made six policy decisions as a result of foreign bribery payments involving business deals arranged by son Hunter Biden. > > Comer said four of those decisions were made when Biden was president and that he cannot find a reason for the decisions except for bribery. Comer called the Biden family foreign business dealings “organized crime” and the Bidens themselves an “organized family crime unit.” Comer said the total amount of payments to Biden related firms could reach $40 million with the Bidens’ take at least $17 million.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/156595 > The Halderman report was finally released in Georgia after the corrupt Obama judge Amy Totenberg allowed it finally to be released. The report laid out numerous facts about the Dominion Voting machines used in the 2020 Election in the state.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/156587 > Tigani said the investigation he wore a wire for was halted when it got to the level of Joe Biden and his campaign finance director Dennis Toner. The investigation occurred during Biden’s first term as vice president.
But there is more to corruption than just investigating improprieties. The larger questions are: - Is corruption a rare occurrence or has it become business as usual, i.e. endemic, embedded, taken for granted as "the way things work"? - Is there any sense of sincere shame or wrong-doing when those reaping private gains from their positions in the State are publicly exposed? Or do the guilty disclaim any notions of sin or shame for betraying the Public Trust? - Are there two completely different Standards of Justice, Criminality and Punishment, one applied ferociously to the general public and another applied with the lightest of feathers to insiders, financial elites and the politically influential? I submit that all three conditions are true: corruption is now BAU, business as usual; there is no sense of shame or wrongdoing when the corrupt are exposed, and there are two judicial standards, one for the bottom 99.9% and another for insiders, the well-connected, the influential, the politically protected and the super-wealthy, what I call America's Aristocracy or Royalty.
This is the apex of political corruption. These people should be formally barred from holding any position in the American government ever again. But their friends and cronies are still in power, so expect them to be given awards instead.
We're living through one of the worst, if not the worst, periods of political scandals and institutional rot in American history.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/145905 > A newly released screen capture from July 30, 2017 of a WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao shows Hunter Biden putting pressure on Zhao for payment using the influence of his father, Joe Biden, who was “sitting” in the room.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/139631 > We now know for a fact that in addition to serving a legion of startups and fledgling businesses, SVB was a go-to bank for tech industry giants, including some that have kept their relationships with the bank confidential. > > - The $1 billion that Sequoia, the firm famous for backing iconic companies including Apple, Google and WhatsApp, had at SVB made up a fraction of its $85 billion assets under management. In addition to maintaining its own accounts at the lender, the firm also recommended every startup it backed do the same, Michael Moritz, a partner at the firm, wrote in the Financial Times. A representative for Sequoia declined to comment on the depositor list. > > - Kanzhun, which had $902.9 million in deposits with SVB according to the document, didn’t respond to multiple emailed requests for comment. The company, which was heavily backed by Chinese giant Tencent before it went public on the Nasdaq in 2021, was among the largest Chinese companies to IPO in the US that year. > > - Altos Labs Inc., a life sciences startup that works on cell regeneration, had $680.3 million in deposits with the bank. The privately held company has raised $3.27 billion from billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner, as well as Mubadala Investment Company and other investors. An Altos representative declined to comment. > > - Payments startup Marqeta Inc. had $634.5 million at the bank, according to the document. In a statement, the firm acknowledged that it had “significant deposits” at SVB, but was already in the process of moving money to other banks. “While Marqeta supported the decision to guarantee all deposits at the bank, our ability to execute as a business and meet our financial obligations would not have been impacted, even if it was a longer resolution process” the firm said. > > - IntraFi Network, which provides deposit services to financial institutions, had $410.9 million worth of deposits at the bank, according to the document. However, in a statement, the firm said that it didn’t actually have any of its own money with the lender, nor was it a client. The amount, rather, represents the funds of almost 2,000 different depositors whose balances were fully insured when SVB collapsed, according to IntraFi. > > - Crypto stablecoin company Circle Internet Financial Ltd. previously disclosed its SVB deposits, which at the time represented 8.2% of the reserves backing its USD Coin. A spokesman said the company had no additional comment. The USD Coin, which is intended to maintain a 1-to-1 peg to the dollar, briefly drifted from that $1 level on the news of Circle’s exposure. The document listed it as SVB’s biggest depositor with a balance of $3.3 billion. > > - Streaming set-top box maker Roku Inc. also previously disclosed having roughly 26% of its cash and cash equivalents parked at the bank. The document listed its balance at $420 million. A Roku spokesman declined further comment. > > - Fintech company Bill.com previously disclosed it had roughly $670 million at the bank. The firm said the amount included about $300 million of its money and $370 million that belonged to customers. A company spokesman declined further comment. The FDIC document listed Bill.com’s total balance at $761.1 million. > > Finally, Silicon Valley Bank and parent SVB Financial Group were both listed as having a combined $4.6 billion in deposits. SVB Financial has argued in its bankruptcy case that at least $2 billion in deposits the parent had with the bank should be returned. Federal regulators have said SVB Financial must apply to the bank’s receiver for that money.
Describes how BlackRock is able to ”run the world” in about 7 minutes of riveting undercover footage. The footage was captured over the course of several meetings in New York by one of OMG News’ rockstar undercover journalists.
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/131496 > “The half-billion dollar sole-source contract awarded to Endeavors by the Biden administration is a disgustingly wrong,” said Tina Ryan of Citizens Against Political Persecution. > > “By bypassing competitive bidding and lacking transparency, the Regime has created an environment ripe for corruption and favoritism. > > Moreover, rewarding organizations for housing illegal immigrants sends the wrong message and undermines the rule of law. It is imperative that an investigation into this matter takes place to determine if any laws were broken and to ensure the responsible use of taxpayer funds. > > The American people deserve better than this blatant disregard for ethical standards. Alejandro Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security and Xavier Becerra of Department of Health and Human Services must provide the documents and transparency the Rep. Gosar is seeking.”
“It’s not who the president is- it’s who’s controlling the wallet of the president,” BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay told an undercover journalist. Serge Varlay said all the financial institutions – hedge funds, BlackRock, the banks – buy politicians – and US Senators are the cheapest.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/122038 > Time for Trump to put up or shut up. > > Show us that he is on top of the issues that has allowed these past elections to be stolen, so we know he will fix them. > > Otherwise it will be like 2016 and "Lock her up" about which after the election he did nothing about.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/115699 > JPMorgan claims that the tuition paid for de Jongh's children boosted her 2009 overall compensation as an office manager to $200,000. The bank claims that in return for the tuition, de Jongh provided Epstein access to the USVI's political elite - who extended tax benefits and allowed him to take part in crafting laws that might affect him.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/97121 > He accuses politicians from both parties, including Hillary Clinton, Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo, of betraying Trump's agenda and working against him from within.
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/92412 > Bill Barr screwed the country again. And now he spends his time on the talk shows trashing President Trump. > > What a pathetic man.
 