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FTX and the Curious History of Farmington State Bank…
In late November, Protos began demystifying the mysterious ties of the bankrupt and fraud-riddled cryptocurrency exchange FTX to “a small bank in rural Washington,” known as Farmington State Bank. Given that it has only 3 employees and is one of the smallest banks in the entire United States, Protos noted that “the fact that [this bank] somehow finds itself embroiled in the largest cryptocurrency fraud in history is puzzling, disconcerting, and totally out of place, to say the least.”…
A Forgotten Banking Scandal Suggests FTX Is the Tip of the Crypto Iceberg…
Fraud, money laundering, and corruption on a global scale, yet regulators seem asleep at the wheel. This has happened before…
Will You Have to Report Your PayPal and Venmo Earnings? What You Need to Know About the New IRS Rule Requiring Taxpayers to File Online Business Payments Over $600…
Starting this year, Americans will have to report Venmo, PayPal, and other third-party payment app transactions over $600 to the IRS…
The Keystone of Corruption: One Stole Billions, the Other Killed Millions – Ukraine, FTX, Money Laundering Operations and the Similarities Between Fraudsters Bankman-Fried and Fauci…
The seventh article in the Keystone of Corruption series on Ukraine and FTX: Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison and Anthony Fauci…
Maxine Waters Holds Secretive Meeting with SEC Chief and Decides Not to Subpoena Sam Bankman-Fried…A Billion Dollars in Money Laundering Donations Tends to Keep Dems Mouths Shut…
Maxine Waters has conveniently declined to subpoena fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried before Congress…
Secretary Yellen, We’ve Got a “Staggering” Problem: New Report Shows Foreign Banks Have Secret Derivative Debt that Is “10 Times their Capital”…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has the dual role of Chairing the Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC), whose role is to provide “comprehensive monitoring of the stability of our nation’s financial system.” Heads of each of the federal agencies that supervise Wall Street and the mega banks sit in on meetings of F-SOC…
I Accidentally Interviewed FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried and He Hated It…
Coffeezilla ambushed FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried crypto interview calls last week asking hard hitting questions as in ‘where did the $8B go?’ and much more…
Labor Sec’y Walsh: ‘I Didn’t Really Get Involved’ in Rail Talks until They Were Largely Done and That Was Bad for Workers…
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “The Open,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh stated that it ended up being bad for the rail unions that he wasn’t really involved in rail negotiations “until pretty much they were 80% through negotiations, meaning they were not able to get deals done.”…
The Latvian Linchpin: How Latvia Interfaces with Ukraine, FTX, NATO, 5 Eyes, Obama, Biden and Burisma…
Ukraine, Russia, FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, global money laundering operations, NATO, the 5 Eyes security accord, Obama, Biden and Burisma as interfaced with the obscure nation of Latvia…
Life Insurance Payouts Hit Record 100Billion in 2021 — Up by a Quarter from 2019…
Steady increases are being seen in life insurance payouts. Since 2019 payouts have increased by a whopping 27 percent…
Check Your 401(k)’s Fine Print! Because Now Biden Wants to Raid Yours to Fund Net Zero and ‘Diversity.”
If you are among the tens of millions of Americans with a 401(k), you’d better pay attention…
Legal Professionals Astonished As Sam Bankman-Fried Admits Failures, Apologizes No Less Than 12 Times in Interview…
The former FTX CEO has offered multiple apologies and admitted failings at least a dozen times during the one-hour interview…
Florida Governor Follows West Virginia in Pulling State Funds from Blackrock Over ESG Investing…
West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore lead the way earlier this year in removing Wall Street financial firms from holding state funds due to ‘Environmental, Social and Governance’ or ‘ESG’ climate change ideology driving investment decisions…
Biden’s War on Fossil Fuels: EPA Quadruples Regulatory Cost of Carbon Emissions…
Social Cost of Carbon estimate jumps from $51 to $190 per metric ton, creating future impact for Americans’ wallets and a new headache for the oil and gas industries…
The Keystone of Corruption: FTX, Ukraine, Money Laundering Operations, the FBI and the Crypto Cookie Jar…
To understand the complexities of the FTX scandal in one of two epicenters of The Biden Crime Family’s corruption, crime and treason – Ukraine – is actually quite simple at a fundamental level [the other epicenter is China.]…
Talk About Rigged: Bahamas AG Previously Employed by Bank of FTX…
The Bahamas Attorney General Ryan Pinder, who gave an official address Sunday evening on the FTX crisis, formerly held the title “Head of Wealth Management” at e-banking platform Deltec, which was listed as a bank of FTX in the company’s recent bankruptcy filings…
FTX Owned an $11.5M Stake in a Tiny Rural Bank in Washington State with Just 3 Employeees, Bankruptcy Hearing Shows…
Farmington State Bank had 3 staff and was the 26th-smallest bank in America out of a total 4,800…
More On the FTX Crypto Scam – “There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute.”
Yours truly must admit that if SBF does participate in the New York Times Dealbook conference on the 30th as scheduled, it would either indicates that his judgement is severely impaired and he is ignoring legal advice or he has good reason to believe that his risk of being prosecuted is extremely low…
With Crypto Bank, SoFi, the Fed Is Setting the Stage for the Same Disastrous Decision It Made with Citigroup in 1999…
If there is one person in America who comprehensively understands the threats to the U.S. banking system, it is Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., author of the 2020 seminal book, Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act. Wilmarth is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Washington University Law School and has published more than 40 law review articles and book chapters in the fields of financial regulation and American constitutional history…
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