The U.S. Department of Justice is being played like a fiddle at a tractor meet. Those big white shoe law firms that handle increasingly dirty cases against the mega banks on Wall Street have twice, in a period of just three weeks, managed to get the Justice Department to announce settlements of landmark criminal cases against two of the largest banks on Wall Street on the day of presidential debates when the public and the media are not paying attention to Wall Street…
Banks Moved $2 Trillion, Defying Money Laundering Orders: ICIJ…
A new investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists says JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and several global banks “kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players” in the past two decades even after the U.S. imposed penalties on these financial institutions…
Global Banks Defy U.S. Crackdowns by Serving Oligarchs, Criminals and Terrorists…
The FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks, swamping a broken enforcement system…
3-Count Felon, JPMorgan Chase, Caught Laundering More Dirty Money…
The ICIJ bombshell includes the charge that JPMorgan also “processed more than $50 million in payments over a decade, the records show, for Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager for President Donald Trump…
Former Malaysian PM Guilty on All Counts in Sweeping 1MDB Corruption Case; Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison…
Days after Goldman Sachs agreed to fork over nearly $4 billion to the Malaysian government as penance for aiding and abetting the criminals who looted more than $4 billion from 1MDB (a sovereign wealth fund financed by several bond issues underwritten by Goldman Sachs), former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been found guilty on […]
Goldman’s 1MDB Fiasco Nears End with $3.9 Billion Malaysia Pact…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has reached a $3.9 billion pact with Malaysia, marking a big step in the Wall Street giant’s efforts to resolve its worst scandal since the financial crisis. The settlement includes a payment of $2.5 billion to Malaysia to resolve probes into the U.S. bank’s role in a scheme to plunder the […]
U.S. Seeks to Recover Approximately $96 Million Traceable to Funds Allegedly Misappropriated from Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund…
The Justice Department announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of approximately $96 million in assets allegedly associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. Combined with earlier civil forfeiture complaints filed begining in July 2016, the United […]
Goldman Sachs Pleads Not Guilty to 1MDB Charges in Malaysia…
Three arms of Goldman Sachs reportedly pleaded not guilty Monday to Malaysian charges stemming from the investment bank’s involvement in the massive 1MDB scandal. A representative for Goldman entered the plea in Kuala Lumpur after a judge read out the charges related to the bank’s alleged role in raising $6.5 billion in bond sales for […]
DoJ Strikes Deal to Recover $1 Billion from Mysterious Fugitive Mastermind Behind 1MDB Fraud…
The U.S. Justice Department has struck a deal with fugitive financier Jho Low – the mysterious financier who allegedly masterminded the theft of more than $4 billion from Malaysia’s 1MDB development fund – to recoup almost a billion dollars from Malaysian investment fund 1MDB – “I am very pleased” that a global settlement has been […]
DoJ Returns $200 Million Stolen from Malaysia’s 1MDB…
After seizing hundreds of millions of assets tied to the 1MDB embezzlement scandal, the DoJ is finally starting to return some of the money to the Malaysian people – though the roughly $200 million that has been handed over pales in comparison to the $4.5 billion that the DoJ believes was stolen from public development […]