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 […]
The Malaysian Job: How Wall Street Enabled a Global Financial Scandal…
This past January, Goldman Sachs CEO and chairman David Solomon strode onto a stage at the bank’s lower Manhattan headquarters to launch the first “Investor Day” in the famously secretive institution’s one-hundred-and-fifty-year history. The celebration was promoted as an inspiring review of Goldman’s “strategic road map and goals,” and the presentations were replete with pledges […]
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 […]
Malaysia Indicts 17 of the “Untouchables” at Goldman Sachs…
When it comes to serial and systemic frauds perpetrated by big banks on Wall Street, the U.S. Department of Justice typically punts. It will either not charge the bank itself or it will issue a felony charge along with a non-prosecution agreement that lets the bank settle the charges without a trial. These tactics by […]
China Allows Currency to Drop – President Trump Responds – Devaluation Lowers Consumer Import Prices…
DOW Stocks Plunge 767 Points as U.S.-China Trade War Deepens…
U.S. stocks went into freefall on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 900 points at its low before curbing some of those losses, ending the session 767 points lower. All three of the major market averages lost about 3 percent led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite in what is the worst session of […]
Beijing Launches DPRK Rockets Over Escalating Trade Tension – Trump Launches Treasury Missile Designating China a Currency Manipulator…
Beijing has once again used their proxy province of North Korea to launch small two short-range ballistic missiles as leverage in the U.S. and China trade confrontation – ” For the fourth time in less than two weeks, North Korea has fired projectiles into the Sea of Japan, a U.S. official said. The two projectiles, […]