tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030388666382918203.post2735531393078522775..comments2023-09-02T09:53:58.930-04:00Comments on Future News Today: The Madoff ConnectionFrank Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01610256051568976952noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030388666382918203.post-7363150745286732702009-12-04T05:31:34.716-05:002009-12-04T05:31:34.716-05:00yes see my Film
http://www.madoffwithamerica.com ...yes see my Film<br />http://www.madoffwithamerica.com Movie traler.edmunddruilhethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004642281589040555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030388666382918203.post-73507130855746716612009-03-15T08:47:00.000-04:002009-03-15T08:47:00.000-04:00@OSRIt's not just Markopolos. Mrs. Kohn is also af...@OSR<BR/><BR/>It's not just Markopolos. Mrs. Kohn is also afraid. And the source of this statement is no less than the venerable New York Times. NYT is no gossip rag, although it is indubitably one of the pillars of the (pathologically lying) MSM. And no one is going to accuse the NYT of being anti-semitic. So what gives there. <BR/><BR/>As for Markopolos, I watched his testimony. It's available online at the CSPAN website. (Try Googling.) He does have a flair for the dramatic, but then Truth is stranger than fiction. Or as Mark Twain said, "It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." Which goes directly to your comment.<BR/><BR/>Many of the congresspeople that heard the testimony by Markopolos began to speculate out loud about the possibility of a movie. He is certainly an interesting character. But it does make sense that when you go up against someone as powerful and influential as Madoff was, that you would risk retaliation.<BR/><BR/>As Markopolos predicted, Madoff now faces a life sentence. What would he have to lose by silencing someone out to get him? Just take a look at the story of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff#SunCruz_Casinos_fraud_conviction" REL="nofollow">Jack Abramoff</A>. He's accused of being involved in the murder of Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis. <BR/><BR/>It takes real courage to do what Markopolos did. There's also the case of <A HREF="http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/funds/2003-11-20-whistleblower-1a-cover_x.htm" REL="nofollow">Peter Scannell</A> who had his head bashed in by a brick as a result of his whistle blower activities with regards to Putnam Investment and market timing of mutual funds.<BR/><BR/>Madoff had the money, power and connections to have Markopolos pay a severe price for his meddling. But finally, would you have had the courage to go after somebody like Madoff knowing that he had connections at the SEC and that word could easily leak back to him? At the very least you would have to question what you were getting into, and what kind of people you were dealing with. Madoff is a criminal and who knows to what lengths he would have gone to protect his criminal empire.<BR/><BR/>The only reason Madoff gave himself up now is to protect his sons and his wife. I'm not buying the story that his sons turned him in. That's just a cover to protect his sons from prosecution. The story that "doesn't add up" here is Madoff's concoction that he is the only guilty of a crime. The feds should go after him with Rico powers. <BR/><BR/>They should go after his family with <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture" REL="nofollow">asset forfeiture</A> laws used in drug cases. In these cases the assets are seized by the government and it is up to the individual to prove that these were not obtained through illegal methods. Heck they should go after him and his family as enemy combatants, because it is the Wall St. banksters who are the real terrorist threat to America. <BR/><BR/>And when they are done with the Madoff family, they should go after Goldman Sachs. But of course that will never happen because the people at GS are the very same people that control the government. This is a case of criminal corruption American style. The problem with trying to root out corruption from the government is where do you start? When corruption goes all the way to the top as in the cases of Paulson and Bernanke, how do you begin to get it out of government? <BR/><BR/>Look at Obama. He got elected to clean up the economic mess Bush left and the first thing he does is appoint Tim Geithner to Treasury. But Geithner was a high level part of the gang that created the mess. As head of the New York Fed he was supposed to be regulating the Wall St. banks that created this mess. He failed utterly and miserably and in fact it is easy to conclude that he was part of the conspiracy and yet he was promoted to the highest office.<BR/><BR/>Recently <A HREF="http://futurenewstoday.blogspot.com/2009/03/israel-lobby-excercises-veto-over.html" REL="nofollow">Chas Freeman</A> was appointed to a high office to clean up the corruption in gathering intelligence used to make strategic decisions by the US government. He was forced to resign by the Israel Lobby. This is another case of where do you start? When people like Dennis Ross are placed directly in the State Department to spy for Israel and to be a watchdog for the Israel Lobby, who is going to protect the interests of the American people?<BR/><BR/>One of the reasons that Madoff was able to get away with his scheme for so long was that the FBI had to pull off resources from white collar investigations to concentrate on terrorist investigations. The reason for this is the influence of the Israel Lobby which scared the American public into believing in a false terrorist threat in order to promote their agenda. So the two issues are closely linked.<BR/>"The fish rots from the head". Its up to the American people to realize that government must be cleaned up top to bottom. Look at the SEC as a microcosm of this. What the case of Harry Markopolos showed was that the SEC is corrupt from the top. <BR/><BR/>And so Obama brings in <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shapiro" REL="nofollow">Mary Shapiro</A> to run the SEC. But Shapiro was formerly the head of FINRA which Markopolos adamantly declared was even more in bed with the Wall St. banksters than the SEC. "The fish rots from the head".<BR/><BR/>Don't get me started...Frank Hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01610256051568976952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030388666382918203.post-84532259964135649132009-03-14T21:39:00.000-04:002009-03-14T21:39:00.000-04:00Perhaps Markopolos didn't really fear for his life...Perhaps Markopolos didn't really fear for his life, but thought would make for a more interesting story. There's a lot about his Financial Services testimony that doesn't add up.OSRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454944574511999653noreply@blogger.com