Cryptocurrency is not merely a bad investment or speculative bubble. It’s worse than that: it’s a full-on fraud.
Category: fraud
Top White House adviser Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, personally signed off on keeping salary payments to top campaign officials off the books, according to a person involved with the arrangements. Federal Election Commission records show that the Trump campaign has made no salary payments to chief strategist Jason Miller, who came on board in June, or to campaign manager Bill Stepien, who joined the campaign in late 2018 and took over the top job from Brad Parscale in July. Kushner agreed to both arrangements, and personally directed the payments to Miller, the person involved said.
Jared Kushner signed off on secret payments to top campaign officials, source says | Salon.com
The Fraudster Family caught in action. Any wonder they don’t want their Tax Returns made public. (ODT)
via Trump Ordered To Pay $2 Million In Charity Ethics Lawsuit | HuffPost Australia
This submission by Jeffrey Knapp to the impending Parliamentary Inquiry into the Regulation of Auditing in Australia documents how the Big 4 audit firms – KPMG, PwC, Deloitte and EY – have undermined Australian auditing and financial reporting practice for multinational clients. Knapp includes a number of recommendations.
via Knapp: Big Four failed Australia for their multinational clients – Michael West
Corporate fraud and crime that nobody gets arrested for and and MPs like Dutton don’t politicize. Why focus on the Sudanese… they’re Black, stand out, are easy and don’t donate to the Liberal Party. (olddogThought)
via What kind of company sells a dud like this to its customers?
They Made Millions of Dollars As They Made Millions Homeless If you thought that the US government could not get any dirtier, think again. Less than two weeks before the financial crisis of 2008, several congress members sold their shares in an act …
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/7/matt_taibbi_and_bank_whistleblower_on
“How is it that you can be a CEO, over $29 billion worth of fines, and get a raise? It also clearly shows that there’s no deterrent to all of these fines. It’s just happening over and over again. And if there aren’t any individuals held accountable, there’s no reason for any of them to actually stop doing these very serious crimes.”
“And one of the things that I think has been sold to the public is, well, these are really complex and difficult, or we don’t really know who did what. First, in my case, and what I’ve seen in these other cases, there are all sorts of documents that show exactly who was making the decisions and who knew what. The idea that they’re too complex, you know, these securities themselves that are sold to investors are complex, but the fact that the investors were lied to about the quality of the loans, that’s actually really easy. And the fact that obviously if you have people who can’t afford their loans, there’s going to be no money coming out of these loans, is also something that’s not a difficult thing to understand.”
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