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Democratic Underground According to FBI agentTheodore Cacioppi Madoff said that there is noinnocent explanation, all but confessing. Ira Sorkin,who is representing Madoff, is a well respected lawyerwith experience in enforcement as well as defense, butthe law, the facts, and his clients aren't doing him anyfavors here. ... from FireDogLakeFireDogLakeOpEdNews Two years ago the state of Israel beganselling a national bank, Leumi, to private investors.One of those investors was Ezra Merkin. A Merkinfund called Ascot gave all $1.8 billion that Merkin hadraised from investors to Bernard Madoff.WakeUpFromYourSlumber

Silobreaker A Luxembourg-based fund run bySwitzerland's biggest bank UBS invested $1.4 billionwith Bernard Madoff, the U.S. fund manager accusedof running a $50 billion fraud, Swiss weekly NZZ amSonntag said on Sunday.UBS declined to comment onthe size of fund, ...The Spoof Tel Aviv - (Sorry Ass Mess): The Israelisecret intelligence service is hopping mad after Off-the-Wall-St trader Bernard Madoff lost 95% of theMossad's pension fund in his $50 billion hedge fundcollapse. How come we didn't see this one coming?"the intelligence (sic) agency's CEO raged today afterbeing told the Madoff Ponzi scam was modeled onMossad's very own 1980s blueprint for bringing downOPEC securities. ... Madoff, 69, is said to have askedfor FBI protection after rumors of irate Israeli spookssending out a posse to 'nail his thieving ass' for thepyramid scheme.

Fortune "Speaking as a Jew on Christmas, I would beless shocked if Santa Claus showed up to my housethan if Bernie Madoff pulled off this fraud alone," saysRon Geffner, a partner at law firm Sadis & Goldbergwho specializes in structuring, organizing andcounseling hedge funds and other investment advisors.Jews stealing from Jews... Zionists...Wikipedia Jacob Ezra Merkin (born 1954) is anAmerican money manager, financier andphilanthropist. He is the Chairman of GMAC and thegeneral partner of Gabriel Capital LP, a $5 billionfamily of hedge funds. He is the son of prominentbanker and philanthropist Hermann Merkin and authorUrsula Merkin, and the brother of writer DaphneMerkin. Merkin manages Ascot Partners LP, a hedgefund which was valued at $1.8 billion prior to thecollapse of Bernard L. Madoff Investment SecuritiesLLC. 1] He is a significant partner in Cerberus CapitalManagement and co-manages securities with StephenFeinberg.

Goldman Sach Board of Directors, accused of fraud by Sen. Carl Levin: Goldman Sachs Directors Executive Officers Management Committee Lloyd C. Blankfein Chairman andChief Executive Officer John H. Bryan Presiding Director Gary D. Cohn President and Chief Operating Officer Claes Dahlbck Stephen Friedman William W. George James A.Johnson Lois D. Juliber Lakshmi N. Mittal James J. Schiro H. Lee Scott, Jr. John F. W. Rogers Secretary to the Board Lloyd C. BlankfeinWMR April 2, 2009 -- Stanford laundered and siphoned money from wealthy Latin Americans to fund anti-leftist rebellions .... An informed source close to the investigation ofSir Allen Stanford's failed Stanford Financial Group and Stanford International Bank has told WMR that there is another link between Stanford's activities and those of jailed Ponziscammer Bernard Madoff. While Madoff defrauded a number of wealthy American Jewish investors, Stanford, according to our source, was doing the same with the investments of anumber of Latin American Jews, especially those from Mexico and Venezuela. ... In some cases, however, Stanford, with the knowledge of the Jewish investors, was laundering



and forwarding their money to groups planning the overthrow of elected progressive leaders such as Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador,Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Argentina, and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. The leaders allegedly threatened the investments of Stanford's Jewish clients in each of the nationstargeted for coups. ... In 2007, Venezuelan police raided the La Hebraica Jewish Community Center in Caracas and searched for weapons and explosives. Earlier, in November2004, the center was raided by police for clues in the car bombing assassination on November 18 of government prosecutor Danilo Anderson. Police suspected that Anderson's killersmay have had help from "foreign groups." .... full storyWMR July 30 -August 1, 2010 -- Bush's ambassador to eastern Caribbean protected Stanford operations ... Mary K. Ourisman, the Texas-born socialite wife of Maryland cardealer Mandy Ourisman, helped provide diplomatic and legal cover for jailed former Stanford International Bank chief Allen Stanford, according to Stanford insiders who spoke toWMR. Mary Ourisman was George W. Bush's ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States, which include Antigua and Barbuda, the headquarters for Stanford's one-time global banking and financial services empire that collapsed in 2009 after it was discovered to be a Ponzi scheme. Stanford is in prison in Texas and has been refused bail as aflight risk -- Stanford is also a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda. He is scheduled to go on trial in January 2011, conveniently two months after the congressional election in November.Stanford's campaign contributions fell into the coffers of congressional members of both Democrats and Republicans. more search terms: Mary Ourisman, Antigua, Barbuda, ponzischeme, campaign contributions, Bush, GOP Laura Bush, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Vincent, Grenadines, Texas, money laundering, Lester Bird, Baldwin Spencer, Debra-Mae Lovell,

Horald Lovell, Hillary Cliton, Charlesworth Shelley, Hewlett & Company, north London office, Stogniew and Associates, Mexia, Anna Nicole Smith. MORE WayneMadsenReportWMR previously reported on Sir Allen Stanford's aviation fleet and its curious links to covert U.S. intelligence operations. American International Group (AIG) is also in the aviationbusiness and its subsidiary, International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), is one of the largest aircraft leasing businesses in the world. ... Last year, ILFC's CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy, a Hungarian emigre who founded ILFC in 1973, attempted to buy back ILFC from AIG. As a $65 million donor to the Smithsonian's Dulles annex, the Smithsonian's NationalAir and Space Museum annex at Dulles International Airport is named for Udvar-Hazy. The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane among other large aircraft, are on display at the annex.Udvar-Hazy, one of the world's richest men, may still get his wish to reacquire ILFC as AIG attempts to come up with much-needed cash. In 2006, Udvar-Hazy was one of themembers of the official U.S. delegation to Hungary that was led by part-Hungarian New York Governor George Pataki to mark the 50th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of thecountry. ... Questions remain as to why a company primarily involved in insurance would have taken over an aircraft leasing business that leases Airbus and Boeing passenger jetliners to airlines, the super wealthy, and Hollywood stars. The answer may be found in AIG's classified files that would put the spotlight on AIG's clandestine work for U.S.intelligence since the company's founding in 1919 in Shanghai as American Asiatic Underwriters by Cornelius Vander Starr, the uncle of President Clinton's chief prosecutor, KennethStarr. In 1992, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg took over majority shares in the company from Starr. ... Greenberg, a close confidante of Henry Kissinger, was once considered byClinton to head up the CIA after James Woolsey's departure in 1995 and Greenberg named Kissinger as chairman of AIG's International Advisory Board. AIG's one-time ViceChairman was Frank G. Wisner, Jr., son of veteran Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and CIA veteran Frank Wisner, a one-time liaison to British agent Kim Philby, who laterturned out to be a top Soviet spy. The senior Wisner allegedly committed suicide in 1965 using his son's shotgun. more search terms: SEC, ILFC, E. J. Daly, Greenpeace, whaling, Amchitka, Alska, World Airways last flight out of Saigon, 1975, operation desert shield, desert storm, rendition, Tower Air, Evergreen International Airlines, Air America, AirAsia, Civil Air Transport, Intermountain Aviation, American International Assurance full story fileWayneMadsenReport March 16, 2009 -- Madoff took fall for New York's richest and most powerful politicians ... A reliable source who is close to both the U.S. Court for theSouthern District of New York and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's Organized Crime Unit tells WMR that Ponzi scammer Bernard Madoff, whowas remanded to prison last week by U.S. Judge Denny Chin, took a "fall" for some of New York's most powerful and wealthiest politicians who were using Madoff's privateinvestment scheme as a "front" to assist in a major real estate redevelopment plan for New York that stood, and still stand, to make the conspirators super-rich. ... Although thefederal prosecutors in the case against Madoff claim the former chairman of NASDAQ and chief of Madoff Investment Securities refused to cooperate in their criminal conspiracyinvestigation of Madoff, the prosecutors have no intention of expanding the case beyond Madoff and possibly some of his family members. ... WMR has been informed by a well-informed New York legal source that Madoff is a second-tier player in a major real estate development plan that used some of the money skimmed off by Madoff's Ponzi scheme tofund some of the real estate development projects . WMR has been told that another second-tier player in the real estate scheme is none other than Madoff's trial judge, Chin. moresearch terms: Tishman Speyer, Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center, Metlife, Chin penthouse reward in Battery Park, destroyed email evidence, all pertains to Cornerstone Project,Grand Central Station, Freedom Tower, Brooklyn Bridge, casinos, entertainment centers, Vegas, Atlantic City, plane crash kills, Revel Hotel, Chin close to Mukasey, and Landlordlobby, West Side Lobby, and Bracewell Giuliani, Patterson Building, Chad Vignola, Giuliani Bloomberg mafia, McGreevey, Spitzer out, Israeli honey trap, Brener, Obama and RahmEmanuel totally involved. full storyWayneMadsenReport The emergence of a connection between Bernard Madoff, the $50 billion Ponzi scheme fraudster and R. Allen Stanford's collapsed $50 billion StanfordFinancial Group may center round the Bank of New York (BONY) Mellon's Pershing LLC, which bills itself as "a leading global provider of clearing and financial servicesoutsourcing solutions to more than 1,100 institutional and retail financial organizations and independent investment advisers who collectively represent more than five million activeinvestors."full story more search terms: Russian-Israeli mafia, Grigory Loutchansky, money transfers, OPERATION SPIDERWEB, FBI-EUROPOL, Russian-Israeli dual citizens,money laundering arrests, Menatep, European Union Bank, Benex connections to Marc Rich, Forest Hills, Grigori Loutchansky, NORDEX, nuclear materials smuggling, SamDombs, Khodorkovsky, Putin Antiqua.WayneMadsenReport March 3, 2009 -- The CIA -- Who is it benefiting? The American people or American corporations? On February 26, 2009, WMR reported on a major date thatmay bear great significance on the collapses, bailouts, and investigations of a number of major international firms tied to CIA covert activities. WMR reported that on May 5, 2006,just three days prior to Dusty Foggo's resignation as the CIA's Executive Director, CIA director Porter Goss resigned. On the same day that Goss resigned, President George W. Bushsigned an order exempting publicly traded companies from accounting and disclosure procedures required under the 1934 Securities Exchange Act for national intelligence reasons.Then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was delegated the authority to exempt companies from compliance with the SEC Securities and Exchange Commission]law. ... What Bush did with one stroke of a pen was to exempt companies like Stanford Financial Group, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, American InternationalGroup (AIG), and other companies linked to U.S., and, in the case of Madoff, Israeli, covert intelligence activities, from normal oversight and regulation by the SEC. The Director ofNational Intelligence (DNI), then John Negroponte, no stranger to the world of subterranean intelligence operations, was empowered to exempt CIA front companies from SECoversight. It is not known whether President Obama's DNI, Dennis Blair, retains this authority, but Congress should start asking about the Bush order and whether it remains in effect.And if the Senate and House Intelligence Committees insist on keeping any discussions about CIA front companies and slush funds behind close doors, the committees responsible forbanking and securities oversight should stand their ground and reject any interference, based on the old canard of "national security," that may be offered up by the two dubiousDemocrats who chair the two intelligence oversight committees. full story more search terms: conflict of interest, Feinstein, Blum, Richard Ellis, Newabridge Capital, Blum Capital,AIG intelligence activities, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Nepal, Mongolia, URS Corporation, EG&G, Carlyle Group, Poppy Bush, American Himalayan Foundation, goldsmuggling, Rep. Sylvestre Reyes, El Paso, Duke, Cunningham, Wilkes, Prescott Bush, Krongard, Banker's Trust, Blackwater, Xe, Marc Rich, Merkin, New York Fifth AvenueSynagogue, CIA links to business, BCCI, Savings and Loan, Iran Contra. WayneMadsenReport No one will ever know just how Charlesworth Shelley Hewlett, who ran CAS Hewlett & Company out of a small office sandwiched between fish and chipsshops on South Bury Road in Enfield in north London, came to be the accountant for Allen Stanford's $50 billion financial empire that included Stanford International Bank (SIB).That is because Mr. Hewlett, known as a quiet gray-haired man to those who had offices in his north London office block, died "peacefully" a few weeks before the Stanford scandalhit the front pages. Hewlett was 73 but no one knows the reason for Hewlett's death. ... CAS Hewlett maintained only four other offices, three in the London area, including one inIlford in Essex, England and another in Antigua, where SIB is headquartered. ... There are definite links between the Stanford scam and that involving Bernard Madoff's $50 billionPonzi scheme. Perhaps the one most striking similarity between the two men is that they used small, virtually unknown accounting firms to handle multi-billion dollar enterprises thatare usually audited by the large international accounting firms like Price Waterhouse Coopers and Ernst and Young. Madoff used Friehling & Horowitz, a small three-person firm inNew City, New York, while Stanford used Hewlett with four offices of one to two rooms in the London area with no signs of regular employees. WMR has been informed by aknowledgeable source that Hewlett's rented offices had a desk, a filing cabinet, and a telephone. None of the telephones had answering machines. Neighboring office workers noticedan individual entering and exiting Hewlett's offices about once a week. full storyHowever, the financial scandal is also a political scandal. Starting in this decade Madoff's giving became radically one directional. In the 1990's he gave to whoever was local, and topeople who regulated the securities industry. Locally, Alphonse D'Amato and Jerrold Nadler were both on his contributions list. But in this decade, he and his youngest son Andrewbegan lavishing money on the Democratic Party. In all Bernard gave $128,000 to Democrats as a donor, but $100,000 of that came in the last three years to the Democratic SenatorialCampaign Committee. His wife Ruth gave heavily to Hillary Clinton and HILLPAC, their sons gave as well. The recipients? Back in 1999 they were backers of Bill Bradley, butover the long term, the tight cluster of giving was to Ed Markey, Chuck Schumer, and Ron Wyden. Frank Lautenberg got political contributions, and put his and his charity's moneywith them. That's a clear conflict of interest.Jewish Journal Madoff is a trustee of the Yeshiva University and a long-time philanthropist in Jewish circles. ... According to Yeshiva University, "Bernard L. Madoff, a member ofthe University's Board of Trustees since 1996, was elected chairman of the Board of Directors of Sy Syms School of Business in 2000. Mr. Madoff is chairman of Bernard L. MadoffInvestment Securities, one of the nation's largest third-market dealers in New York Stock Exchange and over-the-counter securities. A benefactor of the University, Mr. Madoffrecently made a major gift to the Sy Syms School."



WMR Feb 09, February 27-March 1, 2009 -- Stanford's Latin American operations linked to U.S."counter-narcotics" efforts ... Although it stands accused of laundering money fornarco-interests in countries like Panama, Colombia, and Mexico, the Stanford Financial Group of "Sir" R. Allen Stanford is being linked by investigators to the world of U.S.government covert and overt counter-narcotics programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. WMR has learned from a knowledgeable source that FAA records point to a Stanford& Associates, Inc. address at 1329 Alum Springs Road #101 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The address is listed for Stanford's Learjet (N60CE), which was exported to Germany in2001. The same address was used for HS 125-700A (N81QV), exported to the Cayman Islands in 2000, Cessna 650 (N1239L), exported to Germany in 2000, Another Stanford &Associates address is at 1661 N. Swan Road, Suite 200-6, Tucson, Arizona for a Learjet (N613SA), exported to Germany in 2000. more search terms: Gulf Stream G-IV, N2SA,N3SA, N1SA, N4SA, Abby Construction, Hawker 800XP, N14SA, N10SA, Fredericksburg, Laura Pendergest-Holt arrested, AV Craft, Zenithe Aviation, Alum Springs, Robert F.Stanford, Heather Hills, Bryan Stoelker, Andrea Stoelker, Oceaneering International, Inc. Judge Mark Fuller, Senator Richard Shelby, Iceland 'special missions', Peruvian Air Force,Bowers, Cessna, Aviation Development Corporation, Maxwell AFB, Viva International, River Hawk Aviaiton, SEC, Eastern Caribbean Airlines Corp, Stanford Aviation, The patternis familiar to one informed source who contacted WMR. The source stated: "the CIA continues to created these false front aviation/parts corporations, infuses some governmentmoney to get them up and running, then sells them to another government- created entity and the CIA shaves off the excess cash." The pattern is similar to the CIA shell companiesused to mask the agency's extraordinary rendition program that relied on chartered aircraft. full storyWhat Does It Mean Russian Intelligence Analysts are stating today that US Military and Police Forces loyal to President-Elect Obama have staged the largest takedown in Americanhistory of a foreign Nations spy service operating within its borders. ... According to these reports, New York financier Bernard Madoff pictured top left] was the target of ObamaForces as he is believed to have masterminded the financing of Israels vast espionage operations in the United States since the 1960s. ... Mr. Madoff, who holds duel citizenship inboth the United States and Israel, was apprehended this past week while attempting to flee the United States and move billions of Mossad funds out of New York, and which wasthwarted by US District Court Judge Louis Stanton who said the order he issued appeared necessary to prevent Madoff or an agent from moving funds out of the court's jurisdictionand to "preserve the status quo" for whatever may come from future proceedings. ... These reports further state that the powerful US Attorney, and Obama ally, Patrick Fitzgeraldwas behind the takedown of Madoff and his Mossad backers who Fitzgerald has been investigation since the 2005 arrest of Pentagon Official Lawrence Franklin, and who wascharged with passing American Military secrets to the powerful American-Jewish Lobby AIPAC which is known to be one of Mossads most powerful front organizations operatingin the US. Rense Sources say that most of his and his clients wealth were gained through issuing subprime mortgages to unqualified borrowers and then tranching the mortgages into CDOs andcirculating the CDOs among US pension funds including GM, GE, IBM and Califorina's State pension fund. Some of the wealth was also gotten through investments in Vegashousing sub divisions and Miami condo projects at the height of the real estate bubble. ... Finally, sources say that the wealth from Madeoff's scam has been fully transfered to Israeland that "most if not all of the clients have been made aware" that their money is available to them in Israel and that it was felt that this was a necessary measure in protecting certainhigh level clients in the face of a collapse of the USA. ... A European bank executive has said early this morning that the Banks involved in Madeoff's fund were exposed throughloads and leveraging and that these loans will be repaid in full from Israel. net comment: Former President Bill Clinton laid out a list of big-ticket donors to his foundation Thursday that is heavy with foreign governments and business interests sure to have astake in the policies that Hillary Rodham Clinton carries out as secretary of state. Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments gave at least $46m, while corporate donors includedBlackwater. The contributions went to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit created by the former president to finance his library in Little Rock, Ark., and charitable effortsto reduce poverty and treat AIDS. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave $10m to $25m to the foundation, and other government donors included Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei,Oman, Italy and Jamaica. The Dutch national lottery gave $5m to $10m. The Blackwater Training Center donated $10k to $25k."Jewish Americans are the most powerful and influential ethnic group in America. Jewish Americans make up 2 percent of the U.S. population yet comprise 40 percent of U.S.billionaires. 18% of Jewish households have a net worth of $1 million or more. More than 55% of all Jewish Adults received a college degree and 25% earned a graduate degree. Morethan 60% of all employed Jews are in one of the three highest status job categories: professional or technical (41%), management and executive (13%) and business and finance (7%).Over 45% of large gifts made to charity are made by Jewish Americans. Over 50% of Jewish Americans live in just four states: New York, New Jersey, Florida and California. JewishBillionaires: Lawrence Ellison, Sheldon Adelson, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer, Carl Icahn, Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, Samuel Newhouse, JewishMedia Executives: Rupert Murdoch .... Robert A. Iger, CEO of the Walt Disney Company; Philippe P. Dauman, CEO of Viacom; Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC Universal; David Westin,President of ABC News; Donald Graham, CEO of the Washington Post; Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor-In-Chief of U.S.News & World Report; Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr, Publisher ofThe New York Times; Mel Karmazin, CEO of SIRIUS Satellite Radio; Joanne Lipman, Editor-In-chief of Cond Nast Portfolio; Jann Wenner, Publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine;Jewish Investment Bankers: Richard S. Fuld, Jr., CEO of Lehman Brothers; Lloyd C. Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs; Charles R. Schwab, Founder of the Charles SchwabCorporation; Prof. Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel; Bob Zoellick, President of the World Bank; Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve; Alan D. Schwartz,CEO of Bear Stearns; Bruce Wasserstein, CEO of Lazard LLC; Dr. Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank; Jean Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank; JamesDimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Blake Grossman, CEO of Barclays Global InvestorsWMR Jan 5 Today is third anniversary of Ariel Sharon's stroke. Very convenient stroke after he sold Israel's Bank Leumi to Ezra Merkin, Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme partner-in-crime, and head of "Ariel" Fund Ltd. Sharon's stroke is as convenient as CIA director William Casey's on the eve of his testimony on Iran-contra (another scandal involving Israel). JTA Edwin Black: Why is the Fed giving Merkin $5 billion? By Jacob Berkman December 30, 2008 JTA contributor Edwin Black brings up a legitimate question on Cutting EdgeNews: Shouldnt the Fed have some reservations about handing General Motors Acceptance Corp. $5 billion to turn itself into a bank, when its chairman just lost a couple of billion byrecklessly investing his own hedge fund solely in Bernard Madoffs Ponzi scheme? The Fed, as part of its financial bail out of the auto industry gave GMAC that and another $1billion from the Treasury department just before Christmas, despite that its chairman, J. Ezra Merkin lost some $1.8 billion after investing all of the assets of his Ascot Partners hedgefund in Madoff and dragging down with him scores of Jewish philanthropists and Jewish nonprofits by getting them to invest their money with him. Wikipedia On December 11, 2008, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Bernard Madoff on a tip-off from his sons, Andrew and Mark, and charged him with one count ofsecurities fraud. On the day prior to his arrest, Madoff told his senior executives at the firm that the management and advisory segment of the business was "basically, a giant Ponzischeme." 2] ... Madoff's funds depended in part on so-called "feeder funds" that funneled investor deposits directly to Madoff. Merkin's Ascot Partners was one such feeder fund,directing "substantially all" of its assets to Madoff. 3] Merkin became embroiled in controversy when Ascot Partners investors were told of the connection in a letter faxed to them onDecember 11th. 3] Many of them were not aware or told of the connection to Madoff, and in at least one case, Merkin denied any connection to Madoff when asked by an investor.4] ... In an official letter distributed to Alumni, Students, Faculty, and Administration, Yeshiva University President Richard Joel stated that Merkin, who was Chairman of theUniversity Investment Committee, managing its endowment of almost $1.985 billion (as of about 2 years ago), had invested about 200 million dollars in his own Hedge Fund, AscotPartners, which was almost solely invested with the Bernard Madoff fund. As such, Merkin apparently earned large management fees for his Ascot Fund with the money of aUniversity on whose Board of Trustees he sat. Although Joel implicitly acknowledged that the University's charter lacked a conflict of interest restriction on the management of schoolfunds, Merkin resigned from all of his positions at Yeshiva that day. ... According to the New York Post, members of the New York-based Fifth Avenue Synagogue, for whichMerkin served as president, "suffered a $2 billion bloodbath" as a result of the alleged fraud. 5]Madoff, search terms: from Time article Harry Markopolos, the man who knew too much about Bernie Madoff, appeared in public on Wednesday, and this time the Securities andExchange Commission (SEC) was listening. ... In front of the House Financial Services Committee hearing, the former investment manager told how his nine years of repeatedwarnings to SEC enforcement officials went ignored and how they dismissed his detailed "red flag" reports. Markopolos also told the committee that tomorrow he will be turning overevidence to the SEC of another major Ponzi scheme, a $1 billion "mini-Madoff." It's expected that the SEC will pay closer attention to him this time. (Read "Bernie Madoff's Victims:Why Some Have No Recourse.") search terms: whistleblower, testimony, complex, sinister, hearing room, Paul E. Kanjorski, chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets,Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, The hearing was the committee's second in a series to help guide the most substantial rewrite of the laws governing the U.S.financial markets since the Great Depression. Ultimately, Markopolos asked the committee to "restructure" the SEC, calling it "nonfunctional" and "harmful to our nation's reputationas a financial leader." ... feared for his safety, "investigative ineptitude" and "financial illiteracy." Rampart Investment Management in Boston, With the sober, academic look of anaccountant, the former investment manager for(he is currently an independent certified fraud examiner) detailed Madoff's phony split-strike conversion strategies and oddly"unsophisticated portfolio management." Markopolos said Madoff's "math never made sense" and his "return stream never resembled any known financial instrument or strategy."Markopolos said Madoff was earning 82% of the S&P 500's return with less than 22% of the risk, but his returns only had a 6% correlation when Markopolos expected "somethinglike a 50%" correlation, Chicago Board Options Exchange, But the biggest tip-off of a fraud was that Madoff reported his fund was down only three months out of 87, whereras theS&P 500 was down 28 months during the same period, split strike conversion strategy, the equivalent of Major League Baseball player batting .966 and no one suspecting a cheat.,Madoff's greatest talent, the witness indicated, was his use of a "hook" or lure to play "hard to get" and the false security of exclusivity, a hallmark of a Ponzi scheme, Mike Garrity,At that point, Markopolos decided to go to the press. He told the committee he went to a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, John Wilke, but the editors never approved aninvestigative piece, so things went back to the SEC's Cheung, and there it stopped. "It is a sickening thought," but if the SEC or the Wall Street Journal "would have picked up thephone and spent one hour contacting the leads" provided, Markopolos said, Madoff would have been stopped in 2006, and "untold billions" would have been saved. Markopolos saidhe never went to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a nongovernmental regulator that oversees 5,000 brokerages, out of fear for his safety: "Bernie Madoff waschairman of their predecessor organization and his brother Peter was former vice chairman." Those links to Madoff, he felt, could have exposed him to harm, especially since a lot offeeder fund money "was coming from Russia and South America." FINRA was created in July 2007 through the consolidation of NASD and the member regulation, enforcement andarbitration functions of the New York Stock Exchange. The former chairman of FINRA, Mary Schapiro, is now the new head of the SEC, selected by President Obama and approvedby the Senate Banking Committee last month more



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Fairfield Sentry (Fairfield Greenwich Group) (Madoff feeder fund) alternatives firm$7.5 billion firm FIM Ltd. (Kingate funds manager) money manager $3.5 billion media reports Grupo Santander bank $3.5 billion El Pais Rye Investment Management (Tremont Group) (Madoff feeder fund) hedge fund $3.1billion Bloomerg News Kingate Management (Madoff feeder fund) alternatives firm $2.8 billion Bloomerg Bank Medici of Austria bank $2.1 billion Bloomberg Ascot Partners (Madoff feeder fund) hedge fund $1.8 billion Wall Street Journal Access International Advisors hedge fund $1.4 billion Bloomberg Fortis Bank Nederland bank $1.35 billion firm HSBC bank $1 billion firm J.P. Jeanneret Associates investment adviser $946 million Syracuse Post-Standard Benbassat & Cie bank $935 million Le Temps Union Bancaire Privee bank $846 million Le Temps Natixis bank $600 million Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland bank $600 million published reports Sterling Equities investment firm $500 million New York Post BNP Paribas bank $475.3 million Bloomberg BBVA bank $404 million Reuters Fix Asset Management alternatives firm $400 million firm Carl and Ruth Shapiro individuals $400 million WSJ RMF (Man Group) alternatives firm $360 million firm Reichmuth Matterhorn bank $330 million Bloomberg Normal Holdings . $302 million StreetInsider.com Pioneer Alternative Investments alternatives firm $280 million Bloomberg Maxam Capital Management (Madoff feeder fund) fund of hedge funds $280 millionWSJ EIM Group bank $230 million Le Temps Rennert, Ira individual $200 million FINalternatives Bank Austria bank $192.1 million Der Standard Tremont Capital Management (Tremont Group) fund of hedge funds $190 millionfirm M&B Capital Partners money manager $187.9 million El Mundo Fisher, Jerome (Nine West founder) individual $150 million media reports Shapiro Family Foundation, Carl and Ruth, charity $145 million Boston Globe Yeshiva University university endowment $140 million Bloomberg Aozora Bank bank $137 million firm AXA insurer less than $135 million Reuters Credit Mutuel bank $124 million Bloomberg Dexia bank $106.9 million firm UniCredit financial firm $100 million Bloomberg Hadassah charity $90 million JTA Unione di Banche Italiane bank $84.9 million Bloomberg Nordea bank $65 million Reuters Hyposwiss bank $50 million Reuters Korea Life Insurance Co. insurer $50 million Yonhap News Banque Benedict Hentsch bank $47.5 million firm Royal Dutch Shell pension $45 million Reuters Great Eastern Holdings bank $43.9 million Reuters Town of Fairfield, Conn. pension fund $42 million Associated Press Royal Bank of Canada bank $40.4 million Globe and Mail Wolosoff Foundation charity $38 million FINalternatives Bramdean Asset Management alternatives firm $31 million WSJ family of Sarah Chew family office $30 million Time Zuckerman, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Charitable Remainder Trust (New York DailyNews owner's charity) charity $30 million CNBC Meyer, Arthur I. and Sydelle F. Meyer Charitable Foundation charity $29.2 millionPalm Beach Post Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. insurer $22 million Bloomberg Madoff Family Foundation charity $19 million WSJ Los Angeles Jewish Community Foundation charity $18 million Jewish Journal KSM Capital Advisors investment firm $15 million Indianapolis Business Journal The Phoenix Holdings insurer $15 million firm Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services insurer $14.2 million firm Koplowitz, Alicia individual $13.7 million Europa Press Groupama insurer $13.6 million firm Societe General financial institution less than $13.5 million Reuters Baloise insurer $13 million Reuters Lautenberg Family Foundation charity $12.8 million media reports Kas Bank bank $12.3 million firm Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management pension $12 millionReuters Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group financial institution $11 million Bloomberg Spring, Richard individual $11 million WSJ Hampshire County Council pension $10.7 million IPE

Irwin Kellner (named plaintiff on first lawsuit against Madoff) individual $6 millionlawsuit Julian J. Levitt Foundation charity $6 million WSJ Stony Brook University Foundation university endowment $5.4 million Bloomberg Berger, David individual $5 million FINalternatives Maimonides School (Boston) school $5 million Bloomberg Neue Privat Bank bank $5 million Bloomberg North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System pension fund $5 million Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (New York) synagogue $3.5 million Bloomberg Dorset County Pension Fund pension $3.5 million LocalGov.co.uk Caja Madrid bank $3.1 million Cinco Das Merseyside Pension Fund pension $3 million media reports New York Law School law school $3 million lawsuit Peskin, Roger Peskin individual $3 million AP Swiss Reinsurance Co. reinsurer less than $3 million firm Global Specialised Opportunities 1 Bermuda-listed fund $2.8 million fund Banca March bank $2.7 million Cinco Das Aquila Capital Select 3 Zertifikat fund of hedge funds $2.52 million fund American Friends of Yad Sarah charity $1.5 million JTA Caisse des dpts et consignations government-owned bank $1.38 million Chew, Robert and Sarah, individual $1.2 million Time SAR Academy (New York) school $1.2 million Bloomberg News Roitenberg, Harold individual $1 million Minneapolis Star-Tribune Arnold and Joan Sinkin individuals $1 million The Guardian Abbott, Steven individual less than $1 million WSJ Allegretto Fund hedge fund $790,000 firm Clal Insurance insurer $778,800 firm Mediobanca bank $671,000 firm Allianz Global Investors bank Citywire Austin Capital Management fund of hedge funds Reuters AWD financial services provider Citywire Bacon, Kevin and Kyra Sedgwick (actors) individuals New York magazine Banco Popolare bank MarketWatch Banesto bank Reuters Blumenfeld, Ed (Long Island real estate developer) individual Long Island BusinessNews Norman Braman (former Philadelphia Eagles owner) individual WSJ Chair Family Foundation charity FINalternatives Engelbardt family family office Variety Erste Bank bank Der Standard Fair Food Foundation charity Crain's Detroit Business Feinstein, Leonard (Bed Bath & Beyond co-founder) individual Newark Star-Ledger Fine, Stephen individual Reuters Flood, Barbara individual National Public Radio Foundation for Humanity (Elie Wiesel's charity) charity WSJ Goldberg, Avram and Carol, (Stop n Shop founders) individuals Reuters Greenberg, Joyce Z. individuals Houston Chronicle Gutmann bank Citywire Hillcrest Country Club members, (St. Paul, Minn.) individuals Star-Tribune INTAC Global Preservation Hedge Portfolio (via Rye Investment Management) fundof hedge funds fund documents JEHT Foundation charity Henry Kaufman (former chief economist at Salomon Brothers individual WSJ KBC bank firm Knowsley MBC pension LocalGov.co.uk Last Atlantis Capital Managament fund of hedge funds fund documents Levy-Church, Kenneth and Jeanne (donors to Fair Food and JEHT foundations)individuals Jewish Journal Litwin, Leonard individual Bloomberg Liverpool City Council pension LocalGov.co.uk LLBW bank Citywire Loeb family family office CNBC Mirabaud & Cie bank Le Temps The Moriah Fund charity FINalternatives MorseLife charity Palm Beach Post Nomura bank WSJ Notz, Stucki & Cie bank Le Temps Oak Ridge Country Club members, (Hopkins, Minn.) individuals Star-Tribune Optimal Investment Services (Grupo Santander) alternatives firm Palm Beach Country Club CNBC Roth, Eric (screenwriter) individual Los Angeles Times St. Helens MBC pension LocalGov.co.uk Sefton MBC pension LocalGov.co.uk SNL Reaal Groep financial services firm Bloomberg Spitzer, family of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer individuals Clusterstock.com Symphony Fund (via Pioneer Alternative Investments) fund of hedge funds fund Thema (Madoff feeder fund) hedge fund media reports



RAB Capital hedge fund $10 million Reuters Roth, Richard individual $10 million FINalternatives United Jewish Endowment Fund charity less than $10 million JTA Korea Teachers Pension pension $9.1 million Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation charity $8 million Washington Post Michael Roth individual $7.5 million FIN alternatives Chais Family Foundation charity $7 million WSJ Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles charity $6.4 million media reports Technion-Israel Institute of Technology university $6.4 million GlobesVincent Tchenguiz individual $6.3 million FINalternatives The Ramaz School school $6 million FINalternatives

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WMR June 1-2, 2008 -- UPDATED 1X --George Soros and controlling the message from the LeftMulti-billionaire funder of "progressive"causes, George Soros, likes the message from the progressive Left, as long as he can control it. WMR has recently discovered that anumber of journalists funded by Soros have practiced a form of journalism that can only be described as smothering stories to ensure theydo not extend beyond that which is deemed permissible by Soros and his globalist-oriented denizens. ... What irks Soros and his bought-and-paid for journalists in the mainstream and "alternative" media is WMR's relentless investigation of the Russian-Israeli-neocon criminalsyndicate and its pervasiveness in many of the political scandals in the United States and abroad. Whether it is the attacks of 9/11, thestolen U.S. presidential election of 2004, the dirty money surrounding jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the financial strings that danglefrom John McCain to the Rothschilds and the hedge funds contrivances, the downfall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the politicalprosecution of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, or the profiteering from the Iraq war and occupation, the Russian-Israel mob syndicateappears over and over again. .... Soros' hired journalist guns were apparently quite incensed over WMR's reportage on a fundraiser held inLondon for John McCain by Lord Jacob and Nathaniel Rothschild. WMR cited the fundraiser as a violation of U.S. election laws. TheRothschilds were not happy with the spotlight and neither was Soros and his affiliates, all of whom provide a convenient nexus betweensome so-called "progressives" and the meeting rooms of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Davos crowd, and the Bilderbergorganization. Soros has been a director of the CFR. Small world. ... What Soros has managed to accomplish is permit the progressive Lefta lot of wiggle room, as long as it does not target his favorite international financial constructs, including the Rothschild family interestsand the cause of the Russian oligarchic tycoons, who after looting the Soviet and Russian Treasuries, now plan for the overthrow of theRussian government from comfortable exile in Britain, Israel, Ukraine, and the United States. The exiled Russian oligarchs haveestablished an "iron alliance" with the neo-cons in Washington and New York, as well as Soros' Open Society Foundation and Institute, tohelp Eastern European and Central Asian former Communist countries to transform themselves into "democracies." In reality, what Sorosand his friends have accomplished is to transform nations like Poland, the Czech Republic, the Baltic states, Georgia, Ukraine, and othersinto vassal states of NATO, the World Bank, and predatory vultures like the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the billionaire investors in theCarlyle Group, and subservient politicians ranging from Tony Blair and John Major to the Bushes, Nicolas Sarkozy, Stephen Harper, andAngela Merkel. In fact, Soros is an investor in the Carlyle Group. Small world. more search terms: perception management, themedrevolution, Orange Revolution, Rose Revolution, Tulip, Kyrgyzstan, NATO, hosting military bases, privitazation of public highways,bridges, water, toll roads, speculators, money laundering, Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamed, wiped billions from their economy, The riseof Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, the Kirchners in Argentina, Morales in Bolivia, Correa in Ecuador, Lugo in Paraguay and other progressiveleftists was in reaction to the vulture capitalism practiced on the continent by Soros and his gang of global bankers and billionairespeculators. Soros funded: Center for American Progress, MoveOn.org, America Coming Together, McKinney, Gravel not invited ... Harken Energy (partly owned by Soros) bought Spectrum 7, Salem Bin Laden early investor in Arbusto Energy (Bush). International CrisisGroup, interfering in domestic affairs, Kosovo; Islamabad; Belgrade, Sarajevo; Pretoria; Nairobi; Kabul; Osh; and Tbilisi

There is one person who owes his business survival to Soros. In 1986, after George W. Bush's oil company Spectrum 7 went belly-up,Harken Energy bought it. Harken was partly owned by Soros. An earlier investor in Spectrum 7's predecessor, Arbusto Energy, was SalemBin Laden, older brother of Osama Bin Laden. Small world.

The globalists used contrivances like the International Crisis Group (ICG) to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries. The ICGmaintains offices in Pristina, the capital of breakaway Serbian province Kosovo; Islamabad; Belgrade, Sarajevo; Pretoria; Nairobi; Kabul;Osh; and Tbilisi -- either the ICG is present in these cities to end unrest or promote it. Among the board members of the ICG are neoconextraordinaire Kenneth Adelman; Bill Clinton's deep pocketed donor Frank Giustra of Canada; and Hillary Clinton's favorite generalWesley Clark. Also on the board is George Soros. Small world. UPDATE 1: Right on cue, Soros-funded MoveOn.org said on May 31 thatformer Bush White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan should donate all proceeds from his tell-all book to veterans of the Afghanistanand Iraq wars. MoveOn.org does not say anything about General Wesley Clark donating his book proceeds to the victims of his deadlybombardment of Belgrade. McClellan will never be quite as taken care of by Soros' pals as has been Clark. Just another example of Soroscontrolling the message.



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WayneMadsenReportDecember 18, 2008 -- UPDATE 1X. Clearstream scandal to return to haunt Sarkozy publication date: Dec 18, 2008 Previous | Next

December 18, 2008 -- UPDATE 1X. Clearstream scandal to return to haunt Sarkozy

WMR has learned from informed sources that French President Nicolas Sarkozy will soon face renewed charges that he received illegal foreign funds through the Lumxemourg banking companyClearstream. Luxembourg is a well-known tax haven that maintains strict confidentiality over banking and corporate records.

Then-French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin met with the recently-retired head of French military intelligence Philippe Rondot and EADS deputy director Jean Louis Gergorin. Gergorintold de Villepin that two names on the secret list of French politicians who had Clearstream accounts -- Paul de Nagy and Stphane Bosca -- were pseudonyms for Sarkozy. It was believed byFrench intelligence that the names came from Sarkoy's father's full name, Nicolas Paul Stphane Sarksy de Nagy-Bosca.

Clearstream reportedly represented a massive money laundering operation that financed political and other operations around the world. Banks and companies with Clearstream accounts includedthe Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), Bank Menatep of jailed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Banco Ambrosiano (also known as the Vatican Bank), BahrainInternational Bank (with reported links to Osama Bin Laden), and The Carlyle Group.

Sarkozy was Interior and, for a short time, Finance Minister in the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) government in which De Villepin served as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister.

Sarkozy's camp denounced the Clearstream list as a forgery and, as President, Sarkozy has put de Villepin under a criminal investigation. However, WMR has learned from sources close to France'sGeneral Directorate for External Security (DGSE) that Sarkozy's removal of Pierre Brochand,a Jacques Chirac appointee, as the head of DGSE in October will soon have unpleasant consequencesfor the mercurial Sarkozy.

DGSE classified documents could soon appear that will re-ignite the Clearstream affair and prove that Sarkozy's political career was financed by foreign funds. The revelations will reportedlyexonerate de Villepin and Chirac, who have been charged by pro-Sarkozy elements in France of a criminal conspiracy to defame Sarkozy.

Sarkozy and his neocon allies were able to kill the story of Clearstream by lawsuits against journalists and criminal charges against French officials who were aware of the details of the case. AnExcel spreadsheet of Clearstream accounts was removed from several web sites under threat of legal action. WMR obtained a copy of the 2002 spreadsheet.

The release of classified information on Clearstream may have repercussions far beyond France and shed light on an international quadrillion dollar scheme involving Israeli-connected gangsters toline the pockets of billionaires, launder cash, defraud banks, and loot national treasuries.

On February 5, 2008, WMR reported: "In the wake of the recent reports about former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds' revelations that Turkish, Israeli, and Pakistani operatives worked with topmembers of the Bush administration to smuggle nuclear technology and also engaged in money laundering and drug smuggling, comes the astrounding revelations about the French bank SocieteGenerale SA and three other banks being involved in laundering money from a Paris garment district through Israel.

The revelations about SoGen follow the massive swindle by SoGen junior trading partner Jerome Kerviel that resulted in a $7.3 billion loss for the bank. Kerviel, who has been likened by some inFrance to the French Jewish Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus in the infamous "Dreyfus Affair," stands accused of falsification, computer abuse, and breach of trust.

SoGen, Barclays France, Societe Marseillaises de Credit (owned by HSBC), and the National Bank of Pakistan are accused of laundering money in what is known as the "Sentier 2 Affair." TheSentier district of Paris is a center for garment merchants. SoGen chairman Daniel Bouton, still reeling from the Kerviel fraud, is charged with failing to uphold anti-money laundering laws in thecase. He is charged along with six French rabbis, and 132 other people in the money laundering scheme that 72 million euros was laundered from France via Israel from 1996 to 2001. FraudulentFrench checks were cashed in Israeli banks and exchanged for New Israeli Shekels (NIS), and then returned to France via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications(SWIFT) for clearance by the French banks. Israeli banks that handled the transactions received a commission for each transaction. However, no Israeli banks have been charged in the scandal . . .

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been unusually quiet on the Kerviel and Sentier 2 financial scandals. He likely wants no attention paid to the possible links between Kerviel, Sentier 2, and hisown scandal that almost derailed his presidential candidacy: Clearstream.

On February 6, 2007, WMR reported: 'right-wing French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy received money from international American fugitive and Russian-Israeli Mafia kingpin Marc Rich,according to informed French sources. The money was transmitted through the Luxembourg-based Clearstream clearing division of Deutsche Borse. Sarkozy cleverly proclaimed his innocence inthe French-Taiwan frigate bribery and money laundering affair, accusing French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of being behind a political dirty trick. However, in squawking loudly abouthis innocence in the Taiwan scandal, Sarkozy diverted attention away from his receipt of funds from the Russian-Israeli Mafia Clearstream accounts of Bank Menatep, the bank owned by jailed



Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Sarkozy, a committed neo-con who favors a hard line towards Arabs domestically and internationally, is reported to have received funds from Switzerland-based Marc Rich, via Menatep'sClearstream accounts, prior to and after Menatep's collapse in 1998. Menatep has been linked to a number of Russian-Israeli mafiosi figures, including Semyon Mogilevich, considered to be themost dangerous Russian-Israeli Mafia leader in the world. Rich's former attorney, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, is on trial in Washington, DC for perjury and obstruction of justice in the outing of acovert CIA officer.'

President Clinton pardoned Rich in a last minute deal worked out in January 2001, shortly before Clinton left office.

On January 30, Russian police arrested Mogilevich in Moscow and charged him with tax evasion. Mogilevich holds Russian as well as Israeli citizenship. In 2003, the US Justice Departmentindicted Mogilevich in Philadelphia and charged him and two associates with stock manipulation of the Pennsylvania firm YBM Magnex."

YBM Magnex was incorporated in Canada. The sizeable investments in the phony YBM Magnex by Canadian investment manager Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd. resulted in a loss of investorconfidence in the financial services firm and the departure of its top fund manager Allan Jacobs in 2007.

President-elect Barack Obama's selection of Clinton Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder as Attorney General will shine a new light on the Rich pardon. Holder approved the last-minute pardonfor Rich in the waning days of the Clinton administration in January 2001.

Recently, the Canadian Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) reported on a foreign spy operation in Canada that used a series of "folding tent" and brass platecorporations, as well as banks, to move move money and buy restricted commodities out of Canada. Canadian Tory and neocon quarters suggested that China, Iran, or Russia was the foreign spyagency cited by FINTRAC. There is strong evidence to suggest that the perpetrator was Israel's Mossad.

The FINTRAC investigation was part of a joint operation with U.S. authorities. The illegal transactions involved some $35 million, according to FINTRAC. In October, Israeli hacker EhudTenenbaum was arrested in Canada for the electronic theft of $1.8 million from a Calgary's Direct Cash Management Inc. Tenenbaum was arrested on a U.S. warrant for being involved in aninternational hacking ring that electronically looted money from banks in Russia, Turkey, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, and other countries.

In 1998, Tenenbaum, code-named "The Analyzer," broke into Pentagon computers. As part of his sentence, Tenenbaum was ordered to help "Israeli organizations" to protect themselves againstcyber-attacks. Many informed computer security experts believe Tenenbaum went to work for Mossad.

Canada suspects that "white label" automatic teller machines (ATMs), privately-owned cash dispensing machines, are being used by the Russian-Israeli Mafia to engage in massive global moneylaundering. Tenenbaum and his associates withdrew money from credit and debit card accounts, to which money was illegally transferred, from ATM machines in Montreal and other cities.

In a scheme reminiscent of Bernard Madoff's $50 billion phony hedge fund Ponzi scheme run through his Madoff Securities in Manhattan, in September 2007, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP) charged the founders of the bankrupt Portus Alternative Asset Management hedge fund with fraud. The two charged, Boaz Manor and Michael Mendelson, defrauded 26,000 Canadiansand 700 foreign investors in Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bermuda, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, England, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Cyprus, the Isle of Jersey, and the United States of hundredsof millions of dollars. Some of the money was used by the pair to buy diamonds. Manor fled Canada to Israel in March 2005 and denied any wrongdoing.

If the DGSE begins leaking documents on the massive underground world of illegal money movements, Sarkozy could find himself facing a criminal trial.

On May 11, 2006, WMR reported: " . . . the recent attacks on de Villepin from the neo-cons are said to have more to do with his opposition to any attack on Iran than on Luxembourg moneytranches. European intelligence sources report that the attacks on DeVillepin (and Chirac) and the recent tirade against Russian President Vladimir Putin by Vice President Cheney, are all part of acoordinated attack against European leaders who oppose military action against Iran. With the loss of Italy, the neo-cons are trying to establish new bridgeheads in France and Russia. What hasparticularly piqued the neo-con anger with deVillepin is this recent quote from the French Prime Minister concerning an attack on Iran, 'My conviction is that military action is certainly not thesolution . . . We have already lived through this type of scenario and we know that not only does it settle nothing, but it can raise risks. We have seen this in the most clear way with Iraq.' The neo-cons are using Clearstream and their man Sarkozy to hammer deVillepin as a way of clearing the path for Sarkozy to become the next French President. Neither deVillepin, Chirac, or the Frenchintelligence services, all aware of Sarkozy's connections to the neo-cons, want to see the Interior Minister move into the Elysee Palace and steer France into the neo-con camp. DeVillepin isrefusing to resign because he holds the trump card on Sarkozy and his friends, which include members of the neo-Nazi French National Front. Chirac recently said there are legitimate reasons toinvestigate Clearstream and lashed out at the neo-cons and their fellow travelers who are trying to sink the investigation of Sarkozy. Chirac said, 'Democracy is not the disrespect and exploitation tooutrageous lengths of legal procedures under way.'"

UPDATE 1X. WMR has learned that the reported Chinese and Russian connections to the recent CSIS report that a foreign intelligence agency was illegally moving money electronically out ofCanada is because Israeli intelligence operatives bought Russian and Chinese "off-the-shelf" companies to hide the Israeli connection to the caper. The operation, according to a well-placed WMRsource, involves Canada's mining industry, particularly gold mining.

Pro-Israel Lobby in US Under Attack and see UPI (conservative news, Sun Myung Moon) "Professor John Mearsheimer of the Universityof Chicago, author of "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" and Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard's Kenney School, and author of "Taming AmericanPower: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy," are leading figures American in academic life. and Harvard , "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The article, which is already stirring furious debate in US academic and intellectual circles, also explores the historical role of the Lobby.

WASHINGTON - (UPI) - Two of America's top scholars have published a searing attack on the role and power of Washington's pro-Israel lobby in a British journal, warning that its "decisive" rolein fomenting the Iraq war is now being repeated with the threat of action against Iran. And they say that the Lobby is so strong that they doubt their article would be accepted in any U.S.-basedpublication.

Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, author of "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" and Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard's Kenney School, and author of "TamingAmerican Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy," are leading figures American in academic life.

They claim that the Israel lobby has distorted American policy and operates against American interests, that it has organized the funneling of more than $140 billion dollars to Israel and "has astranglehold" on the U.S. Congress, and its ability to raise large campaign funds gives its vast influence over Republican and Democratic administrations, while its role in Washington think tanks onthe Middle East dominates the policy debate.

And they say that the Lobby works ruthlessly to suppress questioning of its role, to blacken its critics and to crush serious debate about the wisdom of supporting Israel in U.S. public life.

"Silencing skeptics by organizing blacklists and boycotts -- or by suggesting that critics are anti-Semites -- violates the principle of open debate on which democracy depends," Walt andMearsheimer write.

"The inability of Congress to conduct a genuine debate on these important issues paralyses the entire process of democratic deliberation. Israel's backers should be free to make their case and to



challenge those who disagree with them, but efforts to stifle debate by intimidation must be roundly condemned," they add, in the 12,800-word article published in the latest issue of The LondonReview of Books.

The article focuses strongly on the role of the "neo-conservatives" within the Bush administration in driving the decision to launch the war on Iraq.

"The main driving force behind the war was a small band of neo-conservatives, many with ties to the Likud," Mearsheimer and Walt argue." Given the neo-conservatives' devotion to Israel, theirobsession with Iraq, and their influence in the Bush administration, it isn't surprising that many Americans suspected that the war was designed to further Israeli interests."

"The neo-conservatives had been determined to topple Saddam even before Bush became president. They caused a stir early in 1998 by publishing two open letters to Clinton, calling for Saddam'sremoval from power. The signatories, many of whom had close ties to pro-Israel groups like JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs) or WINEP (Washington Institute for NearEastern Policy), and who included Elliot Abrams, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Bernard Lewis, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, had little trouble persuading theClinton administration to adopt the general goal of ousting Saddam. But they were unable to sell a war to achieve that objective. They were no more able to generate enthusiasm for invading Iraq inthe early months of the Bush administration. They needed help to achieve their aim. That help arrived with 9/11. Specifically, the events of that day led Bush and Cheney to reverse course andbecome strong proponents of a preventive war," Walt and Mearsheimer write.

The article, which is already stirring furious debate in U.S. academic and intellectual circles, also explores the historical role of the Lobby.

"For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centerpiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel," the article says.

"The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread 'democracy' throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized not only U.S. securitybut that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the U.S. been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order toadvance the interests of another state?" Professors Walt and Mearsheimer add.

"The thrust of U.S. policy in the region derives almost entirely from domestic politics, and especially the activities of the 'Israel Lobby'. Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreignpolicy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. interests and those of the other country - inthis case, Israel -- are essentially identical," they add.

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