Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.
The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.
I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.
I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.
Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.
Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.
Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.
A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.
This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.
There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.
Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.
I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.
This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.
Three things would change the math overnight.
Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.
End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.
Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.
I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.
Respectfully,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
My daughter goes to UGA out of state...I live in TN. She got the max scholarship money possible which I believe was $10,000. The state only budgets that amount per oos student max. She received a lot more scholarship money from other schools but her dream school was UGA. I made her apply to UF to see if she would get in and she did...so that made me feel good (I'm a Gator fan). I was proud of her for getting accepted by UGA as well obviously. It is not easy from oos. She made a 34 on ACT and 4.6 GPA just for reference.
I am ENRAGED over this!
Food stamps by ethnicity:
Afghan - 45.6%
Somali - 42.4%
Iraqi - 34.8%
Haitian - 23.3%
Democrats fund illegals lives in hopes that they ILLEGALLY vote.
Is this your American dream?
Because it sure as hell isn't mine.
You fucking morons better pay attention. These Muslim & Socialist Assholes aren't running for office because they want to help you!! They're running for office because they want to destroy you and the entire fucking country!!
Allowing tens of millions of illegal criminal aliens across our southern border and citizens being murdered is treason.
Sending hundreds of billions overseas while American citizens are working 2-3 jobs just to live paycheck to paycheck is treason.
Spying on Presidential campaigns and coordinating with foreign countries is treason.
Silencing medical professionals that were opposed to mRNA vaccines is treason.
Banning a sitting President from social media over a coordinated and staged “insurrection” is treason.
Allowing Antifa and BLM to riot across our nation in 2020 while businesses were demolished is treason.
Start calling all of this for what it is.
There. I just said what everyone has been thinking.
I am in disbelief that a single Senator can wield this much power to obstruct a duly elected President and his administration.
One Senator, elevated to a leadership position that voters nationwide never elected him to, is holding hostage the agenda of a President elected by more than 77 million Americans.
How did we ever allow this much power to rest in the hands of one person?
You’re being robbed blind with taxes.
Your money is being sent overseas and they continue to print money.
Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci are still walking free.
Literally no accountability is taking place.
We once were a proper country and tar and feathered politicians.
I wonder if our GOP Senators know how much the American people despise them for going on vacation when we needed them the most?
I don’t think they care.
I want the return of Normalcy. I want the removal of all George Floyd statues. I want the release and acquittal of Derek Chauvin. I want Michael Byrd to be prosecuted for the murder of Ashli Babbitt. I want all statues returned for former American heroes who should never have been penalized for living in a different time. I want to end the foolishness about reparations. I want the removal of men from women’s sports permanently. I want to end cashless bail. I want the power once again restored to the brave men and women who police our streets.
I want the Soros family put on the terrorist watch list with a ban from having anything to do with the United States. I want all Soros judges, DAs, and anyone he sponsored in Govt positions to be immediately removed with new elections held immediately to fill their positions. I want an end to all DEI for good.
I want biological boys and girls to have their own bathrooms to become law. I want a reset for our education system followed by the firing of every liberal anti-American teacher, who politicize their position rather than teaching our kids. I want the return of education beneficial for our kids future.
I want our borders closed forever. I want every illegal removed and deported from our country. I want all of our medication made in the USA not in China. I want an end to inflation. I want made in America prioritized. I want an end to all mandates. I want to feel safe to walk down our streets again. I want stop and frisk reinstated. I want to remove cashless bail. I want criminals to be prosecuted to the fullest.
I want my bills especially insurance prices to go down. I want the removal of propaganda TV and the restoration of the truth on our news networks. I want the end of child mutilation and child trafficking. I want our country to take care of Americans first. I want the return of the American Dream. I want all liberal leaders who refuse to pursue law and order to be removed for negligence of duty. I want all Americans to feel safe in their neighborhoods regardless of where they live. I want the removal of all cartels and drugs pouring into our country. I want the removal of all illegals. I want to end free government handouts to All non Americans. I want an end to this Muslim uprising
I want the return of kids playing baseball, football, basketball, riding their bikes on the streets without the fear of someone hurting them or stealing them. I want kids to not be afraid of failure, not to be afraid to play even if they get bumps, scrapes or bruises. I want the end of all racism stirred up by Obama and the Dems for political gain. I want the return of Unity. The return of Religion. The return of God in your life. I want the return of the Pledge of Allegiance to return to the classrooms.
I want to restore love thy Country. Love thy neighbor. I want people to know it’s OK to help those in need. I want the return of love and respect. I want America and Americans always first.
I guess what I’m asking for is the return of the America we all remember, we all grew up on. I want our children and their children to have what we had and it all starts with love of our Country.
The United States is greatest place on the planet, bar none. It all starts with getting behind our leader, Donald J Trump. You see, this is a man who wants the same things, and this is a man who delivers on all promises. It all starts with Faith. I have Faith in Trump and I have Faith he will bring back our America while Making America Great Again. He has fought for us and it is up to us to fight for him. We got this. We are MAGA. Nothing is impossible. Nothing is stronger than American might and American resolve. I love you all. God Bless. In God We Trust. In Trump We Persevere. My two cents
Note to Alan Ritchson:
I am MAGA.
I voted for President Trump.
And I gave you 18 hours and 17 minutes of my life watching "Reacher."
And another 1h 47m watching "War Machine."
So how fucking DARE you come at me and people like me simply for existing and voting?
Where do you get off wishing that I would wake up in a pool of my own teeth and blood?
Who are you to lecture me, when all you are is a piece of shit actor?
You built your career on playing the tough, quiet guy who protects the weak and punches the powerful.
Then the second you got a platform, you turned around and started wishing violence on half the country because they cast a ballot you didn’t like.
You don’t get to cash MAGA checks and then spit on them.
You don’t get to play the righteous hero on screen while acting like a petty, hateful villain in real life.
We conservatives supported your shows.
We gave you our time.
And this is how you repay the people who actually showed up for your work?
Dood, you’re not better than us.
You’re just louder and MORE HATEFUL.
🖕YOU.
I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same.
I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life--so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone.
You can't justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!
• If a man pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
• It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.
• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
• Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.
• And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!
Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.
We are clearly living in an upside down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.
Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, and is sinking fast. The choice is yours to make. What will it be? Time is short, make your choice wisely!
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Time for our government to wake up you either work with and for America or get the hell out .. we're tired of paying taxes and you incredibly selfish people don't give a damn for the people you work for... you should all be ashamed of yourself !!!!
Here’s the piece everyone keeps forgetting. Forget about all the bullshit Fauci put everyone through. Forget about the masks, the 6 foot separations. Forget about being locked down like a prisoner. Forget about all the lies Fauci kept portraying as millions died
We can even forget about the wet market or Covid being transmitted from a bat. Forget all of that. Why?
Because it was Fauci creating the disease in the Wuhan lab, it was Fauci who let the virus escape into China in the first place. Everything else was was a coverup, which turned into creating this fictional superstar. Was China in on it from the beginning? Was this planned to take down our United States at the cost of losing millions around the world? Or was it just negligence from a stupid little man who thinks he’s the smartest man in the room. A man if you dig deep enough is part of the biggest mistakes in medical history.
This is a man who took poor innocent Beagles, cut out their voice boxes so they couldn’t bark, while he tortured these poor animals in what this little leprechaun called science. Anthony Fauci is the first person in history to politicize science.
If there was no Fauci, there is no lab leak, there is no Corona virus, there are no mail in ballots, and there is no Joe Biden and that scam Obama’s 3rd term.
Now remember where Trump was at before all of this manufactured bullshit hit. People forget despite over half if DC against him, the United States economy was not only thriving but at a record pace. Unemployment at record lows. No wars just a robust America.
Not only did Fauci personally end all of that, he became partners with the Democrat party and became a VIP member to all of the media.
The man responsible for the death of millions was now under protection of the Democrat party, and would be catapulted into stardom all in their efforts to end their kryptonite and take back what they desperately coveted. The power.
Without Fauci’s negligence or conspired plot with China to release this virus, nothing that followed would ever happen.
The man killed millions, made it worse by making up things along the way and the Democrats bought it all hook line and sinker. They were going to use this little man to take back our country away from the man responsible for reviving it. They didn’t care everything out of Fauci’s mouth was bullshit. They saw this man as their ticket to take back the Oval Office by rigging an election through paper ballots.
What started as a lab leak, changed the world forever. The man responsible for that leak should’ve been burned on the cross for his actions but you can thank the Democrats for giving him his star power so they finally end Trump and continue on with the demise of our country. No lives matter when you stand in the way of Democrat power and fortune. As for control? Covid gave them back all of their control and they made sure the media would keep it that way.
Now they have no more use of Fauci and they left the guy responsible for handing the Dems the Presidency, out to dry as this defeated murderer no longer has their help, is now forced to sit there shake and weakly plead the 5th for all the crimes and pain he’s caused. For this man hell couldn’t come fast enough. Now it’s time to finish off the little leprechaun because there are no more lucky 4 leaf clovers left for him. My two cents
This Senate … Republicans and Democrats, will NOT pass a bill that 80% of the country agrees on.
We will never in our lifetimes find an 80+% approval across party lines.
And yet the Senate refuses to secure our elections.
I can draw only one conclusion …
Every single Democrat and 15 Republicans have been elected through a rigged election.
That’s all I can come up with.
If I were in Congress, the 3 most important pieces of legislation I would champion are:
1) End birthright citizenship & limit it to children of American citizens
2) The SAVE America Act to require photo ID & documentary proof of citizenship
3) Codify that the Census should ONLY include American citizens — neither illegal aliens nor legal non-citizens should count in the apportionment of House seats