Dawn Klein

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@honestpollster I’m sure the Wright Brothers, Edison, and other inventors, had similar critics.

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@nicksortor @KatieZacharia 👏👏👏👏👏

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

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

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

Everybody stop and watch this.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, a legal immigrant, successful actor, and former California Governor, just left The View STUNNED.

They attempted to get him to condemn ICE raids and what did he do?

He credited America for his success, promoted legal immigration, and called out violent criminal aliens.

Absolute masterclass:

“I'm so proud and happy that I was embraced by the American people like that. Imagine I came over here with absolutely nothing, and then to create a career like that. In no other country in the world could you do that. Every single thing is because of America.”

“The key thing is that we got to do things legal. Those people that are doing illegal things in America, and they're the foreigners, they are not smart. When you come to America, you're a guest and you have to behave like a guest.”

“You have a responsibility as an immigrant to give back to America and to pay back to America and to go and do something for your community.”

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@AAnon55 Thank you! 😊

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@AAnon55 I made this today, with super intelligence. What do you think?

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@SaltyGoat17 I remember when they couldn’t use bad words on tv or radio, nudity wasn’t allowed (rarely even suggested!), violence was minimal, and all kids’ shows and movies promoted good health, education, and good morals and values.

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@LynnMarie6k @AAnon55 Nope.

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@SaltyGoat17 We don’t know what he’s doing. But I trust him.

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@MarioNawfal You’re so stupid now. What happened? You lost your patriotism?

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@RepThomasMassie As per usual, you think Americans are stupid. We know more than you think.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

Remember that time when Hillary Clinton introduced her friend George Soros and his interest to get involved in US elections?

The Internet sure doesn't.

Why?

Because it has been wiped from existence for the most part. 

SHARE EVERYWHERE 🐸🍿

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.

Starlink is a commercial service owned and controlled by SpaceX. Usage of Starlink is limited to civilian or defensive activities and cannot be used for offensive military action, as doing so would be inappropriate for a commercial company.

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@MarioNawfal Cool reflection shot

[Barry Cunningham @barrycunningham]

Kids these days have zero fear of consequences because they know nothing will happen, unlike when parents used to wield a weeping willow. Maybe it's time we bring back the 'feeling it' approach?

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@AAnon55 @CharlesGKerns Carry on anon…you can’t change them. 😊

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@SaltyGoat17 Yep!!!

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@goddek @grok Lmao…I get a kick out of these threads. Y’all can’t find something on Trump, so you make up stuff, lie, assume, and continue the nonsensical rhetoric, in case someone might actually believe you. If there were anything there, the Dems would have fought tooth and nail for it.

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@ThrillaRilla369 My kids? The phone would go in the trash.

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@MJTruthUltra Prayers and great tidings to you!!! God bless!!

[Dawn Klein @DawnKlein_]

@SaltyGoat17 The best is yet to come 😊