@catturd2 This falls solely on the shoulders of politicians from both parties. They have betrayed every working American for decades. The middle claws was sold by both Democrats and Republicans. Every day Americans cans continue to pay the price.
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
The real question is why have we not been enforcing a totally reasonable law that has been on the books for nearly 150 years.
We have always had the tools to maintain the integrity of our country. Politicians made choices not to do so.
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AOC: "WE JUST NEED TO HURT WORKING AMERICANS MORE"
She just said the quiet part out loud
"The lesson that they're learning is that Democrats are WEAK... and that next time we just need to hurt working people and working Americans MORE to get them to fold"
This is:
Sidney Katherine Powell, who filed four lawsuits against the overthrow of the United States government on Nov. 3, 2020.
VINDICATED,
🚨🚨 FBI Director Kash Patel has turned over to Congress an intelligence report confirming that the Chinese Communist Party produced “a large amount” of fraudulent U.S. driver’s licenses and fraudulent ballots—using data collected from millions of TikTok accounts—that allowed “tens of thousands of Chinese students, illegal aliens and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for an incapacitated vegetable despite not being eligible to vote in the United States,” effectively overthrowing the United States government.
Information about the plot was circulated in a Sept. 25, 2020, FBI Intelligence Information Report (IIR) – one day after Christopher Wray testified to Congress that the bureau was unaware of any “coordinated national voter fraud effort” – and recalled minutes after it was issued.
“Based on conversations with key individuals involved, it was conveyed that the recall of the IIR was abnormal,” FBI Assistant Director Marshall Yates wrote in a June 27 letter to Grassley.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley: “Ahead of a high-stakes election happening amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned its back on its national security mission.
Chris Wray’s FBI wasn’t looking out for the American people – it was looking to save its own image.”
This is:
@SidneyPowell1 “We know that there were hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots imported into the country from China. We have video coming across the border from Mexico.
Additionally, ballots were shipped from New York to Pennsylvania. Counterfeit ballots were stashed in certain states and shipped wherever they were needed to ‘backfill’.
“You’d have to be a damn fool—and abjectly stupid—not to see what happened here.”
Sidney Katherine Powell was an Assistant United States Attorney in three judicial districts under 9 United States Attorneys from both political parties. She represented the United States in 350 criminal appeals, and represented private parties in another 150, all resulting in more than 180 published decisions. She was the youngest Assistant U.S. Attorney when she began practicing. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and the past president of the Bar Association for the Fifth Federal Circuit and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
Exposing corruption within one of the most powerful and corrupt law enforcement agencies on the planet—the U.S. Department of Justice.
‘Licensed to Lie’ is a book she prayed she would never have to write.
📝there you have it 81,000,000 crimes: