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@CLVcreator @jayjazz3 Holy shit you must be some type of genius to deduce that!

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@Apolitical3678 Most people know the scheme and don’t care because at the end of the day they donate a % to veterans and hire ~50% veterans. Thats all it takes, just a little sign of appreciation is all that it takes for people to decide to not drink a different equally shitty K cup coffee.

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@JamesKratch The team and fbi denied that the fbi raided the bears facilities which is most likely true but they never commented on his house, it was his personal attorney claimed that the fbi didn’t raid his house.

[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

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@Catchdisblock @Breesoverrated “Had” and saying he was split out wide like it wasn’t a trick play lmao tom Brady and Nick foles been split out too but ain’t nobody gonna call them a mobile qb

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@Tiffitos_Way Took me 30 seconds to get the all22 and for all the comments hating on you for this take it’s clear Fannin did absolutely nothing to help his qb in this spot

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@ufhelicopters @LOBig12 Good on him for remembering Miami exists this week! Another voter also moved Miss St up 5 spots and moved Pitt back in the poll this week despite their results. Much bigger problems than thinking ole miss is better than Florida.

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

I think I found why Miami didn’t move up at all and is still at #7.

AP voter Brian Fonseca has the Canes unranked in this week’s ballot.

He had them #6 last week and likely just forgot to include them.

The omission kept Miami at #7. If they were included in that ballot and received the additional points, they would’ve been #6 ahead of Oregon in the AP Top 25.

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@PabloTorre I’m confused as to why an investigation that should be involving the organization and executives involved in this deceit is being focused on guest speakers and 20 year olds who’s agent told him to show up to an event.

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@wherethegothgfs @cantstop00000 @countto1011 The Jumbotron pictures are literally from in the Michigan stadium no shit they had someone in the stadium 🤣

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@QB1469814 @austin3pierce @MikeMonaco_ Learn to read nobody ever said they were on the field at the same time.

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He can’t be stopped!! This is before practice! Are you kidding me @JuiceCheck44 🧃

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@byneilmehta @noslouch @sabrod123 And I’m sure there are mislabeled liberal podcasts and maybe the list is behind the paywall, but in 2026 “conservative” could mean anything

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@byneilmehta @noslouch @sabrod123 The only thing that would make this relevant would be a list of what are considered conservative / liberal podcasts. Many podcasts that are not political podcasts have been branded as conservative media when in reality most of the time it’s just average American conversations.

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@rain_lula_blue @MachinaGin86464 @hilarym99 @Jamesinclair You don’t belong in teaching.

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@rain_lula_blue @MachinaGin86464 @hilarym99 @Jamesinclair What is contracted time in a salary position?

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Just got a 10 second unskippable ad when I opened Letterboxd

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@FFBirdGang @himmyjohnsxn Lucky they kept giving it to him? That’s his role

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Jim Cramer bought Parker Washington stock NOOOOOO