The tag 'Money Laundering' is associated with 104 posts.

Strange Fruit: Colombia, A [Chiquita] Banana Republic

Chiq­uita Banana com­plicit with right and left wing para­mil­i­taries, drug smug­glers and death squads. Were they smug­gling and/or laun­der­ing money for the traffickers?

The Strange Case of Kim Schmitz aka “Kim Dotcom”: Cyber Agent Provacateur for the Corporations, Underground Reich?

A hero to the free down­load Inter­net crowd, Kim Schmitz (“Dot­com”) appears to be an oper­a­tive of the 1% ers. Is he asso­ci­ated with the Bor­mann cap­i­tal network?

FTR #740 Update on the Meltdown Part 6: The Wachovia File

Wachovia deeply involved with laun­der­ing money for Sinaloa car­tel; firm’s exec­u­tives com­plicit with cover-up; World’s major finan­cial insti­tu­tions depen­dent on drug car­tels for liq­uid­ity? Drug smug­glers may have bailed out those insti­tu­tions fol­low­ing crash of ’08.

A Bit of Good News Amidst the Horror . . .

Obama’s Jus­tice Depart­ment attack­ing inter­na­tional money-laundering net­work dat­ing back to 1953. That’s when the Bor­mann netowrk and government-connected drug-smuggling gangs were ramp­ing up operations.

Yen Soars in Value Relative to the Dollar–Potentially Very Troubling

Japan­ese domes­tic demand for yen caus­ing huge rip­ples in the “yen carry trade”–an inter­na­tional cur­rency spec­u­la­tion gam­bit that is one of the major ele­ments in the shadow bank­ing system.

The Sky’s the . . . er . . . Limit!

Bro­ker Can­tor Fitzger­ald now tak­ing enor­mous sport­ing bets. Involved in strange trades shortly before 9/11 attacks, is Can­tor Fitzger­ald using the sports bet­ting oper­a­tion to laun­der money?

Prison “Suicide” in Switzerland of Financial Whistle-Blower

Com­ment: The man who pur­loined bank records that revealed that Ger­man nation­als were using for­eign bank accounts to avoid pay­ing taxes has allegedly “com­mit­ted sui­cide” in a Swiss prison. How con­ve­nient. One can but won­der who might ben­e­fit from this. “Sus­pect in Swiss Tax Data Sale to Ger­many Found Dead in Sus­pected Sui­cide” by Carolyn [...]

Vatican Bank Being Investigated for Money Laundering

Com­ment: For many years, we’ve looked at the Vat­i­can Bank–the IOR (Insti­tute for Reli­gious Works.) Long a vehi­cle for the financ­ing of fas­cism and crim­i­nal under­tak­ings, the insti­tu­tion has FINALLY come under inves­ti­ga­tion for money laun­der­ing. (The Vat­i­can Bank was dis­cussed at length in AFA #18.) “Vat­i­can Bank ‘Inves­ti­gated over Money Laun­der­ing”; BBC News; 9/21/2010. [...]

Family of Secrets

The Bush Dynasty, the Pow­er­ful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influ­ence Means for America

FTR #703 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker: Catching Up with the “Herd Shot ‘Round the World”

Infil­tra­tion point for the 9/11 hijack­ers, the Venice Air­port has a his­tory of involve­ment with wrong­do­ing and wrong­do­ers; Ponzi schemes the least heinous of their activ­i­ties; the deep his­tory of that facil­ity over­laps the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy.