 The High Life
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ABC News: Accused Financier Under Federal Drug Investigation — This story is much better than Madoff’s. Madoff just gave everyone the finger and holed up on Park Avenue. This just gets more interesting by the day.
According to officials, checks found inside the plane were believed to be connected to the Gulf cartel, reputed to be Mexico’s most violent gang. Authorities say Stanford could potentially face criminal charges of money laundering and bribery of foreign officials.
Authorities say the SEC action against Stanford Tuesday may have complicated the federal drug investigation.
The federal investigation, however, did not stop Stanford from using corporate money to become a big man at last year’s Democratic convention in Denver.
A video posted on the firm’s web-site shows Stanford, now sought by U.S. Marshals, being hugged by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and praised by former President Bill Clinton for helping to finance a convention-related forum and party put on by the National Democratic Institute.
Yes, how could I resist the Pelosi dig? That said, can we find a picture of her with this character?
Got schadenfreude? I am in Houston and have been following this. I feel sorry for the middle-class Venezuelans who were burned, but the fact is most of the suckers are Americans who moved their money offshore in order to avoid US federal income taxes. You know, tax dodgers.
The poor dears. They sent their money to a foreign country to avoid paying US taxes and they expect US taxpayers and US regulators to help make their accounts whole again? That ain’t the way it works! (cue violin music)
“Yes, how could I resist the Pelosi dig? That said, can we find a picture of her with this character?”
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From Here – with video
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6907429&page=1
Pelosi about to hug Stanford
This is a still from a Stanford Group video. See the complete video here. The hug and kiss are about two thirds of the way into the video.
So we see the sorts of people Pelosi hangs out with…associations of this sort show just how sordid and corrupt she is, didn’t her staff check him out?, So she’s probably financed with drug money….what, she’s a Democrat? Sorry, let’s see what the approved response is…hold on…ah, here we go! “These sorts of photo-ops are common, no one can know everyone, there’s no evidence she knew anything, and she’ll give any money she got from him to the Save the Puppies Campaign.
Ok, the story is now over….let’s get back to whether Bush is 100% or only 99% responsible for the depression, and how racist the Republicans are because they oppose Obama.
#1 Funny you mention that. Yes, there are middle class venezuelans with money in there (they have offices in here), but a lot of government newly rich have money in there. Unlike other places, the venezuelan government itself said the money in the bank is guaranteed. What a surprise position for an anti”imperialist”, anti “Evil Yankee” government, don’t you think?
Now, add that to the drug connection and what do you have?
I love the Dem connection to it all. it makes for a full circle of crooked Dems., drug lords & venezuelan thugs.
There is no way that Peelosi could be involved, she’s a Democrat. How do I know? Research, because there is no way the mainstream media would report what she is.
Funny how the mainstream media leaves out what party they are if it is a Democrat. Just proves how partisan they really are.
I think I found part of the $50,000,000,000.
http://tinyurl.com/c2pv42
As for Stanford he’s probably in Dubai along with all the other crooks.
Why has this sleazebag got a title?(Sir)…
Oh well, was given to him by a nobody…probably bought it
#8 You think?
Sheesh. More rot from the past.
This is nearly as bad as Donald Rumsfeld hugging Saddam Hussein a week after he gassed 50,000 innocent people. Sad indeed.
#8 Only had a chance to look at the key figures briefly, but James Carlisle isn’t a somebody. (Not that I am before you get the wrong idea)
He attended two mid-low level colleges in England, became a dentist and is Governer of a country with a pop. of 85,000 or so.
It’s like a politician from N.I. granting a knighthood to Donald Trump..
Seems more likely to me that Stanford liked the “brit” connection and bought the title to impress.
Also, he is Patron of local British Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme….My old teacher held that title…….
Maybe i’m wrong, but sounds plausble.
What aboot you Pedro?
Deisel…what is this mainstream media you refer to? Do you really mean everybody other than right-wing TV and blogs?
Then just say so.
I think there should be a full scale AG investigation of the Speaker & Dem leadership and whether drug money made it into their campaigns. If so, Obama should ask for their resignations. That is if it is really going to be different in D.C.
#11 It is a known fact that you can buy royal titles from many a “Monarchy”, among them the Spanish & British. So paying a someone in an island, that Standford practically owns, to be knighted is fairly easy.
At the time the bank was starting operations in venezuela, there were strong ties (no lost) between many British politicians (Red Ken Livingstone being the most prominent)and the current democratic dictatorship in venezuela.
Many an Injun down south eats crap whenever they see a title, so it is fairly possible to have acquired such title to help lure new robbers ….er rich that long to be acknowledged and know really nothing about the financial & international political world outside their lefty world.
As stated by this guy http://tinyurl.com/2nohy5 : “You’ll be astonished how other people can be so attentive and will bend over backwards to serve you – if they are serving you as a Lord, Lady, Baron or other such noble title.”
Here’s some digging I’ve been doing.
-Stanford bank started operations in venezuela in 2005, even though strong rumors of bank nationalizations were being started. In fact, in one way or another, many a bank went to government or government official’s hands. In fact, the Banco Santander owned Banco de Venezuela’s nationalization was thwarted last december due to oil price decline.
- It is stimated that $8 billion in assets from Stanford bank come from venezuelan deposits.
- The head of the venezuelan National Bank Supervising just said that there’s nothing wrong with Stanford’s venezuelan operation. This guy used to be the head of the agency in charge of foreign currency assignment (nobody can freely exchange currency in venezuela). Coincidence?
To get this info from another source, go here http://tinyurl.com/by7aey
On a scale of 1 to 10, the political party he donated to is a (yawn) 1. But, JCD’s hard-on for Pelosi is expected.
Want to get more obscure? Stanford is/was a kingpin in the world of cricket. They love calling him “Sir”.
The essential point – if most of you don’t mind wandering back to facts instead of tawdry 2-party politics – is this is one more case where the SEC hasn’t been accomplishing anything more than a circle jerk.
They were constituted as an oversight body after the crooks who brought us the Great Depression cut and ran with their bucks. The good old boy network in both sleazy parties got real serious about changing that – since 1984 and the contract on America crowd took over all of DC. Not just Congress.
Clicked to fast. To have an idea of how much a title will set you back, go here http://tinyurl.com/qck8
For example “Titles for sale include: Sir, Lord, Lady, Baron, Baroness, Count, Earl, Countess, Viscount, Viscountess, Marquess, Marchioness, among others. Effective titles can cost as little as $325, when purchased singularly, and $499 for couples seeking joint titles.”
#13 I don’t think Democraps could be as sleaze as Repugblicans. Just see Buris, he just got a momentary lapse of memory about that fundraiser for the guy who sent him to be a Senator.
Could someone explain how the IRS could put a lien on a bank account of someone who owes them $5000 dollars but is totally clueless when a scumbag like this makes off with $10 billion?
#13 OBoB
I forgot to specify which, ABC, NBC, CBS and AP. The only time you see which party they are affiliated consistently is on Foxnews. Now everyone can slam me (and anyone else) for watching them but no one with any integrity can honestly say that they don’t put up people from both sides. If you do say that they don’t you haven’t got a clue and regurgitate what you hear from other people.
#18, Rick,
It’s not who you know, it’s who you blow. And the Bush White House let everyone blow their wad on what ever the hell they liked.
Maybe the votes weren’t there, but the Congress should have impeached Bush when they had the chance.