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Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Some of my tweets from Jan 1, 2020 to Jan 8, 2020




Saturday, March 3, 2018

Some tweets of mine from Feb 26 - Mar 2













































Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Spanish senorita Tania Head aka Alicia Esteve Head


The spin on this story about the Spanish woman Tania Head aka Alicia Esteve Head is all about making it look like the woman was the only one to blame for not only conning people around her, vulnerable folks who had lost loved ones, but also conning major government officers.  The blame for accepting her story as gospel truth lies with not only the journalists who never bothered to ask her "fiance's" last name nor did they check on why she told some folks she had lost her "husband" and some others that it was a "fiance" who died on 9/11.  Moreover, isn't it amazing that nobody from any of the offices of any of the three biggies of New York State - Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, cared to check into her background but took her at face value.  This is how gullible government officers are and with the right kind of incentives (bribes) or the right kind of Oscar-winning acting by conmen/women, these idiots can be completely taken in. 
 

It is all the more appalling that such people can be so easily fooled.  Imagine how much damage can be done by those
who are intentionally getting close to such decision makers in the government and spinning some tall tales that the law-makers swallow hook, line and sinker.  


Think about it folks, take this con by this lone woman of some of New York State's top officers and then ask yourself:  If these politicians who are deemed to be capable and savvy enough to be placed in such high offices, if they could be so easily fooled, what other areas of deception are they under now at present or have been in the past, areas which are not yet divulged as "deception" areas? Rudy Giuliani for sure was not only a fool where the Spanish woman is concerned, he was tricked into removing all
evidence of 9/11 post haste.  What a deplorable state of affairs the Empire is going through!  Death will be a relief for it and  to the rest of the world.



Matt Young at AustraliaNews
Tania Head: The ultimate betrayal of 9/11

ON THE morning of September 11 2001, Tania Head was in the south tower of the World Trade Centre, on the 78th floor, where the second plane hit.

She saw the plane so close, she could feel the air being sucked out of her lungs.

When the plane plunged into the 78th floor, by some miracle she survived the impact, but her body was burning from the explosion of flames, her right arm severed, hanging by a thread. She was thrown across the room and passed out.

Waking up, she crawled through the carnage. Her life on the line, she was handed a wedding ring by a man who would never make it down. He asked her to take it and give it to his wife.

Eventually, she spotted a man in a red bandanna, Welles Crowther, who would later become a hero of the 9/11 attacks, giving up his life to lead 12 others to safety. He stretched out his hand and helped her to safety, only to disappear back into the plume of smoke.



She made it down the 78 flights of stairs just in time. When the Towers collapsed around her, she was thrown under a rig.

Six days later, she woke up in a hospital burns unit, a Jane Doe, only to later discover her husband, Dave, had been killed in the north tower.

It was a tale of devastation, of loss, but of ultimate survival.....

Friday, July 24, 2015

Extremely Shameful! National Children's Leukemia Foundation scandal


Between the years of 2009-2013, while operating out of his Brooklyn basement, the founder paid himself  $600,000  and another $600,000 in deferred compensation PLUS he reportedly sent 5% of remaining funds to his sister in Israel for "research purposes".
 
If you go to YouTube and search for National Children's Leukemia Foundation,    there are several vids showing well known names advocating for the charity.  Of course, some of  the powers-that-be (YouTube/Google) are bound to remove them soon for whatever stupid reason.

Below is one of the videos.  Millions of  folks gave generously to this fraudulent foundation,they gave their  money and their time,  only to be jaded from now on with charity foundations because of the fear that absolute scum might be lurking in such places and  are looking to make money for themselves.
 


From HuffingtonPost
Children's Leukemia Foundation Guilty Of $9.7 Million Fraud:   N.Y. Attorney General
The charity allegedly spent less than 1 percent of donations on patients.

The New York-based National Children's Leukemia Foundation made many promises to its donors over the years: it would use funds to conduct cancer research, locate bone marrow donors, and run a “Make a Dream Come True” program to help kids with cancer fulfill their bucket list.

Donors were evidently moved and impressed by the organization’s appeals for help. Between 2009 and 2013, $9.7 million was generously donated to the foundation.

It’s emerged this week, however, that this money may have been raised fraudulently. According to New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, the NCLF was basically “a one-man operation, run by founder Zvi Shor, 64, out of the basement of his Brooklyn home.” The organization allegedly kept almost none of its promises, knowingly misled donors and misused most of the funds it collected.



 

In a petition filed with the Kings County Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Monday, Schneiderman's office wrote that less than $58,000 (less than 1 percent) of the $9.7 million raised by the NCLF actually went to providing assistance to leukemia patients. More than 80 percent of the money is said to have gone to funding telemarketing and direct-mail fund-raising campaigns.

Of the remaining funds, about five percent was allegedly transferred to a shell organization in Israel run by Shor’s sister, purportedly for research purposes. Between 2009 and 2013, Shor is also said to have paid himself a salary of almost $600,000 and another $600,000 in deferred compensation.......

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Corrupt politicians


Corrupt politicians are like cockroaches.  Here are two smelly ones that have been brought kicking and screaming from the slimy gutters they dwell in, into the glare of sunlight.   One is a Democrat the other is a Republican.  

From NYDailyNews:
Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress, days after pleading guilty to tax evasion: sources 
EXCLUSIVE: The Staten Island Republican, who won reelection in the fall despite a pending federal case, has decided to vacate his seat, after speaking with Rep. John Boehner. He pleaded guilty to a tax evasion charge in federal court last week....
Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress in the wake of his guilty plea on a felony tax evasion charge, sources told the Daily News Monday night....

.... Before his plea, Grimm had been scheduled to go on trial Feb. 2 on charges of evading taxes by hiding more than $1 million in receipts and wages at Healthalicious, a Manhattan restaurant he owned before he was elected to Congress in 2010.....

 From NYTimes:
U.S. Said to Investigate Sheldon Silver, New York Assembly Speaker, Over Payments

Federal authorities are investigating substantial payments made to the State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, by a small law firm that seeks real estate tax reductions for commercial and residential properties in New York City, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Prosecutors from the United States attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have found that the law firm, Goldberg & Iryami, P.C., has paid Mr. Silver the sums over roughly a decade, but that he did not list that income on his annual financial disclosure forms, as required, the people said.....

.....Mr. Jacob, in a 2009 letter to East River shareholders, noted that the city had raised the development’s assessment to $28 million, and that its tax certiorari lawyer “was very successful in reducing what could have been a $3,000,000 increase to a $750,000 increase” in taxes.....

Saturday, November 8, 2014

The case of the conscientious Canadian woman and the JPMorgan Chase mammoth


The article below is worth reading in its entirety to get a glimpse, just a tiny little glimpse, of how corrupt to the core the American banking establishment has become and how politicians who are equally corrupt are keeping the banksters above water.  But for how long?
UPDATED:  Vid added

Matt Taibbi writing at RollingStone:
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare

Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking

She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn't take it anymore. 

"It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street," she says. "I thought, 'I can't sit by any longer.'" 

Fleischmann is a tall, thin, quick-witted securities lawyer in her late thirties, with long blond hair, pale-blue eyes and an infectious sense of humor that has survived some very tough times. She's had to struggle to find work despite some striking skills and qualifications, a common symptom of a not-so-common condition called being a whistle-blower.


Fleischmann is the central witness in one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history, possessing secrets that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon late last year paid $9 billion (not $13 billion as regularly reported – more on that later) to keep the public from hearing.

Back in 2006, as a deal manager at the gigantic bank, Fleischmann first witnessed, then tried to stop, what she describes as "massive criminal securities fraud" in the bank's mortgage operations.

Thanks to a confidentiality agreement, she's kept her mouth shut since then. "My closest family and friends don't know what I've been living with," she says. "Even my brother will only find out for the first time when he sees this interview." 

Six years after the crisis that cratered the global economy, it's not exactly news that the country's biggest banks stole on a grand scale. That's why the more important part of Fleischmann's story is in the pains Chase and the Justice Department took to silence her.........

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Similarities between Enron in its dying days and the America of today


Ever wondered if America will go the way of Enron? Remember how the "too big to fail"  Enron went bankrupt in the shortest possible time?  When Enron fell, thousands of Enron employees had no clue that they were working for a company which was just a house of cards. Most Americans are also clueless to the fact that their country has been hollowed out with the never-ending wars and that the top 1% (as usual) will be the only survivors and the rest will be left out in the cold not knowing what happened.   
There are so many similarities between Enron and what's happening in today's America.  Watch the documentary and see for yourselves.

BTW, please watch any long vids in my blog by clicking on the title at the top within the vid which will take you to YouTube so the YouTube poster can get the view count.



Below is a listing of top 10 energy companies that went bankrupt.
Andrew Topf writing at OilPrice:
 Running a multi-billion dollar energy company isn’t easy. Just ask the executives in the corner suites of some of the energy companies that have gone bust over the years. Some, like Enron, were brought down because of insider malfeasance. A few, like ATP, blamed damaging government policies, while others went off the rails due to market forces that left the company and its shareholders flat-footed, deep in debt, and eventually broke. Here are the bankruptcies that will be etched into the tombstones of failed energy fortunes for time immemorial.

1.    Enron. Bankrupt December 2, 2001. Assets $65.5 billion
Enron grew from a simple pipeline company into the world’s largest energy trader by using the Internet to buy and sell natural gas and electric power to help utilities and industrial power users hedge against price fluctuations. By 2000, Enron was worth an astonishing $68 billion, but when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission started investigating, it was revealed that much of the money was based on shady accounting practices and un-recorded losses. In one year, Enron’s stock price plummeted from more than $90 to less than $1, resulting in $11 billion in shareholder losses. The subsequent bankruptcy remains the largest in U.S. history. CEO Kenneth Lay and fellow Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in 2006 of fraud and conspiracy. Lay died from a heart attack while awaiting sentencing. Skilling is still in prison........

Saturday, August 23, 2014

On the James Foley beheading ....


posted without comment. 



Thursday, August 21, 2014

Reposted with an update: Did the Ukrainian government fire a tactical nuclear weapon on east Ukraine?


And, if this is not a nuclear weapon, what is it?  And, how did the Ukraine get such a weapon?  Has NATO started manning Ukraine.  This is escalating to a point where there won't be any going back  to   our world as we know it now. Recently,  I either read or heard somewhere that the Americans are desparate for war because after the war, a really big one,  their debt would have to be written off just like in any case of a failed corporation.  Knowing the madness that reigns down south, I am not pooh-poohing that opinion.



UPDATE Aug 21:  
The YouTube vid above that I had embedded yesterday is a cut and diced fraud from other videos. Either the You Tube poster knew it to be a fraud and still lied about it being fired on the separatist area in  east Ukraine or he was mislead as I was by his posting.  Mind you, the Ukrainian govt has been launching ballistic missiles and according to some accords, worst than those, at the separatist areas from early this month .... but the vid  I had embedded yesterday is not one showing proof of that. My apologies.
The links below are to two vids from July 2013 which show that that the explosion is from a Russian Proton-M rocket which failed on launch and exploded .... not into a building as the spliced and diced fraudulent vid of yesterday is showing, but into the ground.

Vid 1 from RT  
Vid 2 from Astrium Team  

Saturday, July 12, 2014

USA stock market these days = Dot com bubble bust begging to happen


If you can make sense of what's happening with Cynk Technology Corp then you must be a genius.
This is the reason why I never touch any non-Canadian stock. We too have very questionable stocks over here, but nothing like down south.

From CBSNews:
Mystery company  has no money but is valued at $4.5B.

Ordinarily, a money-losing company like Cynk Technology Corp. (OTC:CYNK) would languish on the over-the-counter stock market and attract little attention from either investors or the media.

Cynk, though, has managed to attract plenty of attention, along with a market capitalization of $4.5 billion. That's an astonishing feat for a company with no products, no revenue, no website and exactly one employee.

To put this in perspective, the New York Times Co. (NYT), whose roots date back to 1851, sports a market value of $2.1 billion, while restaurant chain Zoe's Kitchen (ZOES), which has 111 locations in 15 states, is valued by the market at $572 million after its recent IPO. No one has a clue how a company that few people had heard of became a stock market juggernaut....

Zero Hedge has more on this company and the madness that is going on these days in the stock markets and outside the stock markets.  As usual I blame the earthquakes and the poisonous gases emitting from them for the rise in madness all over the world that's affecting at least half the population of planet Earth.

here,  here and here.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

One has to be always wary of doctors because doctors commit fraud


You gotta wonder if this kind of thing is happening at other cancer clinics too.  I wouldn't be surprised at all.  
Gone are the days when doctors were Doctors.  Now, those degrees and diplomas are to do with status and making money any which way.  

From Kentucky Attorney's Office:
...Elizabethtown Hematology Oncology, PLC, and its owners have agreed to pay $3,739,325.41 to resolve allegations that they submitted or caused to be submitted false claims for payment to the Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE – the health care program for Uniformed Service members, retirees and their families worldwide – and the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) for extending the duration of chemotherapy infusion treatment to patients and inappropriately billing office visits for infusion therapy treatments, announced the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services and David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

"Manipulating treatment protocols and lengthening infusion times to increase reimbursement reflect an extraordinary lack of regard for patient welfare and the integrity of our health care system. This settlement will end these unacceptable practices and restore funds paid for improper claims during the relevant time period,” stated David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. “Pursuing health care fraud is a priority of my Office and the Department of Justice. We will continue to work with the Department of Health and Human Services to pursue medical providers who engage in improper conduct and overbill government health care programs."..........

.........According to the settlement agreement, the United States and Commonwealth of Kentucky contend that Dr. Rafiq Ur Rahman and Dr. Yusuf K. Deshmukh, owners of Elizabethtown Hematology Oncology, PLC (EHO), billed Medicare, TRICARE, FEHBP and Medicaid from January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2010, for unnecessary office visit evaluations at the same time patients were receiving chemotherapy or other types of infusion treatments. The United States and Commonwealth of Kentucky contend that EHO did this by improperly billing evaluation and management codes using Modifier-25 (allows for billing evaluation and management necessary prior to the performance of a procedure).

The United States and Commonwealth of Kentucky further contend that during a seven year period, between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2012, Dr. Rahman, Dr. Deshmukh, and EHO unnecessarily and improperly extended the duration of chemotherapy infusion treatment times for their patients in order to improperly bill Medicare, TRICARE, FEHBP and Medicaid for those additional hours of chemotherapy infusion treatments.......

Monday, June 2, 2014

FIFA's crooks, liars, bribe givers, bribe takers ... a nest of stinking rot



Thinking people instinctively knew about this  long before the sheeple got their confirmation from print media.
One does  not need the MSM to tell us what we can surmise on our own if we are watchful and have an ounce of intelligence.

The question now is this: Will all those who accepted the bribes be put behind bars?
We already know the answer to that. Right?   

From TheGuardian:
.....Mohamed bin Hammam  accused of payments to help Qatar World Cup bid
Former Fifa executive committee member allegedly paid millions into accounts of African football associations' presidents

A former top Qatari football official reportedly paid $5m to get support for the emirate's campaign to host the 2022 World Cup.

The Sunday Times said it had obtained millions of emails and other documents relating to alleged payments made by Mohamed bin Hammam, the then Fifa executive member for Qatar.



It alleged that Bin Hammam, also the former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president, used slush funds to pay out the cash to top football officials to win a "groundswell" of support for Qatar's World Cup bid.

Bin Hammam, who launched an abortive challenge against incumbent Fifa president Sepp Blatter, resigned from his Fifa and AFC posts in 2012, shortly before he was banned for life from football administration by the global governing body's ethics committee.

The newspaper said Bin Hammam had made payments of up to $200,000 into accounts controlled by the presidents of 30 African football associations, and hosted hospitality events in Africa at which he handed out further funds, to get backing for Qatar's bid.

Bin Hammam also paid $1.6m into bank accounts controlled by the Trinidadian Jack Warner, also a former vice-president of Fifa, $450,000 of which was before the vote for the World Cup, the Sunday Times said.

Warner was one of the 22 people who in 2010 decided to award Russia the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 tournament. He stood down in 2011.

Two months ago the Daily Telegraph alleged that a company owned by Hammam had paid money to Warner........

Ever wondered why those scamming emails from Nigerians still exist?


Hah!

Libby Kane wrting at BusinessInsider:
....At this point, disenfranchised "Nigerian royalty" asking for money through a poorly worded email is the ultimate cliche of internet scams.
So why does it still exist?

According to new book "Think Like A Freak," a follow-up to the popular "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the scam's obviousness is its chief selling point.

The book refers to research from Microsoft Research computer scientist Cormac Herley, who looked at Nigerian scams — technically called advance-fee fraud — from the point of view of the scammer. How, he wondered, were scammers who never sent an email free of typos earning enough money for the United States Secret Service to establish its own task force to fight them?

In fact, those typos are a key part of the scam.

Levitt and Dubner explain the genius behind such an obvious scam in terms of "false positives," referring to email recipients who engage with the scammers but don't ultimately pay. Reaching out to scores of potential victims isn't much work, thanks to the ease of email, but with each reply from a gullible target, the scammers are required to put forth a little more effort.

Therefore, it's in the scammers' best interest to minimize........

Sunday, April 6, 2014

How Goldman Sachs sodomized Libyan citizens


The rebels,  who were supported, aided, funded by the USA-led NATO, sodomized Libya's leader Gaddafi and the top banksters and  financial firms of the West sodomized Libyan citizens by feasting on their life savings.

The vid below from RT is from two years ago.

Agustino Fontevecchia  writing at Forbes:
... Goldman And SocGen Accused Of Defrauding Libya Out Of Billions With Derivatives During Gaddafi's Reign

The devastating civil war that has ravaged Libya has undoubtedly altered the power structure of the North African nation.  It also revealed that major U.S. and European financial firms, including Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale, actively courted executives of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), which, flush with $60 billion of the nation’s oil profits, paid rich fees to invest with Western banks and funds, in some cases losing their whole investment.  Now, the LIA is suing Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale in London, while the SEC and the U.S. Justice Department are also scrutinizing the practices of hedge fund Och-Ziff and private equity firm Blackstone.

In 2004, the U.S. lifted commercial sanctions on Libya after Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi agreed to hand over his chemical weapons.  Major U.S. and European names flocked to the oil producing nation for a cut of the potential profits as the reins on global capitalism were loosened.  Established in 2006, Libya’s sovereign wealth fund was approached by at least 25 different financial institutions looking to attract its funds, ultimately forging relationships with Goldman Sachs, Societe Generale, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase JPM -1.4%, the Carlyle Group, Lehman Brothers, and Och-Ziff Capital Management.....



Friday, April 4, 2014

Be a vigilante on behalf of seniors, you will be one, one day, if not already


This story highlights what happens to the elderly who have no close relatives or relatives who are thousands of miles away from them.

Steve Mertl writing at YahooBlogs:
....The story of Norma Marshall is chilling, especially as many Baby Boomers around us are starting to look into their own future as they age.
The 94-year-old Toronto resident was victimized by a crooked couple that insinuated themselves into the lonely woman's life, moved into her home and essentially robbed her blind.
But it's also a story about how a stranger's kindness and concern can rescue someone like Marshall from a nightmarish situation.
It all began four years ago when Marshall, whose closest living relative is a nephew in Montreal, hired a housekeeper to help keep her apartment tidy.
But the 32-year-old woman did more than clean,CityNews reported.

“The housekeeper became quickly involved in the woman’s daily activities, as well as gained access to her banking and finances,” said Det. Const. Valerie Dahan at a news conference Wednesday....
Then, earlier this year, the housekeeper told Marshall she and her family were moving back to Portugal and invited her to join them.
But instead of doing that, the woman showed up on Marshall's doorstep with her husband and their children. They all moved in, essentially confining Marshall to a small bedroom in the house.
They then proceeded to systematically plunder her bank account and property, police allege.
“The women’s possessions, including furniture, valuables and jewellery were sold without her knowledge,” Dahan said.
“It is further alleged that the woman was defrauded of a majority of her life savings, which at this time is believed to be approximately $25,000, and the housekeeper had no intention of emigrating with the woman."........