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8 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

This thread is for emoluments and other forms of corruption. I'll open with $1.1 million

 

Oh for fucks sake! I see our stable genius has fallen for the "Nigerian Prince" e-mail scam.

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57 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Because of course they did

The T in T-Mobile now stands for Trump-Mobile.

Glad I never went with their service.

 

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And in the sporting world a group of college officials were indicted for conspiracy.

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The racketeering conspiracy charges unveiled Tuesday were brought against the coaches at schools including Wake Forest University, Georgetown and the University of Southern California.

Authorities say the coaches accepted bribes in exchange for admitting students as athletes, regardless of their ability.

Prosecutors say parents paid an admissions consultant $25 million from 2011 through Feb. 2019 to bribe coaches and administrators to label their children as recruited athletes to boost their chances of getting into schools.

 

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Authorities say the coaches accepted bribes in exchange for admitting students as athletes, regardless of their ability.

I'll be interested in learning more about this, because usually this is the other way around:  athletes are admitted to colleges as students (because they have difficulty with studies).  Maybe I'm misunderstanding this?  It looks like they paid someone to take their tests, so they were neither athletes nor scholars?  And actresses involved? 

I need more coffee to understand this.  ?

 

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Broidy got raided pretty quietly last summer. 

He might be a money launderer

And has secret business with the Saudis and Qatar.

Because of course he has.

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Because of course:

 

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"‘We must do it’: Deutsche Bank allegedly hired children of Russian, Chinese officials to win work"

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Deutsche Bank had repeatedly failed to secure work with a Russian government entity when it was approached with a proposal: Hire the daughter of a high-ranking official at the organization.

“We must do it!” a senior Deutsche Bank official said, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. “We should have her in London as it is NOT politically correct to have her in Moscow!”

The woman was hired with a promise of a permanent position in London, according to allegations detailed in an SEC settlement agreement. Ten days after the move was complete, the new employee’s father sent Deutsche Bank a request for a proposal on a bond deal worth more than $2 billion, a deal the bank ultimately won.

The SEC order outlines numerous alleged violations by the bank of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, saying the bank provided jobs to relatives of foreign government officials in an attempt to influence the officials to steer business to the bank. Deutsche Bank agreed to settle the SEC’s allegations late last week by paying $16 million, though it did not admit wrongdoing.

In another case, a senior executive at a Russian state-owned entity asked the bank to hire his son, who also wanted to work in Deutsche’s London offices, according to the SEC. A London-based Deutsche human resources employee flagged the move as “the classic nepo situation that we have every year” but was overruled.

After just two months, the human resources executive wanted the son fired despite his father’s position. He had failed to come to work, failed an exam and was “a liability to the program, if not the firm,” the Deutsche employee said.

Instead the son was transferred back to Moscow, where he continued to work for two more months, according to the SEC document.

The episodes are among several controversies haunting Deutsche Bank. The German bank is also going through a major reorganization and faces intense scrutiny of its relationship with President Trump and his businesses.

A Deutsche Bank attorney appeared to frustrate a federal appeals court Friday by refusing to say whether the bank had a copy of Trump’s tax returns. The court, which was hearing evidence in a lawsuit Trump filed, gave the bank until Tuesday afternoon to respond in writing.

Once a global powerhouse, catering to the U.S. elite from a tower on Wall Street, Deutsche Bank’s fortunes have waned in recent years, and in July it announced a sweeping restructuring, including gutting its stock and bond trading business and reducing other investment bank operations. The overhaul will mean as many as 18,000 job cuts by 2022 out of its 90,000 workers.

Hampering its efforts to rebound have been various investigations of the bank’s conduct. It’s at the center of one of the largest money-laundering cases in history, involving Danske, Denmark’s largest bank.

Last week, Deutsche Bank settled the SEC charges that it violated foreign bribery laws between 2006 and 2014 by providing valuable jobs to the relatives of foreign government officials it wanted to work with. In addition to the cases involving Russian entities, the SEC also outlined several cases involving China.

In one case, a Deutsche employee revised the résumé of the son of a company executive it hoped to work with. The original résumé was full of typos and grammatical errors, according to the SEC settlement.

In another, the bank hired the son of the chairman of a Chinese state-owned enterprise. The executive’s son was rejected for the job twice before a high-level Deutsche executive weighed in, the SEC settlement agreement said.

“Deutsche Bank provided substantial cooperation to the SEC in its inquiry and has implemented numerous remedial measures to improve the bank’s hiring practices,” the bank said in a statement.

Investigations by two House committees into Russian money-laundering allegations and the president’s finances could intensify the focus on Deutsche’s work with foreign governments. Deutsche Bank has said it is cooperating with all investigations, including those by the two House committees.

Trump is appealing a lower-court ruling that cleared the way for Deutsche Bank and Capital One to turn over years of financial records from the president, his three eldest children and the president’s companies to the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees.

At the hearing Friday, the judges asked the bank’s attorney what seemed to be a simple question: If the subpoenas were upheld, would the tax returns of the president or anyone else associated with the case be turned over?

Deutsche Bank’s attorney repeatedly refused to answer, citing “contractual obligations.” It now has until Tuesday at 4 p.m. to submit a letter to the court answering the question. It is unclear whether the response will be made public.

Trump’s company has taken out about $364 million in loans from Deutsche Bank since 2012, according to public filings. The loans included two worth $125 million to buy and renovate the Doral golf resort in Florida, a $170 million loan to turn Washington’s Old Post Office into a Trump hotel, and a $69 million loan to refinance an existing Trump hotel in Chicago.

“You have a situation where Mr. Trump is going to Deutsche Bank asking for very large loans when no other bank apparently will touch him,” Douglas Letter, general counsel for the House, told the appeals court last week. “For obvious reasons both committees here want to know why is it that Deutsche Bank would be willing to lend a large amount of money” to Trump.

Trump’s attorney, Patrick Strawbridge, told the court that the committees were pushing the boundaries of their powers to target and embarrass the president. Trump is fighting efforts to access his tax returns and other detailed financial information in courts across the country.

 

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It seems that Glascow's Prestwick Airport and Trump's Turnberry golf resort a half hour away, have both been hemorrhaging money  in recent years but both have turned things around somewhat by a mutual backscratching agreement. 

This is how I understand it: 

Refueling US military planes is much cheaper at US military bases in the UK, Germany and Spain.  However, The Scotsman reports that "publicly-owned Prestwick Airport has received more than £9m [11 million in US dollars] from Donald Trump’s administration in the past two years to refuel hundreds of US Armed Forces aircraft." 

Military buys exorbitantly expensive aviation fuel at Prestwick, helping the airport financially.  

Potential scandal: Military personnel hang at the nearby resort  at reduced rates, bringing in income to *checks notes* Donald Trump.  As far as I can tell, the latter is what is being investigated. 

 There are just now stories about this popping up in the US MSM in the last few days, but focused on layovers at Turnberry by a national guard C-17 going to and returning from Kuwait this spring as the trigger.  Politico reports  Air Force crew made an odd stop on a routine trip: Trump’s Scottish resort  Now the layover is part of a broader House inquiry into military spending at and around the Trump property.

Here's the Wiki on Glasgow Prestwick, showing that the US military use of this airport is not new. 

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 There was controversy over the airport's use in the CIA's extraordinary rendition flights, as aircraft had used the airport as a stop-over point. Since November 2013, when the Scottish government took control of the facility, service contracts have been established with the USAF, USN, USMC, Defense Logistics Agency and National Guard

However, the WIKI and the accompanying footnote don't specify when these service contracts were established.  However, this was on the radar of The Guardian over 18 months ago, in this article from Feb 2018:  Scottish government criticised over US military use of airport

 

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Background: Trump's Turnberry golf resort is 23 miles from Prestwick airport.  

The Dem controlled House Oversight committee is trying to investigate the situation of aviation fuel sales at Preswick, but  the Pentagon is stonewalling and refusing to provide requested documents.  

From HuffPo: 

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The House Oversight Committee is investigating refueling stops at the remote Glascow Prestwick Airport just 23 miles from Trump’s Turnberry resort in Scotland. Military personnel stayed nights at Turnberry, spending federal funds for lodging and food that went to the president’s company, both Politico and The New York Times reported.

Another contract is set to become operational in October and continue until 2024

In June, House Oversight committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-Md.) wrote a letter to acting Sec Def Patrick Shanahan requesting documents related to military stops at Preswick. 

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The letter indicated the refueling arrangement may be part of a plan to help keep the struggling Prestwick airport open and aid sales at Turnberry. “U.S. military expenditures at the airport appear to increased substantially since the election,” the lawmakers noted.

As noted, the Pentagon is stonewalling. However, Glasgow's The Scotsman newspaper has been digging into this for over 18 months and did manage to get refueling documents, presumably from the airport.   Prestwick is a publicly owned airport, leaders in the Scottish government are publicly extremely critical of Trump, but seem to be privately subsidizing Trump's struggling golf resort, and are getting huge amounts of blow back about it. 

Full text of the HuffPo article here. I'd encourage y'all to read.  This has the potential to turn into a scandal of epic proportions (in normal times).  

U.S. Military Forging New Contract To 2024 To Refuel Near Trump’s Turnberry Resort: Report

As House investigators probe suspicious refueling stops, the Defense Department has a longer, pricier deal beginning in October, The Scotsman reports.

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Background: Trump's Turnberry golf resort is 23 miles from Prestwick airport.  

The Dem controlled House Oversight committee is trying to investigate the situation of aviation fuel sales at Preswick, but  the Pentagon is stonewalling and refusing to provide requested documents.  

From HuffPo: 

Another contract is set to become operational in October and continue until 2024

In June, House Oversight committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-Md.) wrote a letter to acting Sec Def Patrick Shanahan requesting documents related to military stops at Preswick. 

As noted, the Pentagon is stonewalling. However, Glasgow's The Scotsman newspaper has been digging into this for over 18 months and did manage to get refueling documents, presumably from the airport.   Prestwick is a publicly owned airport, leaders in the Scottish government are publicly extremely critical of Trump, but seem to be privately subsidizing Trump's struggling golf resort, and are getting huge amounts of blow back about it. 

Full text of the HuffPo article here. I'd encourage y'all to read.  This has the potential to turn into a scandal of epic proportions (in normal times).  

U.S. Military Forging New Contract To 2024 To Refuel Near Trump’s Turnberry Resort: Report

As House investigators probe suspicious refueling stops, the Defense Department has a longer, pricier deal beginning in October, The Scotsman reports.

Of course. Bankrupting the United States would be Trump's bigliest bankruptcy yet! Why not cause more government agencies to use your failing properties and boost them and funnel money into your pocket?

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Repugliklans are such fine and upstanding citizens, who's guiding principle is upholding the rule of law. Oh, wait...

Ex-NC GOP Chair Robin Hayes to plead guilty to lying to FBI in bribery case

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Former North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes faces up to six months in prison after agreeing to plead guilty to lying to the FBI in a sweeping federal bribery case.

Hayes, a former member of Congress, is scheduled to formally enter his guilty plea Wednesday in federal court, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Hayes, 74, is one of four men indicted last spring on conspiracy and bribery charges. Also indicted were Durham businessman Greg Lindberg — one of the Republican Party’s biggest campaign contributors — and two associates, John Gray and John Palermo.

They were accused of attempting to bribe state Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey with $2 million in campaign contributions to get him to remove the department official responsible for regulating one of Lindberg’s companies.

According to his agreement with prosecutors, Hayes will plead guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI.

In a court document, he acknowledged that in August 2018 he “falsely stated to federal agents . . . that he had never spoken” with Causey “about personnel or personnel problems at the . . . Department of Insurance or about Greg Lindberg or John Gray.”

Hayes could not be reached.

Hayes’ plea deal comes as Lindberg seeks to have the charges against him dismissed. This week federal prosecutors asked a court to reject his request. It’s unclear when a decision on either motion would be made.

A trial is scheduled for Nov. 19.

Hayes’ plea deal could increase the chance that he could testify against the other defendants.

 

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The latest example

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A top Trump health appointee sought to have taxpayers reimburse her for the costs of jewelry, clothing and other possessions, including a $5,900 Ivanka Trump-brand pendant, that were stolen while in her luggage during a work-related trip, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.

Seema Verma, who runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, filed a $47,000 claim for lost property on Aug. 20, 2018, after her bags were stolen while she was giving a speech in San Francisco the prior month. The property was not insured, Verma wrote in her filing to the Health and Human Services department.

Verma’s claim included $43,065 for about two dozen pieces of jewelry, based off an appraisal she'd received from a jeweler about three weeks after the theft. Among Verma's stolen jewelry was an Ivanka Trump-brand pendant, made of gold, prasiolite and diamonds, that Verma’s jeweler valued at $5,900.

Verma’s claim also included about $2,000 to cover the cost of her stolen clothes and another $2,000 to cover the cost of other stolen goods, including a $325 claim for moisturizer and a $349 claim for noise-cancelling headphones.

I'm gonna hop out on the ol' limb here (which I'm surprised hasn't snapped yet) and guess if it was a lower level employee Verma would tell said employee to go fornicate themselves.

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