Remember when 'Corrupt HSBC Global Bank Exec Arrested, Links to Hillary, James Comey and Loretta Lynch' Blast to the past....looking into some old timelines I had created, info overload as usual.  But for now I wanted to post this, as it fits right into the Cirque De HRC, LL the "tarmac" whisperer,  and Comey's traveling road show, three American staples of political theater, and how HSBC was connected to each of them. http://archive.is/t16tZ from July 2016 The feds arrested an executive Mark Johnson from the scandal-plagued global bank HSBC for conspiring to take advantage of insider information and other charges. Recall HSBC: paid billions of dollars to settle money-laundering charges and mortgage abuses. HSBC enabled thousands of Americans and others – including drug traffickers, arms dealers and “wealthy power players” around the world, to avoid taxes by hiding their money in a Swiss bank they owned. Loretta Lynch’s Ties: Loretta Lynch – then the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Manhattan – reportedly brokered the deal with Holder, that allowed HSBC to pay fines instead of being criminally charged.  The settlement was highly criticized, and Lynch and Holder were accused of acting as if the bank was “too big to prosecute,” and people likened the fine (without criminal charges) to a parking ticket. Baby Face James Comey’s Ties: James Comey was nominated by Obama for a post on HSBC’s Board of Directors in June 2012, and he was subsequently appointed to the board on March 4, 2013.  He served on the HSBC’s Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee.  Comey’s appointment was for three years, however, he resigned effective Sept. 4, 2013, following his confirmation to serve as FBI Director. Hillary Clinton’s Ties: Hillary Clinton also benefited from HSBC’s Swiss bank account division  during the same time period – leaked files revealed the identities of at least seven donors who were HSBC clients and contributed to the Clinton Foundation – to the tune of $81 million in total contributions. Well that was short and sweet.  (but can't help but read the links at the end!) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/20/hsbc-mark-johnson-stuart-scott-arrested-currency-exchange  Arrested: Mark Johnson,  British citizen and HSBC’s global head of foreign exchange trading, and Stuart Scott, British citizen, was HSBC’s European head of foreign exchange trading in London until December 2014 They are the first people to be charged in connection with the US government’s long-running investigation into bankers’ alleged rigging of the $5.3tn (£4tn) per day forex market. Rob Sherman, a spokesman for HSBC, said: “HSBC has been and continues to cooperate with the DOJ’s FX investigation.” The justice department is conducting a criminal investigation into some global banks’ alleged currency manipulation, and more than two dozen traders have been suspended by their employers.  Last year, four banks pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rig the forex market and fines totalling $5.6bn were handed down to six banks. HSBC was not included in the settlement deal.  It paid to have their former board member Comey as FBI director.   Did everyone notice the 'tn' vs the 'bn'? It was revealed earlier this month that George Osborne, the former chancellor, intervened to persuade the US government not to pursue criminal charges against HSBC for allowing terrorists and Mexican drug dealers to launder millions of dollars.  A congressional report published letters and emails from Osborne and Financial Services Authority (FSA) officials to their US counterparts warning that launching criminal action against HSBC in 2012 could have sparked a “financial calamity”. Financial Calamity for Clinton Foundation related money laundering operations no doubt. /s The 2012 settlement detailed how Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel and Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel laundered $881m through HSBC and a Mexican unit. In some cases, Mexican branches had widened tellers’ windows to allow big boxes of cash to be pushed across the counters. HSBC also violated US sanctions by working with customers in Iran, Libya, Sudan, Burma and Cuba.  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/hsbc-us-money-laundering-george-osborne-report The House financial services committee report said the UK interventions “played a significant role in ultimately persuading the DoJ [Department of Justice] not to prosecute HSBC”. Instead of pursuing a prosecution, the bank agreed to pay a record $1.92bn (£1.4bn) fine. But back to the Forex Market scams and the banks who pleaded guilty: The banks who agreed the settlement - Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase - described themselves as “the Cartel” and used secret chatrooms and coded language to manipulate benchmark exchange rates to make huge profits. The FBI said the scheme was criminal “on a massive scale”.  According to transcripts of the chatroom, published by the New York department of financial services (DFS), one Barclays trader in 2010 wrote: “If you aint cheating, you aint trying.”  Plenty of people in D.C. have been trying really hard for decades.