Noteworthy APRIL 2016 Blaze erupted in the apartment of Bernie Madoff associate Ezra Merkin, don't want to miss this! Considering that Michael Cohen's lawayer, Guy Pretillo defended Ezra Merkin you'd think REAL journalists might have mentioned it. /s    https://www.reuters.com/article/madoff-merkin-award/update-1-madoff-investors-win-12-74-mln-in-merkin-case-idUSN0313233720100903  Oh right real journalism is all but dead because the CABAL owns it. Q 355 https://qmap.pub/   Remember, they consider you to be the fly (specifically, the ‘feeder’) I think we can consider investment fraud one of the best examples sucking the 'flies' dry. NEW YORK, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Investors in Gabriel Capital LP, a so-called feeder fund that funneled money to imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, were awarded $12.74 million by a panel of three arbitrators, court records show.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3527163/Fire-740-Park-Avenue.html  The apartment building is known as one of the city's 'Towers of  Power'  https://patch.com/new-york/brooklyn/740-park-avenue-famous-luxury-apartment-complex-fire-0  I didn't realize Ezra Merkin was a 'philanthropist' https://www.aicpastore.com/Content/media/PRODUCER_CONTENT/Newsletters/Articles_2009/Wealth/CharityMindedClients.jsp  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-13/madoff-investor-ezra-merkin-agrees-to-pay-victims-280-million "Mr. Merkin is pleased that the receiver has settled the trustee’s lawsuit on terms that will result in a significant recovery for Ascot’s investors," Merkin’s lawyer, Andrew Levander, said in a statement. RELATED: Guy Pretillo was Uri Landesman defense lawyer Platinum Partners executives charged with $1 billion in securities fraud http://archive.is/XDtj7  DEC 19, 2016 ...It all started to unravel in June when Huberfeld was arrested in a separate case for allegedly bribing the head of New York City’s corrections officers’ union to put its retirees’ savings into Platinum. The charges in that case depicted Platinum desperately trying to get money from new investors to pay off old ones. Brooklyn prosecutors raided Platinum’s offices two weeks later, looking more broadly at whether the fund was a fraud. All seven men were arrested and are scheduled to appear in federal court later on Monday. Andrew Levander, a lawyer for Nordlicht, Michael Sommer, a lawyer for Levy, Guy Petrillo, a lawyer for Landesman, Seth Levine, a lawyer for Small and F. Andino Reynal, a lawyer for Shulse, didn’t immediately return voicemail messages seeking comment about the arrests. Laywers for SanFilippo and Mann couldn’t immediately be determined.  Abel Danger has written a lot about pension funds and the Cabal, namely related to the UK if I remember correctly. I think the spider web is starting to become increasingly visible. http://archive.is/pPNbE JAN 2010 Key Prosecutor in Galleon Case to Depart Joshua I. Klein, a key prosecutor in the widening insider trading case involving the Galleon Group and Raj Rajaratnam, is planning to resign as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and set up his own criminal defense firm, people close to the case told DealBook. People briefed on the matter said Mr. Klein was setting up a new firm with Guy Petrillo, a former head of the criminal division for the Southern District of New York, who recently worked at the law firm Dechert. Mr. Petrillo could not be immediately reached for comment.  Mr. Klein, who worked as a senior counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission before joining the Southern District, declined to comment on Thursday. About Rajat Gupta http://www.businessinsider.com/rajarantam-gets-hit-with-highest-bail-in-us-history-2009-10 Raj Rajaratnam (Tamil: ராஜ் ராஜரத்தினம்; born Rajakumaran Rajaratnam; June 15, 1957) is a Sri Lankan-American former hedge fund manager and billionaire founder of the Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm.[4][5] On October 16, 2009, he was arrested by the FBI for insider trading, which also caused the Galleon Group to fold.[6] He stood trial in U.S. v Rajaratnam (09 Cr. 01184) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and on May 11, 2011 was found guilty on all 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud.[7][8] On October 13, 2011, Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in prison[9] and fined a criminal and civil penalty of over $150 million combined.[10]  Rajaratnam was also a contributor to various causes that promoted development in the Indian subcontinent and programs that benefited low income South Asian youth in the New York area. According to the Federal Election Commission, Rajaratnam has made over $118,000 in political contributions in the past five years.[25] He has contributed to the Democratic National Committee and various campaigns on behalf of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, and Robert Menendez.[25] Where's that sneaky spider?  (no pun intended SPDR) December 11, 2017 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/12/11/hsbc-spared-us-money-laundering-sanctions-battles-clean-act/ ...It is also separately being investigated by UK regulators for its alleged links to money laundering by South Africa’s billionaire Gupta family, whose links to president Jacob Zuma are at the heart of a political storm in the country. Labour peer and former anti-apartheid campaigner Lord Peter Hain passed evidence allegedly connecting the banks to laundering for Gupta-linked companies through Dubai and Hong Kong in recent weeks. Investec’s Gordon said the South Africa investigation was a "known unknown" and "hard to quantify".  Continuing on... http://freebeacon.com/politics/clintons-wall-street-pal-to-serve-out-prison-term/ Vinod Gupta was forced to pay $9 million back to the company and later paid the SEC $7.4 million to settle the case. Despite the fines, he contributed between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Records indicate that he has given as recently as 2014.  Clinton’s ties to Rajat Gupta extend beyond business into philanthropy. Gupta started the American India Foundation (AIF) in 2001 at the "urging of Bill Clinton," and the charity is now a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. The former president serves as honorary chair of AIF and its signature fellowship bears his name. "AIF’s William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India provides a select group of young Americans and Indians the opportunity to work with non-governmental organizations and social enterprises for 10 months, in order to accelerate impact for marginalized and underprivileged communities in India," the website says. AIF is now a major partner of the Clinton Foundation, pledging in 2005 to raise $4 million annually to help "eradicate poverty in India." Lata Krishnan, a co-founder of AIF, has also given the Clinton Foundation between $100,001 and $250,000. Gupta’s co-conspirator, the hedge fund honcho Raj Rajaratnam, was also a major player in AIF’s work with the Clinton Foundation. Rajaratnam, a former AIF board member, pledged $15 million over three years to support AIF’s anti-AIDs campaign under the Clinton Global Initiative umbrella. Rajaratnam was a loyal Clinton ally before his arrest, having contributed to Hillary’s Senate campaigns, as well as those of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.). He maxed out his donations to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 run and did not raise funds for President Obama until she had dropped out of the race. "He was big with Hillary," a Democratic fundraiser told ABC News in 2009 following Rajaratnam’s indictment. I have more to add but have to stop now.  Thanks for recent posted links @Arrvee really great  info already and I haven't had time to really get digging the way I want to.  Key connections: Bronfmans, Chelsea Clinton and Steinhardt (mentioned deep in the weeds of this post about BCCI https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/2688862  ) @darkknight111 @Vindicator  The key limited partners in Steinhardt Jr.’s first hedge fund, Steinhardt Partners, were the Genovese Mafia family, Ivan Boesky, Marc Rich, and Marty Peretz. No doubt this will come up at some point...so I'm putting it out there now. However, the real relationship between the Clintons and Dow Chemical would be prompted in 2009 by a case involving two journalists detained by North Korea. As noted in the memo, in August of 2009 Teneo co-founder and former Clinton fundraiser Declan Kelly invited Dow CEO Andrew Liveris to play golf with former President Clinton and Band. In the footnote attached to this statement, Band references the fact Dow Chemical aided Clinton with a mission to North Korea that same month by providing free use of Dow’s corporate jet for part of the trip. Given the context of the memo and Band’s statement about the cost savings, it is implied Kelly had played some role in securing Dow’s involvement with the North Korea trip. http://archive.is/FjKh5#selection-231.0-230.1 What?  The Pizzagate related journalists?  NO!!!!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_imprisonment_of_American_journalists_by_North_Korea