Report: During Spring Banking Crisis, Banks Borrowed Over $1 Trillion from Federal Home Loan Banks — $100 Billion More than During the Crash of 2008

BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Yesterday, the regulator of the Federal Home Loan Bank system, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), released a report on its recommended changes going forward. The report was in response to the questionable conduct of the Federal Home Loan Banks in the leadup to the banking crisis this past…

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BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO On the first day of trading in January 2007 (the year prior to the Wall Street financial crisis in 2008 that saw century-old iconic financial firms explode one after another), Citigroup closed the trading day at $55.25. Yesterday, Citigroup’s common stock closed at an effective…

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There’s a News Black Out on the Strange Doings in the JPMorgan Chase/Jeffrey Epstein Sex Trafficking Case in Manhattan

BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 6, 2023 ~ Jeffrey Epstein (left); Jamie Dimon (right). There are extremely strange things happening in a very high-profile federal court case in Manhattan where the largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase, stands accused by victims of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring that sexually abused minors…

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You Can’t Put Lipstick on a Pig Forever–First Came the Hype; Then Came Adam Neumann’s Self-Dealing; Then Came the IPO Scandal; Now Comes the Bankruptcy

BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: WeWork, the flexible-office-space company, is the quintessential proof that you can’t put lipstick on a pig forever. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that WeWork “ is planning to file for bankruptcy as early as next week….” On October 5, the credit ratings agency Fitch downgraded WeWork’s long-term…

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U.S. SEC Subpoenas PayPal About USD Stablecoin

BanksterCrime: By Amitoj Singh Nov 2, 2023 at 5:47 a.m. CDT Updated Nov 3, 2023 at 6:48 a.m. CDT PayPal (PYPL) received a subpoena from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting documentation about its USD stablecoin, the global payments giant said in a filing, without providing more details. The firm entered the market…

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17 Attorneys General and Two Claimants File Objections to JPMorgan Chase’s Tricked Up Settlement with Jeffrey Epstein Victims

BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Presiding Judge Jed Rakoff, in the JPMorgan-Epstein Related Suits in NY Federal Court The Attorneys General of 16 states and Washington, D.C. are challenging the settlement crafted by Big Law firm WilmerHale on behalf of JPMorgan Chase and by the high-profile lawyer, David Boies, on behalf of the sex-trafficked…

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Depositors Beware: Deutsche Bank Warns Trading Revenue Boom Is Ending

With Europe’s benchmark interest rates still staunchly in negative territory, the long-suffering European banks, epitomized by fading German ‘national champion’ Deutsche Bank, have benefited from the surge in trading activity during the first half of 2020 that helped its Q1 results surprise to the upside. But as DB CEO Christian Sewing explained in an interview…

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Debunked: FBI-Owned Bitcoin Wallet Erroneously Tied to Late Russian Oligarch Prigozhin in Recent Speculation

BanksterCrime: Amid swirling speculations about the third biggest bitcoin wallet, chatter has now emerged linking the fifth largest BTC wallet to the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, former owner of the Wagner private military company (PMC). However, a straightforward blockchain explorer search clearly indicates the wallet bears a label identifying it as property of the U.S. government.…

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