Posts Tagged ‘Fraud’
Sam Bankman-Fried, the Founder of FTX, Has Been Convicted of Fraud and Has Been Sentenced to a Lengthy 25-Year Prison Term
Good Day America… By SRH, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York. The judge rejected Bankman-Fried’s argument that FTX customers did not suffer any losses and accused him of lying during his trial. Bankman-Fried was convicted of conspiracy and fraud charges…
3/22/24: FTX Was Down to Last 105 Bitcoins When Bankruptcy Rescue Crew Arrived: John Ray,Ray Said Bankman-Fried’s Victims “Will Never Be Returned to the Same Economic Position They Would Have Been in Today Absent His Colossal Fraud
By Cheyenne Ligon Current FTX CEO John J. Ray III is pushing back against his disgraced predecessor Sam Bankman-Fried’s claims that customers lost “zero” money in the exchange’s 2022 collapse, calling them “categorically, callously, and demonstrably false.” In a victim impact statement penned by Ray on behalf of FTX and its subsidiaries, Ray told New…
3/20/24:During Spring Bank Panic of 2023, Liquidity Advances from FHLBs Topped Those of Q4 2008, when Wall Street Was in Collapse
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: According to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and using a graph from the St. Louis Fed above, the liquidity crisis among banks in the spring of last year was far more dramatic than has been acknowledged by banking regulators. According to the data, during the worst financial crisis…
3/19/24: JPMorgan’s Federally-Insured Bank Is Fined $348 Million for Losing Track of “Billions” of Trades
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: March 19 2024 Jamie Dimon Sits in Front of Trading Monitor in his Office (Source: 60 Minutes Interview, November 10, 2019) On Thursday of last week, two of JPMorgan Chase Bank’s federal regulators fined the riskiest bank in the United States $348 million dollars for engaging in “unsafe and unsound banking…
3/13/24: A New York Times Financial Writer Acknowledges That He Has Been Fabricating Bank Capital Figures for the Past 14 Years
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Andrew Ross Sorkin Yesterday, in an emailed newsletter to readers of the New York Times, financial writer Andrew Ross Sorkin effectively admitted that he has had no clue what bank capital actually is for the past 14 years so he just grabbed the phrase “rainy day fund” to describe it –…
3/11/24: Jerome Powell Openly Admits That Banks Will Collapse This Year
By SRH, Earlier this week, in a Senate Banking Committee, the esteemed Fed Chair Jerome Powell reluctantly acknowledged that the United States is bound to confront a series of unavoidable banking collapses this year. However, he audaciously asserts that this forthcoming surge of calamities shall be within the realm of “manageable.” Another round of deceit…
3/7/24: Wall Street Mega Banks Have Created a Circular Firing Squad with Credit Derivatives and Capital Relief Trades – with the Fed’s Blessing
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: On June 11, 2015, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) released a sobering report on how banks were reducing their requirements to hold adequate capital against potential losses by engaging in non-transparent “capital relief trades” with potentially questionable counterparties. The OFR researchers summarized the problem as follows: “Capital relief transactions may…
3/4/24: Bank Failures Since 2009–The New Norm Banks Collapse
Earlier in the year Silicon Valley Bank failed March 10 and then Signature Bank failed two days later, ending the unusual streak of more than 800 days without a bank failure. Before Citizens Bank failed Friday, Heartland Tri-State Bank failed July 28 and First Republic Bank failed May 1. U.S. bank failures Longest periods between…
2/3/24: Which Banks Are In Trouble In 2024?
BanksterCrime: The worst banks in America of 2024 It’s important to keep in mind that even if a bank is featured here, that doesn’t mean it should be avoided at all costs — these are still major businesses with large customer bases, and might be able to serve your banking needs just fine. However, it…
3/1/24: The Fed Pretends to Send a Warning to Wall Street’s Mega Banks on Derivatives and Counterparty Risk
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: On Tuesday, the Vice Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve, Michael Barr, delivered a speech at a risk management conference in Manhattan. Barr’s objective was to convince conference attendees that the Fed has its eye on the ball when it comes to Wall Street mega banks and their counterparties…