Comments on: Political Prosecution of Elliot Spitzer

By: Shroomduke

Shroomduke — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:01:54 +0000

Eliot Spitzer was “taken out” because he stepped on too many toes, this is part of the Bush Cabal’s “WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS”!

“In 2001, Spitzer investigated subprime-mortgage giant Household International for misrepresenting the terms of loans. Household paid $484 million—at the time, the largest settlement for victims of predatory lending ever.”

Any questions?

Remember the Sheriff?
A.G. Eliot Spitzer nearly arrested the subprime crisis. http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/51831/

http://saveandrewgarib.com/?page=templates/article&articleid=140

OK, maybe I am paranoid but, what if the Economic Disaster was engineered? Three questions come to mind,
1. who?
2. why?
3. how?
Why would anyone burn down his home or business? Sounds insane but it happens.

Who, Those who stand to gain Wealth & Power
Why, For Finnancial, Political and personal reasons
How, This didn’t happen overnight and it is a long and complex issue but I suggest anyone interested does their own research! The answers are out there… do du dooo do duuu

google “Economic Disaster Engineered”

This is no accident, you can NOT screw up this badly by mistake!

By: ThisCanadian

ThisCanadian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:26:09 +0000

There is no WE in corruption…

How dumb do you have to be to believe that corruption or ‘getting in on the action’ will benefit YOU?

Obviously, North America has come to the conclusion that *cheating* is only for Winners….

By: ThisCanadian

ThisCanadian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:39:40 +0000

thoughts on “Holding the Bully’s Coat” …

Linda McQuaid’s discussion on the SPP …

By: CK

CK — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:02:54 +0000

And how does one tell if the sources are illegal? He smurfed. The transactions looked like smurfings and were followed up as if they were illegal smurfings.
The law assumes that structuring transactions this way is evidence of illegal behaviour.
Structuring transactions so as not to trip the $10,000 mandatory single transaction reporting requirement is illegal. It does not matter whether the source of the funds was illegal. Your bank will rat you out to the feds, the irs, any anyone else they might be secretly required to.
So)
1) He moved monies from his accounts in multiple transaction in quantities below the manadatory single amount for reporting.
2) into a shell company account
3) asked his bank to remove his name from the transfers.
It qualifies.
The specific term “smurfing” did indeed come from the multiple little blue columbian money launderers. The law against Structuring ( smurfing ) went a bit farther in defining what would qualify as a smurf. Smurfing, it’s not just for Columbians anymore.

By: Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:23:01 +0000

Ck,
You are wrong. Smurfing involves moving proceeds from illegal sources into bank accounts. The term was coined because Colombian drug lords employed folks who were tasked everyday to deposit money from drug proceeds into bank accounts in order to repatriate the money to Colombia.

Nothing that Spitzer did qualifies as Smurfing. You do not know what you are talking about.

By: BlueBerry Pick'n

BlueBerry Pick'n — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:08:59 +0000

La rage
The Thieves of Virtue: legislating morality undermines representative government.

…if enough laws legislate morality, no representative gov’t official is beyond the reach of legal intimidation…

think about it.

is it a crime because its a crime…? or because its VICE crimes make it easier for Power to keep their feet on your Human Rights-seeking neck?

… how exactly does *a vice crime* impact one’s ability to do their job? the fact a vice is a policed & monitored *activity*… not the activity… thus, you create a society where *nobody is perfect enough to do their job on THE ELECTORATE’s behalf*… & for whom does that works out?

isn’t government about putting a representative in place to potentially level the playing field so we have a *shot* at justice in a culture where Money & Power have no interest in our free participation?

its about our COMPLIANCE & SUBMISSION.

“Serf-fulfilling” @ Montebello: Police accused of using provocateurs at Security & Prosperity Partnership Summit

Are we naturally mean? thoughts on Howard Zinn’s “The Myth of the Killer Instinct“

Join the Revolution: get laid

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By: ThisCanadian

ThisCanadian — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:05:20 +0000

The Thieves of Virtue: legislating morality undermines representative government….

Legislating Authority, removes power from those who are elected to protect our freedoms.

Thoughts on how a sex prostitution political scandal undermines effective representative governement.

INCLUDES: Whoopie Goldberg discussing Spitzer
Noam Chomsky…

By: CK

CK — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:29:55 +0000

They still have there jobs because they did not prosecute and jail any prosties. They still have their jobs because they only vote to criminalize consensual sex between people of the same sex.
The fraud in the white house will have served fully his two terms, he will start another war sometime before election day under the belief that Amurcans will not elect a black or a woman when the country is in a real war.

By: Make Them Accountable / Media

Make Them Accountable / Media — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:45:43 +0000

[...] Sex Sting: A Few More Questions (by Scott Horton at No Comment, Harper’s Magazine, thanks to No Quarter) Note that [the Eliot Spitzer] prosecution was managed with staffers from the Public Integrity [...]

By: Cee Hussein

Cee Hussein — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:05:38 +0000

Mimi,

I told you when the story broke that I suspected something more was going on.

Who decided to target him?

By: yttik

yttik — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:05:20 +0000

Maybe he is a liar and a fraud. But we’ve got someone in the white house who lied about WMD and has caused the deaths of thousands of troops and close to a million Iraqis. So where are the calls for him to resign? Where are the threats of impeachment? Where are the criminal charges?

And speaking of simply lying about sex, why do Vitter and Craig still have their jobs?

By: Cee Hussein

Cee Hussein — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:03:52 +0000

yttik,

Last year I gave a contractor a check to pick up extra supplies he needed. He went to my bank to cash it. They didn’t want to give him the money!!
I almost had to show up in person.

By: Cee Hussein

Cee Hussein — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:53:51 +0000

The banks really do not have a lot of leeway, thanks to the bedwetters who passed the Patriot act

CK,

Unfortunately Spitzer supported these overreaching measures

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/

Shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center, Gov. Pataki along with Attorney General Spitzer wrote the grossly overreaching Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001. Much like the federal PATRIOT Act, the Anti-Terrorism Act attempted to curtail our civil liberties in the name of national defense.

The Act sanctions “roving” wiretaps of US citizens, expands the definition of terrorist activity to include money laundering [TRIPLE IRONY ALERT!!], and eliminates the statute of limitations for all “terrorist” offenses. The Act also permits the prosecution of suspects despite a pending or prior federal prosecution, and among further offensives, Spitzer and Pataki’s bill prevents suspects from being freed due to a “technicality,” i.e. an unlawful action made by investigators and law enforcement officials in complying with federal search and seizure regulations.

By: Cee Hussein

Cee Hussein — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:49:17 +0000

Holocaust victims

By: Cee Hussein

Cee Hussein — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:48:46 +0000

CK,

I read about this on YNet. The guy had three passports and it did make me think of what happened to McGreevy.

Spitzer investigated the misuse of money for Holocaust in the past.

By: mimi

mimi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:15:18 +0000

Come on people! This is about HYPOCRISY! No one cares about the sex or the money he spent on it or how he got busted. This is about a man with such a tremendous EGO, ARROGANCE and in-your-face attitude. It’s about someone who was faililng MISERABLY at governing. Someone who rode to office with a HUGE LANDSLIDE victory due to his posturing and proclaimations for change and cleaning up gov’t. People believed him, I believed him and gave him my vote. And he turned out to be a LIAR and a FRAUD.

Now who does this remind you of??? Instead of defending this dead-in-the-water loser, we should be using this to our advantage about the difference between posturing and governing. About substance and the lack of.

Come on people….. let’s make it work!

By: yttik

yttik — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:36:30 +0000

You’re not the only one. I’ve been appalled by how much power banks have and how much they can violate your privacy. If you make a big enough deposit or withdrawl they notify the IRS. You’re contantly being tattled on and your job becomes always having to be prepared to defend yourself. It’s your money, but you always have to be able to justify how you got it and how you’re spending it. It might make sense if they’re tracking foreign billionaires or something, but when it comes to a dinky company like me doing payroll or paying bills, it gets annoying. And invasive. And time consuming.

By: CK

CK — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:25:30 +0000

Not some bank
All banks
Not some accounts
All accounts
Supposedly this makes you more secure.
You could have voted for someone who would actually work to repeal these laws.
Instead you have a choice among three candidates who love these laws.
I find cash in hand is nice stuff. And given that any savings account you might find pays less in interest than the prevailing rate of inflation, cash in hand is not a bad form of security.
Except that if you are stopped by a security officer, and you have cash on you, the cash can and will be confiscated as proof of nefarious behaviour on your part.

By: bob h

bob h — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:19:31 +0000

Spitzer’s status as a high elected official obviously affected the bank-IRS reporting requirements (as though a filthy rich man like Spitzer were taking bribes). What is to stop them from doing this to any high elected Democratic official?

By: CK

CK — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:10:59 +0000

How exactly do you set up a man to spend 80K on hookers over an extended period?
Bill Clinton had a long time reputation as a horndog. Putting a pretty little thing in a thong into his office staff might be doable. Making sure he hit on the pretty little thing is not a guaranteed slam dunk.
Spitzer went to the escort service, it didn’t come to him. As far as we can see, he did not get a discount on the services.
I am neither a shrink nor a defense attorney, why Spitzer bought sex is for others to examine.
As a generality, purchased sex is really two things, the sex which might be something one cannot get or cannot get in a way he enoys at home, and the knowledge that the seller will not be there in the morning. Hollywood movies aside, purchased sex is not a gateway drug to love and marriage.
And even at 5500 an hour, it is still just a piece-work job.