Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
SEC Probed Stanford Companies; Red Flags Abounded
February 23rd, 2009Via: AP: For years, there were red flags — so many they could have massed into a crimson blanket. As with the Bernard Madoff case, the scandal surrounding billionaire R. Allen Stanford now seems clear and obvious in hindsight. Yet Stanford managed to run his alleged scheme even while the Securities and Exchange Commission and […]
Secret U.S. Unit Trains Commandos in Pakistan
February 23rd, 2009Same as it ever was. Via: IHT: More than 70 United States military advisers and technical specialists are secretly working in Pakistan to help its armed forces battle Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the country’s lawless tribal areas, American military officials said. The Americans are mostly Army Special Forces soldiers who are training Pakistani […]
Texas Securities Regulators Found Evidence of Potential Money Laundering Involving Stanford Ten Years Ago
February 21st, 2009The Texas authorities called in the FBI and SEC… which did nothing. What you have here is a long running U.S. Intelligence operation that became so large and sloppy that it finally blew up. Oh yeah, I wonder what went on in the Bogota, Colombia office… Via: Houston Chronicle: The SEC only has the authority […]
Kucinich on Stanford Group Fraud: SEC Told to “Stand Down” by Unknown Federal Agency in 2006
February 21st, 2009Dennis Kucinich is trying to determine which federal agency told the SEC to stand down with regard to Allen Stanford in 2006. Which agency? Well, last Tuesday (17 February 2009), Allen Stanford was unable to charter a private jet to take him from Houston to Antigua. Then, of all the places he could have gone, […]
Robert Allen Stanford, Under Investigation for Laundering Drug Money, Was a Major Political Donor
February 20th, 2009You might need to take an extra hit of Hopenosis after reading this one. Via: Christian Science Monitor: Until 2000, Robert Allen Stanford had no record of giving money to anyone in Washington. But then the Clinton administration introduced legislation to crack down on international money laundering. Suddenly Mr. Stanford, whose company ran a bank […]
Cousin of 9/11 “Hijacker” Worked for Mossad Since 1983
February 20th, 2009Via: New York Times: For 25 years, Ali al-Jarrah managed to live on both sides of the bitterest divide running through this region. To friends and neighbors, he was an earnest supporter of the Palestinian cause, an affable, white-haired family man who worked as an administrator at a nearby school. To Israel, he appears to […]
FBI Finds Allen Stanford in Virginia
February 20th, 2009Not Langley, Virginia. The FBI didn’t arrest him. Via: Reuters: Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of an $8 billion fraud that spooked investors around the world, was found in Virginia on Thursday and FBI agents served him with a complaint from U.S. regulators. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted […]
How Much of the Federal Debt Is Financed with Drug Money?
February 20th, 2009Via: Clusterstock: Allen Stanford forfeited $3 million in drug money back in 1999, and it’s a sure thing that within his multi-billion empire he had many more drug dollars under his care. This is true not just of Stanford, but of the whole Caribbean offshore banking complex, as drug dealers are obviously interested in the […]
UK: Serious Fraud Office Looking at Stanford Link
February 19th, 2009Via: Reuters: The Serious Fraud Office is monitoring a possible link from the scandal surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford after media reports that his firm was audited from the United Kingdom. Antigua-based accounting firm C.A.S. Hewlett, which the Evening Standard reported had audited Stanford’s books, moved its operations to London after its founder Charlesworth ‘Shelley’ […]
Stanford Under Federal Drug Investigation
February 19th, 2009A Texas billionaire laundering drug money… Imagine my complete and total shock. But did you know that it’s SIR Allen Stanford? That’s right! He’s the first American to be knighted by Antigua and Barbuda. I wonder how close this guy is to Dubya and the gang… Via: Reuters: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and […]
