Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Deep Throat: Mark Felt Dies
December 22nd, 2008Via: AP: W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as “Deep Throat” 30 years after he helped The Washington Post unravel the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 95. Felt died Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa under hospice care after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months, said family […]
‘The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History’
December 22nd, 2008The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History by Tyler Gray Ponzi schemes? Check. Aircraft leasing? Check. Questionable activities with young boys? Check. Florida? Check. It’s an unfortunate choice for a title, with the Madoff situation just coming into view… Via: Orlando Sentinel: Credit for the biggest American […]
And Now… A New Star Will Appear in the Sky and Maitreya Will Unfurl???
December 21st, 2008Benjamin Creme has been shoveling the same bullshit since 1982. What’s fascinating to me is that this somehow garners straight laced treatment from the mainstream press, even now!? For years, I’ve been expecting some kind of Jim Jones style Maitreya mind control operation to commence, but it never happens. Does the balloon finally go up […]
Madoff Can’t Leave Apartment, Prosecutors Fear ‘Harm or Flight’
December 20th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Bernard Madoff, accused in a $50 billion investment fraud, was placed under 24-hour house arrest in his $7 million New York City apartment after prosecutors warned of his “harm or flight.” Madoff, 70, had been subject to electronic monitoring and a 7 p.m. curfew under a Dec. 17 court order. Now […]
Madoff’s Auditor… Doesn’t Audit?
December 18th, 2008Via: Fortune: The three-person auditing firm that apparently certified the books of Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, the shuttered home of an alleged multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is drawing new scrutiny. Already under investigation by local prosecutors for its potential role in the scandal, the firm, Friehling & Horowitz, is now also being investigated by the American […]
Scotland Yard Anti-terrorism Adviser Wanted by Interpol for Terrorist Offences
December 17th, 2008Via: Telegraph: Former intelligence chief Baroness Neville-Jones has urged Scotland Yard to sack one of its anti-terrorism advisers who is wanted by Interpol for terrorist offences. Mohamed Ali Harrath has reportedly been advising the Metropolitan Police, the UK’s biggest force, on countering Muslim extremism. Lady Neville-Jones, who chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee, and is a […]
Madoff’s “Auditing” Firm: Friehling & Horowitz, One Room Office, Three Employees
December 16th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: The auditor for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, whose namesake was charged in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme last week, is under investigation by the district attorney in New York’s Rockland County, a northern suburb of New York City. The New City, New York, auditing firm Friehling & Horowitz signed off on […]
SEC Didn’t Act on Madoff Tips
December 16th, 2008Imagine my shock. Friehling and Horowitz… Just where is that rabbit hole going to lead? Via: Washington Post: The Securities and Exchange Commission learned about what it describes as one of the largest securities frauds in history when Bernard L. Madoff volunteered his confession, raising questions about the agency’s ability to police the financial marketplace. […]
Thomas M. Tamm: Whistleblower
December 16th, 2008What Thomas Tamm has to say is interesting, but it seems like chicken scratch compared to what Russell Tice was trying to tell Congress. Via: Newsweek: In the spring of 2004, Tamm had just finished a yearlong stint at a Justice Department unit handling wiretaps of suspected terrorists and spies—a unit so sensitive that employees […]
The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud
December 15th, 2008UPDATE: Madoff Claims to Have Acted Alone Impossible. It’s like I said when the news first broke. He’s trying to stay alive. This one goes all the way up the ladder. One wrong word and he’s dead, his family is dead, etc. He knows it. He’s sticking to a script. For the first time, I’m […]
