“You are up against some really nasty, vicious people,” the Senator said, “They will not hesitate to kill you.”
January 30th, 2009Via: Deep Capture:
During the fall of 2006, Patrick Byrne had some strange experiences as well.
Somebody broke into Patrick’s home, and soon after, somebody broke into the home of a woman who was Patrick’s girlfriend at the time. Then somebody threw a pair of metal gardening shears through the window of the girlfriend’s restaurant.
Around the same time, Patrick’s then-girlfriend discovered that for some mysterious reason, her phone records were being sent to the home of a Russian man working for Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing (formerly Spear, Leeds, and Kellogg – in its day, one of the most egregious naked short selling outfits on the Street).
I asked Goldman Sachs about this. I was told that the bank had investigated thoroughly and found no reason to believe that the Russian man, Elliot Faivinov, had obtained the phone records. (For anyone interested, the phone company can confirm that he did receive the phone records.)
At any rate, I have since learned that Goldman Sachs became a large donor to the Columbia Journalism Review sometime not long after Kingsford Capital announced that it would be paying my salary. Wall Street has never been so devoted to the dowdy world of media criticism.
As if all of this were not enough, one day in the fall of 2006, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch invited Patrick to his home. As soon as Patrick entered the lobby of the apartment building, the Senator pulled him aside and said that he had credible information that Patrick’s life was in danger.
“You are up against some really nasty, vicious people,” the Senator said, “They will not hesitate to kill you.”
This is the second time I am hearing of this kind of corporate gestapo behavior. Everyone knows they are dirty, greedy, etc, but now come the overt death threats, a new level/indicator.
Last year at a small social party, a friend of mine who operates a small software services company told of a conversation he had with a customer, one of the big office supply chains I believe. I don’t know the details, but he got a contract to work on some system for them that evidently handled finances. No idea what though.
He described a conversation he had with a senior manager there, went something like this:
“You know in South America, life is cheap. They kill people there for $100 without thinking twice. Imagine what they do here for millions.”
It was sort of a ‘can you hear me now?” warning. Anyway this is a frightening trend that as things get worse I expect blackwater types to employed by these corporations to carry out more of these kind of ‘special projects’.