Sunday, January 23, 2011

UBS'n us!



WikiLeaks founder Assange slams Swiss banker arrest

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE70M07T20110123

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/01/06/2010-01-06_unveils_bank_fraud_gets_jail.html

"Barack Obama, who entered the White House promising all this change, should be hailing Bradley Birkenfeld as a modern-day hero.

He should erect a statue on Wall Street for this former banker for Swiss giant UBS who blew the whistle on the biggest tax-evasion scheme in U.S. history.

Instead of rewarding Birkenfeld, Obama's Justice Department is sending him to prison. He begins serving a 40-month federal sentence Friday for conspiracy and bank fraud."

"Only Birkenfeld, the 44-year-old whistleblower, ends up in jail - the No. 1 example of injustice and hypocrisy in the age of Obama."

IRS http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=110092,00.html

UBS Clients to date


Nov. 19, 2010 — Bernard Goldstein, of Carlsbad, Calif., was indicted for conspiracy to defraud the IRS, filing false tax returns, and failing to file Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts (FBARs). Goldstein is alleged to have transferred over $2 million in a UBS account to a sham Panamanian corporation in an effort to conceal the account from the IRS.

Nov. 18, 2010 — Jeffrey Chatfield, of San Diego, Calif., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in which he failed to report a UBS account containing $900,000.  Between 2000 and 2008, Chatfield transferred the $900,000 through several offshore accounts of nominee entities.

Nov. 18, 2010 — Lucille Abrahamsen Jackson, of Hilldale, N.J., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return and failing to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Account (FBAR). She admitted to concealing over $750,000 in a UBS account by transferring ownership of the account to a nominee Panamanian corporation.

Sept. 21, 2010 — Jules Robbins, of New York, N.Y., who owned and operated watch distribution companies, was sentenced to one year probation and ordered to pay a civil FBAR penalty of $20.8 million. Robbins set up a sham Hong Kong corporation which was listed as the holder of an UBS account in an effort to conceal his income from the IRS. This account and Robbins' other offshore accounts collectively contained almost $42 million in unreported income.

Sept. 17, 2010 — Federico Hernandez, of New York, N.Y., was sentenced to 12 months in prison, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay a civil FBAR penalty of $4.4 million. Hernandez used sham companies set up in the British Virgin Islands and Panama to conceal his ownership of UBS accounts totaling $8.8 million. 


July 1, 2010 — Leonid Zaltsberg, of Milltown, N.J., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for 2003 and failing to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts (FBAR). In his plea agreement, Zatlsberg admitted failing to disclose the existence of a Swiss bank account on his tax returns for the years 2000 through 2006 and concealing over $2 million in his Swiss account.

April 15, 2010 — In Manhattan, N.Y., seven UBS clients were indicted for collectively hiding over $100 million in secret Swiss bank accounts. Two of these individuals, Jules Robbins and Federico Hernandez, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay civil penalties of $20.8 million and $4.4 million, respectively. The remaining indicted clients were Kenneth Heller, Sybil Nancy Upham, Richard Werdiger, Ernest Vogliano and Shmuel Sternfeld.


 

April 13, 2010 — Paul Zabczuk, of The Woodlands, Texas, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return wherein he failed to report his interest in or signature authority over financial accounts at UBS AG. Zabczuk was sentenced on July 27, 2010, to three years of supervised release with one year served in home detention and 150 hours community service. In addition, Zabczuk was ordered to file accurate tax returns and pay all taxes, interest and penalties due and owing to the IRS. 

 

April 12, 2010 — Harry Abrahamsen, of Oradell, N.J., pleaded guilty to failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts (FBAR) report. Abrahamsen admitted that he concealed over $1 million in Swiss bank accounts.

Feb. 4, 2010 — Jack Barouh of Golden Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return. Barouh admitted to filing a false tax return for 2007 in which he failed to report a foreign bank account. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay all taxes, interest and penalties due and owing.

Oct. 5, 2009 — Roberto Cittadini of Bellevue, Wash., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return and admitted to concealing nearly $2 million in Swiss bank accounts. Cittadini, a retired sales manager for Boeing, failed to file a Report Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts for 2001 through 2003. Cittadini was sentenced on Jan. 8, 2010, to six months home detention and one year supervised release and was ordered to pay a $10,000 fee and $17,985 in restitution.

Sept. 25, 2009 — Juergen Homann of Saddle River, N. J., pleaded guilty to failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts and accepted responsibility for concealing more than $5 million in Swiss bank accounts. Homann was sentenced on Jan. 6, 2010, to five years probation and was ordered to pay a $60,000 fine.

Aug. 14, 2009 — John McCarthy of Malibu, Calif., pleaded guilty to failing to inform the government of a Swiss bank account as part of a scheme to move at least $1 million from the United States into Swiss bank accounts with the goal of avoiding the payment of federal income taxes. McCarthy was sentenced on March 22, 2010, to three years of supervised release with six months served in home detention and 300 hours community service. In addition, he was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine and to file tax returns for 2003 through 2008 and pay all taxes due and owing.

July 28, 2009 — Jeffrey P. Chernick of Stanfordville, N.Y., pleaded guilty to charges of filing a false tax return. Chernick, who owns a corporation which represents toy manufacturers in China and Hong Kong, accepted responsibility for concealing more than $8 million in Swiss bank accounts. Chernick was sentenced on Oct. 30, 2009, to three months in prison and one year of supervised release with six months served in home detention.

June 25, 2009 — UBS client Steven Michael Rubinstein of Boca Raton, Fla., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for tax year 2004. On April 1, 2009, Rubinstein was charged with filing a false tax return that intentionally failed to disclose the existence of a Swiss bank account maintained by UBS of which he was the beneficial owner and failed to report any income earned on that account. Rubinstein was sentenced on Oct. 28, 2009, to three years probation, of which 12 months will be served in home detention.
 
April 14, 2009 — Robert Moran of Lighthouse Point, Fla., pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with filing a false income tax return. Moran accepted responsibility for concealing more than $3 million in assets in a secret bank account at UBS in Switzerland. Moran was sentenced on Nov. 6, 2009, to two months in prison and one year of supervised release with five months in home confinement.

Why no high profile characters on the list?

 







"Gonzalez discusses an interview with Birkenfeld, in which the former banker notes that the bank had a special office to handle the accounts of “politically exposed persons”— American politicians. Moreover, the top brass at UBS includes key advisors to top politicians in both parties. This is exactly the kind of influence smuggling that breaking up the banks would help fix. UBS is a multi-trillion-dollar institution with no less than 27 U.S. subsidiaries."

 

How to beat the Rap - Frank-Dodd who else? Criminals for Criminals Bill

http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1155&Itemid=99999999

Birkenfeld remains in jail under the largest sentence to date. It is a warning by the criminal DOJ, FBI and Internal Revenue to protect the most corrupt political body ever in one govermnment. As a warning for others, Birkenfeld remains unpardoned from Barry the Chicago Don who plays golf with his financial consultants UBS.

It includes alleged fraudsters, Barack Obama, John McCain, Phil Gramm, Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, The Bush family, and rumored to contain many on the most corrupt list.

Here's a good source for added names

http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/

What do I say to reducing the vitriol? Over my dead MF body!

12 comments:

  1. I read an expose done by the accounting office at the Vatican that named the highest benefactors in this scandle...of course it was a list of the usual suspects...Obama was a new comer to the group including the clintons, bush family and all their cohorts, baker, peloosy,...et al.

    And another Bankster fraudhausen blitherfest:

    Fed Hides Major Accounting Change
    Reuters via CNBC

    Concerns that the Federal Reserve could suffer losses on its massive bond holdings may have driven the central bank to adopt a little-noticed accounting change with huge implications: it makes insolvency much less likely.

    The significant shift was tucked quietly into the Fed's weekly report on its balance sheet and phrased in such technical terms that it was not even reported by financial media when originally announced on Jan. 6.
    But the new rules have slowly begun to catch the attention of market analysts. Many are at once surprised that the Fed can set its own guidelines, and also relieved that the remote but dangerous possibility that the world's most powerful central bank might need to ask the U.S. Treasury or its member banks for money is now more likely to be averted.
    But they are averting asking the Treasury for money in the future by an accounting gimmick that will simply dump the debt off its own balance sheet and onto that of the Treasury. More from Reuters:

    [According to]Raymond Stone, managing director at Stone & McCarthy in Princeton, New Jersey, "An accounting methodology change at the central bank will allow the Fed to incur losses, even substantial losses, without eroding its capital."
    The change essentially allows the Fed to denote losses by the various regional reserve banks that make up the Fed system as a liability to the Treasury rather than a hit to its capital. It would then simply direct future profits from Fed operations toward that liability...

    "Any future losses the Fed may incur will now show up as a negative liability as opposed to a reduction in Fed capital, thereby making a negative capital situation technically impossible," said Brian Smedley, a rates strategist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and a former New York Fed staffer.


    "The timing of the change is not coincidental, as politicians and market participants alike have expressed concerns since the announcement (of a second round of asset buys) about the possibility of Fed 'insolvency' in a scenario where interest rates rise significantly," Smedley and his colleague Priya Misra wrote in a research note.

    That's right, the FED shifts all losses to taxpayers--whooda ever thunk it?
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  2. http://www.wallstreetsurvivor.com/CS/forums/t/42626.aspx

    Slush fund accounts of major US politicians identified and seized at Vatican Bank (Rome). Connection established with Daniel Dal Bosco RICO indictment, which cites Giancarlo Bruno, Silvio Berlusconi & Ban Ki Moon.

    On Wednesday 5th January 2011, it emerged that US establishment-related slush fund accounts had been located in, and seized from, the Vatican Bank in Rome. The source of funds for these accounts in almost every instance was found to be the US Treasury.

    Beneficiaries of the covert Vatican accounts include Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and each of the Obama children, Michelle Obama’s mother, all the Bushes and the Clintons, including Chelsea Clinton, Joe Biden, Timothy Geithner, Janet Napolitano, several US Senators, including Mitch McConnell, several US Congressmen including John Boehner, several US Military Chiefs of Staff, the US Provost Marshal, the US Judge Advocate General, the US Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts, several US Judges, the Pope, and several cardinals.

    Big money was found in each of the accounts. The longer the beneficiaries have been in office, the greater the account balances were found to be. They range from a few million USD to more than a billion USD in the case of John Roberts. The total number of slush fund accounts so far identified at the Vatican Bank is said to be between 600 and 700. This number is likely to grow as international élite corruption investigations spread worldwide.

    The disclosures have split the Roman Catholic Legatus organisation down the middle. Elizabeth Windsor (Queen Elizabeth II of England) is in the know and is intimately involved in the swirling and fissiparous covert power plays.

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  3. "resignation on March 17, 2008 in the wake of the exposure of his involvement as a client in a high-priced prostitution ring."

    It was obvious at the time this happened that Spitzer was set up. He was actually serious, he thought he could tangle with the system. They know everyones weak spots. No one gets anywhere in the racket that doesn't have known weak spots.

    Or, if no weak spots:
    http://gosrc.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/dr-thomas-b-manton-a-presentation-to-the-president-barack-obama/

    Dr. Thomas B. Manton, another government hit. Killed in prison serving bogus term.

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  4. purrrr ...

    ( from the memory hole )

    what are they trying to cover up ?
    Not a bunch of tax cheats, something bigger.
    we want to follow the money and investiators
    want to hush the whole thing up
    B I N G O and Bingo was his nameO

    Someone in the United Arab Emirates, using an alias, periodically wired money to and from hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi between June 2000 and the day before 9/11.

    The man at the center of the financial web is believed to be Sheikh Saeed, also known as Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad

    http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/10/05/inv.terror.investigation/

    On the morning of September 11, Lt. Gen. Mahmood was at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Senator Bob Graham and Representative Porter Goss.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Ahmed#Mahmud_visit_to_United_States

    This source said U.S. investigators now believe Sheik Syed,
    using the alias Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad, sent more than $100,000 from Pakistan to Mohammed Atta, the suspected hijacking ringleader who piloted one of the jetliners into the World Trade Center.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Umar_Sheikh#Connection_with_9.2F11_hijackers

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  5. I remembered that info when it first appeared Pod. The tension between India/Pak has been a balancing act. Our flood of jobs to India was appeasement and payoff whilst the committee planned the 911 and subsequent tactical strategies.

    What Spitzer and others knew about the SEC, FBI and other investigations went down with WTC 7. He was made aware in no certain terms. He chose life. To look at the seven headed dragon here starts as far back as Iran Contra. He also was going after the Glaxo Smithkline Gang as well.

    This P.E.P. office, Interpol, FinCEN, DOJ and SEC (with congressional help) all filter the financial banking schemes and have insured no high profile(committee) dealings see the light of day.

    Rogues info from Bob Chapman does not really have any teeth. Though not a stretch, it is not documented or Wikifiled. This latest info from the UBS could go a long way to connecting dots, confirming leagues and indicting the two-party D&C in Washington and abroad.

    The effort under pork laden bills contains weakening power to the people. Executive orders by Barry are as criminal as those by Bush-Clinton-Bush. If Assange is worth anything and I doubt he is, I'd rather see the UBS information over the BOA. We know what efforts were made by all parties to the Mortgage Scam and derivative ponzi.

    The Vatican/Crown and China own American real estate, Federal lands and the water we drink. We will have to fight for bread soon enough. Who's holding all the paper and fiat? Whose getting funds to operate carte blanche while they sit on these "NOT SO TOXIC ASSETS?" Wetlands and farmland are one in the same.

    Enter Monsanto, Con-Agri and ADM, where many of us will slave in the GMO mines just like the chinese coolies who apparently commit suicide randomly through each workday.

    I thank God everyday I'm not a parent with small children.

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  6. yea , 0racal knows were every cent goes
    the methods have'nt change,
    just the faces, places and names
    their still laundering moola thru
    the churches and casinos
    narcs are still the currency
    for black-op weapons trading
    the only difference now is china
    has joined the round table
    for her piece of amerikan pie
    future kids as collateral
    come on down,
    your the next contestant

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13tnjh3dZw4

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  7. "Rogues info from Bob Chapman does not really have any teeth. Though not a stretch, it is not documented or Wikifiled."

    Yea, I searched high and low for any verifiables--only my "trust" in Chapman as a straight shooter caused my link.
    I think it is probably true and hidden. I still can't find anything other than links to Chapman tho'...

    Thus we just presume guilt as per MO...that is my policy in this game, because it IS their MO no doubting that.
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  8. The Price is Too High......

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  9. "I thank God everyday I’m not a parent with small children."~Puddy

    My sentaments as well. I am also glad I was able to live the bulk of my life in the leadup, enjoying what remnants of freedom our generation once had.

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  10. "On the morning of September 11, Lt. Gen. Mahmood was at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Senator Bob Graham and Representative Porter Goss."

    Yea Pod, this was one of the early major flush outs revealing the pigs in the stye.

    Hmmm...somehow this funding problem became suddenly "irrelevant" to the eyes of the 9/11 Commission. Such grand sleuths they...Lol
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  11. purrr ..

    "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"

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  12. Ima watchin...hey, takin' notes too, just so my mind doesn't start wandering.
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