Another swampy state employees pension fund was making investments in shady companies...
Oregon pension fund officials approved their investment firm buy NSO Group spyware company that has been used around the world to spy on people & abuse human rights.
theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…
So taxpayer dollars poured into state employee pension funds were supporting both Francisco Partners who owned NSO first & then Novalpina who bought them...
Bad publicity about spying & human rights violations were just "noise" when there were Swampy deals to be made....
I wonder if state investment funds were being guided to funds & companies that did dirty deeds for the Swampy politicians who approved the deals?
There are lots of similar cases in other states like Pennsylvania, where teachers' pension funds were invested in a shell company for Glencore doing swampy oil deals with Kurdish politicians.
And Republican Swamp creature Elliott Broidy, who Trump's DOJ convicted for a failed plot to bribe Trump on behalf of President Xi of China, was involved in orrupt pension fund deals in NY state & California.
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