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This week: #MobDepravity
A series of threads focusing on THE MOB & THE 7 DEADLY SINS.
Lust 💋🏩👯♀️
Gluttony🥃🍻💉💊
Greed💰💎💍
Sloth☠️
Wrath👹⚔️
Envy🤑
Pride👌
Today's thread will be on GREED: How the mob steals from individuals, corporations, nations, and continents.
A series of threads focusing on THE MOB & THE 7 DEADLY SINS.
Lust 💋🏩👯♀️
Gluttony🥃🍻💉💊
Greed💰💎💍
Sloth☠️
Wrath👹⚔️
Envy🤑
Pride👌
Today's thread will be on GREED: How the mob steals from individuals, corporations, nations, and continents.
First we star with how the mob steals from individuals.
Stock market manipulation is one way. Who loses the most with penny stock scams? Individual investors.
Stock market manipulation is one way. Who loses the most with penny stock scams? Individual investors.
Hacking bank accounts and individuals' credit cards is another.
Jewelry theft is another. (Sometimes, the robbee is in cahoots with the robber because...insurance fraud....)
Next up: how the mob steals from corporations:
Intellectual property theft is one.
Intellectual property theft is one.
Hacking is a big one.
twitter.com/i/moments/8951…
twitter.com/i/moments/8951…
Naked short selling is another.
(It's a weird concept to explain in a tweet but basically in order to short-sell a stock, you have to first borrow the stock. which means only (up to) 100% of the outstanding shares could be short-sold (if the owners were willing to lend all of
(It's a weird concept to explain in a tweet but basically in order to short-sell a stock, you have to first borrow the stock. which means only (up to) 100% of the outstanding shares could be short-sold (if the owners were willing to lend all of
it, which they usually aren't- usually only some of the float is available to be borrowed). but-naked shorting means you don't have the borrow and could theoretically sell 500% of the outstanding shares...flooding the market, causing a share price plunge.
Theft of entire corporations is another way the mob steals.
Read Red Notice by @Billbrowder for an in-depth explanation of how this works-the Russian Mafia State murdered Sergei Magnitsky when he discovered what they were doing. goodreads.com/book/show/2260…
Read Red Notice by @Billbrowder for an in-depth explanation of how this works-the Russian Mafia State murdered Sergei Magnitsky when he discovered what they were doing. goodreads.com/book/show/2260…
Now we move into how the mob steals from nations.
Benefit fraud is a big one. In the US, the Russian Mafia in particular, targets Medicare and Medicaid.
Benefit fraud is a big one. In the US, the Russian Mafia in particular, targets Medicare and Medicaid.
This phenomenon of benefit theft from nations is not solely a US phenomenon, however.
Look at Germany: occrp.org/en/daily/6525-…
Look at Germany: occrp.org/en/daily/6525-…
In Venezuela, PDVSA theft scandal is a HUGE problem. And the MOB has corrupted the government so much that... reuters.com/article/us-ven…
And in Malaysia, the 1MDB scandal, where billions were stolen from the Malaysian people.
In the 1980s/90s, the Russian mafia basically controlled Sierra Leone.
You can read about it in the ESSENTIAL book, Red Mafiya by Robert Friedman. goodreads.com/book/show/7664…
You can read about it in the ESSENTIAL book, Red Mafiya by Robert Friedman. goodreads.com/book/show/7664…
Why did they want to control Sierra Leone? Natural resources.
The mob has invaded the continent of Africa with an insatiable thirst for natural resources.
Like diamonds.
The mob has invaded the continent of Africa with an insatiable thirst for natural resources.
Like diamonds.
There's much more to dig into regarding THE MOB and GREED💰💎💍, but let's wrap up here for today's exploration. We'll dig deeper into this theme in the future.
Tomorrow, we'll focus on THE MOB and SLOTH☠️.
#MobDepravity
Tomorrow, we'll focus on THE MOB and SLOTH☠️.
#MobDepravity
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