The #ButNothingsHappening cases are moving from the banks to the Hedge Funds who are rigging markets to profit off short selling & other manipulation schemes.
Looking at collusion between Hedge Funds & market research firms to coordinate trades to illegally profit off news before it becomes public.
The investigation is being run out of Los Angeles, instead of NY where most of the markets are located...
Does that mean it grew out of other investigations conducted by those offices?
Looks like a major investigation into some big players, but hese are not people with name recognition to the public...
Of course these short sellers have been pushing to have the small investors who sabotaged some of their short sales by colluding to buy up stocks like Gamestop.
DOJ is looking for evidence of collusion & false statements about funding & relationships with researchers. I'm sure there will be #receipts & communications related to manipulating the markets...
Industry insiders are saying this will all go away, like it usually does, because FBI won't find the evidence of coordination between these short sellers...
Times have changed with investigators using AI & big data tools to indentify suspicious activity to narrow investigations.
Some researchers have been paid specifically to go after companies the hedge funds wanted to short sell. One even got a cut of the profits from the deals that occurred because his research panicked investors to sell stocks & allow short sellers to buy at lower prices.
The researchers get paid by the hedge funds, then write dodgy dossiers about the target companies. The companies' stock value drops & the hedge fund investors cash in on their short sell bets...
I was right about why this office has the cases.
They previously brought the cases against JPMorgan Chase for manipulating precious metals markets & US Treasury futures.
How did they find it? Big data analysis for suspicious trades to get probable cause to investigate them!!!
Looks like the investigation began before Gamestop but they have issued subpoenas as recently as October, probably since then too.
Fake news based on dodgy dossiers isn't limited only to the political realm. It can manipulate financial markets to allow thos involved in the manipulation to profit at the expense of honest investors.
Of course these hedge funds are exploiting holes in the regulations, but I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people involved were also involved in lobbying & helping write those rules to include the loopholes...
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How long before people realize that Trump sets up cases to get precedents set in court?
Once the exact parameters & processes for using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 are confirmed deporting Tren de Aragua, how long does Trump wait to use it on China's 1000 Talents spy program?
It would be very easy to prove in court by the precedents set at this time that the 1000 Talents program is a predatory incursion against the United States by the Chinese government.
Let's look at how President Trump tricked Putin into a far greater Russian defeat in Ukraine!
Trump learned the Rope-A-Dope from his friend Mohammed Ali!
Please excuse my poor 'artwork' replacing Ali & Fraser with Trump & Putin!
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Rope-a-dope is a boxing technique in which one contender leans against the ropes of the ring & draws non-injuring offensive punches, letting the opponent tire themself out. This gives the former the opportunity then to execute devastating offensive punches to help them win.
So while Putin & his fake news brag about Russia having Ukraine on the ropes, he is wasting what little is left of Russia's military, economy, & manpower to make ineffective attacks on wheat fields in the middle of nowhere.
While Ukraine's counterpunches are crushing Russia.
Edwin Pagan III was indicted in November based upon the OIG investigation.
Now David Macey has been indicted too & the charges agains Pagan have been expanded.
It started as 'tell me who is getting indicted so I can get them to hire me as their lawyer."
Became warn the cartels...
The unsealed indictment is available here:
I don't know why they don't name the 2 DEA agents as they have also been indicted in early cases based on the DOJ OIG investigation. justice.gov/d9/2025-02/u.s…
If you follow the fake news, you won't understand what
this means.
China is controlling rare earth minerals markets by buying Swamp creatures around the world to get mining rights & then not mine the minerals in places like Greenland & Ukraine.
Why? Because the Clinton Admin through the Gore–Chernomyrdin Commission sold those mining rights 30 years ago to oligarchs.
For Ukraine to resell the rights to the US, they must first prove that the sales to Clinton & Putin's oligarchs were corrupt!