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.
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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Gone are the days of German leaders from East Germany, weakening NATO by not spending their agreed upon defense budget.
Gone are the days fo German politicians buying energy from Russia & taking Swampy deals & well paid seats on Russian company boards.
Credit Suisse pleads guilty & flips for helping 475 US account holders hide billions from the IRS in off-shore accounts.
They have also signed a deferred prosecution agreement for other crimes & agreed to cooperate!
Crimes from 2010-2021!
#ButNothingsHappening
Credit Suisse will pay $510M in fines & penalties in addition to the guilty plea.
After corrupt bankers collapsed Credit Suisse, UBS bought them & are now also forced to comply with the cooperation agreement!
It's a 2 for 1 special!
The reason for the requirement to plead guilty is likely because when they committed these crimes, they were under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement signed in 2014 that required their cooperation.
They didn't think DOJ would hold them to it!
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.