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Amended $MCB 🧵: $MCB's auditor Crowe LLP raised a "critical audit matter" relating to the "qualitative" & "subjective" nature of $MCB's measurements of how many loans would go bad. (@RasooliSheida made a mistake w/r/t whether it was on the $MCB site but it's still bad.
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$MCB took a huge $35 million charge that wiped out their profits for 2022-Q4 in anticipation of getting fined civilly and possibly criminally for #PPP loan fraud of some kind.
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They did that because... they're under investigation. At the very least they are gonna get hit with major civil violations, but I have a hunch it will escalate to criminal bc of the #CryptoCom/#Binance connection... $MCB
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I will leave this mini-thread about how $MCB just hired the team that ran the extremely fraud prone EB-5 "greencards 4 cash" related program over at the now completely collapsed $SBNY right here:
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Given that everyone's a bubblin' about how commercial real estate is an absolute fucking train wreck that just keeps accelerating into what appears to be a brick wall, maybe good to note $MCB's loans are 80% CRE.
And 19% of those are in a category called "Other".
WTF?
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In addition to it's vast commercial real estate loan portfolio that is going to absolutely eat shit in the next few years $MCB has about a half billion in treasuries and mortgage backed securities...
Also all of the same long term kind that sank $SIVB.
ngmi
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If we look at $MCB's employees' work histories we find a whole lot of references to small banks convicted of fraud:
- $SBNY
- #CrossRiverBank (@coinbase's bank, #PPP loan fraud accusations f. Congress)
- #HSBC (🚩)
- Deutsche Bank
- Popular Bank
- Bank of China
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What's that thing the smart short sellers say about executives leaving the firm being the #1 best indicator that something is wrong at a company?
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Almost no one at $MCB has been there even two years. It makes me think the ongoing NYDFS investigation and soon to be written civil and / or criminal charges for the bank led NYDFS to restructure it...
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Morgan Stanley also reporting that $MCB has four (4!) active crypto clients as of January 2023 but then only lists 3 (and one of them might not be a "banking client").
Who are the other ones?
Also lol at all these sus banks offering #TassatPay AKA #SigNET by $SBNY.
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Countdown to $MCB's cry of "misinformation from short sellers"...
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: The Epstein / Russia / Israel / Crypto Timeline
The recently released #EpsteinFiles make it crystal clear that Epstein's involvement in crypto was much deeper and long lasting than had been previously understood.
(link in bio, RTs 🙏)
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If you're just catching up now here's a reminder that one of the things that came out in the recent "#EpsteinFiles" was the fact that bitcoin's core development team was funded from 2015 to [???] almost entirely by Jeffrey Epstein's largesse.
somehow no one has ever posted on twitter about the 5 emails in the #EpsteinFiles that seem to be between epstein and Renata Bolotova, who appears to be a fund manager at New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) and who asks Epstein "how are you sneaky?", so I'm posting about it.
...to which epstein replies "sexy" #EpsteinFiles
i have no idea if ms. bolotova is the "kazakh daughter" referred to in the bannon / epstein chats but assuming the picture above is of the right renata bolotova (which i think it is, but not 100% sure) then you have to admit she does look pretty kazakh.
2016: Epstein receives an email from Qatari "Jabor Y." regarding "Sharia guys" and "e-currency" a year and a half after Epstein had provided the funding for the bitcoin core development team at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. #EpsteinFiles
2/ maybe not actually a Qatari - @matthew_petti at @reason described the "Jabor Y" who was interested in "e-currency" as "an influential man in Qatar".
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There's what looks like a 2015 pitch sheet (?) from #BlockchainCapital, co-founded by epstein's pal #BrockPierce who would go on to help launch Tether (a nation state sized money laundering machine) and EOS (1 of the biggest scams in history, ~$4bn) journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/docum…
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Disgraced former head of the MIT Media Lab Joi Ito seen here telling Epstein that crypto is "like the internet" but the core team is in need of a bailout, which he used "gift funds" to "win this round".
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Arrest Shook The Blockchain
#JeffreyEpstein's arrest seems to have set off a wave of suspicious crypto payments that have heretofore gone unexamined.
(link in bio; RTs appreciated)
#epsteinfiles #epstein #epsteinCoverup
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After publishing my last post about Epstein's crypto connections I stumbled on something that kind of shocked me: Epstein had proposed the creation of a blockchain based BRICS currency to a "former" FSB operative way back in 2015.