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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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i found a pretty fascinating trove of documents that detail one man's long and arduous 𝘬𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘧 to force #Tether to seize ~$3 million USDT that he lost to an address poisoning scam a few years back.
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Asif Ayub Patel was innocently attempting to purchase $3 million worth of gold bars from Northern Lights, a precious metals dealer based in Hong Kong that prefers to be paid in Tether, as any freedom loving Dubai resident is wont to do.
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Unfortunately he was careless & got pwned by an address poisoning attack: scammer sends you some crypto from an address that starts/ends w/the same characters as the address you are trying to transact with and hopes you copy/paste from recent txns w/out checking.
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Since #Israel attacked #Iran Tether has frozen 112 addresses on Tron and Ethereum.
- Collectively those wallets received ~$700 million USDT before being frozen
- The top 40 of those wallets are *all* on Justin Sun's Tron blockchain
Iranian exchanges mostly use Tron USDT.
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Dune dashboard with all the historical Tether blacklist data for those two blockchains can be found here: dune.com/queries/5342352
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#Nobitex, the largest crypto exchange in Iran (which is basically a Binance feeder fund, but I digress), openly advises its users on how to avoid sanctions via Tether USDT even though that is a blatant violation of all kinds of laws.
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it really looks like a few days before the $TRUMP launch someone borrowed all $ETH from #WorldLibertyFi treasury, sent it to a bunch of different Coinbase accounts (sus?), and then it came back from #CowSwap trades post-TrumpCoin w/e.
and if you think i'm exaggerating you haven't been paying attention. the taxpayer bailout of the crypto industry is already well underway. wpr.org/news/wisconsin…
they've already drafted the federal legislation to pump most of a trillion dollars into bitcoin under the delusional fairy tale of "paying down the national debt" (lol) lummis.senate.gov/press-releases…
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Thread for those who don't have the intestinal fortitude to sit through the Elmo / Rogan interview.
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Both these guys seem to regard the FBI asking (not forcing) "old Twitter" to take down some tweets as a crime against humanity roughly on the scale of the Stalin's gulags.
Rogan: "We were headed down a path of censorship and of control of narratives that is UNPRECEDENTED."
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The comparison to Stalin is not my hyperbole. Later in the interview Elmo will compare NY DA Alvin Bragg to Lavrenti Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police and one of history's greatest monsters.
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🇸🇻 Making a thread to collect some recent scattershot tweets concerning documents I dug up about El Salvador, Bukele, Volcano Bonds, Tether, etc. in one place.