My guest today on #BookedUp is David de Jong, the author of a mindblowing new narrative nonfiction book called Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties.
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NAZI BILLIONAIRES puts the lie to the often-heard claims by descendants and apologists for the industrialists who collaborated for profit with Hilter. You’ve heard them too.That these business leaders did not know what was going on at the concentration and extermination camps
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More false claims include that these business leaders were helping Jews by buying businesses on the cheap, that they had not sought out to be members of the Nazi party but were forced to to stay in business.
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Piece by piece, David offers the proof that these are not just lies but that the truth is more horrific than any of us can imagine.
Look. No one really knows when the Department of Justice will charge Donald Trump with federal felonies related to document hoarding and destruction at Mar-a-Lago (and beyond).
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However, all of the legal experts expect that the next indictment is coming in the coming weeks if not days. “Next” — because, in case you’d forgotten, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald back in March on 30 state criminal counts.
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Regarding the feds, the biggest questions now are (1) whether the indictments will come out of the Miami grand jury or the D.C. grand jury or both and (2) who in addition to Donald will be defendants in these cases.
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The SEC just sued Binance Holdings Ltd (Binance) a company registered in Cayman that operates the world’s largest crypto exchange & founder Changpeng Zhao alleging “blatant disregard of the federal securities laws and the investor and market protections these laws provide"
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Zhao founded the business in 2017 and by 2021, the platform accounted for $7.7 trillion in crypto exchange volume. Plus, since July of 2017, Binance.com and Binance.US alone allegedly earned at least $11.6 billion in revenue from U.S. customers
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This is complex case and you’ll hear a lot about in in the coming days, but what it boils down to is mishandling customer funds and lying about it. You can read the 136-page complaint here. sec.gov/files/litigati…
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Judge Lewis Kaplan lays down the law. Donald Trump has until Friday to file a response to E. Jean Carroll's letter (from Monday). And he has until June 5th to reply to her motion to amend the complaint (originally filed in 2019).
With the Grand Jury Poised to Indict How is Donald Sleeping at Night?
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Last night Mary Trump and I spoke with Mehdi Hasan about the looming indictment of her uncle. While we did not broach the subject of how Donald is sleeping, given his ALL CAPS rants on Truth Social, I don’t imagine he’s getting much solid rest. What a shame.
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I had a LOT more to say about the situation. There is a lot of documentary evidence to support Cohen. This includes an audio recording and Donald has admitted he made these payments plus he signed at least six of the reimbursement checks.