"In a shocking development Saturday, the Saudi Arabian government arrested prominent billionaire Waleed bin Talal."
"Bin Talal, a primary shareholder of Citigroup, News Corp., and Twitter, was arrested along with other princes and ministers on Saturday."
"Talal’s arrest was part of a massive sweep of Saudi elites charged with corruption and money laundering by a new anti-corruption committee"
"Talal — one of the world’s richest people — is a notorious figure in American politics with deep ties to both Obama and Clinton."
"Americans should anticipate these arrests and the subsequent investigations will implicate Obama and Clinton in major ways."
"Wikileaks releases of John Podesta’s emails opened a Pandora’s box of Democratic Party corruption."
"Tony Podesta’s nefarious lobbying efforts with both Russia and Saudi Arabia are beginning to be broadly exposed to the American public."
"The lobby firm created by both Tony and John Podesta in 1988 receives $140,000 a month from the Saudi government."
"So while one brother runs the campaign, the other brother funds it with earnings that come, in part, from the Saudis."
"Citigroup was showing serious strains in 2007 but the meltdown came the week of November 17, 2008."
"Saudi Prince Walid bin Talal stepped forward to reassure the public that Citigroup was “undervalued” and he was buying more shares."
"The U.S. government through its Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) had injected $25 billion into Citigroup on October 28, 2008."
"With a market cap of $20.5 billion on Friday, November 21, 2008, the U.S. taxpayer effectively owned this company lock, stock and barrel."
"The Treasury and the Fed knew exactly whose interests they were protecting."
"Just 11 months earlier, Citigroup had publicized a capital raising of $12.5 billion in convertible preferred stock."
"The press release said the investors included Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and Sandy Weill and the Weill Family Foundation."
"He is one of many within the atrociously corrupt elements of the Saudi regime and other gulf tyrannies that has..."
"...raised eyebrows with their recent multi-million dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation."
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