GMERICA: Future Proves Past, part 8.1

Disclaimer: this is not financial advice and I am not a financial advisor. Do your own research.

Preface: Welcome to #GMERICA

This is a series centered around Ryan Cohen, executive chairman of GameStop, and what I believe he is planning to create based on SEC filings and clues from

What is the goal of Ryan Cohen?

To create a new kind of company.

The formation of a holdings company, a conglomerate, a keiretsu or what I like to call a Mega Corporation and it will help Make Everything Great Again (MEGA).

This MEGA Corp will be named Teddy, after Ryan Cohen's late father, Ted Cohen.

Teddy MEGA Corp will take form after the completion of several Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) including GameStop, Chewy, Bed, Bath & Beyond, and many more - all of which is currently taking place, at the time of this writing.

To those who keep asking, "Why Bed, Bath & Beyond? I thought it was bankrupt and gone?"

If you ignore the mainstream media for a moment and look into Bed, Bath & Beyond court dockets coming from Kroll's website (lookup "kroll bbby") then you might be surprised that this company $BBBY is about to pull the greatest Reverse Uno the stock market has never seen.

As @TheRoaringKitty has stated:

"Can you imagine like a stock that is priced for bankruptcy and evolves into a compounder? Soooo painful, in that case, why would you sell!"

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A version of Teddy, currently exists as a trademark and as a business entity filing, TEDDY HOLDINGS, LLC. A private company, which is owned by Ryan Cohen and was created with the help of his activist law firm, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP:

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Olshan is the same law firm that helped Ryan Cohen initiate a proxy and takeover of GameStop and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Olshan also represents Bill Pulte and according to him, "These guys are pros."

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Now, if you want to get an idea of what Teddy MEGA Corp might look-like then the closest reference and example is Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises $IEP, an actual holdings company.

$IEP is the parent company that controls and/or owns multiple companies across different industries, including but not limited to real estate, energy, automotive, pharmaceutical, food, and more.

Icahn Enterprises is a conglomerate of a corporation which distributes units instead of shares, and has unitholders instead of shareholders.

What is Icahn Enterprises relationship to Teddy?

$IEP is the stalking horse bidder (acquirer) for Bed, Bath & Beyond which I first discovered on May 8, 2023 through Icahn's law firm Proskauer Rose, just 2 weeks after $BBBY went into chapter 11 bankruptcy (more on this soon).

Now it makes sense why Ryan Cohen and Carl Icahn took this picture together on October 17, 2022.

A very important date to remember:

Icahn Enterprises is a glimpse of the future and will be a partner of Teddy MEGA Corp and its unithodlers.

If you want to know more about these holding companies and how they are structured then see GMERICA part 7, here:

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There has been some confusion about the word "GMERICA" so for the sake of clarity and context, GMERICA was once a trademark owned by GameStop, but is now expired and abandoned.

Even so, GMERICA was never just a trademark to me but instead, it stands for hope.

To believe that one day, we will see free and fair markets, rid of Wallstreet crooks.

GMERICA is the name of my bull thesis for the video game company called GameStop, which in financial terms means a statement on why the stock $GME will shoot to the moon, and Go Beyond Uranus.

GMERICA is also a concept for what I believe to be a web 3.0 online ecommerce platform and ecosystem filled with beloved American brands and companies..

The resurrection of these companies will create enough force to be called a Black Swan event on the global financial system and it will be biblical.

If you are wondering who I am and how I happen to know about all of these things, then checkout my X profile and see the first pinned post.

I am Edwin Barnesc and my content has been referenced by many DD authors, re-purposed among the community, and discussed at great lengths.

I am probably the most hated and most revered anonymous writer that some of you have never heard of.

Why? Well you're about to find out.

My research into $GME began 3.5 years ago on Reddit, on the GameStop forum boards.

However, due to my contrarian posts, fringe thinking, and inability to comply with the un-elected forum Moderators, I was often in trouble with them.

This led to me being censored, suppressed, and finally, banned for co-mingling and discussing Bed, Bath & Beyond $BBBY and GameStop in the same sentence. This would have been funny, except its true.

Here are the receipts:
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Later, I came to realize that my posts were messing up the sentiment tracking bot named Satori, which was deployed on Reddit Superstonk to track and report on bullish or bearish statements made by retail traders to shorting hedge funds:

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Fun fact: Fidelity owns Reddit and shorts $GME, see GMERICA part 6:

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Also, another fact, Ghislaine Maxwell owns Reddit and controlled the top forum boards to seed narratives:

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Have you ever wondered why there is so much hate direct towards Elon Musk, Ken Griffin, and Donald Trump?

It's quite easy if you know who is pulling the strings. (I'll talk more about these 3 individuals later and how they fit into Teddy.)

Despite the many setbacks, I persisted and am here on X to continue my research and share it with you all - for Free. I will never ask for payment from anyone and do not expect it.

I hope that what I share may help Awaken another soul to what the world has been hiding from you for so long, and help you Go Beyond for Humanity.

I am 3x shadow banned and confirmed by @grok so my posts will have limited reach, my comments may be marked as spam, and if you attempt to search for my posts or my handle then it may not appear.

This is not a bug, but a feature for being early.

If you enjoy the content and want to support me, then I humbly ask for you to like, retweet, or comment on my posts for visibility and maybe my posts will begin to appear in search results (again).

To the overpaid consultants that stalk my account and actively look for ways to shut me down:

I will not stop.

I will not yield.

Until we can Make Everything Great Again, under Teddy MEGA Corp.

Never Surrender,
WWG1WGA

🧵/1Teddy.com

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F*ck Around & Find Out, says Uncle RICO

I began part 8 of this series with a Prelude, which will set the direction for where things are currently headed towards.

I believe we are in the final stages of preparation and removal of GameStop shares from the Depository Trust Company (DTC), the subsidiary company of Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the parent.

If you want to know why, then catch the Prelude on my Spaces Call with Live DD, here:

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This is the first in a multi-part series that will become a collection for "part 8"

Part 8 has been the largest undertaking for me since it spans several years and covers a lot of material.

It has taken me a very long time to gather everything because the pieces were often missing, out of order, or seemingly didn't make sense.

So rather than inundate you with the complexity, I decided to wait.

Why?

Well, it's quite simple and that's the theme for part 8.1: Future Proves Past

Larry Cheng, board director at GameStop, mentor to Ryan Cohen, and partner at Volition Capital, once said:

"Every company is a company. However, on rare occasion, some companies become movements. The company ends up standing for something much larger and more significant than itself. These companies break the traditional paradigm - they can play chess when everyone else plays checkers."

If it wasn't clear, Larry was alluding to GameStop in this example and what is has become.

However, this can be difficult to see in the moment because we are in a war of misinformation and disinformation.

A campaign of lies from hired shills, influencers, mainstream media (fake news), actors, and propped up community members masquerading as shareholders, which I generally refer altogether, as overpaid consultants.

However, one thing still holds true which helps brings darkness to light:

"Talk is cheap, it takes money to buy whiskey," -Ryan Cohen

A reference to putting your money where your mouth is and letting the results speak.

I've learned to discern the truth by simply watching what people do, or not do.

This is even more telling in the recent developments coming out of depositions or statements in court dockets from Bed, Bath & Beyond $BBBY and directly involves Ryan Cohen, who has been assisting the Department of Justice in a widescale sting operation pursuing RICO charges (Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act).

If you are out of the loop:

Bed, Bath & Beyond has completed chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring, the company assets are stored under 20230930-DK-BUTTERFLY-1, Inc. and is currently undergoing a RICO case which will begin a claw back process for monetary losses and lead to criminal prosecutions.

See GMERICA part 6 - RICO's Rough Sting & Reverse Uno:
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TLDR; here's the summary of GMERICA part 6:

RICO was used by the US Government to take down the mafia and organized crime because of tax evasion, but RICO also applies to white-collared crime involving securities fraud.

GameStop has been working with the SEC since January 2021 which has been stated in company filings.

In June 2022, the DTC committed international securities fraud by instructing brokerages to process the $GME stock-split dividend as a regular stock-split as opposed to awarding free shares as a dividend after the split.

The DTC revealed that they did not have enough real shares to be distributed among brokers and be given to $GME shareholders during the stock split-dividend, which was especially evident among international and overseas shareholders in GameStop stock.

International shareholders are not able to buy real shares and must purchase through brokers that use intermediaries that engage in contract for difference (CFD), which are basically I.O.U's (fake shares).

This confirmed the naked shorts thesis and rehypothecation of shares, or the creation of fake synthetic shares by brokers.

GameStop shareholders that had DRS received priority free dividend shares, but non-DRS shareholders were forced to split shares in their existing account.

This illegal stock-split by DTC incurred taxes, fees, and adjusted the cost-basis for many GameStop non-DRS shareholders.

Multiple user reports revealed messed up cost-basis at end-of-year filing with IRS and after transferring to Computershare, after the stock split dividend.

Fudging the cost basis enables the brokers to write-off losses which seems like tax evasion too, and something Uncle RICO may be looking into.

That stock-split dividend event also revealed how brokers operating under payment for order flow (PFOF) never actually bought real shares, so essentially, if your shares are held with a broker then you are paper trading.

DRS or direct registration system is the only way to prove your shares are real because when you DRS, it forces the brokerage to buy a share, remove it from the DTC, and record it under your name in Book-entry vs. street name (held at brokerage).

Forcing a brokerage to buy a share via DRS, also requires them to go out to the market and pay full price, or whatever that price may be, which also explains why the cost basis are messed up.

This was confirmed by Interactive Brokers CEO Thomas Peterffy who admitted on Bloomberg that brokerages were on the verge of "domino bankruptcy" during the initial squeeze of GameStop in January 2021.

Peterffy admitted that brokerages would have been forced to buy real shares at any price the stock market demanded if the squeeze actually squoze (hint: it still has not), which means the stock price of GameStop does not have a ceiling, a limit, or a threshold.

Naked shorting means only one thing: infinite losses.

So, what is the opposite of infinite losses?

It is Infinite upside, as in $GME stock price is JUST UP: "Name Your Price"

This also means when the music finally stops, we will find out which brokerages have been swimming naked and do not have real shares (I believe they all are naked).

The DTC committing international securities fraud also revealed how they dug a deeper hole by printing even more shares to give out as a dividend, thus increasing total synthetic shares outstanding, and making real $GME shares even more valuable.

After all, $GME held a short interest of 226% according to a FINRA report which proved more shares existed for GameStop than the Total Shares Outstanding in 2021.

After 3 years, the short interest is likely multiple times higher since Shorts Never Closed, and could even be over 9,000% for $GME.

However, we'll never truly know because short interest is self-reported, which means, we will just have to wait for true price discovery during the Mother of All Short Squeezes (MOASS).

GameStop issued a prospectus in December 2020 that clearly stated BOOK-ENTRY SECURITIES, a nod at DRS.

(Overpaid consultants and shills get really upset when I share this $GME SEC filing)

Ask yourself, why?

Here, I'll let you decide:

The prospectus is filed with the SEC, yet it is rarely discussed in the community even amongst the most die-hard self-proclaimed GameStop elitists who claim to be 100% DRS (bullsh*t).

I believe discussing how to DRS and how to remove $GME shares from the DTC stops naked shorting, effectively. Therefore, encouraging or supporting book-entry DRS contradicts the shilling work of overpaid consultants.

They cannot allow it and therefore, do not speak about DRS or Book-Entry securities.

Now to continue on the GameStop saga which ties into Bed, Bath & Beyond:

Ryan Cohen invested into Bed, Bath & Beyond $BBBY for sole purpose of unlocking the crown jewel buybuyBABY, a subsidiary company of Bed, Bath & Beyond for target acquisition in a carve-out. It was stated in his proxy letter to the board by RC Ventures, to create the ultimate destination for babies.

Ryan Cohen allowed himself to be implicated with ex-CEO Mark Tritton and CFO Gustavo Arnal of Bed, Bath & Beyond as part of an undercover sting operation to expose the share buybacks which Tritton initiated to drain the company Bed, Bath & Beyond out of $1.5 Billion dollars.

This was considered one of the most aggressive share buy backs in the history of retail companies because Tritton forced $BBBY to purchase shares within 18 months instead of the planned 36 months for steadily re-purchasing shares.

Mark Tritton was a CEO plant who previously worked at Target Corporation and before that, at Boston Consulting Group. His job was to drive Bed, Bath & Beyond into bankruptcy in a 3-step process:

First, it begins with saddling the company with debt, then draining the company of cash reserves through aggressive stock buybacks, and finally, inviting friends of BCG like shorting hedge funds on Wallstreet to naked short the company and crash the stock.

The entire process creates a death spiral where the victim company is unable to repay the current debt, must issue stock to raise cash which dilutes shareholder value, and then the company is forced to take on more debt to remain operational. Until finally, the company collapses under the weight of its debt and becomes a penny stock in OTC markets, in what is known as Cellar Boxing.

The end goal is to drive the company into bankruptcy so shorts never have to close their position and can avoid paying taxes, hence the need for RICO charges to prosecute these naked short selling criminals for securities fraud and tax evasion.

$BBBY CFO Gustavo Arnal is reportedly deceased after jumping out of the Jenga building in New York, however, there is no actual proof from the coroner about his death. @Kaismaleej has been investigating with boots on the ground which has led many to believe Gustavo is in witness protection or witsec, and in hiding.

After Mark Tritton was kicked-out, Sue Gove was then appointed as interim CEO of Bed, Bath & Beyond and also appointed as leader of the Strategy Committee to unlock the full value of buybuyBABY and prepare for a carve-out acquisition to a Well-Capitalized Acquirer according to RC Ventures letter to $BBBY board.

Berkley Research Group, a global consulting firm with a history of working with the SEC and conducting forensic investigations into corporate finance was hired to work with Bed, Bath & Beyond to provide evidence of fraud.

The RICO sting operation followed Bed, Bath & Beyond into chapter 11, a type of bankruptcy that keeps the company alive through restructuring as opposed to chapter 7 or full liquidation.

The Plan Administrator for Bed, Bath & Beyond chapter 11 is named Michael Goldberg. He came from Akerman law firm and has a track-record of working with the SEC, DOJ, and prosecuting high-profile Ponzi schemes like Bernie Madoff and recovering losses.

Goldberg entered the game and issued a signed warning to the DTC:

His warned that in the event of discovery leading to securities fraud then a Reverse Uno will take place for $BBBY, or the reversal and claw back of monies lost as a result of fraud thus confirming RICO in-progress with Federal prosecutors from DOJ.

This now brings us to the current timeline where RICO is actively being pursued against multiple parties that have been discovered in the illegal naked short selling scheme and cellar boxing to drive Bed, Bath & Beyond out of existence.

Fun fact: Bed, Bath & Beyond announced a reverse stock-split in March 2023 which enabled shorts to take advantage of the news, however, the reverse split was cancelled last minute (ouch).

This created the ultimate bear trap for shorts because $BBBY chapter 11 was announced in April 23, 2023 and subsequently, a court-order put a freeze on the shares.

The Shorts and the Longs are now trapped in Bed, Bath & Beyond post-chapter 11 and are in a RICO case.

This is the part in the movie where shorts have f*cked around, and now we are about to find out.

Narrator's voice: little did the Shorts know that they had boxed themselves into a short squeeze called

So buckle up,
This could get interesting

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MYSTERY REVEALED: $GME Wu Tang NFT & $BBBY TEDDY 🍊

#GMERICA 🇺🇸
$GME $BBBYQ $DJT $IEP Context for this Spaces Call:

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GMERICA: Saving Humanity, part 7

This post is just my opinion, and I am not a financial advisor. Do your own research.

This is part of a series, see part 6 for context:

Several months ago, I went silent for a period.

I had realized that bad actors were weaponizing the due diligence to be used against the Activist Affiliates, or the good guys that are trying to save humanity.

These bad actors setup a honeypot to lure unsuspecting investors to share their insights, research, and more on public forums which would then be used to short their investment, and meddle in the plans of the good guys.

Ryan Cohen, an Activist Investor, Affiliate, and chairman of GameStop is well-aware and that's why he wrote a children's book that is available at

In Teddy books volume 2, he illustrated a pink haired lady who ran a honeypot: Platinum Sparkles of Reddit's popular GameStop forum r/Superstonk.

Now what I am about to show you will confirm that and much, much more.

This post will make you question things and maybe you will even hate me.

But it will be an eye-opener, for sure.

It's time to go under the surface and find out what lies beneath.

There's an entire swamp that must be drained.

And sunlight is the best disinfectant.

There will be no TLDR shorting of this post and I will not failure-to-deliver.

Brace yourself, the best is yet to come.

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Teddy.com No Cell, No Sell

3 years ago, I bought a stock that I liked.

I held on excitedly as it ripped past $400.

I thought I'd be rich enough to retire my parents who had worked their entire lives.

Sadly, the stock price crashed because they turned off the buy button.

I was shocked, confused, and in utter disbelief.

I remember staring at my brokerage account, then refreshing and thinking it might have glitched.

I kept swiping on my phone, hoping it would change, but reality crept in and confusion turned to outrage.

"There's no way they were gonna get away with this!" or so I thought.

Congress held televised courts, and they questioned:

Keith Gill, or better known by his Reddit username DeepFuckingValue.

Robinhood, the retail broker that turned off the buy button.

Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel Securities, the market maker that colluded with Robinhood.

Yet, nothing happened.

Nobody went to jail for stealing BILLIONS of dollars from hard-working household retail investors.

It was just smoke and mirrors, and it made my blood boil.

The game was rigged and the referees were in on it.

I vowed then and there that I would hold for justice.

"No Cell, No Sell."

Since they took away the buy button, that just meant delaying the inevitable.

I knew, that one day, MOASS - the Mother of All Short Squeezes would come so until then, I made a promise to keep buying more.

In my frustration and lack of understanding in the stock market, I committed myself to learning it.

Countless hours were invested into studying market mechanics, researching, and occasionally writing due diligence.

At first, I was terrible and was even berated by a well-known DD writer for asking a question once.

Still, I vowed to keep going, keep digging, and sharing whatever I came across with the community.

The more I read, the more I realized, that the American Dream was a lie.

I watched every day as my favorite stock was shorted, mercilessly.

When company earnings were beat, the stock price dropped.

When good news came out, the stock price dropped.

When anything positive came out, the stock price dropped.

The buy vs. sell ratio reported on Fidelity consistently held a 70-80% buy rating.

Yet the stock price kept falling, so how was it even possible?

Because supply and demand did not exist.

There was no such thing as price discovery.

And infinite liquidity, is just money laundering into the hands of a select few.

I found myself in The Matrix and questioned the very existence of my reality.

I loss sleep and loss weight because I couldn't stop thinking about it.

If you fill gas at the pump, who sets the price?

The stock market. 🕳️…….🐇

If you've ever seen "market price" on a restaurant menu, who sets the price?

The stock market. 🕳️…….🐇

If you buy groceries at the store, who sets the price on meat and produce?

The stock market. 🕳️…….🐇

If you pay rent or mortgage, electric, and gas utilities, who sets the price?

The stock market.

The stock market.

And the stock market. 🕳️…….🐇

It controls everything.

So if the stock market controls everything, then it also controls quality of life.

But if the stock market is fake, then so is everything else.

This discovery was unsettling, and it tormented me.

GameStop revealed a crack in the matrix: their infinite money glitch.

What was the point of working if they could just print money?

That's when I realized I was a slave, a cog in their machine.

They don't need money, they just want to enslave humanity.

I was bitter for months because I was in so much shock, denial, anger and more.

I went through the 7 stages of grief but finally reached acceptance.

I continued to question everything.

Thus I began a long journey towards answering One question:

If the stock market were to end one day, then..

What would replace it, who would build it, and how would it come to be?

This formed the basis of my thinking which took form in my writing as GMERICA.

In the darkest of times, I was always reminded by something that gave me hope:

"MOASS is tomorrow."

Like a hero's journey, I embarked, I discovered, and I found.

It has been 3 years, but I am happy to say, this discovery has now been realized.

But before I show you, I have to warn you:

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." -Morpheus

Inured - that's an interesting word, and it means accustomed to abuse kind of like Stockholm syndrome.

Are you prepared to see what happens if you follow the white rabbit? 🕳️…….🐇

Will you accept the truth or will you defend the matrix?

Your thoughts are not yours.

They were programmed into you by mainstream media, by gatekeepers, and through years upon years of conditioning so that you may react, behave, and respond to certain things like:

China.

Russia.

Middle East.

And Donald Trump.

Did you react or feel some type of way from reading that list?

It is called predictive programming, a byproduct-symptom of The Matrix.

And it isn't your fault.

Perhaps you aren't ready.

You can choose to swallow this hard truth and proceed to the next post, or stop and pretend you never saw it.

I will let you decide, if you want to Free your mind.

🕳️…….🐇

GMERICA: RICO's Rough Sting & Launching TEDDY on tZERO, Part 6

This post is just my opinion, and I am not a financial advisor. Do your own research.

We are living in a simulation and the movie is about to reach a climax.

In this post, I will be covering GameStop, Bed Bath & Beyond and the launch of TEDDY using tZERO with the help of an unexpected friend.

To start, I want to apologize for my post last weekend. It featured a fake screenshot of @ryancohen and @kaismaalej on a conference call. I am not aware of any verifiable communication between them so let's clear that up. I also deleted the post, after confirming something.

I reached out to Kais and apologized too. I knew the screenshot was fake from just looking at the original poster's X feed, since it was full of community-bashing comments and shilling.

The purpose of that post was to lead into this, part 6 and what is coming next - The Humiliation.

Many of you have followed me since $GME r/Superstonk and will recall one of my very first Due Diligence (DD) posts I ever wrote.

It was called, Wolves in Sheep Clothing and it's posted under the Highlights section on my X profile. That DD exposed some of the inner working of Superstonk, the Mods, and the bad actors or shills running that community.

We are all individual investors, with each of us holding for different reasons. I am holding because of Ryan Cohen, and I believe in what he is building with the Activist Affiliates (see my pinned profile post).

I invest in people like Ryan Cohen, not faceless companies and I'd guess many are too.

For those same reasons, these shills have migrated as well, following RC and infiltrating the communities created as a result of his investments into GameStop and Bed Bath & Beyond.

Over the last month, many of these bad actors have been exposed as deep-cover shill agents holding positions of authority, as DD writers, and as propped up community members.

With its latest discovery including Dismal-Jellyfish, a moderator and fake DD writer on Superstonk. He is the $BBBYQ equivalent of Neelay Das, who is currently stalling the courts in an attempt to delay the exit of Bed Bath & Beyond from chapter 11.

I understand that some people prefer to avoid this so-called drama, but there's a reason for it.

Exposing this only scratches the surface of a wide and vast shadow network that is operating behind the scenes. The sooner you accept and acknowledge that, the better prepared you will be for what's coming.

I mention this because there are many, many eyes watching. The bad actors and the white hats, or good guys. Each making counter moves against the other behind the scenes, and preparing for a final showdown.

Now, let's dive into…

RICO's Rough Sting

First off, what is RICO? It's an abbreviation for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. That's what the US Government used to take down organized crime and the mafia in the 1970s.

RICO is also used to describe 35 offenses, including kidnapping, murder, bribery, arson and extortion.

And it's not limited to just organized crime but also white collar crime like securities fraud where the Department of Justice (DOJ), a US Government agency, is responsible for enforcement with the help of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC).

From Grok: securities fraud, in the context of RICO, can involve a variety of deceptive practices in the stock and securities markets. These might include insider trading, Ponzi schemes, or false statements made to artificially inflate stock prices. The RICO Act allows for both criminal and civil actions to be brought against these financial terrorists.

RICO will go after everyone and anyone involved in securities fraud, racketeering, co-conspirators, and related crime. There is No Limit to who it won't reach and I hope it includes all the sleeper agent shills because where there is money involved, there's a paper trail, and probably an indictment waiting.

Time has run out.

We Are Living in a Fraudulent System

To see how RICO may apply, here are some key events from this saga:

It started in January 2021 with the GameStop squeeze (also known as the "sneeze"), where Robinhood turned off the buy button and collapsed the momentum of $GME from skyrocketing.

It was the first time in history where multiple stock brokers colluded and turned off the buy button because they were losing and decided to cheat mid-game.

Thomas Petterfy, CEO of Interactive Brokers, admitted on CNBC that he was terrified of domino bankruptcy. The shorts have not closed and the squeeze has not squoze, hence the sneeze.

It was later discovered that Robinhood operated on payment for order flow (PFOF) where it sends your trades to a market maker named Citadel or Virtu (currently under SEC investigation).

Citadel then executes your trade at a higher bid and skims money off of you, passing some of it back to Robinhood. John Stewart hosted a show to reveal PFOF. It's a dirty game and it looks like Bribery.

Next, there was TD Ameritrade's data warehouse and building which caught on fire then burned down. They claimed that the entire sprinkler system was knocked offline by a single falling shelf, which is hard to believe for an important data warehouse that was designed with protective safeguards and redundancy.

TD Ameritrade was speculated to hold important financial records and transactions relating to the GameStop sneeze and cohencidentally, the paper trail ended in a blazing fire.

There was a post on Reddit from a firefighter who said the building should have never burned down unless someone purposefully disabled the fire suppression systems which are backed by 24/7 monitoring and alarms that would notify dispatch of a fire.

But what was more shocking was the online video footage that showed construction crews hauling debris in smoldering hot flames (if you find the video, post it below). It looked like a cover up crew for Arson.

Now these events cover a tiny fraction of the numerous financial crimes committed, but let's keep going and see how much RICO will be capturing in the Storm.

GameStop issued a 4 to 1 split-dividend share in July 22, 2022, however, it was processed incorrect and exposed the Depository Trust Corporation (DTC or Cede & Co.) for international securities fraud.

The DTC is a clearinghouse for settling trades and it falsely instructed the brokers to process GameStop as a stock split, which doubles your existing share count instead of a split-dividend, which awards additional free shares. This is strange because Tesla has completed split-dividend transactions under the DTC without hassle.

Only with $GME did it become a problem, so perhaps the DTC ran out of dividend shares to award and resorted to stock-splitting, thus proving synthetic shares exist.

Why else risk committing securities fraud?

FINRA once reported $GME short interest at 226%. However, it's been nearly 3 years and shorts haven't closed, so it's probably over 9,000%.

For Direct Registered shareholders using Computershare, they were able to receive their split-dividend shares quickly. However, for non-DRS shareholders, some received the dividend but many did not.

In fact, a majority of non-DRS investors received stock split shares but no dividend from their brokers, which messed up their cost-basis for tax reporting purposes.

To make matters worse, international $GME investors were especially screwed over by brokers that operated on Contract for Difference (CFD). CFD exposed those brokers as issuing phantom shares or paper trading because the shares were never purchased and proves that brokers are swimming naked.

It's similar to now defunct crypto-FTX, where the exchange never held any real coins or reserves for its users. It was paper-trading and running a ponzi scheme made possible by the CFTC or Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the DTC equivalent for crypto).

Long story short, everything points back to the DTC and clearinghouses that act as middle-men for all these financial crimes. You could almost say kickbacks and Bribery is involved between brokers, exchanges, and clearinghouses. It's one big club and you're not in it.

GameStop once said in an SEC filing that if the DTC could not fulfill its obligations to deliver shares, then it would withdraw from the exchange and relist elsewhere. Since then, GameStop has pulled its credit rating too which is the first step towards a Merger & Acquisition. And I believe GameStop will play a significant role with the upcoming arrival of new company, Teddy.

Moving on, in November 30, 2021, Fidelity made 11 million $GME shares available to short. The cost to borrow had been skyrocketing in prior weeks and it looked like GameStop's stock was going to run, but out of nowhere the stock price fell off a cliff.

The collapsed stock price was timed exactly to end at 12:10pm when 11M shares appeared and were used to short GameStop. Shareholders exposed Fidelity on the subs and the moderators at r/Fidelity issued an apology due to a "glitch." The discovery triggered a mass exodus with shareholders leaving Fidelity and signing up for Computershare to Direct Register Shares (protect your shares, learn ). GameStop later began sharing DRS count numbers in SEC filings, the first company of its kind.

Now it goes without saying, but Computershare is also no saint. Computershare has been questionable in several instances like removing 2-Factor Authentication without notifying its users. Computershare 2FA getting wiped out also matched an event when Reddit suffered a blackout, probably cohencidence.

Computershare has also spread FUD about DSP Plan vs. Book-entry DRS, only to later confirm DSPP (direct stock purchase plan) still enables the DTC to use DRS shares as $GME locates to enable shorting and failure-to-deliver shares (FTDs).

Do you think it was incompetence or willful ignorance?

Here, you decide - Computershare has revised their FAQs:

Regardless, DRS is still the way since it proves your shares are real and in your name when you Direct Register.

It enables you get priority shares if a dividend or unit share(s) are issued. Besides, your name appears in the same ledger next to Ryan Cohen in book-entry form for peace of mind. All board members at GameStop are DRS by default and Computershare is their official transfer agent, as listed on Investor Relations.

Throughout this saga, there has been a never-ending list of crimes committed and I believe those events have all been logged and recorded. The entire system is fraudulent and there is no saving it.

Enter The Sting: Cellar Boxer vs. Activist Investor

The events that have transpired fall under DOJ purview and are crimes under RICO. The worse part, is that it's still just scratching the surface but that's all about to change.

Between the stocks at GameStop and Bed Bath & Beyond, these two have shared very similar price movements either tracking similarly or inverted at times which makes zero sense because of a difference in their market cap size, total shares outstanding, and stock price.

By deductive reasoning, market manipulation and fraud is happening, everyday. I believe Ryan Cohen realized that before announcing his proxy bid for GameStop in 2020 and then putting his plans into motion.

Now let's turn to Bed Bath & Beyond, the last company Ryan Cohen invested into and see how RICO will apply:

Last year on September 4, 2022, the CFO Gustavo Arnal of Bed Bath & Beyond committed suicide by jumping off the 18th floor balcony. That's hard to believe because different articles state his family was in the room before he jumped. CFO's are responsible for managing the finances and money of the company, therefore, anything related to potential fraud usually involves the CFO.

Some may even recall Jim Cramer frantically tweeting that BBBY needs to sell shares.

Perhaps something else more sinister was going on in that room leading up to that very moment. Take a wild guess, but I doubt suicide as much as Epstein hanging himself.

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Now, what could have triggered the CFO of Bed Bath & Beyond to end in an untimely demise?

The answer is fraud and it's related to accelerated stock buy backs dating back to 2020. According to , the buy back started at $675 million (2020), then $225M (2021), and finally totaling out to $1 Billion dollars by end of year 2021.

The company used its entire $1.5 Billion cash within 18 months and it was one of the most aggressive stock buy backs in history. The stock buy back was meant to be spread out over a 3-year period, instead of half the time.

However, things took a swift turn with Ryan Cohen's activist letter to the board at Bed Bath & Beyond on March 6, 2022.

When RC became a majority shareholder at Bed Bath & Beyond with a controlling stake at 9.8%, he signed a cooperation agreement with the company and its CEO, Mark Tritton on March 24, 2022.

That agreement made Ryan Cohen an insider of the company and gave him access to view non-public details. Therefore, when Ryan Cohen sold his $BBBY shares on August 16, 2022, it opened a can of worms.

Prior to becoming CEO at Bed Bath & Beyond, Mark Tritton was a senior member at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He knew how to drive companies towards bankruptcy by loading up the company with debt, draining its cash reserves with share buybacks, and making poor business decisions to cause the company stock price to decline.

While the company suffers, the CEO plant invites its shorting hedge fund (SHF) buddies to start naked shorting or selling shares that it doesn't own, which further drives the stock price down into a death spiral and pushes the company towards bankruptcy.

The goal is to take the stock price to $0 and avoid having to buy back the shares it used for shorting. That is called Cellar Boxing, a shorting hedge fund's playbook for destroying American companies. It was used on Sears, Toys R' Us, Blockbuster, and many more. These bankrupt companies are called Zombie Stocks and they will return with the arrival of Teddy.

Now, right after Ryan Cohen joins $BBBY and starts learning about what is happening inside Bed Bath & Beyond, CEO Mark Tritton and CFO Gustavo Arnal hatch a plan to accelerate the stock buybacks and set themselves up for an exit with a comfortable severance package. They launched the plan on 4/20/22 or as Ryan Cohen would later say, "It's 420 everyday in corporate America."

CEO Mark Tritton was forced out on June 29, 2022 by the $BBBY board meanwhile the company sales continued to decline from the exiting CEO's poor management.

On the same day that Tritton leaves, Sue Gove is appointed Interim CEO and Berkley Research Group (BRG), a global consulting firm is hired to help clean up the company: focusing on cash, inventory, and balance sheet optimization.

Berkley Research Group has a history of working with the SEC and conducting forensic investigations into corporate finance.

Worth mentioning: Berkley Research Group appeared in Pitchbook data broker for rumored leveraged buyout (LBO) of Bed Bath & Beyond later in January 2023. BRG has been providing data and evidence.

Back to the storyline: after CEO Mark Tritton was kicked out, the CFO stayed with the company which led up to August 16, 2022 event. When the stock price began to run, CFO Gustavo Arnal sold his stock at peak price which coincides with the exit plan that he plotted with CEO Mark Tritton on 4/20/22.

On the same day that the CFO sells his shares, Ryan Cohen also does the same thing. This event implicated both CEO Mark Tritton and CFO Gustavo Arnal as accomplices for illegal insider trading and what many viewed as a pump-and-dump scheme.

However, in reality, it was part of a DOJ sting operation setup to catch the Cellar Boxing criminals. Ryan Cohen had previously worked with the SEC through GameStop because of the sneeze, that is a known fact.

During that same period, there was another so-called (fake) activist investor named Jake Freeman of Freeman Capital Management (FCM), a 20 year old college student, likely acting as a front man for a shorting hedge fund.

Freeman proposed to help $BBBY but secretly plotted to bankrupt the company too and he wrote a letter to the board of Bed Bath & Beyond.

In that letter, he claimed to be holding the 2024 debt notes via BNY Mellon (Brazilian puts) which were strangling the company and its cash reserves through high interest loan payments.

The company was bleeding out dry after CEO Mark Tritton accelerated stock buy backs. For awhile, it looked like everything was going according to the Cellar Boxing plan.

During the August 2022 stock run, Jake Freeman also sold at the top and profited $110 Million which mainstream media celebrated him as a genius. Needless to say, he walked into a sting operation so will see how he fares later.

In a previous DD, I wrote about Sue Gove signing an Indemnification Letter with Lazard, an investment bank, dated August 10, 2022 or 1 week prior to the stock selling event. In that letter, it would release and hold harmless the parties that would be involved in the Dealer Manager Agreement (DMA) of October 18, 2022, which I believe Ryan Cohen is also a party to.

The DMA is the connection to Teddy because it is the SPAC vehicle that would later purchase the crown jewel buybuyBABY from the sunken ship Bed Bath & Beyond. Fortunately, that deal has now completed.

Here's that DD, in case you missed it:

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https://x.com/edwinbarnesc/status/1736631819272077581?s=20

[DD] GMERICA: Activist Affiliates, DMA Connection & Transformation of $BBBYQ into $GME Teddy

GMERICA, Part 6 is in development but I wanted to share a side quest which I think many will appreciate because it sheds new light on buybuyBABY and its connection to the ongoing transformation of Bed Bath & Beyond into Teddy.

For those that don't know, Teddy is transforming into an umbrella holding company like $IEP, or keiretsu, a Japanese-style conglomerate and multi-national enterprise. There is firm evidence to support this, and I will share some of that here.

Furthermore, this post reveals the connection to the "Activist Affiliates," a term that I created for the activist investors group after discovering Carl Icahn's succession plan for his son Brett (see below for DD link) and their affiliated parties involving Ryan Cohen.

The term "affiliates" first appeared in RC's letter to the board of GameStop, and later, in another letter to the board of Bed Bath & Beyond.

Here is RC mentioning the Affiliates in a letter to $GME before he initiated a proxy bid to clean house:

I first wrote about this 7 months ago, but if you missed the DD, here it is pinned on my personal sub (r/Superstonk banned me for this):

TLDR;
- Brett Icahn, son of Carl Icahn is captain of the $IEP ship that has sailed towards GMERICA
- Onboard they have many activist investors, affiliates, and parties, combined as Activist Affiliates who are helping to build GMERICA (a web3 Amazon competitor)
- These affiliates are comprised of billionaires, activist lawyers, multi-national conglomerates in private equity, venture capital, and private wealth from family offices
- Some of these are known: L Catterton, Volition Capital, LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey)

I estimate the combined wealth of these Activist Affiliates at nearly a Trillion dollars based on the valuation of their company holdings in multiple industries, total assets under management, and intellectual property value via household brand names.

This is the type of funding and backing required to create a new financial system 🐇

These Activist Affiliates make wallstreet hedge funds look like playground bullies.

But that is coming to a stop because the adults have entered the game.

Now, I would l like to draw attention to the Dealer Manager Agreement (DMA) that was created in October 2022 by Lazard, an investment bank.

For those that don't know, Lazard was hired by Bed Bath & Beyond and brokered a deal with then-CEO Sue Gove.

This was confirmed in $BBBYQ court docket 676 via Indemnification Letter, to hold harmless the company and those involved should anything go sideways on this deal:

The date of the letter was August 10, 2022, a peculiar timeline because the letter confirms a deal in motion BEFORE @ryancohen sold his $BBBY shares.

(insert shocked pikachu face)

Now there is an EDGAR filing stating RC sold his shares in the open-market. However, there is no proof those shares hit the market.

Why do I believe that?

Because $BBBY released a prospectus filing which introduced Jefferies, another investment bank to the deal and the date of that filing was August 31, 2022. I believe Jefferies held onto the shares from RC:

Now, I also revealed that Jefferies is utilized by GameStop which introduced "units" in a $GME filing dated back to 2020.

Units is a type of share which is found in Carl Icahn's holding company Icahn Enterprises $IEP which controls multiple companies and issues units to its investors so they may own a piece of each company through $IEP.

On a related note: Teddy, is believed to be the new company after $BBBYQ exits chapter 11. It will likely transform into a holding company like $IEP with units as shares and Jefferies is at the center of the deal because Icahn's company utilizes Jefferies too.

Moving on..

From my research, I will summarize the significance of what this all means in a timeline recap:

- $BBBY retains Lazard, an investment bank and CEO Sue Gove signs off on August 10, 2022
- RC supposedly sells his shares on August 18, 2022
- Jefferies appears via $BBBY filing August 31, 2022
- Lazard creates the Dealer Manager Agreement (DMA) on October 18, 2022
- RC tweets a picture of himself and $IEP Carl Icahn on October 16, 2022
- Jefferies brings $BBBY shares into the DMA deal
- B. Riley Securities joins and brings cash into the deal via a mysterious buyer which at the time was believed to be $IEP (B. Riley has conducted many deals for Carl Icahn)
- The mysterious buyer turns out to be Brandon Meadows of Addison Holdings (a conglomerate with investments into Five Guys burger chain and more), which I believe is another Activist Affiliate member and listed in the DMA
- Details of the DMA have never been released public but there are clues into who is part of it, which you will see soon

The DMA is created and does the following:

1. Binds all Activist Affiliates into a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and sets ownership control for each participating investor in the deal
2. Brings the shares from Jefferies: $BBBYQ and $GME, (there may be more like Chewy, Toys R' Us, Sears, Blockbuster, etc.)
3. Brings the cash from B. Riley Securities via Brandon Meadows, which is a pooled investment fund of $11 Billion and closely matches the amount of funds raised from $IEP company filings

Here is a picture of the connections I discovered about the Activist Affiliates, which draws from court dockets and research into $IEP and Pulte (as I said, there are likely many more participants than pictured like Addison Holdings):

Now I have reason to believe the DMA by Lazard proves the Activist Affiliates connection which has completed the sale transaction of $BBBYQ in a cash & share/equity swap. The deal is done, but has not been announced yet.

But before I reveal that part, I should remind everyone that the DMA was formed to purchase buybuyBABY from parent company Bed Bath & Beyond.

Shares came from Jefferies.
Cash came from $IEP B. Riley Securities.
Lazard's DMA locked everyone & everything under NDA.

The DMA was not about saving the company, Bed Bath & Beyond. The company was never going to be saved (sunk ship) and was doomed to fail because of the cellar boxing activities initiated by ex-CEO Mark Tritton.

$BBBY had to undergo chapter 11 to remove the debt, liens, and other restrictions that prevented buybuyBABY from being carved-out. I covered this in another DD (see my pinned profile post for GMERICA timeline).

Recall that tweet from RC, "Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls. Wearing this. Wearing only this.."

Hint: RC referenced the crown jewel from the movie Titanic, in that buybuyBABY was rescued from the shorts that sunk $BBBY.

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Now, for the $11 Billion Dollar question that links the Activist Affiliates to the DMA and reveals who may be part of it:

Who initially wanted buybuyBABY?

It started with Ryan Cohen's letter to the board of $BBBY, which he figured was actually more valuable than parent company Bed Bath & Beyond. But as you know, RC is part of the Activist Affiliates group...

So, who really wanted buybuyBABY?

It's L Catterton.

They are a Global multi-national conglomerate spanning across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and beyond. Plus a direct partner of LVMH, owner of major luxury brands.

In my latest DD of GMERICA, parts 4 and 5, it reveals L Catterton as a major player in helping build GMERICA with its vast resources and many of its brands have been featured in Teddy books (e.g. Oddity, Noodle Company, more).

L Catterton also released a study on the baby industry's growth post-covid which shows their incentive to own a premium baby brand like buybuyBABY:

Patty Wu, president of buybuyBABY was previously chief commercial officer for another brand by L Catterton (via her Linkedin). Her role at buybuyBABY was likely to prepare the brand for acquisition to L Catterton.

Here are newly discovered company filings from L Catterton and IEP dated on October 2022, credit to @hungrypawns :

As you can see, the DMA was formed in October 2022 which matches these other company filings of similar date. Here is info about the Dealer Manager Agreement taken from another filing:

L Catterton is a global conglomerate that owns multiple companies and brands.
IEP is a holding company that controls multiple companies in multiple industries.

These 2 conglomerates have a vested interest in $BBBYQ because of buybuyBABY and what it could transform into..

A new type of holding company, a web 3.0 platform, and an Amazon competitor in e-commerce.

This company will become Teddy, and I firmly believe it is nearly ready.

Now for some additional discoveries that may support this thesis.

Pulte has publicly denied any investment into $BBBYQ, yet he participates in the community heavily, and is his tweets are repeatedly liked by Ryan Cohen (including the 69th like).

Now just because Pulte says he isn't involved in the parent company Bed Bath & Beyond, does not mean he is not involved in a third-party arrangement via DMA.

Why do I believe that? Because in a recent live event & virtual stream of @ThePPseedsShow - Larry Cheng, board member of GameStop and managing partner at Volition Capital appeared as a guest speaker.

Pulte was filtering questions from the audience BEFORE they were allowed to ask Larry. He was screening questions because he did not want Larry Cheng to be exposed, or breach of NDA.

Naturally, this makes one wonder: what is his incentive to decide what questions Larry is allowed to answer?

Perhaps Larry might let something accidentally slip based on the inquisitive nature of apes in the audience. I admit, I would ask similar questions so Pulte was prepared.

At the event, Pulte was asked if he was under an NDA, which he confirmed that he was under several NDA's including X too.

There are far too many cohencidences to say Pulte is not in $BBBYQ.

After all, he is bagholding with his family's money, or so he admits.

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Well this is interesting. I asked @grok about @dish @Boost_Infinite because of 5G - VERY LARGE ARRAY

(GMERICA, part 5 released here: )

So here's what grok had to say:

Take note: Interstellar communication 🔥

Now, why would anyone want that?

Part 6, coming 🚀

Hint: #GMERICA

Would it really surprise anyone that Redchessqueen, Rensole, Platnum Sparkles, BadassTrader, Marantz & Neelay Das -- are all part a giant Govt sponsored CISA operation designed to spread misinfo? OG $GME hodlers will remember that Redchessqueen was part of military intelligence.

https://twitter.com/citizennft_eth/status/1731289220969332924

In fact, Redchessqueen and Rensole were responsible for early misinfo that split r/GME and made apes migrate to r/Superstonk.. around the same time they also pushed apes to migrate to @Fidelity -- which was later discovered that Fidelity was a honeypot trap too.