The evidence is overwhelming. Sieze Wall Street. March these criminals to the NYPD Jails! The following is a list of articles accumulated to point out a simple fact:
The Banksters are Gangsters.
Let's start with Citibank.
Indonesia launches Citibank money laundering probe
Not long after, investigations would reveal that in 1998-99, more than $300 million belonging to Mexican drug traffickers went through Citibank.
Citibank caught money laundering again By Deirdre Griswold
The Japanese government's Financial Services Agency has taken the unusual step of shutting down four key offices of Citibank Japan that have catered to wealthy customers.
Citibank of New York and the Commercial Bank of San Francisco were yesterday accused in a US government report of facilitating money laundering of up to $1.4bn (£1bn) in funds from Russia and other East European countries.
Oh hell, just Google Search - Citibank "money laundering" and 1,600,000 hits come up.
Let's google some other banks.
Wachovia, a unit of Wells Fargo
Wachovia Paid Trivial Fine for Nearly $400 Billion of Drug Related Money Laundering
A year after the bank admitted to handling hundreds of millions in Mexican drug money -- and paid $160 million in fines and penalties -- the company is now off the hook for further punishment.
Wells Fargo
Of course, we go across the pond for real journalism.
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored
From this article, and this really, really makes my blood boil. Today's Banksta Gangstas are running our country
At the height of the 2008 banking crisis, Antonio Maria Costa, then head of the United Nations office on drugs and crime, said he had evidence to suggest the proceeds from drugs and crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to banks on the brink of collapse. "Inter-bank loans were funded by money that originated from the drugs trade," he said. "There were signs that some banks were rescued that way."
Wachovia was acquired by Wells Fargo during the 2008 crash, just as Wells Fargo became a beneficiary of $25bn in taxpayers' money
UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know?
Bank of America Acknowledges Illicit Funds Moved Through a Manhattan Branch
Bank of America, tech VP clash over money-laundering detection
AIG is a Legal Money-laundering Ring The Circle of Financial Life, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Others…
How Did Gaddafi Bypass US Anti-Money Laundering Rules to Bank with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan?
Oddly enough, this future mainstream debate arises not in the US, where any form of critical thinking appears to be immediately curbed by SEC Rule 201 (for all those calling for a hike in the SEC’s budget, we suggest the following contrarian thought experiment: let’s cut its budget to zero and see how long before anyone notices) , but out of the UK, where a reader writes in to the FT (oddly enough, partially owned by the Libyan Investment Authority) with the following very simple question: “It seems to me entirely implausible that Col Gaddafi could have earned billions of dollars through legal means.
Pacific National Bank U.S. fines bank officials for money-laundering lapses
Oh Gosh! Pension Funds are money laundering, too.
FINRA Fines Firms $750,000 for Inadequate Anti-Money Laundering Programs, Other Violations Penson Financial Services Fined $450,000 for Inadequate Review of Hundreds of Thousands of Trades a Day; Pinnacle Capital Markets Fined $300,000 for Failing to Verify Foreign Customer Identities and to Detect and Report Suspicious Activity
Guys, money laundering is NOT small potatoes
Potato magnate fined $60,000 for money laundering
OK, that last one fell into my lap.
Honestly, I could go on and on and on listing articles indicting and convicting Bankstas of money laundering both here and abroad.
So dear #OccupyWall Street, after we Occupy Wall Street, can we please clean it up and take out the trash?! I sure hope so.
We need to take back our country from the Banksta Gangstas! and their political puppets.
Oh crap, what's that John Roberts add doing on here? Well, while we are at it.
Let's march to the Supreme Court and ask them what the fuck they were thinking of when they unleashed the gansta $$ of the world to fuck with our politics.
Sit him down and tell John Roberts just what you think of him for INVITING, yes, he invited the case, Citizens United before the court. The deluded, ideological zombie schmuck!