Another arrest or eleven.

What about our old Aussie icon?

Well! we usually like to lay claim to anyone who spent more than 10 minutes here.

Any guesses as to the identity of this reptilian pedo?

Could it be our very own Rolf? He's not rolling on the floor laughing now.



[url]Prominent Australian entertainer arrested in relation to Jimmy Savile child sex investigation[/url]

It is believed the arrest of the 82-year-old is not directly related to Savile's acts but other alleged sexual offences that had come to light during the overall investigation.

The man is one of 11 people arrested so far.


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US authorities have arrested Michael Steinberg, a portfolio manager at SAC Capital and the most senior executive to date to be questioned in the investigation into the hedge fund giant.

Steinberg, 40, was led out of his Park Avenue apartment early Friday morning in handcuffs after returning from a family vacation in Florida. He has been charged with conspiracy and securities fraud.

Steinberg pleaded not guilty in federal district court in Manhattan on Friday and was freed on $3m bail.

The arrest comes amid a widening investigation into SAC, the Connecticut-based hedge fund founded by multi-billionaire investor Steven Cohen. At least nine current or former SAC employees have now been tied to allegations of insider trading. Four have pleaded guilty to federal charges.

FBI assistant director-in-charge George Venizelos said: "Steinberg was at the center of an elite criminal club, where cheating and corruption were rewarded. Research was nothing more than well-timed tips from an extensive network of well-sourced analysts."

Separately, the SEC filed a civil lawsuit against Steinberg in Manhattan
federal court on Friday.

Barry Berke, Steinberg's lawyer, said his client had been "caught in the crossfire of aggressive investigations of others".

"Michael Steinberg did absolutely nothing wrong," he said. "His trading decisions were based on detailed analysis" and information "he understood had been properly obtained through the types of channels that institutional investors rely upon on a daily basis."

Steinberg, who has worked for Cohen since 1997, most recently on technology stocks, has been on leave since September. The company has not commented on the reasons for the decision. Shortly before Steinberg was granted leave, Jon Horvath, an analyst who worked under him, pleaded guilty to obtaining insider information about computer firm Dell and other stocks.

In his guilty plea, Horvath said that he gave confidential information to Steinberg and that the two traded based on secret financial data. Hovarth has continued to co-operate with the authorities since his plea deal.

In a 2008 email introduced as evidence in the trial of two other traders last year, Horvath told Steinberg: "Pls keep the Dell stuff especially on the down low." He said an analyst friend had asked him "to be extra sensitive with the info".

The arrest comes as a judge has questioned a legal settlement SAC reached with the US authorities over two other insider dealing cases.

In May SAC agreed to pay regulators $616m to resolve two insider trading cases. On Thursday, US district judge Victor Marrero refused to approve the larger of the two settlements, a $602m deal, after questioning a provision that allows SAC to avoid admitting that it did anything wrong.

The move follows a similar rejection of a Citigroup settlement in 2011 by US district judge Jed Rakoff. That case in now being appealed. Marrero ended Thursday's hearing without saying when he will rule on the settlement.

In the meantime, Cohen has been making headlines for other reasons. The hedge fund king added Picasso's Le Rêve to his $1bn art collection for $155m. Last week he paid $60m for an oceanfront home in the Hamptons.

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6 NY Politicians Arrested in Bribery Scandal

Posted By: Jordon [Send E-Mail]
Date: Tuesday, 2-Apr-2013 10:19:12
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Six arrested in bribe probe related to New York mayor's race



Six New York politicians were arrested on Tuesday for their alleged role in a bribery scandal that saw a prominent Democrat pay top Republicans for permission to run on their ticket in the city's upcoming mayoral race, prosecutors said.

Democratic state Senator Malcolm Smith and five Republicans that he has been alleged to have tried to bribe were arrested on Tuesday morning, an official at the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan said.

Prosecutors described the scheme as an attempt to game the city's first wide-open mayoral election in more than a decade. New York will choose its first new mayor in 12 years in November when Michael Bloomberg's third term comes to an end.

The charges include bribery, extortion, and wire and mail fraud. The politicians could not be reached immediately for comment.

"A show-me-the-money culture seems to pervade every level of New York government," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. "The complaint describes an unappetizing smorgasbord of graft and greed involving six officials who together built a corridor of corruption stretching from Queens and the Bronx to Rockland County and all the way up to Albany itself."

Authorities arrested five Republicans: City Councilman Daniel Halloran, Queens County Republican Party Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone, Bronx County Republican Party Chairman Joseph Savino, Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin, and Spring Valley Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret.

Prosecutors said that Tabone and Savino received a total of $40,000 in bribes for promising their support of Smith. Halloran was said to have received $20,500 for setting up a meeting with people Smith believed were supporters who were in fact a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent.

Since 2000, Smith has represented a district in eastern Queens including Jamaica as well as wealthier neighborhoods near Nassau County.

Bloomberg, a former Democrat, changed his party affiliation to Republican before his first run in 2001, and later switched his party affiliation to independent.

However outrageous this is, it's not unexpected.

I have been saying for years

"don't trust the banks"

, there's nothing paranoid about that, it's just common sense, and now the evidence is out.....they can and will take your money.

Anarchy is but one or two mass robberies away.......by the power brokers, of the common people.

They are getting so brazen that they just take your money now, they don't even try to hide the fact that they're doing it.

They simply say we're broke and we are taking your money to maintain our luxurious lifestyle that we are entitled to.

Drake: Bank & Finance Alert

Posted By: Jordon [Send E-Mail]
Date: Wednesday, 3-Apr-2013 16:06:04
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Notice

As most listeners and followers know, I have been working with principles in the release of The Collateral Accounts.

Over the past few days, I have gotten a glut of information dealing with specific ‘irregularities’ in several of the larger financial institutions. I have held this information waiting on verification and validation.

At this level, most are unaware of how things work and the direct impact specific actions have.

> The partial listing is as follows:

Goldman Sacs, Lloyd Blankfein; J.P. Morgan, Jamie Diamond and Deitschbank, Josef Ackermann.

This notice is a heads up of documentation of illicit activities at, between, and by these financial institutions.

The posting is to be made in the next day or so.

These will include several others in this list, as everyone will soon see.

All of those involved might want to be aware that many people are involved in this expose` of what many will term a first house cleaning.

Everyone involved and the institutions are set to be prosecuted for their activities and actions.

I hope those involved are ready.

I know the people who have been subjected by this are more than ready to see justice served.

~ Drake

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 4^th, 2013 at 12:46pm:


this is true - and the source of their money is never revealed. In many instances its drug money - arms deals etc

Who is Really Running Iran ? Ahmadinejad Held for 7 Hours & Ali Khamen

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/iran-president-ahmadinejad-arrested/

WND EXCLUSIVE
IRAN SOURCE: PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD ARRESTED
Taken to secret location for 7 hours before released
Published: 1 day ago



Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested and held for seven hours Monday and warned to keep his mouth shut about matters detrimental to the Islamic regime before he was released, according to a source within the Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence unit.

After his visit to Tehran’s 26th international book fair Monday, the source said the head of Ahmadinejad’s security team informed the Iranian president that he had been asked to appear at the supreme leader’s office for an urgent matter.

On the way to the meeting, contact between the security team within the president’s convoy was disconnected while three other cars joined the convoy, instructing the lead car to take a different direction. Ahmadinejad, instead of being taken to the supreme leader’s office, was taken to a secret location in one of the buildings belonging to the Foreign Ministry, which is under the control of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit.

As soon as Ahmadinejad exited the car, he and his security team were involved in an altercation with Guards’ members in which his team was disarmed and communications equipment confiscated. Ahmadinejad was then forced to enter an office belonging to Hossein Taeb, the head of the Guards’ intelligence, located underneath the building.

As this was happening, the source said, hundreds of other Guards’ members from the intelligence unit sought out Ahmadinejad’s associates throughout Tehran and questioned them on the existence of documents detrimental to the regime.

Ahmadinejad was questioned for hours in a meeting with Taeb; Asghar Hejazi, the head of intelligence at the supreme leader’s office; Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader’s son; and Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, the attorney general. He was warned to back down from his claims against regime officials and given an ultimatum. The source added that Ahmadinejad was released back to his security team at 11:45 p.m. Monday, Tehran time.

Earlier, the regime’s media outlet Baztab reported that with just days remaining for the registration of presidential candidates, Ahmadinejad warned associates that if his hand-picked candidate to succeed him, a close confidant and a top adviser, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, was rejected as a candidate, then he would reveal tapes that will show the regime defrauded the voters in the 2009 presidential election.


One tape reportedly quotes officials as telling Ahmadinejad in 2009 that they will announce his total winning tally as 24 million votes where the real number was 16 million. In the same tape, Ahmadinejad insisted that the officials not do that. The Baztab site was immediately taken down by the regime’s security forces and is still offline.

Millions of Iranians took to the streets after the 2009 election results were reported, calling Ahmadinejad’s 62 percent tally of voters a fraud and demanding a free election. Thousands were arrested, with many tortured and executed. Ahmadinejad’s opponents, Mir Hossein Moysavi and Mehdi Karoubi, have been under house arrest ever since.


Under the constitution of the Islamic Republic, the 12-member Guardian Council decides the eligibility of who can run for office in the country, and anyone with any history of opposing the regime is barred from participation. The council is made up of six Islamic faqihs (experts in Islamic law) appointed by the supreme leader and six jurists nominated by the head of the Judiciary (who is himself appointed by the supreme leader), and then approved by the parliament.



Ahmadinejad had previously warned that he would release documents not only on high-ranking Guards officers but also on leading members of parliament and the Justice Department that prove financial fraud.

The source added that it will be interesting to see if Ahmadinejad takes the warning or if he creates more problems with the regime, but one thing is sure: He could end up dead if he doesn’t.

The public relations office of the Iranian president subsequently issued a press release rejecting the existence of such a tape that points to fraud in the 2009 elections. In its release, it stated that publishing such news, by the regime’s media Baztab, is only with the intention of creating instability before the upcoming elections.

The UK DailyMail reporting on this WND story added that U.S. and British diplomats in the area are said to be aware of the reports and are viewing them “with interest.”

“It is potentially of considerable significance given the on-going internal political struggles as the election approaches,” one diplomatic source said.

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Navy Seal Team 6 Families Press Conference Live Stream 10:00am EST

Thursday, May 9, 2013 4:59



Three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference May 9th, 2013 to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist’s death.

Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team VI special operations servicemen will be retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.

Looking forward to see what they have to say. The video below goes live at 10:00am EST Enjoy. -Mort

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