Geert De Wilders On Leaving the European Union

Geert De Wilders, MP Holland

[From interview]
The instability we're seeing in England at the moment is only temporary. In the long run, the British will profit, just like we'd profit from leaving the EU.
[. . .]
We'd finally get our national sovereignty back, as well as our autonomy in matters of monetary and immigration policy -- just like Switzerland. That's my favorite example: a country in the heart of Europe, that even has individual trade agreements with China and Japan. The British too -- Germany's third-largest trading partner -- will reach an agreement with the EU.
[. . .]
Look at why the British wanted this exit! Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece and Turkey, on deals with Erdogan or for asylum seekers.
[. . .]
I haven't promised anything for the future. Instead, I have said what I would have done differently in the past. My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're spending billions of euros on them. In Dubai, the police drive Lamborghinis. These countries aren't poor. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states should take care of these people. They're closer, have the same religion, the same climate, the same culture. That's how I would have solved this.
[. . .]
I believe just like you do that these people should find protection. But we can't take any more. For me, the asylum seekers here aren't refugees. They came through six or seven safe countries. According to the Dublin regulations, they must stay in the first safe country they reach.
[. . .]
Whether you like it or not -- I want to close the Dutch borders. My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.
[. . .]
That's exactly the problem: The European Central Bank in Frankfurt with its idiotic zero interest rate policy. By doing so, the banks have slashed our pensions, and this concept is toxic for our economy. We want to determine our own monetary policy.
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The Swiss can, the Norwegians too. Why not us? Whether we then follow the Germans economically or another country remains to be seen. I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services. I also don't have a problem with people from Slovakia and Lithuania. But I do have a problem with immigration from Islamic countries. The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.
[. . .]
You only see things in a negative light. We could reintroduce the guilder. That would create costs for two years, but would bring advantages starting with the third year. That is according to one of our studies carried out by a serious economic institution. We could still follow the euro. There are a lot of possibilities.
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May I quote another study from a Dutch university that was produced long before the refugee crisis? It says that immigration from non-Western immigrants costs our state €€7.2 billion annually, much more than closing the borders and visa limitations would.
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I don't have anything against Canadians or Australians. But we will make the decision as to who we want to allow into our country and who we will outlaw. We wouldn't have to accept people from Portugal any more, for example, if the Portuguese continue giving refugees from Somalia a visa for the Schengen area.
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It's already a million Muslims! As long as they obey the law and respect the constitution, nobody has anything to fear. They can stay and they have the same rights and the opportunity for a fantastic life in Holland. But when somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here. If we were to set an example with the Moroccans, for example, it would have an enormous effect. Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans.
[. . .]
You can remain friends, even without EU membership. The Prüm Convention, according to which data for combatting crime is exchanged, is a good example of international cooperation.
[. . .]
Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter. A university in Amsterdam reports that 11 percent of Muslims are prepared to use violence against non-Muslims and against Muslims. I have travelled a great deal -- to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt -- and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam. Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.
[. . .]
The differences are immense! I could talk about them for hours. Once again, whether you like it or not: Islam wants to destroy us and I want to prevent it. That's why I founded my party and it has the support of 25 percent of voters according to surveys. I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/dutch-populist-geert-wilders-wants-to-leave-the-eu-a-1100931.html

Interview with Geert Wilders: 'The Netherlands Would Profit from Leaving the EU'
Interview Conducted by Susanne Koelbl
July 01, 2016 – 06:42 PM

Miami Brother And Sister Busted With $24 million Cash Money From Marijuana Sales

Cash Money and Gun

[From article]

Police made quite the discovery when raiding a home in Miami Lakes on Tuesday: over $24 million from a suspected marijuana trafficker, the largest money seizure in the department's history.
Authorities found the money stuffed in dozens of five-gallon buckets located in a hidden attic compartment inside the home,
[. . .]
Luis Hernandez-Gonzalez, 44, was taken into custody on several drug and firearms charges stemming from an investigation by the Miami-Dade police and the Drug Enforcement Agency. His sister, Salma Hernandez, 32, was also arrested.
Both siblings appeared in court Wednesday, with Hernandez-Gonzalez ordered held on more than $4 million bond. His sister was given a $12,500 bond,

[. . .]


Cash Money Containers

Police said Hernandez-Gonzalez, who runs The Blossom Experience store in Miami-Dade, was involved in trafficking marijuana to Tennessee along with two other men. He had been the target of an investigation dating back to 2010, speaking with informants about the drug trade, according to police.
The store’s website proclaims its expertise in indoor gardening needs and lists items including lights and fans. The business was raided as part of the operation, with officers finding drugs and $180,000 in a safe.
Hernandez-Gonzalez was recorded on various phone calls giving advice on how to care for the plants. After his arrest, Hernandez-Gonzalez allegedly admitted to helping customers grow the drug.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Siblings-Arrested-After-Drug-Bust-Largest-Money-Seizure-in-Miami-Dade-Police-History-384888001.html

Siblings Arrested After $24M Drug Bust, Largest Money Seizure in Miami-Dade Police History
Authorities found the money stuffed in dozens of five-gallon buckets located in a hidden attic compartment inside the home
Published June 29, 2016

Privileged Harvard Law School Students End Civil Rights Action, Resume Pursuit of Corporate Positions

How many of these dedicated, altruistic, morally superior civil rights activists will reject those high paying corporate associate positions, when they leave Belinda Hall and the racist, oppressive, sexist, homophobic and Islamophobic law school community behind? 

After posting the above comment on the Harvard Crimson site, one of the many thoughtful young people who harass me warned, "You better stop doing that. They want to kill you." Really? A group of privileged black students at Harvard Law School whine non stop about white oppression. They demand punishing white people who did them no harm, and demand special privileges, more money and more power as payment for harms they did not suffer. They want to kill a citizen for exercising a constitutionally guaranteed right, i.e. criticizing  misguided young lawyers. Does this indicate how flawed the current higher education system is? Do they really believe that all white people are wealthy and powerful? Do they really believe that all black people are poor and weak? Do they really believe they are the only group chosen to express their demands for better living? Do they believe they are granted special privileges to silence any differing opinions, by disrupting law abiding professors at their own law school who want to speak? Like the Republican Party, they probably do not understand why Donald Trump is so popular and will be the next President. 

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/5/4/reclaim-hls-holds-informal-commencement/

Closing a Year of Activism, Law Students Hold Informal Commencement
By CLAIRE E. PARKER

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
May 4, 2016

Replacing Historical Icons With PC Images

[From article]
Patrick J. Buchanan is an historian. In his piece, “Dishonoring General Jackson”, Buchanan conjures up facts. That is what historians do. Regarding the recent proposal to put new faces on our currency, and noticing a very certain attitude,
“..this is affirmative action raised to fanaticism, a celebration of President Obama’s views and values, and a recasting of our currency..”
I heard a conservative radio host dismiss the currency reconfiguration issue as a non event. His argument was that there were more important issues to concern ourselves with, the national debt, illegal immigration, etc.. I maintain that we can hold concern for many things at the same time, and that this currency remake is indeed one that should hold our attention. Pat Buchanan agrees.
Image control is no small issue, and politicians and revolutionaries know it. To reface the currency is to shuffle the deck on historical hierarchies, or should I say “load” the deck. It is a rewrite of history, a new declaration of what is and was important. That is no small matter.
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Buchanan continues:
This is affirmative action raised to fanaticism, a celebration of President Obama’s views and values, and a recasting of our currency to make Obama’s constituents happy at the expense of America’s greatest heroes and historic truth…
While King already has a holiday and monument in D.C., were the achievements of any of these six women remotely comparable to what the six men honored on our currency — Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Jackson, President Grant and Ben Franklin — achieved?



I find it curious that we get the forced and reworked American history lesson from a man who was never tutored in history in the continental United States, and received none from his schooling in Indonesia.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/a_recasting_of_our_currency_to_promote_a_new_history.html

April 23, 2016
A Recasting of Our Currency to Promote a ‘New’ History
By James Longstreet

Massachusetts Fisherman Indicted For Hiding Money From Fishing Over Quota

A man and his codfish

[From article]
The indicted New Bedford fishing boss who federal agents say cooked the books to evade fishing quotas had teamed up with a local cop to smuggle tens of thousands of dollars out of the U.S. back to his homeland of Portugal, according to court documents.
Carlos Rafael, the 64-year-old owner of Carlos Seafood dubbed the “Codfather,” told undercover agents he also cheated export officials by giving the unnamed “local law enforcement officer” cash before entering security at Logan International Airport, an affidavit filed in the federal court case states.
The officer would take the cash through to the secured area of the airport, while Rafael would walk through security and did not have to claim he was transporting more than $10,000 in cash out of the country, according to the affidavit.
Federal authorities estimate Rafael allegedly carried $40,000 to $60,000 in cash this way every time he went to Portugal, where he was born.
Prosecutors allege Rafael used hundreds of thousands of smuggled dollars to “fix up” his parents’ home, buy his own home, buy a warehouse and a pleasure boat.
[. . .]
Rafael and his bookkeeper, Debra Messier, 60, are accused of misclassifying fish caught by the company’s boats for years to evade federal fishing quotas by falsifying forms that track the quantity and type of fish they caught and sold.
A wholesaler in New York City paid for the fish with bags of cash that Rafael would call “a bag of jingles” — earning as much as $668,000 in six months, prosecutors said.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/03/court_docs_codfather_had_local_cop_smuggle_cash

Court docs: ‘Codfather’ had local cop smuggle cash
Brian Dowling

Boston Herald

Sunday, March 06, 2016

Cashless Society Will End Most Freedoms

[From article]
But no one is going to put their money in banks! Not if it means negative interest rates.
Don't worry. Governments will rise to the occasion and soon will be making cash illegal. People will be forced to put their money in banks or the market, thus rescuing the central governments and the central banks that are incestuously intertwined with them.
Beyond that, cash is probably the last arena of personal autonomy left. It can be spent anyway one pleases, with no one watching. It can be hidden from the government to avoid taxes. It can be used to engage in transactions of a semi-legal nature. It has power that the government cannot control; and that is why it has to go.
Of course, governments will not tell us the real reasons. Might provoke a reaction. We will be told it is for our own "good," however one defines that. It will be sold to us as a benefit. Millions of smartphone users are being seduced to take advantage of the convenience of Apple Pay; and indeed it is convenient, until you lose your smartphone.
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Side stories will inform us that mugging is down. Crime is finally being defeated. What won't be reported will be that hacking will shoot up. Bank fraud will skyrocket.
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Conservatives will be told that no cash puts a damper on drug transactions, and social crimes, such as prostitution. Illegal aliens will not be able to get work. The media will be replete with tales of such wonder working miracles during the transition.
Be assured, however, that criminals, ever innovative, will find a way around problem. Escort Agencies now take credit cards. Muggers will soon concentrate on jewelry and smartphones, especially those with Apple Pay accounts.
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The real purpose of a cashless society will be total control: Absolute Total Control.
The real victims will be the public who will be forced to put all their wealth in a centralized system backed up by the good faith and credit of their respective governments.
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The end result will be the loss of all autonomy. This will be the darkest of all tyrannies. From cradle to grave one will not only be tracked in location, but on purchases. Liberty will be non-existent
However, it will be sold to us as expedient simplicity itself, freeing us from crime: Fascism with a friendly face.
Perhaps the scariest consequence of all is that an individual can be "terminated" by a bureaucrat erasing his identity.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/here_comes_the_cashless_society_.html

February 8, 2016
Here Comes the ‘Cashless Society’
By Mike Konrad

Springfield, MA Officer Charged With Theft of Cash Evidence

Policeman Kevin Burnham holding cocaine evidence. 

No mention if he stole any drugs. The City and MA Attorney General appear only interested in the cash money. Police Commissioner and Mayor called it a lesson learned? Is this the first time evidence was stolen from a police department? Hello? Were these two public officials born yesterday?

[From article]
Police Commissioner John Barbieri said he and members of his department were blind-sided by the alleged discovery of a staggering $385,000 in systematic thefts of cash from the evidence room by retired Officer Kevin Burnham.
During a press conference followingBurnham's arraignment Monday in Hampden Superior Court on multiple counts of larceny, Barbieri said the tip of an apparent pattern was uncovered during a city audit in the summer of 2014, after the then-new commissioner took office and approximately when Burnham retired.
The city's internal auditor initially reported "there were some problems" after Barbieri ordered a review of the department's cash and evidence protocols. He said the review was part of an overall plan to modernize the department, as opposed to a response to any internal rumblings about Burnham.
"We wanted to determine if that cash had simply been misplaced or mis-stored, or whether we, in fact, had been the victim of a larceny," Barbieri said. "Officers reported back that they couldn't locate the cash."
[. . .]
More than a year later, Attorney General Maura Healey's office on Monday announced it was bringing charges against Burnham after a grand jury returned indictments in late December. The indictments state Burnham swiped cash from evidence envelopes stored in connection with about 162 criminal cases. Along with the indictments, Healey's office filed a five-page spreadsheet detailing the alleged thefts
[. . .]
Burnham pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on his own recognizance. He had been a police officer for 43 years and retired as the department's senior officer in 2014. Healey's office said he "took advantage" of his position as narcotics evidence officer, a position Barbieri said Burnham held for almost 20 years.The citations include piddling amounts under $100; but in one case, nearly $108,000 was never recovered, according to the documents. The spreadsheet tracked cases back to late 2009.
[. . .]
The overall message by Barbieri and other officials at Monday's press conference, including Mayor Domenic Sarno, amounted to: "Lesson learned."
[. . .]
Thus far, the issue has shaken out to be more than a $500,000 problem for a struggling city – given the $385,000 missing from the evidence room, $170,000 for the private auditing firm and thousands more spent on new equipment for the department.
Barbieri said no other police officers have been implicated in the investigation. It remains a question how one officer could allegedly lift nearly $400,000 in cash under the noses of his supervisors, however.
[. . .]
Barbieri said evidence money is now stored in a bank account, as opposed to in lockers in the evidence room

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/springfield_police_commissione_30.html

Springfield Police Commissioner John Barbieri: Department blind-sided by alleged theft of $385,000 in evidence money by retired officer
By Stephanie Barry | sbarry (at) repub.com
January 11, 2016 at 7:01 PM

Upward Mobility Measured by Money

Martin G. Evans

Business school Prof. Evans defines intergenerational mobility as, "what are your chances of doing better or worse than your parents?" He does not explain what he means by "better." But the discussion remains focused on earning money. He refers to "hope" among "poor persons" and cites research about undefined "social mobility." Evans notes differences between conservatives and liberals, but still about money. Making more money is upward mobility? Due to inflation most children do "better" than their parents. 

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150731/NEWS/150739394

Guest column: What do we know about social mobility?
By Martin G. Evans
Posted Jul. 31, 2015 at 2:26 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Lottery Employee Convicted of Fixing Computer To Make Himself A Winner

Pssst. Wanna win the lottery?

The flaw in his plan was to buy the ticket himself and to make himself the winner. How many lotteries were fixed to allow others to win, whether they shared the money with the fixer(s) or not? 

[From article]

Jurors found him guilty Monday after just five hours of deliberation. Tipton declined to comment after the verdict.
Tipton, of Norwalk, had been working for the Des Moines-based Multi-State Lottery Association since 2003 and was promoted to information security director in 2013. The nonprofit association is operated by 37 mostly state-run lotteries to oversee picking numbers for various games and other lottery game administrative functions.
As an employee, Tipton was prohibited from playing the lottery in Iowa. He was fired after his January arrest.
Surveillance video from a Des Moines convenience store shows a hooded man buying the winning Hot Lotto ticket in December 2010. The video is fuzzy and the face of the man isn’t clear. Several of Tipton’s former coworkers and friends testified at trial that the man in the video is Tipton. His sister and two brothers testified it isn’t him.
Iowa prosecutors allege Tipton bought the same numbers that he had programmed into the lottery computer a month earlier. He then gave the ticket to a friend in Texas who prosecutors say reached out to attorneys in Canada and Texas to try and cash it in without divulging the name of the original ticket buyer. Since Iowa law requires jackpot winners to be identified, the jackpot was never paid.
“I think this ought to be a wakeup call to other states in terms of maybe they should emulate the Iowa lottery’s requirements,” said Iowa Assistant Attorney General Rob Sand.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/20/lottery-worker-rigged-system-to-win-14-million-jackpot/

Lottery worker rigged system to win $14 million jackpot
By Associated Press
July 20, 2015 | 4:05pm
New York Post

Woman Unconcerned After Loss of $100 million. Feels Better. Can't Buy Me Love!

Suzanne Corso on the roof of her building in Battery Park City, where she now rents a two-bedroom apartment.

Photo: Anne Wermiel
[From article]
It’s November 2005 and we’ve been living in an 11-room suite at the Ritz-Carlton on West Street for a little more than two years. And first-grader Samantha has developed quite the habit of ordering in.
Far from finding it cute, I’m appalled — I grew up on welfare in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, so the charm and appeal of the whole “Eloise at the Plaza” scenario is wasted on me as I consider that we might be raising a spoiled child.
How ironic, then, that just three years later that privileged lifestyle would come crashing down around our heads. My husband, Anthony, now 52, lost his entire fortune — more than $100 million — in the Wall Street financial crisis, leaving us wondering where our next rent check would come from.
Looking back, it was the best thing that ever happened. Hanging out with the uber-wealthy was dull and empty. If someone handed me $100 million today, I’d give it back in a heartbeat. Why? Because I’ve found the fulfillment I’ve craved since childhood.
[. . .]
Born to a teenage mom, I was raised on food stamps. It was tough growing up in Bensonhurst and, when I was 16, my grandmother bought me a secondhand Smith Corona typewriter. Since I loved writing, she told me “to write myself out of this story.”
[. . .]
I was working as a temp for Chemical Bank and was running along Exchange Place to get to the office. Some guy came over to me, patted me on the shoulder and said: “Excuse me, miss, I think you’re beautiful. Can I take you for dinner or brunch?”
[. . .]
Our first date was cocktails at the Top of the Tower in Midtown East, followed by front-row seats at “The Phantom of the Opera” and dinner at Le Cirque, with limos in between.
[. . .]
And then the financial crash of 2008 happened. Anthony would come home stressed every night. After a while, he said: “You know, we’re going to have to get rid of the helicopter.” We started to cut back — I took my clothes to consignment stores and sold one of my Birkin bags to settle one AmEx bill — but there was too much being leveraged.
[. . .]
So I knocked the novel into shape and sent it to 50 agents. They all hated it but one.
Called “Brooklyn Story,” a thinly veiled memoir of my romance with the mobster, the book sold to Simon & Schuster within a week. To my amazement, I was offered a six-figure deal. And, when the book hit the best-seller lists in 2010, they asked me to write a trilogy, culminating in my last novel, “Hello, Hollywood,” published last month.

http://nypost.com/2015/06/05/i-lost-100-million-and-ive-never-been-happier/

I lost $100M — and I’ve never been happier
By Jane Ridley
New York Post

June 5, 2015 | 2:24am

Former US House Speaker Suspected of Sexual Abuse Cover Up

Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert

[From article]
Indicted former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was paying an individual from his past to conceal sexual misconduct, two federal law enforcement officials said Friday.
One of the officials, who would not speak publicly about the federal charges in Chicago, said “Individual A,” as the person is described in Thursday’s federal indictment, was a man and that the alleged misconduct was unrelated to Hastert’s tenure in Congress. The actions date to Hastert’s time as a Yorkville, Ill., high school wrestling coach and teacher, the official said.
“It goes back a long way, back to then,” the source said. “It has nothing to do with public corruption or a corruption scandal. Or to his time in office.” Thursday’s indictment described the misconduct “against Individual A” as having “occurred years earlier.”
[. . .]
According to the seven-page indictment, Individual A met multiple times in 2010 with Hastert but brought up the allegations of past misconduct during at least one of the meetings. During that discussion and later meetings, Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million to Individual A to conceal the wrongdoing, the indictment alleged.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83658680/

What's behind the Dennis Hastert scandal: 'It was sex,' official says
Hastert, the accidental House speaker, faces his own scandal
RICHARD A. SERRANO,
Timothy M. Phelps
May 29, 2015, 3:22 p.m.

Apple CEO Sued By Wife For Hiding Assets During Divorce

John Sculley

Photo: Getty Images
[From article]
The man who famously fired Steve Jobs from Apple, John Sculley, is being sued by his ex-wife of 32 years, Carol Lee Sculley, who claims he “secretly and furtively” hid more than $25 million of his assets when they divorced.


Carol Lee Sculley

Sculley — the former Apple CEO who reportedly now has a net worth of $200 million — settled his divorce with Carol, known as Leezy, in 2011. But she sued him in Palm Beach in 2013 claiming he “lied” to her and the court, “submitted a false financial affidavit . . . and failed to fully and honestly disclose his assets.”
According to the court papers, Sculley had claimed that their total marital assets at the time of their separation in 2010 were $4.8 million. But he allegedly didn’t disclose “substantial private equity investments and investments in privately held companies and ventures around the globe.”

http://pagesix.com/2015/01/25/former-apple-ceo-being-sued-by-ex-for-hiding-millions-in-divorce/?_ga=1.1418994.212440808.1402078759

Former Apple CEO being sued by ex for ‘hiding millions’ in divorce
By Emily Smith
New York Post
January 25, 2015 | 9:44pm

Presidential Campaigns About Money, War Mentality

[From article]
Hillary hasn’t announced a 2016 campaign yet. She’s busy polling more than 200 policy experts on how to show that she really cares about the poor while courting the banks. Yet her shadow campaign is already in a déjà-vu-all-over-again shark fight over control of the candidate and her money. It’s the same old story: The killer organization that, even with all its ruthless hired guns, can’t quite shoot straight.
Squabbling competing factions helped Hillary squander a quarter-of-a-billion dollars in 2008.

[. . .]

The former “right-wing hit man,” and impresario of “dirty tricks,” as Brock has said of himself, made his living in the ’90s sliming Anita Hill as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty” and breaking the Troopergate story, which accused Arkansas state troopers of setting up liaisons for Bill Clinton and spurred Paula Jones’s 1994 sexual harassment lawsuit.
He has tried to discredit anyone who disagreed with his ideological hits (myself and reporters I know included). And that’s still the business he’s in, simply on the other side as a Hillary zealot.

[. . .]

With the understood blessing of the Clintons, Brock runs a $28 million cluster of media monitoring groups and oppo research organizations that are vehicles to rebut and at times discredit and threaten anyone who casts a gimlet eye at Clinton Inc. As Confessore and Chozick wrote, he uses a fund-raiser named Mary Pat Bonner, whose firm has collected millions of dollars in commissions — a practice many fund-raising experts consider unethical. Everyone wants to be at the trough for this one because Hillary is likely to raise, and more important, spend more than $1 billion on her campaign.

[. . .]

The Clintons appreciate the fact that Brock, like Morris, is a take-no-prisoners type with the ethical compass of a jackal. Baked in the tactics of the right, Brock will never believe that negative coverage results from legitimate shortcomings. Instead, it’s all personal, all false, and all a war.

[. . .]

But, for now, what Republicans say about government is true of the Clintons: They really do believe that your money belongs to them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-call-off-the-dogs.html?_r=0

Call Off the Dogs
FEB. 14, 2015

Maureen Dowd

New York Serial Lover Takes Women's Money And Runs

Carrie Wharton and Martin Priest who — according to Wharton's Facebook page — have an infant son and married in October.
Photo: Facebook

[From article]
In a legal filing that reads more like a soap-opera script, Amy Marie Cooper says she dated Martin Priest, 36, for four years but claims she had no idea he was still living with his wife Tianna, 32, at the time, according to her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
Cooper says she ended her relationship with Priest in 2012, when she found out his wife was pregnant, but that she still had “feelings for him,” according to court papers.
A year later, Cooper claims Priest came crawling back, crying that his marriage was “irretrievably broken down and that he was a victim of abuse from his wife.”
He also “claimed that another woman, Carrie Wharton, was pregnant with his child . . . and likewise abused him,” Cooper says in the legal filing.
Priest, who works for Daiwa Capital Markets, allegedly told Cooper he “was in dire need of money in order to protect himself and his children from his wife and pay Carrie to abort her unborn child.”
Cooper says she finally caved when Priest claimed he wanted to rekindle their romance — and lent him $65,000, according to court papers.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/18/woman-claims-cheating-ex-duped-her-out-of-65000/

Man cheating with 3 women ‘bilked’ ex-lover out of $65K
By Kathianne Boniello
New York Post
January 18, 2015 | 12:32am

How Al Sharpton Makes Money From Corporations

Does that mean that Obama, Holder, Jeh Johnson, Charles Rangel are not race hustlers?

[From article]
Want to influence a casino bid? Polish your corporate image? Not be labeled a racist?
Then you need to pay Al Sharpton.
For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharpton’s National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverend’s supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence.
[. . .]



“Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didn’t come to terms with him. Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal & Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog group that has produced a book on Sharpton.
[. . .]
In 2008, Plainfield Asset Management, a Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund, made a $500,000 contribution to New York nonprofit Education Reform Now. That money was immediately funneled to the National Action Network.
The donation raised eyebrows. Although the money was ostensibly to support NAN’s efforts to bring “educational equality,” it also came at a time that Plainfield was trying to get a lucrative gambling deal in New York.
[. . .]



Sharpton raised $1 million for NAN at his 60th birthday bash in October, with donations rolling in from unions and a corporate roster of contributors including AT&T, McDonald’s, Verizon and Walmart.
Companies have long gotten in line to pay Sharpton. Macy’s and Pfizer have forked over thousands to NAN, as have General Motors, American Honda and Chrysler.
[. . .]
NAN had repeatedly and without success asked GM for donations for six years beginning in August 2000, a GM spokesman told The Post. Then, in 2006, Sharpton threatened a boycott of GM over the planned closing of an African-American-owned dealership in The Bronx. He picketed outside GM’s Fifth Avenue headquarters. GM wrote checks to NAN for $5,000 in 2007 and another $5,000 in 2008.
Sharpton targeted American Honda in 2003 for not hiring enough African-Americans in management positions.
[. . .]
Sharpton landed a gig as a $25,000-a-year adviser to Pepsi after he threatened a consumer boycott of the soda company in 1998, saying its ads did not portray African-Americans. He held the position until 2007

http://nypost.com/2015/01/04/how-sharpton-gets-paid-to-not-cry-racism-at-corporations/

How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
January 4, 2015 | 12:23am
New York Post

IRS Seizes Money Without Evidence of A Crime

Cash inventory: Jeff Hirsch, one of three brothers who own Bi-County Distributors on Long Island is still out $446,000 as the government sits on the company's cash and won't explain why

[From article]
The federal government is using a legal process called 'civil forfeiture' to seize massive amounts of money from unsuspecting Americans – without alleging that they've committed any crimes.
Laws put on the books to help the government track drug trafficking proceeds and terrorists' cash reserves are regularly contorted, according to a civil rights group, by prosecutors who see easy access to piles of cash that ultimately pays their salaries.
The financial seizures leave some honest small businessmen and women out of luck when their life savings disappear and their family trades teeter on the edge of insolvency.
In one case, the IRS took $446,000 from a mostly cash-only small business that distributes candy, snacks and cigarettes to convenience stores. Brothers Jeffrey, Richard and Mitch Hirsch lost that money two years ago when the federal government raided their bank account.
In another, the government grabbed $33,000 from Iowa restaurateur Carole Hinders, who deals only in cash. No criminal charges have been brought in either case.
[. . .]
Equally troubling, he said, is that the laundry list of federal agencies that take Americans' property on a regular basis can keep it – pocketing cash and selling other assets – in order to pay salaries and grow their budgets for the next round of seizures.
While they ultimately refer criminal cases to the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecution, forfeited assets stay with the investigating agencies.
[. . .]
In the Hirsches' case, the government never formally applied to a court for permission to take their cash. That's a clear violation of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, the Institute for Justice says.
Congress passed that law in 2000 to curb abuses by prosecutors under forfeiture laws.
[. . .]
'The government can take this money and just sit on it, and try to force you into a settlement. Which is what they've done in this case and in others.'
In the Iowa case, the Times reported Monday that Hinders got a knock on her door last year from two federal agents who told her that her checking account had been seized.
'How can this happen?' she asked the Times. 'Who takes your money before they prove that you've done anything wrong with it?'
Hinders won't see a judge until at least May 2015, since she's not entitled to a preliminary hearing where a judge might conclude the IRS had no justification to take her earnings.
'We're just saying the government should have to show it has probable cause to hold that money,' Salzman said. 'Why not give a prompt post-seizure hearing to make sure the government doesn't have the facts wrong?'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2809632/IRS-uses-drug-trafficking-terror-laws-seize-bank-accounts-taxpayers-without-proof-crime.html

IRS uses drug trafficking and terror laws to seize bank accounts from taxpayers without ANY proof of a crime
Agencies that seize the cash can KEEP IT to pay salaries and grow their budgets
Feds seized $446,000 from NY candy and cigarette distributor that deals mostly in cash;Iowa grandma lost $33,000 from her restaurant business
Government can take money if it thinks people are evading financial reporting laws by depositing money in specific amounts
Deposits of $10,000 or more trigger bank reporting requirements, so drug kingpins, terrorists and racketeers often limit their deposits to $9,900
Law-abiding people can have their money seized; IRS can sit on the cash and try to pressure ordinary businessmen and women into settlements
Institute for Justice, a nonprofit law firm, is pushing back and demanding hearings before federal judges
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 13:09 EST, 27 October 2014 | UPDATED: 15:18 EST, 27 October 2014

George Soros' Son In Pre-Nup Divorce Battle

Photo: Bill Cunningham/The New York TimesRobert Soros, right, never shared the enthusiasm of his father George, left, for following the markets. Robert is one of five Soros children.


Robert and Melissa Soros


Meredith Ostrom

Seems like these men attract women who love money.

[From article]
Billionaire George Soros’ eldest son, Robert, is going through an increasingly messy divorce after he cheated on his wife, Melissa Robin Schiff, with model and “naked artist” Meredith Ostrom.
Robert, deputy chairman and president of the $28 billion Soros Fund Management, filed for divorce from his wife of 22 years in Manhattan Supreme Court in May.
But sources tell us that Schiff is arguing their prenup is “ambiguous” in order to go after potentially billions of dollars of Robert’s personal wealth.
One source told Page Six: “One of the reasons Robert filed for divorce was that he was already seeing Meredith well before their marriage ended.
“The current battle is over their old and archaic prenup. Many of the provisions in it appear to be ambiguous. Melissa believes she can go after a large portion of his wealth, which could extend to billions of dollars.”

http://pagesix.com/2014/10/22/billionaire-george-soros-son-in-messy-divorce-after-cheating/?_ga=1.88632152.212440808.1402078759

Billionaire George Soros’ son in messy divorce after cheating
By Emily Smith
New York Post
October 22, 2014 | 9:14pm

Billy Joel Learned About Love The Hard Way

Billy Joel and Third Wife Katie Lee, 32 years younger than him.

Photo: FilmMagic
[From article]
“You just need one — one person out of millions — to know and accept and love you for being, well, just the way you are . . . I see old folks walking down the street who look like they’ve been together 50 years, and there’s something very touching about it — that they’ve lasted so long. I used to wonder: How come I don’t have that? I can dream about it, think about it, write music and lyrics and sing about it. I can even try to achieve it again, and often have.”
His three tortured marriages — and the music they’ve inspired — are testament to that.
[. . .]

“You can have all the money in the world, you can have mansions, you can have properties, you can have yachts, you can have limousines, you can have motorcycles,” he told Schruers. But without love, “it doesn’t mean a goddamn thing.”

http://pagesix.com/2014/10/26/how-billy-joels-three-wives-stole-his-heart-and-his-money/?_ga=1.99508317.212440808.1402078759

How Billy Joel’s three wives stole his heart and his money
By Maureen Callahan
New York Post
October 26, 2014 | 4:39am

NY Toll Collector Exchanged Counterfeit Cash For Real Money

[From article]
Germain worked 10 shifts between May 23, 2013, and June 13, 2014, and MTA cashiers found $24,270 in counterfeit cash in his deposit bags following those shifts, according to his complaint.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/25/toll-collector-busted-for-swapping-24k-with-counterfeit-bills/

Toll collector busted for swapping $24K with counterfeit bills
By Josh Saul
New York Post
June 25, 2014 | 1:44pm

USPS Carrier Charged With Theft of 20K Pieces of Mail

[From article]
A Catonsville letter carrier who worked for the postal service for more than two decades stole more than 20,000 pieces of mail, according to federal authorities.
Jeffrey L. Shipley is accused of pilfering checks and money orders. He is accused of filching passports and prescription medication. He is accused of pilfering credit cards and Mother's Day cards. He is even accused of stealing furniture from the United States Postal Service.
Shipley was charged in federal court last week with one count each of mail theft and delaying the mail.
[. . .]
They found, according to court documents, a Food Lion bag, trash bags, boxes and official postal service tubs full of mail, as well of stacks of Netflix DVDs, gift cards and magazines, a $100 bag of coins from the U.S. Mint and three stools marked "Property of USPS."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/catonsville/bs-md-mail-theft-20140602,0,1358788.story#ixzz33VBd5jee

Catonsville postman accused in theft of 20K pieces of mail
Jeffrey L. Shipley worked for postal services for over 20 years
By Ian Duncan and Brandi Bottalico

The Baltimore Sun
10:35 a.m. EDT, June 2, 2014