Posts Tagged ‘fraud’

Save Amer­ica! US on slip­pery slope to eco­nomic collapse

September 16th, 2009

Rack­e­teer­ing 101: Bailed Out Banks Threaten Sys­temic Col­lapse If Fed Dis­closes Information

August 28th, 2009

And so the guns come out blaz­ing. The Clear­ing House Asso­ci­a­tion, another name for all the banks that were bailed out over the past year with the gen­er­ous con­tri­bu­tions from all of you, dear tax­pay­ers, are now threat­en­ing with another instance of com­plete sys­temic col­lapse if Bloomberg’s law­suit is allowed to pro­ceed unchal­lenged, let alone if any of the “Audit The Fed” mea­sures are actu­ally imple­mented. […]

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Court Orders Fed to Dis­close Emer­gency Bank Loans

August 26th, 2009

The Fed­eral Reserve must for the first time iden­tify the com­pa­nies in its emer­gency lend­ing pro­grams after los­ing a Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion Act law­suit […]

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Sub­poe­nas Issued to Gold­man Sachs, JPMor­gan, U.S. Sen­a­tor Says

July 31st, 2009

July 30 (Bloomberg) — A Sen­ate panel seek­ing evi­dence of fraud tied to last year’s mort­gage cri­sis has issued sub­poe­nas to finan­cial com­pa­nies includ­ing Gold­man Sachs Group Inc. and JPMor­gan Chase & Co., said U.S. Sen­a­tor Tom Coburn, a Repub­li­can from Oklahoma.

Coburn declined to say whether sub­poe­nas were issued to other insti­tu­tions. Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank by assets, also was sent a sub­poena, accord­ing to a per­son with knowl­edge of the inquiry, who declined to be iden­ti­fied because the request isn’t public.

Coburn declined to dis­cuss what kinds of infor­ma­tion was requested by the Per­ma­nent Sub­com­mit­tee on Inves­ti­ga­tions. Coburn, the high­est rank­ing Repub­li­can on the sub­com­mit­tee, said he approved issu­ing the sub­poe­nas with Sub­com­mit­tee Chair­man Carl Levin, a Michi­gan Democrat.

The sub­poe­nas don’t mean the finan­cial insti­tu­tions vio­lated the law, Coburn said. “There is no indi­ca­tion that JPMor­gan or Gold­man Sachs did any­thing wrong,” he said. [ ]

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