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How Bankers Followed the Money Trail That Ousted Eliot SpitzerPosted on Apr 20, 2010
Some key details have cropped up, in the form of a 2007 suspicious-activity report filed by North Fork Bank, that show how former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer got busted, and then ousted, for his, er, active involvement in the Emperors Club VIP prostitution ring. It appears that some eagle-eyed employees at North Fork, now Capital One, were tipped off by the report, which listed Spitzer’s occupation as “NYS Governor,” and traced the attempted $5,000 wire transfer that set off internal alarms at the bank. It led to a suspicious company by the vague name of QAT Consulting Group, not to mention Spitzer’s resignation. —KA
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By samosamo, April 21, 2010 at 12:53 pm Link to this comment
But it is more than just coincidental that following the money
trail of conniving criminal bankers that would ‘ousted’ them just
never seems to work or produce the appropriate legal measures
for punishment of their much more virulent crimes against far
more people than anything Eliot Spitzer ever did.
Almost like the stock market that ostentatiously goes up on
Report thissome rumor but drops like a rock on some frivolous piece of
news; so does a petty crime of sorts become that ostentatiously
more ‘severe’ crime than the harm done to more people’s lives
ruined from the greed of real criminals.
By Maani, April 20, 2010 at 7:31 pm Link to this comment
Uh…hello? Has anybody considered that Spitzer’s activities were known for over a year before “they” went after him - by sheer coincidence (NOT!!) just one month (March 2008) after he testified to Congress (Feb 2008) about Wall Street practices that could lead to…an economic meltdown (Sept 2008)?
There is no excuse for Spitzers self-sabotage. But the TIMING was, shall we say, suspicious?
Report thisBy samosamo, April 20, 2010 at 6:07 pm Link to this comment
By the way G.A. it is spelled ‘prurient’.
Sure no secrecy in the banking secrecy act to protect those
people that have accounts and if there is supposed to be no
secrecy in supposed efforts to detect money laundering that
definitely has been a miserable failure considering the huge
sums of money going every which way but where it is needed.
Time to reintroduce bankers ‘guarding their hoards’ to the great
Report thispast time of tar and feathering.
By samosamo, April 20, 2010 at 6:07 pm Link to this comment
By the way G.A. it is spelled ‘prurient’.
Sure no secrecy in the banking secrecy act to protect those
people that have accounts and if there is supposed to be no
secrecy in supposed efforts to detect money laundering that
definitely has been a miserable failure considering the huge
sums of money going every which way but where it is needed.
Time to reintroduce bankers ‘guarding their hoards’ to the great
Report thispast time of tar and feathering.
By G.Anderson, April 20, 2010 at 4:19 pm Link to this comment
Interest in other’s peoples sex lives is purient.
Best reserved for Peeping Toms, voyeurs, and regligous fundamentalists in melt down.
I’m sure there are angry bankers out their examining every second of president Obama’s life from his first diaper up to the present, as your reading this.
No greater perversion has ever been displayed by any member of humanity, than a banker guarding his hoard.
Thank God, God is not a businessman, or banker.
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