Apr 09, 2007 11:33
"Well-known Beltway personalities whose secret offshore bank accounts have 'become known', have been encountering problems purchasing groceries, paying their utilities bills and generally making ends meet - with several instances already reported of DC personalities actually attempting to borrow money from members of their staffs.
Indeed, there are corroborating reports that such information has become a main topic of anxious conversation inside the Beltway."
This may have started on Tuesday, 27 March 2007, when "Police in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Italy launched simultaneous dawn raids Tuesday in a corruption investigation involving European public servants."
"136 people implicated were required, at a minimum, to disgorge detailed information about financial transactions, secret offshore bank accounts, and other incriminating details."
"The numbers of US criminalists whose secret offshore bank accounts and transactions have been exposed as a specific consequence of this European police haul is said to be of the order of 1,500."
Having surrendered national sovereignty, the administration is getting a taste of their work. "Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could face charges of war crimes after a lawsuit was filed against him in Germany."
Consistent with the German indictment is that "several of the very highest International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judges have taken bribes, in exchange for repeatedly granting the likes of President George W. Bush Jr., Vice President Richard Cheney, Henry M. Paulson, Michael Chertoff, Dr Ben Bernanke, Alberto Gonzales, Senator Hillary Clinton and others, and the 1,500 DC politicians and their staffers, immunity from international prosecution."
Related to the personal financial problems was this incident: "A glitch in the UK's BACS system... is not clear how the glitch happened."
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