47 et al CORRUPTION

Bentleyspop

gimmesometruth27 said:

there has never been a cringier pic from the oval office.

since maybe last month.

Looks like a brothel

josevolution

Bentleyspop said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

there has never been a cringier pic from the oval office.

since maybe last month.

Looks like a brothel

The only two missing if dirtbag kid rock & pedophile Nugent 

Bentleyspop

This is the single most corrupt regime in the 250 years of this country. Unfortunately no one cares to do anything about it. Hopefully if and when anyone gets prosecuted for these crimes it happens in state courts so that no demagogue wannabe can pardon federal charges.

This is very long but worth the read....

https://x.com/i/status/2047148829917528134

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

gimmesometruth27

nothing is going to happen to any of these bastards.

republicans are in the bag on the take and the dems don't have the guts for it. and the supreme court will nullify anything that happens to any of them. it is the perfect storm of shit, criminal intent, lack of courage, and carelessness.

Halifax2TheMax

gimmesometruth27 said:

nothing is going to happen to any of these bastards.

republicans are in the bag on the take and the dems don't have the guts for it. and the supreme court will nullify anything that happens to any of them. it is the perfect storm of shit, criminal intent, lack of courage, and carelessness.

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

It’s the moral rot behind the evangelical and religious curtain of a nation in decline and eventual collapse. The US is a banana republic.

gimmesometruth27

Halifax2TheMax said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

nothing is going to happen to any of these bastards.

republicans are in the bag on the take and the dems don't have the guts for it. and the supreme court will nullify anything that happens to any of them. it is the perfect storm of shit, criminal intent, lack of courage, and carelessness.

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

It’s the moral rot behind the evangelical and religious curtain of a nation in decline and eventual collapse. The US is a banana republic.

also it is the glorification of stupidity. bunch of dumb motherfuckers in charge with 77 million dumber motherfuckers that are stupid and proud of it.

mickeyrat

ALTNATPARKSERVICE adbook post 

New reporting exposes the Trump airport grift in Palm Beach. According to the Miami Herald, the deal to rename Palm Beach International Airport after Donald Trump is packed with perks for Trump’s business.

Under the tentative agreement, airport stores would be forced to buy branded merchandise only from Trump-approved retailers, Trump’s company gets control over who manufactures those products, Trump gets veto power over how his biography is presented in airport materials, and thanks to a loophole, Trump-linked entities could still profit off airport-branded merchandise sold off-site.

This is not how presidential airport naming works. Other airports don’t hand private companies control over branding, messaging, and supply chains. Even Palm Beach officials privately warned the deal could hand Trump a “commercial benefit” from a taxpayer-funded facility.

This isn’t about “honoring a president”, but rather about building a revenue stream and controlling the narrative using public infrastructure and taxpayer dollars. And commissioners are set to vote on it this week. Follow the money.

Halifax2TheMax

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Banana Republic, yet?

brianlux

Bentleyspop said:

Poncier said:

They should have gotten Rogan a step stool for the photo op.

Reminds me of Hans and Franz.  

We going to PALM YOU OFF!

mickeyrat

fits here as well as anywhere else....

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.

Read the full story: https://propub.li/4wrisFl

shecky

Looks like birds of a feather really do flock together! Good luck, Ilhan, you are next!

Vitalogensia

😂

PJ_Soul

shecky said:

Looks like birds of a feather really do flock together! Good luck, Ilhan, you are next!

And that Omar was in a random selfie with that person means what to you, exactly? 

shecky

 

gimmesometruth27

shecky said:

 

what is the context on this?

people go to hospices to die, but it still fucking costs money for care.

gimmesometruth27

shecky said:

 

and trump wants a billion dollar ballroom. cut that instead of patient care.

gimmesometruth27

PJ_Soul said:

shecky said:

Looks like birds of a feather really do flock together! Good luck, Ilhan, you are next!

And that Omar was in a random selfie with that person means what to you, exactly? 

and why is this in the trump corruption thread? there is a dems one for it somewhere. 

Halifax2TheMax

shecky said:

 

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Whoa Nelly! OMG! Been going on since 2007! Wasn’t Aaaaaahnold “Banging the Maid” Schawzneggar gubner back then? Or was it that other repub gubner, Ricky Wilson?

I look forward to the CCOOTWH pardons.

The owner of two California-based hospice companies, along with his biller and consultant, were sentenced yesterday for their respective roles in a scheme that resulted in stealing over $9 million from Medicare in false and fraudulent claims for hospice services.

Gayk Akhsharumov, 40, of Glendale, California, the manager and beneficial owner of San Gabriel Hospice and Palliative Care Inc. (San Gabriel) and Broadway Hospice Inc., was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay $9,185,211 in restitution. Akhsharumov’s biller and consultant, Karen Sarkisyan, also known as Kevin Sarkisyan, 45, also of Glendale, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay $3,688,050 in restitution.

According to court documents, from around January 2018 through May 2021, Akhsharumov used his two hospice companies to defraud Medicare of approximately $9 million. During the scheme, Akhsharumov concealed his ownership and control over the hospice entities from Medicare, inserted nominee owners, paid kickbacks to patient recruiters, and profited from the scheme. In April 2020, after San Gabriel had ceased operations, Akhsharumov used the company to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 relief funds. Akhsharumov submitted or caused the submission of fraudulent loan applications to the Small Business Administration for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan and to a financial institution for a Paycheck Protection Program loan, for which San Gabriel received $50,000. He also stole approximately $91,483 in funds deposited into San Gabriel’s bank account through the Provider Relief Fund program, a Department of Health and Human Services program that was intended to rapidly distribute pandemic-related funding to health care providers that met certain criteria. 

During the scheme, Sarkisyan submitted false and fraudulent Medicare enrollment forms for San Gabriel, falsely identifying a straw owner as the sole owner and manager and concealing the actual owners and managers. As a result, San Gabriel submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare, which resulted in Medicare paying approximately $3,668,050 to San Gabriel, of which $3,180,677 was paid after Sarkisyan submitted the false enrollment applications.

Akhsharumov pleaded guilty on March 13, 2023, to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Sarkisyan pleaded guilty on April 3, 2023, to conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada for the Central District of California; Special Agent in Charge Timothy B. DeFrancesca of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG); Assistant Director Michael D. Nordwall of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division; and Acting Assistant Director in Charge Amir Ehsaei of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office made the announcement.

HHS-OIG and the FBI Los Angeles Field Office investigated the case.

Assistant Chief Niall M. O’Donnell and Trial Attorney Patrick J. Queenan of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section prosecuted the case.

The Fraud Section leads the Criminal Division’s efforts to combat health care fraud through the Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program. Since March 2007, the program, currently comprised of nine strike forces operating in 27 federal districts, has charged more than 5,400 defendants who collectively have billed federal health care programs and private insurers more than $27 billion. In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with HHS-OIG, are taking steps to hold providers accountable for their involvement in health care fraud schemes. More information can be found at www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/health-care-fraud-unit.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/two-men-sentenced-role-9m-hospice-fraud-scheme

mickeyrat

gimmesometruth27 said:

PJ_Soul said:

shecky said:

Looks like birds of a feather really do flock together! Good luck, Ilhan, you are next!

And that Omar was in a random selfie with that person means what to you, exactly? 

and why is this in the trump corruption thread? there is a dems one for it somewhere. 

would speak to laziness imo...

Poncier

mickeyrat said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

PJ_Soul said:

shecky said:

Looks like birds of a feather really do flock together! Good luck, Ilhan, you are next!

And that Omar was in a random selfie with that person means what to you, exactly? 

and why is this in the trump corruption thread? there is a dems one for it somewhere. 

would speak to laziness imo...

Moreso to trolling