Kurt wrote:What the fuck is a DTO?
Drug trafficking organization.
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Kurt wrote:What the fuck is a DTO?
Tarkan wrote:Kurt wrote:What the fuck is a DTO?
Drug trafficking organization.
el3so wrote:Close to 2 years later, that cnut remains alive. Shadow masters must still be on break...
Kenes had a talent for ingratiating himself with the more colourful characters who were concerned with monetising their power, especially those who, like him, owed their position to the previous generation. He was on Prince Andrew’s Christmas card list, having helped to arrange the deal whereby Timur Kulibayev bought the Sunninghill mansion that the Queen had given Andrew as a wedding present. Timur paid $6 million over the listing price, thus moving as much of his dubiously acquired fortune as possible into a respectable piece of real estate while simultaneously coopting an influential Western figure. Andrew, theoretically a British trade representative, could then use his connection to Kenes to help a Swiss finance house and a Greek sewerage firm lobby for Kazakh contracts. Kenes was content to keep less august company, too. His relationship with Ramzan Kadyrov ran deep. Unlike most of their countrymen, both professed to be faithful Muslims. Kenes had money and was ready to deploy it in ways that pleased Kadyrov. Chechnya’s ruler used his Instagram account to proclaim himself glad of the ‘philanthropic help’ that his ‘dear brother’ Kenes rendered his regime.
Burgis, Tom. Kleptopia (p. 236). Harper. Kindle Edition.
To Westerners, the threatening aura emanating from associates like Ramzan Kadyrov made them anxious not to cross Kenes. When he bought into a London-listed company that controlled a Russian gold mine, other investors found his proposed strategy nonsensical. But as one put it, Kenes was ‘not someone I want to be on the wrong side of’. Others were grateful recipients of his largesse: the Clinton Foundation accepted tens of thousands of Kenes’ dollars.
Burgis, Tom. Kleptopia (p. 237). Harper. Kindle Edition.
Kurt wrote:I should probably read Kleptopia.
Kurt wrote:The paying 6 million over market value on purpose thing is just so out of scope with the middle classes that we cannot see any reason for it.
Kurt wrote:I talked to people here in NYC who got caught up in Madoff and part of the reason they got their firms involved was even though they knew something was up, it was more profitable in the long run to get screwed because they had to be seen as "playing with everyone" and if they had bowed out or even made money by betting against Madoff they would have lost more money cuz no one likes a gloating winner and they could get investments themselves by saying "I know, we got taken by him too...lets try to build back what we lost ..... Together."
A friend of mine was almost fired for refusing to invest in Madoff. He said "He wanted to meet me in a Starbucks and refused to show me any part of his portfolio"
It collapsed shortly after that but he did not get an extra bonus or a promotion.
It was not the UK Treasury that the City’s clients were primarily cheating. It was everyone else’s. And there was one more fact, so huge and so obvious that everyone ignored it the way only problems of such magnitude could be ignored. Tax evasion deprived governments of revenue. Money laundering was the other side of the same coin. Like tax dodging, it was a subversion of money’s role as a token of reciprocal altruism that allowed large and diverse societies to function. But while tax evasion sucked money out, money laundering pumped money in. If you could stop yourself thinking about its origins, those inflows of dirty money from around the world were just another source of investment into otherwise declining economies.
Burgis, Tom. Kleptopia (p. 241). Harper. Kindle Edition.
Alphabet wrote:As I mentioned in the Death Pool thread, I work like 20 mins from where she's shacked up, and we always kind of fuck around with the idea of trying to visit her.
Other day I said fuck it and dropped her a letter. We'll see if I get a response, or Epsteined.
Interesting either way.
vagabond wrote:Alphabet wrote:As I mentioned in the Death Pool thread, I work like 20 mins from where she's shacked up, and we always kind of fuck around with the idea of trying to visit her.
Other day I said fuck it and dropped her a letter. We'll see if I get a response, or Epsteined.
Interesting either way.
Ha. Let us know how it goes. What did you say?
Alphabet wrote:vagabond wrote:Alphabet wrote:As I mentioned in the Death Pool thread, I work like 20 mins from where she's shacked up, and we always kind of fuck around with the idea of trying to visit her.
Other day I said fuck it and dropped her a letter. We'll see if I get a response, or Epsteined.
Interesting either way.
Ha. Let us know how it goes. What did you say?
I just asked her about normal shit. I mean, she's most likely getting bags of mail about the whole circus, so I figured my best way to stand out and get a response was asking about crap like her yoga classes, playing softball in prison, what they do if anything for xmas of New Years.
Shit like that.
I drive by it twice a day and it's really not that impressive. It is low security after all. I've been on military bases that had low/mid security fed prisoners on base and it's basically the same thing.
el3so wrote:Close to 2 years later, that cnut remains alive. Shadow masters must still be on break...
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