“Financial data can tell a person’s story, including one’s “religion, ideology, opinions, and interests” as well as one’s “political leanings, locations, and more,”’ the report begins. This investigation began after a whistleblower who happens to be a retired FBI agent alerted Congress that the Bank of America (BoA) voluntarily provided the Biden Administration information on customers who used a credit or debit card in Washington, D.C., around the January 6 protests. The new report has revealed that federal agencies have been working “hand-in-glove with financial institutions, obtaining virtually unchecked access to private financial data and testing out new methods and new technology to continue the financial surveillance of American citizens.”
As I’ve said countless times, “money laundering” is ALWAYS the excuse for why the government must track and monitor our financial transactions. The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) E-Filing System is a system for financial institutions to file reports required by the BSA electronically. By law, the BSA requires businesses to keep records and file reports to help prevent and detect money laundering. This is how the Biden Administration is attempting to disregard privacy and weaponize financial institutions.
US intelligence agencies searched through records for terms like “Trump” and “MAGA” to target Americans who they believed may hold “extremist” views. The agencies searched for Americans who purchased religious texts, such as the Bible, and also labeled them extremists. Anyone expressing disdain for the COVID lockdowns, vaccines, open borders, or the deep state were placed on a watchlist. Again, the BSA was used as a premise to pull transactions placed by the individuals on this list.
As explained by the investigative committee:
“With narrow exception, federal law does not permit law enforcement to inquire into financial institutions’ customer information without some form of legal process.9 The FBI circumvents this process by tipping off financial institutions to “suspicious” individuals and encouraging these institutions to file a SAR—which does not require any legal process—and thereby provide federal law enforcement with access to confidential and highly sensitive information.10 In doing so, the FBI gets around the requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), which, per the Treasury Department, specifies that “it is . . . a bank’s responsibility” to “file a SAR whenever it identifies ‘a suspicious transaction relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation’”11 While at least one financial institution requested legal process from the FBI for information it was seeking,12 all too often the FBI appeared to receive no pushback. In sum, by providing financial institutions with lists of people that it views as generally “suspicious” on the front end, the FBI has turned this framework on its head and contravened the Fourth Amendment’s requirements of particularity and probable cause.”
Under this premise, anyone who held a viewpoint that opposed the Biden Administration was considered a “suspicious” individual who required monitoring. The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network created a database to carefully watch potential dissenters. Over 14,000 government employees accessed the FinCEN database last year and conducted over 3 million searches without a warrant. In fact, over 15% of FBI investigations during 2023 has some link to this database. It is estimated that 4.6 million SARs and 20.8 million Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) were filed in the last year.
The committee noted that the government is incorporating AI to quickly search the web for “suspicious” Americans:
“As the Committee and Select Subcommittee have discussed in other reports, the growth and expansion of AI present major risks to Americans’ civil liberties.211 For example, the Committee and Select Subcommittee uncovered AI being used to censor “alleged misinformation regarding COVID-19 and the 2020 election . . . .”212 Those concerns are not hypothetical. Some AI systems developed by Big Tech companies have been programmed with biases; for example, Google’s Gemini AI program praised liberal views while refusing to do the same for conservative views, despite claiming to be “objective” and “neutral.” With financial institutions seemingly adopting AI solutions to monitor Americans’ transactions, a similarly biased AI program could result in the systematic flagging or censoring of transactions that the AI is trained to view as “suspicious.”
This is extremely troubling and goes beyond government overreach and violated numerous Constitutional protections. The government effectively transformed banking institutions into spy agencies, and anyone who could potentially hold a view that did not fit the Biden-Harris agenda has been treated as potential terrorist. It is completely insane that someone could be seen as an extremist for purchasing a religious text or purchasing a firearm. This is discriminatory, predatory behavior that puts millions of lives at risk. Think of governments in the past who have rounded up names of dissenters based on religion or ideology. They claim they are merely observing us, but the goal is to silence us.
The committee said their investigation has just begun as they will not allow the government’s abuse of financial data to go unchecked. Furthermore, they are concerned that these warrantless searches can lead to widespread debanking practices where the government can easily block any dissenter from participating in society by crippling them financially. This is yet another reason why governments want to push banks to create CBDC so that they can punish citizens with a simple click of a button.
Posted originally on Dec 6, 2024 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Why have you not commented on the killing of Thompson in NYC?
DD
ANSWER: I don’t know what you want me to say. I think this was inevitable, as insurance companies are the #1 consumer fraud rip-off of Americans every day of their existence, and they grease the palms of politicians to be exempt from consumer fraud. I have NEVER had any insurance company EVER honor what they pretend. I was self-insured here for the storm. A guy a couple of doors from me was paying $40,000 yearly for insurance, and they denied all his claims. He will no longer buy insurance. One of my staff had her car parked, and a drunk guy slammed into it, totaling the parked car. Her insurance company said he had to be paid by the other one, over a year and no payment. My mother’s house had a pipe freeze. They sent investigators asking neighbors if she was there because she went to stay at my sister’s. They have a clause that if you are not there, they will not pay. That cost me $50,000 to fix her home. In a storm, the top of the tree broke and lunged into a brand new Porsche, maybe 2 weeks old. I sent it to the Porsche dealer, who sent it to Bordentown Autobody, which burned down with my car inside. Allstate said it was two deductibles.
They charge your car insurance on the value you pay for brand new. Put in a claim, and it is suddenly depreciated, yet they continue to charge you on the original price. They NEVER reduce your car insurance in proportion to the depreciation. That is consumer fraud, and our politicians do NOTHING!
Insurance companies kill people all the time. This was inevitable. The shell casings found at the scene where the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot dead by a masked gunman in front of a busy New York City hotel had “deny,” “defend” and “depose” written on them. This was retribution. It is a shame that it will not change the culture of insurance, and the police and politicians will love to hunt down this guy and kill him in a blaze of glory. Nobody will ever look at the corruption that sent this guy over the edge. I am very concerned that we may see others start to do the same, for those in the insurance industry will always worship the penny over the lives they pretend to care about. Our politicians line their pockets at the expense of We the People.
Posted originally on the CTH on December 6, 2024 | Sundance
The jurors in the trial of Daniel Penny have been in deliberations since Tuesday. Today the jury informed the judge they are deadlocked and unable to come to a verdict.
The 12-person jury sent a note Friday morning saying they are having trouble reaching a consensus on whether to convict Penny, 26, of “recklessly” causing Neely’s death by placing him in a six-minute chokehold back in May 2023. If the jury continues to be unable to reach a verdict, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley would be required to give them what’s known as an “Allen” charge, urging them to reach a unanimous verdict.
NEW YORK – Jurors are deadlocked in the case of marine veteran Daniel Penny, 24, who pled not guilty to manslaughter charges brought on after he held street performer Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway train last year.
Jurors began deliberations on Tuesday in the trial of a military veteran accused of causing the death of a man with a chokehold on a New York subway, and ended with uncertainty this morning as the jury failed to come to a decision.
The judge emphasized the jurors’ duty to reach a verdict, stating that “deliberations were not intended to be easy,” but they should “harmonize” their views and make a decision.
“It would be a crazy result to have a hung jury because they can’t move onto the second count,” prosecutor Dafna Yoran was overheard telling the judge. Judge Wiley is now contemplating whether to issue an Allen charge to encourage a unanimous decision.
An Allen charge is a court order given to a deadlocked jury to motivate them to reach a unanimous verdict. A deadlocked jury may also lead to a retrial of the case. It can also lead to a hung jury, causing a retrial or a mistrial. A hung jury is unable to reach a verdict by the required voting margin and will often result in a retrial. In some cases, the judge may instruct the jury to continue deliberation, but this is not a common practice. (read more)
Penny’s lawyers have said the Marine veteran and aspiring architect was justified in protecting passengers from a man who witnesses said yelled, “Someone’s going to die today!” and said he was ready to go to jail after boarding the uptown F train. But Manhattan prosecutors have stressed that no witness testified that Neely threatened anyone specifically, touched anyone, or brandished a weapon.
This trial has the potential to change the way people respond to crisis events and threats of danger.
I hope, for a myriad of reasons, Mr Penny is able to walk out of the courtroom a free man.
QUESTION: Biden said he would not pardon Hunter, and then he did. Was this not a slap in the face to the Democratic Party that will contribute to its breakup, as you have warned?
JM
ANSWER: It is worse than you think. This could backfire, for it was not a pardon for Hunter as much as it was an intended pardon for Biden himself. This covered all of the Biden Crime Family operations in Ukraine from 2014 onward. By giving Hunter blanket immunity, his son cannot invoke the 5th Amendment and can be compelled to testify against his father. Under American law, children are not privileged and can be forced to testify against a parent. Under Canon Law, which is used in France, for example, the government CANNOT compel any family member to testify against another, including a broker or sister-in-law.
We used English common law based on tyranny—the only privilege recognized in your spouse or clergy. The king must always win. Giving Hunter blanket immunity can backfire, as there is a Republican prosecutor who wants to do to Biden what he did to Trump. Hunter can now be compelled to testify against his father since he cannot be prosecuted. How much of the money you laundered from Ukraine went to the “big guy” at the end of the day? I can’t imagine Biden had any worthwhile lawyer advise him to do this.
Gun charges, drug charges, etc., are one thing. This is a blanket immunity for anything between 2014 and 2024. Biden swore he would not pardon his son and he would abide by the jury’s decision. However, this pardon covers everything and is NOT confined to the jury decision he swore he would honor.
We should compel Hunter to now testify against his father, Hillary, and whoever else was involved. If he commits perjury, that is not covered. He could be held in contempt of court until he testifies. This should demonstrate to the world that the United States still embraces the tyranny of the old English kings. The family unit means nothing in a court of law. The United States has ZERO respect for the family. They craft exceptions they pretend are in the interest of justice, but that is a catchall, for the state must always win no different from the king that we revolted against.
Two types of “marital privileges” exist under the law. When applicable, these privileges can protect a spouse from being forced to testify against the other spouse or divulge confidential communications made between them. However, these privileges are not absolute and come with several exceptions and conditions. Plain and simple, if the state wants your ass, they will get it any way they possibly can. The courts hold it is waived if someone fails to raise a spouse’s privilege.
They will routinely threaten your family to win a case. When they were threatening to indict my children to force me to plead to whatever they claimed in court, the SEC magically always managed to get the same ruthless judge, Richard Owen. When he was taking my lawyers away, he was bragging and joking how he was NEVER overruled when he took all the lawyers away from Steven H. Schiffer, the SEC charged with market manipulation, insider trading, the making of false and misleading statements in Commission filings, or the sale of unregistered securities by six defendants. Judge Oweb tormented this guy and drove him to commit suicide.
Judge Owen had dementia. He sometimes would forget who I was and address me as a counselor: “You are representing your client admirably, but I want this in a brief.” This confused the marshals, who then thought I was the attorney. He was joking about driving Schiffer to suicide. I then looked at him as a loathsome individual. It got so out of hand that the court of appeals finally recused the judge and sent it to another, who then released me.
The number of people the SEC charges will sometimes commit suicide for you cannot win in Federal Court. Even Eric Holtz they drove to suicide. They never charge the big banks because they get 20% of their profits. They call fines, and nobody is personally prosecuted. Dorothy Heyl was the SEC prosecutor in my case. When they threatened my children, I sent her a letter. I stated that since this is how the SEC wins cases threatening people’s families or taking their lawyers away so they commit suicide, I wrote that I would commit suicide to protect my family. However, I promised not to go as quietly as Steven Schiffer. She told everyone to back off. We do not live in a world with any honor or rights – they spell justice – JUST US.
So, welcome to the American Rule of Law. It is as ruthless as that of the king we revolved against. This Pardon for Hunter actually means he can now be put on the witness stand and compelled to testify against his own father. Biden thought the entire purpose of this blanket pardon was to protect his son against corruption in Ukraine, but he can now be forced with contempt to testify against his father. I would love to see that for anyone else; they tear families apart. Why should the Biden Crime Family be the exception?
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