mercoledì 21 ottobre 2009

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HORIZONTALISATION CASES

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HORIZONTALISATION CASES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CRISIS

By Christopher Story

'Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb'.
Psalm 37, verses 1 and 2.

'I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found'.
Psalm 37, verses 35-36.


The following is an incomplete list of 'horizontalisations' associated with the Fraudulent Finance crisis monitored by this service since the Editor's investigations began seven years ago:

Bailey, Catherine, 41, a litigation partner with the law firm S. J. Berwin, disappeared from her firm’s offices in Chancery Lane, Central London, on Friday, 9th January 2009. Her body was found in the Thames, near Richmond Bridge, southwest London, on Saturday 11th January 2009.

The lawyer’s practice handled banking and regulatory disputes, involving Financial Services Authority (FSA) investigations, investment mismanagement cases and financial markets litigation. She was said to have been involved in a number of high-value cases and her clients included banks, funds, public and private companies and investment vehicles: in other words, she was up to her eyes in disentangling fraudulent derivatives operations. No information appeared in the public domain to confirm that this was a suicide. On the contrary, murder was suspected, to destabilise ongoing investigations and cases, which of course will continue long after the present settlement arrangements have been completed and the world has 'moved on', which is about to occur.

Barreto, Martin: On 23rd August 2006, it was reported that the nude body of a one-time Deputy Press Secretary for the former New York Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, was discovered strangled in his apartment on New York’s East 10th Street. The 49-year old’s body was discovered on a bed at his apartment by police, after a friend had reported that he was failing to respond to telephone calls or knocks on his door. A doorman at the building told investigators that Barreto had informed him that he had been expecting a visitor and had instructed him to let him in.

The violent death was ruled as a homicide after an autopsy found that Martin Barreto had died from ‘asphyxia due to compression of the neck’. There were no signs of a struggle or robbery inside the apartment, where Barreto had lived alone. The possible significance of this tragedy is that Barreto, who was a partner in a New York public relations firm, and a radio journalist who had served on the board of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (1993-96), had worked in City Hall in the late 1990s. It will be recalled that Rudolph Giuliani spearheaded the indictment of Marc Rich (the DVD operative, Hans Brand).

With the closing-in of events described in successive issues of International Currency Review and on this website, it is likely that Barreto’s knowledge of Marc Rich’s past financial operations might have been considered hazardous, both from the perspective of Hans Brand (Rich) himself, and in the perception of the Dachau-based Nazi intelligence continuum, Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst. On 12th November 2005, the late lamented veteran reporter Sherman Skolnik stated that ‘Marc Rich, aided by Judith Miller’, whom he thought was ‘a Russian playing spy games originally for the… KGB… and now for the FSB’, conducts secret and illicit currency swaps, metals and commodities trades, all tax-cheating money laundered, for Moscow, Beijing, Tel Aviv, London, New York, Chicago and elsewhere. Marc Rich is [the] East-West blackmail whore for the plutocrats’.

Sherman Skolnik died alone naturally in May 2006. His papers were removed by persons ‘unknown’.

Baxter, Clive: An Enron corporate executive who ‘committed suicide’ in 2000 as US Federal investigators stepped up their investigations into the huge energy trading corporation scammed to death by cynical US intelligence criminalists. [This horizintalisation is included to illustrate the point that an unknown number of cases are not captured by this analysis, which essentially covers the period of the Editor’s investigations].

Casperson, Finn: This operative reportedly 'committed suicide' on Wednesday 9th September 2009. He was the ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp., a large financial firm, and faced US tax evasion charges relating to offshore accounts. It was thought that he had Taiwanese Triad links. His body was found dumped behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Connell, Michael: This IT expert, said to have been directly involved in the rigging of drug-running George W. Bush’s 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed on 19th December 2008 when his single-engine private aircraft crashed three miles short of the airport at Akron, Ohio. Mr Connell was reported to have told a close associate that he was afraid that the well-known thuggists George W. Bush Jr. and Vice President Cheney would ‘throw [him] under a bus’.

It had earlier been verified that Carl Rove [German name: Roverer] had threatened Connell and his wife, Heather. Connell had appeared before a Federal Judge In Ohio after being subpoenaed in a Federal lawsuit investigating the rigging of the 2004 election under Mr Roverer’s direction. The Judge ordered Connell to testify under oath at a deposition on 3rd November 2008, the day before the election. The Bush White House was reported to have become extremely concerned that Mr Connell planned to divulge details of his secret illegal work for the White House. Mrs Heather Connell ‘owns’ GovTech Solutions. Both GovTech Solutions and an IT firm called SmartTech of Chattanooga, TN, have reportedly been implicated in the rigging of the 2000 and 2004 US elections and a White House email scandal. On 18th December 2008, Connell unwisely flew to a small airport outside Washington DC where, of course, his plane was tampered with: a standard DVD technique.

Coulbeck, Neil: Aged 53, the former head of Group Treasury at The Royal Bank of Scotland, who had been reported missing by his wife, was found dead near Woodford golf course on the edge of Epping Forest, about a mile or so from his home, on 11th July 2006. In the past, as a Managing Director in charge of balance sheet management, he had had responsibility for making sure the bank he was serving had sufficient resources for its operations.

Credit Suisse dealer: Late in the week ending on 18th August 2006, a foreign exchange dealer with Crédit Suisse in Zürich was reported to have ‘committed suicide’ on the bank’s premises. The Times, London, reported on 23rd August that ‘The unnamed dealer shot himself late last week after leaving the trading floor. The bank did not release his name, out of respect for his family, but a bank spokesman said: ‘I can confirm a suicide took place. We are really shocked’. Interestingly, the only original report on this tragedy appeared in the Business Section of The Times, London.

All other reports (of which there were hardly any) repeated the same language used by The Times verbatim. Although an official Swiss website purported to carry the story, there was no reference to it in subsequent days; and the report appeared to have disappeared, apart from the original story, by 28th August. The London Times elaborated that ‘Zürich police were informed but they are also not releasing the man’s name. The suicide was the subject of low-key reports in several local newspapers…. Rumours about the Zürich death swept financial circles'.

The bank refused to divulge in which business area he traded or why he had ‘shot himself’. 'The rumours suggested that he may have been working in foreign exchange and, having been made redundant [fired], walked to another part of the building before committing suicide’. It is curious, to say the least, that The Times’ report, and its derivatives, did not query why a dealer would carry a gun with him on the bank’s premises. Of course, the likelihood is that he did not, but rather that this was no suicide, but in fact an ‘urgent’ on-site execution. The suppression of all subsequent reports on this matter suggests such an interpretation.

The death was compared by The Times to the sudden death in July of Dmitry Smoliyaninov [see below] aged 31, whom the British newspaper described as ‘a principal trader with Citigroup’ – not any old trader, but rather a ‘principal trader’.

The report added that Smoliyaninov had fallen from the 16th floor of Citigroup’s Canary Wharf offices after climbing over a barrier. Police said that they had no motive for his apparent suicide and there was no evidence of trading irregularities or substantial losses. Citigroup and Crédit Suisse are institutions known to have handled transactions associated with George Bush Sr., and associates, according to reliable financial sector sources exclusive to this service.

The revelation that the Russian dealer was a ‘principal trader’ appeared in this report for the first time. Therefore if he was murdered, like the Crédit Suisse operative, as we believe to be the case, he would have been a key target.

Duisenberg, Wim: The former President of the European Central Bank, Dr Willem (‘Wim’) Frederik Duisenberg, was found dead in his swimming pool at the age of 70, on 31st July 2005.

Two days previously, Milan prosecutors had announced indictments against subsidiaries of Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley in connection with the investigation into the collapse of Parmalat, a corporation that had become synonymous with the phrase ‘EU butter mountain’. Parmalat seems to have been the Italian intelligence ‘sib’ operation equivalent of Enron. In his day as President of the European Central Bank, Duisenberg was the tousled figure whom brainwashed journalists considered to be little short of a deity, as he uttered his opaque pronouncements on European Central Bank monetary policy.

The Editor recalls asking Dr Duisenberg a somewhat pointed question at an IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting press conference – and that the great man chose the easy option of saying he couldn’t hear the question and turning to the next question instead.

Finan, Modi: This former executive of Maccabi Tel Aviv, a basketball club, was found by his wife Sharon hanged in a shower at his home in central Israel on Monday 19th October 2009. Finan had boasted about doing business with Nicholas Levene [see separate entry], investing both his own funds and those of players and basketball executives whom he knew well. As a consequence, his debts to former players, coaches and management officials were estimated at around $20 million. According to an investor cited by Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper [21st October], Modi Finan 'would promise to deliver the monthly yield in cash, and it would arrive in envelopes; and over the years, the money would come back like clockwork'. In other words, this Modi Finan was running a classic Ponzi operation, delivering yield but stealing the principal. It is evident that he was also providing a 'feeder fund' service for Nicholas Levene, the City of London financier who owned 6% of the UK Leyton Orient Football Club. So what both of these scamsters were actually doing was tapping into the surplus wealth of sportsmen, so as to sustain the flow of 'new money' necessary to cover up the diversion of principal, in strict accordance with the classic Ponzi model. They were both also busily scamming fellow Jews, just like Bernard L. Madoff. See also the entry for Nicholas Levene.

Foxton, William, OBE: A distinguished British Army officer, who rose from the ranks in the Green Jackets regiment, lost his arm in combat, and worked for United Nations missions, for the French Foreign Legion and the Sultan of Oman, shot himself in the head on 10th February 2009, after losing his life’s savings in the Bush-Madoff Ponzi operation.

Major Foxton killed himself in a park near his home in Southampton. His son, Willard, 28, said of Madoff and associates: ‘Essentially I want Madoff and others to know that they have my father’s blood on their hands. I’m very angry. My first thought was to show up at Madoff’s trial in New York and throw my father’s medals in his face’. ‘They have got my father’s blood on their hands’. The retired soldier had invested some of the money that he had earned while serving the Sultan of Oman, in two hedge funds that were rolled into Madoff’s scheme, and had lost ‘a six- or seven-figure sum’, according to Mr Foxton Jr.

Galeda, John: It was reported to us at 6:12pm UK time on 17th October 2009 (as this report was being finalised) that John Galeda, well known in certain exotic US financial circles, had suffered a sudden heart attack and was in immediate need of a triple bypass heart operation.

Gianmario, Roveraro: Sig. Roveraro, aged 70, attended an Opus Dei (or ‘Opus Luciferis’) meeting on 5th July 2006, and was then kidnapped by a ‘financial consultant’, Filipp Botteri.

The Italian investigators’ ‘line’ was that both men had invested in a supposedly low-risk financial transaction involving an Austrian firm in 2003. Roveraro pulled out in time but Filipp Botteri lost an amount equivalent to £1.7 million, having anticipated a gain of £7.0 million. Botteri allegedly forced Roveraro to provide instructions to his (Sig. Botteri’s) office to hand over £7.0 million.

On 17th July Botteri’s office received a fax bearing Roveraro’s signature and requesting a share transfer. Roveraro’s body was found among bushes beneath a viaduct 20 miles outside Parma, chopped into pieces and stowed in a black garbage bag. He is thought to have been murdered after prosecutors froze his assets to prevent any payment to the kidnappers. Botteri finally confessed to the murder, which once again threw the spotlight onto the sinister Opus Dei.

Roveraro’s name was being linked to Parmalat, the Italian dairy foods corporation and ‘sib’ operation involved in very extensive alleged corruption scandals [see: Duisenberg].

Good, Steve: Chairman and Chief Executive of Sheldon Good & Co., a leading US real estate auction firm, was found with a gunshot to his head in his red Jaguar on Monday 5th January 2009 (the self-same day as Herr Merckle threw himself in front of a train near his Blaubeuren home in southern Germany: see: Merckle). No suicide note was found with the body, suggesting that this was another execution. Mr Good, who was Chairman of the US Realtors’ Commercial Alliance Committee, had a long-standing business relationship with Donald Trump, according to several reports dated 7th January 2009.

Guillermo, Martinez: Aged 40, Martinez, from Puerto Rico, was reported by The Miami Herald on 26th June 2006 to have leapt to his death from the 29th floor of a building in Miami Center, 201 S. Biscayne Blvd. Martinez, said to have been a temporary employee, was reported to have been working at Citigroup Private Bank, which had offices there. He was said to have used a small sledgehammer to break through a window, after which he threw a large computer monitor and a chair out through the window in order to make the hole bigger, before jumping to his death.

Kelly, Christopher: This former fundraiser for ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, was reported to have experienced ‘sudden death syndrome’ on Saturday, 12th September 2009. An Illinois mayor stated that police were investigating the death, which was initially referenced as a 'suicide'.

Kozlov, Andrei, the First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Central Bank, died in a Moscow hospital of gunshot wounds a few hours after being attacked late on Wednesday, 13th September 2006. The 41-year-old Kozlov, responsible for banking supervision since 2002, had withdrawn the licenses of dozens of banks and had reportedly overseen a programme to curb criminal operations and money-laundering in the banking system. Since money-laundering is central to the untaxed off-balance sheet operations which the US Treasury was so eagerly promoting and facilitating, it would appear, on the face of it, that the late Mr Kozlov may have faced an uphill task. After all, the Americans, who supposedly taught the former Communists how to organise and manage capitalist-style banks, have demonstrated that they prefer to operate like Chicago gangsters.

That being the case, Mr Kozlov‘s efforts on behalf of the Russian Central Bank to curb exotic financing behaviour among the Russian institutions, will have been frustrated by the continuing reprobate example set by the ruthless Bush Sr. and Irgun-linked American criminal intelligence operatives. Commenting on Kozlov‘s murder, Mr Garegin Tosunian, the head of the Association of Russian Banks, told Ekho Moskvy Radio that Kozlov‘s ‘steps to cleanse the system and to build a normal, civilised system, apparently strongly encroached upon somebody‘s interests’.

The Russian Finance Minister du jour, Alexei Kudrin, was separately reported by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying that the late Mr Kozlov had ‘repeatedly infringed upon the interests of dishonest financiers’. Mr Kudrin called Kozlov ‘a very courageous and honest person who was at the forefront of the struggle with financial crime’.

Whether this assessment was correct or ‘sanitised‘, the Russian authorities were handicapped by the fact that American financial operatives were and are behaving with gangland-style arrogance, and are setting the worst possible example to their former Soviet ‘students’.

Lay, Kenneth: Aged 64, the brains behind Enron, whom George W. Bush Jr. once referred to as ‘Kenny Boy’, died in the early morning of 5th July 2006 of an apparent heart attack at his family’s holiday home in Colorado. There had been no prior indication of illness, and the body was rapidly cremated. Lay, who built Enron up from its status as a sleepy natural gas pipeline corporation into a vibrant symbol of the corrupt ‘new economy’ of the 1990s, exploiting energy sector deregulation so as to trade everything from oil and gas futures to weather derivatives, had been convicted on 25th May 2006, together with fellow executive Jeffrey Skilling, of fraud and conspiracy for his rôle in the energy trading firm’s collapse, through the use of off-balance sheet partnerships and trades to hide illicit debt. The former Chairman of Enron was found guilty on all six counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy. In addition, the Judge, Sim Lake, said that he had found Mr Lay guilty on four counts of bank fraud in a separate case argued the preceding week without a jury. Mr Lay’s face turned grey when the verdict was read out.

The destruction of Enron was a classic case of an intelligence ‘sib’ operation, according to ‘White Hat’ intelligence experts – designed to blacken the name and reputation of the corporation so that funds placed offshore and off-balance sheet, could be extracted from the offshore partnership accounts for high-yield investment programme trading purposes. A motivation would also have been to develop these funds extracted from Enron (and placed off-balance sheet in offshore accounts to finance high-yield investment programmes) to generate vast offshore profits which – in a short space of time – would come to dwarf Enron’s bona fide activities, rendering (in the corrupt minds of the perpetrators) the carcass of the Enron firm expendable.

Since such operations would have been intelligence secrets, neither the judiciary nor a jury could have any knowledge of the underlying modus operandi and motivation of such scams (which would be dismissed in a US court of law as ‘hearsay’).

By extension, therefore, this is a classic example of criminalised intelligence cadres breaking the law and yet relying on its procedures to procure the intended outcome. In the mafia tradition, the Godfather – George Bush Sr. – attended Kenneth Lay’s Memorial Service on 12th July 2006. It attracted the criminal Texan Establishment – led by the Nazi penetration operative exposed as head of Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst, the Nazi strategic Continuum, Dachau.

Levene, Nicholas, a City of London trader, aged 45, was reported by the British press on 15th October 2009 to have disappeared owing clients, including wealthy tycoons, large sums of money. Among these clients are Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, the owners of the Stagecoach bus empire, and Richard Caring, owner of The Ivy and Le Caprice high-society restaurants in London. The Daily Mail reported that the Metropolitan Police are investigating allegations of fraud.

An unnamed senior City of London figure told the newspaper that he believed that the missing financier (Ponzi operative), nicknamed ‘Beano’, may owe investors £200 million or more. On 14th October, Levene’s wife Tracey, 42, and their three children were nowhere to be seen at their mock-Tudor home in High Barnet, North London. Also missing from the scene were the financier’s blue Mercedes, Land Rover Discovery and silver Porsche 911 [sic].

The newspaper added that there was no sign, either, of the said Jewish couple’s butler, maid, or chauffeur. A casually dressed man loading oil paintings from the house into a silver truck refused to comment when approached. Neighbours said that the family, once known for throwing huge garden parties, had started moving out of the house a month earlier.

Levene was also reported to have recently opened bank accounts in Northern Cyprus, which has no extradition treaty with Britain.

Levene owns a villa in Tel Aviv, although the High Court has frozen his assets and ordered him to surrender his passport. It has further transpired that Levene was still named, in mid-October 2009, as a member of the advisory board of the investment firm MG Equity Partners. He had 25 years’ experience in London’s equities and derivatives markets. On 14th October, press attempts to obtain information on Levene were rebuffed by MG Equity Partners.

The cited newspaper concluded its report with the following cryptic observation: ‘The Daily Mail understands, however, that Levene, who is well known in the Jewish community, may be in The Priory private hospital in Southgate, North London'. A former friend said: ‘Nick became a financial adviser to some of the world’s richest people, who trusted him with their money due to all the charity work he did in the Jewish community in London and Israel. People were also impressed by his standing as a family man. The trouble is that he came to think of himself as one of them and lived like them as well – except that this was all beyond his means. He travelled everywhere by private jet and shared the best corporate box with a very rich friend near the Royal Enclosure at Ascot which set them back £150,000 a year. When the markets went downhill and his cash ran out, he found himself in very great difficulty’.

Translation: Levene was running a Ponzi operation and suddenly found that the familiar sources of ‘replacement funds’ had dried up – like Madoff. Levene was also facing a barrage of lawsuits filed against him in the High Court. Parties reported by The Financial Times on 16th October 2009 to be suing him include IG Index (the financial spread-betting firm), as well as Richard Caring (the Jewish restaurateur), Brian Souter (Stagecoach) and Ice Mountain Investments.

In 2007, Levene bought an interest in Northern Rock, through a derivative trade, just months before the bank – a haven of illicit financial operations connected, via Jersey, to the Clintons – went belly-up and had to be nationalised. Regulatory filings in October 2007 showed that Levene held an interest of more than 4.5 million shares (1.1%) in the dud bank, worth an estimated £5.8 million at the time. Following the British Government’s panic decision to nationalise Northern Rock, investors who bought into the bank in its last few months as a listed entity are likely to receive little or nothing for their investments (make that: nothing).

Updated information, 21st October 2009: Nicholas Levene was reported by The Daily Telegraph on the 19th October to have surfaced and to have telephoned Barry Hearn, Chairman of Leyton Orient Football Club, in which Levene held a 6% stake. This financial stake was frozen following an order in October from the High Court preventing the sale of any of Nicholas Levene's assets pending completion of an investigation into Levene's questionable (i.e. Ponzi) affairs. Mr Hearn told the newspaper that Mr Levene had called him on Sunday evening, 18th October: 'He said he's clearly got a situation here that he had to deal with, and for the good of the club he'd like to tender his resignation' as Vice-Chairman of the Club. 'I said that's fine and accepted. The conversation was very short'. In early October 2009, Levene had been declared bankrupt in the High Court. Under British law, bankrupts are prohibited from serving as company directors unless an application is submitted to the Court citing special circumstances.

The founders of Stagecoach, Brian Souter and Ann Gloag (brother and sister) won a £17.8 million court case against Levene after he contracted to buy shares on their behalf but failed to return the money. Thirty clients were reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on 21st October 2009 to have contacted Deloitte, the insolvency experts appointed by the UK Court to investigate Mr Levene's operations, with one UK High Street Bank understood to be owed several million pounds, and the smallest claim believed to be £500,000. Nicholas Levene was reported to owe scores of his clients hundreds of millions of pounds. See also the separate entry for Modi Finan, in which it is shown that this 'Israeli basketball executive' tapped Israeli sports figures and executives, to entice them to disgorge funds which Modi Finan then forwarded to Nicholas Levene. In other words, Mr Finan was operating a 'feeder fund' for Levene, on the Bernard L. Madoff model.

Macdonald, Gavin, aged 47, a top mergers and acquisitions banker, was reported on Monday 8th December 2008, to have died of a ‘heart attack’ at the London offices of Morgan Stanley in Canary Wharf. However he died on the preceding Friday night, so that his death was not in fact announced for at least 56 hours. Macdonald was Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for the institution. In view of the fact that he died ‘on Friday night’, there was plenty of time for a ‘massaged line’ to have been developed to ‘explain’ his sudden death, which was attributed to ‘overwork’. Promptly on the following Monday, Morgan Stanley’s CEO, John Mack, led tributes to the dead banker.

Mahfouz, Sheikh Kalid Bin, the former Saudi Director and billionaire banker, died from 'a sudden heart attack' on Saturday 15th August, according to the Saudi newspaper Asharq Alawsat reporting from Jeddah. On 18th August, the Saudi newspaper elaborated: 'Recently Bin Mahfouz cleared his name from accusations [that] he was funding terrorism through the Blessed Relief charity [called the] Mufawaq Foundation, an organsiation devoted to famine relief'. Khalid Bin Mahfouz had been a major shareholder in the CIA's folded 'sib' operation, Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which operated inter alia as a key money-laundering operation for George W. Bush's Iran-Contra nexus. He was also the owner of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia.

McDonald, James: This financier was 'suicided' on Sunday 13th September 2009, from a gunshot wound. He was the Chief Executive of Rockefeller & Co., the New York investment firm, and was found in a car behind an auto dealership located in Dartmouth, MA. Translation: Mr McDonald was murdered and dumped at the back of the dealership. Although he lived in New York City, he had a country place at New Bedford. Furthermore, McDonald was an operative – having also studied in Virginia. It appears that he may have been murdered in New Bedford and then driven to Dartmouth. McDonald was the Director of the Japan Society of New York, a detail which almost certainly has much to do with this probable assassination of a key US financial operative.

Merckle, Adolf, a German industrialist and billionaire, aged 74, was found dead on 5th January 2009 near railway tracks in southern Germany, having thrown himself under a train near his home in Blaubeuren. The BBC reported on 6th January 2009 that Merckle had lost about 400 million Euros after wrong-way bets on Volkswagen shares.

Herr Merckle’s business interests included Phoenix Pharmahandel, a drugs wholesaler with annual sales of about 21 billion Euros; Ratiopharm, a generic drugs company with annual sales estimated at 1.8 billion Euros; Heidelberg Cement, a cement operation with annual sales of 11+ billion Euros (Heidelberg was associated with the British construction firm Tarmac); the Kaessbohrer ski-slope equipment firm with annual sales of 183 million Euros; and VEM, a conglomerate of three engine manufacturers, with annual sales of about 280 million Euros. The total turnover of the deceased’s conglomerate operations in 2008 was thus around 30 billion Euros.

The businesses employed some 71,000 people. Herr Merckle’s holding company had been in talks with banks to secure credit after it ran up high levels of debt. In a statement, the family commented that ‘the distress to his firms caused by the financial crisis and the related uncertainties of recent weeks, along with the helplessness of being unable to act, broke [him] and ended his life’.

The Prime Minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Herr Guenther Oettinger, commented: ‘News of Adolf Merckle’s death left me deeply shaken’. The State had ‘lost a great entrepreneur’. But the reason for this official expression of grief was that in November 2008, the State Government had signalled that it would not assist Merckle after he had sought a bailout.

Herr Merckle had hired the insolvency lawyer Eberhard Braun, and had threatened to initiate bankruptcy proceedings for VEM unless lenders provided him with restructuring capital.

Merrill, Philip: After vanishing on 10th June 2006, this wealthy publisher and former banker, aged 72, who had held senior ‘Bush Family’ appointments at NATO and in the Pentagon, was dragged from Chesapeake Bay on 19th June 2006, just over a week after his 41-foot long sailboat was found by jet-skiers on the day he vanished.

The family claimed in a statement that Merrill had been distraught over a heart condition, so he bought a shotgun, took his boat out on a sunny Saturday, tied the anchor round his feet, took his wallet out and left it inside the boat, shot himself in the face with the gun, and managed to fall neatly out of the boat and to float for 11 miles and 11 days upstream, with the anchor of his vessel tied to his ankles and dozens of search-and-rescue teams scouring the Bay for his body. In the early 1990s, Merrill was the Assistant Secretary General of NATO; and he served as President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 2002 to 2006. It is through this bank that a sizeable proportion of highly questionable off-balance sheet fiat money transactions for the funding of covert US intelligence operations, is known to have been conducted.

Mody, Ashoka: The 54-year-old Assistant Director in the European Department of the International Monetary Fund was shot with a handgun at point blank range at around 7:30pm on 8th October 2009 in his Bethesda garage in the 6800 block off Millwood Road. Police asked anyone with information to call 301-279 8000 or the Major Crimes Division at 240-773 5070.

Monckton, John: This 49-year-old investment expert with Legal and General was brutally murdered by a Black masked assassin and an accomplice on 29th November 2004 – when he returned home to his house in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Central London. He was a Knight of Malta and was actively involved in its operations. Although the case was concluded with the conviction of a ‘solo’ Black assassin, the issue of whether the murderer performed a contract killing remains unresolved. In view of Monckton’s importance, this seems likely.

Nadel, Arthur, 76, a Hedge Fund manager in Sarasota, Florida, was reported by Bloomberg to have disappeared on 4th January 2009. The report stated that his clients were concerned that hundreds of millions of dollars may have been lost – i.e., that with a Ponzi scheme exposed, the manager had absconded with the money. However Nadel had telephoned his stepson and had told him to go to his house, where he had left a note.

Nadel ran Scoop Management Inc., which oversaw funds including those of Valhalla Investment Partners [sic]. On 16th January, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported that Scoop Management Inc. may have ‘managed’ some $350 million of funds. Sarasota police initiated an investigation on 15th January 2009 after receiving phone calls from 1:30 pm in the afternoon concerning allegations about ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ missing, according to police.

The newspaper described the note found by police at Nadel’s residence as a ‘suicide note’.

With the drying-up of fresh sources of funds to pay off earlier investors, the Ponzi scam had been exposed. That is standard with these frauds: everything appears fine, perhaps for many years – the assumption being that fresh sources of stealable finance will always be forthcoming, as investors are enticed by greed and their failure to adhere to the Prudent Man Rule. The possibility that fresh sources of ‘replacement funds’ might cease to be available one day, is never considered, such is the participators’ and Ponzi artists’ capacity for self-deception.

Nakagawa, Shoichi: On the 4th October 2009, Shoichi Nakagawa, the former Japanese Finance Minister, aged 56 (who caused an uproar when he appeared to be under the influence of drink at a news conference during a meeting of Group of Seven (G-7) Finance Ministers in February 2009, after which he was removed (‘resigned’) from office), was reported by Japanese police on 4th October 2009 to have been found dead at his Tokyo home.

His wife was reported to have found him lying face down in bed. Investigators immediately ‘ruled out’ foul play because the room was undisturbed [sic]. The police played down the likelihood of suicide, but at the same time a spokesman said that an autopsy would be conducted and that determination of the cause of death would ‘take some time’.

While they work out how to obfuscate the likelihood that the former Japanese Finance Minister had been entrapped in financial corruption, it has been reported that the former Japanese Finance Minister had been drugged at the G-7 Finance Ministers’ meeting, as the Japanese were refusing to agree to corrupt, gangster-style demands by US criminal parties.

Pang, Danny: On 12th September 2009, Danny Pang, aged 42, a Newport Beach financier, died suddenly in a local hospital. The cause of this death was not reported at the time, and details subsequently sank without trace.

Powell, Jodie: On 16th September 2009. Jodie Powell, 65, former spokesman for President Jimmy Carter, was reported to us to have died suddenly. According to certain sources, the individual who was with him at the time 'absented himself' for a while, and when he returned to the scene, Powell was dead. Naturally, this scenario raises plenty of questions.

Powell was extremely well connected, and would have known where all pertinent skeletons are buried, including sensitive information about Carter himself, who will be shown later to have been implicated in the Fraudulent Finance scams.

Roach, Jack: This CIA operative was murdered in the basement of Union Bank of Switzerland, Zürich, in January 2005. He was reportedly carrying sensitive banking codes related to implicated offshore bank accounts. Jack Roach was tortured with cigarette butts, a known ‘trademark’ of East European criminal thugs-for-hire, who were assumed to have been operating through cut-outs on behalf of Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst, Dachau.

Rocca, Patrick, 41, was reported by the Times, London, on 21st January 2009, to have been seen on 19th January wandering around outside his luxury Dublin in his pyjamas. A little while later he shot himself in the head while his wife Anette was out on the school run. He died from a single gunshot at the family home in Holmeleigh, an exclusive residential enclave on the edge of Dublin’s Castleknock Gold and Country Club. The late Mr Rocca was believed to have more than 20 million Euros of loans tied up with the Anglo Irish Bank, which the Irish Government had just announced that it was nationalising. The death occurred on the day that a High Court Judge was picking through the débris of a vast pyramid Ponzi scheme run by a Mr Briefne O’Brien.

Russert, Tim: On 14th June 2008, Tim Russert, the NBC News Washington Bureau chief and the anchor man or moderator of 'Meet the Press', was reported to have died suddenly after a heart attack at the Bureau, aged 58. Russert was in the middle of recording voiceovers for the following Sunday's programme when he collapsed. He was rushed to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, where resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful. Russert was consumed by politics, and behind the scenes was also a senior Vice President and head of NBC's Washington operations, orchestrating all of the network's coverage of Government and political news. At the same time, Tim Russert had earned a reputation, unique among the 'mainstream' media, of not shrinking from asking politicians such as the criminal President George W. Bush, questions which might well rankle after interviews. His sudden and entirely unexpected death triggered immediate speculation that this was not in fact a natural demise. Earlier, he had been diagnosed with asymptomatic coronary artery disease, but it was well-controlled with medication and exercise, and Russert had performed well on a stress test in late April, Russert's physician, Michael Newman, told NBC.

Suspicions were raised when it emerged that Russert had just interviewed Vice President Cheney, a man considered by observers to be 'perfectly possessed', and the former controller of the 'Black' MK-ULTRA program of unspeakable Himmlerian abominations.

An autopsy revealed that Russert had an enlarged heart. President Bush Jr. interrupted a press conference in Paris to pay tribute to the broadcaster. The Bushes turned up at his wake a week later, as godfathers typically do after any sudden death with which they may have been associated, amid genuine national mourning for a man who was greatly admired, even loved, because he would not put up with political deceit and lies. It was reported that Russert had just completed a sensitive assignment and was on the verge of publicising information about criminal operations which would have caused the White House a degree of angst. It is uncertain whether this was a murder, but many people think so. Indeed, we were requested to insert this entry after closure of this report.

Schnor, Christen, aged 49, a Danish-born senior executive with HSBC bank, was discovered on Wednesday afternoon 17th December 2008 hanging by a belt, naked, in the wardrobe of his £500-a-night suite at the Jumeriah Carlton Tower Hotel, Cadogan Place, in Knightsbridge, London, having also rented a £390-a-day apartment for his wife and two children in Lower Sloane Street, in the same plush area. Schnor worked at HSBC’s Canary Wharf office. This death resembled that of Amschel Rothschild who was discovered hanging in a high-class hotel in Paris on 11th July 1996.

Senitt, Alan: Aged 27, Senitt, called a ‘rising star’ in the British Jewish community and openly a Zionist, was stabbed to death on 9th July 2006 by three men brandishing a gun and a knife, as Senitt was taking a young woman back to her apartment in a Georgetown neighbourhood in Washington, DC. His throat was slit, considered by some analysts to be a ‘CIA trademark’.

Sharon, Ariel: The former Prime Minister of Israel suddenly succumbed to what was reported to have been 'a stroke' in 2006, and remained reportedly in a coma at Tel HaShomer Hospital in Tel Aviv thereafter. The Times, London, reported that Sharon turned 81 in late February 2009, and was still lying in a comatose state at the time of that report. Information about this state of affairs has been patchy and inconclusive throughout, raising probably well-founded suspicions worldwide.

Silva, Paulo Sergio, aged 36, a trader for the brokerage component of the Brazilian banking conglomerate Itaú, was reported to have ‘shot himself in the chest’ during an afternoon trading session of the Sao Paulo commodities and futures exchange in November 2008.

Smoliyaninov, Dmitry: Aged 31, Smoliyaninov, a Russian bond trader working in an emerging markets unit at Citigroup in London, jumped to his death from the Citigroup building at Canary Wharf, in the ineptly-named Docklands district, on 21st July 2006. He climbed up over a high barrier at the top of the 350 ft tower from a balcony within the glass Citigroup structure.

The barriers at the top are seven feet high, so he had to climb up before jumping. The suggestion, for public consumption, was that he was thought to have become depressed following alleged matrimonial problems and a difficult divorce. But sources dismissed this as a cover story. Further information on this death is given under 'Credit Suisse dealer'.

Stanford, ‘Sir’ Allen, in US Federal custody since June 2009, when he was arrested on charges of having operated, as we reported, a complex Ponzi scheme through his Antigua-based bank, and who had experienced secondary shocks following the Madoff implosion, appeared in a Houston courtroom on 14th October 2009 for one of his reiterated requests for bail, which was yet again refused. This was his first appearance in court since a reported brawl in the jail in September, which left him with two black eyes and a broken nose, according to his lawyers.

The Financial Times reported on 15th October 2009 that ‘the Texan appeared to be a shadow of his former, gregarious self. Visibly thinner, he stared blankly at his mother, girlfriend and children and occasionally wiped blood from his nose. His appearance and behaviour prompted David Hittner, the US District Judge overseeing the case, to ask whether he needed medical attention’.

Stanford’s court-appointed attorney, Ken Schaffer, told the court effectively that his client was being beaten up (although the words he used were ‘poorly treated’): ‘They’re doing their best to break him. That’s the thing you thought they did in other countries. Now, we find out they do it here’. Mr Schaffer said that while Stanford had been spitting blood periodically, the Government doctor merely ‘looks at him through a window and says he’s fine’.

Translation: If Stanford were to die in jail, covering up any such murder might present problems, given the Bush-connected circumstances. So he is being beaten senseless so that he won’t have the memory or physical and mental ability to testify coherently against the Bush-Clinton Syndicate for whom he ‘worked’. Recall that when his empire was collapsing, his first visit was to a location not a thousand miles removed from the George Bush Center for Intelligence, Langley.

Although not dead (yet), like all the others listed here (with the possible exception of Levene, whose condition, whether dead or alive, was unknown to this service when this report was being prepared), we have included Allen Stanford in the list – given that, from the perspective of the exposures and the cover-up operation, he might as well be dead.

Stephenson, Andy: In 2005, Andy Stephenson, a US operative, was poisoned with a substance capable of mimicking pancreatic cancer, after travelling the length and breadth of the United States tirelessly exposing the wholesale falsification of election results by using doctored software and rigged electronic voting machines, thus making a total mockery of George W. Bush’s puffed-up, hypocritical boasting about ‘spreading democracy’ in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Stephenson, Kirk, who helped start Luqman Arnold’s investment company Olivant Ltd., committed suicide, a British coroner’s court decided in December 2008. Stephenson, 47, jumped in front of a train on 25th September 2008, at the railway station in Taplow, near Maidenhead, located 28 miles west of London. The train was travelling at 100 miles an hour.

Unnamed US Commerce Department official: A former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce was reported to have shot himself and his 12-year-old son when police appeared at his door in late July 2006. No further details were published.

Vellanti, James: James Vellanti, the Chief Operating Officer for the New York Hedge Fund JNF Asset Management LLC, was reported on 28th September to have died early on Sunday morning 27th September 2009 after he fell from an escalator at the Pier Shops at ‘Ceasar’s’ Casino, Atlantic City, NJ. Vellanti lived in Clinton. Police were called to the huge mall, which has more than 75 shops and seven restaurants, and is connected to the casino by a sky bridge, at 12:01am. [Unconnected: This was the second death resulting from a fall from the escalator complex. On 9th August 2008, Frank Gilbert Jr., aged 25, of Galloway Township, fell about 40 feet, after he sat on the handrail. He died of head injuries later that day].

Villehuchet, René-Thierry Magon de la, 65, founding partner and CEO of Access International Advisors, was found dead with his wrists slashed on the morning of Thursday 23rd December 2008, in his office at 509 Madison Avenue in Midtown New York City. The French financier, an aristocratic society fund manager with a chateau in Brittany, was found at 7:50 am with no pulse, in his office a couple of blocks from the Rockefeller Center. A spokesman for the New York medical examiner was careful to insist many hours later that he had not yet established the cause of death.

The financier employed a sizeable army of royally-connected ‘Alpine advisers’ to trawl the casinos, ski slopes and yacht clubs of Europe in frantic search of gullible wealthy prospective investors for participation in his fund, which in turn fed the demand for ‘replacement money’ for the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi investment operations. M. de la Villehuchet’s connections and his own aristocratic pedigree enabled him to tap into a rich seam of intermediaries who helped to secure ‘replacement funds’ for the colossal Bush-connected Ponzi operation on behalf of Access, for onward placement with Madoff. His ‘advisers’ included Philippe Junot, first husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, and Crown Prince Michael of Yugoslavia, described as an ‘investor relations executive’.

Families said to have invested with the French financier included the Rothschilds, other European grandees, and heirs to the L’Oréal cosmetics fortune, especially 86-year-old Liliane Bettencourt, daughter of the L’Oréal SA founder, Eugene Schueller, who is reported to have invested part of her fortune estimated at $22.9 billion with Bernard L. Madoff through the dead French financier. The old lady holds a 30% shareholding in L’Oréal SA, which is the world’s largest manufacturer and purveyor of cosmetics. In a letter dated 12th December 2008 to its clients, Access International Advisors stated that funds, including its LUXALPHA SICAV-American Selection, were invested solely with Bernard L. Madoff’s investment firm. Data compiled by Bloomberg showed that it had $1.4 billion in assets as at 17th November 2008.

Reporting M. de la Villehuchet’s death, The Daily Telegraph (on 24th December 2008) cited an anonymous source as stating that it was ‘highly likely’ that the French financier committed suicide, while a French newspaper reported that he killed himself. However it is just as probable that he was killed in order to prevent him from turning state’s evidence, given that following the Madoff implosion, he will have recognised that he had been deceived.

Wasserstein, Bruce: The notorious Brooklyn-born son of Polish Jewish immigrants and head of Lazards, the investment bank, dubbed ‘the father of modern M&A (mergers and acquisitions)’, and a king of Fraudulent Finance, was reported on 15th October 2009 to have died suddenly, aged 61.

On Sunday 11th October, it was disclosed that he had been taken to hospital with an irregular heartbeat. The bank had stated that his condition was serious, but also that he was ‘stable and recovering’. Doctors unrelated to the case told the press, however, that arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) can be fatal. On the evening of 14th October, the investment bank told the media that the cause of his death had not been determined [source: The Times, London, 15th October, 2009, page 57]. The Financial Times stated in its font page report on the banker's sudden death that ‘Mr Wasserstein’s death took many friends and colleagues by surprise’. It was being speculated in US circles during the week ending on 16th October 2009 that Wasserstein had turned state’s evidence and was killed so that he could not testify – given that a National Security Grand Jury is reported to us to be engaged in detailed investigations of these Fraudulent Finance exposures.

Widmer, Alex, Chief Executive of Bank Julius Baer, Zürich, aged 52, was reported by Reuters on 5th December 2008 to have ‘committed suicide’. Two unnamed ‘independent’ sources were cited by the Swiss News website 20Minuten to have stated that the death was a suicide.

Swiss police refused to comment on the death. A bank spokesman, however, was careful to point out for public consumption that there was no link between Widmer’s death and the group’s current [sic: as opposed to its past] activities, but declined to give further details on the cause of Widmer’s death, saying that it was a ‘private matter’. The key word here was, as noted, ‘current’, implying that Widmer had been involved in questionable activities in the past: and indeed, further enquiries by this service confirmed that this interpretation is reportedly correct. Market sources also advised the Editor of this service that ‘the top Julius Baer banker was killed and we know why’. Other sources have stated unequivocally to us that this was a murder, associated with the elaborate cover-up, retribution and ‘neutralisation’ operations that have been ongoing for months.

Wisniewski, Bianca: This Polish immigrant, aged 44, died when asleep in a fire in Queens, NY, which broke out on Sunday 18th October 2009. One of her two daughters and two male relatives were injured in the blaze. Unusually, this lady became a construction worker, enjoying herself immensely working in this male environment. She became a safety coordinator at a JPMorgan Chase construction site early in 2007, suffering, she said, constant harassment. After she had complained, she lost her job, the Daily News reported on 19th October. She filed a $20 million sexual harassment lawsuit against Chase and Total Safety Consulting in Queens.

Her boyfriend, Bogdan Balamut, told the Daily News that she had been receiving strange phone calls and he hoped that officials would 'investigate carefully'. Information about this case has been sent to us by an observer with 'connections' who has reason to believe that this death is 'related'.

Zankel, Arthur: On 30th July 2005, Arthur Zankel, 73, a former Citigroup financier, threw himself out of his Fifth Avenue apartment window in New York City. He fell from the ninth floor.

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