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Edited on Sun Jun-05-05 05:53 PM by LaPera
http://linkthing.com/screed/carlyle_group_cluster.htmlCARLYLE GROUP SCANDAL Carlyle Group goes to the movies! Guess what theaters probably won't be showing Moore's movies in the future! District-based investment firm The Carlyle Group is one of three investors that have agreed to buy Loews Cineplex Entertainment from Onex Corp. and Oaktree Capital Management for $1.46 billion.
RIGGS BANK FINED FOR LAX OVERSIGHT OF SAUDI MONEY, WHICH MIGHT HAVE GONE TO TERRORISTS PRESIDENT BUSH'S UNCLE IS A CHIEF EXECUTIVE AT RIGGS BANK
According to the 5/14/04 New York Times, Federal regulators fined the Riggs National Corporation, the parent company of Riggs Bank, $25 million yesterday <5/13?> for "failing to report suspicious activity, the largest penalty ever assessed against a domestic bank in connection with money laundering. The fine stems from Riggs's failure over at least the last two years to actively monitor suspect financial transfers through Saudi Arabian accounts held by the bank." The 5/14/04 Wall Street Journal reported that of particular concern, Riggs failed to monitor "tens of millions of dollars in cash withdrawals from accounts related to the Saudi Arabian embassy," including "suspicious incidents involving dozens of sequentially numbered cashier's checks and international drafts written by Saudi officials, including Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan." According to the 4/18/04 Washington Post, Saudi Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, "may have used a Riggs account to donate money to a charity that then gave some of it to the Sept. 11 terrorists." According to the Washington Post, federal regulators "called Riggs actions a "'willful, systemic' violation of anti-money-laundering law." Riggs officials have "acknowledged years of deficiencies in reporting to law enforcement hundreds of millions of dollars in suspicious financial transactions by foreign customers, particularly those connected with the embassies of Saudi Arabia."
Carlyle Empire
Carlyle is a unique model, assembled at the planetary level on the capitalism of relationships or "capitalism of access"....
Carlyle emerged from the shadows in spite of itself on September 11, 2001. That day, the group had organized a meeting at Washington's Ritz Carlton Hotel with five hundred of its largest investors. Frank Carlucci and James Baker III played masters of ceremony. George Bush senior made a lightning appearance at the beginning of the day. The presentation was quickly interrupted, but one detail escaped no one. One of the guests wore the name bin Laden on his badge. It was Shafiq bin Laden, one of Osama's many brothers.
Phoenix Rising • Tucked away in the recent Iraqi appropriation was $3 billlion for a new "private" paramilitary unit
...Experts say could lead to a wave of extrajudicial killings, not only of armed rebels but of nationalists, other opponents of the U.S. occupation and thousands of civilian Baathists-up to 120,000 of the estimated 2.5 million former Baath Party members in Iraq...
An ex-presidents' club of right-wingers - including Poppa Bush - runs the world's largest private firm. Carlyle profits from Star Wars Missiles, military consulting, and selling weapons to all sides! NOTICE ANYTHING IMPROPER HERE?
More Reference: There is much more to the Carlyle Group's ethics & corruption question (the "defense policy" consulting => to sell weapons to all sides => to foment frequent 'controlled' wars => to build empire => to make profits) than addressed in news reports alone. For those who want to 'drill down' for more evil connections click here or 'hereinreality'.
News Articles:
Who's Really in Charge at the White House?
...Other little-known firms with close links to the Bush administration have over 10,000 "civilian" (read ex-military) contractors in Iraq. They receive billions of dollars to train Iraq's new U.S.-run police and army, create security forces, field mercenary units and "protect" the U.S.-installed figurehead in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. In fact, a third of this year's $87 billion allocated for Iraq, Afghanistan and Central Asia will be spent on U.S. private military contractors.
Schwarzenegger connected with Carlyle Group, as well More oil drilling and forest clear-cutting expected in California Another name from the Arnold Schwarzenegger transition team that should draw some attention — but probably won’t — is Bob Grady, who heads the Carlyle Group’s venture capital fund. The Carlyle Group is essentially the slush fund for our corporate defense and energy establishment masters...Seems that during the recall this guy, Grady, was actually ... get this ... Arnold’s adviser on the environment. Well, I guess being an adviser to the Environmental Protection Agency can give you that kind of credibility. So who turned Grady, and other corporate types, onto the EPA? None other than George W. Bush.
Carlyle's tentacles embrace Asia The problem is Carlyle's coziness with the US Defense Department and CIA and US foreign policy, and the arm-twisting and insider-deals that results Carlyle and other buyout companies are attracted to Asia because, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the structure of Asian capitalism is changing from family-controlled conglomerates... into smaller companies run by professional managers. Governments, meanwhile, have abandoned social policies that once guaranteed a portion of the workforce lifetime jobs and made layoffs very difficult....
Liberals vs. Conservatives? It's the Corruption, Stupid This gal's figured it out! "Also troubling are government officials' war profiteering ties (see Bush ally set to profit from the war on terror), Halliburton's $7 billion no-bid contracts (see "The Pentagon and Halliburton") and Carlyle connections (see "Hubris Unbound"). As Dan Briody, author of THE IRON TRIANGLE: Inside the Secret World of The Carlyle Group, recently put it: "The best way to explain the Carlyle Group is to use a euphemism that Dwight Eisenhower employed back in the 1960s, when he was leaving office. He warned the country of something called the military/industrial complex and that is probably the best way to describe what the Carlyle Group does.""
US arms group, including Carlyle Group, heads for Lisbon It's just the family business, so please don't talk about it "Directors of one of the world’s largest armament companies are planning on meeting in Lisbon in three weeks time. The American based Carlyle Group is heavily involved in supplying arms to the Coalition forces fighting in the Iraqi war....
Top of the meeting’s agenda is expected to be the company’s involvement in the...
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