EDNY / UN GATE,
March 23 -- As the Jho Low trial
wound down in Brooklyn, with Roger Ng's
lawyers trying to keep out of evidence a
Goldman Sachs wink-wink policy document with a
cartoon from the Monopoly game, "Go Directly
To Jail, To Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect 200
[Million] Dollars," and the cut-out who cut-up
Jim Li lost somewhere in Queens, in the jails
or even free out on bail, things were quiet
for a day on that Eastern Front.
Not
so in Ukraine, where footage emerged of a
residential square in Mariupol, with half of
the apartment buildings on fire and the
residents runs through a grassy lot or park
with rolling suitcases. Kurt watched it
again and again, and then went out to City
Hall Park. There, a Bronx Congressman had
scheduled a press conference about a bill he
was introducing or would introduce, to
require all SEC registrants to disclose what
business they did in or with Russia.
Citigroup's
disclosure
would be lengthy, Kurt jotted down. The
Federal Reserve had yet to do anything
visible about his filing, most pressingly on
MUFG whose sell-out the Governors were about
to rubber stamp. Sarah Bloom Raskin had been
blocked by Manchin, even as he signaled he
would vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson.
In
that confirmation hearing, Josh Hawley had
read out a list of seven cases in which for
gruesome photos or videos of children she
had sentenced well below the guidelines and
the recommendations of probation. This
happened all the time in EDNY, though
sometimes not. Kurt wondered if a list would
be compiled.
For
now Kurt was working from another list. It
appeared that a list of Larry Ray victim
Claudia Drury's prostitution clients had
been put into evidence and Kurt published
it, with the Twitter caption highlighting
some of the same. Crowd sourcers jumped in
with information on some of the others. It
spread. Then #JohnListGone.
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It was down
to the small strikes in the 1MDB trial with
the FBI showing receipts for pink diamond
necklaces for Najib's wife, and wife transfers
to Ng's wife and one of Tim Leissner's many
ex's.
But where,
Kurt asked without answer from the UN, were
the funds stolen from Malaysians and shoveled
by Jho Low to UN affiliates? The UN refused to
answer and Kurt doubled down, asking the UAE
Mission again about their role in the rip-off,
and in paying lobbyist Tom Barrack. That would
be another trial Kurt would cover on
#TheEasternFront.
While
the drone footage from Mariupol got more and
more surreal, the UN just kept failing. Russia
called for a vote on its "humanitarian" draft
resolution in the Security Council, but they
kept pushing back the time. It was supposed to
be in the morning, and Kurt ran out into the
fire stairs to cover it. But that got pushed
to 3 pm, and then again to 5. The UNTV feed
wasn't working, but the UN's propaganda
YouTube channel had it. Criticism or
questioning of the UN was demonetized on that
platform. But Kurt's vlogs still stayed up and
so he continued them, each morning in Foley
Square.
When
finally the meeting began, China voted with
Russia instead of abstaining. They were
digging it, even as dreamers or useful idiots
bragged about bringing them over to their
side. And which side was that, with UK
chancellor Rishi Sunak dodging about his
families financial links to Russia through
Infosys?
Brits
jumped on that, but Citibank still stayed in
Russia, along with MUFG on which the Federal
Reserve had done nothing, not even asked the
bank a question.It was all smoke and mirrors, the fog
of war on #TheEasternFront.
Kurt had first heard
of Jho Low while still in
the UN, before he was thrown
out. Jho Low appeared at a
UN press conference in front
of the ubiquitous and now
defiled logo.
#TheWeaselOfWallStreet, 1st
in a new series
Inner City Press is also covering
US v. Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the
self-rapped Crocodile of Wall Street, a
story here,
song here
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