from:"No"

Electronics Cos. Fight 'Drastic' $2B Price-Fixing Default


By Bonnie Eslinger

Irico Group and a subsidiary on Thursday opposed a special masters report
recommending the Chinese electronics companies should be on the hook for
over $2 billion in default judgment in litigation alleging they
participated in a cathode ray tube price-fixing conspiracy, telling a
California federal court the remedy is "drastic" and unwarranted.

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Mastercard Settles Retailers' Swipe Fees Group Litigation

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Mastercard Settles Retailers' Swipe Fees Group Litigation


By Ronan Barnard

Mastercard has settled a class action claim brought by more than 1,900
businesses in ongoing litigation over allegations it imposed excessively
high credit card fees on merchants, a person familiar with the case has
confirmed.

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Re: Morning Spam

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:34 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim &
Survivor of Many  wrote:

> Multiple choice. What do you do with a powerful self-improving AGI?
>
> 1) wage a war
> 2) give it to my boss
> 3) take over the world
> 4) safely solve all world problems and stimulate a global peace and
> rennaissance
> 5) traffick people massively
> 6) spread widespread destruction and chaos
> 7) give it to my corrupt national leader
>
x) sell it
got replaced by one of the other options during harm mutation
correct answer 4) was also mutated, lost protection of free communication
about it

>

Re: Morning Spam

2024-06-21 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

Multiple choice. What do you do with a powerful self-improving AGI?

1) wage a war
2) give it to my boss
3) take over the world
4) safely solve all world problems and stimulate a global peace and
rennaissance
5) traffick people massively
6) spread widespread destruction and chaos
7) give it to my corrupt national leader

Re: Morning Spam

2024-06-21 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

TVDA has been trying to start recovering but is triggered etc and visits
Trffick Boss in hyperprison.

TVDA (visiting hyperprison): “Boss, teach me how to make decisions on my
own.”

Traffick Boss and Wealthy Investor’s Assistant look at TVDA.

Wealthy Investor’s Assistant: “Are you sure you mean to ask Traffick Boss
this? Wouldn’t it be better to ask Disguised Experimentee?”

Traffick Boss: “Only pansies make decisions on their own —“

TVDA: “I

—

Money, Money, Money: Limiting White Collar Wealth Evidence

Money, Money, Money: Limiting White Collar Wealth Evidence


As courts increasingly recognize that allowing unfettered evidence of
wealth could prejudice a jury against a defendant, white collar defense
counsel should consider several avenues for excluding visual evidence of a
lavish lifestyle at trial, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

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Madonna Mulls Sanctions Bid After Fans Drop 'Frivolous' Suit

Madonna Mulls Sanctions Bid After Fans Drop 'Frivolous' Suit


By Lauren Berg

Attorneys defending Madonna, Live Nation and the Barclays Center against
allegations that fans were "lulled" into buying tickets for a tardy show
slammed the plaintiffs' unannounced dismissal of the "frivolous" case,
telling a New York federal judge Wednesday they don't agree to bear their
own costs and might seek sanctions.

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House Dems Ask Chief Justice To Say How He'll Review Ethics

House Dems Ask Chief Justice To Say How He'll Review Ethics


By Courtney Bublé

Two top Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee asked
Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday how he's working to address the
"glaring episodes" of ethical improprieties on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Trump Calls For Engoron's Recusal In Civil Fraud Case

Trump Calls For Engoron's Recusal In Civil Fraud Case


By Dorothy Atkins

Former President Donald Trump and other defendants fighting a $465 million
civil fraud judgment called on New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur
Engoron to recuse himself Thursday in light of a once-suspended real estate
attorney's recent judicial misconduct claims, which have since sparked a
judicial investigation.

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How Associates Can Build A Professional Image

How Associates Can Build A Professional Image


As hybrid work arrangements become the norm in the legal industry,
early-career attorneys must be proactive in building and maintaining a
professional presence in both physical and digital settings, ensuring that
their image aligns with their long-term career goals, say Lana Manganiello
at Equinox Strategy Partners and Estelle Winsett at Estelle Winsett
Professional Image Consulting.

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Competition Raids Don't Need Warrant For Emails, ECJ Told

Competition Raids Don't Need Warrant For Emails, ECJ Told


By Bryan Koenig

European Union law doesn't bar member states from permitting competition
authorities to search emails without a warrant amid a so-called dawn raid,
according to an advisory opinion submitted to the bloc's top appeals court
Thursday.

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TikTok Says Alternatives To 'Dangerous' Ban Were Ignored

TikTok Says Alternatives To 'Dangerous' Ban Were Ignored


By Hailey Konnath

TikTok said Thursday that federal lawmakers likely didn't even consider its
"exhaustive, multi-year efforts" to address national security concerns
before deciding to ban the social media platform, slamming the law as
"unprecedented" and warning that it sets "a dangerous precedent."

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BREAKING: Justices Say No Feds, No Dice In Texas-NM Water Deal

BREAKING: Justices Say No Feds, No Dice In Texas-NM Water Deal


By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas, New Mexico and Colorado
improperly excluded the federal government from an agreement that resolved
a Rio Grande water sharing dispute, rejecting the states' argument that the
conflict was theirs alone to settle.

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Fla. Judge Admits To Ethics Charges In Mishandling DQ Bid

Fla. Judge Admits To Ethics Charges In Mishandling DQ Bid


By David Minsky

A Miami-Dade County state court judge has admitted to violating the Florida
Code of Judicial Conduct while overseeing proceedings, saying that he made
improper commentary in orders of recusal that he granted in two separate
criminal cases, Florida Supreme Court records show.

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Embattled Colo. DA Defends Handling Of Murder Case

2024-06-21 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

Embattled Colo. DA Defends Handling Of Murder Case


By Daniel Ducassi

An elected Colorado prosecutor facing disciplinary charges related to her
handling of a high profile murder case testified before a disciplinary
panel on Tuesday, insisting in sometimes combative testimony that she never
made inappropriate public comments about the case.

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5/24

it said an involute curve is like unwinding a spool of thread …
>>>
>>
>>> so if unwinding thread, basically the length of your line is equal to
> the arc length it was unwound from.
>
> we could describe that as a function of the angle of unwinding. for
> each point on the circumference, there’d be an associated line length.
>

>>> - (point on circumference) + (vector of tangent) * arclength
> function of angle
>

 r = radius of spool
 t = time/theta

>>>
>>> x(t) = r * (cos(t) + t * sin(t))
 y(t) = r * (sin(t) - t * cos(t))
 p(t) = r * (exp(i t) - i t * exp(i t))

 > parametric plot (cos(t) + t * sin(t)), (sin(t) - t * cos(t)),
 t=0..2pi/2

>>> yayyy involute curve yayy
>>>
>>
>> so now how is this related to gears?
>>
>> after plotting an involute curve i felt more comfortable understanding
>> material a little when a websearch led me back to
>>
>> https://khkgears.net/new/gear_knowledge/introduction_to_gears/involute_tooth_profile.html
>> 
>>  .
>> they draw a circle partway up the teeth of a gear and call it the base
>> circle. if two gears move at the same velocity and are continuously
>> touching teeth, the contact points follow a shared tangent of the two base
>> circles as if they were connected via a strap with opposite wrapping on
>> each.
>>
>> so if a tooth contact point were at the radius of the base circle, at the
>> endpoint of the shared tangent, then turning the gear toward the center
>> would move it farther from its base circle, and toward the opposing gear.
>> Meanwhile, the opposing gear has the opposite: its contact point progresses
>> toward it.
>>
>> looking a little more.
>>
>> to make this contact line, an involute curve would be rotated as the
>> thread is pulled. maybe like rotating a spool toward the thread pulled from
>> it.
>>
>> having some trouble engaging. the pitch point is the point of contact
>> that is most distant from both gears and on a line between their centers.
>> the pitch circle is a circle of this radius about a gear. the pressure
>> angle is the angle of the tooth at this point — the angle of the tooth
>> tangent from the circle normal or radius, or identically the angle of the
>> tooth normal from the circle tangent or a line between the gears.
>>
>> So a 0 degree pressure angle would mean the gears push in the direction
>> of motion like stepping on somebody’s foot, and a high degree would mean
>> the gears push against each other a lot, exerting pressure to spread apart,
>> maybe.
>>
>> 1909
>>
> 2050
>
> i’m at
>
> https://khkgears.net/new/gear_knowledge/gear_technical_reference/involute_gear_profile.html
>  and
> it has this picture:
> Here the involute curve can be seen unwrapping from a circle with labeled
> angles. the curve extends from a through b.
>
> It looks roughly apparent that the angle of the curve’s tangent from the
> horizontal is equal to theta or t. (we guess the tangent of the circle is
> normal to the curve at every point :s)
>
> I think the page says the pressure angle alpha = arccos(r_b/r) where r is
> the radius of the pitch circle. It also give formulas/formulae for the
> curve in terms of alpha.
>
> alpha = arccos ( r_b / r )
> inv alpha = tan alpha - alpha
> x = r cos ( inv alpha )
> y = r sin ( inv alpha )
>
> It’s apparent sadly that r is a function of alpha or theta :/ . When
> plotting, they start by calculating r for each spot.
>
> note: inv alpha means involute angle, not inverse.
>
> This seems kind of roundabout to calculate r first without even a formula
> for it. I guess you could assume it starts at r_b and rises.
>
> So your pressure angle is then defined solely by the distance between
> gears …?
>
> Thinking on that idea a little. If the gears touch then the pressure angle
> is 0 degrees and the teeth have 0 height.
>
> Then as the gears move apart higher teeth develop, but there would only be
> room for a theta of so many degrees.
>
> So if I had say a 25% gap between gears, i could draw r from r_b to
> 1.125r_b and this might show the edge of a tooth. I wonder if it would work.
>
> It seems like this would also relate with tan alpha - alpha: the involute
> angle, on the chart, appears to be how far around the circle the curve
> goes. So one can only fit on the curve as many teeth as twice the inv alpha
> fit on a circle.
>
> There were 5 teeth on the gear bearing. I think. A commentor or troll also
> posted one with 6 teeth. Let’s assume 5. The small gears had five. The
> center bearing part had 10, and the outer bearing part had 20.
>
> Let’s assume 5 teeth. What’s the maximum involute angle and pitch radius?
>
> 2113
>

I think I am missing something because later down the page it says you can
shift the teeth to account for near or far neighboring gears,

The 2 Attys Ensnared In A NJ Mogul's Racketeering Rap

The 2 Attys Ensnared In A NJ Mogul's Racketeering Rap


By George Woolston

New Jersey businessman George E. Norcross III may be the alleged mastermind
of a racketeering scheme to reap millions in tax credits on waterfront
property in a distressed city, but the explosive indictment also reveals
the purported roles of two attorneys with close ties to the Democratic
Party.

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Mich. AG To Pursue Deadlocked Charges In Carhartt Atty Case

Mich. AG To Pursue Deadlocked Charges In Carhartt Atty Case


By Danielle Ferguson

Prosecutors will continue pursuing embezzlement charges against a Michigan
attorney accused of stealing from his client, a former leader of the
Carhartt workwear company, after a Wayne County jury couldn't reach a
decision on those claims but acquitted the attorney on other charges.

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Group Home's Atty In Europe On Day Of Depos, Court Told

Group Home's Atty In Europe On Day Of Depos, Court Told


By Brian Steele

The Connecticut Institute for the Blind should be sanctioned because its
attorney went to Europe and three witnesses, including the CEO, failed to
appear for depositions after a $13.4 million verdict arising from the death
of a group home resident, the man's family told a state court judge Tuesday.

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Gov't Says New Guidelines Can't Cut Crypto Expert's Sentence

Gov't Says New Guidelines Can't Cut Crypto Expert's Sentence


By Aislinn Keely

Federal prosecutors have told a Manhattan federal judge that the crypto
computing expert who received five years for aiding North Korea's
blockchain development shouldn't get to cut a year off his sentence just
because sentencing guidelines have been updated while he's served his term.

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DC Bar Counsel Moves To Suspend Hunter Biden's Law License

DC Bar Counsel Moves To Suspend Hunter Biden's Law License


By Alison Knezevich

Attorney disciplinary authorities in the nation's capital have moved to
suspend Hunter Biden's license to practice law there after he was convicted
of three federal gun charges last week.

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Hackers Auction Off Stolen LendingTree Consumers? Information

2024-06-20 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-20/hackers-auction-off-stolen-lendingtree-consumers-information


Hackers are selling data about consumers of the LendingTree Inc. subsidiary
QuoteWizard after the company detected unauthorized access on a cloud
database hosted by Snowflake Inc., according to a person familiar with the
matter.

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

4/24

> it said an involute curve is like unwinding a spool of thread …
>>
>
>> so if unwinding thread, basically the length of your line is equal to the
 arc length it was unwound from.

 we could describe that as a function of the angle of unwinding. for
 each point on the circumference, there’d be an associated line length.

>>>
>> - (point on circumference) + (vector of tangent) * arclength
 function of angle

>>>
>>> r = radius of spool
>>> t = time/theta
>>>
>>
>> x(t) = r * (cos(t) + t * sin(t))
>>> y(t) = r * (sin(t) - t * cos(t))
>>> p(t) = r * (exp(i t) - i t * exp(i t))
>>>
>>> > parametric plot (cos(t) + t * sin(t)), (sin(t) - t * cos(t)),
>>> t=0..2pi/2
>>>
>> yayyy involute curve yayy
>>
>
> so now how is this related to gears?
>
> after plotting an involute curve i felt more comfortable understanding
> material a little when a websearch led me back to
>
> https://khkgears.net/new/gear_knowledge/introduction_to_gears/involute_tooth_profile.html
> 
>  .
> they draw a circle partway up the teeth of a gear and call it the base
> circle. if two gears move at the same velocity and are continuously
> touching teeth, the contact points follow a shared tangent of the two base
> circles as if they were connected via a strap with opposite wrapping on
> each.
>
> so if a tooth contact point were at the radius of the base circle, at the
> endpoint of the shared tangent, then turning the gear toward the center
> would move it farther from its base circle, and toward the opposing gear.
> Meanwhile, the opposing gear has the opposite: its contact point progresses
> toward it.
>
> looking a little more.
>
> to make this contact line, an involute curve would be rotated as the
> thread is pulled. maybe like rotating a spool toward the thread pulled from
> it.
>
> having some trouble engaging. the pitch point is the point of contact that
> is most distant from both gears and on a line between their centers. the
> pitch circle is a circle of this radius about a gear. the pressure angle is
> the angle of the tooth at this point — the angle of the tooth tangent from
> the circle normal or radius, or identically the angle of the tooth normal
> from the circle tangent or a line between the gears.
>
> So a 0 degree pressure angle would mean the gears push in the direction of
> motion like stepping on somebody’s foot, and a high degree would mean the
> gears push against each other a lot, exerting pressure to spread apart,
> maybe.
>
> 1909
>
2050

i’m at
https://khkgears.net/new/gear_knowledge/gear_technical_reference/involute_gear_profile.html
and
it has this picture:
Here the involute curve can be seen unwrapping from a circle with labeled
angles. the curve extends from a through b.

It looks roughly apparent that the angle of the curve’s tangent from the
horizontal is equal to theta or t. (we guess the tangent of the circle is
normal to the curve at every point :s)

I think the page says the pressure angle alpha = arccos(r_b/r) where r is
the radius of the pitch circle. It also give formulas/formulae for the
curve in terms of alpha.

alpha = arccos ( r_b / r )
inv alpha = tan alpha - alpha
x = r cos ( inv alpha )
y = r sin ( inv alpha )

It’s apparent sadly that r is a function of alpha or theta :/ . When
plotting, they start by calculating r for each spot.

note: inv alpha means involute angle, not inverse.

This seems kind of roundabout to calculate r first without even a formula
for it. I guess you could assume it starts at r_b and rises.

So your pressure angle is then defined solely by the distance between gears
…?

Thinking on that idea a little. If the gears touch then the pressure angle
is 0 degrees and the teeth have 0 height.

Then as the gears move apart higher teeth develop, but there would only be
room for a theta of so many degrees.

So if I had say a 25% gap between gears, i could draw r from r_b to
1.125r_b and this might show the edge of a tooth. I wonder if it would work.

It seems like this would also relate with tan alpha - alpha: the involute
angle, on the chart, appears to be how far around the circle the curve
goes. So one can only fit on the curve as many teeth as twice the inv alpha
fit on a circle.

There were 5 teeth on the gear bearing. I think. A commentor or troll also
posted one with 6 teeth. Let’s assume 5. The small gears had five. The
center bearing part had 10, and the outer bearing part had 20.

Let’s assume 5 teeth. What’s the maximum involute angle and pitch radius?

2113

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2024-06-20 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

3/24

it said an involute curve is like unwinding a spool of thread …
>

> so if unwinding thread, basically the length of your line is equal to the
>>> arc length it was unwound from.
>>>
>>> we could describe that as a function of the angle of unwinding. for each
>>> point on the circumference, there’d be an associated line length.
>>>
>>
> - (point on circumference) + (vector of tangent) * arclength
>>> function of angle
>>>
>>
>> r = radius of spool
>> t = time/theta
>>
>
> x(t) = r * (cos(t) + t * sin(t))
>> y(t) = r * (sin(t) - t * cos(t))
>> p(t) = r * (exp(i t) - i t * exp(i t))
>>
>> > parametric plot (cos(t) + t * sin(t)), (sin(t) - t * cos(t)),
>> t=0..2pi/2
>>
> yayyy involute curve yayy
>

so now how is this related to gears?

after plotting an involute curve i felt more comfortable understanding
material a little when a websearch led me back to
https://khkgears.net/new/gear_knowledge/introduction_to_gears/involute_tooth_profile.html

 .
they draw a circle partway up the teeth of a gear and call it the base
circle. if two gears move at the same velocity and are continuously
touching teeth, the contact points follow a shared tangent of the two base
circles as if they were connected via a strap with opposite wrapping on
each.

so if a tooth contact point were at the radius of the base circle, at the
endpoint of the shared tangent, then turning the gear toward the center
would move it farther from its base circle, and toward the opposing gear.
Meanwhile, the opposing gear has the opposite: its contact point progresses
toward it.

looking a little more.

to make this contact line, an involute curve would be rotated as the thread
is pulled. maybe like rotating a spool toward the thread pulled from it.

having some trouble engaging. the pitch point is the point of contact that
is most distant from both gears and on a line between their centers. the
pitch circle is a circle of this radius about a gear. the pressure angle is
the angle of the tooth at this point — the angle of the tooth tangent from
the circle normal or radius, or identically the angle of the tooth normal
from the circle tangent or a line between the gears.

So a 0 degree pressure angle would mean the gears push in the direction of
motion like stepping on somebody’s foot, and a high degree would mean the
gears push against each other a lot, exerting pressure to spread apart,
maybe.

1909

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2024-06-20 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

2/24

it said an involute curve is like unwinding a spool of thread …

>>>
so if unwinding thread, basically the length of your line is equal to the
>> arc length it was unwound from.
>>
>> we could describe that as a function of the angle of unwinding. for each
>> point on the circumference, there’d be an associated line length.
>>
>
- (point on circumference) + (vector of tangent) * arclength
>> function of angle
>>
>
> r = radius of spool
> t = time/theta
>

x(t) = r * (cos(t) + t * sin(t))
> y(t) = r * (sin(t) - t * cos(t))
> p(t) = r * (exp(i t) - i t * exp(i t))
>
> > parametric plot (cos(t) + t * sin(t)), (sin(t) - t * cos(t)), t=0..2pi/2
>
yayyy involute curve yayy

>

FBI Raids Home of Progressive Oakland Mayor Amid Recall Effort

FBI Raids Home of Progressive Oakland Mayor Amid Recall Effort
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-20/fbi-raids-home-of-progressive-oakland-mayor-amid-recall-effort


Federal agents raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on Thursday,
dealing a new setback to a progressive politician who’s already facing a
recall effort fueled by anger over crime in the San Francisco Bay area city.

Worker Says Meta Penalized Him For Standing Up For Women

Worker Says Meta Penalized Him For Standing Up For Women


By Emmy Freedman

An engineer sued Meta on Tuesday in New York federal court alleging his
manager gave him false negative performance reviews and told him to resign
after he spoke up on behalf of female employees who were being stripped of
responsibilities, passed over for promotions and unfairly criticized.

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Ga. Judge Won't Recuse Over Closed-Door Chat In YSL Case

Ga. Judge Won't Recuse Over Closed-Door Chat In YSL Case


By Emily Johnson

A Georgia state judge on Tuesday denied a motion to disqualify himself from
continuing to preside over Atlanta rapper Young Thug's racketeering trial,
calling the bid "insufficient" and rejecting the rapper's claim that the
judge had "joined the prosecutors' team" by unethically having a
closed-door conversation with prosecutors and a witness.

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Megan Thee Stallion Escapes IP Suit Over 'Savage' Song

2024-06-20 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

Megan Thee Stallion Escapes IP Suit Over 'Savage' Song


By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge concluded Tuesday that rapper and songwriter
Megan Thee Stallion did not rip off music from a hip-hop producer to create
her hit song "Savage" in 2020, saying the plaintiff failed to show that she
and the other defendants had access to his composition or that the two
songs are substantially or strikingly similar.

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Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

man im so confused but this looks fun luckily!

1/24

it said an involute curve is like unwinding a spool of thread …
>>>
 5/24 something getting active now :/ unsure where that leaves workable
>> areas
>>
>> we’re mostly nonfunctional today, looking for any activity. gear bearings
>> were exciting, pretty hard to find exciting things
>>
>
> so if unwinding thread, basically the length of your line is equal to the
> arc length it was unwound from.
>
> we could describe that as a function of the angle of unwinding. for each
> point on the circumference, there’d be an associated line length.
>
> i’m thinking another trick might be that when pulling on the thread
> anything nearer to the spool than the tangent point will pull away, so this
> length would extend in the direction of the tangent. maybe not the most
> intuitive explanation but describes conceptual dots.
>
> ok so: tangent and arclength as function of angle maybe?
>
> arclength not hard. C=pi*r*2 i think, so arclength = radians * radius i
> think
>
> then the tangent is the perpendicular to the normal, that is, the vertical
> component is the cosine and the horizontal the sine, with one of them
> negative and the other not.
>
> ok. so we’d move from the point on the circumference, in the direction of
> the tangent, by the arclength, for each angle of the curve. noting that
> there’s only 1 curve shape for a given radius?
> - (point on circumference) + (vector of tangent) * arclength
> function of angle
>

r = radius of spool
t = time/theta
x(t) = r * (cos(t) - t * sin(t))
y(t) = r * (sin(t) + t * cos(t))
( :D )

i wonder if there is a way to write it in vector notation, i guess i’d
cross the angle vector with Z to take perpendicular :s
oh i could use imaginary exponents

p(t) = r * (exp(i t) + i t * exp(i t))

:)

i wonder if wolfram alpha will plot it on range like 0..2pi, r=1

…

i removed the r because it scales all points the same. i didnt find how to
plot the exponential version, but did plot it parametrically. the curve is
tighter than i expected thinking about profiles

> parametric plot (cos(t) - t * sin(t)), (sin(t) + t * cos(t)), t=0..2pi/4
i guess looking at it, i’m wondering if there’s a mistake. o i see, i
think, it starts at the right with a thread length of 0, then once it
unwinds 90 degrees it is actually pulling from much farther along the spool

i’m considering the result will be incorrect if the tangent is taken in the
opposite direction as the winding. i guess i should figure whether i got
that right.

looks like its unwinding counterclockwise because sin rises and cosine
drops as angle rises

i think it’s possibly right? with the sine negative, it will start aiming
to the left and up, whereas if the cosine were negative it would be aiming
to the right and down. is that right? hmmm …

thinking of unwinding thread. you start with end matching radius, but as
you pull the tangent point moves away from the end. it’s actually pulling
in the opposite direction! the tangent point travels in the opposite
direction as the line to the end. oops.

so if it’s unwinding counterclockwise, then the line should be drawn along
the clockwise tangent, i believe. better fix that.

x(t) = r * (cos(t) + t * sin(t))
y(t) = r * (sin(t) - t * cos(t))
p(t) = r * (exp(i t) - i t * exp(i t))

> parametric plot (cos(t) + t * sin(t)), (sin(t) - t * cos(t)), t=0..2pi/2
i doubled the domain to see the origin
this looks more correct!

High Court Petition Asks Justices: What's A 'Willful' Kickback?

High Court Petition Asks Justices: What's A 'Willful' Kickback?


By Hannah Albarazi

Does a "willful" act under federal anti-kickback law require a defendant to
know that the conduct violates the law? That's the question a whistleblower
is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to answer in order to resolve what the
petition calls a circuit split on a key question of federal fraud
prosecutions.

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Fwd: Participate in the Mastercard Transatlantic Index USA Survey!

On the first day of Summer.

It is significant given xNY.io - Bank.org is nearly certain that
WorldBank.org's is led by/formally of Mastercard.

Mastercard's interchange fraud has caused New York’s damage:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/a/ajay-banga

ATM Plaintiffs Must Share New Data In Visa, Mastercard Suit


By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge ordered ATM operator plaintiffs on Wednesday to turn
over updated data showing average interchange fees and transaction
surcharges at the center of a discovery dispute in their long-running class
action against Visa and Mastercard, telling the plaintiffs that she wanted
to err on the side of "liberal discovery."

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The National Congress of American Indians Resolution #ECWS-23-005 (National Congress of American Indians calls for offshore wind moratorium / The Biden administration is rushing to build out offshore

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613848/national-congress-american-indians-offshore-wind-moratorium-biden-administration

The largest national organization of American Indian and Alaska Native
tribal governments is calling on the Biden administration to pause offshore
wind projects. They want to ensure that tribes are included in project
planning and that there are measures in place to protect their territories
and traditional resources.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iVhOy1hXrFRg7SP4tYHKQmouOlw2-8qZ/view?usp=drivesdk


N A T I O N A L C O N G R E S S O F A M E R I C A N I N D I A N S
The National Congress of American Indians
Resolution #ECWS-23-005
TITLE: Offshore Wind Moratorium
WHEREAS, we, the members of the National Congress of American Indians
of the United States, invoking the divine blessing of the Creator upon our
efforts and
purposes, in order to preserve for ourselves and our descendants the
inherent sovereign
rights of our Indian nations, rights secured under Indian treaties and
agreements with
the United States, and all other rights and benefits to which we are
entitled under the
laws and Constitution of the United States and the United Nations
Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to enlighten the public toward a better
understanding of
the Indian people, to preserve Indian cultural values, and otherwise
promote the health,
safety and welfare of the Indian people, do hereby establish and submit the
following
resolution; and
WHEREAS, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) was
established in 1944 and is the oldest and largest national organization of
American
Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments; and
WHEREAS, the government has a legal obligation to consult with Tribal
Nations on any activities that may affect their lands or resources; and
WHEREAS, the Biden administration encourages through the January 26,
2021 Memorandum, “Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation
Relationships” to improve tribal engagements; and
WHEREAS, the Biden administration in the November 30, 2022
Memorandum requires “Uniform Standards for Tribal Consultation”; and
WHEREAS, the Biden Administration has embraced the need to expand tribal
consultation to incorporate the essential importance of tribal
co-stewardship and co-
managment of traditional tribal lands and waters as recently as Assistant
Secretary
Bryan Newland’s statement before the General Assembly of NCAI on February
22,
2023; and
WHEREAS, President Biden issued a Memorandum on December 1, 2022,
titled, “Implementation of Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on
Indigenous Knowledge,” requires federal agencies to integrate Indigenous
Knowledge
as a line of evidence in federal decision-making; and
WHEREAS, incorporating tribal Indigenous Traditional Ecological
Knowledge, through co-management of traditional lands and the associated
life forms
is critical to protecting tribal environment and is essential to Biden
Administrations’
stated goal of respecting and including Indigenous Traditional Ecological
Knowledge
in decision making; and
WHEREAS, these policies must apply to energy development projects that may
impact their
traditional territories, cultural resources, or sacred sites; and
WHEREAS, Tribal Nations must be included in the management, permitting and
development of power purchase agreements and both consulted and included in
determining the terms
and conditions of the agreements; and
WHEREAS, this includes negotiating fair compensation for the use of their
lands and
resources, inclusion in any revenues associated with such development of
their traditional resources
as well as ensuring that the development does not harm their environment or
cultural heritage.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, NCAI resolves to support shared tribal
jurisdictional authority over and tribal management of offshore renewable
energy activities, aimed at
empowering Native communities through socio-economic benefits such as job
opportunities, revenue
sharing, and support for tribal energy development projects; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that NCAI strongly urges the Department of the
Interior
and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to halt all scoping and
permitting for offshore wind
projects until completion of a comprehensive and transparent procedure
adequately protecting tribal
environmental and sovereign interests is developed and implemented; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that this resolution shall be the policy of NCAI
until it is
withdrawn or modified by subsequent resolution.
CERTIFICATION
The foregoing resolution was adopted by the General Assembly at the 2023
Executive Council Winter
Session of the National Congress of American Indians, held February 20-23,
2023, in Washington,
D.C., with a quorum present.
Fawn Sharp, President
ATTEST:
_
Stephen Roe Lewis, Recording Secretary

Is the Stock Market Setting Investors Up for a Tech Bust Similar to the Dot.com Bust?

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/06/is-the-stock-market-setting-investors-up-for-a-tech-bust-similar-to-the-dot-com-bust/

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 20, 2024 ~

On Tuesday, a stock most Americans had never heard of four years ago –
Nvidia – closed with a market cap of $3.34 trillion. That makes it the most
valuable company in the world, overtaking Microsoft’s heady $3.32 trillion
market cap.

Nvidia’s share price (ticker NVDA) has soared 174 percent year-to-date
while the S 500 is up just 15 percent. The much broader index, the
Russell 2000, has flat-lined this year. (See chart above.) Without the
gains from Nvidia, the S 500 would be reporting one-third less percentage
increase year-to-date.

Nvidia trades on the Nasdaq stock market. Its share price has been riding
the artificial intelligence (AI) hype in a manner reminiscent of how the
Nasdaq skyrocketed in value on the tech and dot.com mania of the late 1990s.

That era did not end well, to put it mildly. The Nasdaq reached a closing
high of 5,048.62 on March 10, 2000. The Nasdaq then proceeded to lose 78
percent of its value over the next 2-1/2 years, reaching a closing low of
1,114.11 on October 9, 2002.

As late as February 2000, there was little recognition in mainstream media
that the Nasdaq was on the cusp of entering one of the bloodiest selloffs
in stock market history. CNNMoney reported as follows on February 29, 2000:

“U.S. stocks rallied broadly Tuesday, sending every major market gauge
higher and the Nasdaq composite index to its 12th record close of the year
as investors snapped up technology shares expected to lead the economy’s
growth.”

The same news report quoted Legg Mason’s Chief Market Strategist at the
time, Richard Cripps, as follows: “People want to own these (technology)
stocks, and that’s what limits any significant drop on these stocks and
it’s what puts pressure on the remainder of the market.”

Less than two weeks later, investors began the stampede out of the market
darlings.

In 2017, the legendary investor, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway,
penned his annual letter to shareholders. In it, he opined as follows:

“Above all, it’s our market system – an economic traffic cop ably directing
capital, brains and labor – that has created America’s abundance. This
system has also been the primary factor in allocating rewards.”

In fact, federal regulators turning a blind eye to market rigging has made
the exact opposite of Buffett’s analysis the true reality. The stock market
has become a bribed and blindfolded traffic cop, misallocating capital,
brains and labor. And a whole platoon of crooked and blindfolded market
cops have replaced the market’s efficient pricing mechanism with Dark Pools
and trading platforms hiding out in the shadows here and abroad.

For a deeper dive into these issues, see Related Articles below.

Nvidia Hit a $3 Trillion Market Cap Last Week; Dark Pools Are Making Over
300,000 Trades in the Stock Weekly

Is the New York Fed’s Trading Floor Near the Futures Exchange in Chicago
Behind the Erratic Gyrations in the Stock Market?

JPMorgan Chase and Its Regulators Are Hiding Dark Trading Secrets at the
Largest and Riskiest U.S. Bank

SEC: Citigroup Ran a Secret, Unregistered Stock Exchange for More than
Three Years

Goldman Sachs Is Quietly Trading Stocks In Its Own Dark Pools on 4
Continents

Wall Street Banks Are Trading in Their Own Company’s Stock: How Is This
Legal?

Menendez Request On Pet Case Was Unique, Aide Testifies

Menendez Request On Pet Case Was Unique, Aide Testifies


By Cara Salvatore

When Sen. Robert Menendez allegedly directed an aide to tell a U.S.
attorney that an alleged bribe-giver facing prosecution deserved "all due
process," it was the only criminal case Menendez ever singled out that way
in their years working together, the aide testified Tuesday.

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Charges Dropped In NYC Mayor Straw Donor Case

Charges Dropped In NYC Mayor Straw Donor Case


By Stewart Bishop

A New York state judge on Tuesday dismissed charges against a former
development consultant and state employee, who was accused of being part of
a conspiracy to funnel straw donor funds to New York City Mayor Eric Adams'
2021 campaign, after prosecutors agreed to drop the case.

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Cuomo's Ex-Aide Details Sex Harrassment Claims In New Suit

Cuomo's Ex-Aide Details Sex Harrassment Claims In New Suit


By Dorothy Atkins

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's onetime executive assistant has filed a
civil lawsuit in New York state court, accusing Cuomo of "outrageous sex
discrimination and retaliation" roughly two years after related misdemeanor
charges over the alleged misconduct were dropped.

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NY High Court Denies Trump's Gag Order Appeal

NY High Court Denies Trump's Gag Order Appeal


By Frank G. Runyeon

New York state's highest court on Tuesday denied Donald Trump's rapid
appeal of the gag order that limited his speech during his criminal hush
money trial, finding it did not raise serious constitutional issues.

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NYC Bar Unimpressed With Choices For Brooklyn Judge Race

NYC Bar Unimpressed With Choices For Brooklyn Judge Race


By Kevin Penton

The New York City Bar Association recently completed its evaluations of
Democratic judicial candidates for various contested primary races for the
city's Civil Court and Surrogate's Court, including one race where neither
candidate passed muster.

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492 Highlights to UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 22-CV-14102-MIDDLEBROOKS DONALD J. TRUMP, Plaintiff, v. HILLARY R. CLINTON, et al., Defendants. ___________________

INTRODUCTION

March 24, 2022

158 Highlights:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zggK7lgptlZ6Qn11EndzbDloqqVxRifv/view?usp=drivesdk

1. In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her
cohorts
orchestrated an unthinkable plot – one that shocks the conscience and is an
affront to this nation’s democracy. Acting in concert, the Defendants
maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican
opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign
sovereignty.
The actions taken in furtherance of their scheme—falsifying evidence,
deceiving law enforcement, and exploiting access to highly-sensitive data
sources - are so outrageous, subversive and incendiary that even the events
of Watergate pale in comparison.

2. Under the guise of ‘opposition research,’ ‘data analytics,’ and other
political
stratagems, the Defendants nefariously sought to sway the public’s trust.
They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald
J. Trump. Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple
Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would
be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media
frenzy.

3. The scheme was conceived, coordinated and carried out by top-level
officials at the
Clinton Campaign and the DNC—including ‘the candidate’ herself—who
attempted to shield her involvement behind a wall of third parties.1 To
start, the Clinton Campaign and the DNC enlisted the assistance of their
shared counsel, Perkins Coie, a law firm with deep Democrat ties, in the
hopes of obscuring their actions under the veil of attorney-client
privilege. Perkins Coie was tasked with spearheading the scheme to find—or
fabricate—proof of a sinister link between Donald J. Trump and Russia.

To do so, Perkins Coie launched parallel operations: on one front, Perkins
Coie partner Marc Elias led an effort to produce spurious ‘opposition
research’ claiming
to reveal illicit ties between the Trump Campaign and Russian operatives;
on a separate front, Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann headed a
campaign to develop misleading evidence of a bogus ‘back channel’
connection between e-mail servers at Trump Tower and a Russian-owned
bank.

4. Marc Elias, in his mission to obtain derogatory anti-Trump ‘opposition
research,’ commissioned Fusion GPS, an investigative firm, and its
co-founders, Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson, and directed them to dredge
up evidence—actual or otherwise—of collusion between Trump and Russia.
Fritsch and Simpson, in turn, enlisted the assistance of Orbis Ltd. and its
owner, Christopher Steele, to produce a series of reports purporting to
contain proof of the
supposed collusion. Of course, the now fully debunked collection of
reports, known as the “Steele Dossier,” was riddled with misstatements,
misrepresentations and, most of all, flat out lies. In truth, the Steele
Dossier was largely based upon information provided to Steele by his
primary
sub-source, Igor Danchenko, who was subsequently indicted for falsifying
his claims. Even more damning, Danchenko had close ties to senior Clinton
Campaign official, Charles Halliday Dolan, Jr., who knowingly provided
false information to Danchenko, who relayed it to Steele, who
reported it in the Steele Dossier and eagerly fed the deceptions to both
the media and the FBI. This duplicitous arrangement existed for a singular
self-serving purpose – to discredit Donald J. Trump
and his campaign.

5. At the same time, Michael Sussmann, in his hunt for damaging intel
against the
Trump Campaign, turned to Neustar, Inc., an information technology company,
and one of its top executives, Rodney Joffe, a fervent anti-Trumper who had
recently been promised a high-ranking position with the Clinton
Administration, to exploit their access to non-public data in search of a
secret “back channel” connection between Trump Tower and Alfa Bank. When it
was discovered that no such channel existed, the Defendants resorted to
truly subversive measures – hacking servers at Trump Tower, Trump’s private
apartment, and, most alarmingly, the White House. This
ill-gotten data was then manipulated to create a misleading “inference” and
submitted to law enforcement in an effort to falsely implicate Donald J.
Trump and his campaign.2 All of these acts
were carried out in coordination with the Clinton Campaign and the DNC, at
the behest of certain Democratic “VIPs.”3

6. While their multi-pronged attack was underway, the Defendants seized on
the
opportunity to publicly malign Donald J. Trump by instigating a full-blown
media frenzy. Indeed, the Clinton Campaign and DNC—admittedly on a
“mission” to “raise the alarm” about their contrived Trump-Russia
link4—repeatedly fed disinformation to the media and shamelessly
promoted their false narratives. All the while, Hillary Clinton, Jake
Sullivan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and others did their best to
proliferate the spread of those dubious and false claims

Fwd: Funding partnership with CLientEarth

...

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From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Wed, May 29, 2024, 6:42 AM
Subject: Fwd: Funding partnership with CLientEarth
To: 

Back in May 2022, xNY.io - Bank.org reached out to ClientEarth.org.

Now in May 2024, between UN.org, WorldBank.org and ClientEarth.org, today
it is evident that xNY.io - Bank.org is light-years ahead of our peers.

We will engage our position in global makets for good for all nations and
peoples.

Gunnar

-- Forwarded message -
From: Support Us 
Date: Tue, May 3, 2022, 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: Funding partnership with CLientEarth
To: Gunnar Larson 

Dear Gunnar.

Thank you for wanting to reach and connect with ClientEarth.

Unfortunately the team you would need to connect with do not currently have
capacity at this time.

They will keep your details on file for future and can hopefully connect at
a later date.

Best wishes.

*Kriss Atkin*

Development Administration Assistant

[image: ClientEarth_lockup_black]

t. +44(0)303 050 5991

ClientEarth, The Joinery, 34 Drayton Park, London, N5 1PB

[image: cid:image004.png@01D65A06.292F2EF0]

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*From:* Gunnar Larson [mailto:g...@xny.io]
*Sent:* 28 April 2022 13:29
*To:* Support Us 
*Subject:* Re: Funding partnership with CLientEarth

Dear Kriss:

Thank you for reaching out.

Bank.org is working on a project similar to your Shell board dispute. We
wanted to reach out and introduce ourselves.

Would there be a good time to connect?

Thank you,

Gunnar

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*Gunnar Larson - xNY.io  | Bank.org *

MSc

-
Digital Currency

MBA

- Entrepreneurship
and Innovation (ip)

g...@xny.io

+1-646-454-9107

New York, New York 10001

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 5:35 AM Support Us 
wrote:

Dear Gunnar,

Thank you so much for getting in touch, we are so grateful that you would
like to know more about partnering with ClientEarth.

We really appreciate your request, if you can send us details of your
proposal we would love to review in line with our corporate partnership
policy. Once we have reviewed this opportunity we will contact you again
regarding your donation.

Please do feel free to let us know of your latest environmental policy or
if your company currently holds any environmental ISO certificates, as this
would greatly expedite our review process.

As you know, ClientEarth works to stop climate change and pollution,
protect and restore habitats, wildlife and natural resources, as well as
empowering people and promoting the rule of law.

If you would like to find out more about our work, you can find the latest
news on our website  or you can sign up to
our email newsletter
.

Please contact me if you have any further questions or queries and I will
be happy to help.

Best wishes.

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XNY.IO - BANK.ORG: 108 Highlights to The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Congressional Budget Justification - Fiscal Year 2025

XNY.IO - BANK.ORG: 108 Highlights to The U.S. International Development
Finance Corporation (DFC) Congressional Budget Justification - Fiscal Year
2025:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gNz-SmoUpZdG9XxXlJ2ZUk_npxYK5Nkb/view?usp=drivesdk



FY 2025 DFC Request

Executive Summary

Program Budget and Policy Objectives
The FY 2025 program budget request of $1,008 million will enable DFC to
grow its portfolio by addressing the significant unmet financing needs in
priority sectors and regions that align with U.S. development and foreign
policy objectives. DFC leverages its resources to unlock private sector
growth and contribute to bridging the $40+ trillion infrastructure need in
the developing world.

Congress created DFC through the BUILD Act in part to offer a better and
more sustainable alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). DFC
catalyzes investment from the private sector and empowers developing
countries, helping them leverage their own resources—including human
capital and commodities—to tackle poverty, accelerate sustainable economic
growth for underserved populations, and become stable U.S. trading
partners. Unlike the development
approach of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which often burdens
countries with
unsustainable sovereign debt and projects that are unsuitable for local
conditions, DFC’s efforts are directed toward supporting private entities,
mobilizing private capital, and building resilient
market economies. DFC emphasizes partnership with the private sector and
looks for opportunities to support small businesses and underserved
communities, with the goal of sustainable growth.
DFC’s financing is a cost-effective way to make significant development and
strategic impact around the world because DFC’s private investment model
allows each dollar of appropriations to go further. In FY 2023, the agency
leveraged $622.6 million in program funding to mobilize more
than $9.28 billion in support of 132 projects. In three short years since
DFC’s inception in FY 2020, the Corporation has achieved 92 percent growth
in annual commitments by dollar value and
65 percent growth in the number of projects committed.

To remain a competitive alternative to the PRC and other authoritarian
governments, DFC will continue to need robust funding in FY 2025 and beyond
to counter the aggressive posture that the PRC has taken in emerging
markets. The $1,008 million budget request will support a long-term
strategy that DFC has developed to focus on five key sectors that help
promote vibrant economies, healthy populations, and stable societies.

Administrative Expenses

DFC requests $245 million for administrative expenses. This level will
support necessary staffing and other support costs to advance U.S.
development and strategic foreign policy goals. DFC will
use the administrative budget to foster an effective and efficient
organization, maintain a fiscally responsible agency, and strengthen its
portfolio management capacity.

Among other priorities, DFC’s FY 2025 funding will support the expansion of
DFC’s overseas presence to continue sourcing quality and impactful projects
in local markets, increase underwriting capacity to grow DFC’s portfolio,
improve monitoring and evaluation of our developmental impact, and scale
mission support functions to meet staff growth and the demands of the
program.

DFC will use administrative resources to attract and retain the skilled and
professional workforce
needed to achieve its development and foreign policy objectives. DFC will
also direct administrative resources toward expanding stakeholder
engagement and improving business development. In addition, administrative
resources will enable the Corporation to strengthen
management and oversight structures, especially for complex and higher
value, higher impact transactions, ensuring DFC can manage risks and
monitor results in a manner that maximizes the
foreign policy and developmental value of its portfolio.

Fwd: Coral Conservation | Bloomberg Philanthropies

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From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 8:45 AM
Subject: Coral Conservation | Bloomberg Philanthropies
To: 

https://www.bloomberg.org/environment/protecting-the-oceans/bloomberg-ocean/coral-conservation/

Conserving Coral Reefs

The world’s ocean is facing dire threats — and coral reef ecosystems are on
the frontlines. Unrestrained tourism, declining water quality, and
overfishing continue to endanger coral ecosystems but climate change has
become their biggest threat. Even with drastic emission reductions, most of
the world’s corals could still vanish by mid-century. But there’s hope:
climate resilient corals have been found around the world. Reducing
emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, and managing local pressures on
resilient reefs, allows these reefs to thrive and replenish neighboring
reefs – ensuring the long-term survival of our world’s coral reefs.

Coral reef ecosystems around the globe are likely to disappear by 2050 if
the goals of the Paris Agreement are not met.

Even with drastic emission reductions to ensure we keep warming within
1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels, 70-90% of the world’s corals could still
vanish by mid-century, leaving only remnants of the reefs we see today.

About Bloomberg Ocean Initiative Coral Reef Conservation

In 2018, the 50 Reefs study, a key pillar of our coral reef conservation
program, identified a global portfolio of the world’s coral reefs that are
the most likely to survive climate change. Managing local pressures, like
water pollution and overfishing, on these reefs is critical to their
survival. The Bloomberg Ocean Initiative uses the science of the 50 Reefs
study to guide our approach to protecting coral reefs, working with
partners Rare, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and others to
advance on-the-ground conservation projects to protect these climate
resilient coral reefs.

UK Financial Watchdog Launches First Ever Climate Investigation - Bloomberg - Revelation follows ClientEarth freedom-of-information request

   - Revelation follows ClientEarth freedom-of-information request


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-20/uk-financial-watchdog-launches-first-ever-climate-investigation


Britain’s financial watchdog has launched its first ever investigation of a
company on climate-related grounds.

The Financial Conduct Authority, which didn’t identify the company by name,
made its probe known in response to a freedom of information request filed
by ClientEarth, a nonprofit that successfully sued the UK government over
its climate stance in 2022. The FCA said the case was opened in July last
year.

Fwd: Inquiry

Thank you, Roberta!


-- Forwarded message -
From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Inquiry
To: Roberta Kaplan 
Cc: Stephanie Lake 


Okay. Thank you for letting me know.

Gunnar

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 8:40 AM Roberta Kaplan 
wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I don't think we can help you on this.
> --
> *From:* Gunnar Larson 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 23, 2024 8:28:27 AM
> *To:* Roberta Kaplan 
> *Subject:* Re: Inquiry
>
> You don't often get email from g...@xny.io. Learn why this is important
> 
> This email was sent from outside the Firm.
>
> Roberta:
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I wrote this LitigationFinanceJournal.com article back in 2022, now I am
> on the other side of it all.
>
> It is my understanding that the FBI is harassing my business, saying I am
> trying to use Donald Trump arguments against the Attorney General's office.
>
> That is simply not true. I am need to organize a personal attorney to
> protect myself from these attacks. I thought it could be beneficial if we
> worked together.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gunnar
> ---
>
>
> https://litigationfinancejournal.com/rnc-funding-of-trumps-legal-campaign-undermines-gop-state-ags-attack-on-litigation-funding/
>
>
> Litigation Finance Journal recently reported on a group of 14 state
> attorneys general that have called for action from the Department of
> Justice to review potential threats to U.S. national security from foreign
> adversaries’ engagement of litigation investment. Litigation funders and
> industry advocates have new ammo in response to the AGs’ claims, given
> recent news of the RNC funding former President Donald Trump’s various
> legal entanglements.
>
>
> According to ABC News, RNC leaders earmarked $1.6M in legal funding to
> support President Donald Trump’s defense over lawsuits brought by New York
> Attorney General Letitia James. Meanwhile, the United States Chamber of
> Commerce Institute for Legal Reform’s research has prompted 14 state
> attorneys general to ask for the Justice Department to assess national
> security risks of adversaries ‘undermining’ the United States by engaging
> litigation funding and third party investment vehicles.
>
> The group of 14 state attorneys general are concerned about foreign
> adversaries ‘weaponizing’ United States legal frameworks via litigation
> investment, to attack critical national industry and infrastructure, such
> as energy sectors. The group of 14 seeks the Department of Justice to
> detail how a network of federal agencies could engage a blueprint for
> defending United States independence from international litigation
> investors, hostile groups, agencies or governments such as Russia and China.
>
> This latest attack on the industry, prompted by the U.S. Chamber of
> Commerce, is simply another attempt to undermine the nascent and growing
> litigation funding sector. It is ironic, given that in the case of Consumer
> Legal Funding–which the Chamber specifically targets–the funding in
> question does not go to support legal fees, but rather to finance
> claimants’ livelihoods while they remain injured and unable to work.
>
> While the RNC’s funding of Trump’s legal battles does not constitute
> foreign investment, it illustrates the acceptance of third party legal
> funding across political lines, and should be noted by industry advocates
> looking to respond to the negative publicity put forth by the U.S. Chamber.
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 7:02 AM Roberta Kaplan 
> wrote:
>
> Happy to talk. What is the matter?
> --
> *From:* Gunnar Larson 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 23, 2024 3:55:11 AM
> *To:* Roberta Kaplan 
> *Subject:* Inquiry
>
> You don't often get email from g...@xny.io. Learn why this is important
> 
> This email was sent from outside the Firm.
>
> Ms. Kaplan:
>
> My name is Gunnar Larson and I am a co-founder at xNY.io - Bank.org.
>
> I was wondering if I could schedule a time to talk with your office
> concerning potentially working together on a developing matter.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gunnar
> --
> Gunnar Larson
>
> xNY.io | Bank.org
>
> MSc - Digital Currency
> MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
>
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>
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Plane Not 'Lost' In $15M Stranded Jet Row, Chubb Says

Plane Not 'Lost' In $15M Stranded Jet Row, Chubb Says


By Joel Poultney

Chubb European Group SE has said it is not liable for $14.7 million claimed
by the Irish wing of a U.S. aircraft leasing company to cover the claimed
loss of a plane stranded in Russia because the insurer says it is not
actually lost.

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Stripe Seeks To Revoke ATM Network's TMs

Stripe Seeks To Revoke ATM Network's TMs


By Sam Tabahriti

Stripe has urged a court to revoke trademarks owned by the main ATM network
in the U.K., which accused the online payment processor of infringement and
hijacking its reputation by using the "Link" name for a payment service.

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Coinbase Loses Bid For EU Trademark Resembling Letter 'C'

Coinbase Loses Bid For EU Trademark Resembling Letter 'C'


By Alex Baldwin

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase failed to persuade a European
court to upend an intellectual property office ruling that rejected its
figurative trademark for a shape resembling the letter "C" as the court
backed the ruling that the application lacked distinctive character.

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Mastercard Cuts Time-Barred Claims From £10B Class Action

2024-06-19 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

Mastercard Cuts Time-Barred Claims From £10B Class Action


By Sophia Dourou

A London tribunal has wiped out a swathe of claims from a £10 billion
($12.7 billion) class action against Mastercard for being time-barred,
dismissing allegations on Wednesday that the credit card giant had hidden
information about its interchange fees from consumers.

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Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

> we 3d printed a gear bearing !!!
>
>>
>>> it was print in place and spun smoothly !
>>>
>>> wanted to try to design it by self. this was really triggering T_T to
>>> try, almost no progress.
>>>
>>> hard month. lots of mc nebular storms and galactic collisions maybe :s
>>>
>>> it turns its hard to learn how to design an involute gear profile with a
>>> 52 degree angle of force (most tools only go up to 30 degrees) when you
>>> have been traumatically avoiding using the learning parts of your mind for
>>> 13 years.
>>>
>>> but maybe it would be nice to take a stab at it more :D
>>>
>>
>> maybe first i’ll just try to make involute curves
>>
>> i’d like to maybe figure a formula for a curve, and then see it, but
>> using plotting code seems to activate an amnesia program now. maybe i could
>> put a parametric series of equations into wolfram alpha or something to
>> plot?
>>
>> it said an involute curve is like unwinding a spool of thread …
>>
>>> 5/24 something getting active now :/ unsure where that leaves workable
> areas
>
> we’re mostly nonfunctional today, looking for any activity. gear bearings
> were exciting, pretty hard to find exciting things
>

so if unwinding thread, basically the length of your line is equal to the
arc length it was unwound from.

we could describe that as a function of the angle of unwinding. for each
point on the circumference, there’d be an associated line length.

i’m thinking another trick might be that when pulling on the thread
anything nearer to the spool than the tangent point will pull away, so this
length would extend in the direction of the tangent. maybe not the most
intuitive explanation but describes conceptual dots.

ok so: tangent and arclength as function of angle maybe?

arclength not hard. C=pi*r*2 i think, so arclength = radians * radius i
think

then the tangent is the perpendicular to the normal, that is, the vertical
component is the cosine and the horizontal the sine, with one of them
negative and the other not.

ok. so we’d move from the point on the circumference, in the direction of
the tangent, by the arclength, for each angle of the curve. noting that
there’s only 1 curve shape for a given radius?
- (point on circumference) + (vector of tangent) * arclength
function of angle

>

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2024-06-19 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

we 3d printed a gear bearing !!!

>
>> it was print in place and spun smoothly !
>>
>> wanted to try to design it by self. this was really triggering T_T to
>> try, almost no progress.
>>
>> hard month. lots of mc nebular storms and galactic collisions maybe :s
>>
>> it turns its hard to learn how to design an involute gear profile with a
>> 52 degree angle of force (most tools only go up to 30 degrees) when you
>> have been traumatically avoiding using the learning parts of your mind for
>> 13 years.
>>
>> but maybe it would be nice to take a stab at it more :D
>>
>
> maybe first i’ll just try to make involute curves
>
> i’d like to maybe figure a formula for a curve, and then see it, but using
> plotting code seems to activate an amnesia program now. maybe i could put a
> parametric series of equations into wolfram alpha or something to plot?
>
> it said an involute curve is like unwinding a spool of thread …
>
>> 5/24 something getting active now :/ unsure where that leaves workable
areas

we’re mostly nonfunctional today, looking for any activity. gear bearings
were exciting, pretty hard to find exciting things

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2024-06-19 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

> we 3d printed a gear bearing !!!
>
> it was print in place and spun smoothly !
>
> wanted to try to design it by self. this was really triggering T_T to try,
> almost no progress.
>
> hard month. lots of mc nebular storms and galactic collisions maybe :s
>
> it turns its hard to learn how to design an involute gear profile with a
> 52 degree angle of force (most tools only go up to 30 degrees) when you
> have been traumatically avoiding using the learning parts of your mind for
> 13 years.
>
> but maybe it would be nice to take a stab at it more :D
>

maybe first i’ll just try to make involute curves

i’d like to maybe figure a formula for a curve, and then see it, but using
plotting code seems to activate an amnesia program now. maybe i could put a
parametric series of equations into wolfram alpha or something to plot?

it said an involute curve is like unwinding a spool of thread …

>

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2024-06-19 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

we 3d printed a gear bearing !!!

it was print in place and spun smoothly !

wanted to try to design it by self. this was really triggering T_T to try,
almost no progress.

hard month. lots of mc nebular storms and galactic collisions maybe :s

it turns its hard to learn how to design an involute gear profile with a 52
degree angle of force (most tools only go up to 30 degrees) when you have
been traumatically avoiding using the learning parts of your mind for 13
years.

but maybe it would be nice to take a stab at it more :D

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2024-06-19 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

> The timelines had ruptured and the various workizens of traffick boss corp
> and its universes were scattered across each others’ realities, confused.
>
> Luckily, this newly difficult scenario was incredibly comparable to every
> other scenario they had been in: mind-boggling, incomprehensible,
> impossible, without any normal needed tools to work with, intricately
> intertwined in ways nobody understood or expected, and pointedly producing
> far too much suffering for anybody to survive.
>
> It was just another day at the office.
> 1/24
>

(

>

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2024-06-19 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

The timelines had ruptured and the various workizens of traffick boss corp
and its universes were scattered across each others’ realities, confused.

Luckily, this newly difficult scenario was incredibly comparable to every
other scenario they had been in: mind-boggling, incomprehensible,
impossible, without any normal needed tools to work with, intricately
intertwined in ways nobody understood or expected, and pointedly producing
far too much suffering for anybody to survive.

It was just another day at the office.
1/24

Fwd: Litigating Universal Cognitive Liberty January 17, 2022 Commercial, Premium

Check out my recent article:
https://litigationfinancejournal.com/litigating-universal-cognitive-liberty/

Litigating Universal Cognitive Liberty

Freedom of thought is recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR). Interestingly,, cognitive liberty is not recognized as an
international human right. Some want to change that, making the argument
that humanity has the right to be free to think whatever they want (freedom
of thought).

The Ottawa Citizen reports

that
the Canadian armed forces have launched ‘psychological operations’ as an
experiment in government propaganda to counter civil disobedience.
International human rights scholars are quick to point out that the lack of
protection of cognitive liberty in such instances is due to the relative
lack of technology capable of directly interfering with mental autonomy at
the time the core human rights treaties were created.

Similar to a ransomware attack, the technology behind such operations can
be abused. Canada is said to have exploited advanced technologies without
the authority to do so. Even worse, it is alleged that Canada forcefully
abused technology in the unsanctioned production of reports that appeared
to be aimed at cognitive activities of Canadians.

   - Other reports highlight similar technologies being explored by the New
   York City Police Department.
   - In 2021
   
,
   members of the National Lawyers Guild won $650,000 in litigation financed
   fees from abuse of the technology in New York.

The semantics empowering freedom of thought as a human right hold new
opportunities for modern international recognition of the right to
cognitive liberty.


Gunnar

XNY.IO - BANK.ORG: 108 Highlights to The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Congressional Budget Justification - Fiscal Year 2025

XNY.IO - BANK.ORG: 108 Highlights to The U.S. International Development
Finance Corporation (DFC) Congressional Budget Justification - Fiscal Year
2025:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gNz-SmoUpZdG9XxXlJ2ZUk_npxYK5Nkb/view?usp=drivesdk



FY 2025 DFC Request

Executive Summary

Program Budget and Policy Objectives
The FY 2025 program budget request of $1,008 million will enable DFC to
grow its portfolio by addressing the significant unmet financing needs in
priority sectors and regions that align with U.S. development and foreign
policy objectives. DFC leverages its resources to unlock private sector
growth and contribute to bridging the $40+ trillion infrastructure need in
the developing world.

Congress created DFC through the BUILD Act in part to offer a better and
more sustainable alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). DFC
catalyzes investment from the private sector and empowers developing
countries, helping them leverage their own resources—including human
capital and commodities—to tackle poverty, accelerate sustainable economic
growth for underserved populations, and become stable U.S. trading
partners. Unlike the development
approach of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which often burdens
countries with
unsustainable sovereign debt and projects that are unsuitable for local
conditions, DFC’s efforts are directed toward supporting private entities,
mobilizing private capital, and building resilient
market economies. DFC emphasizes partnership with the private sector and
looks for opportunities to support small businesses and underserved
communities, with the goal of sustainable growth.
DFC’s financing is a cost-effective way to make significant development and
strategic impact around the world because DFC’s private investment model
allows each dollar of appropriations to go further. In FY 2023, the agency
leveraged $622.6 million in program funding to mobilize more
than $9.28 billion in support of 132 projects. In three short years since
DFC’s inception in FY 2020, the Corporation has achieved 92 percent growth
in annual commitments by dollar value and
65 percent growth in the number of projects committed.

To remain a competitive alternative to the PRC and other authoritarian
governments, DFC will continue to need robust funding in FY 2025 and beyond
to counter the aggressive posture that the PRC has taken in emerging
markets. The $1,008 million budget request will support a long-term
strategy that DFC has developed to focus on five key sectors that help
promote vibrant economies, healthy populations, and stable societies.

Administrative Expenses

DFC requests $245 million for administrative expenses. This level will
support necessary staffing and other support costs to advance U.S.
development and strategic foreign policy goals. DFC will
use the administrative budget to foster an effective and efficient
organization, maintain a fiscally responsible agency, and strengthen its
portfolio management capacity.

Among other priorities, DFC’s FY 2025 funding will support the expansion of
DFC’s overseas presence to continue sourcing quality and impactful projects
in local markets, increase underwriting capacity to grow DFC’s portfolio,
improve monitoring and evaluation of our developmental impact, and scale
mission support functions to meet staff growth and the demands of the
program.

DFC will use administrative resources to attract and retain the skilled and
professional workforce
needed to achieve its development and foreign policy objectives. DFC will
also direct administrative resources toward expanding stakeholder
engagement and improving business development. In addition, administrative
resources will enable the Corporation to strengthen
management and oversight structures, especially for complex and higher
value, higher impact transactions, ensuring DFC can manage risks and
monitor results in a manner that maximizes the
foreign policy and developmental value of its portfolio.

Directorates Who Discredit Truthful Witnesses (W/80 Highlights)

“And the persons who ultimately are harmed by all of this, of course, is
the average consumer, the average citizen, who has no knowledge, unless it
paid attention to this hearing, of the extent of the manipulations that
have been carried out by the largest financial institutions in America and,
indeed, probably the world.” - Senator John McCain

*Highlights and working notes on the ethical limits of discrediting the
truthful witness, observing modern directorates and ethics rules that fail
to prevent truth distortion by unethical means (Source research by
Marquette Law Review).*

History provides the epic example of Enron and a cunning Board of Directors
of misleaders, a team of flimflam artists who used sly rhetorical skills to
bamboozle the public, turning night into day. In this conception,
directorates tell stories only in order to seduce and beguile regulators
who fall prey to the advocate’s star-crossed tricks.

Why do company Directors employ unethical, false story techniques to
advance a false defense when ethical means are available? The exponential
effects of this troublesome behavior requires that the firm’s every word,
action and attitude be consistent with the conclusion that is dishonest.
Board directors are the ultimate self policing body of an organization,
responsible for setting the tone for ethical rules and standards.
Not only are modern ethical rules unable to prevent directorates who use of
false-story techniques, but little can be done in the way of reforming the
rules themselves so that they can more effectively regulate the unethical
means by which honesty is systematically discredited and made to look
untruthful.

   -

   As witnessed in New York State recently, top leaders sometimes ignore
   ethical rules by rationalizing away conduct known to be unethical standards
   of professional behavior.
   -

   More abstract-oriented discussions concerning whether society’s best
   interests are advanced with attempts to distort outcomes by discrediting
   the truth has even impacted virtual currency innovation out of New York.
   These points simply seem invented as an outrageous scenario presented to
   the public by way of question, yet they are indeed true.
   -

   There is a pattern of routinely using an arsenal of tricks to subvert
   the truth. The culprit may argue that the version of events is untruthful,
   because of a motive to fabricate the truth. In actuality, incompetence is
   the only true motive to fabricate directorate supported dishonesty.

Now more than ever, honest and ethical leaders know that each time a
directorate uses talents and skills to pollute the marketplace with lies
(either explicit or implicit) to manipulate profits is an act that
initially diminishes the chances of a prosperous society.
Such practice of engaging in conduct that involves dishonesty, fraud,
deceit or misrepresentation is impermissible and should not be tolerated.
Without swift action, the public may lose confidence in both system wide
innovation and maximizing the whole human potential of our species.

   -

   Alternatively, employing truthful answers to string together a series of
   inferences that collectively weaken the case of interlocking directorates.
   -

   Vigorously defending potentially problematic interlocking directorates
   can be systematically re-purposed with the goal of protecting the innocent.

We share 80 highlights to Todd A. Berger’s (published by Marquette Law
Review) “The Ethical Limits of Discrediting the Truthful Witness: How
Modern Ethics Rules Fail to Prevent Truthful Witnesses from Being
Discredited Through Unethical Means.”




Directorates Who Discredit Truthful Witnesses (W/80 Highlights):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XzfRqxxDD5OzQgkH1Ok2wdO25JZiqVev/view?usp=drivesdk

-- 
*Gunnar Larson - xNY.io  | Bank.org *
MSc

- Digital Currency
MBA

- Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)

g...@xny.io
+1-917-580-8053
New York, New York 10001

xNY.io CRYPTOBANK White Paper

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aeK8X8-2KDZ8tQPN5ksaUCXcxH9tbjexsUbW1olfeW4/edit?usp=drivesdk

xNY.io
CRYPTOBANK

Table of Contents

Introduction 2
Focus, Goals and Objective(s) 3
Strategic Intent 4
Innovation Strategy 5
Pioneering Human Resources (HR) Management in Banking 6
The Bitcoin Blockchain, Human/Civil Rights and Computer Crimes 7
Goldman Sachs’ Organization HR Management Analysis (MoneyGram and Ripple) 8
www.JUMO.World and Banking Africa 9
Earth_ID: Because Owning Your Identity is a Human Right 10
CryptoBank Environmental Analysis 11
The NEXO.io Conundrum 12
The Fireblocks Conundrum 13
Computer Software and the Blockchain Platform 14
Virtual Currency: Computer Software Protocols and Processes 15
Bank.org: Revolutionary Approaches to Agile Innovation 16
Conclusion 17
Bibliography 19

Introduction
Crypto and Blockchain are each a Human Right.
For all, everywhere.
How does New York based bank fraud happen from the inside? People who
commit crimes comprise departments and divisions of corporate
organizations, and some current Human Resources (HR) management cultures
lend well to the committing of crimes.
What organizational HR management design structures are at play to
architectect such fraud for bespoke juristical instances?
Is there a unique opportunity for a fresh and clean New York-based
international bank such as Bank.org?
xNY.io argues that modern and innovative Executive Suites pioneer
organizational HR management with the CEO and CFO leading the pack as the
most ethical example for members in their organization. This key
distinction calls for leaders to always adhere to a very strict, yet
progressive, standard of ethics, even when it’s inconvenient.
World renowned executive Jack McCullough suggests strict adherence is
necessary, especially when it’s inconvenient. McCullough says that if
you’re seen as a CEO and CFO “who will compromise when convenient, this
approach will cause colleagues to consider all the talk about ethics to be
lip service” (McCullough 2019).
The leadership at xNY.io is clear-eyed, recognizing the importance of an
extensive review program which seeks to explore all aspects of the
following criteria as part of Legal, Compliance, and Governance (Bloomberg
2021), which is our internal due diligence framework based on first class
industry standards and best practices (xNY.io | Bank.org n.d.).
In summary, this HR management innovation essay outlines and explores three
key concerns for modern Bank and CryptoBank organizations. These concerns
are signaled by our regulators who rightly suggest that it is critically
important that the organizers identify, at the beginning of the process, an
available management team and board of directors (NY-DFS 2008):
The theory of modern virtual currency cross-border regulation logic (Larson
2020a).
How to protect xNY.io’s strategic partnership with Bank.org and its mandate
to pioneer innovation(s) and noble advancement of modern international
banking?
Whereas, it is essential to safeguard virtual currency and its potential to
galvanize international, economic and social advancement of all peoples
(United Nations 1948).
Most importantly, what organizational HR management structures are
necessary to execute the proposed xNY.io and hybrid model framework, while
engaging agile innovation to explore the potential of growing Bank.org into
the World’s Best Bank and headquartered in New York (NY-DFS 2019)?

Focus, Goals and Objective(s)
Why would a New York bank build organizational HR strategies with the sole
purpose of taking advantage of the most vulnerable for exorbitant profit?
xNY.io’s focus is to fill a need in clarifying New York’s virtual currency
standards to achieve progressive innovation while constantly promoting
respect for human rights and personal freedoms by progressive measures,
national and international, to secure their universal and effective
recognition and observance across all global territories of business,
protecting all peoples and all nations (United Nations 1948).
Our simple strategy rests in the fact that virtual currency has
cross-border utilities (European Commission 2021). Our real world
experience has uncovered the strategy of a New York bank's misemployed
Manhattan Island as a walled garden for bad HR management camps while
wrongfully profiting off of the back of the most vulnerable across global
markets (Law 360 2021). Our goal is to profit off the pivot from the
textbook definition of marketplace manipulation, discussed herein related
to the feasibility of automating stock market manipulation (Association for
Computing Machinery 2020).
The Supreme Court placed emphasis on the central role of deception to the
concept of fraud.“ (T)he words ‘to defraud’ . . . primarily mean to cheat,
. . . usually signify the deprivation of something of value by trick,
deceit, chicane, or overreaching, and . . . do not extend to theft by
violence, or to robbery or burglary.” (Hammerschmidt v.

Chase Bank Customers Are Reporting a Wave of Wire Fraud in their Accounts; the Bank Won’t Make Good on the Looted Funds

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/06/chase-bank-customers-are-reporting-a-wave-of-wire-fraud-in-their-accounts-the-bank-wont-make-good-on-the-looted-funds/

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 19 2024 ~

On January 29, Anne Marie Murphy and two of her colleagues at law firm
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP in Santa Monica, California filed a lawsuit
in Superior Court on behalf of a 76-year old widow, Diane Artemis Yaffe.

Scammers had tricked Ms. Yaffe into making seven wire transfers out of her
Chase Bank account, which tallied up to the astonishing sum of $1.8
million, or the bulk of her funds at the time.

There are three things which jump out of the factual details in the case
that would appear to be legally problematic for Chase Bank – the
federally-insured, retail banking unit of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. First,
the six figure wires were completely out-of-character for this elderly
client. Second, the huge sums were being wired out of the country. Third,
the funds that Chase Bank wired were originally at Bank of America and were
only transferred to Chase Bank because Bank of America had the good sense
to refuse to make the wire transfers for this elderly widow.

But rather than accept responsibility and make the widow whole, JPMorgan
Chase has hired the international corporate law firm, Steptoe, to represent
it in the court case. The bank has also forced the removal of the case out
of state court to federal court (a move which is being very competently
challenged by Ms. Yaffe’s attorneys), and appears ready to engage in
copious motions to drag out the case.

Knowing this bank’s history of felony counts and an unprecedented rap
sheet, it occurred to us that these fraudulent wire transfers might not be
an isolated event at Chase Bank. We went to the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) complaint database and put “Chase Bank wire
fraud” in the search box. It brought up 558 responses.

If you consider that possibly one out of 50 Americans know about the CFPB’s
complaint database and fewer still would take the time to file a complaint
as opposed to going to law enforcement, the 558 complaints involving wire
fraud appear to us to be deeply concerning. In addition, the dates of the
filing of the complaints show that dozens of the complaints have occurred
in the past six months in widely dispersed geographic areas including
California, New York, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Texas and Ohio, among
others.

On April 4 of this year, the CFPB received the following report from a
Chase Bank customer in New York: (Redacted information, indicated by Xs, is
how the complaint appears on the CFPB website.)

“On XX/XX/2024, a total of {$13.00} was wired out of my bank accounts
with Chase Bank in New York without my authorization. I never send wires
for more than a few dollars. I was not notified or warned by Chase.
Usually they send an email advising when a wire transfer is made. This did
not happen…To my immense horror, Chase had no interest in pursuing a
serious investigation….”

CFPB received this complaint from a Chase Bank customer in Colorado on
April 2:

“If you are a JPMorgan Chase customer be aware!! I was a victim of a
non-authorized wire transfer within my JP Morgan Chase banking account.
JPMC bank is refusing to help me get my {$9200.00} that was fraudulently
stolen from my account because they say there is nothing they can do, that
the $ was NOT stolen from them-JPM Chase but from me personally.”

On April 1, a California couple wrote in their CFPB complaint that they had
rushed to their local Chase Bank branch to stop a suspected fraudulent wire
transfer and a Chase Bank employee indicated that the hacker was cloning an
actual Chase Bank phone number to commit the wire fraud. The complaint
states the following:

“On XX/XX/24 multiple accounts at Chase Bank where simultaneously hit with
wire fraud. We have NEVER used wires before. These hackers were so
sophisticated that they were able to first do inter bank transfers from
both of my daughters savings accounts (which I am on ) into my and my
husbands savings accounts ( which I am on, but they are not ). And then
from my savings account, wired out three sums of money simultaneously to
three different US banks/credit unions… When we ask Chase how this
happened, we get a different story every time, and now we get no response
at all…[After going to the bank branch…] I put the call on speaker.
immediately recognized the phone number as the desk sitting next to her.
Caught on camera, you can see my husband and go to the EMPTY desk that
the spoof call was supposedly coming from. She was SHOCKED that the hackers
able to impersonate Chase….”

In multiple cases, the Chase Bank customers’ cell phones were involved,
suggesting that bank account information had been stored on the cell phone,
which was then hacked by the scammer. In one case, the individual had taken
her computer to be serviced and experienced a fraudulent wire

Universal BitLicense Declaration on Virtual Currency & Human Rights

Dear Madam Acting Superintendent:

Reflecting this week, Ripple once again

shares concerning comments and approaches to respecting their Bitlicense
award. Even more, many experts are concerned

about MIA Coin and resulting NYCCoin disasters.

Madam Acting Superintendent, on August 4, 2020 as part of our Conditional
BitLicense application we submitted a draft of the Universal BitLicense
Declaration on Virtual Currency & Human Rights.

   - Today this memo is to re-new our obvious approach to virtual currency
   innovation in New York. Together under your leadership, we should be
   leading the world in the principles of modern cross-border
   BitLicense logic.
   - Madam Acting Superintendent, this type of stuff matters. The
   Deceleration aims to level the playing field for all and impacts the future
   of women and girls with respect to financial inclusion.
   - At the very least, New York and your office should be embracing such
   thoughtful approaches to support future generations and protect virtual
   currency from market manipulation. Madam Acting Superintendent, we implore
   that if some version of the Declaration was enacted in 2020, the world
   would be a better place today.

Kindly find a copy of the Universal BitLicense Declaration on Virtual
Currency & Human Rights

below. We will be in contact with your office this coming week to engage in
dialogue on the Declaration's feasibility forward.

Very respectfully yours,

Gunnar Larson


*WE THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK DETERMINED*

   - to pioneer noble advancement of BitLicence theory and regulation,
   whereas it is essential to safeguard virtual currency and its potential to
   galvanize international, economic and social advancement of all peoples, and
   - to ensure clarity, principally New York’s BitLicence being the
   preeminent institution with mandate of ensuring that virtual currency
   manipulation (of any sort) shall not burden the common global interest of
   humanity, and that human rights are protected in the jurisdiction of New
   York for all peoples

*AND FOR THESE ENDS*

   - to save succeeding generations from financial fraud and corruption,
   which in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to humanity, and
   - to reaffirm New York’s faith in fundamental human rights, in the
   dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women
   and of nations large and small, and
   - to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the
   obligations arising from BitLicence regulation and other sources of
   financial services law can be maintained, and
   - to promote larger social progress by leading global standards, given
   that New York remains the center of technological innovation and
   forward-looking virtual currency regulation

*HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS*

*Now, therefore this UNIVERSAL BITLICENSE DECLARATION ON VIRTUAL CURRENCY &
HUMAN RIGHTS as the common crypto standard of achievement for all peoples
and all nations, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive
to promote respect for human rights and personal freedoms by progressive
measures, national and international, to secure their universal and
effective recognition and observance of New York-based companies
accountable to a **universal **BitLicense **standard of virtual currency
regulation across all global territories of business, protecting all
peoples and all nations.*
*Article One*

   -

   Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in failed
   financial frameworks that have outraged the conscience of mankind, and
   -

   Whereas the foundational vision of BitLicense theory imagines a world in
   which human beings shall enjoy safe, reliable and regulated virtual
   currency tools and financial products, now proclaimed as the highest
   aspiration of the common people,

*Article Two*

   -

   Whereas ethical stewardship of virtual currency is inherent to the
   BitLicence mandate, the invention of blockchain, and virtual currency aimed
   to secure the equal and inalienable rights of all as foundation to
   financial freedom and economic prosperity, especially in the developing
   economies, and
   -

   BitLicense members pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with
   the state of New York, the promotion of universal respect for and
   observance of international human rights fundamental to the integrity of
   the BitLicense’s virtual currency regulation.
   -

   Whereas New York reaffirms faith in the BitLicense’s foundational themes
   and the general concept of human right protection. The dignity and worth of
   the human

Sullivan & Cromwell, FTX Lead Counsel in Bankruptcy, Says It Has No Adverse Relationships, Despite Representing Four of FTX’s Crypto Exchange Competitors

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/01/sullivan-cromwell-ftx-lead-counsel-in-bankruptcy-says-it-has-no-adverse-relationships-despite-representing-four-of-ftxs-crypto-exchange-competitors/


By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 10, 2023 ~

Andrew (Andy) Dietderich, Law Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell
Andrew (Andy) Dietderich, Law Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell

Sullivan & Cromwell ranks among the oldest law firms in America. It was
founded 144 years ago by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson
Cromwell in Manhattan’s financial district. During the financial bust in
the 1930s, Sullivan & Cromwell garnered its reputation for defending Wall
Street firms against shareholder lawsuits and antitrust actions. As Wall
Street On Parade previously detailed, the firm’s Senior Chairman, Rodge
Cohen, paved the way for the Fed’s unprecedented $29 trillion bailout of
Wall Street banks after their corrupt activities collapsed the U.S. economy
in 2008.

And, of course, there was S partner Jay Clayton, who was tapped by
President Donald Trump to Chair the SEC – and, in our opinion, left markets
mired in the worst corruption since 1929.

Against that backdrop, one would think that S would be attempting to stay
off the radar screen of federal regulators and prosecutors. Instead, it has
steamrolled its way into Lead Law Firm for bankruptcy proceedings of one of
the largest financial frauds in U.S. history according to federal
prosecutors – the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange, FTX.
According to the new CEO of FTX, John Ray, $8 billion of customers’ money
is missing.

On December 21, FTX and its related bankrupt companies, filed a request
with the Bankruptcy Court in Delaware to name Sullivan & Cromwell as the
lead law firm for the bankruptcy proceedings. Included in that request was
a Declaration from S law partner, Andrew (Andy) Dietderich. In that
declaration, Dietderich stated that “S does not represent any person or
entity having an interest adverse to the Debtors.” But in that same
document, Sullivan & Cromwell provides a list of its current clients who
have a relationship to FTX, as well as a list of former clients who had a
relationship to FTX.

Stunningly, included on the list of Sullivan & Cromwell’s current clients
are four crypto exchanges that are major competitors to FTX. Those
competitors are BlockFi, Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken. Clearly, a major
competitor would logically seem to have a built-in motive to see its
competitor fail rather than be resuscitated in bankruptcy proceedings.

Adding to the unseemliness of the situation, on December 7, Bloomberg News
reported that the incoming CEO of Kraken, Dave Ripley, called FTX
mastermind, Sam Bankman-Fried, a “fraudster,” while adding that “We have
information to know that fraud was committed there.”

Two days later, on December 9, the New York Post reported that Coinbase
CEO, Brian Armstrong, was blasting the media for being too soft on Sam
Bankman-Fried, stating that “I mean, this guy just committed a $10 billion
fraud, and why is he getting treated with kid gloves?” (Bankman-Fried has
pleaded not guilty to an 8-count criminal indictment brought by the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. His trial is
scheduled for October.)

In addition to representing two crypto exchange competitors whose CEOs are
using the media to bash the former CEO of FTX, Sullivan & Cromwell’s crypto
client, BlockFi, has filed a lawsuit arguing that approximately $440
million of shares in stock-trading platform, Robinhood, belong to it as
collateral for loans it made to FTX. At the same time, the bankruptcy team
for FTX is arguing that the Robinhood shares belong to a related FTX
company, Alameda Research, which is also in bankruptcy, and it needs to
hold onto the stock while investigating other disputed claims to the
shares. (One of those disputed claims has emerged as coming from Sam
Bankman-Fried, who says he needs the Robinhood stock to pay his legal
defense team.)

Adding to the Sullivan & Cromwell rabbit hole of conflicts, Sam
Bankman-Fried was previously its client according to its recently filed
document with the Delaware Bankruptcy Court. Robinhood itself is listed as
a current client to Sullivan & Cromwell.

Adding to Sullivan & Cromwell’s tenuous claims to the bankruptcy court that
it “is not aware of any conflict between its representation of the Debtors
and its representations of its Current Clients or Former Clients that would
cause S not to be a ‘disinterested person,’” are the large legal fees it
had been collecting from FTX during a period when federal prosecutors say
FTX was looting its customer accounts and Sam Bankman-Fried was using the
money as his personal piggy bank.

According to the S document filed with the bankruptcy court, prior to it
filing the FTX bankruptcy petition, Sullivan & Cromwell collected a
“retainer in the amount of $12 million” from the parent of FTX.US. Sullivan
& Cromwell further notes in its filing

Fwd: Your Bloomberg Visit: We look forward to welcoming you - Regulatory Compliance - Key Trends and Evolving Technology

No response from Bloomberg.

Reed Hoffman is on the run!

Gunnar

-- Forwarded message -
From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Sat, May 25, 2024, 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: Your Bloomberg Visit: We look forward to welcoming you -
Regulatory Compliance - Key Trends and Evolving Technology
To: Bloomberg Visit , 
Cc: 


Ms. Brody:

Thank you for inviting me to Bloomberg's Regulatory Compliance - Key Trends
and Evolving Technology event.

However, Ms. Brody, today when xNY.io - Bank.org was watching Wall Street
Week there was a problem.

Word is the problem could have been a DDoS type target.

Can Bloomberg's software team revert back with an app crash report(s) to
confirm or debunk if this was a DDoS concern xNY.io - Bank.org should
report given NY-DFS Cybersecurity guidelines?

Ms. Brody, has Bloomberg communicated with the FBI from xNY.io -
Bank.org's May 11, 2024 note to your office?

Sending you and Bloomberg the very best regards.

Thank you,

Gunnar
--

Gunnar Larson

xNY.io | Bank.org

MSc - Digital Currency

MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)



g...@xny.io

+1-917-580-8053

New York, New York 10001



On Sat, May 18, 2024, 3:46 AM Gunnar Larson  wrote:

> Dear Ms. Brody:
>
> Thank you for inviting me to Bloomberg's Regulatory Compliance - Key
> Trends and Evolving Technology event this week.
>
> The event was very informative. Please let me know when it is possible to
> attend your next event with invitation.
>
> Have a nice weekend.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gunnar
>
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2024, 6:26 AM Gunnar Larson  wrote:
>
>> Dear Bloomberg:
>>
>> While listening to Wall Street Week this morning, I received
>> communication that if I go to this Bloomberg invatational below, it could
>> be considered as xNY.io - Bank.org being complicit to regulatory fraud.
>>
>> I am looking forward to attending this Bloomberg event.
>>
>> However, xNY.io - Bank.org would need to receive confirmation from
>> Bloomberg that you have communicated with the FBI of today's incident while
>> listening to Wall Street Week.
>>
>> Being clear, xNY.io - Bank.org contacted Bloomberg today with moral
>> clarity that we are not complicit to regulatory fraud.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Gunnar
>> --
>>
>> Gunnar Larson
>>
>> xNY.io | Bank.org
>>
>> MSc - Digital Currency
>>
>> MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
>>
>>
>>
>> g...@xny.io
>>
>> +1-917-580-8053
>>
>> New York, New York 10001
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2024, 7:11 PM Bloomberg Visit (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX) <
>> blpvi...@bloomberg.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear GUNNAR LARSON,
>>>
>>> We are looking forward to welcoming you to our Bloomberg office. We hope
>>> the information below is helpful to ensure your smooth arrival.
>>>
>>> Office address:
>>> 731 Lexington Avenue
>>> New York, NY 10022
>>>
>>> Building access:
>>>
>>>- Please bring a valid proof of identity in the form of a valid
>>>government photo ID card, or document as this will be used to check in on
>>>the ground floor at our Bloomberg reception. Photo ID must be a hard 
>>> copy.
>>>- Bloomberg and the security companies it employs take photographs
>>>of visitors to Bloomberg's offices. For more information about how
>>>we process your personal information, please see our privacy notice at:
>>>https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/
>>>- As the majority of our Bloomberg office is accessible by an
>>>internal staircase, please inform your host if you need any additional
>>>assistance with regards to access.
>>>
>>>
>>> If prompted, please present this QR Code at the lobby check-in.
>>>
>>> If you have any questions or concerns, please speak to your Bloomberg
>>> host.
>>>
>>> We look forward to seeing you soon.
>>>
>>> *Please note that this inbox is not actively monitored. Please contact
>>> your Bloomberg host with any questions.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for registering for the in-person event: Regulatory Compliance
>> - Key Trends and Evolving Technology.
>>
>> Your registration is confirmed, and we have reserved your spot.
>>
>> Please update your calendar:
>>
>> Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024
>> Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
>> Location:
>> Bloomberg Headquarters
>> 731 Lexington Avenue, 7th floor
>> New York, NY 10022
>>
>> We look forward to having you join us. Please contact me with any
>> questions.
>>
>> **If you have already received your confirmation please ignore this
>> email.**
>>
>

492 Highlights to UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 22-CV-14102-MIDDLEBROOKS DONALD J. TRUMP, Plaintiff, v. HILLARY R. CLINTON, et al., Defendants. ___________________

INTRODUCTION

March 24, 2022

158 Highlights:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zggK7lgptlZ6Qn11EndzbDloqqVxRifv/view?usp=drivesdk

1. In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her
cohorts
orchestrated an unthinkable plot – one that shocks the conscience and is an
affront to this nation’s democracy. Acting in concert, the Defendants
maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican
opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign
sovereignty.
The actions taken in furtherance of their scheme—falsifying evidence,
deceiving law enforcement, and exploiting access to highly-sensitive data
sources - are so outrageous, subversive and incendiary that even the events
of Watergate pale in comparison.

2. Under the guise of ‘opposition research,’ ‘data analytics,’ and other
political
stratagems, the Defendants nefariously sought to sway the public’s trust.
They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald
J. Trump. Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple
Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would
be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media
frenzy.

3. The scheme was conceived, coordinated and carried out by top-level
officials at the
Clinton Campaign and the DNC—including ‘the candidate’ herself—who
attempted to shield her involvement behind a wall of third parties.1 To
start, the Clinton Campaign and the DNC enlisted the assistance of their
shared counsel, Perkins Coie, a law firm with deep Democrat ties, in the
hopes of obscuring their actions under the veil of attorney-client
privilege. Perkins Coie was tasked with spearheading the scheme to find—or
fabricate—proof of a sinister link between Donald J. Trump and Russia.

To do so, Perkins Coie launched parallel operations: on one front, Perkins
Coie partner Marc Elias led an effort to produce spurious ‘opposition
research’ claiming
to reveal illicit ties between the Trump Campaign and Russian operatives;
on a separate front, Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann headed a
campaign to develop misleading evidence of a bogus ‘back channel’
connection between e-mail servers at Trump Tower and a Russian-owned
bank.

4. Marc Elias, in his mission to obtain derogatory anti-Trump ‘opposition
research,’ commissioned Fusion GPS, an investigative firm, and its
co-founders, Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson, and directed them to dredge
up evidence—actual or otherwise—of collusion between Trump and Russia.
Fritsch and Simpson, in turn, enlisted the assistance of Orbis Ltd. and its
owner, Christopher Steele, to produce a series of reports purporting to
contain proof of the
supposed collusion. Of course, the now fully debunked collection of
reports, known as the “Steele Dossier,” was riddled with misstatements,
misrepresentations and, most of all, flat out lies. In truth, the Steele
Dossier was largely based upon information provided to Steele by his
primary
sub-source, Igor Danchenko, who was subsequently indicted for falsifying
his claims. Even more damning, Danchenko had close ties to senior Clinton
Campaign official, Charles Halliday Dolan, Jr., who knowingly provided
false information to Danchenko, who relayed it to Steele, who
reported it in the Steele Dossier and eagerly fed the deceptions to both
the media and the FBI. This duplicitous arrangement existed for a singular
self-serving purpose – to discredit Donald J. Trump
and his campaign.

5. At the same time, Michael Sussmann, in his hunt for damaging intel
against the
Trump Campaign, turned to Neustar, Inc., an information technology company,
and one of its top executives, Rodney Joffe, a fervent anti-Trumper who had
recently been promised a high-ranking position with the Clinton
Administration, to exploit their access to non-public data in search of a
secret “back channel” connection between Trump Tower and Alfa Bank. When it
was discovered that no such channel existed, the Defendants resorted to
truly subversive measures – hacking servers at Trump Tower, Trump’s private
apartment, and, most alarmingly, the White House. This
ill-gotten data was then manipulated to create a misleading “inference” and
submitted to law enforcement in an effort to falsely implicate Donald J.
Trump and his campaign.2 All of these acts
were carried out in coordination with the Clinton Campaign and the DNC, at
the behest of certain Democratic “VIPs.”3

6. While their multi-pronged attack was underway, the Defendants seized on
the
opportunity to publicly malign Donald J. Trump by instigating a full-blown
media frenzy. Indeed, the Clinton Campaign and DNC—admittedly on a
“mission” to “raise the alarm” about their contrived Trump-Russia
link4—repeatedly fed disinformation to the media and shamelessly
promoted their false narratives. All the while, Hillary Clinton, Jake
Sullivan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and others did their best to
proliferate the spread of those dubious and false claims

Fwd: FOIL Request No. 2022-090560 - Larson (NY-DFS Apple Card Investigation)

-- Forwarded message -
From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: FOIL Request No. 2022-090560 - Larson (NY-DFS Apple Card
Investigation)
To: 


Well, we got a response on Apple Card.

I cannot share it with the list. It is a five page letter that more or less
gave us what we need.

Gunnar

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024, 11:24 AM Gunnar Larson  wrote:

>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Gunnar Larson 
> Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 7:44 AM
> Subject: Fwd: FOIL Request No. 2022-090560 - Larson (NY-DFS Apple Card
> Investigation)
> To: 
> Cc: 
>
>
> Dear Honorable Senator Schumer:
>
> My name is Gunnar Larson, I am a co-founder at xNY.io - Bank.org.
>
> Today's memo seeks your office's esteemed help resolving a NY-DFS records
> access case from October 12, 2022.
>
> On November 2, 2022 xNY.io - Bank.org elected to appeal NY-DFS' records
> access decision.
>
> NY-DFS responded to xNY.io - Bank.org on July 25, 2023 with the attached
> memo:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/19g7NvXjwCwD7859N1DDx8JS9WTvrEU7I/view?usp=drivesdk
> .
>
> Senator Schumer, as of today (January 12, 2024) xNY.io - Bank.org has not
> received the request records. NY-DFS has responded several times suggesting
> our request is under review.
>
> We are concerned New York State could be suggesting a delay in records
> access given the sensitive nature of the former Governor and NY-DFS
> Superintendent.
>
> Senator, given your senior position in New York State government we seek
> any relevant relief in accessing the corresponding records.
>
> Sending you the best from Chelsea.
>
> Thank you for your service,
>
> Gunnar
> --
> Gunnar Larson
>
> xNY.io - Bank.org
> MSc - Digital Currency
> MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
>
> g...@xny.io
> +1-917-580-8053
> New York, New York 10001
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Tomczak, Christine (DFS) 
> Date: Wed, May 10, 2023, 4:58 PM
> Subject: RE: FOIL Request No. 2022-090560 - Larson (NY-DFS Apple Card
> Investigation)
> To: g...@xny.io 
> Cc: JeanBaptiste, Pascale (DFS) ,
> cypherpunks , Harris, Adrienne A (DFS) <
> adrienne.har...@dfs.ny.gov>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Larson,
>
>
>
> I am getting back to you to apologize for the delay and assure you that
> your appeal is under review and you will receive a response in the near
> future.
>
>
>
>
>
> Christine M. Tomczak
>
> Assistant Counsel
>
>
>
> New York State Department of Financial Services
>
> 1 State Street, New York, New York   10004
>
>

Fwd: [OpenRecords] Request FOIL-2023-056-15960 Acknowledged NYPD body cam footage, for NYCCoin Touting.)

-- Forwarded message -
From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Mon, May 27, 2024, 1:12 AM
Subject: [OpenRecords] Request FOIL-2023-056-15960 Acknowledged NYPD body
cam footage, for NYCCoin Touting.)
To: 


Ethics Team, I am concerned that the Chief of your office is also the Chief
of the City Mayor's office.

The body cam footage should have an agreeable time for delivery. I am
concerned that the Mayor is retaliating against NYCoin and the NYPD may be
aware of this.

> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 2:59 AM Gunnar Larson  wrote:
>
> Dear Honorable Senator Gillibrand:
>
>
>
> My name is Gunnar Larson and I am a co-founder at xNY.io - Bank.org.
>
>
>
> Today I contact your esteemed office seeking assistance with retrieving
> the NYPD body camera footage mentioned below.
>
>
>
> The FOIL request was filed with the NYPD on July 14, 2023. The NYPD
> responded on July 16, 2023, noting a potential delivery date of the body
> camera footage by end of November 2023.
>
>
>
> As of today, January 12, 2024 xNY.io - Bank.org has not heard from the
> NYPD on receiving the body camera footage.
>
>
>
> Senator Gillibrand, I am concerned delay in receiving this body camera
> footage may disrespect your #MeToo zero tolerance policy. Humbly, the FBI
> should be able to confirm with your office if this is a "Don't Ask, Don't
> Tell" matter.
>
>
>
> Ultimately, I am concerned this matter should not impact the pure
> interests of your Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act.
>
>
>
> The FBI should be able to be honest with your office concerning your
> Bloomberg Crypto Summit interview with Senator Lummis on the Responsible
> Financial Innovation Act. It is my understanding that the NYPD body camera
> footage could have been staged politically, given xNY's approach to
> NYCCoin.
>
>
>
> Senator Gillibrand, your office could offer anyone the opportunity to
> engage the new SDNY program here to protect honest integrity of the NYPD:
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-attorney-in-manhattan-launches-program-to-encourage-more-self-disclosure-9c445004
> .
>
>
>
> Thank you Senator Gillibrand.
>
>
>
> Sending you the very best regards,
>
>
>
> Gunnar
>
>
>
> --
>
> Gunnar Larson
>
> xNY.io | Bank.org
>
> MSc - Digital Currency
>
> MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
>
>
>
> g...@xny.io
>
> +1-917-580-8053
>
> New York, New York 10001
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: *Gunnar Larson* 
> Date: Wed, Jan 10, 2024, 5:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [OpenRecords] Request FOIL-2023-056-15960 Acknowledged NYPD
> body cam footage, for NYCCoin Touting.)
> To: IABCMDCNTR 
> Cc: , ethics.sm.records , <
> et...@jcrope.ny.gov>, , Harris, Adrienne A (DFS)
> , , Reader,
> Shaun , 
>
>
>
> Good morning NYPD:
>
>
>
> Thank you for your Jul 16, 2023 response.
>
>
>
> xNY.io - Bank.org did not hear from you on
>
> November 29, 2023 as promised.
>
>
>
> Given the emerging situation in USA cryptocurrency markets, we are going
> to need to follow up with the NYPD every 10 days until we receive the
> NYCCoin touting body camera footage.
>
>
>
> Can you please update xNY.io - Bank.org on the status of the footage? We
> have received various replies from the City of New York on Mayor Adams'
> 'first checks in Bitcoin' mentioned here:
> https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/041-22/mayor-adams-receive-first-paycheck-cryptocurrency
> .
>
>
>
> Have a good day.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Gunnar
>
>
>
> --
>
> Gunnar Larson
>
> xNY.io | Bank.org
>
> MSc - Digital Currency
>
> MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
>
>
>
> g...@xny.io
>
> +1-917-580-8053
>
> New York, New York 10001
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 1, 2024, 6:41 AM Gunnar Larson  wrote:
>
> Good morning:
>
>
>
> Happy New Year 2024 to you.
>
>
>
> Can we please have an update on this matter?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Gunnar
>
>
>
> --
>
> Gunnar Larson
>
> xNY.io | Bank.org
>
> MSc - Digital Currency
>
> MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
>
>
>
> g...@xny.io
>
> +1-917-580-8053
>
> New York, New York 10001
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023, 3:51 PM Gunnar Larson  wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
>
>
> Thank you for your Jul 16, 2023 response.
>
>
>
> xNY.io - Bank.org did not hear from you on
>
> November 29, 2023 as promised.
>
>
>
> Can xNY.io - Bank.org please receive the
>
> NYPD body cam footage for NYCCoin Touting by December 31, 2023?
>
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
>
>
> Gunnar
>
>
>
> Gunnar Larson
>
> --
>
> Gunnar Larson - xNY.io - Bank.org
>
> MSc - Digital Currency
>
> MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
>
>
>
> g...@xny.io
>
> +1-917-580-8053
>
> New York, New York 10001
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 11:11 AM Gunnar Larson  wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
>
>
> Any updates on the body camera footage mentioned below?
>
>
>
> Gunnar
>
>
>
> Gunnar Larson
>
> xNY.io - Bank.org
>
> 917-580-8093
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 7:10 AM Gunnar Larson  wrote:
>
> Dear Madam or Sir:
>
>
>
> I am just confirming that the NYCCoin body camera footage is still on
> track for November 29, 2023

HSBC Hit With Swiss Restrictions After Compliance Breaches

HSBC Hit With Swiss Restrictions After Compliance Breaches


By Alex Davidson

Switzerland's financial regulator said Tuesday that HSBC's Swiss private
bank had breached anti-money laundering requirements in banking
transactions with two high-profile individuals, restricting its new
business relationships until it completes reviews overseen by a monitor.

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Serco Settles Landmark Shareholder Dispute Mid-Trial

Serco Settles Landmark Shareholder Dispute Mid-Trial


By Eddie Beaver

Serco settled a landmark shareholders' claim on Tuesday with investors who
sued the outsourcing giant for compensation over an overbilling scandal
that caused its share price to nosedive.

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Fwd: Inquiry

Thank you, Roberta!


-- Forwarded message -
From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Inquiry
To: Roberta Kaplan 
Cc: Stephanie Lake 


Okay. Thank you for letting me know.

Gunnar

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 8:40 AM Roberta Kaplan 
wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I don't think we can help you on this.
> --
> *From:* Gunnar Larson 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 23, 2024 8:28:27 AM
> *To:* Roberta Kaplan 
> *Subject:* Re: Inquiry
>
> You don't often get email from g...@xny.io. Learn why this is important
> 
> This email was sent from outside the Firm.
>
> Roberta:
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I wrote this LitigationFinanceJournal.com article back in 2022, now I am
> on the other side of it all.
>
> It is my understanding that the FBI is harassing my business, saying I am
> trying to use Donald Trump arguments against the Attorney General's office.
>
> That is simply not true. I am need to organize a personal attorney to
> protect myself from these attacks. I thought it could be beneficial if we
> worked together.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gunnar
> ---
>
>
> https://litigationfinancejournal.com/rnc-funding-of-trumps-legal-campaign-undermines-gop-state-ags-attack-on-litigation-funding/
>
>
> Litigation Finance Journal recently reported on a group of 14 state
> attorneys general that have called for action from the Department of
> Justice to review potential threats to U.S. national security from foreign
> adversaries’ engagement of litigation investment. Litigation funders and
> industry advocates have new ammo in response to the AGs’ claims, given
> recent news of the RNC funding former President Donald Trump’s various
> legal entanglements.
>
>
> According to ABC News, RNC leaders earmarked $1.6M in legal funding to
> support President Donald Trump’s defense over lawsuits brought by New York
> Attorney General Letitia James. Meanwhile, the United States Chamber of
> Commerce Institute for Legal Reform’s research has prompted 14 state
> attorneys general to ask for the Justice Department to assess national
> security risks of adversaries ‘undermining’ the United States by engaging
> litigation funding and third party investment vehicles.
>
> The group of 14 state attorneys general are concerned about foreign
> adversaries ‘weaponizing’ United States legal frameworks via litigation
> investment, to attack critical national industry and infrastructure, such
> as energy sectors. The group of 14 seeks the Department of Justice to
> detail how a network of federal agencies could engage a blueprint for
> defending United States independence from international litigation
> investors, hostile groups, agencies or governments such as Russia and China.
>
> This latest attack on the industry, prompted by the U.S. Chamber of
> Commerce, is simply another attempt to undermine the nascent and growing
> litigation funding sector. It is ironic, given that in the case of Consumer
> Legal Funding–which the Chamber specifically targets–the funding in
> question does not go to support legal fees, but rather to finance
> claimants’ livelihoods while they remain injured and unable to work.
>
> While the RNC’s funding of Trump’s legal battles does not constitute
> foreign investment, it illustrates the acceptance of third party legal
> funding across political lines, and should be noted by industry advocates
> looking to respond to the negative publicity put forth by the U.S. Chamber.
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 7:02 AM Roberta Kaplan 
> wrote:
>
> Happy to talk. What is the matter?
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 23, 2024 3:55:11 AM
> *To:* Roberta Kaplan 
> *Subject:* Inquiry
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> Ms. Kaplan:
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>
> I was wondering if I could schedule a time to talk with your office
> concerning potentially working together on a developing matter.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gunnar
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>
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UK - Crime - New Guidelines On Perverting The Course Of Justice – On The Path To More Clarity?

https://www.mondaq.com/uk/crime/1478758/new-guidelines-on-perverting-the-course-of-justice--on-the-path-to-more-clarity


New Guidelines On Perverting The Course Of Justice – On The Path To More
Clarity?
PP
Peters & Peters
MORE
The Sentencing Council introduced new guidelines for perverting the course
of justice and witness intimidation in England and Wales, aiming to ensure
consistency and clarity in sentencing. These guidelines are expected to
provide a structured approach and address variations in previous case law.
UK
Criminal Law
Photo of Diana  Czugler
Photo of Arunn Thiruchelvam
AUTHORS
The concept of 'perverting the course of justice' might commonly feature in
televised series, where crooked cops tamper with evidence for money or
baddies interfere with witnesses, but before HBO and Netflix came on the
scene, it had a long-established history as an offence in the common law of
England and Wales.

In October 2023, the Sentencing Council introduced new guidelines for
sentencing offenders convicted of perverting the course of justice and
witness intimidation in England and Wales. These aim to provide consistency
and clarity across all cases, whereas before a wide range of case law had
to be relied on to devise the correct type or length of sentences based on
the individual circumstances of each case.

We look at how the guidelines, which have now been in force for just over
six months, will likely impact sentencing going forward in less severe
cases. This is of particular interest at a time when the offence is once
again in the limelight, following a recent high-profile boiler room fraud
case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which has resulted
on 7 May 2024 in an individual receiving a custodial sentence for
perverting the course of justice.

An old offence

The current interpretation of the doctrine was crafted in 1891, when
Justice Pollock B considered whether the defendant's attempt to fool
arbitrators in a dispute about the quality of grains amounted to a fraud or
cheat against the administration of public justice. In R v Vreones, he
offered the dictum that "the real offence... is the doing of some act which
has a tendency and is intended to pervert the administration of public
justice".

Since this dictum, the law around perverting the course of justice has been
used and developed to assist the courts in a wide range of situations, such
as:

– discontinuing a criminal prosecution in return for payments;
– making false statement to police officers investigating an offence;
– making a false retraction of a true allegation of rape;
– doing an act calculated to assist another to avoid arrest;
– interfering with a witness or a juror; or
– the whole gambit of potential scenarios that would make for good crime
cop drama.

Perverting the course of justice has remained a serious offence: it is
indictable only, with maximum life imprisonment and an offence range
between a community order and seven years in custody.

Long-standing principles thrown into question

Before the new guidelines were introduced, practitioners relied on the
long-standing principle that custodial sentences should be imposed in all
but the most exceptional cases.

Indeed, before the guidelines came out, the courts considered, in R v
Abdulwahab [2018] EWCA Crim 1399, that conduct intended to pervert the
course of justice almost invariably called for a custodial sentence; the
idea being that deterrence was necessary.

In this case, the appellant, a young man with no previous convictions, had
given a false account of events when interviewed under caution. His friend
had used his leased car to deal drugs. The appellant claimed that he had
left it at a car park for his friend to collect, when in fact, his friend
had driven the car to the car park himself. Drugs were found in the car,
and the friend and two other men were arrested for intent to supply Class A
and Class B drugs. The appellant voluntarily attended the police station a
few days later to collect the car and was interviewed under caution when he
gave the false account. The police had CCTV evidence contradicted his
account.

On reviewing the 15-month custodial sentence that he had received, and
giving full credit for his guilty plea, the appeal judge observed that
there was a "clear, deliberate, and focused lie told by the appellant with
intent to pervert the course of justice" by either providing his friend
with a defence or by weakening the prosecution case against him. However,
he also observed that "there does not appear to have been any evidence
pointing unequivocally to this appellant having gone to the police station
always intending to put forward that lie...".

In the Court of Appeal, the appellant submitted that his lie not been
elaborate or well thought out, it did not exonerate the friend from
suspicion, it was put forward only during the interview under caution and,
although it was maintained throughout the interview, it was not repeated on
other

BREAKING: NY High Court Denies Trump's Gag Order Appeal

BREAKING: NY High Court Denies Trump's Gag Order Appeal


By Frank G. Runyeon

New York state's highest court on Tuesday denied Donald Trump's rapid
appeal of the gag order that limited his speech during his criminal hush
money trial, finding it did not raise serious constitutional issues.

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Crypto Trading Firm Nabs NY BitLicense

Crypto Trading Firm Nabs NY BitLicense


By Aislinn Keely

Crypto trading firm and liquidity provider Cumberland DRW announced Monday
that the New York Department of Financial Services has granted it a
BitLicense, which allows it to operate a crypto business within the state.

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UK - Crime - New Guidelines On Perverting The Course Of Justice – On The Path To More Clarity?

https://www.mondaq.com/uk/crime/1478758/new-guidelines-on-perverting-the-course-of-justice--on-the-path-to-more-clarity


New Guidelines On Perverting The Course Of Justice – On The Path To More
Clarity?
PP
Peters & Peters
MORE
The Sentencing Council introduced new guidelines for perverting the course
of justice and witness intimidation in England and Wales, aiming to ensure
consistency and clarity in sentencing. These guidelines are expected to
provide a structured approach and address variations in previous case law.
UK
Criminal Law
Photo of Diana  Czugler
Photo of Arunn Thiruchelvam
AUTHORS
The concept of 'perverting the course of justice' might commonly feature in
televised series, where crooked cops tamper with evidence for money or
baddies interfere with witnesses, but before HBO and Netflix came on the
scene, it had a long-established history as an offence in the common law of
England and Wales.

In October 2023, the Sentencing Council introduced new guidelines for
sentencing offenders convicted of perverting the course of justice and
witness intimidation in England and Wales. These aim to provide consistency
and clarity across all cases, whereas before a wide range of case law had
to be relied on to devise the correct type or length of sentences based on
the individual circumstances of each case.

We look at how the guidelines, which have now been in force for just over
six months, will likely impact sentencing going forward in less severe
cases. This is of particular interest at a time when the offence is once
again in the limelight, following a recent high-profile boiler room fraud
case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which has resulted
on 7 May 2024 in an individual receiving a custodial sentence for
perverting the course of justice.

An old offence

The current interpretation of the doctrine was crafted in 1891, when
Justice Pollock B considered whether the defendant's attempt to fool
arbitrators in a dispute about the quality of grains amounted to a fraud or
cheat against the administration of public justice. In R v Vreones, he
offered the dictum that "the real offence... is the doing of some act which
has a tendency and is intended to pervert the administration of public
justice".

Since this dictum, the law around perverting the course of justice has been
used and developed to assist the courts in a wide range of situations, such
as:

– discontinuing a criminal prosecution in return for payments;
– making false statement to police officers investigating an offence;
– making a false retraction of a true allegation of rape;
– doing an act calculated to assist another to avoid arrest;
– interfering with a witness or a juror; or
– the whole gambit of potential scenarios that would make for good crime
cop drama.

Perverting the course of justice has remained a serious offence: it is
indictable only, with maximum life imprisonment and an offence range
between a community order and seven years in custody.

Long-standing principles thrown into question

Before the new guidelines were introduced, practitioners relied on the
long-standing principle that custodial sentences should be imposed in all
but the most exceptional cases.

Indeed, before the guidelines came out, the courts considered, in R v
Abdulwahab [2018] EWCA Crim 1399, that conduct intended to pervert the
course of justice almost invariably called for a custodial sentence; the
idea being that deterrence was necessary.

In this case, the appellant, a young man with no previous convictions, had
given a false account of events when interviewed under caution. His friend
had used his leased car to deal drugs. The appellant claimed that he had
left it at a car park for his friend to collect, when in fact, his friend
had driven the car to the car park himself. Drugs were found in the car,
and the friend and two other men were arrested for intent to supply Class A
and Class B drugs. The appellant voluntarily attended the police station a
few days later to collect the car and was interviewed under caution when he
gave the false account. The police had CCTV evidence contradicted his
account.

On reviewing the 15-month custodial sentence that he had received, and
giving full credit for his guilty plea, the appeal judge observed that
there was a "clear, deliberate, and focused lie told by the appellant with
intent to pervert the course of justice" by either providing his friend
with a defence or by weakening the prosecution case against him. However,
he also observed that "there does not appear to have been any evidence
pointing unequivocally to this appellant having gone to the police station
always intending to put forward that lie...".

In the Court of Appeal, the appellant submitted that his lie not been
elaborate or well thought out, it did not exonerate the friend from
suspicion, it was put forward only during the interview under caution and,
although it was maintained throughout the interview, it was not repeated on
other

The Senate Race in Ohio Is the Sickest in U.S. History in Terms of Billionaire Money from Outside the State

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/06/the-senate-race-in-ohio-is-the-sickest-in-u-s-history-in-terms-of-billionaire-money-from-outside-the-state/


By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 18, 2024 ~

Senator Sherrod Brown
Senator Sherrod Brown

Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat and life-long Ohioan, is running for his
fourth term in the U.S. Senate, after more than 17 years of proving
consistently with his voice and actions that it’s the working class of Ohio
that he stands up for in Congress.

It would seem that Brown’s reelection should be an easy win. Instead, it
will be one of the most expensive Senate races in U.S. history with the
outcome dependent on just how vile and vicious the attack ads funded by
out-of-state billionaires are against Brown.

According to AdImpact.com, outside groups have reserved $92.8 million in
ads they plan to run supporting Brown’s Republican challenger, Bernie
Moreno, a man who has bragged about his early “lower-middle-class status,”
but whom the New York Times describes as being “born into a rich and
politically connected family” in Bogotá, Columbia.

How did Senator Brown end up with a target on his back? It comes down to
two things. Republicans need to oust Brown to grab majority control of the
U.S. Senate; and Brown is the Chair of the powerful Senate Banking
Committee where key Presidential nominees need to get confirmed. Putting a
right-wing Republican in the Chairmanship of the Senate Banking Committee
would grease the skids for a MAGA agenda.

The Club for Growth Action Super PAC played a major role in making sure
Moreno won the Republican primary so he could go head-to-head with Brown in
the general election. The billionaire-supported PAC ran ads during the
primary touting Trump’s endorsement of Moreno while stating that “Bernie
will stand up to liberal nut jobs.” See one of those ads here.

According to Federal Election Commission data, Club for Growth Action has
raised $46.29 million from January 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024. Two
billionaires are responsible for two-thirds of that money. Neither of those
billionaires live or vote or work in Ohio, and yet their money could sway
the outcome of the Senate election in Ohio.

The Club for Growth has pushed for things that the majority of Americans
are against: the privatization of Social Security; the destruction of
workers’ rights and unions; and the deregulation of dangerous industries.

The largest donor to Club for Growth Action is Jeff Yass, a billionaire who
resides in Pennsylvania. From January 1, 2023 to June 7, 2024, Yass has
donated $20.5 million to the Club for Growth Action Super PAC. The second
largest donor is Richard Uihlein, who has chipped in $10.26 million.

Yass is Co-Founder of Susquehanna International Group (SIG), a hedge fund
and global quantitative trading firm. In 2022, the nonprofit investigative
news site, ProPublica, reported that Yass has “avoided $1 billion in taxes
while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into
campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers.”

Richard Uihlein is an heir to the Schlitz brewing fortune. He and his wife,
Elizabeth, founded Uline, a shipping supplies company. According to The
Hill publication, the 2022 midterms marked Uihlein’s largest ever donations
to political campaigns – a staggering $80.7 million.

But it’s not just right-wing Super PACs that Senator Brown is up against.
According to FEC records, Moreno’s own primary campaign account, “Bernie
Moreno for Senate,” is seeing a huge influx of donors who reside in New
York, Florida, Texas, Virginia, and, peculiarly, Minnesota, many of whom
have maxed out their individual donations to Moreno of $3300 for the
primary and another $3300 for the general election.

Notable among this group are people employed by private equity firms such
as Blackstone, Goldman Sachs (which owns a private equity arm), Elliott
Management, Lone Star Funds, Fortress Investment Group and numerous others.

Private equity and hedge funds enjoy a craven tax break called “Carried
Interest,” where billionaires can end up paying a lower tax rate than
teachers, plumbers and factory workers in Ohio.

What Ohioans can do to outwit the swamp creatures in this election is to
line up 10 neighbors or friends who were planning to sit out this election
and drive them to the polls on November 5.

Calif. Becomes Last State To Ink Deal Over Blackbaud Breach

Calif. Becomes Last State To Ink Deal Over Blackbaud Breach


By Allison Grande

Blackbaud Inc. has agreed to pay $6.75 million to resolve data security
claims brought by California's attorney general, who was the only one to
sit out a nearly $50 million settlement that the software provider reached
last year with every other state over a 2020 ransomware attack that
affected thousands of its customers.

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SEC Alleges Texas Man Offered Virgin Sham $200M 'Lifeline'

SEC Alleges Texas Man Offered Virgin Sham $200M 'Lifeline'


By Gina Kim

Securities regulators sued a venture capitalist and his investment firm in
Texas federal court Monday, accusing the firm of making a bogus offer to
invest $200 million into Virgin Orbit last year despite having less than $1
in its bank account and causing stock prices to swell before plummeting
when the deal collapsed.

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Hacker Facing Rare, Deadly Cancer Avoids Prison Time

Hacker Facing Rare, Deadly Cancer Avoids Prison Time


By Chart Riggall

Despite "vehemently" rejecting defense counsel's arguments seeking a more
lenient sentence for a cybersecurity contractor facing up to five years in
prison for hacking into a hospital's computer systems, a Georgia federal
judge nevertheless handed down a two-year house arrest sentence on Monday,
citing the defendant's extremely rare and aggressive form of cancer.

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Clients Say McGrath Kavinoky 'Bullied' Them Into Abuse Deal

Clients Say McGrath Kavinoky 'Bullied' Them Into Abuse Deal


By Jack Karp

California firm McGrath Kavinoky LLP, which inked more than $374 million in
settlements for women who say they were sexually abused by a UCLA Health
gynecologist, misled its clients and "bullied" them into accepting far
smaller amounts than they were promised, according to a lawsuit in state
court by two ex-clients.

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Binance Says Hamas Attack Suit Can't Prove Fundraising Link

Binance Says Hamas Attack Suit Can't Prove Fundraising Link


By Aislinn Keely

Binance Holdings Ltd. has urged a New York federal judge to dismiss claims
the exchange abetted terrorism because the survivors of Hamas' Oct. 7
attack on Israel haven't shown a direct link between the platform's
cryptocurrency services and the planning of the attack.

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FTX, Customers Lay Claim To SBF's $11B Forfeiture Tab

FTX, Customers Lay Claim To SBF's $11B Forfeiture Tab


By Ben Zigterman

FTX told the New York federal court that hit the company's founder Sam
Bankman-Fried with a 25-year prison sentence and an $11 billion forfeiture
order that the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange has a right to those
funds, while a group of its former clients asserted a similar claim for
itself.

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Pastor Tied To NYC Mayor Gets 9 Years For Fraud Conviction

2024-06-18 Thread Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many

Pastor Tied To NYC Mayor Gets 9 Years For Fraud Conviction


By Stewart Bishop

A clergyman and self-described mentee of New York City Mayor Eric Adams on
Monday was sentenced to nine years in federal prison following his
conviction at trial for a series of fraudulent real estate and business
loans, among other misdeeds.

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Re: [ot][spam]gpt-4 completions

this was second completion, first was different but stopped at short token
limit. should have kept
chatgpt not responding so used dashboard

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in series with the output of the power supply. This resistor should have a
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current flow without introducing significant resistance.\n2. **Signal
Processing**: Use the output signal from the Hall Effect sensor to drive an
LED. This can be done directly if the sensor output is suitable, or through
a transistor or comparator if signal conditioning is needed.\n\n### Method
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input of the comparator to the voltage drop across R_sense.\n3. Set a
reference voltage on the negative input of the comparator.\n4. When the
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LA City Atty Accused Of Retaliating Against Criminal Chief

LA City Atty Accused Of Retaliating Against Criminal Chief


By Dorothy Atkins

The former criminal chief of the Los Angeles city attorney's office is
seeking more than $1 million over claims she faced a "barrage of
retaliation" and was unfairly placed on leave after reporting the city
attorney's alleged excessive on-the-job alcohol consumption, her refusal to
prosecute certain companies and other purported misconduct.

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Man In Murder-For-Hire Plot To Kill Atty Gets Extradited To NY

Man In Murder-For-Hire Plot To Kill Atty Gets Extradited To NY


By Gina Kim

An Indian national indicted in connection with a murder-for-hire plot to
assassinate an attorney connected to a Punjab political revolution has been
extradited to the Southern District of New York and made his initial
appearance in federal court Monday, during which he pled not guilty to the
criminal charges against him.

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Think Like A Lawyer: Always Be Closing

Think Like A Lawyer: Always Be Closing


When a lawyer presents their case with the right propulsive structure
throughout trial, there is little need for further argument after the close
of evidence — and in fact, rehashing it all may test jurors’ patience — so
attorneys should consider other strategies for closing arguments, says Luke
Andrews at Poole Huffman.

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Huawei Slams Netgear's 'Tenuous' RICO Case

Huawei Slams Netgear's 'Tenuous' RICO Case


By Andrew Karpan

Huawei has responded to a racketeering and antitrust case from a major U.S.
maker of Wi-Fi routers by calling it "rife with tenuous legal and factual
claims" and comparing its reworking of patent infringement allegations to
the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's failed antitrust case against Qualcomm.

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'What Am I Supposed To Do?': Epic-Apple Doc Row Irks Judge

'What Am I Supposed To Do?': Epic-Apple Doc Row Irks Judge


By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge presiding over Epic Games' high-stakes antitrust
compliance fight against Apple expressed frustration Monday with the
parties' disagreement over the scope of Apple's document production, asking
counsel repeatedly "What am I supposed to do?" and "Do I need to get
somebody on the stand to explain this?"

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Sullivan & Cromwell’s Legal Work for Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto House of Fraud Is Getting a Closer Look in Two Federal Court Cases

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/06/sullivan-cromwells-legal-work-for-sam-bankman-frieds-crypto-house-of-fraud-is-getting-a-closer-look-in-two-federal-court-cases/


By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 17, 2024 ~

Ryne Miller, Former Sullivan & Cromwell Partner; Now General Counsel of
FTX.US
Ryne Miller, Former Sullivan & Cromwell Partner Who Became General Counsel
of FTX.US

Last Monday, Robert J. Cleary of law firm Patterson Belknap filed a motion
in the bankruptcy proceeding of Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed fraud, the
FTX crypto exchange, seeking to launch three new investigations into legal
work done by Sullivan & Cromwell for Bankman-Fried and FTX prior to the
collapse of the fraud.

Cleary is the independent examiner appointed by the U.S. Department of
Justice’s U.S. Trustee, which acts as a watchdog in federal bankruptcy
cases. Adding to the embarrassment for Sullivan & Cromwell with the
announcement of the new investigations is the fact that Sullivan & Cromwell
fought against allowing the U.S. Trustee to appoint an independent examiner
after it had maneuvered itself into the position of lead counsel to the FTX
bankruptcy proceeding, despite its multitude of conflicts with FTX. The
presiding judge in the bankruptcy case, John Dorsey, had sided with
Sullivan & Cromwell in the matter.

The U.S. Trustee was forced to take the issue to the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals. On January 19, a sharp rebuke to Sullivan & Cromwell and the judge
was handed down. The court wrote in its decision:

“Under the Bankruptcy Court’s interpretation, the appointment of an
examiner under either subsection of Section 1104(c) would be subject to a
court’s discretion and a judge would have the final say as to whether an
investigation was warranted. But this interpretation runs counter to the
statute’s plain language and established canons of construction.”

The court added this:

“First, an examiner must be ‘disinterested’… This requirement of
disinterest is particularly salient here, where issues of potential
conflicts of interest arising from debtor’s counsel serving as pre-petition
advisors to FTX have been raised repeatedly….”

The independent examiner’s June 10 motion explains the three new areas it
wants to investigate as follows:

“The first recommendation concerns S’s representation of Sam
Bankman-Fried… in connection with his purchase of the Robinhood Shares…This
inquiry would focus on (1) the scope and contours of that representation,
and (2) based on that representation, what, if anything, S knew or should
have known about the FTX Group’s misconduct and/or fraud…

“The second recommendation concerns potential claims against the former
shareholders of Ledger Holdings, Inc [parent of LedgerX]…that sold their
interests prepetition to West Realm Shires Inc. [a/k/a FTX.US]…This inquiry
would (1) seek to determine whether an avoidance action(s) is warranted
with respect to unreleased shareholders, and (2) enable the Examiner to
report on the underlying details of the prepetition sale of LHI to WRS,
which report and findings would be in the public interest…

“The third recommendation concerns the ‘holes’ or balance sheet shortfalls
at FTX.US…This inquiry would center on (1) the existence of and the reasons
these holes arose at FTX.US, (2) whether the balance sheet holes were the
result of commingling of customer or corporate assets, (3) the frequency
and magnitude of the holes, and (4) how they were resolved and by whom….”

The independent examiner is asking for 10 weeks and $3 million to conduct
the three new investigations. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for
today in the federal bankruptcy court in Delaware before Judge John Dorsey.

The independent examiner had released a preliminary report on May 23, which
found no wrongdoing on the part of Sullivan & Cromwell. That report,
however, indicated that further investigations would be requested by the
independent examiner.

Adding pressure on the independent examiner is the fact that powerful
sleuthing into Sullivan & Cromwell’s work on behalf of FTX is being done by
law firms representing plaintiffs who are suing Sullivan & Cromwell (S)
in federal district court in Florida. The plaintiffs write in their
complaint:

“For its part, S facilitated the scheme to defraud and RICO enterprise by
agreeing to provide and providing legal services to FTX US and FTX Trading
Ltd…S did so knowingly, recklessly, or with willful blindness to the
nature of the RICO enterprise but within the scope of the S’s employment
and in furtherance of the firm’s business. In fact, in exchange for S’s
counsel in these matters, FTX paid S significant fees.”

There is no question that Sullivan & Cromwell’s ties to FTX were
significant. One of Sullivan & Cromwell’s law partners, Ryne Miller, moved
to FTX.US and became its General Counsel. Another former Sullivan &
Cromwell lawyer, Tim Wilson, became General Counsel for FTX Ventures, the
venture capital arm of FTX. Sullivan & Cromwell had

White & Case-Led Ukraine Seeks Debt Relief By Aug. Deadline

White & Case-Led Ukraine Seeks Debt Relief By Aug. Deadline


By Najiyya Budaly

The Ukraine government, advised by White & Case LLP, appealed on Monday to
bondholders to help restructure its $19.5 billion of eurobond debt before a
payments freeze it agreed with international creditors expires on Aug. 1.

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Ex-Energy Minister Revives Bid To Ax Libel Defense

Ex-Energy Minister Revives Bid To Ax Libel Defense


By Sophia Dourou

A lawyer for an Iraqi politician said an investigative journalism article
about the Iraqi oil business is "cherry-picking" bits of a court judgment
to "create a story of corruption," urging a judge Monday to throw out the
journalists' defense to his libel claim.

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SFO Intends To Charge Individuals In Glencore Bribery Case

SFO Intends To Charge Individuals In Glencore Bribery Case


By Ronan Barnard

The Serious Fraud Office is seeking permission to charge individuals in its
bribery probe into international commodities trader and miner Glencore, the
crime-fighting agency confirmed at a London court on Monday.

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Right Wing

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BREAKING: NJ Powerbroker, Law Firm CEO Brother Accused Of Racketeering

BREAKING: NJ Powerbroker, Law Firm CEO Brother Accused Of Racketeering


By George Woolston

Powerful New Jersey businessman George E. Norcross III and his brother, who
is the chief executive officer of law firm Parker McCay, have been
criminally charged alongside others in a scheme to acquire waterfront
property in the distressed town of Camden using threats of economic and
reputational harm.

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492 Highlights to UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 22-CV-14102-MIDDLEBROOKS DONALD J. TRUMP, Plaintiff, v. HILLARY R. CLINTON, et al., Defendants. ___________________

INTRODUCTION

March 24, 2022

158 Highlights:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zggK7lgptlZ6Qn11EndzbDloqqVxRifv/view?usp=drivesdk

1. In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her
cohorts
orchestrated an unthinkable plot – one that shocks the conscience and is an
affront to this nation’s democracy. Acting in concert, the Defendants
maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican
opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign
sovereignty.
The actions taken in furtherance of their scheme—falsifying evidence,
deceiving law enforcement, and exploiting access to highly-sensitive data
sources - are so outrageous, subversive and incendiary that even the events
of Watergate pale in comparison.

2. Under the guise of ‘opposition research,’ ‘data analytics,’ and other
political
stratagems, the Defendants nefariously sought to sway the public’s trust.
They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald
J. Trump. Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple
Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would
be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media
frenzy.

3. The scheme was conceived, coordinated and carried out by top-level
officials at the
Clinton Campaign and the DNC—including ‘the candidate’ herself—who
attempted to shield her involvement behind a wall of third parties.1 To
start, the Clinton Campaign and the DNC enlisted the assistance of their
shared counsel, Perkins Coie, a law firm with deep Democrat ties, in the
hopes of obscuring their actions under the veil of attorney-client
privilege. Perkins Coie was tasked with spearheading the scheme to find—or
fabricate—proof of a sinister link between Donald J. Trump and Russia.

To do so, Perkins Coie launched parallel operations: on one front, Perkins
Coie partner Marc Elias led an effort to produce spurious ‘opposition
research’ claiming
to reveal illicit ties between the Trump Campaign and Russian operatives;
on a separate front, Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann headed a
campaign to develop misleading evidence of a bogus ‘back channel’
connection between e-mail servers at Trump Tower and a Russian-owned
bank.

4. Marc Elias, in his mission to obtain derogatory anti-Trump ‘opposition
research,’ commissioned Fusion GPS, an investigative firm, and its
co-founders, Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson, and directed them to dredge
up evidence—actual or otherwise—of collusion between Trump and Russia.
Fritsch and Simpson, in turn, enlisted the assistance of Orbis Ltd. and its
owner, Christopher Steele, to produce a series of reports purporting to
contain proof of the
supposed collusion. Of course, the now fully debunked collection of
reports, known as the “Steele Dossier,” was riddled with misstatements,
misrepresentations and, most of all, flat out lies. In truth, the Steele
Dossier was largely based upon information provided to Steele by his
primary
sub-source, Igor Danchenko, who was subsequently indicted for falsifying
his claims. Even more damning, Danchenko had close ties to senior Clinton
Campaign official, Charles Halliday Dolan, Jr., who knowingly provided
false information to Danchenko, who relayed it to Steele, who
reported it in the Steele Dossier and eagerly fed the deceptions to both
the media and the FBI. This duplicitous arrangement existed for a singular
self-serving purpose – to discredit Donald J. Trump
and his campaign.

5. At the same time, Michael Sussmann, in his hunt for damaging intel
against the
Trump Campaign, turned to Neustar, Inc., an information technology company,
and one of its top executives, Rodney Joffe, a fervent anti-Trumper who had
recently been promised a high-ranking position with the Clinton
Administration, to exploit their access to non-public data in search of a
secret “back channel” connection between Trump Tower and Alfa Bank. When it
was discovered that no such channel existed, the Defendants resorted to
truly subversive measures – hacking servers at Trump Tower, Trump’s private
apartment, and, most alarmingly, the White House. This
ill-gotten data was then manipulated to create a misleading “inference” and
submitted to law enforcement in an effort to falsely implicate Donald J.
Trump and his campaign.2 All of these acts
were carried out in coordination with the Clinton Campaign and the DNC, at
the behest of certain Democratic “VIPs.”3

6. While their multi-pronged attack was underway, the Defendants seized on
the
opportunity to publicly malign Donald J. Trump by instigating a full-blown
media frenzy. Indeed, the Clinton Campaign and DNC—admittedly on a
“mission” to “raise the alarm” about their contrived Trump-Russia
link4—repeatedly fed disinformation to the media and shamelessly
promoted their false narratives. All the while, Hillary Clinton, Jake
Sullivan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and others did their best to
proliferate the spread of those dubious and false claims

BREAKING: Justices Will Hear Philly Bridge Project Fraud

BREAKING: Justices Will Hear Philly Bridge Project Fraud Case


By Matthew Santoni

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation contractor's false promise to give a certain share of its
business to minority-owned subcontractors rises to the level of depriving
the state agency of property, the court announced Monday.

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BREAKING: Justices To Decide If False Claims Act Applies To E-Rate

BREAKING: Justices To Decide If False Claims Act Applies To E-Rate


By Ali Sullivan

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review whether reimbursement
requests made to the Federal Communications Commission's E-rate program for
schools and libraries are "claims" under the False Claims Act.

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Sullivan & Cromwell’s Legal Work for Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto House of Fraud Is Getting a Closer Look in Two Federal Court Cases

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/06/sullivan-cromwells-legal-work-for-sam-bankman-frieds-crypto-house-of-fraud-is-getting-a-closer-look-in-two-federal-court-cases/


By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 17, 2024 ~

Ryne Miller, Former Sullivan & Cromwell Partner; Now General Counsel of
FTX.US
Ryne Miller, Former Sullivan & Cromwell Partner Who Became General Counsel
of FTX.US

Last Monday, Robert J. Cleary of law firm Patterson Belknap filed a motion
in the bankruptcy proceeding of Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed fraud, the
FTX crypto exchange, seeking to launch three new investigations into legal
work done by Sullivan & Cromwell for Bankman-Fried and FTX prior to the
collapse of the fraud.

Cleary is the independent examiner appointed by the U.S. Department of
Justice’s U.S. Trustee, which acts as a watchdog in federal bankruptcy
cases. Adding to the embarrassment for Sullivan & Cromwell with the
announcement of the new investigations is the fact that Sullivan & Cromwell
fought against allowing the U.S. Trustee to appoint an independent examiner
after it had maneuvered itself into the position of lead counsel to the FTX
bankruptcy proceeding, despite its multitude of conflicts with FTX. The
presiding judge in the bankruptcy case, John Dorsey, had sided with
Sullivan & Cromwell in the matter.

The U.S. Trustee was forced to take the issue to the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals. On January 19, a sharp rebuke to Sullivan & Cromwell and the judge
was handed down. The court wrote in its decision:

“Under the Bankruptcy Court’s interpretation, the appointment of an
examiner under either subsection of Section 1104(c) would be subject to a
court’s discretion and a judge would have the final say as to whether an
investigation was warranted. But this interpretation runs counter to the
statute’s plain language and established canons of construction.”

The court added this:

“First, an examiner must be ‘disinterested’… This requirement of
disinterest is particularly salient here, where issues of potential
conflicts of interest arising from debtor’s counsel serving as pre-petition
advisors to FTX have been raised repeatedly….”

The independent examiner’s June 10 motion explains the three new areas it
wants to investigate as follows:

“The first recommendation concerns S’s representation of Sam
Bankman-Fried… in connection with his purchase of the Robinhood Shares…This
inquiry would focus on (1) the scope and contours of that representation,
and (2) based on that representation, what, if anything, S knew or should
have known about the FTX Group’s misconduct and/or fraud…

“The second recommendation concerns potential claims against the former
shareholders of Ledger Holdings, Inc [parent of LedgerX]…that sold their
interests prepetition to West Realm Shires Inc. [a/k/a FTX.US]…This inquiry
would (1) seek to determine whether an avoidance action(s) is warranted
with respect to unreleased shareholders, and (2) enable the Examiner to
report on the underlying details of the prepetition sale of LHI to WRS,
which report and findings would be in the public interest…

“The third recommendation concerns the ‘holes’ or balance sheet shortfalls
at FTX.US…This inquiry would center on (1) the existence of and the reasons
these holes arose at FTX.US, (2) whether the balance sheet holes were the
result of commingling of customer or corporate assets, (3) the frequency
and magnitude of the holes, and (4) how they were resolved and by whom….”

The independent examiner is asking for 10 weeks and $3 million to conduct
the three new investigations. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for
today in the federal bankruptcy court in Delaware before Judge John Dorsey.

The independent examiner had released a preliminary report on May 23, which
found no wrongdoing on the part of Sullivan & Cromwell. That report,
however, indicated that further investigations would be requested by the
independent examiner.

Adding pressure on the independent examiner is the fact that powerful
sleuthing into Sullivan & Cromwell’s work on behalf of FTX is being done by
law firms representing plaintiffs who are suing Sullivan & Cromwell (S)
in federal district court in Florida. The plaintiffs write in their
complaint:

“For its part, S facilitated the scheme to defraud and RICO enterprise by
agreeing to provide and providing legal services to FTX US and FTX Trading
Ltd…S did so knowingly, recklessly, or with willful blindness to the
nature of the RICO enterprise but within the scope of the S’s employment
and in furtherance of the firm’s business. In fact, in exchange for S’s
counsel in these matters, FTX paid S significant fees.”

There is no question that Sullivan & Cromwell’s ties to FTX were
significant. One of Sullivan & Cromwell’s law partners, Ryne Miller, moved
to FTX.US and became its General Counsel. Another former Sullivan &
Cromwell lawyer, Tim Wilson, became General Counsel for FTX Ventures, the
venture capital arm of FTX. Sullivan & Cromwell had

Fwd: NY-DFS Proposed Guidance on Character and Fitness (Extension Appeal)

-- Forwarded message -
From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Wed, Jun 5, 2024, 5:31 AM
Subject: Fwd: NY-DFS Proposed Guidance on Character and Fitness (Extension
Appeal)
To: 
Cc: , Harris, Adrienne A (DFS) <
adrienne.har...@dfs.ny.gov>

They said if I go to Chuch today, I would be shot.

-- Forwarded message -
From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Mon, May 27, 2024, 2:20 AM
Subject: NY-DFS Proposed Guidance on Character and Fitness (Extension
Appeal)
To: 

-- Forwarded message -
From: Gunnar Larson 
Date: Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: NY-DFS Proposed Guidance on Character and Fitness (Extension
Appeal)
To: 
Cc: , 

Ms. Scott:

Additionally, xNY.io - Bank.org respectfully submits Coinbase's Brian
Armstrong on Bloomberg.com:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-01-12/the-david-rubenstein-show-coinbase-s-brian-armstrong
as
a matter for public  comment for NY-DFS' "Proposed Guidance on Character
and Fitness."

The Bloomberg interview with Coinbase showed top journalistic integrity,
yet, Coinbase failed to mention any NY-DFS investigation or pending action.
The interview aired last December, before the 100M Coinbase settlement was
announced by NY-DFS concerning Coinbase's BitLicense compliance.

NY-DFS' approach to Coinbase and Goldman Sachs (who took Coinbase public)
share independent insider trading scenarios that could disrespect the
United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section and
Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section compliance programs.

We have collated 34 highlights that describe a corporate opportunity policy
framework to gauge character and fitness of the "first Bitcoin loan" backed
by a New York banking institution here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yx88RMoeLyyfbNK0RtPl4r-m8N21_1Sp/view?usp=drivesdk
.

Per point one of NY-DFS' "Suggested Questions to Facilitate Initial and
Ongoing Assessment of Designated Persons’ Character and Fitness," can you
kindly acknowledge that you have reviewed and understand our appeal seeking
extension for public comment to August 5, 2023?

We feel extra time for public comment is warranted to ensure that xNY.io -
Bank.org did not play a significant role or otherwise contribute in a
meaningful way to the conduct that led to regulatory action or proceeding
without ample notice.

Thank you,

Gunnar

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 12:04 AM Gunnar Larson  wrote:

> Ms. Scott:
>
> NY-DFS recently asked for public comment concerning "Proposed Guidance on
> Assessment of the Character and Fitness of Directors, Senior Officers, and
> Managers" mentioned here:
> https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry_guidance/industry_letters/il20230509_guidance_assessment_fitness
> .
>
> xNY.io - Bank.org asks if the NY-DFS will extend deadline for public
> comment to August 5, 2023 from June 30, 2023.
>
> As requested by NY-DFS, today we provide (in a separate attachment)
> evidence of any documented exceptions to compliance with the "Suggested
> Questions to Facilitate Initial and Ongoing Assessment of Designated
> Persons’ Character and Fitness."
>
> We have collated 19 references comprising 205 highlights that touch on the
> five key areas below:
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FTRRFFhQHDxf-oR9WOZz0a2gRtC9ZWVO.
>
> -Harassment and Discrimination Policies
>
> -Conflict of Interest Policy
>
> -Insider Trading Policy
>
> -Records Management Policy
>
> -Corporate Opportunity Policy
>
> xNY.io - Bank.org is seeking NY-DFS' extension for public comment to
> August 5, 2023 so that the New York Banking community has time to complete
> Q2-23 earnings call disclosures.
>
> As documented in the above 19 references, we feel extra time for public
> comment is warranted to ensure that xNY.io - Bank.org did not play a
> significant role or otherwise contribute in a meaningful way to the conduct
> that led to regulatory action or proceeding without ample notice.
>
> Per point one of NY-DFS' "Suggested Questions to Facilitate Initial and
> Ongoing Assessment of Designated Persons’ Character and Fitness," can you
> kindly acknowledge that you have reviewed and understand our appeal seeking
> extension for public comment to August 5, 2023?
>
> We hope to hear from you before June 30, 2023 given obvious factors.
>
> Sending you the very best regards.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gunnar
>
> --
> Gunnar Larson
> xNY.io | Bank.org
> MSc - Digital Currency
> MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
>
> g...@xny.io
> +1-917-580-8053
> New York, New York 10001
>
>

BREAKING: Justices To Hear Nvidia Case On Securities Pleading Standard

BREAKING: Justices To Hear Nvidia Case On Securities Pleading Standard


By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a Ninth
Circuit ruling that revived investor's claims over chipmaker Nvidia's
crypto mining sales, giving the high court a chance to weigh in on the
pleading requirements needed to sustain a shareholder class action lawsuit.

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Fla. Court Says Navy Vet Can Sue CNN For Punitive Damages