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UN employee busted for robbing banks during lunch break

UN employee busted for robbing banks during lunch break

"An employee at the United Nations (UN) was arrested Monday for robbing four Manhattan banks, all during his lunch breaks.

Nigeria native Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, was detained and charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery for his two-month long crime spree.

According to authorities, the four banks that were robbed are within walking distance of UN headquarters on First Avenue near East 42nd Street, where Shuaibu works for an African news agency as a journalist.

Shuaibu was arrested after a retired police officer who works at the UN headquarters recognized him from a surveillance image released by the New York Police Department......."

http://dennismichaellynch.com/un-employee-busted-robbing-banks-lunch-break/

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Meet Brad Birkenfeld: "Lucifer's Banker"

Meet Brad Birkenfeld: "Lucifer's Banker"

Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com,

Source: ZeroHedge

"Just how bad is the ongoing fraud in the banking system? Get ready for a mind-bowing expose by a former insider at UBS.

Brad Birkenfield, author of Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy, recounts the efforts he uncovered by his employer to help its clients cheat the US government out of tens of $billions in taxes.

But despite his working with the government closely to expose the gigantic conspiracy between US-based tax cheats and the giant Swiss bank, UBS, the so-called Justice Department went after Mr. Birkenfeld for abetting tax evasion by one of his clients. After spending thirty months in Federal prison, he was released and three weeks later, received a whistle-blower check for $104 million, the largest such check ever from the IRS Whistle-blower Office.

    Once again, 300,000,000 Americans-plus got screwed by the corrupt Department of Justice. They’re not about justice, they’re about protecting themselves, trying to take credit, and making everyone else listen to what they say the story is.

    We remember the financial crisis of 2008. It was devastating and so many people lost their jobs, lost their homes and so forth. In the entire financial crisis, there was not one banker to go to jail. The only banker to go to jail was the UBS whistleblower who exposed the largest and longest running tax fraud in the world. ...."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-17/meet-brad-birkenfeld-lucifers-banker

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CNN Confirms Fox's Napolitano - British Intelligence Passed On Trump Surveillance To US Spy Agency

CNN Confirms Fox's Napolitano - British Intelligence Passed On Trump Surveillance To US Spy Agency

Source: ZeroHedge

Roughly a month ago, during the height of the mainstream media mania over Trump's alleged collusion with Russia, Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on Fox and Friends with a startling new revelation, namely that President Obama circumvented U.S. law and employed a British intelligence agency to conduct surveillance of the Trump campaign.  Despite Napolitano's assertion that the information had been confirmed by 3 separate sources, the Obama administration and foreign intelligence agencies issued immediate denials and the mainstream media was all too happy to trash the latest 'conspiracy theory' of their competitor network.  Here's what he said:

“Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command.  He didn’t use the NSA, he didn’t use the CIA, he didn’t use the FBI, and he didn’t use the Department of Justice.  He used GCHQ.”

 “What the heck is GCHQ? That’s the initials for the British spying agency. They have 24/7 access to the NSA database.”

 “So by simply having two people go to them saying, ‘President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations involving president-elect Trump,’ he’s able to get it, and there’s no American fingerprints on this."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-13/cnn-confirms-foxs-napolitano-british-intelligence-passed-trump-surveillance-us-spy-a

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Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World

Todd's been telling us to upgrade to Win 10. Cool

Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World

The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent (and previously unknown) software capable of breaking into systems running Windows. The software could give nearly anyone with sufficient technical knowledge the ability to wreak havoc on millions of Microsoft users.

The leak includes a litany of typically codenamed software “implants” with names like ODDJOB, ZIPPYBEER, and ESTEEMAUDIT, capable of breaking into — and in some cases seizing control of — computers running version of the Windows operating system earlier than the most recent Windows 10. The vulnerable Windows versions ran more than 65 percent of desktop computers surfing the web last month, according to estimates from the tracking firm Net Market Share.

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/14/leaked-nsa-malware-threatens-windows-users-around-the-world/

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