Three billion dollars to the jihad -- from one of the "largest and most prominent banks in New York." "NYC's Terror Bank," from the New York Post:
WASHINGTON - Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has shut down a massive terror-finance pipeline in which a whopping $3 billion in profits from drug deals and other crimes flowed through a major New York bank to Middle East fanatics, The Post has learned.Morgenthau told The Post his office is pursuing a settlement involving possible penalties against one of the largest and most prominent banks in New York - which he declined to identify - for maintaining an account where funds that originated in South America's notorious "tri-border region" were rerouted to suspect accounts in the Middle East.
Evidence developed in the course of a three-year probe, which has already resulted in charges against other New York-based financial institutions, revealed that about $3 billion that flowed through the account over a two-year period was going to terror groups Hamas, al Qaeda and Hezbollah, Morgenthau said.
"I can't go out and arrest Osama bin Laden. But I can try to cut off his money," Morgenthau said of his massive probe.
Robert Morgenthau deserves out thanks and praise. But why does he have to do it? Why don't we hear about the US Justice Dept doing these things?
3 billion in profits from drug deals and other crimes flowed through a major New York bank
C'mon! You mean to tell me that NOBODY noticed this until now?
And I get reported to the FBI EVERYTIME I move $10,000 or more in cash?
That reminds me of the movie Pentagon Wars.
Is that billion with a "b"?
I don't like thinking of how much terrorism/jihad one can buy for three billion dollars. 9/11, IIRC, didn't cost more than a million dollars.
"one of the largest and most prominent banks in New York - which he declined to identify"
Who/what is Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau protecting by declining to identify this 'prominent' banking institution? Inquiring minds want to know.
Personally, if any bank I use is found guilty of criminal complicity in jihad financing . . .my business will immediately move on to more patriotic pastures.
Smacks of the Harriman Bank scandal during WWII, trading with the enemy.
3 billion in profits from drug deals and other crimes flowed through a major New York bank
C'mon! You mean to tell me that NOBODY noticed this until now?
And I get reported to the FBI EVERYTIME I move $10,000 or more in cash?
Posted by: witness
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In the words of Eric Cartman "This is bull crap!"
All that money flowing to Hamas et al. is all the "humanitarian aid" they need. American taxpayers, Infidels almost all, are not willing to pay the Jizyah. Unlike their rulers, or those who purport to lead them, they are not intimidated nor fooled by Islam. A simple slogan for 2006 Congressional candidates and for Presidential candidates ini 2008: An end to the Jizyah, to all Muslim states and would-be states, for any reason whatsoever. Let them go to their rich fellows in the Gulf. Discretionary dollars by the tens of billions in that Gulf -- plenty to share with fellow members of the Umma. We Infidels wish to share our money, on the other hand, only with other Infidels -- and then only insofar as they are wholeheartedly on our side in the war against the Jihad.
No Sharia-based taxation -- with or without represenatation. When Official Washington, with its ridiculous think-tanks and ridiculous ex-officials with their Kissinger Associates and Albright Groups trolling for petrodollars, realize how furious we are becoming, perhaps they will stop for a minute and reconsider. They can all be disgraced, all be treated with the contempt they have earned, they have merited, they so richly deserve.
End the Jizyah.
$3,000,000,000 (3 Billion Dollars) through one bank and bank account.
Just how many bureaucrats in Washington DC that should be watcing over American are asleep - brain dead, just don't care or on the take???
Now, this is a how you fight the war on terror on the homefront.
BULLY!!! Mr. Morgenthal, BULLY!!!
Get a clue Dept. of Homeland Security.
It really saddens me to know that nothing is really going to change until there's another 9/11. And Bush will be blamed for that too.
Off with their heads I say!
Yes sadly the country is so complacent once again....The watchdogs are asleep and the foxes are guarding the henhouse....I mean Whitehouse.
Shouldn't the identity of this "major New York bank" be a matter of public record? What about the other New York financial institutions against which charges ahave been filed?
The fine print of public corporations' annual reports, or required SEC filings, generally include short statements about legal proceedings in which such corporations are involved.
Searched around on the web and found, to my great disgust, that Israel Discount Bank of New York, Beacon Hill Services Corporation, and Hudson United Bank are involved in this tri-border region money laundering:
http://www.manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2005-12-16.htm
The officers and directors of these institutions should be ashamed of themselves.
The 2004 IDB annual report online not mention the case. The 2005 annual report does not seem to have been released yet.
Israelis enabling their own destruction. Just Disgusting.
Hudson United was a New Jersey Bank, and has recently become a subsidiary of a subsidiary (TD BankNorth) of what was formerly Toronto Dominion Bank of Canada.
Morgenthau apparently isn't telling us which bank. However, I DO know that Chase Manhattan Bank is partly owned by the bin Laden family. So guess which NY financial institution gets MY vote as the one most likely to be a jihadists' tool?
Now, if Chase Manhattan turns out NOT to be the one in question mentioned by Morgenthau, methinks if the government is taking anti-terrorism SERIOUSLY, the Federal authorities had better investigate it and others owned by Middle Easterners anyway--REAL SOON.
As for banks dealing with jihadists, maybe we had better begin prosecutions for treason again, the way we used to fifty years ago...
And I'm sure all this laundered money has been scrutinized extensively by the IRS?
It really saddens me to know that nothing is really going to change until there's another 9/11. And Bush will be blamed for that too.
Posted by:johnnygriswold at April 3, 2006 3:37PM
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Lack of protection of our borders, ports and airports is directly the responsibility of President Bush
and
the next attack on American will be directly tied to President Bush.