it’s not the elephant or gorrilla in the room — think golem, monster of war, depair, isolation
“Behind every fortune lies a crime,” said Balzac.
Well, it does take lawyers, CPAs, accountants, banks, and, sure, hitmen to amass the fortune. And armies!
Ahh, as an example of the Tribe’s Specialness, here, some crimes of the son-in-law’s daddy: Charles Kushner’s pardon has re-surfaced the sordid actions that put him in jail in the first place.
Kushner was a multimillionaire real estate executive and top Democratic donor when he was sentenced in 2005 to two years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to 18 counts, including tax evasion and making illegal campaign contributions.
Once Kushner discovered his brother-in-law and former business partner was assisting federal authorities in their investigation, he set out for revenge (and, as prosecutors would argue, witness intimidation).
The wealthy New York real estate magnate hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law in a New Jersey motel, arranging to have the encounter recorded with a hidden camera.
Then, he showed the video to his brother-in-law’s wife: Kushner’s sister.
Adding an interesting twist to the saga is that Kushner’s prosecution was overseen by then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, who would go on to become a prominent Trump surrogate and the head of his transition team.
Christie’s history with the Kushner family would loom large over his time with the Trump team. In 2016, he was ousted from the campaign, and many blamed Jared Kushner for his firing.Still, Christie has continually defended his decision to prosecute Charles Kushner, even writing a book centered in part on the saga: Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics.
“Mr. Kushner pled guilty. He admitted the crimes,” Christie told PBS in a 2019 interview. “And so what am I supposed to do as a prosecutor? I mean, if a guy hires a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, and videotapes it, and then sends the videotape to his sister to attempt to intimidate her from testifying before a grand jury, do I really need any more justification than that?”
Christie continued: “I mean, it’s one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted. And I was U.S. attorney in New Jersey, so we had some loathsome and disgusting crime going on there.” (sources)
“This is a bit like the situation between Poland and Ukraine. Ukraine is under Russian attack, undoubtedly in a very difficult situation, clutching at whatever he can. Should we be offended by it [Ukraine]? Of course, you can be indignant about it,” Duda said.
“Should we act to protect ourselves from being harmed by a drowning man? Of course we must act to protect ourselves from a drowning man causing us harm, because if the drowning man causes us harm and drowns us, he won’t get any help. So we have to look after our own interests, and we will do this effectively and decisively,” Duda said.
Duda also admitted that although he had planned to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he had not been able to “for organisational reasons” – delays in the schedule of leaders’ speeches at the UN General Assembly – but he does not rule out that a meeting will take place later.
This is what this sort of fellow — the most corrupt of those countries in “EuroTrashLandia” — does: Ukraine to Sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia , Over Food Import Bans. In May, EU restrictions allowed Ukraine’s neighbors, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, “to ban domestic sales of Ukrainian wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seeds,” Reuters reports.
But on Sept. 15, after the European Commission refused to extend its import ban, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia announced Ukrainian grain import restrictions of their own. The countries maintain that the restrictions are intended to protect their economies and farmers, Reuters reports.
On Sept. 18, Ukrainian officials announced that a lawsuit will be filed against Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Polish politician Radoslaw Fogiel said that if Ukraine does sue, it would “reverberate badly in Poland.
“Our decision is not aimed at Ukraine, it is dictated by the protection of the Polish farmer and the protection of Poland’s interests,” Radoslaw Fogiel, the head of Poland’s parliamentary foreign affairs commission, said via Reuters.
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So this little man, and his little men and women, are demanding more more more, and, they default to lawsuits. While this is escalating. Yeah, the little David, the New Churchill, Zelensky!
Glenn Diesen interviews Col. Douglas McGregor
What’s next in the Ukraine war?
Mcgregor admits that Russia would attack the West with nukes if it is attacked by nukes.
He seems to have missed part of the wording of the new Russian military doctrine, which in fact says that, if Russian territory is attacked – even with a non-nuclear weapon – they retain the right to attack the invader with nuclear weapons!
He also thinks that, if the West continues to send long-range weapons and contracts NATO specialists to provide Ukraine with coordinates and pushes the launch buttons, Putin may eventually get tired of this provocation, and may go on the offensive against a NATO country.
Again, others see this terrorism a la Israel: Don Hank,
But Ze is no longer requesting or even demanding, he is threatening to sic Ukrainian refugees on the entire West if they stop supporting this lost cause.
Well, nothing new in this. Back on July 22, 1946, the Jewish terror group Irgun demanded that Britain refrain from setting limits to the number of Jewish immigrants that could legally enter the then British Mandate, now known as Israel in the West and Occupied Palestine in much of the Muslim world. Now Britain had been the benefactor of the Jewish migrants and in fact, the Zionist project was a brainchild of the British, whose Balfour Declaration laid the foundation for it.
So you might expect the new settlers would appreciate this assistance. But you’d be wrong.
The bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was planned in response to Operation Agatha (explained here). The terrorist Volodymyr Zelensky was just following an established pattern. Except that, unlike those early forebears, Ze is the leader of a Nazi regime.
But then again, what did the Biden team expect from a Nazi regime?
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AmeriKKKa, and the rest of the Beautiful People in the West:
And, so, one cartel or mafia, Sicily, or a Jewish Mafia is destined to get billions from exploiting Ukraine:
I Wish I Was a Rothschild, err, Rich Man. Blinken’s bat mitzvah bud? DISGUSTING!
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The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed discuss the appointment of billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker to head US “reconstruction” efforts in Ukraine, and detail her and her family’s sordid history of corrupt financial practices.
Pritzer, man, what a legacy! And on Wikipedia, you will get the white white wash, and dead links.
Dirty dirty: This is Variety magazine, another dirty place of fake news, or fawning news.
Jay Pritzker quietly built a $15 billion empire of more than 200 companies, including Hyatt Hotels Corp., and a network of 1,000 family trusts. But one of the patriarch’s final deals before his 1999 death, designed to bind his heirs closer, unleashed a torrent of anger, greed, and betrayal, culminating last fall in a $6 billion lawsuit by his 19-year-old niece, Liesel. The author charts the destruction of a great American fortune.
It is a simple moment that stands out most vividly in the memories of Jay Pritzker’s friends—a moment during his funeral which did not seem to them remarkable at the time, but which in retrospect was the last time they saw his family united. “It was a very cold day and there was snow,” one friend recalls. Because of the weather, many guests had not been able to make it to Chicago that day in January 1999; still, nearly 1,000 mourners had shown up at the Emanuel Congregation to pay their respects, forcing the police to barricade part of North Sheridan Road to make way for the limousines. Chicago’s mayor, Richard Daley, had come, as had the former congressman Jack Kemp, the real-estate billionaire Sam Zell, and the advice columnist Ann Landers, along with scores of investors and businessmen with whom Pritzker had dealt in the decades during which he amassed one of the largest fortunes in America.
The former director of the National Gallery of Art J. Carter Brown, who, before his death last year, chaired the jury of the famed Pritzker Architecture Prize, was there. And so were representatives of the countless hospitals, cultural groups, and charities to which Pritzker had, before he died at the age of 76, given hundreds of millions of dollars.
“The temple was filled,” says one of Jay Pritzker‘s friends. At the front of the synagogue, taking up several rows of seats, were almost all of the 52 living members of the Pritzker family. For many of the mourners, it was the first time they had seen so many of the publicity-shy clan in public. Intensely private, they are rarely photographed or interviewed, almost never seen.
Marian “Cindy” Pritzker, Jay’s wife of 51 years, and his younger brother and business partner, Robert, were seated in the front row, flanked by Jay’s three sons, Thomas, John, and Daniel, and his daughter Gigi. With cousins surrounding them in a protective phalanx, they formed a tableau that Jay Pritzker, friends say, would have loved. In life, they say with sadness now, nothing was more important to him or gave him more joy than his family.
All three of Jay’s sons spoke at his funeral that day. They spoke about his passions for skiing and buying companies, and about how much they loved him. “I’ve lived a privileged life, and truly the greatest privilege was getting to know Dad in my adult years,” said Daniel, a rock musician, who is now 43.
“Growing up was kind of like having Chuck Yeager and John Glenn for a dad,” said John, now 49 and an entrepreneur in San Francisco. And then Tom, Jay’s oldest son, stood up to speak. It was Tom, now 52, to whom Jay had passed the torch; Tom controlled the family’s empire—including its crown jewel, the Hyatt Hotels Corp., the Pritzkers’ web of more than 200 privately held companies, vast tracts of real estate, and some 1,000 family trusts, all of which, taken together, are said to be worth $15 billion, if not more. His father, Tom told the crowd, “believed a man’s only immortality comes from the values he instilled in his children. The country has lost a great man. I’ve lost my father. I’ve lost my partner. I’ve lost my best friend.” As he spoke, Tom began to cry. (source)
This is the Blinken-Garland-Yellen-nuland-Kagan(s) Dirty White House:
Did you know that in the early 1970s, the Internal Revenue Service investigated the Pritzker family, whose scion Penny Pritzker has just been tapped by President Obama to become Secretary of Commerce, because their Hyatt Corporation was paying no taxes? And that in the course of the inquiry, an IRS statement quoted an informant with access to the records of the offshore bank where they hid their assets that the family, “through their Hyatt Corporation, received their initial backing from organized crime”?
[Photo: President Obama introduces Penny Pritzker as his nominee for Secretary of Commerce.]
Read all about this disgusting family, now tapped by digusting Blinken to work her dirty mafia magic in Ukraine = Penny Pritzker’s Commerce (Part Two)
“Republican senators are likely to be interested in the Pritzker family’s reputation as innovators in the use of offshore trusts and foreign bank secrecy laws to shelter their wealth from income, capital gains and inheritance taxes. Even after tax loopholes were closed, the family’s trusts were grandfathered in and it kept benefiting from them.”
But certain patterns still obtain. It is one of the most crucial stories for understanding our age: how tax-avoidance strategies of a previous generation that might have landed you in court are now legal—which does not make them any more ethical. In fact, it may make them less ethical—precisely because third-gen scions like Penny, born in 1959, have entered into the political establishment, where their representatives, their latter-day Korshaks and Kanters, do their laundering in the halls of government instead of in Las Vegas hotel room meetings with associates of Tony Accardo. The scumminess is the same, or, really, worse; as Charlie Savage wrote this week in The New York Times, “Republican senators are likely to be interested in the Pritzker family’s reputation as innovators in the use of offshore trusts and foreign bank secrecy laws to shelter their wealth from income, capital gains and inheritance taxes. Even after tax loopholes were closed, the family’s trusts were grandfathered in and it kept benefiting from them.” As well the Republican senators should. And, hell, Democratic senators, too.
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Golem, in the image of LAWYERS, a la ZioAzovLenskyLansky: Meyer Lansky was a Mafioso who owned a Cuban casino where Americans loved to gamble.
Burke Osborne Hedges, who operated Cuba’s largest textile company, was revered as a boss who provided free health care and high wages.
Despite their differences, both men were lumped together by Fidel Castro as symbols of the corrupt government he battled to overthrow — Americans who amassed wealth at the expense of Cuban citizens.
Five decades later, long after they passed away, the two men and descendants who live in the Tampa Bay area are linked once again by their Cuba connections.
The families want to add properties they once owned in the island nation to $1.9 billion in claims filed by U.S. citizensover assets seized by the communist government.
Murder Inc., what a Zionist and Jewish mobster who killed, contracted to kill, and used Cubans for his prostitution rings and money laundering—
But the offspring are criminals of another sort: The heirs of Meyer Lansky, the impresario of the North American Mafia gambling colony in Cuba, a reign that lasted from 1933 to 1958, are betting on a big payback from the negotiations between the United States and Cuba to normalize relations between the two countries.
Compensation claims by U.S. citizens or businesses for properties nationalized by the Cuban revolution are among the issues under discussion. Lansky’s daughter Sandi, her son Gary Rapoport, and her brother Paul have filed a compensation claim against Cuba for the Riviera Hotel and Casino with the U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.
The Cuban revolution confiscated (not really confiscated, but, it is a new land) the Riviera and other Mafia-owned properties after it toppled the gangster-linked regime of General Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
“It was through my grandfather’s hard work that the hotel was built,” Rapoport told the U. K. Daily Mail Online on Dec. 23, 2015. “We are his natural relations . . . . By right, it should be our property.” He said the Riviera is valued at $70 million. The Tampa Bay Tribune, Reuters, and Haaretz have also covered the story. (Lansky died in 1983 at the age of 80 from lung cancer, living his final years quietly in Miami Beach.)
This is the hubris, the pure absurdity, man, of a fucking mafia and drug-running and Murder Inc. Legacy — YOU OWE US! Here’s how the Jewish Press treats this scumbag: My Affair With Meyer Lansky, the Mobster/ He was a famous gangster, she was a young waitress in Tel Aviv. Zali de Toledo recalls her affair with Meyer Lansky, who tried to use Israel’s Law of Return to escape the FBI.
Ahh, the mistress = proud Jewish Girl.
This Hollywood movie has all the right ingredients: a young waitress falls in love with a Jewish organized-crime figure, who meanwhile wants to take advantage of every Jew’s right to claim Israeli citizenship in order to escape the clutches of the FBI. Then there’s the frightened prime minister who tries to get rid of him. For the grand finale, there’s a lawsuit that reaches the Supreme Court and a final tear-jerking scene in which the plane carrying the mobster touches down in the United States and FBI agents take him into custody. (source)
And so, the US taxpayer will be footing the laywers’ bill? The money reappropriated to the offspring of scum? Again, special chosen people stick together, outright criminals or not: Feinberg, well, that says it all!
“This takes us back to the early days of the Cuban revolution, when in their initial nationalization laws that allowed for compensation, as we’ve emphasized, there were clauses in there which excluded people who were… ‘participants in or associates of’ the Batista government,” Richard Feinberg, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told reporters earlier this month.
Feinberg has examined the various ways a deal might be reached, and thinks it will be possible to settle US corporate claims—which, at $1.6 billion, make up the bulk of the list—with some combination of tax vouchers or credits, development rights, debt-equity swaps, or long-term government bonds. That would would both settle the debts and provide new investment in Cuba, a win for both sides.
He is skeptical, however, that the US will agree to Cuba’s demands for compensation for damage caused by the embargo. The US government will want to protect its use of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool. Feinberg expects, though, that any claims settlement will come under a broader agreement that will limit Cuban bitterness over that issue.
Meanwhile, the remaining $230 million in US personal claims against Cuba could be paid out in increments without hurting the government’s cash flow. But even that option won’t really be available to Lansky’s grandson.
“We never filed a claim with the government or hired an attorney earlier because we didn’t think the door for negotiating would ever actually open,” Rapoport told the Florida Sun-Sentinel. “Now it is open.”
The business of Lansky and Bugsy, Murder Inc., involved a special argot: the assignment to murder was a “contract,” the killing a “hit,” and the victim a “bum,” or a “mark.”
In the 1920s and early 1930s, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel dealt in murder-for-hire in the New York area; the nationwide Murder, Inc., may have been a continuation of this earlier organization. Siegel was a leading hit man in Murder, Inc.
So, who represents all the families and businesses and US taxpayer expenditures for these monsters? Is the Lansky family then going to pay BACK the money owed to those relatives of the murdered folk, all the crime that killed communities? Fuck these people.
You can hang with Yellen or Blinken or Garland or Nuland or any number of criminals from “the tribe,” or you can hang with these human stains, all the same:
[Photo: Sandra Lansky, with her son Gary Rapoport on the porch of their Seminole Heights home, holds a photo of her father, Meyer Lansky. “They spolied me rotten,” Lansky says of the many mob men she called uncle.]
Paul Haeder, Author 