The INDsider -> Leslie Turk MON, DEC 28 8:01AM by Leslie Turk

Feds probe Stanford’s ties to Congress

In its Sunday edition, the Miami Herald reported that the ties between indicted banker Allen Stanford and members of Congress — including millions in contributions and weekends in five-star Caribbean resorts — are now the subject of a sweeping federal investigation.

Just hours after federal agents charged banker Allen Stanford with fleecing investors of $7 billion, the disgraced financier received a message from one of Congress’ most powerful members, Pete Sessions.

"I love you and believe in you,’’ said the e-mail sent on Feb. 17. "If you want my ear/voice -- e-mail,’’ it said, signed "Pete.’’

The message from the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee represents one of the many ties between members of Congress and the indicted banker that have caught the attention of federal agents.

On Feb. 17, the SEC swarmed the now disgraced banker's offices across the country. Federal agents shut down his operations, including an office of Stanford Group Company in Lafayette's River Ranch, and accused Stanford of running an $8 billion Ponzi scheme related to so called certificates of deposit. Read the Miami Herald story here.

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written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN : , December 28, 2009 - 04:52 pm

LISTEN UP,SLOW LEARNERS!!!
IF" YOU TRULY HAD NO INKLING AND NEVER ONCE IMAGINED OR ENTERTAINED THE NOTION THAT OUR LEGISLATATORS DONNED BLINDFOLDS THEREBY ALLOWING MADDOX $ STANFORD AN OPEN DOOR AND ENABLING THE TWO A FREE HAND IN FLEECING THE INVESTORS"," YA!!!!! ARE SOME IGNORAMOUSITES!

GET IN A COMFY POSITION, HEAH! THEY COME AGAIN...............

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written by northsidian , December 28, 2009 - 08:12 pm

My brother, do we see it because we live in the north where the land is high? Do they do not see because the land in the south is low? Or is it because the power elite are blind and maybe, just maybe part of the group?

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written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN : , December 28, 2009 - 09:05 pm

WHAT? PETE'S, ECHO IS HEARD THRU OUT THE HALLS OF THE HOUSE OF " SEE NO EVIL " HEAR NO EVIL " SPEAK NO EVIL ON DA PADHS ". THIS LOW CODE OF ETHICS IS EMBRACED BY ALL LEVELS OF POLITICOS, THE HIGHER THE HIERACHY THE HIGHER THE SCALE OF THE GRAFT/KICKBACK/THE JUICE/LA MORDITA. THIS IS THE CODE OF THE LEGISLATORS, WHICH STEMS FROM THE HEBREWITE MONEY MERCHANTS WHO WOULD DEAL IN THE EXCHANGE OF JEWISH BRASS COIN IN EXCHANGE FOR ROMAN LIRA, WHICH WAS CAST WITH A HIGH CONTENT OF GOLD. THE PROSTITUITION OF THE RULING CLASS TO THE RICH JEWISH MERCHANTS DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST, NOW CARRIED OVER INTO 2009 BC, BY LAWBREAKERS SUCH AS THE LOWLY PETE SESSIONS, IS AN INHEIRTED TRAIT,/ EXERCISE IN LEGALLY CONDONED PROSTITUTION, *LEGALIZED AND FULLY ACCEPTED BY PRESENT SEATED REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS, (THE REPUBLICANS) HAVE PRESENTLY FALLEN FROM GRACE WITH THE AMERICAN VOTERS, OTHERWISE YOU AND I WOULD BE READING OF A DEMOCRATIC KISSING SIR ALLEN'S ASS, AND THE ONLY REASON WE NOW READ OF "LOWLIFE PETE SESSIONS)" IS BECAUSE THE PRESENT HIERACHY IN THE WHITE HOUSE HAS THE "CARTE BLANCHE", WITH THEIR HANDS IN THE *COOKIE JAR*. NOW, WHILE ALL THE DEMOS GET THE PUDDIN PIE THE REPOS ARE DROOLING WITH ENVY ....YA KNOW THESE TITLED ZEROS WITH DREAMS OF "CAMELOT" AND MONARCHYS, ARE LIKE THE INBRED ENGLISH GENTIL WHO BELIEVE THE ENGLISH GENTILITY ARE GODS CHOSEN, NOW OUR LEGIES BELIEVE THEY DESERVE TO BE LAVISHED WITH RESORT VACATIONS.
THERE IS MORE TO THE STORY, BUT I'M OUT OF MY POSTRATION OF "INK.

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written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN : , December 28, 2009 - 10:26 pm

YA GOT MY DRIFT,EH? ! THE REASON THE ENTITLED COUILLIES BANGUP THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE POLITICO"S RUNNING FOR OFFICE, IS BECAUSE THOSE SAME THIEFS THEY CONTRIBUTE MONIES TO FOR THEIR CAMPAIGNS, WILL IF ELECTED? PAYBACK AT A HIGHER RATE OF INTEREST THAN ANY BANK, YOU CAN MAKE BOOK ON THAT FACT. LIKE 1O,000-20,000% RETURN...........AX ANY POLITICO YOU KNOW, THEY AIN'T GOT NO SHAME................IFFEN THEY NOT HIKING IN THE ANDES THEY PLAYIN 8 BALL WITH THEIR AIDES.
THATS THEIR STORY AND THEY ALLUS GOT THE STICKUN ON THEIR PALMS.....

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