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Patrick says

Sure, that's what he told them, but it was widely understood that his returns were impossible without some kind of fraud.

There was some Greek guy in Boston screaming about it for years.

Multiple overseas banks and analysts thought he was front running

https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/the-scam-everyone-thought-madoff-was-running

The Scam Everyone Thought Madoff Was Running

Lots of Bernie Madoff's investors, including institutional investors and banks, thought Madoff Securities was running a scam--they just didn't realize he was scamming them.

The scam everyone thought he was running was basically having his hedge fund operation front-run the trades from his electronic market making operation. As the saying goes, you can't cheat an honest man...but cheating those who are dishonest is all too easy.

The Financial Times today describes how one Swiss bank thought Madoff had an "edge" because of his market making business:

... “The perceived edge was Madoff’s ability to gather and process market-order flow information and use this information to time the implementation of the split-strike options strategy.”

Yes, they seemed to have thought he was front-running, which is illegal.

If only Bernie had followed Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio, none of this would have happened.

Patrick says

Yes, they seemed to have thought he was front-running, which is illegal.

And were trying to get in on it too, and some emails from a Swiss Bank and Irish fund were like "Well, he's gotta be front running, how can we invest with him while maintaining plausible deniability about the Front Running?"

Madoff rejected them because they had far more detailed reporting requirements he couldn't BS his way out of.

MolotovCocktail says

200+ Sex Offenders charged by the FBI.

Tons of "regular" shit the FBI was sitting on during the Xiden regime.

Apparently the thousands of videos still exist according to Bondi, and they're being sifted through.

Remember that prosecuting "Ordinary" sex traffickers takes months just to get the case ready.

Xiden did not do any work in this direction, it's almost a miracle they didn't "Lose" the videos or send them to an incinerator due to "Routine Record removal to create more space in the archives"

Beware of Doomer-Demoralizers claiming she should have charges filed by now. No chance! Esp. not with the Obama-Biden Judges. They will hamper anything that isn't perfect, and try to find novel excuses on those too.

Nor are they going to tip off anybody and certainly not the press by announcing they're preparing to charge specific persons. They're going to get massive resistance and media attack. Any accused will be working overtime to manufacture alibis and pay people to falsely testify to them.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mrna-mayhem-saturday-may-10-2025

What happened was yesterday, in what was presumably a political stunt gone wrong, Mayor Baraka tried to enter an ICE facility to “inspect conditions,” and generally made himself an odious nuisance and an unwanted distraction to innocent federal immigration officials trying to do their official jobs. After being repeatedly warned and asked to leave— a privilege not offered to January 6th “trespassers”— Mayor Baraka was unceremoniously arrested and criminally charged.




He’s lucky they didn’t charge him with insurrection.

And this is correct. State and certainly local/city officials have 0 authority over immigration, just like the entire Judiciary.

Judge Hannah Dugan indicted by Grand Jury for immigration enforcement obsfucation
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1922421896009646212

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/myob-wednesday-may-14-2025-c-and

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a update story headlined, “Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents.” You remember Judge Hannah Dugan, who threw ICE agents out of her courtroom and then smuggled a criminal illegal alien exit out the back through the private jury deliberation room. Yesterday, she was formally indicted by a federal grand jury — another nail in her judicial coffin and, conveniently, a procedural process with which the judge was surely very familiar.

It was more bad news for the judge. She has already been suspended from the bench while her case continues.

A well-known axiom of criminal law is that “you can indict a ham sandwich.” That might be a slight exaggeration, but indictment is a simplified process where prosecutors need only show the grand jurors something like probable cause. So normal cases, defendants’ lawyers would probably advise their clients not to expect anything very helpful from the indictment process. Indictment is usually guaranteed.

But this case is different. It’s likely Judge Dugan and her activist lawyers were banking on two miracles. First, they probably hoped that Pam Bondi’s DOJ would get cold feet and, fearing political backlash, back down and drop the charges, having already made their point. They probably thought the DOJ would never go through with it, especially after all the bar association letters, unhinged media coverage, and all the Democrat congresspersons who bitterly complained.

But the DOJ didn’t back down. The DOJ is moving full steam ahead.

Second, I’d bet an indicted ham sandwich that Dugan and her lawyers were next hoping the jury would be so offended that the DOJ is going after a public official —a judge!— they might buck the sandwich trend and nullify the case. But the jurors, reeling from covid- and Trump-witch-hunt-fatigue, seem prepared to buy the DOJ’s footlong after all. Score another point for the jury system.

As we’ve discussed before, the indictment of a sitting judge —not for bribery, embezzlement, or some personal vice, but for actively obstructing federal immigration enforcement— is a huge deal. It’s not just another minor legal development. It’s a giant crack in the ground where the silent truce between the judiciary and the executive branches used to be.

Now that Judge Dugan has been indicted, her lawyers will probably start quietly shopping for a plea deal. Dugan is facing professional extinction if she’s convicted of a felony, so her lawyers will likely offer to plead to lesser misdemeanor charges, like low-level “obstruction” or “failure to follow procedure,” perhaps with some mandatory ethics training. That would let the judge keep her law license and judicial eligibility.

Patrick says

She has already been suspended from the bench while her case continues.

With pay.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

She has already been suspended from the bench while her case continues.

With pay.

Naw, that's going to her lawyers.

Whaddya know...obese, Black, Congresscritters can get arrested if they assault LEOs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rep-lamonica-mciver-charged-by-doj-over-incident-with-ice-agents/ar-AA1F5MmO

Thanks @Misc

I added that to her page on this site:

https://patrick.net/post/1383499/2025-02-05-lamonica-mciver?start=1#comment-2175781

Warning: Turn volume wayyy down. McIver pulls the "Help, I'm being repressed" schtick

Obama deported 5M with no problem using the same laws Trump is trying to use.

The difference is that the judiciary is now reinterpreting the laws to TRO Trump whereas before would throw challenges out. And doing on a case-by-case, not class basis, to try to keep them from going up the ladder SCOTUS

By delaying Trump in the Courts, while sending out infiltrators into MAGA to doom and demoralize, the Globalists hope to stop Trump from deportation, further demoralizing his base and allowing them to take back the House in 2026. Then they can impeach Trump a third time and stop anything and everything Trump wants to do.

Hunter is protected by the rule that the elite never arrest or prosecute each other.

Patrick says

Hunter is protected by the rule that the elite never arrest or prosecute each other.

It's always been this way. Elizabeth Báthory (the infamous Hungarian "Blood Countess") killed dozens of village maidens and bathed in their blood. When she was finally caught, any servants (non-nobles) that facilitated her satanic perversions were drawn and quartered. Because she was of noble blood, they immured her, banishing her from society. The oligarchs can't let the hoi polloi take down one of their own - it's bad for business.

I believe the upper class Romans also had rules like that. For example, they were not subject to beatings like the lower class.

On the other hand, they tended to murder each other.

Patrick says

that’s a business subsidy. we subsidize what businesses won’t pay in wages. these jackasses pushed cost of running business only working class taxpayers.

walmart and many businesses go ape shit when these get cut, it cuts their profits.

https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/doj-asks-for-18-month-stay-of-eight

DOJ Asks for 18-Month Stay in Eight FOIA Lawsuits Against FDA Seeking Basic Information

One has to wonder what could be in those files




Incredibly, the Department of Justice (DOJ), on behalf of FDA, has informed us that it will move for an 18-month stay in eight FOIA lawsuits my firm recently filed on behalf of ICAN to obtain basic information from FDA:

Communications within FDA that led to a rule allowing certain clinical trials to be conducted without obtaining informed consent from test participants;

Protocols used in three polio vaccine clinical trials conducted in the 1980s;

Protocols of the clinical trials FDA relied upon to license the Hep B vaccine, Recombivax HB;

Protocols of the clinical trials FDA relied upon to license the Hib vaccine, Hiberix;

Final study reports for three studies purporting to test the safety and effectiveness of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, including incidence of sub-clinical myocarditis in teens;

Records on how FDA developed the contents of its 2020 publication “Development and Licensure of Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19—Guidance for Industry”;

Emails between the Office of Vaccines Research and Review and Stanley Plotkin, Edgar Marcuse, and Philip Krause;

Communications involving then-Commissioner Janet Woodcock during late 2020 regarding convalescent plasma;

Communications within FDA regarding ICAN or Del Bigtree.

Reflecting on what FDA may be seeking to hide, a recent production from FDA (in another pending lawsuit we brought on behalf of ICAN) included an email from former FDA Commissioner, Janet Woodcock, while she was the Therapeutics Lead of Operation Warp Speed, reacting to a report of the effectiveness of Ivermectin against COVID-19 during the height of the pandemic: “Wow. We should definitely test it. Safe drug.”

We will continue to demand transparency from every administration when they give us pushback. Wait times of 2-3 years violate the spirit, letter, and intention of FOIA.

https://slaynews.com/news/trump-urges-kristi-noem-arrest-ex-dhs-chief-alejandro-mayorkas-border-crisis/

The comments came during a press conference at the newly opened “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility in the Florida Everglades.

Trump took direct aim at the policies that led to record levels of illegal immigration under Biden and Mayorkas.

Responding to a question from Blaze Media reporter Julio Rosas, who asked why no one from the previous administration had been held accountable, Trump didn’t hold back.

“Well, I’d take a look at that because what he did was — it’s beyond incompetence,” Trump said.

“Now, with that being said, he took orders from other people … he followed orders, but that doesn’t necessarily hold him harmless.”

“If he wasn’t given a pardon, I could see looking at that,” Trump continued, directly addressing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. ...

Trump’s remarks reinforce growing calls among conservatives for real accountability following years of chaos at the border.

I believe it when I see it. Till then, it's just more bullshit.

https://www.scribd.com/document/883486408/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625



But still no arrests.

MolotovCocktail says

https://nypost.com/2025/07/22/us-news/doj-staffer-claims-she-was-fired-over-husbands-controversial-anti-ice-app/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/thinkable-friday-august-1-2025-c

The short version is that in July, 2016, it appears Hillary Clinton’s team secretly cooked up the Trump-RussiaGate idea as a distraction from her burgeoning email scandal. They also minted the idea of calling ‘election interference’ a threat to “critical infrastructure,” a legal loophole that authorized the intelligence agencies to surveil American citizens— to wit, Trump’s campaign.

A few months later, when Trump shocked the conspirators by actually winning the election —which was the last thing they expected— they took the now-underway RussiaGate distraction operation and turned it into an engine of resistance, to sideline Trump for four years, explode him out of office, and then prosecute him to deter future private citizens from getting similar ideas. ...

Pundit Scott Adams recently opined that, to him, what was once unthinkable has now become necessary.




... As Scott Adams explained, arrests of top intelligence officials (and even the former president) long seemed unthinkable. But step-by-step, the disclosures of a cohesive, interlocking architecture of evidence is making the idea of arrests not only thinkable— but necessary.

Patrick says

architecture of evidence is making the idea of arrests not only thinkable— but necessary.

Like it did with Epstein?

Right. My thoughts exactly. No one with real power or wealth ever goes to prison.

Exception: members of the ruling class who scam other members of the ruling class. People like Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried.

The elites can either sacrifice their own for the sake of justice, or they can stonewall and collectively face torches and pitchforks. Their choice, but as long as "they" can import unlimited Janissaries/rapefugees to cow the native population, time is on our side.

To paraphrase the Elvis poster, 400 million guns can't be wrong. To paraphrase the Doors, we got the guns AND we got the numbers.

stereotomy says

as long as "they" can import unlimited Janissaries/rapefugees to cow the native population, time is on our side.

I don't understand this.

As long as they keep importing rapefugees, time is not on our side. We will eventually be swamped by 3rd worlders and incapable of organizing coherent resistance.

Patrick says

stereotomy says

as long as "they" can import unlimited Janissaries/rapefugees to cow the native population, time is on our side.

I don't understand this.

As long as they keep importing rapefugees, time is not on our side. We will eventually be swamped by 3rd worlders and incapable of organizing coherent resistance.

The Janissaries are beholden to no one but themselves. The proof is the mass self-deportation as soon as the funding and support for mass illegal migration dried up.

Eventually, there's not enough money to pay for the Janissaries, and they turn against the corrupt government.

I teach my son skills. The next step is teaching him how to hunt and fish so that he can live off the grid and the land if necessary.

"Wolverines!"