Happy International Anti-Corruption Day - Cheers To Those Who End The Institution Of Trafficking Tiny Humans & To UNICEF

Here's hoping to the United Nations ending its proliferation of stealin' the children, land & votes.

UNICEF sucks.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/anti-corruption-day

The struggle against corruption is real when you are the one who has to bear witness.

International Anti-Corruption Day Observed by the Justice Department

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT) and International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) helps foreign governments combat corruption.  OPDAT provides expert assistance and case-based mentoring to foreign counterparts to help develop justice systems that can effectively combat corruption in furtherance of U.S. national security. ICITAP helps foreign governments combat corruption by building capacity of law enforcement institutions and other government entities to investigate misconduct and corruption and to implement internal controls that encourage professional conduct among government employees.

OPDAT’s Senior Counsel on Global Anticorruption provides specialized technical advice, training, and consultation to foreign prosecutors, judges, and investigators around the world. OPDAT’s anticorruption program assists counterparts from other jurisdictions in analyzing, investigating, and prosecuting corruption pursuant to international standards, including the UN Convention Against Corruption. OPDAT’s anticorruption program aids U.S. law enforcement efforts by strengthening international cooperation and promoting evidence sharing around the globe. Most recently, during the weeks of October 21 and 28, at the International Law Enforcement Academies in Botswana and Ghana, respectively, OPDAT led two anticorruption programs for prosecutors and judges.   

In its bilateral programs, OPDAT’s Resident Legal Advisors, Intermittent Legal Advisors, and International Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Advisors have also provided expert anticorruption assistance and case-based mentoring to foreign counterparts. Notable recent successes include:

• In Indonesia, the OPDAT Indonesia-mentored Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested the mayor of Indonesia’s third largest city, Medan, for allegedly receiving bribes of approximately $25,000.  Medan’s public works chief, a protocol official, the mayor’s personal aide, and three businessmen were also arrested.  According to the KPK, the mayor had used the funds to cover his family member’s travel expenses.  
   
• In Colombia, an OPDAT-mentored prosecutor helped secure the conviction of the former mayor of Bogotá on 34 fraud and corruption counts related to a public contracting scheme worth $63 million.  
   
• In El Salvador, a judge found that OPDAT-mentored prosecutors had submitted sufficient evidence for the former minister of health and 15 other defendants to be re-tried for defrauding the government of $2.7 million.  
   
• In Paraguay, an OPDAT-mentored organized crime prosecutor oversaw the takedown of a police protection and corruption scheme, filing charges against 21 police officers who were taken into custody for having collaborated with Brazilian transnational criminal organizations, including the Primer Comando Capital and the Comando Vermelho. 
   
• In Serbia, OPDAT supported legislative reforms and institutional capacity building that helped the Ministry of Justice establish four specialized anti-corruption prosecutorial, police, and judicial departments.  Since their creation, OPDAT has trained and mentored prosecutors, investigators, and judges assigned to the new departments. The Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office, in close cooperation with Serbia’s Ministry of Interior and regulatory bodies, has secured hundreds of convictions successfully using a task-force model and proactive approach, as trained by OPDAT.  In Nis, Serbia, the OPDAT-mentored anti-corruption prosecutorial department has recently garnered positive media attention for achieving significant convictions and having hundreds of ongoing investigations.  

Building effective anticorruption investigative capacity depends on institutions having sound management practices and human resource systems. ICITAP helps host-country law enforcement institutions improve their ability to direct and train employees to follow new laws and procedures, to recruit and retain qualified personnel, and to manage them effectively through leadership, discipline, and merit-based incentives. ICITAP also promotes public education campaigns and transparency and assists in setting up units and training personnel to handle citizen complaints in a professional manner. In addition, ICITAP provides training in a range of investigative methods and skills, which are necessary to build a successful anticorruption case. 

ICITAP’s team of forensic specialists design and guide critical assistance to foreign laboratories that supports counterparts’ efforts around the world to combat corruption, terrorism, and transnational criminal organizations. Funded primarily through agreements with the U.S. Department of State, ICITAP’s work supports the efforts of the international community and host-country partners to implement and comply with the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. 

To learn more about OPDAT and ICITAP’s capacity-building efforts around the world, go to: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-opdat and www.justice.gov/criminal-icitap.

ANTI-CORRUPTION SITES

U.S. Government

Department of Commerce – Office of General Counsel

Department of Commerce - Trade Compliance Center

Department of State – Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

Department of State – Bureau of Energy, Economic, and Business Affairs

Securities and Exchange Commission – Spotlight on the FCPA

Canada

Royal Canadian Mounted Police – International Corruption Unit 

Chile

La Unidad Especializada Anticorrupción (UNAC) de la Fiscalía Nacional 

Germany

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development – Fighting Corruption – Fostering Transparency 

France

Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris

Ministere de la Justice et des Libertés – Service Central de la Prévention de la Corruption

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Independent Commission Against Corruption 

Italy

Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione

Republic of Korea

Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission 

Switzerland

Federal Department of Justice and Police 

United Kingdom

Serious Fraud Office 

Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard) – Economic and Specialist Crime Command

City of London Police – Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit

Department for Business Innovation & Skills – Combating International Corruption

Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands Anti-Corruption Commission

Report a FCPA Violation FCPA.Fraud@usdoj.gov

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The Tale Of Burisma, Hunter Biden, Taggart Romney, Their Daddies, Deutsche Bank & Trafficking Tiny Human Trust Funds With Catholic Charities

This is the tale of Joe Biden, running trafficking tiny human ops out the White House, with the assistance of his brother James and his son. 

Meet Taggart Romney while I take a personal moment.

https://www.creatingfamilies.com

https://opencorporates.com/companies?jurisdiction_code=&q=center+for+surrogate+parenting&utf8=✓

Tagg Romney has Twins Via a Surrogate Mother

Tagg Romney

Mitt Romney's eldest son, Tagg, made a surprise announcement today: He and his wife, Jen, are the new parents of twin boys delivered by a surrogate.

"Happy 2 announce birth of twin boys David Mitt and William Ryder. Big thanks to our surrogate. Life is a miracle," Tagg Romney said via Twitter at 3:17 p.m.

Ten minutes later, his mother, Ann Romney, said in her own tweet: "Grandchildren 17 and 18 are here – congratulations @TRomney and Jen! We can't wait to meet David and William."

Tagg Romney is one of five children of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his wife. Tagg and Jen Romney had four children previously.

The Associated Press reported it was the second time the couple had used a surrogate. Their son Jonathan was born in 2010 by a surrogate.

Tagg Romney said on his Facebook page that the latest surrogancy was gestational, meaning the new boys are the biological product of him and his wife.

"Everyone is healthy and happy," Tagg Romney wrote. "They weighed in at 5 pounds 13 ounces and 19-3/4 inches, and 6 pounds 13 ounces and 19 inches. A special thanks to our gestational surrogate who made this possible for us. Life truly is a miracle, and we feel so blessed to be able to celebrate the arrival of these precious boys into our family."

His Facebook homepage features a group photo at Fenway Park of him and three of his four brothers.
Both Tagg and Jen Romney are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which encourages its members to have large families and places a premium on genealogical research.

Nonetheless, "The Church strongly discourages surrogate motherhood," says an LDS handbook.

As for adopted children, the handbook says: "Questions regarding the exchange of information and contact between adopted children and their biological parents should be handled with sensitivity. The legal rights and emotional needs of all relevant parties should be considered."

I believe this tale is self explanatory.

They all were stealin' the children, the land and the votes.

Top Romney Adviser Worked With Hunter Biden On Board Of Ukrainian Energy Company

As Democrats and the media remain fanatically obsessed with assembling some form of a “quid pro quo” from the infamous Trump-Zelensky phone call, new details have emerged regarding Burisma, the company for which Hunter Biden worked and the company that Ukraine’s top prosecutor had been investigating before Vice President Joe Biden had the prosecutor fired via a months-long pressure campaign. According to web archives, top Mitt Romney adviser Joseph Cofer Black, who publicly goes by “Cofer Black,” joined Burisma’s board of directors while Hunter Biden was also serving on the board.

According to The New Yorker, Hunter joined Burisma’s board in April of 2014 and remained on it until he declined to renew his position this past May. Meanwhile, according to Burisma’s website, Black was appointed in February of 2017 and continues to serve on its board. The timelines would indicate that Black and Biden worked together at Burisma, and indeed, web archives from late 2017 show Black and Biden listed simultaneously on the board.

Black joined the CIA in 1974 and eventually climbed the ranks to become director of the National Counterterrorism Center from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed him ambassador at large and coordinator for counterterrorism. He later worked at Blackwater as a vice chairman before joining Romney’s campaign as a “special adviser” on Romney’s Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team in October of 2011. In 2017, Black joined the board of Burisma.

It’s looking increasingly probable that Burisma, the subject of a series of corruption allegations in the past, has been smartly buying Western complacency by slapping a few famous names on its board. In addition to the son of a vice president and a special adviser to a GOP presidential candidate, the board also boasts the former president of Poland from 1995 to 2005, Aleksander Kwaśniewski.

Hunter Biden

Appointed: April 2014

Hunter Biden

He serves as Counsel to Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP, a US national law firm based in New York. Mr. Biden is also an Adjunct Professor on Georgetown University’s Masters Program, in the School of Foreign Service. He currently serves as Member of the World Food Program USA Board of Directors and as a Director on the not-for-profit Board of the Center for National Policy, the Truman National Security Project and the US Global Leadership Coalition. Mr. Biden is Member of the CSIS Executive Council on Development, the Chairman’s Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute, and the President’s Advisory Board for Catholic Charities in Washington D.C.

Catholic Charities in Washington D.C.

Mission
Catholic Charities Foundation of the Archdiocese of Washington invests endowment assets and provides financial support to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, an affiliated organization, which is the leading provider of comprehensive human services, serving people in need. 

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington helps people in need to strengthen and rebuild their lives. Focused on prevention when possible, intervention when needed and advocacy when resources are inadequate. Helping those we serve to develop skills and abilities that enable them to move from crisis and isolation to stability and growth. Serving those in need without regard for race, religion or national origin.

http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=catholic+charities#axzz60vKhibbr

https://www.beaubidenfoundation.org/

https://www.ndi.org/
Madeline Albright, Chairman

https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2017/521/338/2017-521338892-0fb49675-9.pdf

Kiev International Institute for Sociology

https://www.wfpusa.org/

Consistent with the mission of the United Nations World Food Programme, World Food Program USA works with U.S. policymakers, corporations, foundations and individuals to help provide financial resources and develop policies needed to alleviate global hunger.

From 2006 to 2009 Mr. Biden served on the Board of Directors of Amtrak, serving as Vice Chairman from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Biden was honored to serve as an Honorary Co-Chair of the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee and to have served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Previously, Mr. Biden was a founding member of the law firm Oldaker, Biden and Belair, LLP, was appointed by President Clinton to serve as Executive Director of E-Commerce Policy Coordination under Secretary of Commerce William Daley and was a Senior Vice President at MBNA America Bank. He is also a Member of the Bar in the State of Connecticut, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Biden received a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

BSF Achieves Dismissal of Claims Against Family Members of Vice President Biden

BSF won a major victory when New York Supreme Court Justice Bernard Fried granted in its entirety the Firm's motion to dismiss all claims filed against BSF's clients, including James and Hunter Biden, the Vice President’s brother and son, respectively, for alleged breach of contract, conversion and fraud arising from a failed acquisition of portions of a hedge fund.

Fund manager sues son and brother of U.S. Senator Biden

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Deutsche Bank executive is suing a son and a brother of Delaware Sen. Joe Biden for at least $10 million over a deal they had to buy into a hedge fund, according to court documents. Stephane Farouze, who is global head of fund derivatives for Deutsche Bank and lives in London, claimed that Biden’s son Hunter and brother James broke a May 2006 contract and defrauded him after agreeing to buy his membership interests in New York-based Paradigm Companies LLC.

The lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan in June names Washington lobbyist Hunter Biden, James Biden, and James’s former business partner Anthony Lotito as defendants. On Wednesday, Farouze’s lawyer Marlen Kruzhkov said that the Bidens “never had any intention of carrying out the agreement with my client”.

He said the Bidens and their lawyers have not responded to the complaint. Representatives for the Bidens could not immediately be reached for comment. The lawsuit said that while the Bidens took control of the company, they never paid Farouze the cash they had agreed to pay.

Sen. Biden is a Delaware Democrat who was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972. He has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate on Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential ticket. The lawsuit is the second accusing Biden’s relatives of irregularities in their deal to buy hedge fund firm Paradigm. An earlier lawsuit was filed by Lotito in January 2007.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Oleg Deripaska Sues U.S. Treasury For Sanctions While SIGTARP Watches

I do not like Oleg "The Ass" Deripaska because my front porch awning was stolen and scrapped when he was hording aluminum in Detroit.

I do not like Oleg the Ass because he was mean to my Sweetie.

I do not like Oleg the Ass because he impugned my intelligence and #perkinscoiesucks.

Paul Manafort is a Corporate Shape Shifter.

Together, they both made history in Detroit, but I shall await to tell that tale, only because I refuse to take away my Sweetie's thunder.

Oleg the Ass & Manafort the Corporate Shape Shifter

Russian Billionaire Who Once Gave Manafort $10M Loan Sues the U.S. Over ‘Devastating’ Sanctions

Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire close to Vladimir Putin who once loaned convicted felon Paul Manafort $10 million, is suing the U.S. for declaratory and injunctive relief in response to “devastating” sanctions.

Deripaska is suing Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in his official capacity, the Treasury Department, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and OFAC Director Andrea Gacki in her official capacity.

Deripaska claims that the U.S. used the “devastating power of U.S. economic sanctions without adhering to the bounds of its legal authority and in a manner that is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution.” He claims that he is the “latest victim” of America’s “political infighting,” and added in a line to call Russian interference in the 2016 election “purported interference.” Deripaska accused of the U.S. of acting with “lawlessness” by relying on “false rumor and innuendo” and “decades old defamatory attacks” made by business competitors to sanction him.

He further claimed that he has been added to an “arbitrarily contrived list of ‘oligarchs.’”

Deripaska characterized the effect of sanctions on him as crippling:

The effect of these unlawful actions has been the wholesale devastation of Deripaska’s wealth, reputation, and economic livelihood. As a direct result of Defendants’ actions, Deripaska has been ousted from the international business community, as banks and businesses refuse to transact or deal with him or his businesses out of fear of their own potential exposure to U.S. sanctions for doing so. Further, Deripaska—whose net worth has fallen more than $7.5 billion, or approximately 81%, since the time of the designations—has been irrevocably forced out of his controlling interests in his largest businesses some of which—including En+—he founded and developed over 30 years. He has also witnessed his remaining businesses—which together employ more than 200,000 people and 1.5 million contractors—edge to the brink of collapse, as banks refuse to extend them loans, and counterparties terminate their relationships with them. Indeed, even the Russian Government—which the designations of Deripaska were intended to pressure— has threatened to expropriate and nationalize Deripaska’s businesses for the benefit of the Russian state if he fails to terminate his interest in his designated companies. These harms continue to compound daily and will continue to do so as long as Defendants maintain sanctions on Deripaska.

That’s not all.

Deripaska suggested that he has been illicitly targeted by the U.S. because it was “publicly popular to do so.”

“The Court should find that Defendants have not acted in accordance with the law and thus should compel Defendants to rescind Deripaska’s designations and remove him from the SDN List and from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s ‘Oligarch’ Report,” the lawsuit said.

Back in December 2018, Law&Crime reported on the news that the Trump administration was “ready to remove sanctions” from Deripaska’s company United Co. Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the world, but only after Derpiska “reached an agreement to significantly reduce his ownership stake.”

Mnuchin said at the time that while financial restrictions would be removed, Deripaska would also be losing “significant” control of Rusal, En+ Group Plc, and JSC EuroSibEnergo.

“These companies have committed to significantly diminish Deripaska’s ownership and sever his control,” Mnuchin said. “The companies will be subject to ongoing compliance and will face severe consequences if they fail to comply.”

As the report notes, this is intended to go into effect in 30 days unless Congress blocks the move.

Mnuchin said that the sanctions that were slapped on Deripaska’s companies were intended to hurt him. Now that the damage has been done — Bloomberg reported that the “value of the aluminum producer has declined by more than half from $9.2 billion more than seven months ago” — Deripaska agreed to cut his ownership share in each company below 50 percent.

Oleg Deripaska Sues U.S. Gov. by on Scribd

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