DOJ: Steve Bannon Grifted The Wall - But What Did He Do With All The Money?

I am much more curios about the crowdfunding website process in its financial mechanisms because it sorta sounds like a vehicle for money laundering and grifting without any reportability duties.

Not having reportability duties, like SARs, would not be a good thing.

I wonder if we will be able to see the journey of these funds because I bet they will go through various trafficking tiny humans trust funds.

I bet some of the funding was invested in other online grifting operations, but, hey, what do I know?

I know that I just adore transposable models.

I wonder what is the next cyber grifting organization will be next

I know thou shalt not bear false witness for they shall fall from the heavens.

#maytheheavensfall

Leaders Of ‘We Build The Wall’ Online Fundraising Campaign Charged With Defrauding Hundreds Of Thousands Of Donors

Steve Bannon

Brian Kolfage, Stephen Bannon, and Two Others Alleged to Have Funneled Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From the Organization to Kolfage; All Four Defendants Allegedly Profited From Their Roles in the Scheme

Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced the unsealing of an indictment charging BRIAN KOLFAGE, STEPHEN BANNON, ANDREW BADOLATO, and TIMOTHY SHEA for their roles in defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign known as “We Build the Wall” that raised more than $25 million.  The defendants were arrested this morning.  KOLFAGE will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hope T. Cannon in the Northern District of Florida.  BANNON will be presented today in the Southern District of New York.  BADOLATO will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Wilson in the Middle District of Florida.  SHEA will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix in the District of Colorado.  The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in the Southern District of New York.

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said:  “As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction.  While repeatedly assuring donors that Brian Kolfage, the founder and public face of We Build the Wall, would not be paid a cent, the defendants secretly schemed to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kolfage, which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle.  We thank the USPIS for their partnership in investigating this case, and we remain dedicated to rooting out and prosecuting fraud wherever we find it.”

Inspector-in-Charge Philip R. Bartlett said:  “The defendants allegedly engaged in fraud when they misrepresented the true use of donated funds.  As alleged, not only did they lie to donors, they schemed to hide their misappropriation of funds by creating sham invoices and accounts to launder donations and cover up their crimes, showing no regard for the law or the truth.   This case should serve as a warning to other fraudsters that no one is above the law, not even a disabled war veteran or a millionaire political strategist.”

According to the Indictment[1] unsealed today in Manhattan federal court:

Starting in approximately December 2018, BRIAN KOLFAGE, STEPHEN BANNON, ANDREW BADOLATO, and TIMOTHY SHEA, and others, orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors, including donors in the Southern District of New York, in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign ultimately known as “We Build The Wall” that raised more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States.  In particular, to induce donors to donate to the campaign, KOLFAGE repeatedly and falsely assured the public that he would “not take a penny in salary or compensation” and that “100% of the funds raised . . . will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose” because, as BANNON publicly stated, “we’re a volunteer organization.”

Those representations were false.  In truth, KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall, which they each used in a manner inconsistent with the organization’s public representations.  In particular, KOLFAGE covertly took for his personal use more than $350,000 in funds that donors had given to We Build the Wall, while BANNON, through a non-profit organization under his control (“Non-Profit-1”), received over $1 million from We Build the Wall, at least some of which BANNON used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in BANNON’s personal expenses.  To conceal the payments to KOLFAGE from We Build the Wall, KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA devised a scheme to route those payments from We Build the Wall to KOLFAGE indirectly through Non-Profit-1 and a shell company under SHEA’s control, among other avenues.  They did so by using fake invoices and sham “vendor” arrangements, among other ways, to ensure, as KOLFAGE noted in a text message to BADOLATO, that his pay arrangement remained “confidential” and kept on a “need to know” basis.  

*                *                *

KOLFAGE, 38, of Miramar Beach, Florida, BANNON, 66, of Washington, D.C., BADOLATO, 56, of Sarasota, Florida, and SHEA, 49, of Castle Rock, Colorado, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. 

The statutory maximum penalties are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendants would be determined by the judge.

Ms. Strauss praised the outstanding investigative work of the USPIS and the Special Agents of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.  She also thanked the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida for their assistance.

The case is being handled by the Office’s Public Corruption Unit.  Assistant United States Attorneys Nicolas Roos, Alison G. Moe, and Robert B. Sobelman are in charge of the prosecution.

The charges contained in the Indictment are merely accusations.  The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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[1] As the introductory phrase signifies, the entirety of the text of the Indictment, and the description of the Indictment set forth herein, constitute only allegations, and every fact described therein should be treated as an allegation.

"We Build The Wall" U.S. v. Brian Kolfage Stephen Bannon Et Al. Indictment 20-Cr-412 0 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Aaaaaand away we go!

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How Huber Can Finally End Child Sexual Exploitation - Termination Of The Right To Bear Arms

Children should be free from sexual exploitation, but to do so would interfere in the right to engage in commerce and an invasion of privacy for the individuals who decry the Parental Right to do what they want to do with their chattels.

This is deeply woven into society and culture as a method of "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" survival.

Back in the days, all you needed to venture out under the marque of the king to vanquish governments and lands of the savages, were a boat and a virgin, because the term virgin was just the colloquial of the day for the sale of a little girl, and the younger you start breeding, the greater the increase in profits of more little girls and boys being born to be used at the leisure of the legal parent.

Today, all you need is a foster care license.

Children are are legally determined by law as a good in the hierarchy of property, where their is financial incentive to procure and purvey tiny humans, called Child Protective Services.

The acquisition of these tiny human goods is the industry of child welfare, where it is perfectly legal to target and convert the lives of children into a sustainable livelihood through Foster Care and Adoption, all done in the best interests of the child to maximize revenues, if you are a privatized, foreign contracted NGO, or generate profit if you are incorporated, even in the stock markets.

Children should be free from sexual exploitation but it will never happen because there is too much money to be made and no one wants to hold these institutions accountable, because it is all  perfectly legal, as an act of the tax exempt god.

How about termination of the right to keep and bear the arms of the U.S.?

You can start with PornHub because they have a trademark.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is already in the pipeline, and so are the Vatican and World Bank.

Dissolution of a corporate entity is a powerful legal mechanism as a start.

And make it a public event for all the world to see, in the annals of history.

#maytheheavensfall

Huber: Childhood should be free from sexual exploitation

Child exploitation cases merit federal prosecution. My office files dozens of child exploitation cases every year. Each year, the ages of the children in the images get younger, and an increasing number of offenders use online platforms to target children.

The label “child pornography” fails to capture the true essence of the crimes.

"Wanna kid?"

More accurately described, our prosecutions involve images that depict sexual violence and rape of children by depraved adult perpetrators. Even one image of this violence would evoke tears, nausea or anger from a parent, grandparent or any human being. Yet federal defendants record and possess videos and images in the hundreds and thousands. They barter and trade images amongst themselves like collectible sports cards.

Adult perpetrators do not limit themselves to images of rape. Some of them creep online through social media in search of child victims. They assume a false online persona, groom victims with gifts and promises, and blackmail children by coaxing them to send embarrassing sexualized images to the perpetrators. Parents and those who try to guard against this conduct may not realize that no boundary or safety wall exists that adult perpetrators cannot cross to meet a child with the intent to sexually abuse the victim.

Pornhub is a crime scene. #Traffickinghub #Rapehub pic.twitter.com/wGuBtNOFnh

— Laila Mickelwait (@LailaMickelwait) May 23, 2020

During the pandemic, parents have taken on more and more during stay at home directives. Work, school and parenting blend into demanding days. With everyone at home together, we may expect that the threat of child sexual exploitation would diminish. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the case.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that COVID-19 school closings may present increased risk of child exploitation. Children will potentially have an increased online presence and be in a position that puts them at an inadvertent risk. In order for the victimization to stop, children must have the courage to come forward to someone they trust — like a parent, teacher, caregiver or law enforcement. Understandably, the embarrassment of being enticed or coerced to engage in unwelcome behavior often prevents children from coming forward.

As a community, we can take measures to help educate and prevent children from becoming victims of child predators and sexual exploitation during this time of national emergency. We should help our young people come forward and report this predatory behavior when it happens to them or their friends. Offenders may have hundreds of victims around the world, so coming forward to help law enforcement identify offenders may prevent countless other incidents of sexual exploitation.

We can discuss internet safety with children of all ages, review and approve games and apps, and generally monitor internet usage. Children should understand that images posted online exist permanently. We should assure our children that it is not a crime for a child to send sexually explicit images to someone if they are compelled or coerced to do so — sometimes fear of being “in trouble” causes a child to hesitate to tell a trusted adult, because they feel guilty about their conduct. We want to ensure that children know they should report to a trusted adult when someone asks them to engage in sexual activity.

We should not forget about physical dangers that exist offline, as well, and watch over our children as our community transitions back to more normalized activity beyond the pandemic. Let’s teach our children about body safety and boundaries. Parents should continue to be mindful and screen those who provide childcare or babysitting, and consider safety precautions during playdates and overnight visits.

The adult perpetrators are out there, and we can all do more to prevent crimes against our children.

John W. Huber serves as U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah. President Barack Obama appointed him to that position in 2015, and President Donald Trump reappointed him in 2017. The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed each appointment.

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Tales Of The New Crown: World Bank Wants National Treasuries Direct Cash Transfer To UNICEF For More Stealin' The Children's Trusts - The Public Private Partnership Corporate Parental Rights Model Rollout

United Nations termination of parental rights to keep and bear
arms - no more flags.

Much love to the #Superfans who quickly found a working model!

They are tripping on their Social Impact Programs. 

Listen to this crap. 

Stealin! 

Their tiny humans trust funds are drying up. 

They want TARP 6.0.

Where are Mike Flynn and Bijan Kian with their tiny humans FARA legal debacle the attorneys failed to address?

Dude is rolling out cooties talking points for more stealin'.

LISTEN!

We want cash, now! 

These are your foreign Public Private Partnerships making US domestic policies.

They want cash transfer schemes where they control all the national treasuries.

They want to expand the social safety net to the information sector to access multiple databases.

The pakistanis will be administering everything.

Human asset management transfers.

Listen.

Corporate Parental Rights.

They are rolling out!

This is modern day human trafficking.

They based it on child welfare models, the residuals of the peculiar institution.

Chattel law.

This is my psychobabies crap.

Someone needs to get him some hummus and matzah.

He is talking about dismantling governments letting NGO delivery systems for cash transfer to...... drumroll please....UNICEF.

Trust Funds Tales of Child Welfare Fraud: Shirley Temple, Jackie Coogan, Hillary Clinton & UNICEF

Conditions of cash transfer to the poor must have conditions like the children must be in school and be vaccinated.

They are going to launch child welfare propaganda campaigns to condition the population in poverty in changing behaviours.

#maytheheavensfall

#COVID19 is a public health emergency — that is fast becoming a human rights crisis.

People — and their rights — must be front and centre.

My new report on how human rights can and must guide #coronavirus response & recovery: https://t.co/CmYirKbsci pic.twitter.com/rssMV0MPBg

— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) April 23, 2020

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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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World Bank Day 3: How To Maximize Revenues Through Child Welfare Trust Funds & The Relationship Of Social Impact Bonds

The World Bank has always been an interesting creature to me, so, for me to give you the highlights in pithy points of reality, we are up to Day 3.

Any wagers on what clever revenue maximization schemes these "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) are conjuring up for Day 4?

Of course, I could have looked at the agenda, but that would be no fun.

I am going to go out there and put Day 5 to be about something like organ harvesting.

These Psychobabies are sick puppies!

Have a great day.

World Bank Fiscal Year Annual Meeting - Day 1 - How To Profit Off "The Poors" In The Quantum Renaissance

Day 2: How to save "The Poors" in bloodless warzones with Public Private Partnerships.

Day 3: How to maximize revenues through child welfare trust funds, Social Impact Bonds.

You people thought I spoke in jest when I said these people use predictive modeling crap to come up with revenue maximization schemes after they complete stealin' the children, land and votes. These are your new, Public Private Partnerships that are privately taking over our U.S. government because we are really, really dumb and greedy by allowing children to grow up in poverty. These are the people who come up with the fantastic innovations to help "The Poors" that they intentionally made poor by stealin'. Thank you for allow me to vent

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Avern Cohn Spares Elders On Yemen Money Laundering, But What About The Co-Conspirators?

Is there more to this story?

Of course, there is, just ask Ibrahim!

Ibrahim knows everyone.

Detroit-area men who moved millions to Yemen spared prison

Avern Cohn,
  "Old School Civil Rights Legal Dogs"

Detroit – A group of Detroit-area men opened bank accounts to move millions of dollars to Yemen, their war-torn native country. Their crime: They didn’t register as a money transfer business.

Their luck: They drew a sympathetic judge.

One by one, U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn declined to send them to prison, despite guidelines that call for a few years or more behind bars. He noted that Yemen’s financial system is a mess and its residents desperately need help. Defense lawyers have praised the judge for educating himself about the poorest country in the Arab world and understanding cultural traditions.

“Only people without compassion” would object to the light sentences, the 95-year-old judge told The Associated Press.

“As I’ve been here longer,” Cohn said, “I’ve come to the realization that the rules are flexible – at least to me.”

The Detroit area is believed to have the highest U.S. population of Yemenis, a demographic that has risen amid war in Yemen that has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions more with food and health care shortages.

Money sent from abroad is critical. The World Bank estimates that Yemenis received at least $3.3 billion in 2018, a figure some experts consider conservative. Cash from expatriates is “hugely important” and remains a “mainstay for many households and the national economy,” said Sheila Carapico, a professor of global studies at the University of Richmond in Virginia.

Since 2018, federal prosecutors in Detroit have charged nine people in an investigation of cash transfers to Yemen. Bank accounts were opened in the names of shell businesses, then used to deposit and wire roughly $90 million over a seven-year period, according to plea agreements filed in court.

“Much of the currency originated from bodegas in New York City and from businesses and individuals in the metro Detroit area and was sent in a manner to conceal the true ownership of the currency, place it outside reach of law enforcement and evade income taxes,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Wyse said.


The “evil” is the lack of records to precisely track the cash, he said.

All nine men have pleaded guilty to failing to register money transfer businesses or making false statements to agents. One, Fahd Samaha, said he charged people only 1%, much less than typical financial service providers. The government said he moved $13 million to Yemen.

“There were no victims. … He used the extra money to live and take care of his family,” said Samaha’s attorney, Jalal Dallo.

The cases were assigned to Cohn, who has been a federal judge since 1979. During a September hearing, he described the conditions in Yemen as “horrendous” and noted that sending men to prison can cause hardship in conservative Muslim families where wives often don’t work outside the home.

It’s unfair to “shed the traditions and practices of your homeland,” Cohn told Hazem Saleh, who possibly faced five years in custody for handling $22.6 million.

Judges don’t have to follow sentencing guidelines, and Cohn rejected prison terms. He placed Saleh and five others on supervised release, a form of probation. Three others await sentencing.

“Please look at me as you would look at your own son,” Ahmed Al-Howshabi told the judge in July. “I can truthfully say I did not understand the laws and regulations of operating such a business.”

Prosecutors said they had no evidence the scheme was anything more than sending money to relatives and possibly avoiding taxes, but they believed sentences within the guidelines were appropriate.

“Sometimes judges agree with us and sometimes they don’t,” U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider told the AP.

Defense attorney William Swor, whose grandparents emigrated from Syria, said people of Arab descent appear to be under greater scrutiny than others in the U.S.

“In the post-9/11 world, the government says it wants to know who’s transferring money out of the country. We’ll assume that’s a legitimate concern, but it’s not inherently a dangerous activity,” Swor said.

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World Bank Fiscal Year Annual Meeting - Day 1 - How To Profit Off "The Poors" In The Quantum Renaissance

World Bank Leadership meets to plot and scheme to make mo' $$$ off the changing times of "The Poors".

Someone had to do it.

Join us LIVE for the 2019 World Bank/IMF Annual meetings - October 16th-18th - this year’s Annual Meetings external program of events will focus on groundbreaking research and innovations that can create transformative benefits for the poor.  The program of open events is around the broad theme of Building Strong, Inclusive Economies and Achieving Successful Country Outcomes.

To open the Annual Meetings to audiences around the World, we will live stream key events and interviews with exciting development experts. This year’s live stream will be daily continuous coverage  starting on Wednesday October 14th through Friday October 16th.  The popular, flagship Global Voices interview series will be interspersed through the programming with a total of about 15 live interviews during the week of the Meetings.  Stay tuned for the Annual Meet

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U.S. State Department Human Trafficking Report 2019 Is Out - Pompeo v. Trump By Requesting More Money To Expand The International Industry Of Trafficking Tiny Humans - Happy Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution Month!

For the 19th year in a row, the U.S. State Department has put out its human trafficking report, where it only gets worse because the only thing offered to stop it is to set up more private contracts to fund more privatized Social Impact Bond operations to further its operations of forced migration.

https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-trafficking-in-persons-report/

Here are a few highlights from the report:

§ I n the United States, traffickers prey upon children in the foster care
system. Recent reports have consistently indicated that a large number
of victims of child sex trafficking were at one time in the foster care
system.

Federal law enforcement authorities
eventually found Miguel during an
operation; however, Miguel experienced
further traumatization, bullying, and
discrimination after he entered the state
foster care system. Today, Miguel is a
licensed behavioral psychologist in the
United States.

The Palermo protocols are three protocols that were adopted by the United Nations to supplement the 2000 Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Convention). They are:

• the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children; and
• the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air.
• the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition

These protocols and convention fall within the jurisdiction of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Not one damn mention of the ills of domestic foster care in the report.

It did not talk about anything of parental rights, nothing about citizenship, termination of parental rights, state custody or guardianship, nothing about transfer of legal custody or guardianship.

Nothing about U.S. commercial adoption of children and not a peep about the children's trust.

Absolute silence on re-homing markets after adoption.

Nothing about manufactured poverty, forced migration and flat out public corruption.

Nothing about the identities or the Medicaid fraud.

Nothing about redistricting operations by foreign corporations for the purposes of gerrymandering to interfere in elections, because if you do not live there, you cannot vote there.

Nothing about the real estate investment schemes of the children's trusts were mentioned, but I am pretty sure this may have something to do with the fact that Kansas is the Corporate Shape Shifting Warehouse for every state of this great union to file up under the UCC ship manifest of the National Children's Trust, coming out of Detroit, of course.

Oh, lest I forget to mention that Pence just heralded the christian proclamation in the expansion of that Faith Based Funding, where Brownback, Kansas' favorite former governor, is now over all the U.S.AID Foreign Faith Based Funding.

This was another cover up propaganda report to prop up another national 2 by 4 underneath their raggedy ass logic of "give us more money to expand the trafficking tiny humans networks so we can make more money to ask for more money."

Pompeo is playing dirty because this is contrary to Trump's Executive Orders on ending modern day human slavery and trafficking.

This is a counter coup because Bethany Christian is ready and able to hit the ground running, with World Bank funding behind them, to start those Public Private Partnerships in infrastructure development.

Heck, even the reparations crap being re-engineered to fit into the bleachbitted history of HR 40 for the purposes of economic development, a running theme in all the congressional Bills being introduced because TARP money ran out.

Just saying.

This is about the residuals of the peculiar industry because slavery was never abolished, it just went high tech and changed the name to child welfare.

It is still legal to procure and purvey children, yet Pompeo made no mention of U.S. chattel laws being a priority.

Trump’s Human Trafficking Record Is Fake News

The U.S. government has just released a highly anticipated human rights report that whitewashes the effects of its own policies.

Since taking office in 2017, the Trump administration has claimed that its human rights agenda centers on human trafficking. “My Administration continues to work to drive out the darkness human traffickers cast upon our world,” President Donald Trump wrote in a 2017 executive order declaring January 2018 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. In a Washington Post op-ed, Ivanka Trump echoed her father’s claims that human trafficking was one of the government’s top priorities. “President Abraham Lincoln and the abolitionist movement gave America a unique inheritance: a principled commitment to fight slavery in all its pernicious forms,” she wrote. “This administration is continuing the fight to end modern slavery and using every tool at its disposal to achieve that critical goal.”

But when it comes to identifying the reality of trafficking inside the United States and fighting it, these claims are contradicted by many of the administration’s policies and much of its rhetoric. In many key ways, the Trump administration’s approach to trafficking in the United States has made matters worse for the most vulnerable communities. Anti-trafficking experts now worry that the government, by failing to recognize its failings, could do lasting damage to what has traditionally been considered the country’s top human rights report, the latest edition of which was released Thursday.

The State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is a collaboration between a designated office in Washington and local U.S. embassies that evaluates government responses to trafficking around the world. It provides a detailed narrative and assigns a tier ranking to governments. (Tier 1 is the highest and Tier 3 the lowest, possibly incurring sanctions.) Over the years, the TIP Report has been seen to surpass the International Religious Freedom Report and the general human rights report in impact and authority. “It’s the power of comparison that the report provides that is so effective,” said Judith Kelley, a professor at Duke University and the author of Scorecard Diplomacy: Grading States to Influence Their Reputation and Behavior. “Local embassies really enforce policies leading up to its publication.”

The report has been published since 2001, after the Trafficking Victims Prevention Act (TVPA) was passed by Congress in 2000 and became the gold standard of anti-trafficking legislation. The United States started ranking itself during President Barack Obama’s administration to lend more credibility to the report. “Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton said rightfully if we’re going to point the finger around the world, we need to point at ourselves, too,” said Alison Friedman, then the TIP office deputy director. The office consulted with nongovernmental organizations and legislators; assessed funding, victim services, and law enforcement response; and analyzed methods of data collection and prevention. In the end, the United States received a Tier 1 ranking, and it has never since been downgraded.

This year’s report has just been published. Like years prior, it contains some rankings that are sure to make headlines. Denmark, Germany, and Italy have been downgraded to Tier 2 countries, while Saudi Arabia, in spite of protests from experts and news reports (and in spite of a Tier 3 ranking), was left off the report’s list of countries that exploit child soldiers. The Philippines maintained its controversial Tier 1 ranking.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the United States received a Tier 1 ranking in this year’s report. But there is ample evidence that, like Italy and Germany, the country should have been downgraded. Over the past six months, I have closely reported on the impact that the Trump administration has had on trafficking in the United States. Some of the policy changes appear small—minor tweaks to grant funding or longer wait times for visa applications—and are often weighed against more positive steps, like an increase in general funding for victims services. But, taken together, these seemingly small changes amount to a systematic dismantling of services for America’s most vulnerable communities, particularly noncitizen victims.

The TIP Report, for example, traditionally highlights LGBTQ individuals as highly vulnerable to trafficking, but the Trump administration has removed various legal protections for the LGBTQ community, particularly for transgender individuals. Rachel Lloyd, the founder of New York’s Girls Educational & Mentoring Services, worries particularly about the administration’s scaling back of protections against discrimination in housing and health care, the lack of which can often produce trafficking victims. “Forty percent of the girls we serve are LGBTQ,” Lloyd said. “They are feeling unsafe.”

Many victims of trafficking are forced to commit crimes related to their trafficking situation, like prostitution. Because of that, clearing records is crucial to a trafficking victim’s recovery. “It’s one of our most requested services,” said Yvette Butler, who until recently was the director of policy and strategic partnerships at the Washington-based Amara Legal Center. “We want people to become productive members of society.” While Congress has increased funding to victims services, Trump’s Justice Department has eliminated grants that used to fund vacaturs, expungements, and sealing of criminal records.

The administration touts prosecutions as victories against trafficking, but in fiscal year 2018 federal investigations in the Justice Department decreased significantly, from 783 to 657, as did the number of defendants charged with human trafficking. In spite of repeated calls from NGOs and advocates, highlighted in multiple TIP Reports, for the government to focus on the equally urgent problem of labor trafficking in the United States, of those federal prosecutions 213 were for sex trafficking while only 17 were for labor trafficking.

Where the administration fails most profoundly is in its treatment of noncitizen victims of trafficking. Across the world, migrants are the most vulnerable to being trafficked, and the TIP Report highlights a government’s response to migrants. This year, Denmark, for instance, was downgraded to Tier 2 in part for its lack of protection for migrants. “The government continued to focus on the undocumented status of some foreign victims rather than screening for indicators of trafficking,” it reads. It points out that Denmark was failing to provide sufficient “incentives for victims to cooperate in investigations, such as residence permits.” Italy and Qatar, both Tier 2 countries, were cited for lack of protections for undocumented and migrant workers.

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Editorial: Jeffrey Sachs offers World Bank a fitting perspective on poverty

Editorial: Jeffrey Sachs offers World Bank a fitting perspective on poverty

Jeff Sachs
Candidate for President of the World Bank

The World Bank was created in 1944, and its official goal is still to end poverty. You wouldn't necessarily know that, though, by studying the succession of Wall Street bankers and career politicians who have led the international financial institution that provides billions of dollars of loans to developing countries.

Their lack of expertise on global economic development issues and insensitivity to the needs of developing nations have eroded the institution's credibility and, more important, undermined its ability to carry out its mission to reduce poverty and increase stability in some of the world's poorest regions.

Current World Bank President Robert Zoellick, previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, will step down when his five-year term ends on June 30. By nominating world renowned American economist Jeffrey Sachs to succeed him, the administration of Barack Obama can move the World Bank in a more constructive direction -- one more closely aligned with its mission.

U.S. Representative
John Conyers, Jr.

Other names Obama may consider include U.S. Sen. John Kerry, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, and economist Lawrence Summers -- none of whom can match Sachs' understanding of how economic development works around the world. Nor do most of them appear interested in the job. Sachs' congressional supporters include U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit.

Sachs, 57, a Detroit-area native, was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2004 and 2005. He is the world's leading expert on sustainable economic development -- an expertise he has demonstrated not only in New York Times best-selling books like "The End of Poverty" but also by helping to develop the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an organization that has saved millions of lives with vaccines and other low-cost but effective treatment and prevention measures.

Sachs is director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and serves as special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. For more than 25 years, he has advised governments throughout the developing world on economic development and environmental problems. He founded the Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger, and he directed work on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015.

As Sachs wrote in a March 1 column, the leader of the World Bank should come to office "understanding the realities of flooded villages, drought-ridden farms, desperate mothers hovering over comatose, malaria-infected children." Sachs would.

Some people have criticized Sachs for the unprecedented -- and perhaps unseemly -- act of openly campaigning for the presidency of the World Bank. But his enthusiasm, passion and even self-promotion are preferable to the murky, back-room dealing that normally precedes the appointment of a World Bank president.

To be sure, the president of the World Bank needs political skills to balance the needs and demands of donor and borrowing governments, but such a leader must also know how to use aid, technical assistance and loans to create prosperous, healthy, stable and secure communities and nations. That's the mission of the World Bank, and no one is more qualified to carry it out than Jeffrey Sachs.

Mr. President: Nominate Jeffrey Sachs

U.S. Representative
John Conyers, Jr

The following letter was sent to President Obama by Rep. Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and 26 other members of Congress.

Dear Mr. President,

When the member nations of the World Bank meet this spring to select the organization’s next president, we strongly encourage you to nominate Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as the United States’ candidate. We believe that Professor Sachs has the experience, expertise and bold vision for the future needed to lead the World Bank at this critical moment in history.

Professor Sachs is widely considered to be the world’s leading expert on economic development and the fight against poverty. For over 25 years, he has advised dozens of governments throughout the developing world on economic development, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation, debt cancellation, and globalization. He has twice been named among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. He was described by the New York Times as “probably the most important economist in the world,” and by Time Magazine as “the world’s best known economist.” A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade.

Professor Sachs’ work has been pivotal in many of the key junctures of globalization during the past thirty years. In the 1980s he helped several Latin American countries including Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru to end hyperinflations and renegotiate their external debts. In 1989, Professor Sachs advised Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement and the first post-communist government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and wrote the first-ever comprehensive plan for the transition from central planning to a market democracy. Sachs’s ideas and methods of transition from central planning were successfully adopted throughout the transition economies. From the mid-1990s till today, Professor Sachs has been involved with economic reforms in many parts of Asia, including India and China, and he works with governments in the Middle East including Jordan and Qatar on poverty reduction, education, and ICT initiatives.

Professor Sachs has amassed an impressive track record of accomplishment over the years, including helping launch the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, the President’s Malaria Initiative, the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) and the Millennium Villages Project, which operates in more than one dozen African countries covering 500,000 people, and has pioneered a strategy of integrated rural development for poverty alleviation. He also played a critical role in bringing Members of Congress together on a bipartisan basis to pass the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003, which established the highly successful President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

In recent years, the World Bank has often been headed by career politician or a Wall Street banker, who has often lacked significant experience or expertise in international development policy. As a result, it has often fallen short in its efforts to build sustainable economies and healthy communities for the people of the developing world. In contrast, Professor Sachs is a development professional and a problem solver – someone who has seen the destabilizing effects of poverty, famine, and resource scarcity first hand, and who has mobilized people and resources to do something about it. Under his leadership, the World Bank would be an entity that brings together the public sector, private enterprise, and civil society to forge creative solutions to these complex challenges.

As Professor Sachs recently noted, “The world is at a crossroads. Either the global community will join together to fight poverty, resource depletion, and climate change, or it will face a generation of resource wars, political instability, and environmental ruin.” If the world community is serious about addressing these challenges, it is clear that the World Bank’s next president should be an accomplished professional who is ready to tackle these great challenges from day one. We can think of no better person to play this critically important role than Professor Sachs and we hope that you will nominate him as the next President of this important international economic development organization.

The following members of Congress also signed this letter: Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Mich.), Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Rep. James P. McGovern (D-Mass.), Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.), Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-Texas), Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.), Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.).