Louis J. Freeh vows an independent probe into Sandusky case at Penn State University
You think?
Try this one on for soize, straight from the conspiracy files of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh:
"In 1991, President George H. W. Bush appointed Freeh a judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, a position he held until he was appointed FBI director by President Bill Clinton in 1993."In June 2001, he resigned amid criticism that the FBI needed stronger leadership, particularly after allegations of spying by Robert Hanssen.Almost there...
In October 2001, right after 9/11:
"Freeh approached acting New Jersey Governor Donald DiFrancesco, and offered to serve, without salary, as the state's anti-terrorism "czar". Di Francesco approached both major-party candidates for governor to secure their approval; Bret Schundler, the Republican candidate, agreed "in principle". However, Democrat Jim McGreevey, who won the gubernatorial election, turned down Freeh in favor of Golan Cipel. It was later discovered that McGreevey and Cipel had been involved in a sexual relationship. McGreevey was heavily criticized for giving the post to Cipel rather than Freeh or another experienced individual.Sourced here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/nyregion/on-politics-former-head-of-fbi-accepted-security-post-but-mcgreevey-balked.htmlGolan was a former IDF soldier, Israeli Embassy employee in NYC, and part-time "poet" who somehow wormed his way up the ranks of the New Jersey political system, starting in 2000. His introduction to McGreevey (they met in Israel) came soon after McGreevey acquired a new benefactor: Charles Kushner, New Jersey real estate magnate/political kingmaker. McGreevey pushed hard to get Kushner elected as the head of NJ's Port Authority, which had jurisdiction over the newly-liberated real estate of downtown Manhattan, as well as control over hundreds of million$ in development funds. Sweet gig!
As it turns out, rejecting Freeh's noble offer was a bad idea. Shortly after McGreevey spurned Freeh's advances and appointed Golan to be New Jersey's NATSEC czar in early 2002, rumors started swirling about the governor's gay affairs. Everything finally blew up in a 2004 gay sex scandal that forced Jim McGreevey to come out of the closet and resign.
This is a very complicated and bizarre case - too much to fully outline here - but thankfully New York Magazine published two fascinating features about the scandal.
JIM MCGREEVEY AND HIS MAIN MAN (September 2004)
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/9874/"Golan Cipel was only a plaything. It was developer Charles Kushner who speeded his passage through the swamps of New Jersey patronage politics—till Kushner was brought down in his own spectacular sex scandal."Including one by McGreevey himself:
THE MAKING OF A GAY AMERICAN
http://nymag.com/news/politics/21340/index7.htmlSome might look at all of this and say, "hmm...next time Louis J. Freeh
volunteers to help us with National Security, maybe we'd just better say yes..."
^--(I'm aware of how reductive a stretch this is, given the complex nature of the scandal, but considering all the other bizarre shit we've dug up on these people...)
The more I read about Freeh, the more I retract my earlier judgments. This guy is THE PERFECT CANDIDATE to help unwind MtGox and find those 800,000+ BTC.
In fact, Freeh seems to be the motherfucking Batman of getting customers' money back:
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/06/mf_global_trustee_customers_du.htmlThat's right, Louis J. Freeh was selected to
probe the absurd meltdown of MF Global, a prestigious Wall Street trading firm run by top Obama rainmaker (think dollar bills in strip clubs), er, "campaign bundler", Jon Corzine.
No need to read the whole article, for this closing line captures it all:
No one has been charged in the MF Global case. Federal regulators, Congress and a federal grand jury in Chicago have investigated MF Global's failure and the disappearance of customers' money. Go over to zerohedge.com and search for "Jon Corzine" and you'll see what a lucky boy he's been. This former Goldman Sachs CEO / U.S. Senator literally bought his way onto the New Jersey governor's mansion after McGreevey's speedy departure in 2005. After losing re-election to Chris Christie in 2009, Corzine decided to continue his illustrious career of public service by slithering back through the Holland Tunnel into Wall Street, where he commenced to gamble wildly in the European bond markets.
Things got wild, you know how it goes...long story short, Corzine pulled a Karpeles and POOF! One day customer accounts were frozen. People were like WTF. Corzine was like, "ur moneys gone, l8r, JaJaJa". MF Global promptly filed for bankruptcy.
Thank the heavens that Louis J. Freeh was appointed to be MF Global's trustee by a bankruptcy judge. Freeh's the one who ultimately sued Corzine on behalf of the company's clients.
People were so excited. Corzine, the ultimate political insider, wasn't gonna get away with this, not when Detective Freehbird is on the case!
^-- we've heard that one before, haven't we?
Freeh was ready to kick some Wall Street ass. There was just one little thing before he got started...
wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323420604578652451181350238
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Louis J. Freeh wants a $1 million fee for success securing creditor recoveries in the bankruptcy wind-down of MF Global Holdings Ltd., the failed commodities firm led by former New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine.In a filing Monday with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, lawyers for Mr. Freeh said he brought "instant credibility" when he was assigned to serve as the firm's Chapter 11 trustee in Nov. 2011, shortly after the firm collapsed under the weight of its large bets on European debt.
Mr. Freeh's lawyers asked for the $1 million in addition to the more than $20 million billed by Mr. Freeh and his legal teams for their hourly work on the case. Mr. Freeh's hourly rate is $900.$900/hour! Sunlot Holdings Ltd is doing this takeover PROPER, amirite? Just how much monopoly money (or BTC from Gox...) are these boys playing around with?
With a bill like that, Freeh must have dug up every last shred of fraud going on at MF Global, right?
"No criminal charges were ever filed against Corzine, nor against JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, who collectively managed some of MF's assets and were included in the civil suits."
Meanwhile, some
unserious people would disagree with Freeh's "instant credibility"...
http://www.thenakedemperor.com/oligarch/louis-freeh"You really have to admire the legal and law enforcement community in this country. Take Louis Freeh. Here is a guy that served in the Reagan Justice Department, was appointed to the Federal Bench by George H.W. Bush, and handpicked to head the FBI by President Bill Clinton. I mean you are topping out on the charts of law enforcement in this country with that kind of pedigree. And clearly there are expectations that come with that kind of background.
We could not have been happier when we found out that Louis Freeh was to be the Trustee of the MF Global bankruptcy. That turned a potential hazard for the entire industry into a spectacular moneymaker…for us.
MF Global stole their clients’ funds and no one has been arrested yet. The top law enforcement person in the country has been on the case for over 6 months and no one has been charged. Try as he might, with paper trails everywhere and $1.6 billion dollars gone missing, he could not find out who did what. But you know Louis Freeh was working really hard at it, along with the people he asked to stick around MF Global to help him sleuth this thing down.
That’s right– most of that team he assembled were the top guys from MF Global. And if they couldn’t help Louis Free find the evidence of their own wrongdoing then who could? I mean really?
And Louis wanted to reward them for their help in not solving the case—so he asked the bankruptcy judge to approve bonuses for these financial wizards. And he wanted them paid right now—never mind that the MF Global clients hadn’t gotten their money back—nothing should keep one of us from our bonuses."More from Nomi Prins:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-audacity-bonuses-mf-globalI gotta say, Louis has a hell of a knack for narrowing the scope of high-profile crimes
in just a way that they always appear isolated. It's always Lone Gunman and his Magic Bullet Band behind the curtain.
If one of the two cops on True Detective were Louis J. Freeh, the show would've lasted one episode.
Detective Louis Freeh:
"Well you see, this one fat, evil hillbilly raped and murdered a young girl, and we caught him. Was anyone else involved? Are there other children still out there? Eh, who cares, lol. Case closed!"All the pedos in America, in unison: "JajAjajaJaja"
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Next time on Troo Detective: Freehbird Rising...In 2007, Freeh formed Freeh Group International Solutions,[36] a consulting and investigative firm headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware with regional offices in Washington DC and New York. Affiliated firms include Freeh Group Europe and the law firm Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP. The latter firm includes Eugene R. Sullivan, a retired Federal Judge in Washington D.C. and Eugene R. Sullivan II amongst partners and Stanley Sporkin as senior counsel. Sporkin is a retired Federal judge who earlier served as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement and as general counsel to the Central Intelligence Agency.And...
"In 2009, Louis Freeh was hired by Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar bin Sultan as his legal representative on issues surrounding the Al-Yamamah arms deal, appearing April 7, 2009 on the PBS series Frontline's episode "Black Money"."http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bribe/2009/04/louis-freeh-interview.htmlAs the head of his own global consulting firm, Freeh Group International, Louis Freeh has been hired by Prince Bandar as his legal representative on issues surrounding the Al-Yamamah arms deal. Lowell Bergman interviewed Louis Freeh on March 19, 2009 about allegations -- that Freeh insists are untrue -- that his client received approximately $2 billion and a wide-body Airbus 340 from arms company BAE Systems as part of the massive arms contract. Prince Bandar, who was until recently the Intelligence Chief of Saudi Arabia. His name recently popped up in connection with the Syrian civil war.
http://rt.com/op-edge/saudi-chemical-behind-syrian-attack-421/"A report by Yahya Ababneh, which was contributed to by Dale Gavlak, has collected the testimonies of witnesses who say that “certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the gas attack.”Until next time...JaJaJa
Hey, Buff. Looks like some other nut-job is trying to wangle (or is it wrangle?) his way into our territory. Pay no mind to the Published on Feb 7, 2014, date, for we all know that timestamps are not always accurate.
