Scandals involving Central Banks
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"To a foreign exchange trader with access to large sums of money, and the cover of regular dealings in the market, having a mole in G7 was like having the key to the central vaults at Fort Knox."
Nest of Vipers by Linda Davies

Nest of Vipers, a novel dealing with MI6, insider trading involving central banks and the finance ministers of the G7 countries (now the G8) was written before the allegations below regarding real cases in central banks came to light. However insider trading is only one of the types of scandals that have hit the pillars of the international financial system.

Soja Kohn and Bernie Madoff
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Before She Became a Banking Giant, Sonja Kohn Was a ‘Domestic Engineer’
1/16/09 at 12:31 PM Comment 00Comment 00Comments
Photo: WSJ
Sure, she lost billions of dollars in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme and may have had to go into hiding from the Russian oligarchs whose money it was, but is not Sonja Kohn, the feisty founder of Vienna's Bank Medici, kind of a feminist hero? Quoth the Journal: "Ms. Kohn, who was raised in Vienna, spent the 1970s and 1980s between Milan and Zurich. Her official U.S. stock brokerage employment history states that during that time Ms. Kohn was a 'domestic engineer, or housewife.'" [WSJ]

Bank Medici wikipedia
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Bank Medici AG was a bank based in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1984 by banker Sonja Kohn and incorporated as a bank in 2003.[1]

Bank Medici's president and majority stakeholder is Sonja Kohn.[2] Its main institutional shareholder is Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Austria's largest banking group. Sonja owned 75% of the bank, and Bank Austria owned the balance.[3]

EXCERPT from Creditanstalt wikipedia:
UniCredit Bank Austria AG is a Central and Eastern European bank, 96.35% owned by UniCredit Group. BA-CA's history goes as far back as 1855, the year the Creditanstalt was founded. In 1991, Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank and Oesterreichische Laenderbank merged to form Bank Austria. In 1997, Bank Austria took over Creditanstalt, the country's second-largest bank. In 2000, BA-CA joined forces with HVB Group. Since December 2006, BA-CA has been a member of UniCredit Group. In 2006 continued its expansion in Russia by acquiring remaining shares in International Moscow Bank and 100% of institutional business of Aton Capital - a Russian brokerage. [1]

Since 31 March 2008, the bank has been operating under the brand name "Bank Austria" and they have got a new logo to show the connection to the UniCredit Group.

Who's gonna kill Bernie Madoff
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Title: Will Someone Kill Bernie Madoff? Like the Russian Oligarchs - Sonja Kohn of Bank Medici is hiding from them
Published: Jan 13, 2009
Author: John Carney
Post Date: 2009-01-13 12:57:48 by Robin
Comments: Will Someone Kill Bernie Madoff?

As Laurence Leamer points out, not all of Bernie Madoff's victims were part of the "acquisitive community overly concerned with wealth and status" that populate the country clubs and ski slopes where Madoff's scheme was marketed by word of mouth. A great many of the victims are rumored to have connection with organized crime of one sort or another. And those people won't be very pleased with the news that the moan who was handling their money was a bigger criminal and more organized than they were.

On Madoff's likely killers:

Whatever cell he sits in, whatever corridor he walks though, and from whatever direction and whatever means, Bernard Madoff must live the rest of his life knowing that at any moment he may die
If someone kills Bernard Madoff, it may be some job figuring out who it was. One suspect would be the Russian oligarch who six months ago tried to get his money out and when Bernie said no made threatening sounds. Or it may be the Columbia drug lords who invested a purported $300 million with the Ponzi schemer. They are not happy either.

As we pointed out yesterday, it's a testament to the strength of our civilization that Madoff is still alive. We wouldn't be surprised, however, if there are people preparing to test that strength at this very moment.

Israel and the US Media must watch video inside
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Published: Apr 19, 2010
Author: RussiaToday
Post Date: 2010-09-08 15:51:28 by Itisa1mosttoolate

Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. You can download the files from the web-site of the Institute for Research on Middle Eastern policy. And we can cross to Washington now and talk to Grant F. Smith who is a director at that Institute.

Spy-Trade Grant F. Smith

Product Details
Pub. Date: November 2009
Publisher: Institute for Research
Format: Paperback, 180pp
Sales Rank: 375,561
ISBN-13: 9780976443711
ISBN: 0976443716
Synopsis

Israel and its American lobby have committed audacious but generally unknown crimes against the United States. The government has long kept files about Israeli espionage, weapons smuggling, and covert operations on American soil classified...until now.

Spy Trade begins on the trail of a vast smuggler network funneling stolen and illegally purchased surplus WWII arms to Jewish fighters in Palestine. When the FBI threatened to crack down, a clandestine summit meeting yielded minor convictions for small-time operators, but not the financial masterminds behind the scheme.

Spy Trade probes Israel lobby smuggling operations diverting uranium from the US to Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons facility. The Justice Department battled mightily to regulate two key enablers—the Jewish Agency and American Zionist Council—as Israeli foreign agents in the 1960s. But when the effort collapsed, it unleashed election law violations and escalating intimidation of American politicians by the Israel lobby.

Spy Trade reveals the long-term impact of a newly declassified "third scandal" that began in the 1980s. In the midst of both the Iran-Contra affair and the Jonathan Pollard espionage incident, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Israeli embassy conducted a spectacular clandestine operation against American industries and workers; it has so far cost the US economy $71 billion and a hundred thousand jobs each year by shutting down or diverting US exports.

More than a dissection of the tactics used by Israel and its lobby to evade justice, Spy Trade provides strategies for ending criminal immunity and restoring American governance.

Editorial Reviews - Spy TradeFrom the Publisher
Israel and its American lobby have committed audacious but generally unknown crimes against the United States. The government has long kept files about Israeli espionage, weapons smuggling, and covert operations on American soil classified...until now.

Spy Trade begins on the trail of a vast smuggler network funneling stolen and illegally purchased surplus WWII arms to Jewish fighters in Palestine. When the FBI threatened to crack down, a clandestine summit meeting yielded minor convictions for small-time operators, but not the financial masterminds behind the scheme.

Spy Trade probes Israel lobby smuggling operations diverting uranium from the US to Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons facility. The Justice Department battled mightily to regulate two key enablers—the Jewish Agency and American Zionist Council—as Israeli foreign agents in the 1960s. But when the effort collapsed, it unleashed election law violations and escalating intimidation of American politicians by the Israel lobby.

Spy Trade reveals the long-term impact of a newly declassified "third scandal" that began in the 1980s. In the midst of both the Iran-Contra affair and the Jonathan Pollard espionage incident, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Israeli embassy conducted a spectacular clandestine operation against American industries and workers; it has so far cost the US economy $71 billion and a hundred thousand jobs each year by shutting down or diverting US exports.

More than a dissection of the tactics used by Israel and its lobby to evade justice, Spy Trade provides strategies for ending criminal immunity and restoring American governance.