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VideoArticle: The Real AIG Scandal How the Game is Rigged at Wall Street’s Casino
Article - MediaThe Real AIG Scandal: How the Game is Rigged at Wall Street’s Casino
Lucy Komisar
AlterNet, 26 March 2009
There’s nothing like a grandstanding member of Congress to deflect attention from the real issues at hand by throwing a few juicy bones to the masses. Most legislators at a House Finance subcommittee hearing last week deftly avoided the real story of AIG’s collapse. Instead, they homed in on the public relations disaster of hundreds of top AIG officials and staff getting $165 million (later revealed as over $218 million) in bonuses.
Article: Geithner – Treasury Nominee Failed to Halt Bond Scam
Article - MediaGeithner – Treasury Nominee Failed to Halt Bond Scam
Lucy Komisar
The Komisar Scoop, 19 January 2009
U.S. Senators at Timothy Geithner’s confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretary Wednesday may want to ask him about a failure to act that is costing the U.S. a lot more than the amount he evaded on taxes.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which he has led since 2003, conducts the operations on Wall Street of the Federal Reserve in Washington, the country’s central bank.
Article: Offshore shell games threaten global financial system
Article - MediaOffshore shell games threaten global financial system
Lucy Komisar
The Komisar Scoop, 17 September 2007
There’s an astonishing article in the Washington Post’s Business Section (“Risk. Now They See It. Now You Don’t.“ Sept 16, 2007)
The Post, which has never, ever, railed against tax havens, is now suggesting that their use to cheat tax authorities and investors threatens the entire global financial system. Of course, it doesn’t put it so starkly, but that’s the gist.
Article: Offshore Banking – The Secret Threat To America (Hound-Dogs)
Article - MediaOffshore Banking: The Secret Threat To America
Lucy Komisar
Hound-Dogs, 1 March 2004
This is a story about a massive money-laundering operation run by the world’s biggest banks. It hides behind the “eyes-glazing over” technicalities of the international financial system. But it could be one of the biggest illicit money-moving operations anyone has ever seen. And it’s allowed to exist by the financial regulators who answer to Western governments.
In these days of global markets, individuals and companies may be buying stocks, bonds or derivatives from a seller who is Clearstreamhalfway across the world. Clearstream, based in Luxembourg, is one of two international clearinghouses that keep track of the “paperwork” for the transactions.
Article: Offshore Banking: The Secret Threat to America (Dissent Magazine)
Article - MediaOffshore Banking: The Secret Threat to America
Lucy Komisar
Dissent Magazine, Spring 2003
In November 1932, deputy Fabien Albertin took the floor of the National Assembly in Paris to denounce tax evasion by eminent French personalities-politicians, judges, industrialists, church dignitaries, and directors of newspapers-who were hiding their money in Switzerland.
“The minister of finance knows very well that for ten years, the concern of all his predecessors has been to track down this fraud . . . ” he declared. “However, till now, the information one has gotten has been extremely vague. When documents arrive, they are formless notebooks in which holders of accounts are represented only as numbers. Employees of the banks don’t know the names of account holders. These names are known only to the director of the bank, who the clients forbid to correspond with them, so anxious are they to preserve anonymity.”
