The Many Ways Banks Commit Criminal Fraud | ZeroHedge

Blogman's Notes: In my latest video update titled There are no Markets anymore - There is only Fraud!, the subject was massive fraud that is the whole Economic System in the modern world, particularly in banking. The following article expands on the info in that video. When will the sheeple wake up and realize that since fraud is the name of the game, all except for the very few perpetrators / beneficiaries  (the 0.1% or less), the remaning 99%+ have to be the victims. We are all being victimized from the lowest of the low to the upper Middle classes, and even some that are wealthy but not a part of the inner circle of the minuscule 0.1% or less who pull the levers of the Global Economy and Politics!

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• The Many Ways Banks Commit Criminal Fraud | ZeroHedge

The Libor scandal seems to be waking people up to manipulation and fraud by the big banks.

There are many other types of fraud they've engaged in as well ...

Here is a partial list:

• Committing massive and pervasive fraud both when they initiated mortgage loans and when they foreclosed on them (and see this)

• Pledging the same mortgage multiple times to different buyers. Seethis, this, this, this and this

• Cheating homeowners - especially veterans - from laws meant to protect people from unfair foreclosure

• Engaging in mafia-style big-rigging fraud against local governments. Seethis, this and this

• Cooking their books

• Bribing and bullying ratings agencies to inflate ratings on their risky investments

• Pushing investments which they knew were terrible, and then betting against the same investments to make money for themselves. See this,this, this and this

• Engaging in unlawful "frontrunning" to manipulate markets. See this,this, this, this, this and this

• Engaging in unlawful "Wash Trades" to manipulate asset prices. See this,this and this

• Otherwise manipulating markets. And see this

• Shaving money off of virtually every pension transaction they handled over the course of decades, stealing collectively billions of dollars from pensions worldwide. Details here, here, here, here, here, here, here,here, here, here, here andhere

• Participating in various Ponzi schemes. See this, this and this

• Laundering money for drug cartels. See this, this and this (indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis)

• Owning and largely running the Federal Reserve ... which is itselfarguably a Ponzi scheme

• But at least the big banks do good things for society, like loaning money to Main Street, right?

Actually:

• The big banks no longer do very much traditional banking. Most of their business is from financial speculation. For example, less than 10% of Bank of America’s assets come from traditional banking deposits. Instead, they are mainly engaged in financial speculation and derivatives. (and see this)

• The big banks have slashed lending since they were bailed out by taxpayers ... while smaller banks have increased lending. See this, thisand this

• A huge portion of the banks' profits comes from taxpayer bailouts. For example, 77% of JP Morgan’s net income comes from taxpayer subsidies

• The big banks are literally killing the economy ... and waging war on the people of the world

• And our democracy and republican form of government as well