Wells Fargo’s CEO testimony exposed government complicity in
the ongoing congressionally sanctioned financial terrorism and the war on the
CFPB.
It was a sight we’ve seen before, congress critters feign
outrage as yet another CEO smugly sits and listens to a litany of their crimes. There will be no reprimand, no fines, and no legislation
to ensure the crimes won’t be committed again.
At the end of the day, they all shake hands and agree to maintain the
status quo with an understanding the campaign
contributions will continue to roll in.
CFPB on hit list
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the brainchild of
Elizabeth Warren, was created to protect consumers from the congressionally protected banksters’ illegal
activity. It was a CFPB investigation that
uncovered massive fraud by Wells Fargo that resulted in a $185 million dollar
fine. The CFPB uncovered was a scheme where low level employees were instructed
to open millions of accounts for customers without their knowledge or consent
in order to fatten the profits of the bank.
Fraud pays big time
The illegal accounts generated hundreds of millions of
dollars in profits for the CEO and shareholders in overdraft fees and penalties levied against unsuspecting
customers. As a result, Wells Fargo was
ordered to pay $100 million to the CFPB, the largest fine the federal agency has
ever imposed, $50 million to the city and county of Los Angeles and $35 million
to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Ryan and GOP outraged
Paul Ryan and the GOP are outraged, not by Wells Fargo, but
by the CFPB. When the CFPB was created
it was deliberately set up as an independent
watchdog, shielded from congressional and White House control. According to The Washington Post, “Under the Dodd-Frank law, the CFPB gets its
money from transfers from the Federal Reserve System, up to specific caps set
by the law. The Fed can’t turn down requests under that cap. The caps are fixed percentages of the Fed’s
operating expenses, which works out to the following:
–10% of Fed operating
expenses in fiscal 2011 or $498 million — 11% of Fed operating expenses in
fiscal 2012 or $547.8 million — 12% in fiscal 2013 or $597.6 million
–12% each fiscal year
thereafter, subject to annual adjustments for inflation.”
In 2008 Wall Street banks laundered three-quarters of a
billion dollars into the campaign of Barack Obama who was backed by Chuck
Schumer, Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy. The
banks printed up over $700 million dollars in untraceable, unreportable
campaign donations via $200 or less prepaid credit cards. $300 million in these “small donations” was funneled into the Obama campaign in October
2008 during the banking collapse.
Warren and CFPB become whipping boys
Once the agency was formed, Obama refused to name Elizabeth
Warren to head the independent watchdog agency.
After Kennedy’s death Warren ran for and won his Massachusetts Senate
seat. The agency and Warren have been under
fire by not only Paul Ryan and the GOP, but by the Obama-Biden wing of the Democratic
Party.
Fraud is Wall Street’s business model
William Black, a top US white crime expert who prosecuted
over 1,000 S&L executives and jailed them for fraud, recently confirmed
what bloggers and citizen journalists have said for years: the business
plan of Wall Street is fraud. The
banks are calling in their congressional chits, they want Warren and her CFPB
gone. Congress has initiated a PR blitz
to sour the people on the watchdog agency. After the rigged November election the same
congress will return and the congressionally protected financial terrorism will
continue.
By Patricia Baeten
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