Social Security Is A Mess: There Are 6 Million Active Accounts Of People Aged 112+

Our friends at Open The Books continue to expose government waste - and fraud - and in their latest investigation, they have shone the spotlight on one of the largest wastes in the US government: the Social Security Administration.

What they have uncovered is that last year alone, Social Security admitted to $8 billion in improper and mistaken payments.

The punchline: when they dug deeper, they found that there are six million active social security numbers of people aged 112 and older… even though only 40 or less or those people exist in the world.

The root cause of this collosal abuse: failure to verify death. And yet while you won't read about it in the papers, the four-year total sum to US taxpayers is roughly $2.8 billion, which in today's numbers when trillions are thrown around may not sound like much, but add up all the other areas of government waste, and soon you end up with far greater numbers.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/social-security-mess-there-are-6-million-active-social-security-numbers-people-are-people

Louisiana Man Admits Sending Child Porn, Asking To Watch Molestation

NEW ORLEANS – Brandon Ward, age 33, of Covington, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with distribution of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including children as young as less than one year old.

According to court documents, in about October 2019, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation operating in an undercover capacity, accessed a chat room within an instant messaging mobile application known to be a haven for purveyors of digital files depicting the sexual victimization of children. Between September 29, 2019, and October 13, 2019, an individual subsequently determined to be Ward posted over two dozen links to online file storage service accounts. Each link contained hundreds of videos depicting pre-pubescent children engaging in sexually explicit conduct with adults. In total, Ward uploaded to the accounts at least 47,000 files depicting the sexual victimization of children as young as one year old.

Additionally, a second FBI special agent acting in an undercover capacity participated in direct communication with Ward via Skype, phone, and text message. In the conversations, Ward claimed he had been in contact with an 8-year-old female (Minor 1) who had a crush on him. Ward sent non-sexually explicit pictures he took of Minor 1 to the undercover agent. Ward also instructed the undercover agent, who claimed to be babysitting a six-year-old female, to engage in sexually explicit conduct with the child while Ward watched via Skype.

Ward faces a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of five (5) years and a maximum term of imprisonment of twenty (20) years, followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. He can also be required to register as a sex offender. Sentencing before Judge Fallon has been scheduled for March 18, 2021, at 2:00 pm.

https://breaking911.com/louisiana-man-admits-sending-child-porn-asking-to-watch-molestation/

Tech Billionaire Who Bankrolled Numerous Disinformation Projects Linked To $620,000 Donation To Fusion GPS’s Legal Fund

A liberal group backed by Silicon Valley donors, including LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, donated $620,000 to the legal defense fund for Fusion GPS, tax records show.

While it is unclear if Hoffman was directly involved in paying Fusion’s legal bills, he has been identified as a significant funder for the liberal group, Integrity First for America.

Fusion GPS as well as groups backed by Hoffman have come under fire for pushing questionable information about Republicans.

The dossier funded by Fusion GPS has been largely debunked. Hoffman was found to have financed a ‘false flag’ operation to hurt Republican political candidates.

Mary Mapes, who was fired at CBS News over a story based on forged documents about George W. Bush, is a top executive at Integrity First for America.

An anti-Trump group funded heavily by Reid Hoffman, a liberal billionaire tech titan who’s bankrolled political disinformation peddlers, contributed $620,000 to a legal fund for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the controversial Steele dossier, financial filings show.

According to IRS filings, The group Integrity First for America (IFA) made the contribution in 2018 for the legal defense fund of Bean LLC, the holding company for Fusion GPS.

IFA, which launched in October 2017, is the first entity to be identified as one of Fusion’s benefactors. Initially billed as an anti-corruption group that planned to investigate Donald Trump’s business dealings, IFA has since turned it focus on litigation against white supremacist groups.

Fusion GPS’s founders, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, wrote in a book last year that the company received outside funding to help cover millions of dollars of legal bills it accumulated from dossier-related lawsuits and congressional investigations.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/21/fusion-gps-reid-hoffman-dossier/

US Will Not Sanction Danske Bank Over Money Laundering

The U.S. Department of Treasury has closed its money laundering investigation against Danske Bank and will not sanction the Danish lender, which is still being probed by multiple countries for having moved billions in suspicious funds through its Estonian branch.

Danske Bank copyDanske Bank's headquarters in Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen (Photo: RL0919, CC SA-BY 3.0)The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) notified the bank that it will not be sanctioned and that the case was closed, Danske Bank stated in a company announcement on Saturday.

This decision does not rule out future sanctions by the OFAC if new information is uncovered, the bank said, adding that it still remains under criminal and regulatory investigation by authorities in France, Denmark, and the United States.

While the company maintained that “it remains impossible to reliably estimate the timing, form of resolution, or amount of potential settlement or fines,” the Danish public broadcaster ERR reported that it will likely face significantly lower penalties as a result of OFAC’s decision.

Sydbank analyst Mikkel Emil said that a fine could have reached billions of dollars, and that it “will be smaller now.” However, while other investigations are still underway, he said the bank “is by no means home free.”

In addition to open investigations by national authorities that could lead to financial and criminal penalties, Danske also faces an over $1 billion international lawsuit that was filed in September for facilitating rampant money laundering over the course of almost a decade.

Danske Bank – the largest lender in Denmark – has been involved in numerous multi-billion dollar money laundering scandals and was the recipient of OCCRP’s 2018 Corrupt Actor of the Year Award.

to profiled in several OCCRP investigations, Danske Bank’s Estonia branch was a key enabler of the Azerbaijani Laundromat – a general-purpose money laundering scheme and slush fund that saw billions of dollars run through the bank and into offshore companies and paid to high-ranking officials and European politicians who were willing to praise the regime that had become notorious for various human rights abuses.

Another OCCRP investigation — the Russian Laundromat — revealed that $20 billion to $80 billion was fraudulently moved out of Russia through a network of global banks that included Danske.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13560-us-will-not-sanction-danske-bank-over-money-laundering

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