Anonymous ID: 4919ce June 22, 2023, 10:58 a.m. No.19052814   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2825 >>2827 >>2830 >>2854 >>2956 >>3081 >>3112

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1671935258323996672

 

NEW: SEC alleges JPMorgan mistakenly and permanently deleted 47 million records, deleted records were requested in several probes

 

June 22, 2023 1:34 pm

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been fined $4 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for erroneously deleting ''47 million emails'', Bloomberg reported.

 

SEC alleges JPMorgan subsidiary deleted 47 million emails, some related to subpoenas

This action has resulted in the unavailability of crucial communications for regulators in multiple investigations, as alleged by the SEC. From January 2018 to April 2018, JPMorgan Securities permanently deleted approximately 47 million electronic records, leading to the inability of the bank to provide requested documents for eight SEC investigations and four other regulatory probes. The SEC did not disclose whether these investigations were specifically directed at the bank, according to the report.

 

“Because the deleted records are unrecoverable, it is unknown – and unknowable – how the lost records may have affected the regulatory investigations,” the SEC said in a settlement order. JPMorgan chose not to provide a comment regarding the allegations made by the regulator and did not acknowledge or dispute them.

 

In 2021, the bank resolved accusations of violating regulations by failing to retain business communications on platforms such as WhatsApp, paying $125 million to the SEC and $75 million to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Subsequently, other banks would also face penalties for engaging in similar conduct in the following year.

 

According to the SEC, brokerages like JPMorgan Securities are obligated to retain records of their business communications for a minimum of three years.

 

In the recent settlement announced on Thursday, the SEC claimed that the firm unintentionally deleted a significant number of communications from the first quarter of 2018 while attempting to resolve technical issues. The SEC also stated that the vendor responsible for archiving the bank’s records had assured JPMorgan that the records would be safeguarded.

 

However, the regulator alleged that the vendor failed to protect the emails sent to the “Chase” communications domain, resulting in the deletion of those specific records. This deletion encompassed the email inboxes of approximately 7,500 employees who regularly engaged with Chase customers.

 

Email deletion led to a violation of federal securities law

A significant portion of the emails consisted of “business records required to be retained pursuant” to federal securities law, as stated in the order.

 

J.P. Morgan Securities agreed to the SEC’s penalty and, in addition, received a censure from the regulatory body, CNBC reported. These messages encompassed various types of communications, such as older emails, instant messages, and exchanges conducted through the Bloomberg terminal service.

 

But there were “glitches” in the project, “with the identified documents not, in fact, being expunged,” the order said.

Anonymous ID: 4919ce June 22, 2023, 11:43 a.m. No.19053028   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3029 >>3032 >>3033 >>3036 >>3042 >>3043 >>3055 >>3064

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1671948668771991578

 

https://insiderpaper.com/obama-warns-india-risks-pulling-apart-without-minority-rights/

 

NEW - Barack Obama said Thursday that India risks “pulling apart” if the Muslim minority is not respected, calling for the issue to be raised with Modi

 

June 22, 2023 1:45 pm

 

Former US president Barack Obama said Thursday that India risks “pulling apart” if the Muslim minority is not respected, calling for the issue to be raised with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 

Obama spoke in a CNN interview as President Joe Biden welcomed the Hindu nationalist prime minister for a state visit and gently spoke of the importance of “religious pluralism.”

 

On a visit to Greece, where he is holding a weeklong session for emerging global leaders, Obama said that addressing human rights with allies was always “complicated.”

 

“I think it is true that if the president meets with Prime Minister Modi, then the protection of the Muslim minority in a majority-Hindu India, that’s something worth mentioning,” the first African-American president said in an interview with CNN International anchor Christiane Amanpour.

 

“If I had a conversation with Prime Minister Modi, who I know well, part of my argument would be that if you do not protect the rights of ethnic minorities in India, that there is a strong possibility at some point that India starts pulling apart,” Obama said.

 

“We’ve seen what happens when you start getting those kinds of large internal conflicts. So that would be contrary to the interests not just of Muslim India but also of Hindu India,” he said.

 

''Modi, as the former state leader of Gujarat was banned from entering the United States during much of Obama’s administration over 2002 religious riots in which mostly Muslims were killed.''

 

Since Modi took office in 2014, India has passed a controversial law on citizenship and abrogated the special status of Muslim-majority Kashmir.

 

The US State Department in an annual report on religious freedom also pointed to police and vigilante violence against minorities along with inflammatory statements by members of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

 

Obama, in his 2020 memoir “A Promised Land,” offered a glowing portrait of Modi’s center-left predecessor Manmohan Singh, a mild-mannered economist.

 

Recounting a visit to New Delhi, Obama — who was succeeded by Donald Trump — quoted Singh as warning him that the “call of religious and ethnic solidarity can be intoxicating” and that politicians can “exploit that, in India or anywhere else.”

 

Seems like a clandestine agency coup target has been identified

Anonymous ID: 4919ce June 22, 2023, 11:51 a.m. No.19053058   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3081 >>3083 >>3112

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-atomic-nucleus.html

 

Researcher discovers new type of atomic nucleus

by University of Jyväskylä

 

Henna Kokkonen. Credit: University of Jyväskylä

An experiment performed in the Accelerator Laboratory of University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has succeeded in producing a previously unknown atomic nucleus, 190-Astatine, consisting of 85 protons and 105 neutrons. The nucleus is the lightest isotope of astatine discovered to date.

 

Astatine is a fast-decaying, and therefore rare element. It has been estimated that in the Earth's crust there is no more than one tablespoon of astatine. 190-Astatine, the new isotope, was produced in the fusion of 84Sr beam particles and silver target atoms. The isotope was detected among the products by using the detectors of a RITU recoil separator.

 

New nucleus emits alpha particles

The new nuclei decay via alpha decay towards more stable isotopes. Alpha decay is a common decay mode of heavy nuclei.

 

"The studies of new nuclei are important for understanding the structure of atomic nuclei and the limits of known matter," says Doctoral Researcher Henna Kokkonen from the Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä.

 

The new discovery was made by Kokkonen, who recently graduated with a Master of Science degree. The study was a part of her master's thesis, and the research is published in the journal Physical Review C.

 

"In my thesis, I analyzed experimental data among which the new isotope was found. During my thesis process and summer internships I got to know the Nuclear Spectroscopy group's work. Now I am very happy to work in the group towards my Ph.D. degree," says Kokkonen.