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Tokyo prosecutors obtain new arrest warrant for ex-Nissan chief Ghosn
Tokyo prosecutors on Thursday obtained a fresh arrest warrant for former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn for leaving Japan while on bail in violation of the immigration control law.
The prosecutors also secured warrants for three others allegedly involved in helping Ghosn leave Japan in late December. Ghosn announced himself to be in Lebanon on Dec. 31.
The three are Michael Taylor, 59, a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces known as the Green Berets, George Zayek, 60, and Peter Taylor, 26.
The three are suspected of taking the 65-year-old former auto tycoon to a hotel in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, and hiding him inside a box before taking him to Kansai International Airport in the prefecture and helping him pass a security inspection there despite knowing Ghosn's bail conditions did not allow him to travel overseas.
There was no record of Ghosn's departure, and Justice Minister Masako Mori has said he left the country illegally.
Ghosn, who holds Brazilian, French and Lebanese nationality, arrived in Lebanon via Turkey after leaving Japan. As Japan does not have an extradition treaty with Lebanon, Ghosn is unlikely to return to Japan.
He was facing trial in Japan over the alleged underreporting of his remuneration by billions of yen in Nissan's securities reports during the eight years through March 2018 as well as misuse of company funds.
After arriving in Beirut, Ghosn said he fled Japan to escape the country's "rigged" justice system.
On Wednesday, Tokyo prosecutors searched the office of lawyer Junichiro Hironaka, who had represented Ghosn until earlier this month, in connection with Ghosn's escape to Lebanon.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200130/p2g/00m/0na/066000c
Datadog Inc. Sr. Execs sold: $22.17m- Jan 21,27 & 28
Chief Executive Officer, President/CTO, General Counsel, Director (BoD member)
Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. Datadog uses a Go based agent, rewritten from scratch since its major version 6.0.0 released on February 28, 2018. It was formerly Python based, forked from the original created in 2009 by David Mytton for Server Density (previously called Boxed Ice). Its backend is built using a number of open and closed source technologies including D3, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, etc.
In 2014, Datadog support was broadened to multiple cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. Today, the company supports over 350 integrations out-of-the-box. Datadog was founded in 2010[6] by Olivier Pomel and Alexis LĂŞ-QuĂ´c, who met while working at Wireless Generation. After Wireless Generation was acquired by NewsCorp, the two set out to create a product that could reduce the friction they experienced between developer and system-admin teams, who were often working at cross-purposes.
They built Datadog to be a cloud infrastructure monitoring service, with a dashboard, alerting, and visualizations of metrics. As cloud adoption increased, Datadog grew rapidly and expanded its product offering to cover service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, and OpenStack. In 2015 Datadog announced the acquisition of Mortar Data,[8] bringing on its team and adding its data and analytics capabilities to Datadog's platform. That year Datadog also opened a research and development office in Paris,. In 2016 Datadog moved its New York City headquarters to a full floor of the New York Times Building to support its growing team, which doubled over the course of the year. Datadog announced the beta-release of Application Performance Monitoring in 2016,offering for the first time a full-stack monitoring solution. As of 2017, the company has close to 300 employees, the vast majority of which are located in the US (with offices in Manhattan, Boston, and Baltimore) and a new R&D facility in Paris. Datadog has acquired other platforms in the past. In 2017, they acquired the Paris-based Logmatic.io, a platform-agnostic service for querying and visualizing logs to monitor and troubleshoot online services. In 2019, Madumbo, an AI-based application testing platform joined Datadog. In 2019, Datadog established Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datadog
https://www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=DDOG&b=2
Deutsche Bank Reports Huge Loss for 2019
Deutsche Bank reported a whopping loss for the last three months of 2019 and for the full year as it cut staff and wrote down the value of assets, affirming its status as one of Europe’s most troubled big lenders.
The bank said it lost 1.5 billion euros, or $1.6 billion, in the last three months of 2019, bringing the total loss for the year to 5.3 billion euros. In 2018 the bank effectively broke even for the year and in the fourth quarter.
The Frankfurt-based bank, once Europe’s largest by assets, is in the midst of a desperate attempt to recover from years of scandal and mismanagement that has caused its share price to plummet more than 90 percent since 2007.
Among other things, the bank absorbed severance payments as it eliminated more than 4,000 jobs, bringing the total number of employees to 88,000. The bank also recorded losses as it acknowledged that some assets had lost value.
DB acquires Banker's Trust in 1999
this is where current FRB Chair Jerome Powell enters the picture-he (and others) arranged the M&A of Banker's Trust thus setting DB on the path of way too big to fail-not a coincidence he is now the FRB chair.
Ever since it acquired Wall Street’s Bankers Trust in 1999, Deutsche Bank aspired to be in a league with American megabanks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. But it did so by taking chances, including issuing hundreds of billions of dollars in high-risk derivatives. It lent money to Donald Trump’s organization when other banks wouldn’t.
The 2008 financial crisis exposed a series of wrongdoings, including rigged interest rates, laundered money and violations of United States sanctions against countries like Iran. The scandals damaged Deutsche Bank’s reputation and led to billions of dollars in fines. Regulators anxious to avoid more financial crises forced Deutsche Bank and other lenders to take fewer risks.
The bank, which once symbolized German economic prowess, is now focusing on less glamorous and less hazardous businesses like helping German exporters manage financial transactions abroad. Deutsche Bank is in the process of closing or shrinking operations that sell stocks and bonds, and is has quarantined more than $300 billion in risky assets in a separate unit.
Other big European banks, like UBS of Switzerland and Barclays in Britain, scaled back their operations after the 2008 financial crisis, but Deutsche Bank clung to investment banking even as it continued to generate billions of euros in losses.
https://www.newyorkglobe.co/2020/01/30/deutsche-bank-reports-huge-loss-for-2019/
AZAZ0909 UC-35C Citation SW from JBA
MYSTIC60 Beech C-12T Huron up from Parkersburg, OH Heading East towards DC and same aircraft as the two previous MYSTIC's that circled DC on the previous two days.
cap#3 is the first one spotted on Tuesday
the hit and run. Kind of dead in the water. I did see that the woman was a registered dem though FWIW