Anonymous ID: d3a4b1 July 6, 2020, 10:01 a.m. No.9874948   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5026 >>5147 >>5266 >>5428 >>5575

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Jonathan Sackler, co-owner of Purdue Pharma, dies

 

STAMFORD, Conn. – Jonathan Sackler, one of the owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, has died, the company confirmed.

 

Sackler died June 30, according to a court filing. He was 65.

 

He was the son of Raymond Sackler, one the brothers who bought drug company Purdue Frederick in 1952, and served as an executive and board member for the company that was later renamed Purdue Pharma. Like other members of the Sackler family, he has stepped off the board of the company in recent years, though family members retain ownership.

 

The company is seeking bankruptcy protection as part of an effort to settle nearly 3,000 lawsuits brought against it by state and local governments that blame the company for sparking the opioid crisis that has killed more than 400,000 Americans since 2000. Hundreds of the lawsuits also name family members.

 

The company's settlement plan calls for the family, which has been listed among America's wealthiest, to pay at least $3 billion and give up ownership of Purdue.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jonathan-sackler-owner-purdue-pharma-dies-71632996

Anonymous ID: d3a4b1 July 6, 2020, 10:11 a.m. No.9875011   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5147 >>5198 >>5266 >>5428 >>5446 >>5575 >>5657

VENUS31 USAF C-40B re-appears from it's fly-bys over Ardmore Muni Airport and en (this AC is used by the State Dept.)

RCAF CFC3095 CC-144B Challenger turn around at Wichita, KS heading back to Ottawa

VELCRO4 USAF Global Explorer departed St. Louis Mid-America Airport after a ground stop sw

02-442 USAFSOC went back to McGuire AFB after fly bys, Syracuse Hancock Int'l Airport NY-not capped

 

Morrocan AF FRV1325 G5 departed White Plains, NY-Westchester Cty Airport sw after a ground stoop

Anonymous ID: d3a4b1 July 6, 2020, 10:29 a.m. No.9875119   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5147 >>5154 >>5266 >>5428 >>5575

Top Men at Justice Department with Final Say on Goldman Sachs Felony Charges Got Big Payouts from Kirkland & Ellis – Goldman’s Law Firm

 

Three of the top men at the U.S. Department of Justice who have been involved in negotiations as to whether Goldman Sachs, for the first time in its history, will be charged with a criminal felony and hit with a multi-billion dollar fine, received large sums of money from the law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, before joining the Trump administration. Kirkland & Ellis is the law firm defending Goldman Sachs in the criminal case.

 

The top dog at the Justice Department, Attorney General William Barr, worked as “Of Counsel” to Kirkland & Ellis prior to joining the Justice Department. Barr’s financial disclosure form shows that Kirkland & Ellis paid him $1,188,257 and a $50,000 bonus for 2018. In addition to the money from Kirkland & Ellis, Barr made another $2.6 million in fees and from cashing out stock options for his work as a member of the Boards of Directors at Dominion Energy, Time Warner, and Och-Ziff Capital Management, a hedge fund that paid a $213 million criminal fine in 2016 to settle charges with the Justice Department that it had engaged in “a widespread scheme involving the bribery of officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Libya.” (Och-Ziff Capital Management has subsequently rebranded itself as Sculptor Capital.)

 

Brian Benczkowski, who stepped down last Friday as head of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, indicates on his financial disclosure form that he received a salary and bonus from Kirkland & Ellis of $847,500. Benczkowski joined the Justice Department in July 2018 and had worked at Kirkland & Ellis since 2010. Both Barr and Benczkowski state in their financial disclosure forms that they would continue to participate in the Kirkland & Ellis Defined Contribution Plan but that the law firm would no longer make contributions on their behalf to the plan. The Financial Times reported in April 2019 that both Barr and Benczkowski had received ethics waivers to participate in the Goldman Sachs criminal case, despite their recent ties to the law firm representing Goldman Sachs.

 

Benczkowski’s job as head of the Criminal Division is to be filled by his Deputy, Brian Rabbitt, a Trump loyalist who came to the administration from the corporate law firm, Williams & Connolly, where he specialized in government investigations. Rabbitt has hopped through jobs as a White House lawyer, policy advisor to SEC Chair Jay Clayton, and then as Chief of Staff to Barr before becoming Rosen’s Deputy. Rabbitt has no background to suggest that he is qualified to oversee a department of 600 criminal prosecutors.

 

On June 11, the New York Times reported that lawyers for Goldman Sachs “have asked Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to review demands by some federal prosecutors that Goldman pay more than $2 billion in fines and plead guilty to a felony charge, according to three people briefed on the matter.” The Deputy Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen, worked for Kirkland & Ellis for 29 years prior to joining the Trump administration. Rosen’s first financial disclosure form showed that he had received compensation of $1,567,335 from the law firm and would be permanently receiving annual payments of approximately $189,505 from the law firm’s Defined Benefit Plan.

 

The criminal case involving Goldman Sachs has been dragging on at the Justice Department since at least 2016. Goldman raised over $6 billion in bond offerings for a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund known as 1MDB. According to the Justice Department, $4.5 billion of that was “misappropriated” and used “to fund the co-conspirators’ lavish lifestyles, including purchases of artwork and jewelry, the acquisition of luxury real estate and luxury yachts, the payment of gambling expenses, and the hiring of musicians and celebrities to attend parties.” Goldman made more than $600 million in fees from the bond offerings.

 

Two of Goldman’s senior bankers, Ng Chong Hwa (a/k/a Roger Ng) and Timothy Leissner, were indicted by the Justice Department for “conspiring to launder billions of dollars embezzled from 1MDB,” and “paying bribes to various Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials.” Leissner pleaded guilty in the matter and is awaiting sentencing. Roger Ng’s trial has been delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic but is currently expected to begin in Manhattan in January of next year.

 

The alleged mastermind of the scheme, a Malaysian national known as Low Taek Jho (a/k/a Jho Low) is believed to be hiding out in China. He has also been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department.

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