Oh, ho, ho...I'm digging and finding dirty shirt in re: Allen Stanford.

[originalpckelly]

This is the first thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5101662&mesg_id=5101662

OK, so after I looked up the people who contributed at this one July 25, 2008 fundraiser in the Virgin Islands for NY Rep Greg W. Meeks (DLCer-6th District) I found two people:
1. An electrician from Texas, he doesn't have any obviously links to the financial industry
2. Kevin Brandt, who is a head guy at James River Capital, a firm that fined by the organization that created the NASDAQ, The National Association of Securities Dealers (it has since become FIRNA or Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.) His company was fined for market timing issues, I remember hearing about a bunch of these fines going out in 2006. So his company is suspicious because it looks like they play fast and loose with regulations.
3. When I looked up the political donations of Mr. Kevin Brandt of the Virgin Islands, I found that he donated to some of the very same people that Mr. Allen Stanford and his high executives at Stanford Financial Group donated to.
4. This makes me wonder if Mr. Brandt isn't a crook in his own right, perhaps they were both in on corrupting legislators?
5. I decided to look up donations made by Mr. Brandt to see if I couldn't find people who lived in the VI donating on the same day, perhaps at a fundraiser, which what that pattern turned out to be with Mr. Brandt as it concerned Rep. Meeks in NY.
6. I came upon multiple same day donations from people involved with a company called "Windward Capital, LLC" an organization that appears to be some kind of hedge fund. One of the people involved with Windward Capital, a Mr. James Gallivan JR., is also involved an listed in same day donations with Mr. Brandt as associated with "Investment Security Services, LLP".
7. When I went to look up Investment Security Services in Google, it turns out they have a Washington, D.C. lobbyist/lobbying firm lobbying on behalf of them to "ENFORCE THE IRS STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR U.S. CITIZENS IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS" and "AMEND LAWS REGARDING U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS RESIDENCY", which looks like something someone in the Virgin Islands for suspicious reasons would lobby for, doesn't it?
8. Didn't Mr. Stanford have a high priced lobbyist lobbying for something along the same exact lines?

Here's a list of activities that Wyman engaged in:
http://www.implu.com/lobbyist/23756

Google says she's a former Clinton Admin. associated person:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_200005/ai_n20038493

What's interesting is that when I looked up Stanford Financial Group in this database, it turns out that Stanford Financial Group is itself a registered as a lobbying firm! Isn't that weird? Odd when your company is registered as a lobbying firm. The database says they spent over a million bucks lobbying, but just gives the general description:
"GENERAL FINANCIAL ISSUES THAT MIGHT AFFECT STANFORD FINAICIAL GROUP"

They employed lobbyists JAMES K. CONZELMAN & LIONEL C. JOHNSON.

According to a Congressional Staffer pay database, Conzelman was Chief of Staff to the House Financial Services Committee in 2006! Holy shit, talk about someone who's bound to be a well connected lobbyist! According to the lobbying database, he lobbied exclusively for Stanford Financial! He also was at Citigroup as a "VP and Director of Intl Gov Affairs". I bet he was. :eyes:

Here's that Congressional Staffer pay database entry I was talking about:
http://www.legistorm.com/person/James_K_Conzelman/16050.html

Lionel C. Johnson was, according to Open Secrets, a former member of the Clinton Admin official, could he be tied with the lobbyist for Investment Security Services, who was also part of Clinton admin and worked on environmental stuff too?
http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=6144

If you look at Conzelman, he's associated with Republicans, if you look at Johnson, he's associated with Democrats (and Clinton was DLCer, so maybe it's conservative Democrats?)

Here's Stanford Financial's general search results:
http://www.implu.com/search/stanford_financial_group

You can then navigate to the lobbying info from there. This, I believe, has already been reported.

But I think I'm working on an angle that hasn't been explored yet, people who donated in conjunction with Stanford, namely Investment Security Services and James River Capital.

So yeah, I'm on to something, don't know what. I just thought I'd give you all a continuing heads up. I didn't even know there was a database of lobbying stuff! :rofl: I'm stupid, I know.