Pozni setup involving upper level federal law enforcement?

[rainbow4321]

Bear with me here, I found this in a roundabout way.

I was reading threads about POTUS appointing the interim admin of DEA to be the permanent admin and I remember a while back I had seen a DEA employee message board (not run by DEA,or approved by them, either, apparently) that had employees saying how they disliked this woman, they have been writing about wanting her to be totally gone from that department.

So I went and looked back at that site, and I don't wanna give the link since there are anti-POTUS remarks on there, also; besides talking about her directly, they talked about this recent scandal involving DEA and ICE.

I was going to put this in the original thread I read, but this whole alleged Ponzi/Federal LE officials seemed to deserve it's own thread, just IMHO. Especially given that I haven't read about it anywhere in the MSM. It may very well be that this has been posted before on DU, if so, I apologize ahead of time.

A guy named McLeod was allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that targeted higher level Federal Law Enforcement officials. He was found dead recently in a park...officials are believing it was a suicide.

So I googled his name and found this stuff:


http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/401574/abel-harding/2010-06-29/looking-at-wayne-mcleods-dea-ice-connections

The Times-Union is looking for information about Wayne McLeod and his ties to government agencies, particularly the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

It's been one week since we began investigating McLeod and his two companies, Federal Employee Benefits Group Inc., and F & S Asset Management Group Inc.

McLeod, 48, killed himself in a Mandarin park after federal agents began looking into his business dealings.

The SEC moved quickly to seize the assets of McLeod's estate and his two companies, charging McLeod with carrying out a Ponzi scheme that targeted federal employees, particularly federal law enforcement officers.

In particular, we are looking to identify senior officials (GS-15's and above) who were linked closely with McLeod and benefited from his legendary generosity. That included trips to the Super Bowl, World Series, dinners and various other trips.

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(Has a phrase in the article, half way thru, about "currying favor with the DEA)

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-06-23/story/wayne-mcleod-investment-firm-owner-found-dead
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http://uaddit.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=14716

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says it responded to a suicidal man in the park. When officers arrived they found McLeod shot to death in his car. A handgun was found next to him.

Wayne McLeod told clients he was terminating the “FEBG Fund,” a private investment tool that had been marketed as an investment vehicle with spectacular returns.
Interest payments for the month of June had “been suspended” and “nothing further be sent,” wrote McLeod, CEO of the Federal Employee Benefits Group. He went on to inform his clients that he was praying that they would forgive him at some point in the future.
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Who knows what this is all about but reading about alleged Ponzi schemes and gifts to upper level fed LE is not very comforting...there were alot more articles via google, but the few I listed at least gives you an idea of what is being looked into.

[Webster Green]

1. I read something about it a few days ago.

It may have been a link from here. They mentioned the tickets and gifts, but there was no mention of the ponzi scheme. Sounds like it's in the process of unraveling.

[aquart]

2. Federal Employee Benefits Group?

What an interesting name.

[rainbow4321]

6. Reportedly it was the fed agencies that

paid this guy to be part of orientation for new Fed workers according to one article.
So did the Feds not vet this guy and his businesses? Not surprising so many signed up with him if the employees thought he was on the up and up because the federal agencies brass recommended him.

[aquart]

3. $34 million.

http://jacksonville.com/business/2010-06-25/story/sec-launches-investigation-federal-employees-benefits-group

[Arctic Dave]

4. Sounds like a perfect vehicle to pay off dea agents with drug money.

Could get interesting.

[grasswire]

5. way to go, citizen journalist!

This is the kind of digging that web denizens used to do in the Bush era. Sweep it all up! Follow the evidence, no matter where it leads.

[alfredo]

7. This started under bush, outed during the Obama years, but

you know Fox will blame Obama and say he is running a corrupt administration.

[alfredo]

8. dupe