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Eric Levai
@ericlevai
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Apr 15, 2021
@BikiniRobotArmy is missing. His car was found in LA, without him, one week ago. Val gave Deutsche Bank documents to The New York Times, Forensic News, and the FBI. Please reach out to me if you know something. Thanks.
Mark G US
@UsCars4
Well here is another missing/dead person connected to Deutsche Bank +documents. I will need to update my earlier tweets on this. Last one was Thomas Bowers in LA mysteriously found dead. Add to another 4 in Europe. Maybe DBank is cursed bc so many people re Trump loans die ??
Banker Rossi in Italy is classic-he goes out window+while lying in ally below, 2 men walk out of shadows, stand there+watch him die without saying a thing-all caught on video. If u see wrong DBank docs abt Trump loans, they will kill U. Coincidence Dbank launder Russia money ????
DFW
(54,436 posts)But it would be in keeping with V-V-V-Putin Style.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)gab13by13
(21,385 posts)VTB, Putin's bank, is believed to have backed Trump's Deutche Bank loan. This is why Deutche Bank is the only bank to give Trump loans.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)KS Toronado
(17,306 posts)But as more things involving Qrump's finances come into the light of day, suspect it"ll hurt the reQublican party.
gab13by13
(21,385 posts)I know, I live among them. I only post sporadically on the local pro-Trump web site because I found that it's impossible for a rational person to hold a debate with an irrational person. We had like 4 people who were progressives posting there and now it's basically down to me. I even got canceled once for 6 months just for calling Trump Putin's puppet. There is no more Republican party. I suppose you could call rich people who vote Republican the sane wing of the party, or maybe the greedy wing of the party.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)And I agree with the above poster, the hardcore cult of rethugs will not give a hoot.
Kid Berwyn
(14,951 posts)Thomas Bowers, who worked above Trumps personal banker, was 55
By Ian Spiegelman
LA Magazine-November 27, 2019
A former Deutsche Bank executive who reportedly signed off on some of the institutions unorthodox loans to Donald Trump killed himself in his Malibu home on November 19. Thomas Bowers, the onetime head of Deutsche Banks American wealth-management division, where he oversaw Trumps private banker, committed suicide by hanging, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroners office. Bowers was 55.
Trumps relationship with Deutsche Bankwhich lent him around $2 billion after most other institutions had forsaken him for his history of defaults and bankruptcieshas come under investigation by two Congressional committees and the New York Attorney General, who are hoping the bank can shed light on Trumps elusive finances, according to the New York Times. At one point, Bowers had a close connection to those finances.
Rosemary T. Vrablic, a managing director at Deutsche Bank who became Trumps private banker in 2010 after being introduced by her client, Jared Kushner, reported directly to Bowers. Vrablic reportedly helped Trump secure loans from her bank, which Bowers approvedincluding more than $100 million to buy his Doral resort in Miamieven after Trump and Deutsche had to settle messy litigation over a Chicago loan that went bad.
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Bowers isnt the first Trump-connected Deutsche exec to commit suicide. In 2014, Deutsche derivatives analyst William S. Broeksmit, who reportedly had links to Trump and Russia, hung himself from a dog leash at his home in London.
Source:
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/deutsche-bank-death/
Roland99
(53,342 posts)paleotn
(17,946 posts)This Russian regime is probably the largest criminal enterprise in human history.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,757 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)Reichsbank?
panader0
(25,816 posts)His son Justin worked at Deutsche Bank, and I believe was connected with trump loans.
Kennedy's retirement gave us Kavanaugh. I believe Kennedy was told that his son was in
potential legal trouble, but if he retired, his son would be spared. What ever became of all that?
berniesandersmittens
(11,345 posts)Kennedy's retirement and the ties to Deutsche Bank with his son are too big to be coincidences.
Dave says
(4,627 posts)Does anyone recall the video of Trump and Justice Kennedy walking alone, shoulder to shoulder, in some hallway of Congress or the Court, when all of a sudden Kennedy turns toward Trump, takes a step back, jaw agape. He was visibly upset over something Trump said. It wasnt long after that Kennedy resigned.
What did Trump say to him?
msfiddlestix
(7,285 posts)I recall the connections you reference made and I believe the same thread that photo was also posted.
Dave says
(4,627 posts)It serves the interests of the wealthy and corrupt first, then, if there are any crumbs left, we might get a morsel.
We did win. The Presidency, Senate, and House. But we lost SCOTUS for at least a generation, and given the dominance of republicans in state governments, were likely to lose Congress to gerrymandering (the House), voter suppression (both), and god knows what other evils the dark money of Citizens United hold for us. But I remain anxious and concerned.
msfiddlestix
(7,285 posts)All day I've been trying to stay focused on my music, practicing challenging technique. But then I open my computer to see if Clark has been confirmed to the US Justice Dept yet... only to find post after post after post of the most horrific legislative and court actions being executed into law by Texas, Georgia, Florida, Arizona freaking hell you name it.
My blood pressure starts to rise, I can feel it, and my chest starts to tighten up like I'm re-experiencing a full blown panic attack like I did early on election night, then on January 6th.
Last night on Kanopy, I clicked on a Ric Burns documentary on New York which is dated pre-9/11 because the twin towers are still in the city scape. It's a history of the settling of New York by the Dutch West India Company. The first to settle there.
And I learned how it was that Capitalism was rooted in New Amsterdam (as they named it before the Brits renamed it after a royal member of the Crown) by the Dutch West India Company right there on Manhattan Island.
I learned the story of Wall Street. named after a wall that was built to keep out other immigrants and First Natives.
Any way, it was an eye opener and explains so much more than I ever understood in all of my progressive education.
I feel like we've always been whistling in the wind, or chasing windmills or which ever meme suits.
It's all I can do to keep myself from literally panicking. I complain about the Trump Crime Family able to carry on and continue to wreak havoc freely and without restraint. Sure there's no twitter, but hell, that doesn't keep him from getting his message out none the less.
He shouldn't be free to do anything other than piss in a toilet in a cell. and neither should his family but nothing is happening at all.
Not even in Manhattan. It's nothing but DEAD AIR. This just can't be real. But apparently it is. I wake up and see that yeah, it's the same as it was yesterday. The same as it was on January 6th.
Except for the glorious fact we have Biden in the White House. xfingers that reality is lasting, at least long enough.
Ford_Prefect
(7,917 posts)The intention is to both erase the trail back to them and to frighten anyone else who might think to emulate the ex-informant.
Standard practice for mafia and terrorist gangs the world over.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)before getting worked up over this
Habitation
(5,644 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)he turns up ok.
Qutzupalotl
(14,322 posts)Police sought the publics help Friday to find a 45-year-old man last seen driving in Griffith Park.
Valentin Broeksmit was last seen at about 4 p.m. on April 6 driving a red Mini Cooper on Riverside Drive in Griffith Park, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The car was recovered but Broeksmit was not found.
Broeksmit is white, 6 feet, 1 inch tall, weighs about 200 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts was asked to call the LAPDs Missing Persons Unit at 213-996-1800. Calls made during non-business hours or on weekends should be made to 877-527-3247.
https://mynewsla.com/crime/2021/04/16/police-seek-assistance-to-locate-45-year-old-man-last-seen-in-griffith-park/
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,951 posts)The elder was called the conscience of Deutsche Bank.
DEUTSCHE BANK SOURCE MISSING, NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALIST SAYS
APR 16, 2021 | REPUBLISHED BY LawsInTexas: ARP 18, 2021
Excerpt...
The journalist also described Broeksmits manic behavior reeling around his drug use and tendencies to stretch the truth into far-fetched theories. He was warned not to trust Broeksmit.
Broeksmit, who was born in Ukraine, found the highly coveted documents two years ago among his fathers possessions after his death.
After sharing some of the documents with journalists and federal investigators, Broeksmit reportedly met Rep. Adam Schiff, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, through the musician Moby, whom he met at a party. At the time, Schiff was leading an investigation into Trumps ties to Deutsche Bank.
Broeksmit reportedly demanded the committee pay him for the documents, but Schiff refused and instead ordered a subpoena for their possession. The FBI gave Broeksmit a special advisory title for his French girlfriend to obtain a U.S. visa in exchange for the documents.
Trumps relationship with Deutsche Bank was the subject of congressional interest as investigators sought information related to his tax returns and whether he was compromised by the scandals surrounding the German financial giant.
Continues...
https://lawsintexas.com/deutsche-bank-was-it-murder-or-was-it-suicide/
I hope hes OK and gets to tell his dads story.