US Judge Blocks Saudi Prince Bandar From Moving Real Estate Sale Proceeds Out Of U.S.

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON: A federal judge has temporarily blocked Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the United States, from removing real estate sales proceeds from the United States pending resolution of a class-action lawsuit.

The suit filed last September by a tiny Michigan city retirement system accuses current and former directors of BAE Systems PLC, a giant British defense company, of breaches of fiduciary duties in connection with $2 billion or more in alleged illegal bribes paid to Bandar in connection with an $86 billion BAE arms sale to Saudi Arabia in 1985.

Bandar also is named a defendant in the suit, along with the former Riggs Bank of Washington and its successor, PNC Financial Group.

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In London, lawmakers disclosed last month that Britain's head of overseas intelligence had warned that Saudi Arabia probably would stop sharing vital information on terrorism if prosecutors pursued an investigation into alleged corruption in the arms deal.

MI6, Britain's overseas intelligence service, believed Saudi Arabia would probably end information-sharing with Britain if investigators continued the inquiry, former Attorney General Peter Goldsmith told the committee. MI6 raised objections to the prosecution before Britain's Serious Fraud Office decided to end the case, he said.



Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/10/america/NA-GEN-US-Saudi-Bandar-Suit.php

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. YOUR SECRETS WILL KILL YOU

[Octafish]

2. Bandar Bush and Riggs Bank. What could be more natural?

All the next Attorney General will need to bust all these BFEE turds is a DU subscription.

[seemslikeadream]

4. DID SOMEONE SAY RIGGS BANK??

Bank with close ties to Bush administration engulfed in scandal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=775366

NEW details of Thatcher coup plot: London Evening Standard
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=777970

SEC probes Marathon Oil payments in Equitorial Guinea (and HQ burns down)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=728495

Du Toit admits meeting Thatcher
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=775274

Terrorist Stocks?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=775943

'Petroleum lures dogs of war to Africa'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=775315

BBC News: Thatcher charged
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=775499

Margaret Thatcher's Son Released on Coup Plot Charges (Update2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=775803

Exiled leader in Spain denies any link to coup attempt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=780228

Scorpions say have more info on Equatorial Guinea coup
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=781763

Financiers conspired to overthrow oil-flush African government
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=771532

Mark Thatcher: The money trail
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=780222

Thatcher case twist as list of alleged coup backers vanishes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=779708

Thatcher: Spain 'secretly backed coup by sending warships'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=780346

WaPo: Allbritton Loses Riggs Bank (front page, day 3)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=691609

E Guinea 'coup plot' verdict due + update/result
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1023049

I feel like a corpse in a river, says Mark Thatcher as he faces court...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1020857

Thatcher to face coup questions
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1018687

Phone links Thatcher to alleged plot

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1008002
There was no coup plot, says Du Toit
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=997545

Thatcher to ask Britain to help halt extradition
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1005084

Thatcher charged over coup plot
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1001670

Thatcher to be tried in absentia
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=994305

Britain knew in advance of Equatorial Guinea coup plot: report
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=987556

Tories Demand Answers on 'Coup Plot'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=991361

Mandelson faces questioning over 'link' to coup plot
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=975777

Legal Woes Cut Into Bottom Line at Riggs
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=974861

Mugabe flies to Equatorial Guinea (coup plot latest)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=964525

Despots, Deposits & Directors - Riggs Bank
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=924033

SABC asks to broadcast Thatcher court case
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=926588

Spain calls on EU to warn Equatorial Guinea - Riggs Bank
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=916444

Raids 'break up' £20m theft gang
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=906579

Thatcher coup plot: Mandelson, CIA & State Department named
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=900168

Archer 'link to coup plot'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=899574

Britain accused of failing to investigate Africa coup
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=901850

Pentagon link to Guinea coup plot
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2918459

[pnorman]

10. I was preparing to do a web-search on Briggs in connection with another matter.

But you've done much of my preliminary work. Thanks! (I LOVE my DU!)

pnorman

[eridani]

11. Put this in the research section, pretty please with sugar on it--

--and a cherry on top. That way it will be more accessible to people than when it gets archived.

[Baby Snooks]

12. Don't forget Princess Haifa's favorite charity

Princess Haifa, the royal of the couple, wrote checks to a "poor Saudi family" in California who then gave the money to several of the "Saudi students" who hijacked the planes on 9/11. The account was at Riggs Bank. Rumor in Washington was the investigators were about to issue a subpeona and suddenly Prince Bandar and Princess Haifa hightailed it back to Saudi Arabia on "urgent family business."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20942-2004Apr17?language=printer

And that wasn't the only thing she funded or the Saudis funded through Riggs Bank. The head of the bank, Joe Allbritton, is a Democrat. But is also a good friend of George HW Bush. Robert Strauss, also a Democrat, convinced Pamela Harriman that Bill Clinton was the better choice for president in 1992. She had wanted Al Gore. Robert Strauss is also a good friend of George HW Bush.

And what has happened to the investigation of Riggs Bank including the matter of Princess Haifa? It apparently came to an end not long after Princess Haifa and Prince Bandar returned to Saudi Arabia.

And of course you have the BCCI scandal which also involves the Saudi royal family. And of course Bill Clinton decided not to pursue that.

People better wake up before Hillary Clinton steals the nomination and then steals the election.

Vince Foster isn't the only question about the Clintons. Pamela Harriman may have known too much. Among other things, Prescott Bush used the Harriman fortune to finance the Nazi Party and Hitler. Most do not believe she died of natural causes. But her death may have helped the Clintons as well. Particularly now. Dead men, and dead women, tell no tales. She died less than a year after the plane crash that killed Ron Brown and Mickey Leland. On a US Air Force jet. Raised some questions. Still does. Just as Vince Foster raises some questions.

Maybe Pamela Harriman knew some things about the Clintons as well as the Bushes.

[Pachamama]

16. Grew up in DC....did you know that the Riggs Bank Bldg appears on our currency?

Just an interesting fun fact....makes one wonder when one looks at the whole picture of all these little pieces and then realize how they neatly tie together to form one big crooked gang of families.....with the prominent role of the Bush's sticking out like a sore thumb and the connections to the Saudis and all the other shit that has befallen us in the last decades... :eyes:

[bobthedrummer]

22. "More Evidence of Pre-9/11 Inside Trading: Follow the Money? God forbid

Why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before 9/11 never investigated?" by Jim Hogue (Baltimore Chronicle 1-29-2008)
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/012908Hogue.shtml

Jim Hogue has interviewed both Sibel Edmonds and CIA whistle blower "Miss Moneypenny". The Baltimore Chronicle published articles based on those interviews.

Fair use cited.

Btw, there is an active thread in the Editorials and Other Articles Forum based on this Fiscal Commentary by Jim Hogue.

[kelligesq]

23. Wasn't the brother Neil an officer of Riggs in DC? seems like

Neil is always involved in bank failures

[bobthedrummer]

24. Poppy's brother Jonathan J. Bush was with Riggs

The Riggs Bank Scandal: Pinochet, the CIA, Saudis, 9/11...and...Jonathan Bush! (Ted Kahl 1-18-2005)
http://www.democrats.com/node/2678

I could go on about the son of that Bush, JJ Bush Jr., and his involvement with the BFEE "healthcare" syndicate, but I won't. It is all BFEE.

[bobthedrummer]

40. k

[seemslikeadream]

3. YES!!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. He'll get away with it. They don't take breaches of fiduciary responsibility

seriously, either. Please, if they don't take blatant wilful failures to know, or wilful neglect, or conspiracy, or collusion -- if they don't take those things seriously, why would breaches of fiduciary responsibility be any different?

[Supersedeas]

43. it pays to have friends in high places who can be paid for

[John316]

6. Why not include Sovereign funds in this ban

Excellent topic! Connect all the dots like *sovereign funds which is another way foreign governments like United Arab Emirites, China and Russia have been allowed to buy up our ports, NASDAQ, parts of Morgan Stanley, Citgroup etc :(

[John316]

7. Sorry wrong smiley!

My apologies don't misinterpret the message!

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. You have an hour to edit your posts.

You can go in right now and make the corrections in the first post, and delete the second.

[John316]

8. The Usual Suspects

This is worth a look. Funny how 43's best friends all make the hit parade. http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/searchResults.jsp?searchtext=Osama+le+figaro&events=on&entities=on&articles=on&topics=on&timelines=on&projects=on&titles=on&descriptions=on&dosearch=on&search=Go

[Baby Snooks]

13. Friends of the Bushes

Friends of the Bushes appear to be enemies of the American people. Of course, again, how many photos are there of the Clintons with the Bushes? Nice and chummy pictures. And of course how many deals has Bill Clinton made in "Bush Territory" in the Persian Gulf?

[eib1]

14. It's not that this Saudi does it,

the problem is that American wealth does it all the time.
So when does the crackdown start on all of them?

[formercia]

15. This is how to deal with the BFEE

sue them into oblivion.

[InkAddict]

17. What, no quick re-review of the Federal judges?

Seems "free trade" is great, unless you fear they're trading $$ for euros??? and out of your rigged Riggs?

[cottonseed]

18. He'll be getting a call soon.

And Bandar Bush will be making a nice little transfer shortly after.

[bobthedrummer]

19. "BAE faces criminal inquiry in US over #1bn payments to Saudi's Prince Bandar"

archived babylonsister thread started 6-14-2007

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1110367

[bobthedrummer]

20. k

[KansDem]

21. This is laughable...

Saudi Arabia probably would stop sharing vital information on terrorism...

So they won't tell us the next time they fly planes into our buildings? :crazy:

[goforit]

25. Between Saudi Arabia and Britain.... They both deserve to be screwed.

[bobthedrummer]

26. k

[lovuian]

27. God Bless the Judge

Exposed Bush's Buddy
Michael Moore was shown eating with Bush & Bandar
watching the smoke fumes from the Pentagon

after 911

CROOKS THIEVES AND MURDERERS

[northzax]

28. so, let me get this straight

freezing Prince Bandar's oil-based assets over a lawsuit that is going nowhere, good.
freezing PDVSA's oil-based assets over a lawsuit that is going to win? bad.

got it.

[OKthatsIT]

29. UH OH...He could spill the beans, too!

In London, lawmakers disclosed last month that Britain's head of overseas intelligence had warned that Saudi Arabia probably would stop sharing vital information on terrorism if prosecutors pursued an investigation into alleged corruption in the arms deal.

VITAL INFORMATION? YOU MEAN, "WE WON'T PARTICIPATE IN BLACK OPS PROGRAMS FOR YOU, ANYMORE"....or..."you better let me go...or I'll tell everyone who was involved in 9/11".

[bobthedrummer]

30. Why would a former FBI Director "represent" Prince Bandar's "interests"?

That's just one of the questions that won't go away to those of US that have paid attention to a lot of things over the years.

David Leigh and Rob Evans of The Guardian have done a remarkable job following all things BAE-they had an article published November 26, 2007 that gave me pause to think, long and deep. Among other things I learned that former FBI Director Louis Freeh works for Prince Bandar (or maybe he is still a cop?).

Here is that article.

"US obtains Swiss records and flies in British witness in BAE investigation" by David Leigh and Rob Evans (Guardian 11-26-2007)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/26/bae.armstrade

Of course all this doesn't prevent proposed sales of arms to Saudi Arabia, sales that benefit Boeing's Board and shareholders. Congress was "notified" last month.

"Saudi Arabia-Joint Direct Attack Munitions"
http://fas.org/asmp/resources/110th_2nd_session/Saudi_Arabia_08-18.pdf

Fair use cited on all links.

"Louie Louie, ohh baby, me got to know..."

[bobthedrummer]

31. "BAE: secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince

Spectre of 'another 7/7' led Tony Blair to block bribes inquiry, high court told" by David Leigh and Rob Evans (Guardian 2-15-2008)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/15/bae.armstrade

Fair use cited.

Tony Blair is still the "special envoy" for peace in the Middle East-a "special envoy" for who's "peace"???

:puke: :argh: :puke: :argh: :grr:

[bobthedrummer]

33. k

[bobthedrummer]

39. Not too many people involved in funding terrorism can get a former FBI Director to work for them.

Kick, all the way back to the top.

[Amonester]

41. Yep. And they fired Sibel Edmonds too.

And the BFEE-of-Unpunished-War-Crimes made sure to gag her next.
But it's still "conspiracy theories" for many (too scared to look).

[bobthedrummer]

32. k

[bobthedrummer]

34. Another kick...

[bobthedrummer]

35. Update: "Britain powerless in face of Saudi threats, court told"

by David Leigh and Rob Evans (2-16-2008 Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/16/bae.armstrade

[bobthedrummer]

36. "More Evidence of Pre-9/11 Inside Trading: Follow the Money? God forbid.

Why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before the 9/11 attacks never investigated?"
by Jim Hogue (1-29-2008 Baltimore Chronicle)
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/012908Hogue.shtml

[bobthedrummer]

42. KICK

[bobthedrummer]

37. bttt

[bobthedrummer]

38. .