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Michael Flynn allies allegedly plotted to lean on Republicans to back vote audits
Ex-whistleblower says group enlisted his help to seek potentially damaging information on two members of Congress to prod them to back audits in key states Trump lost.
Republican candidate denounces Michael Flynn as a ‘traitor’ during bad-tempered GOP debate
Senate candidate Everett Stern blasted the QAnon-courting general during a testy exchange with his opponent Kathy Barnette in Pennsylvania
GOP Senate Candidate Says Michael Flynn Group Asked Him to ‘Gather Intelligence’ on Lawmakers
Speaking to a group of reporters, Stern said representatives for Flynn approached him through his Patriot Caucus group earlier this year with the objective to influence lawmakers to support election audits in favor of former President Donald Trump.
The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation
Everett Stern, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania who runs a private intelligence firm, said he was approached in April by two Republican political operatives who urged him to gather information on elected officials to help prompt a state audit of the 2020 vote.
Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it.
Everett Stern IMDB
Everett A. Stern is the Intelligence Director and Founder of Tactical Rabbit, Inc (private intelligence agency) and a former candidate for United States Senate. Everett Stern is also the Hedge Fund Manager of Rabbit Alpha, LLC and Rabbit Capital Management. Stern is best known for his actions as the whistle-blower in the HSBC money laundering scandal where he uncovered billions of dollars in illegal money laundering transactions which led to an SEC investigation and a $1.92 billion fine against HSBC in 2012.
Michael Flynn Is Still at War
…the Jan. 6 committee heard testimony from a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania named Everett Stern…
Independent Candidate Drops out, Backs Fetterman: ‘Democracy at Risk’
John Fetterman’s campaign for Pennsylvania Senate is getting a boost from a candidate who dropped his independent bid and endorsed the Democrat out of concern for the future of U.S. democracy.
GOP candidate claims Michael Flynn hoped to blackmail U.S. officials into pro-Trump “audits”
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Everett Stern made the bombshell accusation in a press conference Saturday
What Is Michael Flynn’s Long Game?
The candidate, Everett Stern, said Flynn’s representatives wanted to extort these people to force them to back an Arizona-style “audit.”
Special Report: HSBC’s money-laundering crackdown riddled with lapses
Executives of HSBC Holdings Plc and its U.S. subsidiary are scheduled to testify Tuesday before a Senate panel about how the London-based banking behemoth, after years of run-ins with U.S. authorities over alleged anti-money laundering lapses, has cleaned up its act.
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Everett Stern Featured in 2018 Netflix True Crime Series, “Dirty Money”
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For decades, HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks, laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, dogged journalists and prosecutors try to hold the bankers to account. But will they be judged “too big to jail?”
Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it
By Matt Taibbi, February 14, 2013
“Soon enough, though, out of boredom and also maybe a little bit of patriotism, [Everett] Stern started to sift through some of the backlogged alerts and tried to make sense of them. Almost immediately, he found a series of deeply concerning transactions. There was an exchange company wiring large sums of money to untraceable destinations in the Middle East. A Saudi fruit company was sending millions, Stern found with a simple Internet search, to a high-ranking figure in the Yemeni wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Stern even learned that HSBC was allowing millions of dollars to be moved from the Karaiba chain of supermarkets in Africa to a firm called Tajco, run by the Tajideen brothers, who had been singled out by the Treasury Department as major financiers of Hezbollah.”
Every time Stern brought one of these discoveries to his bosses, they rolled their eyes at him, if not worse…”
Special Report: HSBC’s money-laundering crackdown riddled with lapses
By Carrick Mollenkamp, Brett Wolf. July 13, 2012
At one point, [Everett] Stern said, he decided to take action on transactions linked to Palestine that he and some of his colleagues had noticed.
Stern sent an email to two superiors with the subject line, “Compliance error.” In the email, Stern wrote: “I believe investigators in the department are unknowingly making a major compliance error. Over the last couple of months investigators have approached me about cases in the Middle East, especially in Palestine.… It appears that most investigators do not understand that the government of Palestine is the terrorist organization Hamas.”