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[[Charles Keating]], who notoriously lead the plunder of [[Lincoln Savings]] was jailed. Prosecutions however hardly scratched the surface of those involved. [[Pete Brewton]] states that this was because the [[US Congress]] was full of people who had personally profited and so could be counted on to oppose a real investigation.<ref name=ug732/>
  
 
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Event.png Savings and loan fraud(fraud) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Savings and loan fraud.jpg
Date1986 - 1995
PerpetratorsThe cabal
Exposed byWilliam K. Black
Interest ofAmerican Continental Corporation, Pete Brewton, Brian Downing Quig

Official Narrative

Wikipedia refers to the event as the "Savings and loan crisis", and lists a set of causes as if it were an unforeseen event. As with the commercially-controlled media in general, it obscures the fact that in financial transactions, every dollar which is lost to the taxpayer is a dollar which someone else gains.[1]

Problems

The S & L fraud was entirely predictable and Pete Brewton suggests in no way accidental.[2] It has been called "the largest theft in the history of the world" (before the modern "bailouts").[3]

Background

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In the early 1980s, under Ronald Reagan, Vice President George H. W. Bush managed regulatory changes took place that gave the S&L industry new powers and for the first time in history measures were taken to increase the profitability of S&Ls at the expense of promoting home ownership.[2]

Bush Family

As well as George Bush Sr., Neil Bush (reprimanded by federal regulators for the "multiple conflicts of interest") and Jeb Bush were implicated in the S & L fraud.[3]

Prosecutions?

Charles Keating, who notoriously lead the plunder of Lincoln Savings was jailed. Prosecutions however hardly scratched the surface of those involved. Pete Brewton states that this was because the US Congress was full of people who had personally profited and so could be counted on to oppose a real investigation.[2]

Profit

Pete Brewton has estimated that the S & L Fraudsters netted perhaps $500 Billion not including profits made from the resultant property price bubble.[2] Another estimate puts the cost at $1.4 Trillion.[3]

 

Examples

Page nameDescription
CenTrust BankControlled by Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Drug money laundering etc...
Indian Springs State BankKansas bank which went bankrupt after being looted by CIA-connected airline owner Farhad Azima
Lincoln SavingsAn infamous part of the multi-billion dollar Savings and loan fraud.
Vernon Savings and Loan

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
1980s“The Savings and Loan crisis was a huge wealth transfer... According to people like Houston Post's Pete Brewton It was intelligence and organized crime that essentially collaborated with major Wall St banks at the time like Drexel Burnham Lambert and some of these other groups. This particular nexus, by taking like 6 billion dollars out of the savings and loan industry when it was deregulated basically buy what they didn't already own of corporate America. And so you have the same group more or less having compromised politicians through sex blackmail for decades, and by the time they own corporate America, due to the role that corporate America plays in US politics they can essentially buy everyone else out... During the same period of time, this network was also basically finding a way to off-the-books finance, erm "activities" — secret wars, really — all over the globe, not just in Nicaragua, at the the time, but really congressional approval to finance proxy armies... and for a long time this was justified with "this is necessary to fight the communists" and of course with the fall of the Soviet Union that excuse sort of collapses. And from that point, I see that power nexus in the 80s, after the fall of the Soviet Union I see that there's two, really a split, and you see it with US politics today. You have people... hungry for a return to the Reagan era days where America is on top and use these same types of illegal activities to further US imperialism, with a sort of warped idea of American nationalism. And then you have this other side that's the internationalist camp or the globalists that want global governance, and you sort of have them competing but... both factions go back to Iran contra and these intelligence, organized crime groups.”Whitney WebbNovember 2022
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