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Prominent Tennessee Senator Fails To Disclose Millions In Hedge Fund, Real Estate Investments

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Earlier this year, quite a few members of the American electorate were distressed to learn that the Clinton Foundation had apparently suffered what we called a “Geithner Moment.” 

For those who might have missed the story, when a Reuters investigation revealed discrepancies, the charity decided to refile five years worth of tax returns and review filings dating back as far as fifteen years. At issue were disclosures around contributions from US and foreign governments which Reuters claimed totaled “tens of millions” of dollars in a typical year but which mysteriously disappeared altogether from the organization’s 990s starting in 2010. As we noted at the time, the Foundation was quick to point out that when it comes to charities, it is exemplary in terms of being forthright, but the missing disclosures will likely serve to fan the flames for Republicans who claim Clinton’s ties to the charities could make her susceptible to the influence of outside interests. 

A few days later, the charity’s acting CEO penned a lengthy blog post explaining the “mistakes” and assuring voters that the organization goes to great lengths to avoid conflicts of interest. Finally, a few days after that, IB Times questioned whether a $200,000 payment made to Bill Clinton by Goldman Sachs (ostensibly as compensation for a speaking appearance) was an effort to influence the State Dept’s decision making process surrounding a loan from the Export-Import Bank to a company that was set to purchase planes from a Goldman-backed supplier. Revelations that Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved $165 billion in arms deals to nations who had previously given money to the Clinton Foundation didn’t help to reassure anyone. 

Put simply: if voters don’t know where the money is coming from (even if the contributions are “charitable”) they are operating with incomplete information with regard to who may be influencing the candidates. 

Now, it turns out Tennessee Senator Bob Corker - who you might recall had a run in or two with Ben Bernanke and once penned a scathing FT Op-Ed about the market’s unhealthy fixation with the Fed - failed to disclose millions in income from hedge funds and real estate investments. 

As WSJ reports, “Mr. Corker late Friday filed a series of amendments showing that his personal financial reports as originally filed included dozens of errors and omissions.”

Ok, so what’s the nature of these “mistakes?” 

The new forms show that Mr. Corker had failed to properly disclose at least $2 million in income from investments in three small hedge funds based in his home state.

Wow. Ok, was there anything else? 

He also didn’t properly report millions of dollars in income from commercial real-estate investments due to an accounting error. 

This is starting to seem like a rather glaring omission - surely a member of the Senate Banking Committee wouldn’t have “forgotten” to disclose anything else, right? 

And he didn’t disclose millions of dollars in other assets and income from other financial transactions.

Goodness. So what's the grand total? 

His report for 2014 didn’t include a gain of between $304,000 and $1.4 million in hedge fund Gerber/Taylor.

 

In 2013, he failed to disclose a gain of between $100,001 and $1 million in hedge fund TSW II. And in 2012, he made a gain of $1.2 million in Pointer (QP) LP, though his previous statement reported income of $100,001 to $1 million from the hedge fund.

 

The amendments also show that he failed to disclose a 2014 investment in Gerber/Taylor of between $500,001 and $1 million and a 2013 investment in Pointer of between $1 million and $5 million.

 

The senator also underreported rental income from his commercial real-estate investments in Corker Properties, a company he founded years before being elected to the Senate. 

 

As a result of the accounting error, Mr. Corker’s new forms show additional income of at least $3.8 million between 2007 and 2014 from his commercial real-estate holdings.

So millions upon millions upon millions. Got it.

“This is not a situation calling for punishment or admonition by the Ethics Committee,” Robert Walker, a former chief counsel for the Senate ethics panel told The Journal. “You can’t just disclose once you get caught,” Anne Weismann, president of the Campaign for Accountability, counters.

For those unfamiliar, this isn't the first time Corker has come under scrutiny for his investments. Just last month, the Campaign for Accountability (CFA), a D.C. watchdog, called for an SEC and ethics investigation of Corker in connection with his family's trading in shares of CBL & Associates (a REIT based in Tennessee). Here are some excerpts from the CBA's press release:

Between 2008 and 2015, Sen. Corker, his wife and daughters made an astonishing 70 trades of stock in the real estate investment giant CBL & Associates Properties – more than triple the number of transactions he made of any other stock. Some of the trades closely preceded company announcements that led to changes in the stock’s price and seemingly resulted in the senator making millions of dollars.

 

CfA Executive Director Anne Weismann stated, “Sen. Corker’s trades followed a consistent pattern — he bought low and sold high. It beggars belief to suggest these trades – netting the senator and his family millions – were mere coincidences.”

 

As the Wall Street Journal has reported, Sen. Corker failed to report numerous trades of CBL stock. Federal law requires members of Congress to report stock trades and file reports disclosing their assets. Many of Sen. Corker’s profitable trades were made in advance of his broker, UBS, issuing reports impacting CBL’s trading price.

 

Sen. Corker recently amended his filings to reveal a 2009 purchase of between $1 and $5 million of CBL stock, sold just five months later in 2010 at a 42% profit. Similarly, Sen. Corker made purchases worth between $3 and $15 million in 2010 and, just after his last trade, UBS said it was upgrading its outlook. The stock went up 18%. Shortly thereafter, Sen. Corker began selling; a week later, UBS downgraded the stock and the share price soon declined about 10%.

Nope, nothing suspicious about that. But it gets better.

As CBA also notes, "as a member of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Corker has advanced legislation that would financially benefit UBS and CBL." Here are some excerpts from a piece by Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McClean who parsed the CBA's entire complaint (enbedded below): 

As the complaint—filed with the SEC and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics—details, Corker and CBL go way back. Corker began his career at a company whose primary business was subcontracting for CBL and which is now substantially owned by CBL. CBL executives were Corker’s “first and most generous donors,” as the complaint put it, when Corker filed to run for Congress in 2006.

 

Both directly and indirectly, CBL have given generously to Corker. According to the complaint, CBL’s executives, directors and their spouses rank among the senator’s top campaign donors, contributing $88,706 to his campaign committee and PAC since his 2006 run. Since Corker’s arrival in the Senate, CBL executives have contributed more than $50,000 each to NAREIT and ICSC—which, in turn, were part of a nine-PAC consortium that held a fundraiser for Corker in Washington in 2011. NAREIT and ICSC also donated $15,000 directly to his campaign committee since his arrival in the Senate.

 

A few years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers issued a rule called “Waters of the United States,” which would have expanded the EPA’s jurisdiction.

 

Both the ICSC and NAREIT were among the many who fought against it.

 

Using a rarely used tool called a Congressional Review Act, the Senate passed a resolution last month by a vote of 53 to 44 to rescind the rule. Corker’s vote in favor of rescinding the rule was celebrated on Twitter. 

Then there’s the long, vicious fight over online retailers not charging sales tax, because states are barred from collecting sales tax from out-of-state companies. This has been an area of particular concern to companies like CBL, which own shopping malls, and which stand to lose out if consumers choose to buy online.

 

Back in 2013, a measure called the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would have required online retailers to collect sales taxes, failed in part because some top Republicans opposed it. Corker supported it. Just this spring though, a bipartisan group of senators including Corker reintroduced the measure. 

And on, and on, and on. 

You'll also note that Corker comes in at number 23 on the richest members of Congress list. Here's the entry from Roll Call:

So if you needed another reason (or three, or four) to distrust politicians and to despise business as usual inside the Beltway, you can find plenty of things to be disgusted with here. Indeed, the latest revelations about Corker's "ommissions" look like par for the course for the Senator.

While none of the above will likely come as any surprise to readers, what we would note is that it's precisely this kind of thing that's driven voters to support a certain Presidential candidate who, like Corker, knows a thing or two about real estate...

289155471 Campaign for Accountability Requests SEC and Ethics Investigation of Sen Robert Corker R TN for I...

 

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Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:36 | 6923361 InjectTheVenom
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oh gee i'm SHOCKED !!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:42 | 6923374 algol_dog
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Your tax dollars at work.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:52 | 6923415 remain calm
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Is it Corker or Cocker? Either way he is a dickhead.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:09 | 6923451 knukles
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He's blonde, right?  Reminds me of the blonde playing Trivial Pursuit who landed on Science & Nature.  The question was; "If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?"
Blonde thinks for a while and then asks; "Is it on or off?"

 

What's even more shocking is that the $3.8MM+++++ that we're talkin' about here ain't an understaement of net worth.  It's an understaement of INCOME!
What's his 1040 look like?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:13 | 6923483 Cognitive Dissonance
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Me thinks the force corruption runs deep in this one.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:15 | 6923492 847328_3527
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HONORABLE Cocker  to you!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:52 | 6923650 SuperRay
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So he's going to go to jail for lying about his income, right?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:38 | 6924027 DollarMenu
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Don't be silly.  Elected officials are exempt from laws.

As to lying... well that's their job - to lie.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:25 | 6924213 The_Dude
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Had a conversation with my wife yesterday.  She was telling me about reading a story about the NSA hacking Wall St.  My thought was why..

Now I get it.... Blackmail of the political class

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 08:21 | 6925087 SoilMyselfRotten
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People are just jealous as he is obviously smarter and a much better market timer than we are. *sigh*

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:53 | 6923653 NoDebt
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It's an honest mistake.  When you're that rich, who can keep track of it all?  Hell, he probably made $5 million today alone.  Or he might have lost $5 million.  Who cares?  Little penny-ante shit like that it's like he lost a quarter in the couch cushions.

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:37 | 6924020 Never One Roach
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"I waz only relying on my accuntant...I had no idea....blah blah blah..."

 

Classic line....

 

Robert De Niro pays $6.4M after hit with IRS tax lien on Manhattan condo

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/irs-hits-robert-de-niro-...

 

Only the little peeples go to jail.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:15 | 6923495 Beam Me Up Scotty
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Only "Little People" pay taxes......

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 08:27 | 6925089 DownWithYogaPants
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I believe this article said he only failed to DISCLOSE.

 

I assume since he is a Republican that he DID PAY HIS TAXES.  Since only democrats like Geitner can get away with not paying.

 

The article appears to be misleading in how it suggests a "Geitner moment"....cause Geitner did not pay his taxes.   The wording in the article seems to shift gears from "not disclosing" to "not paying taxes" or just plain be ambigious.  A quick googling yields articles that appear to imply it is only a case of "not disclosing"

 

***Under ethics rules for Congress, lawmakers are allowed to invest in just about anything, as long as they properly disclose their personal investments to the public. The purpose of the rules is to allow the public to determine whether a lawmaker has a conflict of interest. The rules don’t prevent members of Congress from voting on legislation that may affect their personal finances.***

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:36 | 6924249 juangrande
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 I think the blonde's answer is as good as any. A human in a vaccum cleaner, if it was large enough, would fare better than the other kind of vacuum!

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 02:07 | 6924778 ZD1
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"He's blonde, right?"

 


No, Bob Corker is a gray haired RINO.


DEBT CEILING BILL: He voted YES on the final vote to raise the debt ceiling.

PATRIOT EXTENTION ACT of 2011 – He voted YES to extend the Sunset clause of the Patriot Act.

TARP (BANK BAILOUT) BILL: He voted YES. 

FANNIE MAE/FREDDIE MAC BAILOUT:  He voted YES. 

He was the guy who brokered a “compromise” in the Senate on Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and he was the deciding vote.

 

 

http://rinosandrats.com/2011/08/bob-corker-rino/

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/09/03/the-deciding-vote-...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:54 | 6923423 Bring the Gold
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So is this guy a Socialist or progressive?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:04 | 6923444 Normalcy Bias
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He's a Dirtbag. I'd love to see him get his due, but I know the rules don't really apply to these swine.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2010/03/03/the-bob-corker-bailout-sellout/

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:17 | 6923506 lincolnsteffens
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I don't know about the failure to report, but making profits on insider information is officially allowed for the special class. 

On the other hand, it is probably illegal for company officials to tell someone insider information for which profits or influence is the result.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:18 | 6923513 Normalcy Bias
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I was referring to his prior record, never mind this current issue.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:30 | 6923557 847328_3527
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He's another success story of our "No Senator Left Behind Act."

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:26 | 6923969 cheeseheader
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Success is garon-teed when you are a member of the club, of which we ain't.

 

Throw (or lamp posts, which I assume I would like better) the bums out.

 

Term limits NOW!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:38 | 6924265 juangrande
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Not once in the article did ZH mention his party affiliation! Now if he'd been a libtard......

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 02:19 | 6924792 Blankenstein
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Must not have read the whole article ......  

 

" 23. Sen. Bob Corker R- Tenn."  

   "the Tennessee Republican's"

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:06 | 6923463 Calmyourself
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Isn't this the Senator that amended Senate rues to bypass the Senate and give the president authority to negotiate and approve trade deals solo?  Typical prog scumbag...

Corker Amendment...  Edit: Normalcy, we were typing at the same time.. +1

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:29 | 6923982 jo6pac
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No I'm to poor to pay taxes well until they come after the poor. I'm not shocked at the news and I have the upmost hope that nothing will happen to the so-called chosen 1%. Please will some one in the belt way sharpen the gilliontines.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:29 | 6923984 jo6pac
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No I'm to poor to pay taxes well until they come after the poor. I'm not shocked at the news and I have the upmost hope that nothing will happen to the so-called chosen 1%. Please will some one in the belt way sharpen the gilliontines.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:44 | 6923376 Buckaroo Banzai
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(1) I'm confident virtually all of the 535 lie and cheat on their financial disclosures, or engage in shady financial dealings and unethical business shenanigans.

(2) Which makes me wonder what this particular guy did to get singled out.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:46 | 6923384 MsCreant
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Good catch.

Maybe his activity is so egregious that the others are hanging him out to put investigators off their scent? You can steal but you can't get too greedy?

He looks like he has been a very good boy for somebody, they should not be mad.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:51 | 6923410 Arnold
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Making Jim Trafficant looking like a Saint daily.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:55 | 6923426 Buckaroo Banzai
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Trafficant's "crime" was talking about stuff he shouldn't have been talking about.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:58 | 6923437 Tall Tom
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So was Corker's crime.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:21 | 6923447 Normalcy Bias
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Traficant also committed Class 1 Hair Felonies.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:35 | 6923583 WillyGroper
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Misdemeanor compared to "The Donald."

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:58 | 6923669 MsCreant
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Aw fuck, I googled that. Holy hell, I don't know. Is that a Guinnea pig sitting on his head (was that a racist joke I cracked by accident?).

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:31 | 6923722 Normalcy Bias
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It's actually hard to believe when you see it, isn't it? It's amazing that nobody close to him had the courage to say 'no.'

He may have pioneered the road kill possum hair piece.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:46 | 6924062 Jena
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What I wonder is how does anyone maintain eye contact with him if stuck in conversation. I know I'd be marveling in awe: How many pounds of hair product does it take to keep that thing in place and how much time every day does it take to get it all put together? I'm too easily distracted by shiny objects, I guess.

He must have a rule, I guess: No staring at the hair.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:16 | 6923501 Chupacabra-322
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@ Buckaroo, you mean this?

The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303

Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:

"Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.

It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: "The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States?’

Gold and silver were such a powerful money during the founding of the united states of America, that the founding fathers declared that only gold or silver coins can be "money" in America. Since gold and silver coinage were heavy and inconvenient for a lot of transactions, they were stored in banks and a claim check was issued as a money substitute. People traded their coupons as money, or "currency." Currency is not money, but a money substitute. Redeemable currency must promise to pay a dollar equivalent in gold or silver money. Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) make no such promises, and are not "money." A Federal Reserve Note is a debt obligation of the federal United States government, not "money?’ The federal United States government and the U.S. Congress were not and have never been authorized by the Constitution for the united states of America to issue currency of any kind, but only lawful money, -gold and silver coin.

It is essential that we comprehend the distinction between real money and paper money substitute. One cannot get rich by accumulating money substitutes, one can only get deeper into debt. We the People no longer have any "money." Most Americans have not been paid any "money" for a very long time, perhaps not in their entire life. Now do you comprehend why you feel broke? Now, do you understand why you are "bankrupt," along with the rest of the country?

Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) are unsigned checks written on a closed account. FRNs are an inflatable paper system designed to create debt through inflation (devaluation of currency). when ever there is an increase of the supply of a money substitute in the economy without a corresponding increase in the gold and silver backing, inflation occurs.

Inflation is an invisible form of taxation that irresponsible governments inflict on their citizens. The Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply and movement of FRNs has everybody fooled. They have access to an unlimited supply of FRNs, paying only for the printing costs of what they need. FRNs are nothing more than promissory notes for U.S. Treasury securities (T-Bills) - a promise to pay the debt to the Federal Reserve Bank.

There is a fundamental difference between "paying" and "discharging" a debt. To pay a debt, you must pay with value or substance (i.e. gold, silver, barter or a commodity). With FRNs, you can only discharge a debt. You cannot pay a debt with a debt currency system. You cannot service a debt with a currency that has no backing in value or substance. No contract in Common law is valid unless it involves an exchange of "good & valuable consideration." Unpayable debt transfers power and control to the sovereign power structure that has no interest in money, law, equity or justice because they have so much wealth already.

Their lust is for power and control. Since the inception of central banking, they have controlled the fates of nations.

The Federal Reserve System is based on the Canon law and the principles of sovereignty protected in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In fact, the international bankers used a "Canon Law Trust" as their model, adding stock and naming it a "Joint Stock Trust." The U.S. Congress had passed a law making it illegal for any legal "person" to duplicate a "Joint Stock Trust" in 1873. The Federal Reserve Act was legislated post-facto (to 1870), although post-facto laws are strictly forbidden by the Constitution. [1:9:3]

The Federal Reserve System is a sovereign power structure separate and distinct from the federal United States government. The Federal Reserve is a maritime lender, and/or maritime insurance underwriter to the federal United States operating exclusively under Admiralty/Maritime law. The lender or underwriter bears the risks, and the Maritime law compelling specific performance in paying the interest, or premiums are the same.

Assets of the debtor can also be hypothecated (to pledge something as a security without taking possession of it.) as security by the lender or underwriter. The Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the interest on the debt was to be paid in gold. There was no stipulation in the Federal Reserve Act for ever paying the principle.

Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913)

"Hypothecated" all property within the federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, -in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title. The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a "beneficiary" of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets and labor of their "subjects," the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to the Federal Reserve System.

In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States corporation all the credit "money substitute" it needed. Like any other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the federal United States didn’t have any assets, they assigned the private property of their "economic slaves", the U.S. citizens as collateral against the unpayable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.

Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another.

This has been going on for over eighty years without the "informed knowledge" of the American people, without a voice protesting loud enough. Now it’s easy to grasp why America is fundamentally bankrupt.

Why don’t more people own their properties outright?

Why are 90% of Americans mortgaged to the hilt and have little or no assets after all debts and liabilities have been paid? Why does it feel like you are working harder and harder and getting less and less?

We are reaping what has been sown, and the results of our harvest is a painful bankruptcy, and a foreclosure on American property, precious liberties, and a way of life. Few of our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. have dared to tell the truth. The federal United States is bankrupt. Our children will inherit this unpayable debt, and the tyranny to enforce paying it.

America has become completely bankrupt in world leadership, financial credit and its reputation for courage, vision and human rights. This is an undeclared economic war, bankruptcy, and economic slavery of the most corrupt order! Wake up America! Take back your Country."

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:25 | 6923539 lincolnsteffens
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Yeah, I guess he divulged insider information in public. Too bad the public didn't read or hear the information.

I guess the news media that covered Congress then either decided to step around that one or just thought the guy was nuts. It is obvious the press is still ignorant and focused on other more trivial matters.

There is barely a day that goes buy that I don't give out or discuss some of Traficant's insider information.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:25 | 6923716 Normalcy Bias
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Good post. I'm really surprised that he lived so long after that testimony.

On further thought, (not to be a dick) perhaps people would've taken him more seriously if he had gone bald. It's superficial, I know, but his hair was always a distraction.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:05 | 6923894 Miss Expectations
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A few minute video about James Traficant:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjTdpqTsqZ8

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:54 | 6924084 Normalcy Bias
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Hey, thanks. I watched it and learned some things.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:55 | 6923419 Tall Tom
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The article was quite clear...

 

Now, it turns out Tennessee Senator Bob Corker - who you might recall had a run in or two with Ben Bernanke and once penned a scathing FT Op-Ed about the market’s unhealthy fixation with the Fed

 

If you live in a glass house it is unwise to throw stones.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:58 | 6923436 Buckaroo Banzai
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Meh... That's stuff Ron Paul has been saying for decades, and based on the visible result, nobody cares apparently.

No, it's got to be something else.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:00 | 6923443 Tall Tom
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If they could have sullied Ron Paul, do you really think that they just would not?

 

You brought up Trafficant above. You are correct about that.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:26 | 6923537 Tall Tom
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Why do you junk BB???

 

He may be correct and I may be too simple in my explanation.

 

I am just applying Occam's Razor. But I am speculating as much as he is speculating.

 

So his post was not worthy of being junked.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:33 | 6923563 Buckaroo Banzai
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Tom, I've attracted my own little army of serial junkers. Makes me feel all warm inside!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:39 | 6923553 Buckaroo Banzai
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All Ron Paul did was bad-mouth the Fed, call for a Fed audit, and call out the fraud behind the Federal Reserve Note. Piddly stuff-- like throwing popcorn at the movie screen when the bad guy appears.

But, he was smart enough to stay away from terms like "Emergency War Powers", "receivers of the United States Bankruptcy", "Canon Law Trust", "Maritime Law", and "allodial title to property".

That's trying to set fire to the movie theater, and that shit will get you fucked up.

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:05 | 6923696 Chupacabra-322
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Guess I'm fucked up then. It's the reason whenever I post on ZH I refer to the Entity as the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. It's Criminal Fraud CEO aka "President" & Board of Trustees aka "CONgress."

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:03 | 6923455 Bring the Gold
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Heh. Of course that's what it was. We are all for looting, thieving and domestic and foreign oppression, but don't you dare criticize the FED.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:54 | 6923421 PRO.223
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Your right. Want to get away from a hungry great white shark... just stab your swimming partner.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:58 | 6923438 jcaz
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Bobby Corker was crooked far before he entered politics-  in fact,  he got so warped in real estate that he had no career choice other than politics.....

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:41 | 6923611 Saddam Miser
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I'm sure its evident somewhere in the Roll-Calls...

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_tease...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:49 | 6923399 doctor10
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The President hasn't one; wanna bet more than a few Senators and Congresscritters don't even own an SS number?

Thats for the peasants and peons. "real citizens" -the oligarchy-don't need one and aren't tracked

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:02 | 6923450 Squid Viscous
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explains why he's always on CNBS

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:50 | 6923843 thinkmoretalkless
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Still small ball compared to the Clintons

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:39 | 6923363 Berspankme
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My guillotine list is getting so long

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:45 | 6923388 Arnold
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No tangible assets were harmed in the execution of the Writ.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:10 | 6923473 Implied Violins
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If it gets dull and it takes more than a few drops to take off a head, so much the better.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:24 | 6923538 XitSam
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I'm tellin' ya, the American guillotine is the wood chipper.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:29 | 6923554 MsCreant
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<---Facing up looking toward the blade.

<---Facing down looking at the basket.

 

Best position for the face when positioned in the guillotine.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:40 | 6923608 Normalcy Bias
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Feet-first is best. That way, they get to feel it a little longer.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:52 | 6923647 MsCreant
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Sexist.

What if the pol in question has huge cankles? Huh? ;-)

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:49 | 6924071 Jena
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You dreamer, you!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:40 | 6923366 BullyBearish
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Now it's clear why this A$$hole took the positions on issues that he did...it's always good to have something on someone...the David Patraeus example is tops

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:40 | 6923368 williambanzai7
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I  just Timmah'ed

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:17 | 6923502 nmewn
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Why Banzai, if I didn't know any better I'd think that you've picked up your very own troll ;-)

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:28 | 6923549 Tall Tom
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Me thinks you picked up the same one.

 

Junker trolls will be a junkin'

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:07 | 6923704 nmewn
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I got one hard core anonymous lunatic I picked up on one of GW's threads, another one who ain't quite sure what to make of me on his own but invariably follows the first ones lead cuz he's a sycophant idiot (or clone account of the first) and I'm workin on my third now!

Great sport! ;-)

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:30 | 6923556 MsCreant
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Sure Stanks around here in the junkyard!

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:19 | 6925183 STP
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Red Badge of Trollage!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:41 | 6923369 SillySalesmanQu...
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Accountability...is that the ability to have one or more accounts that are never disclosed?

S/

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:42 | 6923371 lolmao500
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Any article on the HUGE ESCALATION Saudi Arabia just did by announcing the formation of a ``islamic military alliance against terrorism`` including 34 muslims countries? Looks like setting the stage to invade Syria and Iraq to fight Iran and Assad... shia/sunni world war about to kick off with Russia/NATO on each side.... WW3 is on folks.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:43 | 6923377 MsCreant
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Corker the porker.

Why is he not prosecuted? Or hung?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:09 | 6923469 WillyGroper
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1st statement  & last question...

Isn't that David Cameron?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:35 | 6923584 11b40
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I'm holding my breath waiting for the indictments that must surely follow.

/S

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:47 | 6923628 MsCreant
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Please, God, no! Breathe, oh God! Does anyone have 11b40's real identity so we can go save em'? Holy Shit a ZH regular is getting ready to die!

/S?

Oh, nevermind. As you were.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:44 | 6923378 Seasmoke
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If no one does anything about any of the cronyism. Well then fuck it. I don't blame the criminals. They should steal as much as they can. They rule over nothing but fucking pussies. Home of the Brave. My ass.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:48 | 6923397 MsCreant
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But should you try to get some of that pie...

Nah, that is what is wrong with the cronyism.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:17 | 6923508 Berspankme
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People of Tn. will re-elect him just like always

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:52 | 6925570 Dickweed Wang
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They rule over nothing but fucking pussies.

 

You got that right!!  Especially the pampered, spoon fed, politically correct little assholes currently attending college in the USA.  Most of those kids are a disgrace to the core values that the USA was founded on (see the bullshit that just went on at the University of Missouri and at Yale for good examples).

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:44 | 6923381 Bill of Rights
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The citizens of the Country have been fuck every which way but loose. These fuckers need to hang ...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:44 | 6923382 Doubleguns
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He needs a good trumping. 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:50 | 6923406 MsCreant
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If Trump gets in there you think he is NOT going to act in the interests of his Brand? Will this not be the biggest "deal" he will have ever pulled off, in his mind?

Get over it.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:09 | 6923471 silverer
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Trump already has money.  The Grand Award will go to Hillary.  She will be elected president, because the money wants her there.  She will make untold millions by steering big numbers to her backers.  She will leave office as the richest woman in the world.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:11 | 6923476 WillyGroper
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Nope,

It's to get Slick Willie head of the UN Security council.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:20 | 6923519 Tall Tom
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Both Hillarity or the Donald will move to do that when elected.

 

They do not see it.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:18 | 6923511 Berspankme
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We already know she's a damn good investor

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:02 | 6923682 MsCreant
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This has already been explained elsewhere. She is a cow. She did well in cattle futures. It's reasonable.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:30 | 6923491 Tall Tom
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Candidates will be pandering.

 

When they get elected they remain true to the status quo...or they are shot.

 

Look at JFK...then Ronald Reagan...

 

I do not care about what Trump says. He will not DO anything different.

 

The US Treasury will have him killed if he attempts otherwise.

 

There is a shadow Government within the US Treasury. It, and it alone, is the most powerful agency as it has the power of the purse...the ESF. (Of course the IRS, the ATF, the SS, and other Terror Agencies are under auspicies of the Department of the Treasury)

 

Rob Kirby alluded to this in his interview with Greg Hunter.

 

https://youtu.be/QKaFsLM-0kU?t=27m29s

 

The FED is the scapegoat.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:35 | 6923585 MsCreant
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The Fed will be the bad bank, there is no doubt of that in my mind.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:41 | 6923804 Bring the Gold
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I agree. Even JPM and the Squid could go down in favor of White Knight BIS/IMF coming in with the SDR/Bancor replacement to the failed system of a nation currency that doubles as a global reserve currency.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:23 | 6923759 Bring the Gold
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I'm intrigued. Do you have more info on this? I know the secret service was initially part of the treasury to guard the printing plates for currency then they somehow became the praetorian guard/eunuchs of the Sultan for the president.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:45 | 6923383 Bangin7GramRocks
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The fact that he is a lying thieving asshole is not a surprise. What blows my mind is the volume of this shit. This cocksucker must spend 99% of each workday on his personal financial chicanery. Not exactly what the people elected him to do. Ah fuck it! Who cares anyway right? He will still be re-elected with 85% of the vote.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:49 | 6923402 Dickweed Wang
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This cocksucker must spend 99% of each workday on his personal financial chicanery.

 

Absolutely!!  The conventional wisdom regarding all of the assholes in CONgress is that they spend 80% of their time on soliciting campaign contributions to stay in office.  Maybe the reality is they are actually spending 80% of their time on shit like cock-sucker Corker has been up to.  It's time to start getting the pitch forks and ropes out . . . .

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:49 | 6923403 Jstanley011
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'Cause he's brining home the bacon... Oops... That's racist. He's bringing home the turkey bacon...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:45 | 6923387 Dickweed Wang
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Corker - What a fucking crooked scum bag . . . .

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:19 | 6923516 847328_3527
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He is simply another reason no one is doing anything about the massive fraud at every level in every department. Everyone is trying to "Out Fraud" the next guy whether it's on Wall Street or DC or local gubmint levels.

Interestingly fraud is not a huge problem out in Silicone Vallye...most are working hard to "out App" the next guy instead.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:47 | 6923393 Rusty Shorts
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The richest politician in America is the governor of Tennessee

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/01/21/the-richest-p...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:48 | 6923395 Jstanley011
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Just like their Obamacare exemption, the millionaires' club known as "Congress" has exempted itself from insider trading laws. And the dolts, collectively known as the American electorate, keeps reelecting them at a 90 percent-plus rate.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:14 | 6923487 Implied Violins
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"And the dolts, collectively known as the Diebold Machines..."

FIFY.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:48 | 6923396 venturen
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your books should be audit upon entry and exit from government

Wondered why he softened up to Wall street....there is a spot at Goldman anytime he wants it

I am sure one of the big banks need a corker of an expert to navigate the trading floor

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:49 | 6923400 Thisisbullishright
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What's several million dollars when you have so many other millions sloshing around?  No big deal...

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:05 | 6924348 lazysunday
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or what is a couple of million between friends right? 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:51 | 6923408 NotApplicable
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Well, color me cynical, but I'd say this man has demonstrated his ability to achieve higher office!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:53 | 6923417 Arnold
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Chuckie Schumer is next.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:55 | 6923425 LawsofPhysics
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LOL, "laws" are for the peasants...

roll the motherfucking guillotines, nothing changes otherwise.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:14 | 6923493 ThroxxOfVron
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""laws" are for the peasants... "

 

I'd like to know if the IRS has received every cent due or if 'taxes' are for the peasants, too?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:33 | 6923564 Tinky
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Enough with the rhetorical questions.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:56 | 6923657 Tall Tom
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It is like one of my former and deceased employers told me.

 

Business and Business Owners only pay the taxes that they want to pay...just enough to keep the wolves from the door.

 

Taxes are meant ONLY for the working class, the employees.

 

When doing books for my employer I would reconcile to the only number that the IRS knew for certain...the Bank Accounts.

 

(My former employer has been dead for many years. So I can expose this.)

 

I was also instructed to collect receipts from Parking Lots throughout the year. Every single personal living expense possible of my employer was run through the businesses and considered as a business expense.

 

Then the shill games of the loans...My employer would "loan liquidity" to the business and then take payment on the "note". That destroys any personal income for which that the employer would have been liable to pay taxes upon.

 

(Of course even when audited nobody ever asked where in the hell that capital came from in the first place.)

 

One time we were audited. We always made sure that the books and receipts were in disarray and disordered.

 

We'd hand them Paper Grocery Bags full of receipts and the books. Then we said, "Here are the records. You figure it out."

 

Needless to write that we were only audited ONCE. Government employees are lazy mother fuckers....including IRS Agents.

 

Then they paid us a refund.

 

Thus the personal Income Tax due was always minimal. The Corporate Tax due was always minimal. My employer would run a gross profit of a Million Dollars and pay $1500 to $2500 total in Corporate and Personal Income Taxes.

 

It taint fair...It taint fair.

 

Does this answer your question, ThroxxOfVron?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:55 | 6923427 MsCreant
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Aw guys, be nice. An accurate accounting of his income is difficult. It's a moving target, not a static number. He's not dishonest, he's just does not know what he is worth on any given day, what with the markets up and down all the time. 

Plus he is involved in so much, it's hard to keep tabs on how his legislation impacts his investments, he has soo much going on.

Be fair guys and gals.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:05 | 6923460 LawsofPhysics
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At this point what difference does it make?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 18:57 | 6923434 surf0766
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Arrest the fucker and throw his ass in GITMO

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:03 | 6923453 yogibear
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Owned by Wall Street and the banksters.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:03 | 6923456 Truth Eater
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The controllers like flawed politicians.  The flaw is their handle on the scumbag so that he / she does what they want or else.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:05 | 6923459 Mr. Crisp
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Corker had no choice. Disclosing all his income would set a dangerous precedent for political leaders.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:05 | 6923462 Jstanley011
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I'm with P.T. Barnum, "You can't cheat an honest man." The reason the American public doesn't mind is because it has been, one way or another, bought off.

In other news:
Russia is bringing its big guns to Syria. Literally.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:10 | 6923472 atomicwasted
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But I thought if we just elected Republicans then everything would be fine!  /sarc off

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:03 | 6923684 HowdyDoody
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Just imagine how much worse it would be if Democrats were elected. ... Oh wait ... What difference does it make?

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:13 | 6923480 Dragon HAwk
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Give the poor guy a break a Million is not a lot of money to these clowns,  his wife probably spent it before he saw the check..

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:13 | 6923482 One of We
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It looks like someone spent a considerable amout of time auditing the congressman's finances.  One down 534 to go.....I' m sure we can find plenty of beds for them at a nice penitentiary in their home districts... 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:13 | 6923484 nmewn
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Senator Charles F. Meachum: Are you out of your mind? Are you out of your godamned mind? I am a United States Senator!

Bob Lee Swagger: Exactly.

(Boom)

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:17 | 6923507 whoopsing
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You gotta give the guy credit , he did help stop the monkeys at the EPA from expanding their jurisdiction

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:18 | 6923514 whoknoz
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when I applied for a mortgage I listed my income as between $1000 and $1,000,000...I should hear back from then shortly, they said...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:26 | 6923528 Lumberjack
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And let me guess his role in the repeal of Sen. Scott Brown's Stock Act...

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/politics-republicans/story/2015/nov/1...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:32 | 6923562 Lumberjack
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Between the two parties and In the words of Hillary "what difference does it make" ...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:49 | 6923639 lakecity55
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Comrades! We must not critique High Party Members! Think of their Responsibilities! Is it unfair they get a bag of chocolate chip cookies?

Forward!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:23 | 6923534 Contrariologist
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Let me put in what the writer of this article seemed to miss:

Corker is a REPUBLICAN. You got that? Geez, let a Democrat get caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and ZH explodes with comments about socialism, Obama the Tyrant, liberals. Damn, a rich Right Winger gets caught, and you can't even mention his party affiliation. Oh, I get it...Political Correctness won't allow that. The hypocrisy on this site is overwhelming at times.

Uh oh, I have to go. Time to go continue my War on Christmas! Funny thing, I just left a "Christmas Party" where saying "Happy Holidays" had been BANNED by the Right Wingers, all of whom insisted on keeping Christ in Christmas. Well, first of all, the "holidays" include the entire period from Thanksgiving to Little Christmas (look it up). Secondly, the decorations at the party included: Snowmen that don't melt, Elves with mad construction skills, the omniscient Santa Claus, ageless Ms. Claus, flying reindeer, inflatable penguins, and the ubiquitous dead tree hauled inside and covered with lights (which used to be banned in most of the colonies as evil)...NOT SURE HOW ANY OF THAT SHIT KEEPS CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS, but I was thrown out for saying Happy Holidays.

Fucking hypocritical right wing assholes.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:39 | 6923604 Grouchy Marx
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Great point, if only you were correct in saying he is not identified as a Republican, because he is. The letters "R TN" give the right-wing's hidden secret away, if you have the decoder ring.

Or, there is another decoder called Wikipedia if the article did fail to mention. 

Get a life. 

Anyone who pays attention knows that corruption is rampant in both parties. 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:04 | 6923689 Contrariologist
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The "R TN" is only mentioned in a link to a Roll Call article, I was referring to the writer of the article, not his links. Get your own decoder, assface. And yes, Both Parties are totally full of shit. Every day. All of them.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 04:15 | 6924893 Blankenstein
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The entry from Roll Call is posted above within the ZH article, you don't have to follow a link to find it and it also contains "the Tennessee Republican's"  Also, it is mentioned again in the document for campaign accountability posted above.  jeez

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 04:48 | 6924913 Grouchy Marx
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That's the difference between us. See, I got my decoder ring by sending in box tops from Wheaties. You don't get anything from Fruit Loops except bad teeth.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:42 | 6923617 MsCreant
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I deleted an insult. You may be genuine.

We don't need to say the party affiliation for every pol we talk about here.

1. We already know, we read.

2. Both parties are corrupt, it really does not make any difference. Buying into the Rep/Dem discourse is a distraction.

3. If you pay attention, if anything the RINOs get treated with more contempt around here because they are not "real" conservatives at all. They are as socialist if not more so, than the so called Dems.

4. Ron Paul is the one of the few politicians that does not get shit from ZH. Everyone else does.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:47 | 6923633 lakecity55
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Thank You.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:06 | 6923702 Contrariologist
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No, you don't NEED to mention the party for every person in every article, but it is ALWAYS MENTIONED for shitty Dems, and oddly missing for this asshole Repub. Yes, they are all corrupt, though, both parties, at all times. Perhaps you noticed my moniker...Contrariologist. I don't trust ANYONE, NOT A GODDAM ONE OF THEM.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:23 | 6923535 Contrariologist
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Let me put in what the writer of this article seemed to miss:

Corker is a REPUBLICAN. You got that? Geez, let a Democrat get caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and ZH explodes with comments about socialism, Obama the Tyrant, liberals. Damn, a rich Right Winger gets caught, and you can't even mention his party affiliation. Oh, I get it...Political Correctness won't allow that. The hypocrisy on this site is overwhelming at times.

Uh oh, I have to go. Time to go continue my War on Christmas! Funny thing, I just left a "Christmas Party" where saying "Happy Holidays" had been BANNED by the Right Wingers, all of whom insisted on keeping Christ in Christmas. Well, first of all, the "holidays" include the entire period from Thanksgiving to Little Christmas (look it up). Secondly, the decorations at the party included: Snowmen that don't melt, Elves with mad construction skills, the omniscient Santa Claus, ageless Ms. Claus, flying reindeer, inflatable penguins, and the ubiquitous dead tree hauled inside and covered with lights (which used to be banned in most of the colonies as evil)...NOT SURE HOW ANY OF THAT SHIT KEEPS CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS, but I was thrown out for saying Happy Holidays.

Fucking hypocritical right wing assholes.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:37 | 6923756 Tall Tom
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THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO POLITICAL PARTIES.

 

EVERY SINGLE BASTARD IN CONGRESS IS CORRUPT TO THE CORE.

 

THE PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION IS CORRUPTED TO THE CORE.

 

You were probably not thrown out of that DAMNED CHRISTMAS PARTY for your use of "Happy Holidays".

 

You were thrown out because your attitude stinks and you brought politics into a setting where it did not belong. In other words you behaved as an ASSHOLE...a ROYAL ASSHOLE at that most likely...just like you are behaving here.

 

You fucking whiner...

 

Let me tell you a thing about REALITY.

 

YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO JACKSHIT.

 

Parties are BY INVITATION. You are either invited, or, you are not.

 

If you are invited and decide to attend then you need to be GRACIOUS TO YOUR HOST.

 

If you are not gracious, and YOU WEAR OUT YOUR WELCOME, then you will be INVITED TO LEAVE.

 

And you should not expect another invitation.

 

You are also a GUEST HERE. You are NOT ENTITLED TO POST ANYTHING. (Neither am I. But I understand that I am just an invited guest to this venue and I can be asked to leave at anytime by my HOST.)

 

You are the TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE of a person who has an ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY.

 

You are NOT ENTITLED.

You are NOT ENTITLED.

You are NOT ENTITLED.

 

Do you get it?

 

Lose your FUCKED UP ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY.

 

It will not serve you well YOU SPOILED ROTTEN, DEMANDING, LITTLE CHILD.

 

GROW UP, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.

 

(Tyler. This is an adult website. We need to ban children.)

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:33 | 6923565 will ling
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but, but, but..... we can't have blood.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:33 | 6923571 mtthw2
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Until the day arrives that these traitors are severely punished,  I'm out of here.  How about that Corker Bill that helping Iran get nukes?  Another crony rino that needs to be dealt his dues when white males finally get fed up with this bullshit.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:05 | 6923694 PoasterToaster
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There's really no such thing as a RINO.  Republicans have always been that way, it's just that their base is now getting wise to their ways.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:38 | 6923599 robnume
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Almost to a man - or woman - the USSA CONgress reps have incredibly checkered pasts. Just look 'em up. But then CONgress is the Billionaire Boys Club and I would expect nothing good from anyone claiming to be doing "public service" these days. Pubilc Service means to take as much from the public as possible; if you can't take their money, take their rights. Same as it ever was.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:45 | 6923623 lakecity55
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Haha, yeah, they like squirming little girls and dead boys in their club awright...

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:41 | 6923610 lakecity55
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Insider trading is NOT illegal for Congresspeople, you serfs. Get with the Program and lay off!

haha.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:55 | 6923661 ZombieHuntclub
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My former mayor and now senator is a douche bag. Now everyone knows what everyone in Chattanooga has known for years. That little politician is a liar! 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 21:59 | 6923970 Dick Buttkiss
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I know the man personally (just sayin') and have long lamented that a very talented, hard-working businessman caught the political virus and has gone down the drain accordingly. And I say this without really giving a shit that he, like anyone else, tries to escape the clutches of the diabolical IRS. 

Which is to say that there should be no income tax anymore than there should be a central bank, the combination of which was the 1913 one-two punch that sent our already-failing republic to the canvass, resulting a "democratic" free-for-all run by crony capitalists who go about their "business" with impunity.

Corker and his ilk — neocon, neoliberal, irredeemable statists all — are yesterday's news. Wake up to help make tomorrow's.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:55 | 6923662 paint it red ca...
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Good ole corky. Former mayor of Chattanooga when the Ohio voting fraud data center was discovered in his town.

http://www.alternet.org/story/99337/how_the_gop_wired_ohio's_2004_vote_count_for_bush_to_win

Then he was elected to the Senate where he got 3 key committees despite being a freshman senator. He got banking and urban affairs committee, Foreign Relations committee, and Committee on Aging. On the banking committee he lobbed softballs to bernanke for several years during Fed head testimony's.

And did I happen to mention it is reported that he was college roommates with billionaire, TN governor and and Pilot Oil executive Bill Haslam. Now Pilot oil was raided a year or so ago for funny money shenanigans related to trucking.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/14/trucking-companies-say-fraud-at-has...

So corky is no stranger to political monkey shines and likely steeped in them if the covers were pulled off all the dirt surrounding him, his handlers and pals. This good ole southern corky boy was being groomed for a presidential run IMO.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:55 | 6923663 dot_bust
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This is a stellar example of how career politicians routinely act as thieves.

Our current system of government is a total failure and should be replaced. My personal preference is for a participatory government in which citizens serve in the same way they would for jury duty.

We cannot hand the keys to the kingdom to thieves for years at a time. It's insane. Of course, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

That's why I have no confidence in elections and am extremely tired of the two-party electoral system.

As a country, we're divided along party lines. It is this divisive system that enables the ultra-rich to own the government in its entirety. Remember the old saying, "Divide and conquer."

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 19:57 | 6923667 Anunnaki
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I am certain Loretta Lymch will go after Corker with the same Pitbull diligence she did soccer crook Sepp Blatter

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:06 | 6923699 MsCreant
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I insist you not refer to her as Lynch. She is African-American and that is racist.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 20:02 | 6923678 Freewheelin Franklin
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Corker. He's the fgt that axed the Paul/Grayson amendment  I Dodd-Frank to audit the fed iin conference committee 

 

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