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Guest Post: Poor Thieves Go To Jail, Rich Thieves Don’t
Submitted by John Aziz of Azizonomics,
This is more surreal than Barack “I’ll Bomb Ya” Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
A bank clerk who dreamed of becoming a model stole £46,000 from the tills — and spent it on plastic surgery and shopping sprees.
Rachael Claire Martin, 24, used the cash to fund a boob job, dental work and liposuction, as well as hair extensions and nights out.
She took thousands at a time from her Barclays branch in Liskeard, Cornwall, in an eight-week period.
Martin initially denied 25 counts of theft in 2010.
But on what should have been the first day of a week-long trial, she admitted a single charge of theft covering the full amount of £46,000.
Steal thousands from a bank? You face criminal charges, a trial and jail time.
When that same bank manipulates a $600 trillion market by rigging the LIBOR rate for profit? No criminal charges, no trial, no jail time.
In a better world people who rob a company engaged in a manipulative criminal enterprise like LIBOR-rigging would not face criminal charges. There is a case that this girl should be treated as a hero. In stealing the money, she was just getting back a tiny fraction of the money that Barclays stole by rigging LIBOR. And by spending the money at least she gave the money back to the public instead of stashing it away in the Cayman Islands.
I hope she achieves her dream of becoming a model. And I hope the LIBOR-riggers spend a very long time in jail — but in reality there’s not much chance of that.
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Hubba hubba
The best thing about the pic (I didn't realise it 'til just now) is you can see her landing strip.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to office." - Aesop
I could deal with a few million more well endowed Robin Hoods.
I found that picture really easy to masturbate to.
lol ... censorship on zh is getting out of hand ... jus sayin
What's up with the black bar?
Thank God it isn't a picture of Jon Corzine with his shirt off tied up like that! I am waiting for the Corzine waterboarding video when some former MF Global clients catch up with him.
why didnt she spend a few bucks on the eyebrows? jus saying...
poor thing. that mutilated, over-blown, whore like pose is what she was gunnign for? With 46,000 pounds?
And people are turned on? Good grief.
Much....errrr....bigger things to worry about that making another failed human a hero, or anti-heroine or whatever category she falls into.
ori
war-inc
I'd tap that !
Alright, who's the fucktard that down arrowed me?
Seriously, I think she has potential. Jamie Diamond's job might not be so secure after all...
I greened you for the first, junked you for the second. The first was a brilliant rebuttal to Ori telling us what should make our dicks hard. The junk is for getting Mr. D's name wrong and for being a stupid comment.
The Secret Service Agency is requesting her number.
She looks like Skrillex
Based on this, presumably pre op photo, the poor girl did need work. Personally I think the money is better spent here, than on beautifying some bank president's Tuscan Mansion. The result was actually, quite positive.
I was unable to find an uncensored version of the "stretch" photo. For a proper masturbatory image, mentally merge the two versions. I particularly enjoy the surprised, wide eyed look in the covered boob version, and was disappointed, that she was reclining, rather than standing, since I believe that would have better displayed the spoils of her crime. Perhaps she was showing off her insertion scars. I always preferred the under the nipple, and under the armpit techniques. I guess she didn't steal enough for some electrolysis, around the navel. or perhaps navel hair is sexy is considered sexy these days, in Cornwall.
Here's another eyeless image, through the looking glass style. It's a pity, the surgeon couldn't decrease the eccentricity of her aureola. I've always found elliptical nipples unattractive. The circle is perfection, in so many things.
One last boob shot. Once again no money for electrolysis. I think she looks a bit haggard, in this one. Perhaps not sleeping well, because of a guilty conscience? If so, it's just as well she lost her job. You can't be a successful banker with any sort of conscience.
Guess you guys miss out on the photos I found.
...Alright, who's the fucktard that down arrowed me?
Whining about down arrows gets you nowhere on The Hedge. You should know that by now.
The eyebrows were an extra $5000...funny a Brit spending on thier teeth, she must French.
Quite the telling commentary that the majority of comments on this story are on almost all about the woman's appearance, and not on the actual story, which is the different results for criminal behaviour based upon whether you are 'rich' or 'poor'.
This is because the dearth of ANY of these fucking asshole bankers (read: criminal motherfuckers) getting arrested, going on trial, and - God forbid - going to prison for their numerous crimes against the people of the world leave us to comment on this womans' marginal looks, her "monolithed-out" augmented breastages, and her uni-brow.
Which is a sad state of affairs......
Until I see anyone paying for these crimes, I believe comments like will continue.
The sheeple public's lack of knowledge of finance is why these fucktards are getting away with all this - and posters on here know it ...........but can do little about educating them.
I've tried; like teaching Gump Physics. The "forced ignorance" of the public is frightening.
Waddya expect, ZH is a bastion of immature male hormone sufferers.
We discuss financial malfeasance in excruciating detail here, day in, day out. A bit of titty appreciation ain't gonna do no harm once in a blue moon.
The bigger question is: why are so few ZHers female? This is a serious problem, because they get to vote too.
Let me guess, you're a fag?
The eyebrows were an extra $5000...funny a Brit spending on thier teeth, she must French.
'There is a case that this girl should be treated as a hero.'
Really. So maybe we would be better off if we just let them all go eh? Oh wait, that's what happened in the run up to the French Revolution, when the economy collapsed because no one had any capital because no one could get paid because NO ONE SHOT THE MOB that simply demanded everything for free because they were hard done by and fucking 'deserved' it...
and that worked out just fine didn't it...
Be careful what you wish for.
Not quite what you are looking for...but some damn fine reporting.
http://www.larevistadecirugiaestetica.com/2012/07/rachael-claire-martin-sustrae-dinero.html
Hilarious
She took money she didn't own to inflate her frontal economy. NEWSFLASH: She won't go to jail, because she learned that trick from her father. Her real name: Claire Bernanke. Libor=liposuction from the people. Hey, if we at least get a better blowjob from it, its an improvement.
Lezbo jail scene qualified. I'm sure Larry Flynt is already slobbering like Jabba the Hut and is figuring out how he is going to land her. She may be a cougar by the time she gets out though....but whose complaining.
you might consider changing your name to Jackoff or the like
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem."
—Howard Zinn
I'm tired of fake tits, fake women and a fake government with fake bankers.
You forgot the most important thing... fake money.
They're real on the outside, that's good enough for me.
This is some funny shit.
Criminal Cramer on Wednesday with Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for Southern New York at CNBC's Alpha conference in front of an audience of hedge funds.
"I Just Want To Apologize In Advance That I Don't Have Enough Subpoenas For All Of You..."Both this girl and the bankers need jailing but not in the same cell. The bankers need to be paired with some 300 pound gorilla who has unresolved sexual problems.
That's a penis, and a nobel attempt at the "tuck under belt" trick, and you can see the scars under her tits.
You sir, have been watching too much tranny porn.
HES THINKING WITH THE WRONG HEAD. HOTKARL IS THINKING WITH BOBS PENIS.
"A bank clerk who dreamed of becoming a model stole £46,000 from the tills — and spent it on plastic surgery and shopping sprees."
what the fuck happened to the English?
they seem to be turning into Californians en masse...
or ignorantly fullfiling Huxley's dark vision of england's dystopian future....
"Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic," said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs. - Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Bob, do you work for the SEC? Let me guess you are in the investigation division?
This famous quote is the world we live in right now. Debt servitude of course is what he was thinking - because there is a reward to the debtor (a home, car, nice life etc) minus the interest payments (servitude) derived by a fractional reserve banking system where Aldous Huxley banker benefits at every one else's expense:
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Shit. I knew it was just a matter of time before I was reading about Bob's penis on a ZH post. You're out of hand you know, but I love you all dearly <3
99% of the people on Zerohedge Chat are 2 bit TROLLS. They NEVER engage in serious discussion about the real issues.
They are US citizens.
YEEEEEAH, baby! WoooOOOOOOOOOOOOH! USA! USA! Whoa!
AnAnon - most of the time I ignore your cut and paste screed about "US Citizenism", whatever that is. But since this was at least typed out differently, what are you on about?
WTF are you trying to say?
...Or paid for too many high-end pros. Either way, i wouldn't have noticed the scars if it wasn't for the comment. I wish we lived in a society that didn't push women to think that the only way to be atractive was to get plastic surgery, boob jobs etc. I'm sure she was gorgeous before any of that anyway. To bad she didn't just steal the money and spend it on gold and silver instead...
Most of a woman's behavior involves manipulating men.
Men aren't much better when it comes to women.
Shariah law forbids bras... you see a perky tit under a burka you know it's real!
Yeah, real hairy!
I know you can, but she's really hot.
Hot?
she looks like a shallow Hobbit with trout lips packing plastic=dumbsex.
Do you also like those plastic blow-up orifice dolls?
Thanks Bananamerican. She makes me sad. She does not have model potential, and honestly that is okay.
At least she had reasoning that most of us could understand. In this culture, women are told that is where their power is. It looked like a way to better things.
What was Lloyd and Jamie's excuse? They weren't making enough money? They did not have enough power? Jail is too good for them.
like Flacon quoted above "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive ...control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
That goes to the sex scam perpetrated on american little girls for the last 15 years...
"Be like Brittany, be like Christina! Be a whore. It's not degrading! Be an Orifice! It's Empowering™!!
That dumb English girl STOLE to participate in her own Objectification and to fullfill another debased global Marketing con. The Empowered Whore™
Those "boobs" are as emblematic of our Empty bullshit times as Tats and the last 12 years of amerikan political/financial "leadership"
We are so numbed to our own existence that we reach out for the "Transgressive™" to feel SOMETHING....to feel ANYTHING
Masculinity is DEAD. Femininity is DEAD.
Pimps and Ho's baby. That and a Webcam is the future it seems...
Well said all around BananaAm and Ms.C. Sad state of Affairs.
ori
death-of-shame-death-of-nobility
Masculinity is DEAD. Femininity is DEAD.
Get into the topic of sex and gender roles buddy and you are entering a house of mirrors, where somebody is going to be there at every turn waiting for you and it's going to end with you showing your insecurities to all.
Better to stick with comments re: $ or macro-trends, O-dog. No one needs to hear about your sexual hangups. LOL
Vic, I like you in-spite of who you are.
Carry on commenting on whatever you feel called to comment on. No one is judgng you.
Anyway the best one can do is judge your avaatar, which is a woman.
Hmmm...
ori
As in fishing, the kind of bait you use will help determine the kind of fish you catch. Further, some fish (in particular, the bottom feeders) will hit on anything. Pathetic really. She is the female embodiment of Jamie Dimon.
Dude, you don't want to land there.
Her tattoo budget must be through the roof.
Landing strip?
I like to refer to it as a "treasure trail"
Pussy Mohawk.
$600 trillion will buy a lot of nice tits...
a lot of fembots too!
fuck the OWS hippies, rapists, convicts and Libtards
no, Fuck YOU, Lloyd B.
Hey nick, why'd you get the down arrows? Some kind of negitive code in Hubba hubba?
Bunga Bunga
"In a better world people who rob a company engaged in a manipulative criminal enterprise like LIBOR-rigging would not face criminal charges."
Really?
Perfect. No additional comment.
Seems like her theft was for the public good. Let's just call it a "tax".
but only after we first say it isn't a tax
jb
At least the money she stole went back into the community.
I'd make a deposit in her anytime.
Hey, doesn't the one percent play golf with Barack?
Forward, Soviet!
Hairy bush or racing stripe?
Who cares? Work the Nair and waxing into the act.
Thems some hooters. She should have put it in the mattress instead.
During the collapse there will be rewards for banksters. I guess there already is a reward for the one bankster from Iceland.
Clawbacks?
investors should at least be able to see what they paid for...
Kinky...
Laws have nothing to do with justice, theyre there just to keep the little people in line; its as simple as that.
She did not steal it, she just borrowed a little bit of clients money to bolster her assets. Completely legal, you could just ask Corzine's lawyers.
Rehypothecation. Borrowed some assets to leverage her assets. She was going to pay it back as soon as the modeling contract came in.
You two should be her defense team
Finally I understand the financial term "Derivatits".
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she should get a refund on the plastic surgery, apparently S&M equipment ain't cheap
nothing says I'm a victim like whips and chains.
She is on a bench that you do bench presses on. Those look like bracelets, not cuffs, though I agree that her pose is suggestive of bondage.
because boobs
scabby-you'll get the drips from dipping it in that panty pot
You need to eat it so you can see what's in it.
Dumb bitch should have rev-repo'd her boobs with a 50 year duration. No problem! Dem titties will still be good by then.
Angello Mozilo, of Countywide laughed all the way to the bank. Corzine las already slipped away.
i dont see the link to the unsensored pic in the comments.. the fuck
But it is there.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-poor-thieves-go-jail-rich-thiev...
cites a link and there (in Spanish),
You can see the photos of Rachael Claire Martin naked breasts uncensored at Blick.ch (Rachael Claire nude)
Nothing will change until the people stand up and say enough!
The plastic Barbie doll was just trying to stimulate your economy? You guys are just soar because, for a bit, you got beat at your own game. Sad really. I think you should be proud of your own creation. Dr. Frankenstein was.
How ironic. This is literally what Alanis Moriessette was singing about
Boob Job = FRAUD!
Anybody else smell a good metaphor, something about appearances and manipulation and messing with Mother Nature?
If she didn't get caught they'd promote her to the top. She's got the right stuff.
What she forgot was the middle man. She needed to funnel the stolen money through an intermediary so that her hands were clean. Stealing directly from someone is certainly a crime. "Borrowing" hundreds of billions at less than .5% interest to plow into worthless equities, to pump the price up so you can unload the shares a few minutes later and keep the profit while repaying the loan in full, is just business as usual.
She should have immediately shot some porn and paid back the 46k pounds to the till before anyone knew it was gone. Then it would have been a loan. Any extra money above the 46k would be hers to keep. That is the way the stock market works. Poor girl, working for a bank she should have known better.
Also in the legalized theft department, what the fuck is going on with Nike. They report disaster earnings and the stock plummets, BTFD at the stock is up more than $10 in a week and a half. Did Nike's business have a miraculous turnaround in a couple weeks?
Bankrupt cities and millions of homes in shadow inventories mean REITs should trade through the roof. Massive economic slowdown in China means commodities should also hitch a rocket ride though the stratosphere. Building permits rising, while finished construction craters means homebuilder stocks should double in six months?
The lunacy is so expansive that every nuthouse on the planet wouldn't be able to contain it.
Thank the CONgress for bailing out malfeasant institutions and corporations.
Thank the FED for juicing the markets (the casino) with taxpayer money and digital "printing".
The FED is creating yet another housing bubble with ZIRP; prices have NOT come down to reality and are going back up thanks to ridiculously low rates in regions where people either have juicy government jobs or milk the FED system (banking, insurance, "health" care).
Lunacy indeed.
Re-read the remedial section on short squeezes in your trading manual (see both manual and squeeze in the same sentence so I'm on-topic for this post). Sit back and wait. Nothing will be making sense until the squeeze is over.
We are truly rushing pell mell into a new Dark Age where all the advances for the individual post Magna Carta are being stripped away in much more insidious ways than the past.
I was just sitting here thinking the same thing. Wondering if we are at the end of an amazing age and careening headlong into the abyss.
Humans fought thousands of years to get the personal freedoms they had won and it only took them a couple hundred to give them up.
Fortunately we traded them away for really entertaining episodes of Dancing with the Stars
Here's a soundtrack while you spend the necessary time examining the photo to determine its authenticity. The Fugs
I also recommend the version by The Holy Modal Rounders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd0WOD9yw0E
The Justice system is designed to protect the wealthy, not imprison them.
In 2006, 90% of laws recommended by the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce went trough Parliament.
http://www.icelandexport.is/icelandexport2/english/company/?company_id=4...
They also made reports about the stability of the banking system, like the famous Mishkin report.
In my wiev the guy in this picture who looks like Gollum wrote that report, and Mishkin signed it for a sizable fee of course.
http://www.dv.is/frettir/2009/8/14/tryggvi-og-mishkin-drapu-eina-kvigu-m...
This is how the information investors use to price the market is made.
If you are looking for justice or better yet fairness, well give up all hope who enter into the modern world- mafia ism is the new black.
She should have plaid innocent and say that she has done all that to get a promotion at the bank!
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Are those handcuffs she's wearing? Makes for a pretty kinky booking photo. And here I thought the British were so reserved.
Maybe WB7 will photoshop that censor bar into a booking plaque and turn it into a nice mug shot.
BTW, what was her sentence?
at least she got some dental work done. thats not standard behavior for a brit.
Well, you can't blame her for not stimulating the economy.
OH well, this needs an Irish Poem:
There once was a teller named "Claire"
Who only considered it fair . . .
To lift from the till,
And invest it at will
In boobs, liposuction, and hair.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
(OH, PS. . . I didn't say anything about "naked" and "shorts". . .)
There once was a teller named "Claire"
Who exposed her boobs bare . . .
And showed herself half naked
Trying to model and make it
Before her shorts the bank be aware.
OK, another Irish Poem:
A poor bank called "Barclays" got screwed.
This time by a gal, not a dude.
Instead of bad bets,
She "inflated" assets,
Then posed with them both in the nude.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
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Hi WB7!!! Thank you!!! I hope you are doing OK. Why do I suspect we will soon be seeing Claire with different face in one of your posts???
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
Clair de lune?
Beethoven would de very interested! So would Debussy!
The unbared face of Claire without the wrapping on her other moons in full bloom.
I would be very surprised if the LIBOR fiasco was the only criminal activity going on at Barclays.
Claire may not be the only one going tits up.
"Claire may not be the only one going tits up."
Sorry you posted so late, this is maybe the comment of the thread.
Actually Jaime Dimon did the exact same thing, but he wears loose suits so you can't see his big ol titties.
46,000 pounds, and she still looks like shit.
money dont buy shit no mo.
46,000 pounds is not a lot of money. If she offered to be my sex slave for 10 years, I would be more than glad to pay that amount. :)
haven't you heard? buy and hold is dead.
Rent to own.
Jean Valjean bitchez!
Would someone who knows someone who knows Rachael, tell her to get a legal defense fund website. I think a number of ZHers would be more than willing to help her defend herself...
Signed Antifaschistische Pending Contributor
They should all be punished. I suggest:
a) She should get 2 years in jail and breast cancer screening by every interested ZH subscriber. b) All the bankers who manipulated LIBOR must let her manage their personal finances for life.
She should have rehypothecated the money using documents certified by Linda Green.
If the crime is big enough, a detail orientated society, that is focused on quarterly profits, will continue without a care.
That's how you steal the future.
Does this really suprise anyone that is an avid ZH reader? I think not!
You just can't allow all the little people to be engaged in theft, too. That would be chaos. That would interfere with a bankster's ability to steal it if everyone was doing it. Not to mention it cuts into the loot, I mean profit.
Best way to rob a bank is to become a banker, that way you can steal from inside and outside of the Bank.
Laws and law enforcement are in place to insure it stays that way.
However, cops would be much wealthier in the long run if they would arrest and incarcelate the root of the problem. Every american that is employed to use a weapon should turn around one hundred eighty degrees and look at the enemy/criminals behind them, not in the victims in front of them
WTF kind of controls are there at Barclays? She was able to walk out with about $6K a week for 8 weeks an no one noticed when balancing the cash drawers at the end of the day?
Boss - "Rachel, your cash drawer was a couple thousand short last night, any idea what happened?"
Rachel - "No, that's weird. Want to see my new tits"
Boss - "Sure. Ummm, what were talking about again?"
The employees of even the worst run convenience store know they have fucking hell to pay if they let a customer slide on a couple pennies...and Barclay's bank was fooled for 8 weeks by this criminal master mind? WTF? Everyone in charge of these fucking banks should be jailed.
Yep - should have been picked up in *end of day* reconciliations, not after 8 weeks...
She replaced the money with play money from her little brother's Monopoly board game. The ruse was discovered when a senior manager tucked one into a stripper's g-string. The stripper questioned that orange $500.
Till to Tit- Now THAT'S what I call a currency swap. :-P
The fake boob thing perplexes me even more than the tax code. Humans are the only species with permanently enlarged breasts, the point is to show males you can nurse children. As I understand it, breast augmentation destroys the ability for human females to nurse their young.
I'd take fully functional A cups and a tax code that passes the test of natural law.
That is incorrect. Breast enhancement does not impair the ability to nurse. However, it is advisable to wait for a boob job if one is planning a pregnancy and to nurse. THe size and shape of the breast changes considerably during childbearing, and it's always better to have any necessary work done in a single go.
Bernanke should lauch a QE program just for women who want a breast enlargement!
= Quanitative Enlargement (aka the 'silicone standard')
Hahaha, spot onebir! Think of the "wealth effect!"
A woman who feels sexy will spend even more on clothes, makeup, shoes and handbags in order to display those new curves!
And what about leaking implants? Those need to be removed, involving doctors, insurance companies, medical plans, CDS's on the breast implant manufacturer etc etc. I see limitless possibilities!
Forget fractional reserve requirements and all that Basel I, II stuff! There should be just a simple requirement of women having big tits and we'll be out of this recession in a jiffy! I'm sure Nouriel Roubini would agree!
He is fixated on vaginas, not tits.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/03/nouriel_roubinis_wall_vaginas.html
Somehow, I don't think that she was planning a FASHION modelling career . . .
Plastic surgery... A very lucrative business in the US world order, as it promotes US citizen sense of individuality.
Plastic rice... A very lucrative business in the Chinese Citizenism world order, as it promotes Chinese citizen sense of fraud and scamming.