BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?

Subject: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 11:20 PM

Earlier this evening I found an interesting story at Freemarketnews.com. It described speculation that U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson had been arrested in Germany in December. Multiple financial crimes involved. The article talked about a similar subpoena being outstanding for Dick Cheney. But now that story is gone. The URL was saved in my History as "U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested." But the story's been pulled:

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=30505

I found the article reprinted on a blog:

U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY SEIZED AND BROUGHT BEFORE 'AD HOC' TRIBUNAL IN GERMANY ON A SUBPOENA HANDED OUT BY THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE [OR 'WORLD COURT'] ON CHARGES OF MONEY-LAUNDERING, NON-PAYMENT OF THE WANTA $4.5 TRILLION AND FOR MISAPPROPRIATION AND/OR DIVERSION OF COLOSSAL $ SUMS.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY LIKEWISE AT THE RECEIVING END OF PARALLEL SUBPOENA FOR SIMILAR CRIMINAL OFFENCE(S).

GERMAN AUTHORITIES EXERCISED THE INTERNATIONAL SUBPOENA, BRINGING PAULSON (AND CHENEY) UNDER GERMAN JURISDICTION, GIVEN THAT GERMAN BANKS TRYING TO MAKE THE WANTA PAYMENT WERE TWICE PREVENTED BY MR PAULSON FROM DOING SO. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE SECOND TIME, PAULSON WAS ARRESTED.

PAULSON CHARGED WITH DIVERSION OF FUNDS AND WITH NON-PERFORMANCE OF WANTA'S $4.5 TRILLION: HE WAS ARRESTED AFTER SEEING MME ANGELA MERKEL, WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE COMPLICIT IN THE $4.5 TRILLION THEFT (WHICH OF COURSE SHE IS NOT). BUT THAT WAS THE SITUATION.

ARREST CONFIRMED BY SEVEN SOURCES: KEY U.S. TREASURY OFFICIAL ORDERED TO GERMANY, SUBJECTED TO A GAG ORDER, AND INSTRUCTED TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIS OWN U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY. HE HAS BEEN IN GERMANY FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS, TESTIFYING BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL, STAFF OF THE U.S. CONSULATE AND THE GERMAN ATTORNEY GENERAL (EQUIVALENT) ABOUT THE ENDLESSLY FRUSTRATED ATTEMPTS OF AMBASSADOR WANTA'S CORPORATION, TO OBTAIN RELEASE OF THE FUNDS, AND ABOUT ALLEGED CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS BY PAULSON, GOLDMAN SACHS AND COMPANY, ET AL.

THE U.S. 'MAINSTREAM MEDIA' ARE WITHHOLDING THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN WORLD HISTORY FROM THE MUCH-ABUSED AMERICAN PEOPLE.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612310307

A Google search turns up a story that makes it look as though Paulson issued a statement today, but it doesn't say he did so in person, and it has no photos. So a statement could have been issued in his name.

If this arrest did occur, then it's a big story and is being blocked in the U.S. So I was wondering if anyone in Europe knows about this. Sounds like a phony story, but who knows?

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 11:36 PM

I want to know

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 11:42 PM

http://www.worldreports.org./news/38_paulson_and_cheney_s

Lots of reading on the topic here. Still not clear. Looks like a coverup, but if we have another "terror attack" or see WW3 start, it could be on account of this. This is the biggest financial crime of record in world history. Worth a war to get the public's attention off of it, if it's true.

Also, since something this big would also have the paw-prints of the Rockefeller/Rothschild/Saxe-Coburg/Warburg/Mellon/Morgan, etc. World Bank all over it, a scandal like this could cause the collapse of their corrupt banking system. I bet their goons are all over this one, trying to keep it quiet. I hope the flunky who's testifying against Paulson is doing it on videotape, 'cause he's a goner. I bet he lit a ceegar with a hundred-dollar bill when he got the job, and now he's sweating bullets. lol

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 12:01 AM

World Bank
Wolfowitz
World Bank
Wolfowitz

Has a nice ring to it, dontcha think?

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 01:44 AM

Some counterpoint at http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=97457.

Personally, so far, this looks like a granfaloon to me.


A

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 01:44 AM

The Germans' are crazy to want these guys, look what they've been doing to us here. Better yet, if you can get 'em, keep 'em & don't send 'em back, please! The US would be far safer nation without the likes of those terrorists.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 03:37 AM

The best I can make out about this IWANTIT character, he claims that President Reagan appointed him as the Ambassador to Somalia at a time when there was no Somalian government for him to ambass to. He has also been Swedish Ambassador, Norwegian Ambassador, and a couple of others, although nothing I can find identifies whether he was Sweden's ambassador to somewhere or somewhere's ambassador to Sweden. etc.

He appears to have determined that nearly everybody in the world is a crook, and that "secret funds" have been sequestered in "secret accounts" that only he knows about; and has written his personal drafts against some 200 - or maybe 400 - or "all of" these "secret international accounts" to withdraw "illegally sequestered money" and put it into his personal bank account; and is now pissed that his drafts aren't being honored.

Of course his intention is to "do something (undefined) very good for the 'merican people - after of course these many trillions of dollars are safely credited to his own personal account - or to the accounts of a vaguely named (but non-existent so far as I've found) corporation.

A typical quote: "A November 2, 2001 hand-written memo to Vice President Richard Cheney from former U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Leo Wanta, indicates the White House knew that ..."

If I wrote a letter to Cheney and told him he owes me 10 bucks for the football bet he lost to me back in '98 that would prove that he owes me money and that he knows it?

IWANNA claims that he (speaking of course for the 'merican people) is owed 700 TRILLION DOLLARS, but he has agreed to settle for 28 TRILLION or maybe it's 7.5 TRILLION, or it could be 40 TRILLION and he knows that "everybody" has agreed to his claims because he sent them letters and they didn't send back denials(?).

As of September 21, 2006, the total U.S. government debt was $8.500 trillion, and a few people have noted that it's getting "a bit big;" yet HUWANTSITALL has found an amount 82.5 times the entire US Federal debt "stolen away" with nobody noticing it?

And HE's the only one smart enought to have found it all.(?)

The only documented evidence that this person (if it's the same one) even exists is his conviction for income tax fraud a few years ago.

Anybody got any actual evidence? ... of anything?

John

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 03:55 AM

You learn to be suspicious of texts written in capitals or green ink.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 10:27 AM

Given that the wanta story is bogus it may still lead to other "actual crimes" the way Whitewater did.

At least:

We can confirm that the Cheney Iraq war spends about 2 billion US Treasury dollars a week and makes enourmous profits for a select group of defense contractors.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 12:12 PM

unscrupulous profiteering is one thing.... unverified paranoia is quite another.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 01:07 PM

Lockheed slogan: We never forget who we are working for
Halliburton slogan: We are doing the best we can in a war zone.
GE slogan: We bring good things to life
KBR slogan: We collaborate with the military
McDonel Douglas slogan: We are the future

If you had bought stock in any of these defense contractors 5 years ago you still would not have made as much money dollar for dollar as having invested in Google.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 01:35 PM

Yeah, the Wanta story's been around for a while...if the thing is sorted out it'll rescue America from its financial crisis, etc. Kind of like a Nigerian scam letter on a vast scale. Or is it? If it's a scam they've pushed it hard enough to make a lot of people believe it.

But the particulars of this report...Paulson detained, flown back to the U.S. on a British plane, a subordinate ordered to give testimony at the Hague...seems like those things could be verified.

It really wouldn't surprise me if it were true. The Bush/Clinton machine is looting the Treasury, and an overdue bill of several trillion dollars would be the final straw. It would bankrupt the Treasury, and the world would rush to get rid of dollars. End of the American dollar. But it would be the end of the World Bank system, too, it seems, so if this is real it would be kind of a doomsday machine. A last ditch effort of the banking elite to save their sorry asses. They'd pull the plug on the world's economies then retreat to their bunkers while the western world collapses. China would make out okay, and Russia would muddle through by reverting to their old soviet ways, but North America and Europe would burn.

Too much speculation. I just want to know if Paulson was detained or if his employees are ratting on him.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: kendall
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 04:27 PM

Guest, hold on here, Clinton left a surplus. Bush is the one who has raided the treasury.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 04:52 PM

$8,681,820,597,203.83 as of January 4, 2007 at 9:48 PM G.M.T.

"The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.80 BILLION [emphasis added] per day since September 29, 2006!"

Does anyone else here think that's lots of money?

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 05:15 PM

Required background:

Wiki: Money Supply

[quote]

United States
U.S. Money Supply from 1959-2006

The most common measures are named M0 (narrowest), M1, M2, and M3. In the United States they are defined by the Federal Reserve as follows:

M0: The total of all physical currency, plus accounts at the central bank which can be exchanged for physical currency.

M1: M0 + the amount in demand accounts ("checking" or "current" accounts).

M2: M1 + most savings accounts, money market accounts, and certificate of deposit accounts (CDs) of under $100,000.

M3: M2 + all other CDs, deposits of eurodollars and repurchase agreements.

… … …

Money supply and cash

In the U.S., as of July 28, 2005, M1 was about $1.4 trillion, M2 about $6.5 trillion, and M3 about $9.7 trillion.

If you split all of the money equally per person in the United States, each person would end up with roughly $30,000 ($9,700,000M/300M). The amount of actual physical cash M0 was $688 billion in 2004, roughly double the $328 billion in cash and cash equivalents on deposit at Citigroup as of the end of that year and roughly $2,125 per person in the US

[endquote]

ALL OF THE "US MONEY" THAT EXISTS IN THE US AND IN FOREIGN ACCOUNTS totals 9.7 trillion $US.

Of that amount, 700 trillion has been secretly diverted by criminals and nobody noticed.(?)

Mr AWANTA will "settle" for only $US 2.7 trillion, or 28% of all the money there is?

The blogger who created this whole fiction has got to have no ass at all, as he must have laughed it off years ago.

John

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 11:26 PM

I think if someone took that kind of cash and diverted it to an off-shore account, well, SOMEone would notice, no?

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 12:10 AM

A guy with heavy duty financial problems was asked what he would do if he had ALL the money in the world.

Well, he sighed, the first thing I would do is pay off my debts- as far as it would go.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 08:11 AM

Snopes has no knowledge of this.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 01:19 PM

There is (was) a brief item about this at Wikipedia, but it carried the notation that it's been "proposed for deletion" as being "inconsistent with Wikipedia policies" - whatever that means.

John

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 01:25 PM

Wikipedia is a govt disinformation organ, so maybe there IS some truth to this.

The WANTA thing has been around for a while. Probably a ray of false hope created by the govt propaganda machine to give Americans that lottery mentality...maybe things will be alright if the BIG PAYDAY just comes through. I don't believe the WANTA thing, but Paulson's subordinates being called in to testify, that sounds like the way the court would operate.

Whatever's going on though, a massive govt effort will cover up the truth if it is damning. This would be a big, big story.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 04:26 PM

This is way too big to keep under wraps. Sounds like a scam to me.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 04:31 PM

Well, maybe it is too big to keep under wraps and maybe not. They did pretty well with the Manhattan Project. Of course, the internet has changed a few things since then. Still would be nice to see more than one article about it all.

Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 11:12 AM

Who is Leo Wanta?
by J. Orlin Grabbe

"Bill Clinton's Short-Term Notes"

Asian-European, the CIA, and Mochtar Riady

Meet Leo Emil Wanta. At one point Wanta had bank accounts at Metishe Bank in Moscow, Avenue Bank on the Champs-Elysee in Paris, Credito Italiano in Milan, Anker Bank in Geneva, Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva, the Algemeine Spaar in Brussels, the Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank in Vienna, Creditanstalt Bankverein in Vienna, and--the perennial favorite of money launderers--Citibank in Milan, New York, and Los Angeles.

Meet Leo Emil Wanta, a man accused of, or praised for, crashing the Russian ruble over 1990-1. There is no doubt that he was a currency trader, placing orders for 100 billion rubles at a time. Then there is the matter of gold--Russian gold.

One of the orders faxed around the world from his New Republic/USA Financial Group Ltd. (2101 North Edgewood Avenue, Appleton, WI 54914, Tele/Fax: [phone]), dated Feb. 4, 1991, is an offer to buy/sell/effect 2000 metric tons of gold bullion, with rollovers under London good delivery. At the time of this offer, Wanta was in constant phone contact with Roberto Coppola in Rome, where Coppola served as Ambassador of the Russian Republic. Was it Russian gold Wanta was selling?

Was Wanta just another trader specializing in illiquid currencies and flight capital in the form of bullion? Was he a big time money launderer? Either would explain the 14 percent commissions at which he dealt. Or was neither the case? Let's look closer. Because something doesn't add up.

Wanta, an erstwhile travelling companion of Vernon Walters and supplier of machine guns to Bill Casey, was arrested by Swiss authorities on July 7, 1993, in Geneva, Switzerland. He was held for four months, then extradited to Wisconsin to stand trial for state taxes owed for the years 1982 and 1988. The grand total of taxes owed--$14,000.

Curious that. Extradited for $14,000? In taxes? From Switzerland? The story gets weirder.

Wanta was sentenced to 22 years in prison. (Better he had killed a few people than that he owed taxes.) Afterward, on Sept. 21, 1996, Wanta wrote a mysterious letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton, referring to "U.S. President Bill Clinton's Short Term Notes and IMF Sale of Bullion." In the letter Wanta referred to his own "de-stabilization of the Soviet Union Rubles (SUR)" and noted that he "prevented the Soviet & Italian Mafiosa from the Soviet Funds in favour of our U.S. Treasury & Metals Accounts in excess of US$ 150 billion".

Wanta then threatened: "Until by legal release from the un-consitutional/ false incarceration in Wisconsin--as a diplomat & non-resident--I am legally interested in the corporate placement of short-term notes & I.M.F. gold bullion/troy ounce delivery contract. Thank you for your kind assistance in this timely situation."

Wanta's letter (or letters) got results. On Jan. 10, 1997, Wanta received a reply from Erskine Bowles at the White House.

                         Mr. Leo E. Wanta
                         c/o Kettle Moraine
                         Correctional Institute
                         P.O. Box 31
                         Plymouth, WI 53073

                         Dear Mr. Wanta:

                         Thank you for your
                         letter. I appreciate
                         hearing from you.

                         To give your concerns the
                         proper attention, I have
                         forwarded your letter to
                         the Office of Agency
                         Liaison within the White
                         House. You can be certain
                         that your concerns will
                         be carefully reviewed.

                         Again, thank you for
                         writing.

                         Sincerely,

                         Erskine B. Bowles

On February 1, 1997, after Bowles had checked with W.H. Agency Relations, Leo Wanta was released on $90,000 bail.

So here's what we know about Wanta so far: Extradited from Switzerland on a triviality. Sentenced to 22 years on the same triviality. But then sprung after references to "Bill Clinton's short-term notes" and the White House checks with Agency Liaison.

Then there's the Russian currency/gold issue. Wanta was dealing in billions of dollars. Where did the financing come from? Another question comes to mind: How did Wanta get to be Ambassador from Somalia?

Claire Sterling's not-so-reliable book Thieves World contains a good bit of information (and mis-information) on Leo Wanta. (Sources include a mysterious Mr. X, an "investment banker", and an unnamed FBI agent. Sterling's credits, however, may identify the latter source: she gives special mention to "Jim Moody of the FBI"--the man who headed up the FBI's organized crime division.

Wanta himself identifies Sterling's "Mr. X" as Treasury Special Agent Philip Wainwright.

Depending on your point of view, Wanta is a con artist or a hero: bilking the crumbling Soviet empire of its currency and resources, helping pushing the wounded bear over the cliff. Wanta's operation has been called the Great Ruble Scam. That is, one of the few ruble scams not engineered by the Russian central bank/Russian government itself.

Wanta presented his credentials in Moscow in October 1990. He was a member of Reagan's "President's Club" (meaning he had given $50,000 to the campaign). He also headed the "New Republic Financial Group" located in Appleton, WI, and registered in Vienna, Austria (New Republic/USA Financial Group, GES.m.b.H., Kartnerstrasse 28/15, Telefon: [phone], A-1010 Wien). New Republic had declared capital of about $17,000, according to Sterling. On this basis, Wanta wanted to swap $5 billion for 140 billion rubles, rising over five years to $50 billion for 300 billion rubles.

You never make money unless you think big, right? The proposal (one of three similar ones from seemingly disparate sources) was to be a mini-Marshall plan to import into Russia consumer goods like frozen chickens and Tampax. Or that was the story. Boris Yeltsin approved the deal, but it fell through, according to Sterling, when the State Department reported that Wanta "had major debts and some credit card problems". (Wanta denies that the State Department ever issued such a statement. Much of Sterling's information, in fact, seems to come from a Soviet investigator looking to smear Wanta as a common criminal.)

To Sterling's "Mr. X", who worked with Wanta, the objective was quite different: "I knew there would be a possibility of a Western privately orchestrated economic Jihad that could help crush the communist ruling powers by destroying their unstable ruble. Unilaterally and privately, I decided to play a catalytic role to crash the ruble."

During the previous year Wanta's group bought sold and traded rubles. Many of the orders/offers appear to be bogus--calculated to cause a run on the ruble.

And--coming forward to October 1990--Wanta's deal of $5 billion for 140 billion rubles, or 28 rubles to the dollar, would have been transacted at roughly double the value of the dollar relative to its black market rate which was closer to 14 rubles to the dollar. If executed, the plan would have effectively given Wanta a free 70 billion rubles with which to help himself to the natural resources of a crumbling empire. Not bad. Who was Wanta representing? Himself? Or the U.S. government?

Moving forward to Jan./Feb. 1991, we find Wanta in the process of moving two thousand tons of gold--during a time period when coincidentally two thousand tons of Soviet gold mysteriously disappeared from the Central Bank.

By December 1991 Wanta and his partner Kok Howe Kwong had set up a food for petroleum joint venture in Moscow. Accounts in dollars and rubles were opened at Status Credit Bank in Singapore by the two through Asian-Europa Development Pte Ltd. Asian-Europa proceeded to export Soviet petroleum and import Western goods at an exchange rate (oil for goods) very favorable to Asian-Europa. Asian-Europa appears to be a U.S. government/CIA proprietary company set up under USCA Title 18, Sec. 6., Line 11. And it appears to have had a relationship with Mochtar Riady's Lippo Group.

Without a doubt, Wanta dealt the fading Soviet apparatus a body slam or two. Does that make Leo Wanta an American hero? And if so, why was he incarcerated? Was it just to keep him off the streets because of what he knew (a standard maneuver in the intelligence community)? Does that explain Wanta's bogus extradition from Switzerland? Or was Wanta just a clever con artist who could somehow come up with the contacts and billions of dollars necessary to deceive a crumbling superpower, not to mention the CIA and the U.S. Treasury? Either way, Wanta ain't your average used-car salesman. Wanta may be a victim railroaded by the government he served.

Leo Wanta was appointed Ambassador of Somalia for Switzerland and Canada in March 1993. In July, Wanta had been in Switzerland to make $250,000,000 available for the Children's Defense Fund at the request of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster. Children's Defense Fund? Whose idea was that? What was going on there?

Shortly after Wanta's arrest, and following his daughter's birthday on July 20, 1993, the Superintendent for the Swiss prison where Wanta was being held came by and told Wanta that Wanta's friend Foster had been murdered.

Wanta used to visit FBI Director William Sessions at his office through a secret entry known as the "back of stage". There he would nearly always meet with a Mr.Gonzalez and a Mr. Jim Moody, who were the FBI enforcers for RICO and organized crime issues. Moody was the head of the FBI's organized crime section.

Can any of this shed some light on the death of Vince Foster? Clearly Foster was engaged in some major financial dealings--including the $250,000,000 for the Children's Fund that Wanta discusses. Foster's financial dealings may not explain why he was killed. But they could very well explain why there was no investigation.