A Deutsche Bank insider who helped federal regulators land a $19 million penalty is now in court arguing she should get a piece of it

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A Deutsche Bank insider who helped federal regulators land a $19 million penalty is now in court arguing she should get a piece of it - Lemmy.World

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1/n Notes on #UAP Discussions : There is no gentle way to go about this but, as always, there is always some good news...
#UAP / #NHI predates our governance, our culture, our norms. It turns out to be very likely that our sense of norms, ethics and morality stem from things foundational and transcendent. They do not depend on us as much as we depend on them. They are not local.
Unfortunately the current #Whistleblower situation is compromised. It's bad. Discourse on #Disclosure in its current-

After More Private Social Security Data Exposed by Team Trump, Where Will GOP 'Draw the Line'?

https://lemmy.world/post/46385248

After More Private Social Security Data Exposed by Team Trump, Where Will GOP 'Draw the Line'? - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/46817 [https://news.abolish.capital/post/46817] > [https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/hand-holding-social-security-card.jpg?id=56527540&width=1200&height=400&coordinates=0%2C704%2C0%2C1052] > > > A newly reported failure of the Trump administration’s ability to handle sensitive private information within the social programs it is tasked with operating triggered a fresh wave of anger of the weekend after it came to light that the Social Security numbers of healthcare providers were made public as part of a faulty Medicare portal rollout. > > The Washington Post discovered the compromised database and alerted the administration last week, before publishing a story [https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/30/medicare-portal-social-security-numbers-exposed/] about its discovery on Friday after efforts had been made to protect the sensitive information from further compromise. > > According to the Post: > > > The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last year created a directory [https://www.medicare.gov/plan-compare/#%2F%3Fyear=2026&lang=en] to help seniors look up which doctors and medical providers accept which insurance plans, framing it as an overdue improvement and part of the Trump administration’s initiative to modernize health care technology. > > > > But a publicly accessible database used to populate the directory contains some of the providers’ Social Security numbers, linked to their names and other identifying information. For at least several weeks, CMS made the database available for public use as part of its data transparency efforts. > > While the reporting noted that the files were “not immediately visible to users who [visited] the provider directory,” lawmakers and experts said the compromised information would be a treasure trove for fraudsters. > > “The more we learn about how the Trump Administration handles the people’s most sensitive data, the clearer their incompetence becomes." > > Critics pounced on the new reporting, calling it “yet another mess-up by the Team Trump [https://x.com/DeanBaker13/status/2050064307401142556]” and only the latest evidence that the administration cannot and should not be trusted to protect the nation’s most successful anti-poverty programs or the sensitive personal data of the American people who entrust the government with that information. > > “Over and over again, the Trump administration is exposing private Social Security data,” said Social Security Works, an advocacy group that serves as a public watchdog for the nation’s social programs. > > The compromised database, said [https://x.com/ssworks/status/2050221058045661548] the group, “is a goldmine for identity thieves, scammers, and foreign governments. And it is undermining the very foundation of our Social Security system.” > > “This is a failure by this administration,” said [https://x.com/RubenGallego/status/2050014833030926500] Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) in response to the reporting. “Exposing Social Security numbers, whether patients or providers, is unacceptable.” > > Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the House committee which overseas the Medicare program, put the onus on his Republican colleagues in Congress. > > “The more we learn about how the Trump Administration handles the people’s most sensitive data, the clearer their incompetence becomes,” Neal told the Post in a statement. “Do House Republicans need to see their own data exposed before they do right by their constituents and act?” > > In March, as Common Dreams reported [https://www.commondreams.org/news/doge-social-security-data-access] at the time, a whistleblower filed a complaint from with the Social Security Administration accusing a former staffer with Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), run for a time by right-wing billionaire Elon Musk, of trying to share information from SSA databases with his private employer. > > Since the outset of Trump’s second term, DOGE’s meddling with Social Security and Trump’s undermining of the program have been the source of deep anger and concerns by the program’s defenders. > > In a social media post on Saturday citing the whistleblower allegations from March, Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) said, “For more than a year, ‘DOGE’ has been combing through the American people’s records. They want to use your data to overturn elections and profit in the private sector. Enough! This administration must be held accountable for this massive data breach!” > > On Friday, responding to the Post’s new reporting about the compromised database of physicians’ private information, Larsen condemned for Republicans for their ongoing and pervasive failures in the face of Trump’s malfeasance and incompetence. > > DOGE, said Larsen, “has been in your data for more than a year. We just learned that physicians’ Social Security numbers were publicly exposed in an online portal launched by ‘DOGE’ officials.” > > “If this isn’t enough for Republicans to act,” he asked [https://x.com/RepJohnLarson/status/2050306996037886165], “where will they draw the line?” > > — > > From Common Dreams [https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss] via This RSS Feed [https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss].

John Stockwell fue oficial de operaciones paramilitares de la CIA durante 13 años (1964-1976). Tras dirigir la intervención encubierta en Angola, dimitió en diciembre 1976 y se convirtió en uno de los primeros whistleblowers de la Agencia.

Este corte pertenece a su conferencia "Secret Wars of the CIA", pronunciada en noviembre de 1989 en la American University, donde explica con nombres y cifras cómo se fabrican golpes, propaganda y guerras por delegación.

#cia #geopolítica #whistleblower

"The Chief Justice picked the word that hides the conflict. The #whistleblower
was a clerk and an attorney. She knew what she was looking at. Congress held a hearing. The story quietly disappeared. About a third of the cases Roberts has weighed in on have involved firms his wife recruited for. He has not recused from a single one."

https://www.narativ.org/p/breaking-news-disbarment-complaint?source=queue

#SCOTUS #corruption

BREAKING NEWS: DISBARMENT COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS FOR CORRUPTION

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(QIB) Qatar Islamic Bank and Vistas Global Visa Fraud

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Union boss to face court over alleged whistleblower threat

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Union boss to face court over alleged whistleblower threat - Lemmy.World

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Labour ‘running fake independent candidates to split Tameside vote’

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Labour ‘running fake independent candidates to split Tameside vote’ - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/46465 [https://news.abolish.capital/post/46465] > Labour faces allegations of fake candidates plot [https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Untitled-design-59-720x540.png] > > The Labour party in Tameside [https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/02/19/gorton-and-denton-by-elections/], Greater Manchester, has been accused [https://manchestermill.co.uk/bogus-independents-tameside-labour-ashton-under-lyne/] by opponents of introducing fake ‘independent’ candidates in this month’s local elections. > > The veracity of these single-source claims could not be confirmed at the time of writing. However, if proven to be true, the scheme seems intent on splitting the vote of former Labour supporters. They left the party in protest of Starmer’s backing of Israel, perceived disregard of human rights, and its war on people in poverty. > > Splitting the vote > ------------------ > > The scheme, as reported by the Manchester Mill, is said to have been cooked up by a local Labour councillor. They reported that he had confided in whistleblower Philip Wilson-Marks at a boozy party hosted by Labour MP Angela Rayner. Moreover, the councillor had raised the idea before, Wilson-Marks said: > > > This idea remained important to Vimal. It was central to his tactics. > > With less than a week to go until the elections, Labour is accused of putting the alleged scheme into practice, with one white and one Asian Muslim ‘Trojan horse’ — Marie Fairhurst and Muhammad Ali. > > three other councillors have come out in supported of these allegations, as named by the Manchester Mill: > > * Liam Billington, Tory councillor > * Kaleel Khan, independent councillor > * Ahmed Mahmood, independent candidate > > [https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/data-src-image-c4d62fe6-ec9f-44c3-8833-fd5ea7d92ada1-300x240.png] > > The accusers say that Labour is trying to benefit its own candidate, Atta Ul-Rasool, a Rayner protégé. If true, such behaviour, according to guidelines published by the Electoral Commission, constitutes a serious case of electoral fraud [https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-candidates-and-agents-uk-parliamentary-general-elections-great-britain] — a criminal offense. [https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-candidates-and-agents-uk-parliamentary-general-elections-great-britain] According to local publication manchestermill: > > > It’s difficult to find any information about either of them. Neither has an online presence, and no one I speak to in the ward has seen them engaging in typical campaign activity, such as handing out flyers, door-knocking or putting up posters. There have been no social media posts or press engagements since their names were announced on April 10th. Neither appear to be active members of the community — nor does Fairhurst seem to live in it. > > > > …a constituent could reasonably assume that Fairhurst and Ali are just two local people throwing their hats into the ring, trying to improve one of Tameside’s most hardened wards. > > > > But politics in St Peter’s is widely viewed through two lenses: The war in Gaza, and Tameside Labour’s recent scandals (among them, Angela Rayner’s resignation as Deputy PM, and the ‘Trigger me Timbers’ WhatsApp group). Both look unkindly on Labour, the borough’s governing party. > > If they even exist, do they even know their names are on election papers? > > Old trick, new names > -------------------- > > The invention of fictitious candidates to split votes is an old trick. > > In the 2024 general election, ‘Reform UK’ fielded [https://skwawkbox.org/2024/07/12/smoking-gun-of-fake-reform-candidate-no-response-from-party/] a number of ‘ghost’ candidates that divided the Tory vote in seats that Labour consequently won. > > No one has been prosecuted and the exact number of ‘ghosts’ is unclear. However, Starmer’s 2024 majority was 86 seats. Reform came second in 89 seats won by Labour [https://skwawkbox.org/2024/07/12/smoking-gun-of-fake-reform-candidate-no-response-from-party/]. This enabled Starmer to ‘win’ a ‘landslide’. Yet he received considerably fewer votes [https://skwawkbox.org/2024/07/05/starmers-triumph-saw-him-receive-600k-fewer-votes-than-corbyns-disaster-of-2019/] than Corbyn achieved in either 2017 or the ‘disaster’ 2019 general election [https://academic.oup.com/pa/article/73/Supplement_1/84/5910283]. > > The truth of the allegations may take a police investigation to establish. But the St Peter’s ward has five candidates on the ballot paper for the May 2026 general elections. Three of them are ‘independents’ when only one of them may actually be independent. > > Labour’s desperation in the face of the Polanski Green surge [https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/02/20/gorton-and-denton-polling/] has already seen party bosses and their allies mount smear campaigns. They aim to nobble or remove Green candidates that threaten its hold. If the allegations are true, the Starmer regime is also targeting independents. It may not just be in Tameside. > > Featured image via the Manchester Mill [https://manchestermill.co.uk/bogus-independents-tameside-labour-ashton-under-lyne/] > > By Skwawkbox [https://www.thecanary.co/author/skwawkbox/] > > — > > From Canary [https://www.thecanary.co/feed] via This RSS Feed [https://www.thecanary.co/feed].

OPCW ordered to pay damages for smearing whistleblower who revealed Douma false flag chemical attack

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OPCW ordered to pay damages for smearing whistleblower who revealed Douma false flag chemical attack - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/46493 [https://news.abolish.capital/post/46493] > The UN chemical watchdog suppressed evidence by its own investigators to falsely claim the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical attack in 2018 > > — > > From thecradle.co [https://thecradle.co/feed] via This RSS Feed [https://thecradle.co/feed].

DOJ rushed indictment of SPLC, according to whistleblower reports

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DOJ rushed indictment of SPLC, according to whistleblower reports - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/59467460 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/59467460] > A senior Trump administration Justice Department official ordered federal prosecutors in Alabama to “rush through” a controversial indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns about the strength of the case, according to a description of a whistleblower account obtained exclusively by MS NOW. > > Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, describe the whistleblower allegations in a letter sent Thursday to Kevin Davidson, the acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. > > “According to whistleblower information provided to this Committee, Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh ordered your office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama, to rush through the indictment of the SPLC, despite serious concerns about the strength of the case,” the letter said.