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Saturday, May 23, 2009
Is NY AG Andrew Cumo's Personal Money Manager IMPLICATED in New York Pension Scandal?
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Internal Memos To LA Daily Blog From Wetherly Insider Tells History of the Capital Investment Firm
So here is a little, "show you how the clock is made" (instead of just telling you what time it is) regarding Wetherly Capital, who are only SOME of the players who have sucked this city, state and country dry. These are the names we will be remembering as we witness the end of an era.
Zuma,
Dan Weinstein, as well as his main financial backer Kapo Ron Burkle who NEXT TO the monopoly De Beers is the largest financial contributor to the Democratic Party of the United States, all follow very closely in the “footsteps” of De Beers. [Note: Someone sent a message saying, "Weinstein's main financial backer is Richard "Dick" Ziman (Former CEO of Arden Realty).]
Why, apart from you only drinking coffee over the past 24 hours, can you not get your arms around the fact that those who profit the most from war, which allow the victors to steal the land and all the mineral resources below, before then making all the rules and regulations which keep them in the pound seats before they NEXT plunge the world into an ongoing genocidal war, back all sides to every conflict, which does not prevent them from owning the judicial system?
BTW, included in these original documents that were produced by the Wetherly Capital group including the most “smoking gun” document titled, WATER FUND which Dan Weinstein’s co-managing director, Vicky Schiff produced, herself, in anticipation of our most important meeting on February 8th, 2002, is a letter dated April 3rd, 2002 which is addressed to me and written by Wetherly Capital Group’s one attorney, Stanford Law School trained William H. Jackson Esq.
I doubt there exists anywhere in the entire universe a more incriminating document, let alone one produced by an Ivy League Law School alumnus.
Not to mention below is a joint safety deposit box agreement form along with one of the keys, that was held in both my and Vicky L. Schiff’s names, and which once contained the original “side agreement” between Ms. Schiff and me, that spelled out, because I had served her so well in “extricating” herself “without a scratch” from Lou Gonda, who along with his father were the second largest shareholders of now Government owned enterprise, AIG, Ms. Schiff agreed to pay me 10% of every penny she made until such time as she retired; and by the way, Ms. Schiff back in the summer of 2001 was in her mid-30s and very much in the prime of life and of “sound mind”, no different than today, I assume.
Moreover, copies of her two checks to me (ZD sees copy of checks in attachment) Capital Group also executing to the letter, my Retainer Consulting Agreement that both Ms. Schiff and Mr. Weinstein signed along with me on September 17th, 2001.
Not to mention in his letter dated April 3rd, 2002, some 20 days before Stanford Law School Professor Joe Grundfest Esq. warns me, “Could I stop you?”, Stanford Law School graduate Mr. Jackson is, while “blackening his hands” to the Nth Degree, offering to pay me US$ 9,375, the balance of my retainer.
Ron Burkle, who was the first to hire Bill “Rhodes-De Beers Scholar-Pardon-Marc Rich” Clinton after he left the White House after giving Marc Rich a Presidential Pardon at the 11th hour, most likely would have been quite happy to settle me a cool US$ 3 million.
To mention little of Mr. JRK has copies of all these beyond belief self-incriminating documents which I shall be using in filing an epic class action lawsuit against both the State of California as well as the US Federal Government to return all tax monies to those of us not getting our big government bailouts, which of course are going to those who have failed, while making people such as yourself increasingly on the edge.
You should at least realize that having “deep pockets” has meant the exact same as having the “big gun”.
But now, if you haven’t been corrupted, you are realizing the information you have, once shared, and not a moment before, makes you and everyone you touch that much more powerful and invigorated while the “losers” feel increasingly weaker; worse yet, they are increasingly isolated and “left to their own thoughts”; better yet, unless hermits they cannot physically hide with their increasingly worthless money as well as all the ill-gotten gains obtained by having simply been on the side of those increasingly dependent on the big gun, who after killing their strongest opponents then rely on their control of the “information flow” to systematically brainwash those enslaved, which is exponentially difficult to do as credible people such as me broadcast at Internet light-speed.
Not to mention, the next generation of children are that much more wired than the past, and will catch on that much quicker to the games of the preceding generation who now have to deal with that reality catching up fast.
Most paralyzing, of course, for all those who usurp their limited authority is not knowing who exactly is getting the information and when, but quite certain it is inevitable that this Knowledge-Information-Light cannot be stopped.
AND AS A REWARD FOR STILL READING, time...to GIVE, THE PEOPLE...WHAT!!! THEY!!! WANT!!!
I wasnt' going to post this yet, but my computer screen is on the blink, and who knows next time I can blog, so here's an idea of the memos I am sifting through as background in this story. Perhaps, you'll find it compelling?
It wasn’t all that long ago that Ms. Schiff arranged a fundraiser at her house for Ms. Kathleen Connell the current State Controller as referenced earlier in one of the hyperlinks. Her boyfriend Mark, Siffin that is, was also present. There was also another Mark in her life, a Mark Weinstein, who I introduced her to. Although they didn’t hit it off as well as the other two Marks they did end up in business together butt that came crashing down. This time, however, I stepped up to the plate and saved the day. Mark Weinstein and I go back around 20 years. He is unquestionably one of the biggest small time movers and shakers building a $150 million plus real estate portfolio from little scratch in a space of a decade. He tactics and strategies however, are on a par it turns out with the biggest players in the industry who as we know lie, steal and cheat.
Mark Weinstein and Ms. Schiff eventually resolved their dispute butt they failed to consult me on the settlement. There is however, a “mutual hold harmless” provision within their settlement agreement that in the event I were to take legal action against either one of them the other party would not be liable. What is interesting is that I was never a party to any agreement between Mark Weinstein and Ms. Schiff. My name doesn’t appear on any documents pertaining to their business matters other than this “release and settlement agreement.”
It so happens that a very similar “release and settlement” agreement was sent to me, first by fax, followed up the next day with a FEDEX package, by the same lawyer who drafted the settlement between Mark Weinstein and Ms. Schiff. This settlement “proposal” is however, strikingly different to the one involving Ms. Schiff and Mark Weinstein. For starters the parties are mostly different. Only Ms. Schiff’s name appears in both settlement agreements. The main other “party” in this “ram it down my throat” nonsense is Mr. Dan Weinstein.
Mr. Dan Weinstein though is really nothing more than a whiner and a lackey for the some much more serious players. Certainly, Dan Weinstein has had his share of the headlines especially in the last Los Angeles Mayoral race butt he is a man who mostly takes instructions from higher up and mostly in the form of the telephone calls. At sum point one might want to subpoena all his phone records although again, I am sitting on all the evidence one would need to convince a jury that Mr. Weinstein and his other buddies who helped get Wetherly Capital kick-started are the ones really calling the shots.
The last time I met and spoke with Dan Weinstein was on February 8th probably within days of the Siffin court decision authorizing the deposition of Mr. Siffin. It seems though that Mr. Weinstein failed to inform his and/or Vicky Schiff’s lawyer of this rather telling meeting that took place in the World headquarters of Arden Realty, no doubt under the watchful eye of Mr. Burkle who is Mr. Clinton’s recent business partner.
Wetherly Capital have a rather interesting selection of corporate clients who they “assist” in helping raising monies from institutions like CALPERS. I have no idea whether they have had any success in these particular efforts although Mr. Burkle threw a couple of million into the kitty when he got his first $200 million installment from CALPERS. I doubt whether Wetherly Capital even have the right licenses to be doing what they are doing butt then again these folks make the rules.
http://LADailyBlog.com: Because city hall likes me to have nothing but time to blog! Ask any councilmember or Villaraigosa. Hey guys, guess what's yet to come? YIKES! And like Boy George of Cultre Club once said, "I got nothiiiiiiiiin', but time."
Monday, May 4, 2009
CalPERS: Are THESE the Connect-The-Dot Memos Being Looked At In Pension Scandal Investigation?
Those of you who know me from my political blogging elsewhere, know that I have immersed myself in politics this past couple years, and you hear a lot of things. (Deniro Voice: I heard things.) If you check my blogging, you will see that these contacts allowed my to blog about the subprime mortgage crisis on May 5, 2007 -- predicting a bubble burst that would trigger a year long recession starting in November of '07.
Well basically, it happened to the day of the prediction if you check the headlines. And in October, sources recommended pulling out of the stock market entirely (mutual funds and all), because the market was going to start sinking first thing January '08. And we all know what happened.
We also learned that this would cause a big problem in the credit derivatives and bond insurance market. This next shoe, ready to drop, is scheduled to drop in February of '08 (like, next week), when all these derivative options come due, and if you think we had some down 200-300 this past month...
Well, that was just the little wave warning you that the Tsunami is coming. And it ain't gonna be a one week -- or one month sell off. We have already seen things that haven't happened in 70 years, or so. Some things have NEVER happened. You see people who have traded for 20-50 years saying they have never seen a week like last week.
So Bush can try to keep things propped up by visiting the oil sheiks and asking for a break, fiscal stimulus packages, bond insurance bail out talk (even though there wasn't any real talk) -- and the Fed can cut half a point: BUT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP THE MARKET ARTIFICIALLY PROPPED UP WHEN THE SUBPRIME AND DERIVATIVE MARKETS END UP BEING MUCH WORSE THAN ANYONE WAS LEADING ON TO.
When people start walking away from their homes (since they now owe more than they are worth, once those teaser subprime rates jump to market rate), banks will not only be stuck with all these homes -- they won't be able to sell them, either. (And they won't be taking in all this money, while the homes sink in value.)
People will be later and later on their credit card payments -- and many will simply walk away from those payments, too.
And when these derivative futures come due, it will be like what happened when everyone options were due last week, and everyone was caught short, and we saw a huge sell-off including all the good and profitable stocks to cover the losses on the others.
Bond insurers will be out of business, and we are already starting to see the leaks in the dam start to sprout water this past week.
With the market down big this year, and bond insurers about to lose their AAA rating and will end up bankrupt in no time (more on that later) --
I wonder if any of this is having an effect on the City's LACER pension retirement fund. I know they like to play riskier investments than ZD would ever be taking for a pension fund.
Could be a real disaster. I have NO idea, I was just wondering as I thought about the bond insurer/subprime/etc mess, knowing how LACER invests.
Thank you, Thank you!
But here's why I am blogging this post tonight:
Zuma Dogg has received a string of what I consider to be shocking memos regarding this whole CalPERS pension scandal. The content is shocking NO DOUBT...it's just a matter of how exclusive these memos are to Zuma's LA Daily Blog, or if the whole world has already seen them. (The reason I think this content WILL end up to be shocking, is because I do not think people would be sending them to me if they were no big deal.)
These are some pretty big fish swimming around in this story, so I don't wanna just go and post everything on a blog, which hits search engines, and then I find out the puddle was WAY deeper than I thought and it's too late to swim away.
So, here's a fun little excerpt to get the party started. (Or FEDERAL INVESTIGATION, hopefully, if this doesn't make you wanna party.)
[Names have been changed.]
From: GSG
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 2:53 PM
To: lohmann@vegasbaby.com
Subject:
Dear Mr. Lohmann,
I was also interested to know though whether you picked up any further connection between the victim/s and Mr. Stiffler other than what was referenced in your article The defense never rests. Earlier this year Mark Stiffler was apparently forced out of office by his backers, the Apollo group out of New York butt not before, however, pulling off quite a real estate coup in Los Angeles, billboard rights up the kazoo grandfathered into never never land. Who thinks about the children these days and what their minds are subjected to?
Today Ms. Sticky has a new business partner who also has some strong real estate connections, i.e. California’s Coastal Commission and politicians to boot. Earlier this year Dan who is co-managing partner of Wetherly Capital along with Ms. Sticky was appointed
…as the alternate for David Potter… Wetherly Capital Group, which specializes in raising capital from public pension funds and jointly managed trusts. He [Beerstein] has served as a senior advisor for former State Treasurer Kathleen Brown and as a regional Political Director for the United Food and Commercial Workers.”
Dan Beerstein has a lot to be thankful for and no doubt credit is due elsewhere other than to luck. For starters there are the folks who buy and sell the produce we all eat as in Ron Shmurkle.
I know Dan Beerstein rather well and although he is connected I doubt he could “serf “ [sic] even as well as Mr. David Potter who I know nothing about but certainly he can blow lots of smoke. AND remember now we are talking about the California Coastal Commission not “sum poor hoarse” [sic] pension fund like “CALiPERS” [sic] where the folks are encouraged by powerful PACS to play pong in between trotting off to the banks to deposit their ill-gotten gains which then get recycled to make little mention of the leverage that will make the Modigliani Miller painting one of the few remaining "safe heavens" [sic]
MUCH more to come on this blog. I'm not sure how public this document is. And that's just the warm and fuzzy part I was comfortable posting before I check this out further. But I'm sure a lot of folks out there already KNOW about this. I just don't know if they have seen the actual memos from Gary Steve G., or not.
NOTICE To Zuma Dogg's CalPER Story Helpers...
Here's what has been posted, so far (including recent LACERS (LA pension, too). But the CalPERS is even HUGER, of course, since it's Statewide:
- Does This Story EXPOSE California Pension Scandal
- Comment Moderate Turned OFF on LA Daily Blog, For ...
- Zuma's LA Daily Blog Adds Google Ads! (Should Be F...
- I've Had Enough of The Nunez Posse's State Bankrup...
- CalPERS (California Pension) CORRUPTION Uncovered ...
- VIDEO: Villaraiogsa's Town Hall on Budget (ZumaCAM...
- Obama says financial sector to shirnk
- Is New CALPERS Head A Shady Political Insider? (LA...
- LA Daily Blog WEEKEND UPDATE
- LA Daily Blog NewsWIRE for Saturday May 2, 2009
- Zuma's LA Daily Blog - "Today's Most Clicked" on B...
- City of Los Angeles...The NEW Graffiti City!
- Happy Cinco De Mayo Week From ZUMA DOGG!
- Wetherly Pension Scandal: LA Daily Blog Reader Wei...
- FOX-11 News on Pension Probe Scandal
HERE'S SOME LINKS SOMEONE WANTED ME TO SEE...Why don't you guys check it out. I'm not trying to be THAT much of an investigative journalist. But as a blogger, I am more than happy to pass it along for the big boys and girls:
http://ethics.lacity.org/PDF/agenda/2003/Septembe
See also: Were Former L.A. Times Editors Given Preferential Treatment in Coverage of a Local Los Angeles Scandal? 8/14/2008
(BIG DJ VOICE): CHECK IT OUT on YOUR, ALL CalPERS...ALL THE TIME blog...LA Daily Blog.com! (I used to work in radio.)
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Comment Moderate Turned OFF on LA Daily Blog, For Now.
So let's give it a shot, and I guess I'll just have to waste more of my life moderating in real time. And I WILL delete any nutty and wasteful comments as I f*cking feel like it, so don't be a crybaby when your shady personal attacks ON ANYONE are deleted and you lose the rest of whatever point you may have been making within the deleted comment. THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC MEETING AT CITY HALL. This is my own private blog, so don't try hollerin' that crybaby stuff, cause that'll be the FIRST stuff to go. (You don't like it, DO NOT READ THE COMMENT SECTION OF THIS BLOG.)
So, like Rick Ocasek once said,...Oh, I already used that one today. And since this is a short post, here are the most recent posts on LA Daily Blog.
Most Recent LA DAILY BLOG Posts
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VIDEO: Villaraiogsa's "Keep L.A. Working" Town Hall Budget Forum (Front Row ZumaCAM!)
Posted: Sun, 03 May 2009 20:48:00 +0000
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Zuma's LA Daily Blog Adds Google Ads! (Should Be Fun!)
Posted: Sun, 03 May 2009 19:58:00 +0000
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I've Had Enough of The Nunez Posse's State Bankrupting Cronie-Corruption (And I Plan on Doing Something About It!)
Posted: Sun, 03 May 2009 08:23:00 +0000
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CalPERS (California Pension) CORRUPTION Uncovered by LA Daily Blog Reader
Posted: Sun, 03 May 2009 06:50:00 +0000
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VIDEO: Villaraiogsa's Town Hall on Budget (ZumaCAM)
Posted: Sun, 03 May 2009 05:10:00 +0000
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Obama says financial sector to shirnk
Posted: Sun, 03 May 2009 00:38:00 +0000
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Is New CALPERS Head A Shady Political Insider? (LA Daily Blog Reader Weighs-In)
Posted: Sat, 02 May 2009 22:40:00 +0000
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LA Daily Blog WEEKEND UPDATE
Posted: Sat, 02 May 2009 21:01:00 +0000
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LA Daily Blog NewsWIRE for Saturday May 2, 2009
Posted: Sat, 02 May 2009 08:23:00 +0000
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Zuma's LA Daily Blog - "Today's Most Clicked" on BLOG NET NEWS (Statewide) Ranker
Posted: Sat, 02 May 2009 05:03:00 +0000
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City of Los Angeles...The NEW Graffiti City!
Posted: Sat, 02 May 2009 03:52:00 +0000
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Happy Cinco De Mayo Week From ZUMA DOGG!
Posted: Sat, 02 May 2009 03:43:00 +0000
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Wetherly Pension Scandal: LA Daily Blog Reader Weighs In
Posted: Sat, 02 May 2009 03:04:00 +0000
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FOX-11 News on Pension Probe Scandal
Posted: Sat, 02 May 2009 02:41:00 +0000
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How Much Would You Pay For LA Daily Blog?
Posted: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:00 +0000
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It's Danny Pang, not Jackie Chan!
Posted: Fri, 01 May 2009 06:09:00 +0000