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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Dan Weinstein & Vicky Shiff of Wetherly Capital, Mark Siffin and Padilla Construction...TELL RICHARD ALARCON TO CHILL OUT!

To: Richard Ziman, Dan Weinstein, Vicky Shiff, Mark Siffin (The Vegas Crew); Padilla Construction (sidewalk contracts in Alarcon's CD 7 distict; and President Barack Obama (over pension money in Children's Museum)

Fr: MC Zuma Dogg

Re: Senator Alarcon Needs To Chill-Out! (He's getting sloppy and information is leaking and he is reminding me of other stuff to talk about, every time he pops off at the mouth during the City Council meeting. HE SHOULD BE MORE UNDER THE RADAR FOR ALL THE HEAT HE IS FACING!

Dt: July 25, 2009

Dear Dan, Vicky, Mark, Padilla Construction, Senator Alex Padilla (while we're at it) and President Barack Obama,

As the heat is being turned up on L.A. City Councilmembers, and they are receiving more and more bad press in the local and national media, and as they are worried about pending investigations and indictments, and as they are worried about being re-elected as the mayor is now routinely booed in public and as City Council provides more comedy pinata content for AM radio talk show hosts than George Bush provided Leno and Letterman;

RICHARD ALARCON IS REALLY LOSING IT AND PISSING TOO MANY PEOPLE OFF AND THAT MAKES THEM WANT TO TALK TO ZUMA DOGG AND IT REMINDS ME OF ALL THE REASONS RICHARD ALARCON NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES INCLUDING BUILDING & TRADE!

To the people in the CC:, you know the shit Richard Alarcon reminds me of. Richard claims he didn't know Vicky used to date Mark. Maybe I should post the whole story to get him up to date on that whole story. PLUS, I just remembered about Alarcon's ties to Padilla Construction and the sidewalk contracts.

BARACK OBAMA...you should look into Senator Alex Padilla's Subprime Bogus Paper Pushing when he was an LA City Councilmember, along with Alarcon and Fuentes of the California State assEMBLY. PLUS, look into the money ALARcon funneled into the Children's Museum; a project started by Alex Padilla when he was LA City Councilmember.

ALL OF THIS COMES TO MIND BECAUSE COUNCILMEMBER RICHARD ALARCON HAS BEEN A BIG SHOT LATELY, SHOOTING HIS MOUTH OFF LIKE A BIG SHOT, MOCKING HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP TO PROTEST HIS STUPIDITY AND SHADINESS AS THE MOST LOATHSOME COUNCILMEMBER IN THE HORSE SHOE (among other Councilmembers, along with Zuma Dogg, and just about everyone in his district that isn't a member of the Communist party.)

SO YOU SHOULD TELL ALARCON TO LOWER HIS PROFILE THE WAY HERB WESSON HAS, CAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU DO WHEN THERE IS A BIG SPOTLIGHT AND YOU HAVE A LOT TO HIDE.

In other words, tell Alarcon to shut the fuck up and quit pissing everyone off including Zuma Dogg. He has a lot more to be worried about than the words of Zuma Dogg. Unless he thinks the words of Zuma Dogg are rocking the FUCK out of his world! (Why else would he give a fuck.)

Hey Alarcon, FYAYDS!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Did Wendy Greuel's Political Ally Andrew Cuomo Cause The Subprime Mortgage Crisis (Hence, U.S. Economic Meltdown?)

[Pictured: Eric waits in the wings for Zuma Dogg to do the dirty work that will bump HIM up a notch in the mayoral talent pool. (Using the term "talent" figuratively.)]

THIS, is the guy (Andrew Cuomo) that City Controller-elect Wendy Greuel is in bed with, politically, as she used her "Councilmember" title on an Andrew Cuomo fundraiser in LOS ANGELES??? What does SHE care? She's controller and is perfectly wealthy (as a career civil servant.) But I guess I am not surprised to hear the only guy Villaraigosa can get to swear him in is Cuomo. (But maybe all of this "hoopla" will put the cabash on it.)

Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie

How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis

By Wayne Barrett

-Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country's current crisis. He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded "kickbacks" to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.

-What he did is important—not just because of what it tells us about how we got in this hole, but because of what it says about New York's attorney general, who has been trying for months to don a white hat in the subprime scandal, pursuing cases against banks, appraisers, brokers, rating agencies, and multitrillion-dollar, quasi-public Fannie and Freddie

- Cuomo wasn't only stifling data that HUD could use to keep the GSEs out of trouble. He also went against his own recommendation—in a report issued jointly with the Treasury Department a few months earlier—that called for a prohibition against the GSEs purchasing loans "with high costs and/or predatory features." Instead, Cuomo decided without explanation to adopt rules that prohibited nothing.

-Just a look at the New Yorkers tied to the GSEs must have impressed Cuomo, who, after all, would soon return to New York politics. Harold Ickes, the former Clinton chief of staff and a Democratic power broker in this state, was on the Freddie board. Tom Downey, the former New York congressman who would later donate $21,894 to Cuomo, was a Fannie lobbyist. And Al D'Amato, the former banking committee chair who'd shepherded Cuomo's appointment through the Republican Senate, was a Fannie consultant.

-Two of Cuomo's aides who had also worked for his father, Howard Glaser and Todd Howe, left HUD to take top jobs at the association in the middle of the GSE rule-making (the MBA parted company with both once Andrew was out of HUD). In 2000, a year after Howe joined the association, he described how he had helped build a grassroots MBA effort to pressure Congress and others into supporting HUD in what he described as the "battle" being "waged against Fannie Mae." Glaser's Harvard alumni biography says he "played a key role in negotiating a multi-billion-dollar increase in GSE affordable-housing goals." He and Howe—who insist they had "no contact" with Cuomo on the MBA's behalf—have given $3,000 to Cuomo in recent years.

-The MBA also retained Brad Johnson, another ex–Mario Cuomo aide described as his "eyes and ears" in Washington, to lobby HUD while Andrew was secretary. Three other long-term HUD staffers who worked there under Cuomo—including the lawyer who was the contact person listed on the GSE rules—also ended up at the MBA or one of its lobbying firms. Angelo Mozilo, the CEO of Countrywide who's become the face of the subprime scandal, was at one point the MBA's president and a member of its executive committee throughout Cuomo's HUD tenure. He and other MBA leaders became Cuomo donors, with Mozilo donating $1,000 twice—in 2002 and 2006.

-FM Watch's lobbyists during the Cuomo years at HUD included Tony Podesta, the brother of Clinton's chief of staff, and the law firm Akin Gump, where Cuomo has so many allies that his campaign committee has collected $67,550 in contributions there since he formed it in early 2001. Joel Jankowsky, head of the Akin lobbying group that represented this single-issue group, gave $7,500 to Cuomo—most of it within weeks after the formation of Andrew's committee in 2001. Jankowsky is a close personal friend of Dan Glickman, who joined Akin when he stepped down as agriculture secretary just as Cuomo left HUD in 2001. Glickman's wife Rhoda was Cuomo's deputy chief of staff, and the two Glickmans donated $10,500 to Cuomo. They also covered $23,900 of their own expenses traveling and fundraising for the campaign, which listed that as an in-kind contribution.

- Cuomo was, in some respects, the last chance that borrowers had before the crisis hit. The grand ambitions unleashed when he orchestrated his father's win at such an early age propelled him to HUD's helm at a similarly early age, and convinced him to run for governor before he was ready. He seems more comfortable at 50 in the state attorney general's office than he has ever appeared in his public life, but the country will be living with his HUD mistakes, ill- or well-intended, for a long time.

CONFLICTED, CORRUPT, AND FAILED

Saturday, May 23, 2009

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Pay-To-Play Indictment IN JEOPARDY Over Key Witness Controversy

THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED BELOW ARE ALLEGED AND WAS SENT TO THIS BLOG BY A SOURCE WHO CONTACTED ME VIA EMAIL. WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE, so I find the person to be credible as a source -- and when you read this, it seems to be written in a credible fashion. -LA Daily Blog

Here is something from Zuma's LA Daily Blog inbox...YIKES!:

DOGG, TEE THIS ONE UP RIGHT!!!!! BUILD SOME MOMENTUM TO IT.!!!!!!! IT IS A MONSTER. THE WORLD IS WAITING. BUILD ANTICIPATION!!!!!

AG CUOMO'S SWEEPING INDICTMENT IN PAY-TO-PLAY KICKBACK SCHEME AT THE NEW YORK STATE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE IN JEOPARDY AS PAST AND PRESENT OF KEY WITNESS BARRETT N. WISSMAN IS REVEALED. RELIABILITY OF TESTIMONY IN QUESTION BASED ON WISSMAN'S PAST INTEGRITY ISSUES AND NEW REPORTS OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT TREASON.

Chairman of IMG Artists, 47 year old Barrett Nathaniel Wissman, is the key witness and, as Kenneth Lovett of the New York Daily News reports, is known as John Doe 1 in the New York state Indictment and as Individual A in the related SEC Indictment. Wissman has a major role in this corruption scandal according to the indictments. It is now known that, in a plea agreement for cooperation and being an informant against former partners, clients, and other fund managers, Wissman made a deal with the AG's office where he plead guilty to a felony and a misdemeanor and agreed to pay $12 million over a specified period.

This plea agreement is obviously better for Wissman than the potential criminal sentencing that he is facing not including the new potential charges of conspiracy to commit treason.

Wissman is the 95% owner of IMG Artists, a management company for classical musicians, opera stars, and special events. Wissman is married to Russian Cellist Nina Kotova. The remaining 5% of IMG Artists is owned by the parent company, IMG, which is a portfolio company of Forstmann Little. The Chairman of IMG is Theodore (Ted) Forstmann. Wissman is also a long time partner in many investments with businessman and sports-team owner Clark K. Hunt.

Hunt is the son of Lamar Hunt founder of the American Football League and grandson of oil man H.L. Hunt.

Wissman's ownership of IMG Artists is held by W Artists, LLC. W Artists is owned by an offshore entity located in Jersey (Channel Islands). It is believed that Wissman does most of his business through offshore trusts and other entities in order to avoid US Income Taxes, part of Plaintif's First Amended Original Petition in Harris County & Texas, Case No. 2002-65222 EOS Partners, LP, et al., v. Novo Networks, Barrett Wissman, Clark K. Hunt, et. al. Wissman and Hunt, previously residents of Dallas, Texas, relocated a principal part of their business to Nevis and St. Croix and declared residents of St. Croix for a significant period as a tax avoidance scheme.

This tax avoidance tactic is presently under review by the Federal Government as it is alleged that they did not meet the business employment or days in residence requirement. Sources close to Wissman have noted that Wissman is in the process of obtaining a Dubai passport. It has been alleged that Wissman and his Russian wife plan to relocate outside of the United States and have no intention of paying the $12 million plea arrangement.

According to previous lawsuits and other sources, this is not the first time that Mr. Wissman has turned against former investors and family. Mr. Wissman has been involved with numerous lawsuits dating back to the late 1980's including one in which a judge found him guilty of fraud and forgery, final judgement, District Court 225^th Judicial District, Bexar County, Texas, Case no. 89CI-17784. In another case, investors sued Wissman and his partner Hunt for deceiving investors and filing false revenue reports. In yet a third case, a partner alleged that Wissman did not properly disclose certain material facts and improperly reported the financial data of a public company known as Novo Networks, part of Plaintiffs First Amended Original Petition in EOS Partners v. Novo Networks as cited above.

The AG and the SEC indictments allege that the pay-to-play corruption conspiracy scandal reaches the highest levels of business and politics. Wissman has allegedly profited in the millions of dollars and has orchestrated the placement of the New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) in the investment of over $1 billion. Many of the financial world's top investment managers were clients of Wissman along with indicted Henry "Hank" Morris. The two allegedly did business and shared placement fees for investments by NYSCRF in such investments managers including: The Carlyle Group, Consulting Services Group (CSG), Aldus Equity, Clessidra Fund, Quadrangle, Mezzacappa Management, Clinton Group, Pacific Corporate Group (PCG) CapitalPartners, and Access Capital Advisors.

In addition, Wissman used his influence to have NYSCRF invest over $100 million in funds that are controlled by Wissman and Hunt, including, Hunt Financial Ventures, Trinity Hunt, and Easton Hunt. Suprisingly, Hunt has not yet been charged and is denying any knowledge of Wissman’s actions even though he either owns, manages, or controls these funds.

Wissman also attempted to raise money and place investments with the New York City Pension Funds. During due diligence performed by New York City and their consultants, much of what is revealed above concerning Wissman came to light. As a result, New York City declined to invest and do business with Wissman.

The new reports of Wissman’s conspiracy to commit treason are presently in the hands of the office of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, but the office has not yet acted considering the damage these reports would do to their case. It is now known that the following memo has been put before senior staff at the office of the AG;

Re: URGENT MATTER – ILLEGAL TRANSFER OF RESTRICTED MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

I am writing to you concerning an urgent matter. I have learned that the Chairman of IMG Artists, Barrett N. Wissman is involved in an unlawful transfer of restricted military technology, including a violation of both United States and Israel International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The restricted military technology in question is discussed in further detail below. I believe that transferring this restricted military technology in violation of law may negatively impact the United States, our troops in Iraq or Afghanistan, and Israel.

As described more fully below, the Chief Executive Officer of IMG Artists, XXXXX, telephone number XXXXX, and the Chief Financial Officer of IMG Artists, XXXXX, telephone number XXXXX, have already refused the directive of Mr. Wissman to sign the relevant documentation that is required to transfer the restricted technology. This documentation requires the signor to fully certify the end user. Both XXXXX and XXXXX are prepared to cooperate with the relevant federal authorities. They are also fully prepared to provide sworn affidavits and testify as necessary including as a witness in federal court.

Wissman has arranged a quid pro quo that, in exchange for arranging this illegal transaction, Sheik Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will invest over $100 million in one or more of Wissman’s companies. It is believed that after the Sheik obtains possession of the restricted military equipment, he intends to transfer it to Chinese authorities. It is also believed that once the Chinese obtain this technology, they will reverse engineer it, use it at will and/or transfer it to Iran as well as others. Wissman has made multiple trips to the UAE and China in an effort to arrange this unlawful transfer.

Wissman has conspired with the Sheik to illegally acquire the restricted military technology from the Camero Company of Israel. The technology that Wissman is attempting to illegally acquire and transfer is known as the Xaver 800 High Performance, ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). The device is a portable, high performance sensor system, optimized for gathering instant and accurate real-time information from behind solid walls. The Xaver 800’s superior object resolution provides information about room dimensions and major infrastructure elements as well as a quick location of people hidden by walls and barriers. The technology tracks the movement patterns of people to support differentiation between victims and hostiles. This Camero technology requires evidence of the end user and is restricted from sale to the UAE 2 by both Israel and the United States. I have attached more information of the Camero Company and the Xaver 800.

Barrett N. Wissman is the 95% owner of IMG Artists, a management company for classical musicians, opera stars and special events. The remaining 5% of IMG Artists is owned by the parent company, IMG, which is a portfolio company of Forstmann Little. The Chairman of IMG is Theodore (Ted) Forstmann. Wissman is 47 years old and married to Russian Cellist Nina Kotova.

Wissman’s ownership of IMG Artists is held by W Artists, LLC, a Delaware based LLC. W Artists is owned by an offshore entity called Sienna Continuity Trust, a Jersey Island Trust. The trust administrator is Jane Dee of Europlan Trust.

Wissman’s first attempt to obtain the technology was by acquiring it from the UK Distributor, the Pilgrims Group. Wissman directed XXXXX, XXXXX, and XXXXX (Chief Counsel of IMG Artists) to receive and sign for the technology when delivered. They became very suspicious and refused to sign for the technology when Wissman was not able to provide a legal end user.

Due to the refusal of the executives of IMG Artists to cooperate, Wissman has now created a new offshore entity under the umbrella of the Sienna Continuity Trust. The new entity is being called IMG Artists International and was formed for the purpose of carrying out the illegal activity of Wissman.

PERSONAL INFORMATION OF BARRETT N. WISSMAN

XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Hello world! Yes, it always breaks here, FIRST!

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: All of this because Antonio Villaragiosa had to push Zuma Dogg around on Venice Beach without offering mitigation to the circumstances. Passing illegal laws over FEDERAL law, or completely ignoring FEDERAL LAW seems to be the way the people you surround yourself with have been running the city, right under your nose, Antonio. ALL OF THIS BLOGGING, MR. CUOMO NEVER SHOULD HAVE OCCURED! BLAME THE PEOPLE WHO CONSULT ANTONIO!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The History of (BAD) Wetherly Capital (And quite a history it is!, Part 1)

Today's Most Clicked POSTS - Blog Net News

1. HIGH LEVERAGE Memo From Zuma's Wetherly Captial INSIDER!

Zuma Dogg places three posts in today's top five! (1., 2., 5.!)

Of course it helps when NEW YORK DAILY NEWS links to your blog:

AG Andrew Cuomo's pension fund probe merited the attention of Vanity Fair.

Caroline Kennedy called a recent report that her children asked her to end her bid for Hillary Clinton's US Senate seat "absolute nonsense."

Bloomberg's campaign manager Bradley Tusk has already received a raise, while Councilman Tony Avella's campaign bounced a check.

An LA-based blogger who goes by the name "Zuma Dogg" has some pension fund-related documents and (he claims) the attention of New York's AG.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/05/odds-and-ends-457.html#ixzz0FzgC6lMo&B
[That's the company I keep in the media, FOOL!]

ZUMA DOGG CALLS ON Y-O-U, yes YOU!: I have never really had a "call to action" before, although I have spoken on many issues. But after reading mounds of emails regarding PensionGate 2009, brought to you by Wetherly Capital, Yucaipa, Dan Weinstein, Ron Burkle, Darius Anderson and Sean Harrigan...ZUMA DOGG IS CALLING FOR THE RESIGNATION OR FIRING OF WILLIAM H. JACKSON as Chairman of the CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency, but I call them "Community Robbing A**holes" on TV during the Council meetings).

Villaraigosa appointed Jackson to the CRA when he FIRST took office, in '95.

Zuma Dogg was miffed when he read a CRA/Grand Ave Project (inside) memo that LACER pension money was being invested into the CRA's Grand Ave Project, which I felt was WAY too speculative and risky and not investment grade. The whole thing seemed shady!

And, NOW I find out, through my investigation into Wetherly pension shadiness, which includes a "guilty plea" involving what NY AG Andrew Cuomo calls, "money laundering" involving Julio Ramirez's involvement with Dan Weinstein and Wetherly Capital...

AND WILLIAM H. JACKSON IS WETHERLY CAPITAL'S LONG-TIME SHADY ATTORNEY!!! (Going all the way back with Vicky Schiff since BEFORE Wetherly Captial days!!! And those were SOME days!)

Here's how it works people: Wetherly Captial and Ron Burkle really control city hall, and Villaraigosa is just there to appoint their commissioners and stay out of the way, and go cause a bunch of distractions. Meanwhile, they slip in their own Wetherly attorney, and start approving pension money into CRA's Grand Ave Project.

THIS GUY'S GOTTA GO!

To all the bloggers, public comment speakers and email blasters...please send City Hall the "smart" message, but letting them know you want William H. Jackson to resign or be fired as CRA Chairman. THAT WILL LET CITY HALL KNOW YOU ARE TRULY CONNECTING THE DOTS TO THE REAL PROBLEM IN THE CITY!!!

The few money raisers who control and push these politicians around. Governors and Mayors come and go, but the money-backers stays the same.

WE CANNOT KICK OUT ELECTED OFFICIALS, BUT WE CAN DEMAND VILLARAIGOSA'S TAINTED, SHADY, AND HIGHLY-INVESTIGATED COMMISSIONER HAVE GOT TO GOT!

DO NOT MAKE ME HAVE TO CONTINUE ON THIS MATTER.

SEVERAL OF YOU RECEIVED EARLY MORNING VOICE MAILS FROM ME ON THIS MATTER! I HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE SATURDAY!

Some of you may remember, "The Story of Bad Weather Capital" that ranked #1 on BNN's NATIONAL ranker? Well, at the time, I wasn't as aware of things, like the fact that Jackson. who's name I was reading on all these memos, was the Villar-appointed CRA Chairman...SO I CHANGED THE NAMES, because the details of the story can be quite uncomfortable for some to read. So I was congnitive of that. So I changed the names.

BUT IF ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA WANTS TO PLAY IT THIS WAY, AND NOT RESPOND TO ZUMA DOGG'S REQUEST TO FIRE WETHERLY'S ATTORNEY AS CRA CHAIR...

I WILL NOW POST EXCERPTS FROM "THE STORY OF BAD WEATHER CAPITAL" WITH THE ACTUAL NAMES. Names like Mark Siffin, Vicky Schiff, Mark Weinstein, Dan Weinstein, and I'll explain how Wetherly's co-managing partner Vicky Schiff was able to leave her previous gig with StorAmerica which allowed her to make a "clean" break that allowed her to join Dan Weinstein at Wetherly.

SO REMEMBER, ZUMA DOGG WANTS WILLIAM TO RESIGN, AND HERE WE GO!

From Zuma's Inside Source:
(He used to be business partners with Vicky Schiff, helped her make a clean break from StorAmerica to Wetherly, and sat in on board meetings when he was on retainer. But my source is much more than your average consultant, let's just say, and Zuma Dogg is of the belief that the ONLY thing that Vicky brought to the table to become co-manager, is my source.

(Sorry babe, look how the Vivendi deal all fell apart after he refused to sell out and shut up.)

Dear Mr (Blank),

(Excerpt):

Earlier this year Mark Siffin (who was Vicky Schiff's boyfreind back in those wild Vegas days) 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?

MORE TO COME...WANNA GIVE ANTONIO TIME TO FIRE JACKSON BEFORE I GO ON...
Check back in about an hour to this LA Daily Blog.

(AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I AM SO COMMITTED TO EXPOSING ALL OF THIS, ASK ANTONIO, YOURSELF!)

Monday, May 18, 2009

PENSIONGATE 2009: Master Blog Post of all LA Daily Blog links and exclusive content (Investigator's Edition)

Well, it's been two loooooooong weeks since some people started sending Zuma Dogg information concerning PENSIONGATE 2009, which includes a $7 Billion loss of L.A. City pension money in the stock market, last year.

And now, media coverage has picked up since Julio Ramirez plead guilty to charges that surround Dan Weinstein, Wetherly Capital, money laundering, Hank Morris and MUCH MORE.

After spending the weekend in Del Mar, spending time being "tutored" by my inside source (Mr. Source) who was on retainer with Wetherly Capital and sat in on some interesting board meetings that I blogged about over the weekend; coupled with all the other information posted on this blog over the past two weeks; all the names, firms, connections and rackets have been covered here.

So if you are an Attorney General for a U.S. state, or news reporter and are investigating all of this, I am certain you will find leads and information that will be helpful to you in your efforts.

HERE ARE THE LINKS, and make sure to read the comments in each section for much more additional "connect the dots" info.

My challenge now, will be to take the information on these blog posts and tie it all together in editorial form. But again, even if I never posted another WORD...it has all been said, right here.

ZumaDogg@Gmail.com

EXLUSIVE: Wetherly Capital's "Special Situation PENSION Fund" MEMO (Contact: Wetherly's Julio Ramirez)

[Click to enlarge Wetherly Capital's "Special Situations Fund" memo for Bill Simon, who was running against Gray Davis for Governor in 2002. Note the Wetherly contact person is Julio Ramirez.]

HERE IS A FOLLOW-UP TO "Confidential Memo From Wetherly Capitial..." (Regarding Wetherly/Vivendi meetins with Gray Davis over water projects during the 2002 California Gubernatorial election.)

This email is from my source (Mr. Source) who was on retainer with Wetherly Captial at the time, sitting in on board meetings and part of it all. He didn't like what he saw, wouldn't go along with it, and is now letting Zuma Dogg help "EXPOSE IT" (as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told me to continue doing, last week, when I spoke with him in person.)

Y0u will notice the "special situation" memo for Bill Simon, who was a Wetherly client, at the same time Wetherly was backing Gray Davis. (Wetherly is tied to BOTH sides!)
Could this "special situation" be buying the silence of Davis' opponent Simon over the "W" issue ("Water") that Davis did not want mentioned during the campaign?

Does this show how politicians come and go, but the backers remain the same, and there really IS NO democracry, in the traditional sense?

So here is a summary of the documents HERE from the source, himself. And although this may, or may not be anything illegal, it certainly shows the behind the scenes action of how the few at the top, run even the governors, mayors and councilmembers who can either go along for the ride, or find themselves looking for work in the private sector. (A real job!)

Zuma Dogg,

Your writings while bothering a great many who don’t expect to see a white man telling it the way it is, let alone a cool white “street person”, brought a smile to the face of my most beautiful wife as we are currently dealing on this most beautiful sunshine filled afternoon on the water’s edge of heavily corrupt Del Mar, California.

There is nothing funny about the Wetherly Capital Group and its heavy duty financial backers who are the backbone of the Democratic Party, and who are principally bankrolled by De Beers who are also the principal backers of the Republican Party as well as all the other feeding-off-the-masses political parties throughout the world.

WCG, who had me on retainer from Oct. 2001 to Jan. 2002 while having me attend a most revealing board meeting on February 8^th 2002 when a half hour into the meeting I rather abruptly left after getting my hands on “smoking gun” evidence of “election fraud” in the upcoming California Gubernatorial elections which had Democratic Governor Gray Davis being re-elected in November 2002 Gubernatorial elections, while his opponent, the son of former Secretary of Treasury, William Simon just happened to be one of Wetherly Capital Group’s major clients, and of course the mainstream media and their equally corrupt non-mainstream media wouldn’t touch such information coming from such a “hugely credible” person as me, with a 100 foot pole.

To mention little of the WCG orchestrating two meetings on December 28^th, 2001, some 10 minutes apart, all about “greasing of the wheels”.

The first meeting involved four individuals; Davis and the two most senior executives of Vivendi, the French multi-national water conglomerate, Andy Seidel, the CEO of Vivendi Environmental and their General Counsel whose last name I believe was/is Stanek; and the fourth was Joe Campos, a longtime close confidante of Dan Weinstein, co-managing director of WCG who was “renting space” within WCG’s headquarters in west Los Angeles.

The second meeting also included Davis and Campos plus my close colleague Dr.Water Strategy PhD. who is the preeminent authority on water related issues west of the Colorado Rockies.

NOTE: Hello to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Office who is now aware of L.A.'s own, Zuma Dogg and his http://LADailyBlog.com. This is the most recent post, but more importantly, scroll down this blog for all the other PENSIONGATE 2009 posts, and MAKE SURE TO READ THE COMMENT SECTIONS of each post for additional information being posted by some caring folks. The story has already been told, and all the names and connections have been made. Check the past two week's of posts on this blog.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

CONFIDENTAIL MEMO From Wetherly Captial Board Meeting Looks Like THEY Are The Real Governor of California

Note: There is no coincidence that an earthquake hit L.A., just as I was starting to blog this all the way from Del Mar.

As I was investigating Wetherly Capital and their involvement in PENSIONGATE 2009 that you have now heard and read so much about, I came across a former Wetherly consultant who was on retainer at the time and attending Wetherly Capital board meetings.

However, something he felt was a much bigger issue, was what he considered to be a pay-for-play (quid pro quo) regarding Vivendi and Governor Gray Davis where Wetherly executives set-up a meeting between the two, in exchange for Vivendi's contribution of 42,000 acres of valuable California "water-related" real estate for their new water fund.

At the time, Wetherly was not only backing Gray Davis for his re-election bid, but Davis' opposition Bill Simon was a Wetherly client who had hired Wetherly to help him raise a $100 million for his William Simon "special situation" fund.

Will explain the significance of all of this next time. (That editorial will take a minute, but wanted some folks to be able to see these documents now.)

HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE MEMO FROM A WETHERLY CAPITAL MEETING that details this all. (Click on each document to enlarge.)

1. Wetherly notes of positive feedback from their CalPERS puppets on the idea of a "water fund" project which of course is a good cause to raise money for because water makes the world go round more than gold or oil. And in this case, water problems concerning the Colorado River (that we are now seeing the results of).

2. December meeting with Governor Gray Davis and USFilter (Vivendi) regarding water issues AND A PROPOSED IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT WATER TRANSFER RELATING TO THE SALTON SEA. Davis didn't want to get involved so USFilter would have to do all the leg work without the Governor. In other words, get to do whatever they wanted, as long as Davis still gets to be Governor, in which Wetherly was heavily involved.

3. Wetherly executive (looks like Vicky Schiff) attends PRIVATE briefing on "Mexico Border Infrastructure" hosted by Baja Governor Elourdy and attended by President Vicent Fox. Strategies discussed included water and waterwaste projects being proposed along the coastal zone of Baja California.

4. Meeting where creation of water fund (CAP) with USFilter (Vivendi) as limited partner; TRANSFER OF WATER RIGHTS INTO WETHERLY/VIVENDI'S PAC WATER FUND;and other strategies, probably most of which were probably about who to hit up for money to funnel into the fund.
5. See memo/convenient paper trail.

6. See memo/convenient paper trail.

7. Private meetings with Dan Weinstein & Wetherly Capital's political allies the California Tribal leaders on the water issues relating to Colorado River, Salton Sea, etc. (You may remember Weinstein & Wetherly raising money from the Tribal leaders to pay for an "Anti-Antonio Villaragiosa" campaign when their former puppet James Hahn was running for mayor. It worked and Hahn beat Antonio. THAT story will be followed up on, next!)

8. Report titled, "Southern California's Looming Water Challenges, including Vivendi's "promotional materials" were sent to CalPERS as if they had a choice on whether they were going to contribute, or not. (Have you seen the way they run the pension commissioners?)

So although Gray Davis is "reluctant to engage," it doesn't appear as though there is any reluctance to move ahead with the project and it seems to be moving ahead nicely, with promotional material sent over to CalPERS in a binder!

AND HERE'S THE FIRST LOOK AT ZD'S SOURCE ON THE WETHERLY PENSIONGATE SCANDAL:

(Hello to Dan & Vicky from Zuma & Mr. "You Know Who" in Del Mar.)

HERE'S AN ACCOMPANYING MEMO/PAPER TRAIL...thanks Wetherly Boardmembers!

More to come from Zuma Dogg LIVE in Del Mar on LA Daily Blog.

LA Daily Blog WEEKEND Update

In the 60's Buffalo Springfield said, "Stop, children what's that sound, everybody look what's going down." Today, Zuma Dogg is saying, "Something BIG is happening here people!"

I'm in Del Mar, CA, right now, interviewing my inside source who used to be on retainer with Wetherly Capital on some pretty big things...until he didn't want to go along with the shadiness, and NOW he is EXPOSING it through Zuma Dogg and LA Daily Blog.

He's showing me all the documents and telling me everything; and a BIG problem is Wetherly's involvement with Gray Davis and Vivendi over a water fund during the 2002 elections when Gray Davis was re-elected.

You may say, "Why should we care about the Gray Davis election, from 2002...it's OVER and he out of office?" The answer is because the politicians DO come and go, but the financial backers remain the same. Usually, the people at the grassroots level do not hear about the things happening in the closed door offices of the skyscrapers where these secret dealings go on. It's a high-jacking of democracy!

So now we have a person who was on retainer, in the meetings, and a main strategist that these people seemed to HAVE to hire, who is giving us insight.

And this guy isn't just anyone...he's quite known at an international level and is the kind of guy who can come up with information to cause a Federal judge to overturn jury awards; and when your multi-million dollar buisness needs you balance sheets to be cleaned up and make all the number work out, so you can make a clean getaway...THIS IS YOUR GO TO GUY.

The reason this guy is spending time with ZD is because he wants the people at the grassroots level to take the ball away from the few who control it and give it back to the people.

So in the meantime, as I am preparing the next round of posts that hopefully will cause a grassroots effort that will DEMAND the type of change that Mr. Source is calling for here's a recap of the past week on LA Daily Blog.

AND HERE'S THE FIRST LOOK AT ZD'S SOURCE ON THE WETHERLY PENSIONGATE SCANDAL:

(Hello to Dan & Vicky from Zuma & Mr. "You Know Who" in Del Mar.)

THIS WEEK ON LA DAILY BLOG:

Friday, May 8, 2009

A Message To LACERS & CalPER Racketeers From Uncle Zuma Dogg

PARTNERS (in crime?)

The genius co-founders of Wetherly Capital
(Geniuses of bankrupting the state)

Their money always looks so fresh and clean. Like it just came out of the laundry!

Let's keep this short and sweet...

I DO NOT LIKE WETHERLY CAPITAL, AND I WANT TO RUIN YOUR DAY...

WHEN I THINK OF WETHERLY CAPITAL, I THINK OF:

California Coastal Commission
Richard Ziman
Dan Weinstein
Vicky Schiff
Mark Siffin
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Apollo Group/NYC
Los Angeles billboard rights
David Potter
Kathleen Connell
StorAmerica
Lou Gonda
Mark Weinstein
Arden Realty
Word Savings building
"The Deposition" (San Vicente & Wilshire)
Finkelstein & Krinsk
Patenaude & Felix
William Jackson
“Release and Settlement” Agreement
United Food and Commercial Workers
Ron Burkle
Ari Swiller
Bill Clinton
William Jackson

And, LA Daily Blog reader weighs in with the big picture on this one.

There, I did it!
Have a nice weekend!

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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Two More Villaraiogsa PENSION BOARD Appointee Quit Today In SEC Inquiry!

I think that makes three in a week! As the entire city knows, Zuma Dogg has been blogging and alerting the public, relentlessly during publicly boraodcast public TV appearances "on the record" before L.A. City Council. Looks like "harvest" time and ZD picked the BIG story out of City Hall rotunda "thin air."

I think eventually, this story may lead us to City Hall and people VERY close to Villaraiogsa, if not Villaraiogsa, himself.

Villaraigosa pension board appointees quit in SEC inquiry
Sean Harrigan, president of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions board, says he has 'done nothing wrong.' A colleague, Elliott Broidy, also stepped down.

By David Zahniser

4:52 PM PDT, May 7, 2009
Two of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's appointees to a city pension board resigned today, one month after receiving a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission asking them to identify income they had received from companies doing business with their agency.

Sean Harrigan and Elliott Broidy, two members of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions board, were asked to provide information to the SEC, which is investigating allegations of kickbacks at a New York state pension fund.

Appearing at today's board meeting, Harrigan said the inquiry had created "a frenzy of media activity" that had placed him in "the eye of the storm."

"While I have done nothing wrong, I recognize that this entire matter has become a huge distraction for all parties involved in the business of operating an $11-billion public pension system," he said in a statement.

Villaraigosa spokesman Matt Szabo said the mayor and his two board members agreed the resignation was "the best course of action."

Harrigan and Broidy had served on a nine-member board that oversees a $10.7-billion portfolio on behalf of retired police officers and firefighters. Both men had been asked to disclose their communications with firms under scrutiny in the New York investigation.

Broidy, the founder of Markstone Capital, submitted his letter Thursday afternoon, saying he had decided to "pursue other avenues to contribute to the public good." He was originally appointed by Mayor James K. Hahn and reappointed by Villaraigosa.

The two resignations come a week after a third pension board appointee, Kelly Candaele, was asked by the mayor to quit the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System board after he participated in a campaign fundraiser for the city attorney campaign of City Councilman Jack Weiss -- a violation of city law.

Candaele hosted the event with two key figures at Wetherly Capital, a Los Angeles firm also mentioned in the SEC letters. Wetherly, known as a placement agent, pitches investment opportunities to public pension boards.

Meanwhile, investigators with the Ethics Commission have not concluded their investigation of Robert Aguallo, the former head of the agency where Candaele had served as a board member. Aguallo took a job with an investment fund shortly after it did business with his pension board.

Harrigan, 63, worked as a consultant to Wetherly for five months in 2006. The SEC asked him to disclose his communications with Wetherly, which has said it is fully cooperating in the inquiry.

Harrigan announced his resignation shortly after he and his colleagues voted to fire a consulting firm linked to the New York scandal. On a 7-0 vote, the pension board dismissed Dallas-based Aldus Equity, one of two firms that recommend private equity investments to the agency.

Fire and Police Pensions board member Sam Diannitto urged his colleagues to take the action, saying failure to do so would "give the image that this board condones 'pay to play.' "

"This board is tainted. It's tainted by this issue," he added.

Aldus was charged by the SEC with civil securities fraud for allegedly making improper payments to win business at the New York fund. A founding partner of Aldus, Saul Meyer, was arrested and charged last week by New York Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo with one count of criminal fraud.

Lawyers for Aldus and Meyer have denied the charges. In a statement, Aldus said it had served the pension board with "the highest degree of professionalism, integrity and transparency."

The Los Angeles board also voted to make its investment staff a temporary caretaker of the agency's private equity investment portfolio until a new firm can be hired. Before that vote took place, two board members -- Harrigan and Mike Carter -- questioned whether the work should go to the agency's other consultant, StepStone Group.

Harrigan was selected by Villaraigosa in August 2005 to serve at the pension agency. Seven months later, he formed Sean Harrigan LLC, picking up such clients as Wetherly Capital.

Before Harrigan joined the board, Wetherly had secured investments from Fire and Police Pensions for at least eight funds, according to company officials. On June 1, 2006, less than a year into his tenure, Harrigan voted to invest $10 million apiece in two Wetherly clients -- Nogales Investment Fund II and Levine Leichtman Capital Partners.

Less than three months later, Harrigan became a paid consultant to Wetherly, serving in that role for five months. Harrigan said he advised the firm on pension matters outside California.

The city's ethics laws bar commissioners from negotiating their employment with companies that have matters pending before them. Harrigan said that was not an issue, however, because he took the work with Wetherly on Aug. 15, 2006 -- roughly 10 weeks after he voted on the firm's clients.

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david.zahniser@latimes.com

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ALERT: Zuma Dogg has some memos regarding BIG PICTURE "connect the dots" in the L.A. City (LACERS) and State of California (CalPERS) pension scandal and SEC investigation. This memo REALLY tells the story and paints a very descriptive and scary story worthy of a Martin Scorcese film starring Robert Deniro and Joe Pesci. It would be posted already, but my computer screen is on the blink, and it requires more than just some copy and paste with a little added typing. Will work on it ASAP! PEOPLE...this is some SCARY sh*t when you start getting into money THIS big.

Here's something interesting:

Political contributions disclosed by campaign committees to the Federal Election Commission, sorted by name, zip code and employer. The data, from the FEC, covers the years 1979 through 2008.

Candidates

Daniel Weinstein, Weatherly Capitol Corp
$2,000 to Evan Bayh, Evan Bayh Committee from April 30, 2001 to October 30, 2002
Daniel Weinstein, Wetherly Capital Group
$2,000 to Dianne Feinstein, Feinstein For Senate from May 30, 2003 to April 12, 2005
$1,000 to Ken Salazar, Salazar For Senate on October 20, 2004
Daniel Weinstein, Managing Di, Weatherly Capital Group
$2,000 to Richard Gephardt, Gephardt For President Inc. from March 31, 2003 to September 30, 2003
Daniel Weinstein, Investor, Weatherly Capitol Corp.
$2,100 to Evan Bayh, Evan Bayh Committee on October 31, 2006
Daniel Weinstein, Investments, Wetherly Capital
$4,000 to Jane Harman, Friends Of Jane Harman from December 1, 2003 to December 1, 2005
Daniel Weinstein, Managing Director, Wetherly Capital
$1,000 to Rahm Emanuel, Friends Of Rahm Emanuel on March 31, 2004
Daniel Weinstein, Finance, Wetherly Capital Group
$1,000 to Hillary Clinton, Friends Of Hillary on March 20, 2006
Daniel Weinstein, Managing Dir, Wetherly Capital Group
$2,000 to Robert Casey, Pennsylvania Senate 2006 on October 19, 2006
$1,000 to Hillary Clinton, Friends Of Hillary on April 21, 2006
$1,600 to John Kerry, Kerry-Edwards 2004 Inc. General Election Legal And Accounting Compliance Fund on August 1, 2003
$3,600 to John Kerry, John Kerry For President Inc from March 5, 2003 to June 30, 2003
Daniel Weinstein, Partner, Wetherly Capital Group
$2,300 to Laura Richardson, Richardson For Congress on June 25, 2007

Committees

Daniel Weinstein, Weatherly Capitol Corp
$2,000 to Evan Bayh Committee from April 30, 2001 to October 30, 2002
Daniel Weinstein, Wetherly Capital Group
$2,000 to Feinstein For Senate from May 30, 2003 to April 12, 2005
$1,000 to Salazar For Senate on October 20, 2004
$500 to Alex Sanders For The Us Senate on September 25, 2002
Daniel Weinstein, B Group, W
$250 to Casso For Congress on May 8, 1998
Daniel Weinstein, Managing Di, Weatherly Capital Group
$2,000 to Gephardt For President Inc. from March 31, 2003 to September 30, 2003
Daniel Weinstein, Investor, Weatherly Capitol Corp.
$2,100 to Evan Bayh Committee on October 31, 2006
Daniel Weinstein, Investments, Wetherly Capital
$4,000 to Friends Of Jane Harman from December 1, 2003 to December 1, 2005
Daniel Weinstein, Managing Director, Wetherly Capital
$1,000 to Friends Of Rahm Emanuel on March 31, 2004
Daniel Weinstein, Managing Partner, Wetherly Capital
$800 to Rodriguez For Congress from August 24, 2006 to November 7, 2006
Daniel Weinstein, Finance, Wetherly Capital Group
$1,000 to Friends Of Hillary on March 20, 2006
Daniel Weinstein, Managing Dir, Wetherly Capital Group
$2,000 to Pennsylvania Senate 2006 on October 19, 2006
$1,000 to Friends Of Hillary on April 21, 2006
$1,000 to Joe Torsella For Congress on April 21, 2004
$1,000 to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on January 19, 2004
$1,600 to Kerry-Edwards 2004 Inc. General Election Legal And Accounting Compliance Fund on August 1, 2003
$3,600 to John Kerry For President Inc from March 5, 2003 to June 30, 2003
Daniel Weinstein, Partner, Wetherly Capital Group
$2,300 to Richardson For Congress on June 25, 2007
Daniel Weinstein, President, Wetherly Financial
$500 to L A Pac on August 2, 2002