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Hubert Flottz

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12. Here is a little background on the Warburg Banksters.
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 08:46 AM
Nov 2013

Swiss Bank's Discarded Files Saved by Night Watchman

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS



ZURICH, Switzerland -- Last Thursday began like every other workday for Christoph Meili, a night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland.

But as he made his routine checks in the deserted building, Meili was startled at the sight in the bank's shredding room of two large bins on wheels filled to the brim with books and papers.

The contents were unmistakably old and they were a jumble: from oversized ledger books with entries handwritten in fountain pen, to decades-old contracts, to lists of mortgaged buildings in German cities like Berlin and Breslau in the 1930s and 1940s -- the years of Nazi rule in Germany.

"I thought to myself: 'Wait a minute. This is historical material,' " Meili recalled on Thursday in an interview. "There were more than 40 pages about real estate and they were from 1933, 1934, 1937. I saw the dates of payments and credits. I saw street names and numbers, and I saw that some of them were from Berlin." Read more...this gets much better.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/swiss-shredding.html

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He was already there. n/t Orsino Nov 2013 #1
Exactly. jsr Nov 2013 #2
Bingo! valerief Nov 2013 #11
Beat me to it. Jackpine Radical Nov 2013 #14
Foamed the runway for the banks. Octafish Nov 2013 #16
Too Big to Fail-----Sure didn't warrant46 Nov 2013 #21
Is great phrase... Octafish Nov 2013 #23
He and his cohorts should be moving into a jail cell. hobbit709 Nov 2013 #3
There he goes, right through the business to government to business revolving door. LuvNewcastle Nov 2013 #4
+1 xchrom Nov 2013 #5
"Mr. Geithner has long considered a career in investing"...Oh, HAS he, now? My, my. A first, eh? WinkyDink Nov 2013 #6
K/R marmar Nov 2013 #7
When did he leave private equity? TBF Nov 2013 #8
Shocked and surprised - not. Wonder he isn't registered as a lobbyist, too. marble falls Nov 2013 #9
Tim Geithner to Join Leveraged Buyout Firm Warburg Pincus xchrom Nov 2013 #10
Here is a little background on the Warburg Banksters. Hubert Flottz Nov 2013 #12
+1 xchrom Nov 2013 #13
Here's another high ranking political "leader" that UBS Warburg paid off with a job. Hubert Flottz Nov 2013 #15
Warburg Pincus and UBS Warburg are not related FarCenter Nov 2013 #17
I believe you are the one making the mistake. Hubert Flottz Nov 2013 #19
They trace their origins to two different Warburgs, but are different institutions now. FarCenter Nov 2013 #20
i remember oh so well xchrom Nov 2013 #18
He's cashing in. What's he's doing ought to be illegal. n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #22
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