Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent, My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov. The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison. I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return. I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something. Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act. Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged. Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working. A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats. This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried. There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go. Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him. I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them. This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one. Three things would change the math overnight. Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined. End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them. Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine. I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it. Respectfully, Everett A. Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

ICYMI: Letitia James stumped by debate question @FoxNews

"When a law keeps prosecutors from charging rape, it is the chief law enforcement officer’s job to get it changed," Komatireddy wrote.

Just joined Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle to discuss Letitia James’ failed record. James has spent eight years using the Attorney General’s Office to settle political scores. I’ll use it to prosecute criminals, root out fraud, and protect New Yorkers.

I believe all GWOT veterans have a sacred duty to tell everyone they know about the grotesque mistreatment of women that is the norm in Islamic societies. We all saw it. We all know what it is. We all need to talk about it. This may be the only way we can bring Leftist women to their senses. My article explains.

Maura Healey (D)... now Governor of Massachusetts... was Attorney General of Massachusetts, the state's top law enforcement officer from 2015 to 2023. In 2026, Alvin Campbell Jr., brother of current Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D), was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of raping multiple women while posing as a rideshare driver. While he was raping, Boston police sat on the evidence. A WBUR investigation found reports from 2016, 2017, and 2018, including DNA, went unacted on for years until his 2020 arrest... right in the run-up to Healey and Campbell's campaign announcements for governor and AG. During that entire failure, his sister sat in Boston City Hall... a sitting Boston City Councilor from 2016 to 2022, and Council President from 2018 to 2020. And over them all sat Gov. Maura Healey (D). Years of rapes. Years of ignored evidence. With the suspect's sister holding city power and Healey holding statewide law-enforcement power. That is why so many are asking whether Andrea Campbell (D) used her official City Council position to interfere with or slow the investigation... questions the Democratic establishment in Massachusetts has still never fully answered. And Massachusetts is the only state in the country where all three branches of government exempt themselves from public record laws... so they never have to answer.

Most of you remember when, in the peak-woke fever of name changing, Maury Hall at USNA was renamed Carter Hall. Most just heard, "...Maury was a Confederate." As usual at peak-woke, mostly emotion soaked smooth brain thinking was the norm. Who was Matthew Fontaine Maury, and why did he have a building named after him? This thread will hopefully cause some people to look at life with an adult's eyes.

"countries with decades of single-payer (Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, UK) shift taxpayer $$ to buy private care, sometimes even outside the country, to solve their scandalous failures."

Me, Tom Brady, Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw have 15 Super Bowl wins between us.

Don't worry. The aliens won't let us destroy ourselves. They haven't yet! We still need to evolve into them and come back from the future with no arm muscles or ears left, flying in cool ships!😜

Once most people have most everything they need the sales job turns to making them fear they'll lose it.

🚨 BREAKING: DHS JUST PROPOSED ELIMINATING THE 60-DAY GRACE PERIOD FOR FOREIGN WORKERS WHO LOSE THEIR JOBS. And this is MUCH broader than H-1B. The proposed rule covers: E-1 E-2 E-3 H-1B H-1B1 L-1 O-1 TN And their dependents. Under the current rule, workers in these classifications can receive up to 60 days after their employment ends to find another employer, change status, adjust status, or pursue certain other immigration options. DHS is proposing to ELIMINATE that grace period entirely. Not reduce it to 30 days. Not 15 days. ZERO. DHS says the worker would generally be required to “depart from the United States immediately” when the employment or activity underlying their status ends, unless otherwise authorized to lawfully remain. And here’s where this gets really interesting. DHS estimates 3,795 workers per year currently have a new employer petition submitted during that 60-day window. 3,765 are H-1Bs. 99.2%. DHS then says approximately 2,886 employers could lose the opportunity to file petitions for workers in this situation. And what does DHS say those employers could do instead? “offer the same jobs to equally qualified U.S. workers” DHS is explicitly putting American workers into the equation. This is only a proposed rule, not final. But if finalized, this would fundamentally change what happens when workers across multiple employment visa categories lose their jobs in America. public-inspection.federalreg…

The ‘Gaza genocide’ is a hoax. Because the IDF avoided civilian deaths, sent aid and food--even as Hamas intentionally put people in danger--the survival rate for Arab civilians during the Gaza war was somewhere around 99%. washingtonexaminer.com/in_fo…

After George H.W. Bush signed the 1990 immigration bill creating H-1B, it wasn’t long before stories emerged of Americans training their H-1B replacements. This is a segment from @DanRather’s show in 1995 documenting AIG replacing U.S. IT workers with cheaper H-1Bs. Nearly four decades later, Congress has done absolutely nothing to stop this. x.com/USTechWorkers/status/1…

“escape before it’s too late”

7 years ago, ranchers sued the Big 4 for antitrust. Now the class is certified. Every rancher who sold fed cattle to Tyson, JBS, Cargill, or National Beef between 2015 and 2020 is in this suit. 80% of beef controlled by 4 companies. Ranchers are fighting back. 🇺🇸

Agree, Hamas should stop abusing the innocents in Gaza.

Might as well be the same sort of “logic” Stalin & Ernst Thälmann argued about social democracy & fascism. "Fascism is the bourgeoisie's fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism…These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins." -Stalin, 1924

Powerful statement

Correct. Part of the problem is FISA 702 is much less understood, even by lawmakers. The abuse is buried under mounds of classification and as shown in Operation Oxferd C0mma is intentionally hidden from FOIA and other searches.