Independent Journalist,Former NY1 Anchor/Reporter, TEDx Speaker, Top 50 Irish America Power Women, Women in Tech Global Conf. Spkr
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7 May 2020
Long Thread ... Thank you to our former producers who spoke up. Thank you for telling the truth. Thank you to
@dianafalzone @maxwellstrachan and @vicenews
for being brave enough to ask about the retaliation we've experienced. vice.com/en_us/article/3az8p…
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Extend and Pretend Is Running Out in Germany
“There is the question now how to deal with the debt that is still there and is still too much.’
Take Branicks Group. The Frankfurt-based office and logistics landlord is negotiating a refinancing package ahead of a cluster of looming maturities, including €87 million of promissory notes due this month and a €400 million high-yield bond maturing in September.
The clock is ticking for the landlord, which until now has managed to stay ahead of creditors by selling assets and using short-term extensions to chip away at debt.
Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate is also facing a bond repayment in 2027, which it already restructured in 2024.
The company’s key owners, including Apollo Global Management, are seeking to exit the company and sell their stake…”
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“We’re raising alarm bells right now,”
- American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers
“…The oil market can’t run down to the last drop, like your car can.
Below a certain threshold, pipelines can’t maintain pressure and refineries can’t deliver all the various fuel grades their customers demand….
..Once you get to that point, then you’ll see prices shoot up,..”
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“First Brands moves ahead with liquidation plan”
“U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez allowed First Brands to solicit votes on its preferred proposal for winding down its business, rejecting demands from a government watchdog and some creditors who asked the judge to convert the case to a quicker and more straightforward Chapter 7 liquidation that would be managed by a court-appointed trustee….
…First Brands failed to reorganize in bankruptcy, leaving it unable to repay more than $11 billion in debts.
After the company went bankrupt, its founder Patrick James and his brother Edward James were indicted on federal fraud charges…”
“First Brands Examiner Finds Two Sets of Books and Plot to Divert Assets to Luxembourg”
A lawyer for CEO & Founder Patrick James denies the allegations and says
“..the examiner's report did not identify any documents showing James engaged in wrongful conduct…..
…The report’s description of $700 million of transfers to Patrick James and the related entities is one-sided.
The examiner neglects to mention that the transfers were not concealed and that they appeared in the company’s ledger.…”
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More Private Credit Gates Coming Down
“…Investors in BlackRock’s flagship private-credit fund asked to redeem a collective 13.3% of the fund’s shares in the second quarter, an increase from 9.3% in the previous period.
BlackRock will repurchase 5% of the shares, it said in a letter Friday,….
….Earlier this month, Blackstone said investors in its fund, known as Bcred, asked to redeem 10% of their shares in the second quarter and Cliffwater said its investors requested to redeem 17% of the shares in its $31 billion fund….”
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Pleads Guilty Before Monday Trial
“…The former star bond trader had been facing five charges, including investment adviser fraud and securities fraud, which each carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
The single charge he pleaded guilty to, of obstructing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation in March 2024, carries a maximum sentence of five years….”
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Western Asset Management's Former Co-Chief Investment Officer pleads not guilty to federal charges.
70 year old Ken Leech is accused of "steering
more than $600 million in gains to favored clients while forcing losses on others".
"...The criminal charges — filed in parallel with a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit — follow a bruising year for Wamco, which has been bleeding investors since it disclosed US authorities were looking into Leech’s trading.
Pension funds and other big clients have yanked vast sums, about $65 billion so far, with more withdrawals in the works...
Leech is charged with investment adviser fraud and securities fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; commodity trading adviser fraud and commodities fraud, both of which carry a top punishment of 10 years; and making false statements, which has a maximum penalty of five years..."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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SBF’s appeal rejected.
Will he get his requested pardon?
“A federal appeals court has rejected former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to overturn his fraud conviction, ratcheting up the stakes around the 34-year-old’s recent request for a pardon from President Donald Trump…”
@politico
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Friday’s Crime in Real Time
1) $ADTX traded its float 363X by 5:32am, Friday 6/12/26
-Float is 816,000 Shares
-How have 297 Million Shares “traded” by 5:32am?
2) $BYAH
-Float is 1 Million Shares
- 19 Million Shares “traded” by
5:42am on 6/12/26?
3) $PAVS already “traded” its float 136x Friday
-Float is 264,000
-36 Million Shares “traded”
by 5:49am on 6/12/26??
@FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts
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kristen shaughnessy retweeted
Paul is systematically helping the market criminals
Anyone who says otherwise is lying
Extend short transparency rule 2 yrs✅
Ignored $MMTLP ✅
Got rid of trade thru rule so MM's and skim greater profit front running ✅
Gutted CAT which shows audit trail✅
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SEC Wants to Kill the Rule That Forces Better Stock Prices
“The current version of the so-called trade-through rule has been in place since 2005.
It prohibits exchanges, alternative trading systems and wholesalers like Citadel Securities or Virtu Financial Inc. from executing trades that “trade-through” or execute below the national best bid or offer price, which has helped ensure individual investors receive fair treatment.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has been a critic of the rule since its inception, dissenting against it when he was a Republican commissioner.
He has said the measure forces brokers to focus solely on the price a trade executes at rather than other factors such as speed or preferred trading venue….”
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Lloyds Reportedly Looking to Offload $4.2B Small-Biz Loan Risk to Investors
Bloomberg reports Lloyds Bank is shopping a big risk-transfer deal (SRT) on $4.2 billion of loans to small and medium businesses.
This lets the bank offload some default risk to investors, free up capital, and keep lending without selling the actual loans
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$EDHL has traded its float 60x in premarket
Float is 541,000 Shares
33 Million Shares “traded” by 8:51am 6/11/26
Washing trades to avoid trade settlement
“Looks like theyre rolling thru them washing to circumvent RGO” - @FlyEaglesFly529
@Hamnakedshorts @TradeCNBC
$EDHL from list I posted yday popping 300% this am
This is just random list of 15
EZGO AKAN INHD DSY CPOP SDOT RAYA have popped recently as well (havent checked the others)
Looks like theyre rolling thru them washing to circumvent RGO
@Hamnakedshorts @TradeCNBC
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kristen shaughnessy retweeted
Jun 11
Its 8.30am June 11 and $GDC is still 10c only 2M shares washed its early yet. How does this happen $8 to 10c
and @FINRA @SECGov @SECPaulSAtkins never said a word. Whoever is behind this attack needs to go to Jail
Insiders, Bankers Univest Lawyers or Naked shorts
JAIL
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