This just deepens the well on Dazak. Basic calling out his fragrant BS on BSL 2. How can DOJ not charge Dazak with contract fraud, being a leader of a mass murder RICO coverup, serving as unregistered Chinese foreign agent, and so much more? It’s nuts.
Very well said. You should never have been punished by industry. Instead you should have been promoted. I do think that Secretary Bessent takes criminal enforcement seriously, having worked closely with Treasury leadership over the last 18 months. They will support criminal penalties if DEA, HSI, and IRS can pull together the evidence — which from my experience won’t be hard.
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
Mary, great op to publicize. As you and I know well from personal experience, the NOKOs are highly capable and run a criminal state with global reach. David
The truly were Ego Health (and wealth)
Replying to @sigridbratlie
I meant to write EcoHealth, not EgoHealth (although the latter was in fact used as a derogatory term by the Andersen group in their Slack chat). I don’t know if it was Autocorrect or a Freudian slip or something else, but I try to keep the terminology accurate.
It’s amazing how ineffective our Iran strategy has been against the IRGC. I stand by I wrote for the Wall Street Journal two years ago. wsj.com/opinion/a-strategy-f…
So well said, as always
Fauci walked into a CIA briefing in 2020 and overrode six out of seven scientists who said COVID came from a Wuhan lab. This isn't a conspiracy. It's a convergence of interests. They funded gain-of-function research. The virus leaked. So they covered their tracks. @MattKibbe
We spent billions on bio defense that never defended a thing and instead contributed foreign adversaries bio-offense programs. If that money had been used to develop new therapeutics and antivirals for infectious diseases that weren’t synthesized and represent genuine problems (for example Avian Flu, MERs and Ebola), God only how much good could been done to the public health. Instead it went toward Fauci’s kleptocratic empire building at NIAID. Total “gain of dysfunction!”
Great that you are at Treasury in a top
position. I’ll try to say hello next time I’m in the building
Counselor to @SecScottBessent David Zervos: “Much of the news on the employment side of the equation has just been good … construction and manufacturing are places that are really rejuvenating after decades of weakness.”
Medical insanity and inanity
Ebright: "There was no legitimate justification for performing an animal study—especially an extremely costly primate study—of Ebola virus infection by aerosols in an aerosol chamber."
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AWESOME NEWS!
Honored to begin serving as Counselor to @SecScottBessent - There is no better place to start than under Hamilton's watchful eye. Grateful for the trust. Let's get to work. 🇺🇸
Great work cutting through Fauci’s ton of disinformation crap.
The record shows that Fauci began spreading the message to the media that he had nothing to do with the Biden pardon, even before his attorney thanked the White House for the pardon in a letter sent at 11:05 in the morning.
This looks very well orchestrated. disinformationchronicle.subs…
youtube.com/watch?v=mgc8czOL…. As much as I look back on 9-11 and I should write about it, what we did against Hezbollah was equally significant
David Asher retweeted
An effective way to deal with the CCP.
MAHIYA NAMAN KAYO | Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. responded to a note from the Chinese side during the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD) 2026 in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
#DNDPHL #DiKaPasisiil #SDD2026
When will you get to Alex Azar who ran HHS and was almost as central as Fauci and Collins? It’s amazing no one has zeroed in on the man in charge.
Great analysis of the scientific COVID coverup by Professor Ebright.
"Ebright breaks down why the theory Covid that originated in a wet market in Wuhan, China has been...debunked and that the truth about the lab leak...was...known by top scientists from Day 1."
EXPOSED: The Secret 'Weekend Meeting' where Fauci BURIED the Covid Lab Leak
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