Friday, September 01, 2006

Kleptocrats of the world, unite

...better known as The Wanta Plan.

Follow the bouncing ball here, folks. This is some
kind of strange. This kind of money will be easy to
disappear simply because it's unbelieveable
that it was ever there.
Ambassador Leo Wanta's righteous quest to repatriate $4.5 trillion back into the U.S. economy has taken a twisted and disturbing turn for the worse, according to Michael C. Cottrell, treasurer of AmeriTrust Groupe, Inc., the corporation formed to distribute the money to the American people. Cottrell said James R. Wilkinson, deputy national security advisor for communications, last Thursday signed off on the release of the money being held in a Clearing House Interbank Payment System credit account (CHIPS), an account credited to Goldman Sachs and Co. at Citibank.
There's a whole lot more to the story here, here and here.