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American banks launder dirty drug cartel money as Wells Fargo and others invests in for-profit prisons
By Michael Webster, Syndicated Investigative reporter
Recently, Wells Fargo paid a small fine which they could easily afford shortly
after they had purchased Wachovia bank, Wachovia a bank that got busted
laundering $110 Million dollars of drug money for some of the worlds
most dangerous drug cartels. While here at home if you get busted smoking a
joint you go to jail, but if you get busted laundering millions of dollars in
drug cartel money you get a slap on the wrist. Now, here's how, if an American
is arrested for drug passion it is likely you go to jail, banks like Wells Fargo
will make millions of profit from the new growing for-profit prison system.
As
Wells Fargo has grown over the years, using its bailout funds to gobble up rival
Wachovia and expand to the East Coast, so has the U.S. prison population. By
2008,
one in 100 American adults were either in jail or in prison – and one
in nine black men between the ages of 20 and 34, many simply for non-violent
offenses, justice not so much blind as bigoted. Overall, more than 2.3 million
people are currently behind bars, up 50 percent in the last 15 years, the land
of the free now accounting for a full quarter of the world’s prisoners.
These developments are not unrelated.
A
driving force behind the push for ever-tougher sentences is the for-profit
prison industry, in which Wells Fargo is a major investor. Flush with billions
in bailout money and an economic system
designed to siphon wealth from the working class to the idle rich,
Wells Fargo has been busy expanding its stake in the GEO Group, the second
largest private jailer in America. At the end of 2011, Wells Fargo was the
company’s second-largest investor, holding
4.3 million shares valued at more than $72 million. By March 2012,
its stake had grown to more than
4.4 million shares worth $86.7 million.
All prisons are awful,” says Melanie Pinkert, an activist based in Washington,
DC, who along with other members of Occupy DC’s “Criminal Injustice Committee”
is helping lead a
boycott of Wells Fargo, which just expanded to the nation’s capital.
“But private prisons take it to the next level.” Indeed, a recent report from
the U.S. Justice Department found that at one GEO-run juvenile facility in
Mississippi, sexual abuse was endemic, “among the worst that we have seen in any
facility anywhere in the nation.” According to
the report, GEO staff demonstrated:
-
Deliberate indifference to staff sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior
with youth;
- Use of excessive use of force by [prison] staff on youth;
- Inadequate protection of youth from youth-on-youth violence;
- Deliberate indifference to youth at risk of self-injurious and suicidal behaviors; and
- Deliberate indifference to the medical needs of youth.--
- Use of excessive use of force by [prison] staff on youth;
- Inadequate protection of youth from youth-on-youth violence;
- Deliberate indifference to youth at risk of self-injurious and suicidal behaviors; and
- Deliberate indifference to the medical needs of youth.--
It's "Heads, Wells Fargo wins; Tails, I go to jail, Wells Fargo wins"
Now, I've said before that I don't know what the difference is between a slave
plantation and a for-profit prison, but when they build a for-profit prison on
the site of an
old North Carolina slave plantation, well, that says it all there,
doesn't it?
If
you needed any other proof that the War On Drugs is a racket, you don't need to
go much farther than this story. So here is Wells Fargo, a Too Big To Fail bank
that puchased another bank who launders drug money for foreign Drug Cartels,
cartels who flood America with illegal narcotics, providing a profit to Wells
Fargo. If you use the drugs sold by the cartels that was made possible thanks to
bankster money laundering you go to jail, but the banks only pays a fine, but
that's okay because Wells Fargo has invested in the for-profit prison you will
be detained in, providing another profit to Wells Fargo, and then
Wells Fargo will use those profits to lobby politicians via ALEC for longer
prison sentences and stricter criminal laws for everybody who isn't
committing foreclosure fraud, which will result in more profit for Wells Fargo.
They've got you coming and going. It's a racket. If you are a Too Big To Fail
bank and you get caught with $300 Billion plus in drug money you get a slap on
the wrist, but if you aren't Too Big To Fail and you get busted smoking a joint
you go to jail, lose your freedom, and Wells Fargo makes a profit. Welcome to
the new slavery.
Just for the record the number two stock in Warnen Buffett's portfolio is Wells
Fargo.
So
how do we fix this travesty? Salon's column ends on a somber note with obvious
advice . . .
The political class having failed the public it purports to serve, choosing to
imprison much of it for private profit, it’s left to the powerless – that would
be us – to confront systemic injustice. One way to start: Quit giving your cash
to those like Wells Fargo who make money by imprisoning your neighbors. And quit
enabling the politicians from both major parties who make that possible.
I
would go beyond that and suggest three easy remedies to end this cycle of
insanity. Break up the Too Big To Fail banks, legalize marijuana and re-examine
our long failed war on drugs. If anybody deserves to go to jail it is not the
drug user who needs rehabilitation instead of incarceration, it is the
executives at Wells Fargo who figured out how to illegally foreclose on America
and avoid prison by laundering drug money, financing for profit prisons and then
fighting for tougher drug laws. What a racket!
So, let me ask you again, what is the difference between for-profit prisons and
a slave plantation, especially when the for-profit prisons are built on the same
exact spot where the slave plantations used to be?
Tips
for calling it what it is, corporate slavery
When
banks own the prisons, write the laws and profit off of your lack of liberty you
are not free at all.
Many of these private contracts
require the state keep the prisons 90% full which means the state is encouraged
to go for longer sentences and reduce the chance for parole. It is a racket and
one in which the for profit prisons win big time.
Wells Fargo isn't
the only financial backer of the private prison system, they also include a slew
of corporate sponsors: Nordstrom's, Microsoft, IBM, Revlon, Target, Dell,
Hewlett-Packard and even AT&T, a smorgasbord of some of your favorite brands.
Sources:
State of
California
L.A. County
U.S. Prison system
Michael Webster’s Syndicated Investigative Reports have
been read worldwide, in 100 or more U.S. outlets and in at least 136 countries
and territories. He publishes articles in association with global news agencies
and media information services with more than 350 news affiliates in 136
countries. Many of Mr. Webster’s articles are printed in six working languages:
English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. With ten more languages
planed in the near future.
Mr. Webster is America's leading authority on Venture Capital/Equity Funding.
He served as a trustee on some of the nation’s largest trade Union funds. A
noted Author, Lecturer, Educator, Emergency Manager, Counter-Terrorist, War on
Drugs and War on Terrorist Specialist, Business Consultant, Newspaper Publisher.
Radio News caster. Labor Law generalist, Teamster Union Business Agent, General
Organizer, Union Rank and File Member Grievances Representative, NLRB Union
Representative, Union Contract Negotiator, Workers Compensation Appeals Board
Hearing Representative. Mr. Webster represented management on that side of the
table as the former Director of Federated of Nevada. Mr. Webster publishes
on-line newspapers atwww.lagunajournal.com
and
www.usborderfirereport.com
and does investigative reports for print, electronic and on-line
News Agencies.
All of Mr. Webster's articles,
books/CD's can be read or downloaded free at:http://www.lagunajournal.com/michael_webster.htm
or
MICHAEL WEBSTER'S OTHER WRITINGS
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