In this video we take a look at the Enron story. At over $60 billion being scammed away from the public, they were the biggest fraud in history. Yes, even bigger than Theranos.
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Banksters: HSBC’s Dirty Money | Corruption, Crime & Cartels (HSBC Investigation Documentary)
17 nov 2022
From the director of ‘Goldman Sachs: The Bank that Rules the World’ comes a major new investigation into corruption at one of the world’s top financial institutions – HSBC.
If HSBC were a country, it would be the fifth world economic power. Founded during the golden age of the Opium trade to enable the British Empire to access the Chinese market, it has created a unique network to move dirty money around the world. From tax evasion to money laundering for the mafia and manipulation of currency, “this bank had done everything bad that a bank can possibly do.”
In 2012, HSBC nearly lost its license to operate in the US for laundering the money of the Mexican and Columbian drug cartels. Criminal charges were filed and HSBC’s executives hauled before a Senate committee. But George Osborne, UK’s then Chancellor of the Exchequer, wrote to his counterpart in America and to the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to plead for leniency. He claimed that if HSBC received a harsh punishment, it would have serious repercussions on the world’s financial and economic stability. The letter worked and HSBC was fined 2 billion euros. The equivalent of one month’s profits.
As the centre of international finance moves to Asia, HSBC is in prime position. It is the most Chinese of Western banks and the most European of Chinese banks. Protected by London, blessed by Beijing, who would dare attack it?
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Billion-dollar fraud and Ponzi schemes | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
From 2009, Steve Kroft’s investigation of Marc Dreier’s Ponzi scheme. Also from 2009, Kroft’s interview with government agents fighting the $60 billion Medicare fraud industry. From 2012, Scott Pelley’s report on stem cell fraud. And from 2010, Morley Safer’s examination of how con artists deceive people.
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0:00 Introduction
0:11 The Swindler
13:27 Medicare fraud
27:26 Stem Cell Fraud
43:44 Pigeon Fever
1 Enron – The Biggest Fraud in History
30 aug. 2019
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2 How to Lie Your Way to $34 Billion [Nikola Motors Fraud]
3 When Greed Goes Too Far – The Worldcom Fraud
4 The Wirecard Fraud – How One Man Fooled all of Germany
6 aug. 2020
— About ColdFusion —
ColdFusion is an Australian based online media company independently run by Dagogo Altraide since 2009. Topics cover anything in science, technology, history and business in a calm and relaxed environment.
5 Dirty Rotten Swindlers | Inside Story – Crime | S2E03
7 The dramatic undercover sting exposing Nigerian fraud syndicates | 60 Minutes Australia
Full Episodes: https://9now.app.link/uNP4qBkmN6 |
The Big Sting (2007) You might think they’re a bit of a joke, all those pesky e-mails, faxes and letters offering you a fortune. Well, they’re not. Those get rich quick schemes – the Nigerian scams – are big business. A vicious international racket, run by serious gangsters. And now, for the first time we have some idea how many ordinary, hard-working Australians are being conned and how much they’re losing. Millions of dollars every month. But, after a three-month-long investigation here and in Nigeria, there’s sweet revenge. We tracked down the racketeers. And in a series of dramatic raids and sting operations, nailed the Mr Bigs.
8 Vélos, voitures et camions… Oh mon Dieu! | Compilation de juste pour rire
15 sep. 2020
Bienvenue sur le réseau de nos célèbres Gags Juste pour Rire: Des farces de camera cachée ridicules faites à des passants qui ne se méfient de rien!