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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ FEBRUARY 16TH, 2009
LARRY KLAYMAN’S FREEDOM WATCH FILES SUIT AGAINST THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY AND FEDERAL RESERVE
Freedom Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption to promote and protect individual freedom, announced that it has recently filed a complaint against the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve for failing to turn over information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding the first half of the $700 billion dollar bailout. Freedom Watch’s initial FOIA request sought to provide an answer as to where, exactly, the money went and in what amounts specific various companies and parties received those funds. Freedom Watch is concerned that the money, which cannot be accounted for by the government, was doled out based on political influence and graft. With so much money being flooded into the financial markets, there is undoubtedly corruption in this process, with lawyers, politicians, and lobbyists all taking their cut of this enormous sum of taxpayer provided dollars.ÿ
In this troubling time in American history, with an unprecedented national deficit and uncertainty in the financial markets, this ‘bailout bill’ was touted by Paulson and Bernanke as the only way to stop the mounting financial crisis and to get America back on the road to prosperity. With the first $350 billion dollars spent in October of 2008 we have seen job losses in the months of November, December, and January, respectively in the amounts of 597,000, 577,000, and 598,000 Americans, nearly 2 million people in all!
Furthermore, since November 1st, the month after the $350 billion handout, we’ve seen the Dow plummet by more than 14% and at 10 of the 13 largest banks to have received TARP money, lending actually decreased in the most recent quarter by 1.4%. During that same period, the amount of bonuses given by Wall Street bankers to themselves was $18.4 billion dollars. Essentially what we have seen after the bailout, based entirely on numbers and statistics, is a Wall Street that continues to make exorbitant salaries, a financial market that continues its rapid decline, and a near defeated America that is hemorrhaging 600,000 jobs every month.
â""What Freedom Watch and our constituents would like to know is where that $350 billion dollars disappeared to and how it was determined who would get what share, so that these individuals and companies can be held accountable and so that that there is some visibility in the system that is supposed to be acting for the American people, not against them,â" stated Freedom Watch Chairman Larry Klayman.
As a result, we are using the courts to uncover the rocks and see what crawls out from underneath. Its bad enough that our country is being converted into a socialist state, but to have hard earned taxpayer monies stolen during an economic depression is not acceptable.â"ÿ We will also be filing suit against the government to monitor where the next $800,000,000,000 billion goes and how it is given out and for what reasons,â" added Klayman.
Click Links below to view the FOIA requests.
For an interview, contact Eric Lightman at 310 651 3005 or email lightman215@yahoo.com.ÿ
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO MAKE Aÿ TAX DEDUCTABLEÿ CONTRIBUTION TO THIS URGENT AND VITAL CAUSE!
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Thursday, February 5, 2009.
HELP US PUT AN END TO GOVERNMENT GIVEAWAYS AND GREED OVER THE BAILOUTÿ YOUR TAXPAYER MONEY IS BEING STOLEN AND SQUANDERED AND OUR TAXES ARE LIKELY TO BE RAISED TO BAILOUT THE BAILOUT!
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Earlier today we filed a suit, on behalf of Freedom Watch, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S.ÿ Departmetÿ and the Federal Reserve Board, both of whom have attempted to obstruct and stonewall our legitimate documents requests designed to find out where the $350 billion bailout money was spent, and how the government decided â"" to use the term loosely â"" who to hand it out to.ÿ VIEW COMPLAINT
The â""missingâ" $350 billion dollars of your hard earned tax payer money has not been accounted for and a strong legal inference has thus arisen that massive corruption is the reason.
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The missing â""bailoutâ" money occurred during the waning days of the Bush administration and the Democrat Congress. Now President Obama wants over one trillion dollars more to hand away to friends of the Democrats and Republicans.
We at Freedom Watch wonâ""t sit back and watch your moneyÿ get stolen, misappropriated and wasted when you have a hard enough time in your own lives feeding yourselves, children and grandchildren.
President Ronald Reagan used to say that the problem with the United States is not that we have too little government, but that we have too much. Now the government is attempting to use the economic crisis as a backdoor way to socialize our country, take control away from you on how to spend your own money, and hand the money over instead to the friends and lobbyists of the ruling elite.
We at Freedom Watch need your strong financialÿ support to turn over the rocks and find out what happened to our money and start court and other cases and investigations to get it back!
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO MAKE Aÿ TAX DEDUCTABLEÿ CONTRIBUTION TO THIS URGENT AND VITAL CAUSE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE AND THE MONEY IS GONE AND OUR TAXES HAVE TO BE RAISED AGAIN TO PAY FOR THE CORRUPTION OF WASHINGTON, D.C. ELITES WHO THINK THEY ARE SMARTER THAN US AND WILL NOT GET CAUGHT!