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GiqueCee

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4. Instead of doing the bidding...

Reply to The Wizard (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 09:50 AM

Jan 2026

... of a bunch of greedy rich fucks, he dropped a dime on 'em and testified under oath to a Senate committee. Nothing was done.
Prescott Bush got his ass in a sling again during WWII when a bank he and Averell Harriman had substantial interests in got caught doing business with the Nazis in '42. Again, nothing was done, apart from the U.S. seizing the assets of the Union Banking Corporation.
It's good to be a filthy rich crook, as we now see on a daily basis.

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