Thursday, March 20, 2008




The identity of the Sub-Prime Scam

I know this will be a shock to everyone...

I hope bigoted people will not recall the words of Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf--
"on putting the probing knife to the abcess one finds the little Jew like a maggot blinded by the sudden light".
Tony


An obituary in the today's New York Times, March 19, 2008. p. C11, entitled: "Roland Arnall, 68, Mortgage Investor; Creator of a Sub- Prime Powerhouse That Has Been Touched By Crisis", is very illuminating:

[abstract] Arnall was the founder of ACC Capital Holdings Corp. and its unit Ameriquest Mortgage Co., and the originator of the sub-prime mortgage marketing system (securitizing bunches of sub-prime loans to minorities).

In 2005, Ameriquest was the largest sup-prime mortgage issuer in the country. Pres. Bush had named him ambassador to Netherlands (2006-2008): he was one of the top donors to the Republican Party in 2003-2005 [In the 2003-2005 period, Arnall and his wife raised more than $12 million for George W. Bush's political efforts, including $5 million for the Progress for America Voter Fund, a self-proclaimed "conservative issue advocacy organization dedicated to keeping the issue record straight."], giving $1 million for Bush's second inaugural party alone.

Arnall is a French-Jew who lived in Paris until after WWII, when he emigrated to the United States.

In 1977, he was one of the founders of the Simon Wiesenthal Center [and the Museum of Tolerance] and was its chairman for many years. [He also served for 16 years on the California State University board of trustees.]

Last year, his fortune was estimated at $1.5 billion by Forbes [or $3 billion by Forbes]. [Additional information from wikipedia entry:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Roland_Arnall) ]

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Considering that the sub-prime mortgages represented a vast transfer of wealth from European-American middle class bank customers to minority mortgagees in the first place, and in the second transfer of wealth when these bogus securitized mortgages were resold (many to European banks, effecting a transfer wealth from European middle class bank customers to Arnall and his cohorts), it may be that Roland Arnall created a system that destroyed the savings of more European middle class families worldwide than even Michael Milken, the architect of the S&L Crisis.
James Joseph Sanchez, PhDPresident, EAIF

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