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The Secret Money Behind ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
- nateabele 11y agoDirty money funded the making of a movie about dirty money? And it involves the prime minister of Malaysia? Now all we need is an assassination plot, brainwashing, and Blue Steel.
- FlailFast 11y agoI have proof that all of those things are involved. Trouble is, the evidence is _in_ a computer.[1] [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwrIZQDt50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwrIZQDt50 [2] [2]Unrelated fun fact, that's pretty much how I code.
- BinaryIdiot 11y ago> [2]Unrelated fun fact, that's pretty much how I code. Some people may pretend otherwise...but that's how we all code.
- eggy 11y agoOnly Mac and Linux coders; Windows coders can't wear jumpsuits to work ;) Seriously, money trails are easier to suss out nowadays contrary to popular belief. At least in the past you needed to make lots of phone calls, write letters or get out of your seat to have F2Fs with potential leads or leaders. Only thing easier nowadays if you have cash, you can obfuscate with stubborn deniability and lots of lawyers. With all of the supposed anonymity with bitcoin they got to the bottom of Silk Road, didnt they? Family of the PM of Malaysia should be easy. I live in SE Asia, and this is par for the course in some more than other countries here.
- chvid 11y agoHere is your assination plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussain_Najadi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussain_Najadi The sad state of Malaysian politics is that their politicians play the race card rather heavily; so even an openly corrupt and incompetant leader gets reelected because the ethnic Malays are afraid of loosing their privileges if the Chinese or Indian ethnic groups get bigger say in politics.
- gopi 11y agoThis celebrities travelling in private jets and partying in yachts preach others about climate change!
- newjersey 11y agoPeople who take tax breaks can also oppose the tax breaks. I don't think this counts as hypocrisy.
- ehnto 11y agoPerhaps the savings you make from tax breaks can help fund your opposition to tax breaks.
- melling 11y agoif you took away celebrity jets and yachts, what percentage of CO2 would we eliminate? How many zeros should I use? Would this be a good approximation? 0.00000000001%
- reddytowns 11y agoWhy should we section off people that indulge with jets and yachts in a separate category and explain away their behavior on the basis that this is only a small group of people?
- melling 11y agoI'm not even sure why we're even talking about it. it's irrelevant. "Fixing it" wouldn't delay the problem by a day. There are 100,000 commercial flights every day. https://www.quora.com/How-many-airplanes-fly-each-day-in-the-world https://www.quora.com/How-many-airplanes-fly-each-day-in-the... We need to fix the big problems, not the irrelevant ones.
- JBReefer 11y agoI had a Bio professor in college who lectured every day about climate change, yet drove 2 hours to and from work every day, through the mountains. I booked to class, every day, and he still made me nuts. I asked him about this hypocrisy, which led to a lower grade in the class. Worth it.
- dbcooper 11y agoStaggeringly brazen: >Mr. Al-Husseiny is an American who then headed Aabar Investments PJS, which is an arm of an Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund known as IPIC. The state-owned firms did business with 1MDB. For instance, IPIC guaranteed some of the Malaysian fund’s bonds. >In connection with the IPIC guarantees, 1MDB reported in corporate filings that in 2012, it sent $1.4 billion to Aabar as collateral. >Investigators believe this money never got to Aabar in Abu Dhabi but went instead to a separate, almost identically named company that Mr. Al-Husseiny had helped set up in the British Virgin Islands, called Aabar Investments PJS Ltd., said people familiar with the probes.
- jacobsimon 11y agoIs this an April Fools Joke?
- smallegan 11y agoDo I smell a sequel?
- fblp 11y agoThe wsj had been cranking put a lot of quality investigative journalism recently. I'm thinking of subscribing to them to support this.
- stephenitis 11y agois there a tipping point?
- unexistance 11y agohow reliable WSJ is with their news source?
- chollida1 11y agoIf you haven't done any reading on the fund behind all of this (1MBD) then you should, its all stuff that sounds like an onion article. It has - ties to the highest level of wall street, with a few very high up people at GS loosing their jobs over this, - the prime minister of a small country, - Cayman islands shell companies - a few hedge funds who have had to be wound down because of this - and now a holly wood connection There are investigations in over 10 countries now due to the activities of this fund. I'm guessing there will be more jail time handed out from this than over the 2008 financial crisis. http://graphics.wsj.com/1mdb-decoded/ http://graphics.wsj.com/1mdb-decoded/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad_s...
- teslaberry 11y agoi think the best part of wolf of wall street is that it continues the fine american tradition of glorifying disgusting behavior implicitly by displaying it in entertaining form. the audience is guilty for enjoying it and unknowingly being subsumed into this glorification. to a limited extent the big short does this as well, but in a very different way with a different tone. but it does it, why? because the protagonists get rich, despite the narrator's self effacing disclosures of not being 'a good guy'.
- iambateman 11y agoDoes the WSJ do April Fools or something?
- known 11y agoLeave your conscience at your home if you wanted to work in WS
- ernsheong 11y agoWatch a gripping video about 1MDB made by ABC Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2016/03/28/4431284.htm http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2016/03/28/4431284.ht...