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Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes
- blackcat201 5y agointernet archive link : https://web.archive.org/web/20210424052632/https://forensicnews.net/deutsche-bank-whistleblower-vanishes/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210424052632/https://forensicn...
- eh9 5y agoSeems to be down for me
- masswerk 5y agoWorks for me. (So not a general issue.)
- blackcat201 5y agoSeems like the working version is overwritten by the newer archive
- oyebenny 5y agoIt's been scrubbed? Because there's no entry... This is sus.
- Apaec 5y agoWorks for me as well.
- r721 5y agoWorks for me now. Anyway, here's archive.is link as backup: https://archive.is/71woB https://archive.is/71woB
- TimWillebrands 5y agoThis link doesn't work either?
- edoceo 5y agoits showing --- Hrm. The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL. This page is not available on the web because of server error ---
- judge2020 5y agoAnother source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-journalist-deutsche-bank-source-missing https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-journ... Tweet about it with the missing persons report: https://twitter.com/rocco_castoro/status/1383286000923729924?s=21 https://twitter.com/rocco_castoro/status/1383286000923729924...
- hurril 5y agoHe was just out to get a new dust filter for a Hoover MaxExtract Pressure Pro, Model 60.
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- isatty 5y agoUpvoted - some humor isn't such a bad thing as other HNers believe.
- 1_player 5y agoI'll go on Reddit if I want the top comments to be one liner jokes and crappy puns.
- elcapitan 5y agoAnd on HN for fashionable moral absolutism.
- snypher 5y agoSomeone is missing, and maybe dead and people are making jokes about TV shows. 200B euro was laundered through Danske Bank and that whistleblower wound up dead also. Estonia could have used some tax money to help it's citizens, instead proceeds go to the newest 'megayacht'. Real funny jokes.
- fencepost 5y agoRelevant - tweets from David Enrich, the journalist he's been worked with. Most recent update 4/22, still missing. https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1383206855263019009 https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1383206855263019009
- jwilber 5y agoLooks like the missing person’s tweets were pretty hostile towards David Enrich. Also in this podcast they’re not exactly friendly: https://anchor.fm/valentin-broeksmit/episodes/Val-Broeksmit-vs-David-Enrich--The-NYTimes-Podcast-Crew-of-The-Daily-eu6sta https://anchor.fm/valentin-broeksmit/episodes/Val-Broeksmit-... edit: see below, not suggesting foul play between the two
- unityByFreedom 5y agoThose read tongue-in-cheek or in jest to me, not hostile. https://mobile.twitter.com/BikiniRobotArmy https://mobile.twitter.com/BikiniRobotArmy
- ishiz 5y ago> tongue-in-cheek or in jest How so? I didn't get this interpretation at all, so I'm curious what you think.
- plank_time 5y agoYou are definitely misreading them. They are extremely angry towards that journalist.
- jwilber 5y agoI can see that angle as well. I decided to look for more evidence, and found a previous article David wrote about Val for the NYT. [0] After reading it, my take is that the comments were hostile, but I don’t suspect any foul play between the two. Just two men who, despite not necessarily respecting the other, worked together to further their own agendas. An excerpt: “... the Broeksmit family have warned me that Mr. Broeksmit is not to be trusted, and, well, they might have a point. His drug use has sent him reeling between manias and stupors. He has a maddening habit of leaping to outrageous conclusions and then bending facts to fit far-fetched theories. He fantasizes about seeing his story told by Hollywood, and I sometimes wonder whether he’s manipulating me to achieve that ambition. He can be impatient, erratic and abusive. A few days ago, irate that he was not named in a blurb for my book on Amazon, among other perceived slights, he sent me a string of texts claiming that he’d taken out a brokerage account in my name and traded on secret information I’d supposedly fed him. (This is not true.) A little later, he left me a voice mail message saying it was all a joke. Why do I put up with this? Because his trove of corporate emails, financial materials, boardroom presentations and legal reports is credible — even if he is not. “ Probably more relevant that his father was a Deutsch Bank exec who committed suicide, and he seemed to be shopping the leaks around for some time. Or that he was an apparent opioid user. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-deutsche-bank-trump-whistle-blower.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-de...
- rexarex 5y agoSus.
- atdt 5y agoI can't load the article, but I found this piece published by the Times in 2019: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-deutsche-bank-trump-whistle-blower.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-de... It describes Broeksmit as "an unemployed rock musician with a history of opioid abuse and credit card theft," so his disappearance could have any number of explanations.
- DarknessFalls 5y agoI think you mean "any number of alibis".
- iitqkzbjak 5y agoAnd Broeksmit's response: https://threader.app/thread/1254006990440763393 https://threader.app/thread/1254006990440763393 (also here: https://twitter.com/BikiniRobotArmy/status/1254006990440763393 https://twitter.com/BikiniRobotArmy/status/12540069904407633...)
- sebmellen 5y agoFWIW, the author of that article posted this to Twitter April 16th [0]: > Val Broeksmit @BikiniRobotArmy – a longtime source about Deutsche Bank – is missing. > He was last seen on April 6 in Los Angeles, his girlfriend says. A missing persons report has been filed with @LAPDHQ. > I am very worried about Val's safety. Please spread the word. [0]: https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1383206855263019009 https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1383206855263019009 —————————— From the image in the followup tweet: "He was last seen driving a 2020 red Mini Cooper. The vehicle has been recovered but he has not been seen since ..." That doesn't sound too good.
- jb775 5y agoThe NYT is mostly shills and this is a perfect example...puts out an article discrediting the whistleblower rather than frame the negativity towards the big corrupt bank with lots of NYC connections. And now you use the shill hit piece as a source when the guy goes missing.
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- sillysaurusx 5y agoOne wonders who the assassins for hire are. Some powerful people, somewhere, are able to dispatch modern day assassins. Those assassins must have some sort of way of... advertising themselves. It's an interesting problem, since clearly they are doing this for some sort of compensation, i.e. it's a business. Sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction. It'd be interesting to know what the inner workings look like. Of course, one can't rule out the mundane explanation, that he went missing with his car keys in the ignition because he decided to get out and vanish for no apparent reason, without informing his girlfriend, and without using any of his credit cards that would immediately lead authorities to his location.
- DarknessFalls 5y agoOr it could be governments returning a favor. Remember the "backdoor" channel Kushner talked about with Russia?
- bserge 5y agoNo one in their right mind would advertise themselves. It all stays "in the family". Do a job for your multi-millionaire friend, if you don't break you become the go-to guy for said friend and his friends. Alternatively, the assassins/kidnappers are just people down on luck, in debt, addicted to drugs. They take care of the problem, then you take care of them... one way or another.
- jwilber 5y agoCartels have plenty not too far from LA. But after Epstein dying in jail I’m convinced anything is possible.
- bserge 5y agoOh yeah, I always wondered about those kinds of gangs/cartels that barely even try to hide. Could one just walk in and place an "order"? Seems pretty risky, even if they agree, you might end up owing them (or rather, being owned by them) forever.
- ThePhysicist 5y agoIn Germany there was the "Berlin bank scandal" [1], which is one of the reasons of the dire financial situation the city of Berlin is in nowadays (not the only one though). There the head of IT of one of the involved companies, Aubius, was found dead (hanged) in the Grunewald. He was cooperating with law enforcement. This has a similar vibe to me. [1]: https://www.dw.com/en/finance-scandal-did-berlin-bank-use-enron-like-methods/a-615494 https://www.dw.com/en/finance-scandal-did-berlin-bank-use-en...
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoDidn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
- rduchnik 5y agoSeems the database has vanished too
- philshem 5y ago> "When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra" [0] But who knows anymore if a whistleblower disappearing is a horse or a zebra? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_(medicine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_(medicine)
- jpeter 5y agoThe website also vanished
- hestefisk 5y agoSite is now down.
- room505 5y agoI read David Enrich's book, Dark Towers. It was an easy read and he developed a close relationship with Val because he became a great source for the book. The book gave me the impression that Val likes spontaneity and doesn't seem to have much direction in his life.