The XYZ Affair II -- Billions for Hank's unjust enrichment, not a cent for his prosecution

Not since 1798 in the XYZ Affair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ_Affair) has there been an extortion threat of this magnitude against the national financial security of the the United States. The objective of the extortion is to gain more than $100,000,000,000 in tribute from the U.S. Treasury by one multinational corporation, otherwise a greater depression than The Great Depression will be triggered.

Unlike the XYZ Affair, the extortionist is not France nor any other country, it is American International Group, Inc. ("AIG") (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_International_Group), a company that has "globalized" public corruption into a "new world order" of complicit government officials that have been bribed into treasonously breaching their fiduciary duties to their countries' citizens' national financial security interests. The architect of and the prime-mover in this web of corruption has been Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_R._Greenberg), who had corked his bat for decades to create a false image that his home-runs were due to some superior business acumen.

While it is good that the United States Department of Justice ("DoJ") is investigating and prosecuting the relatively small-fish like Bernard Lawrence Madoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff) and Robert Allen Stanford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Stanford), a reformed DoJ will not turn a blind-eye to the law enforcement agencies' mandate to go after big-fish like AIG and Greenberg. The DoJ can begin with the obvious violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), that underlie the well-developed civil litigation taking place in Fort Worth, Texas that has exposed evidence that AIG has defrauded the victims' families of a corporate jet crash that occurred more than seventeen years ago of the justified benefits of a $100,000,000 aviation liability insurance policy that AIG sold to the crash victims' employers, DuPont and Conoco (n.k.a. ConocoPhillips). (See http://Iran-Conoco-Affair.US and http://TexasBarWatch.US)

However, the DoJ should be forewarned that AIG and Greenberg will continue to use the benefits of years of unjust enrichment to evade equal justice under the law through the bribery of corrupt public officials who are in a position to derail the investigation and prosecution. In Texas, a well established method is to channel the bribe money through a compliant law firm that launders the money as incoming "legal fees" and then pass it out as a political contribution to the targeted public official. If the size of the bribe for the quid pro quo is too large, public officials who are also lawyers can be rewarded later in "retirement" with lucrative employment at the same law firms in jobs subsidized by the briber. This mechanism for bribery is widely used in Texas and has gained AIG "respect" for its ruthlessness among most members of the lawyers' union known as the State Bar of Texas. (See http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/03/there_will_never_be_a_paper_tr.php and http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txn/PressRel09/lewis_john_DCC_ple_pr.html)

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AIG Crime Family Mouthpieces
Submitted by Pro Se on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 3:09pm.

U.S. Senator Charles Ernest “AIG” Grassley and U.S. Senator and Lawyer-Judge John “Good Oil-Boy” Cornyn, successor-in-office to W. Philip “Enron” Gramm, who “legalized” the AIG credit default swap (“CDS”) gambling operations for his benefactor, Maurice R “Mafioso” Greenberg. U.S. Senator C. Estes Kefauver, where are you?

Grassley’s Harvest of the AIG-Money Bumper Crops:
2003 – 2008 Election Cycle, American International Group, Inc. – $26,250
2001 – 2006 Election Cycle, American International Group, Inc. – $26,500
1999 – 2004 Election Cycle, American International Group, Inc. – $19,750

Hey Chuck, have you ever heard the old saying about people in glass-houses? Some ideas for making yourself worthy of your “honorable” title would include stopping the photo ops in which you fake outrage and make asinine demands on others to do the honorable thing by committing hara kiri. Then, in keeping with your proclaimed Christian faith, you should confess your sins in a mea culpa that includes an accounting of the money you took from AIG and an admission of your guilty knowledge of and willful blindness to AIG’s theft, using extortion and fraud against our federal government, of more than $173 billion of our money.

You and Cornyn’s strategy to feign outrage over AIG using less than 0.1% of the $173 billion AIG has stolen (so far) to pay employee “bonuses” [sic hush money] is silly. You and Cornyn’s constituents realize that their elected and appointed government officials have been accomplices in AIG’s blatant crimes, and are growing are simultaneously bored and irritated by whining of government officials who spout bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo to obfuscate their duties to see that the laws and regulations of the United States are enforced; that AIG’s crimes are investigated, prosecuted and the guilty parties sent to jail; and that the money that AIG stole is traced and recovered.

In case you and Cornyn have difficulty figuring out how to get our money back, here is a prescription you can offer to the DoJ to recover all of the $173 billion AIG has stolen from the federal government thus far.

(1) The DoJ should file suit in a U.S. District Court for civil conspiracy, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty against AIG and AIG’s directors. The DoJ can prosecute these defendants under the False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3729–3733), the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. § 1961–1968), and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1).

(2) The DoJ should add as co-defendants any counterparties to AIG’s fraudulent derivative contracts (credit default swaps, etc.) who were unjustly enriched by being paid-off using any portion of the $173 billion that AIG extorted and defraud from the federal government.

(3) DoJ should file a motion in the case seeking the imposition of a constructive trust, in equity, over the federal government’s money, and/or any assets into which the counterparties converted the federal government’s money.

(4) The DoJ should allow a jury of intellectually honest citizens determine if AIG and AIG’s directors are liable for claims against them; and if they are, the amount of money that each party unjustly enriched by AIG’s extortion and fraud scam should return to the federal government.

(5) The DoJ should take on all appeals through to the Supreme Court so that the consequences of violating the laws that AIG has violated will set precedent for prosecuting the members of any other boards of directors who choose to follow path of the members of the AIG board of directors.

You and Cornyn should be committed to the principle that the United States is a nation of laws, not of men… …nor of judges, nor of lawyers, nor of money. In 1950, U.S. Senator C. Estes Kefauver and the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce reaffirmed this principle by investigating and demanding the prosecution of organized criminal enterprises, like AIG, and the corrupt government officials who took political contributions as payment for quid pro quo protection for the criminals who had bribed them.

One last bit of advise Chuck, for the sake of your political legacy, you should seek counsel on legal and ethical matters from someone other than Cornyn who appears to be another victim of education by Texas law schools and courts. Other victims include, Cornyn’s fellow justices on the Supreme Court of Texas, former U.S. Attorney General Roberto “Torture” R. “U.S.” Gonzales and current Justice David M. “Buring-Down-the-House” Medina. Undoubtedly, Cornyn knows that politician-judges, as Cornyn was for thirteen years, are permitted to take political contributions as gratuities, even when there is no opposing candidate. Political contributions from corrupt insurers like AIG are laundered though retained law firms as untraceable “legal fees” and given as bribes disguised as political contributions to politician-judges willing to issue lawless rulings benefiting those that provided the bribe-money. (See "There Will Never Be a Paper Trail." Whoops., Dallas Observer, March 6, 2009.)

See http://TexasBarWatch.US for information on how unjust enrichment claims are being used to recover lost damages in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty case against lawyers Frederick M. Baron, Robert M. Greenberg and Robert E. Motsenbocker who allegedly colluded in the intentional derailment of $50 million in legal claims against E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (“DuPont”); Conoco, Inc.; Law Offices of Windle Turley, P.C.; and Baron & Budd, P.C. that were covered by various AIG liability policies.

See http://Iran-Conoco-Affair.US for information on the factual background for the fraud upon a federal court claim against DuPont and Conoco, and AIG – DuPont’s and Conoco’s insurer, pursuant to a $100,000,000 aviation liability policy AIG sold the companies, for damages arising from the DuPont-Conoco corporate jet crash in Malaysia that killed twelve people.

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