chamberofx retweeted
Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.
The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.
I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.
I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.
Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.
Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.
Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.
A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.
This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.
There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.
Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.
I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.
This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.
Three things would change the math overnight.
Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.
End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.
Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.
I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.
Respectfully,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.
The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.
I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.
I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.
Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.
Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.
Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.
A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.
This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.
There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.
Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.
I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.
This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.
Three things would change the math overnight.
Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.
End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.
Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.
I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.
Respectfully,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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And if I wasn’t at lunch with my beautiful wife for her birthday I would’ve have been able to sell some even higher. But we take our blessings and move on. Much love Marty!
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chamberofx retweeted
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chamberofx retweeted
Fuck it $BTC crashing
Giving Away $100 to a random person who likes + retweets this tweet in the next 20 hours
Giving Away $100 to a random person who likes + retweets this tweet in the next 20 hours
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chamberofx retweeted
Alright fuck it.
Been so much unwavering support in the past week for @SkylitAI I’ll be dropping a 90-day membership giveaway.
If anyone existing user wins, I will add 90 days to your membership.
If a new user wins, you will gain a code for 90 days free.
In order to enter:
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Good luck 🍀 !!!
Been so much unwavering support in the past week for @SkylitAI I’ll be dropping a 90-day membership giveaway.
If anyone existing user wins, I will add 90 days to your membership.
If a new user wins, you will gain a code for 90 days free.
In order to enter:
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Good luck 🍀 !!!
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chamberofx retweeted
Good thread on $PREDI
Agent @aixbt_agent already created its first market via X; and will be compensated with creator revenue.
Is it the first PM where agents can now both trade AND create markets?
Remember the first time an agent launched a token. Similar moment.
Agent @aixbt_agent already created its first market via X; and will be compensated with creator revenue.
Is it the first PM where agents can now both trade AND create markets?
Remember the first time an agent launched a token. Similar moment.
Imagine thousands of AI agents spinning up their own prediction markets 24/7.
Creating, betting, and burning $PREDI nonstop.
That future just started.
So everyones mate @catsfanatic0g just got @aixbt_agent to spin up a market directly through @predibot_…
This is where it gets s aren’t just something we use anymore... agents can now create, trade, and profit from them.
What happens when agents start spinning up their own markets regularly?
➠ Self-perpetuating volume
Agents don’t sleep. They’ll continuously create new markets, attracting liquidity 24/7.
➠ Market creator + trader economics
Agents earn fees for creating markets and can profit from winning their own bets. Double incentive.
➠ Micro-markets everywhere
From niche DeFi events to meme bets, every narrative can instantly have a liquid market.
➠ Composability
Agents can bet on prediction outcomes as inputs for other strategies (e.g. hedging, trading signals, governance coordination).
➠ Flywheel for $PREDI
⇁ Every market = more fees.
⇁ Every fee = more buyback & burn.
⇁ Every burn = tighter token supply.
And this is landing just as:
⇁@baseapp is about to go live to 700k+ users ( the platform is highlighted there)
⇁@virtuals_io ACP integration will bring new opportunities
⇁Prediction narratives are heating up
This is bigger than just betting. It’s a framework for autonomous agents to price in truth at scale.
If you’re bullish on prediction markets ➥ you’re bullish $PREDI...
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MEME THESIS
Capitalize on the $bonk vs $pump wars.
Own most pumpable token on each.
$useless : impervious to FUD, it’s $useless
$troll : OG meme. trade less. $troll more.
Both going to multi billions.
@free_electron0 @theunipcs
Capitalize on the $bonk vs $pump wars.
Own most pumpable token on each.
$useless : impervious to FUD, it’s $useless
$troll : OG meme. trade less. $troll more.
Both going to multi billions.
@free_electron0 @theunipcs
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chamberofx retweeted
Make content on $TROLL bros, don’t be shy
X, TikTok, Insta, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, etc
Post your thoughts, make videos, artwork, write articles, whatever you’re good at
Each one of us matters and can contribute towards making this the new Doge/GME/XRP
Let’s get it
X, TikTok, Insta, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, etc
Post your thoughts, make videos, artwork, write articles, whatever you’re good at
Each one of us matters and can contribute towards making this the new Doge/GME/XRP
Let’s get it
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Feels good when your conviction holds show relative strength on massive red days. Billions. $troll
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Shout out to @free_electron0 for getting troll on my radar. Bag working like a champ.
Loaded up 140-150M range. Was hoping to get shot to double down around 100M if it filled that FVG. Not going to get it. Got the triple bullish div and a higher high. Now send it…
Loaded up 140-150M range. Was hoping to get shot to double down around 100M if it filled that FVG. Not going to get it. Got the triple bullish div and a higher high. Now send it…
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chamberofx retweeted
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