<![CDATA[The New Untouchables]]>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:51:31 +0000Captivate.fmReal Progressiveshttps://artwork.captivate.fm/cd52ae2b-12aa-4af7-88ad-9bf8e79e34cb/6d1b99f0-6e4f-11eb-9a4c-e34f99732ee0.pngThe New UntouchablesReal ProgressivesReal ProgressivesReal Progressives and the creators of “The Con” present a new series, “The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files,” meticulously detailing the rampant financial fraud that has been poisoning our economy for the last century, and what is to be done about it. “The Con” took a simple but revolutionary approach to explaining the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008. The New Untouchables presents the heroes, one at a time, who sought to prevent it and hold the elite predators accountable.https://podcasts.bcast.fm/the-new-untouchablesnoepisodichttps://feeds.captivate.fm/thenewuntouchables/S2:E14 The Pecora Files: Why the Media Doesn’t Understand Control FraudS2:E14 The Pecora Files: Why the Media Doesn’t Understand Control FraudThis series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  

Paul Jay is a remarkable journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator who has been shining lights into all the right places for years. According to Matt Taibbi, the news is the new religion and we are in the midst of a holy war. Whether it’s the Clinton apparatus that influenced Rachel Maddow and the Beltway press to hyper conflate misinformation that led to Russia Gate or consequences of confusion that enables Trump’s “Big Lie,” insurrection, all things hyperbolic Covid culture war while Fed governors engage in pandemic profiteering, it’s clear that the weaponization of news is the embodiment of what happens when the fourth estate trades journalistic integrity for ratings, click bait, and formulas for commercial revenue while maintaining access to power. 

Similar to The Con’s experience, the mainstream has blocked the truth of what our government knew about the Saudi’s both pre-and-post 9/11. It’s the same as it pertains to Exxon’s disinformation campaign on Climate Change going back to the 1970’s in addition to the corruption that constituted the Afghan war for two decades. Paul Jay has always revealed the mechanics of power and he has also championed Wiliam K. Black in a long form series on his platform that features Black’s Control Fraud and how it plays out in The Con. 

Please tune into the final chapter of Season 2 of the New Untouchables to get a glimpse into the Orwellian world of media and massive confusion and why it happens the way it does. 

Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan join Paul in a spirited discussion from Paul’s decades long insight that reveals the game of deception played by the powerful. What does he think? For one thing, he believes by 2007-2008 the power of finance got so big we might be past the point of no return, yet Jay applauds all efforts by those who work to curb the huge financial powers, and there is a convergence of the financial sector with organized crime. Watch, absorb, and share.    

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power do not want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT! ]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  

Paul Jay is a remarkable journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator who has been shining lights into all the right places for years. According to Matt Taibbi, the news is the new religion and we are in the midst of a holy war. Whether it’s the Clinton apparatus that influenced Rachel Maddow and the Beltway press to hyper conflate misinformation that led to Russia Gate or consequences of confusion that enables Trump’s “Big Lie,” insurrection, all things hyperbolic Covid culture war while Fed governors engage in pandemic profiteering, it’s clear that the weaponization of news is the embodiment of what happens when the fourth estate trades journalistic integrity for ratings, click bait, and formulas for commercial revenue while maintaining access to power. 

Similar to The Con’s experience, the mainstream has blocked the truth of what our government knew about the Saudi’s both pre-and-post 9/11. It’s the same as it pertains to Exxon’s disinformation campaign on Climate Change going back to the 1970’s in addition to the corruption that constituted the Afghan war for two decades. Paul Jay has always revealed the mechanics of power and he has also championed Wiliam K. Black in a long form series on his platform that features Black’s Control Fraud and how it plays out in The Con. 

Please tune into the final chapter of Season 2 of the New Untouchables to get a glimpse into the Orwellian world of media and massive confusion and why it happens the way it does. 

Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan join Paul in a spirited discussion from Paul’s decades long insight that reveals the game of deception played by the powerful. What does he think? For one thing, he believes by 2007-2008 the power of finance got so big we might be past the point of no return, yet Jay applauds all efforts by those who work to curb the huge financial powers, and there is a convergence of the financial sector with organized crime. Watch, absorb, and share.    

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power do not want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT! ]]>80595l70Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -050058:13nofull14Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan join Paul Jay in a spirited discussion from Paul’s decades long insight that reveals the game of deception played by the powerful. What does he think? For one thing, he believes by 2007-2008 the power of finance got so big we might be past the point of no return, yet Jay applauds all efforts by those who work to curb the huge financial powers, and there is a convergence of the financial sector with organized crime.Real ProgressivesS2:E13 The Pecora Files: Ferdinand Pecora Where Are You Now?S2:E13 The Pecora Files: Ferdinand Pecora Where Are You Now?This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.

If you’ve ever wondered why this series bears the name of Ferdinand Pecora, watching this episode will leave no doubt in your mind. Patrick Lovell, Eric Vaughan, and Steve Grumbine talk with Michael Perino, author of “The Hell Hound of Wall Street,” the story of Ferdinand Pecora’s investigation into Wall Street in 1933 that led to Glass-Steagall, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the 1933 SEC Act that was created to prevent Wall Street from selling fraudulent securities that, as it turned-out, wiped-out America and the world and led to World War II.

The Great Depression was raging. America was in deep pain and despair. There was 25% unemployment and “Hoovervilles” existed all over America, not too dissimilar to the homelessness that pervades America today. Hoover was on his way out. FDR was coming in but not yet inaugurated. Enter one of the most important yet unknown periods in American history. An Italian immigrant from Sicily made his way to the law profession by way of putting himself through college, taking care of his siblings, while WASP elites turned their noses up at his plight. An amazing turn of events led to Pecora’s elevation to investigate Wall Street when he got the opportunity to dig deep into the closet of treachery to reveal to the world exactly how criminal and deceptive behavior led to such misery.

The Pecora hearings where a media sensation as the plucky Italian immigrant closed the noose around then Citibank Chairman, “Sunshine” Charlie Mitchell who was engaged in insider trading, Ponzi-scheming, racketeering, shorting, and tax evasion. Sound familiar? The result of Ferdinand’s glorious performance? Glass- Steagall, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1933 and the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Author Michael Perino joins us today to shine a light yet again on how and why Pecora was the right guy for the right time in history and why what we have achieved with The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files is exactly how this had to play out today.

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.

If you’ve ever wondered why this series bears the name of Ferdinand Pecora, watching this episode will leave no doubt in your mind. Patrick Lovell, Eric Vaughan, and Steve Grumbine talk with Michael Perino, author of “The Hell Hound of Wall Street,” the story of Ferdinand Pecora’s investigation into Wall Street in 1933 that led to Glass-Steagall, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the 1933 SEC Act that was created to prevent Wall Street from selling fraudulent securities that, as it turned-out, wiped-out America and the world and led to World War II.

The Great Depression was raging. America was in deep pain and despair. There was 25% unemployment and “Hoovervilles” existed all over America, not too dissimilar to the homelessness that pervades America today. Hoover was on his way out. FDR was coming in but not yet inaugurated. Enter one of the most important yet unknown periods in American history. An Italian immigrant from Sicily made his way to the law profession by way of putting himself through college, taking care of his siblings, while WASP elites turned their noses up at his plight. An amazing turn of events led to Pecora’s elevation to investigate Wall Street when he got the opportunity to dig deep into the closet of treachery to reveal to the world exactly how criminal and deceptive behavior led to such misery.

The Pecora hearings where a media sensation as the plucky Italian immigrant closed the noose around then Citibank Chairman, “Sunshine” Charlie Mitchell who was engaged in insider trading, Ponzi-scheming, racketeering, shorting, and tax evasion. Sound familiar? The result of Ferdinand’s glorious performance? Glass- Steagall, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1933 and the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Author Michael Perino joins us today to shine a light yet again on how and why Pecora was the right guy for the right time in history and why what we have achieved with The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files is exactly how this had to play out today.

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!]]>70wr3571Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -050051:45nofull13Author Michael Perino joins us today to shine a light yet again on how and why Pecora was the right guy for the right time in history and why what we have achieved with The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files is exactly how this had to play out today.Real ProgressivesS2:E12 The Pecora Files: Populism Saved Us Before. Where is it Now?S2:E12 The Pecora Files: Populism Saved Us Before. Where is it Now?This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  

Thomas Frank is one of the most prolific authors and experts in the American experiment/experience existing today.  His prescient work consists of “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to “Listen Liberal” to “The People, No.”  The sum of Frank’s profound revelations is to fill in the blanks how a massive dystopia undergirded by the enormity of an economy and government predicated on a Meritocracy enveloped in its own deception happened and how.  The picture is made plain by a midwestern ethic that understood the pragmatism of the farmers and laborers of the period who were enveloped in Populism and became the FDR Generation saving America and the world from itself by beating back the monopolization and criminality that preceded it. 

The quiet courage of pragmatism prompted the Greatest Generation to make the crooked places straight and for once in history, gave birth to a movement that championed a country Of, By, and For the People, at least the white people.  If it weren’t for the populism of that era manifested behind the labor movement and women’s suffrage alongside Muckrakers, the moment of Teddy Roosevelt’s Trust Busting would have never come to be.  Same can be said of FDR’s post-Depression reset.  Same with the Civil Rights era and now same for this moment. 

Join Steve, Eric, and Patrick as they join Thomas Frank to discuss how a populism movement can rise to the challenge now, considering all the wrongs we have and continue to reveal. 

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT! ]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  

Thomas Frank is one of the most prolific authors and experts in the American experiment/experience existing today.  His prescient work consists of “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to “Listen Liberal” to “The People, No.”  The sum of Frank’s profound revelations is to fill in the blanks how a massive dystopia undergirded by the enormity of an economy and government predicated on a Meritocracy enveloped in its own deception happened and how.  The picture is made plain by a midwestern ethic that understood the pragmatism of the farmers and laborers of the period who were enveloped in Populism and became the FDR Generation saving America and the world from itself by beating back the monopolization and criminality that preceded it. 

The quiet courage of pragmatism prompted the Greatest Generation to make the crooked places straight and for once in history, gave birth to a movement that championed a country Of, By, and For the People, at least the white people.  If it weren’t for the populism of that era manifested behind the labor movement and women’s suffrage alongside Muckrakers, the moment of Teddy Roosevelt’s Trust Busting would have never come to be.  Same can be said of FDR’s post-Depression reset.  Same with the Civil Rights era and now same for this moment. 

Join Steve, Eric, and Patrick as they join Thomas Frank to discuss how a populism movement can rise to the challenge now, considering all the wrongs we have and continue to reveal. 

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT! ]]>j12xp761Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -050052:59nofull12Join Steve, Eric, and Patrick as they join Thomas Frank to discuss how a populism movement can rise to the challenge now, considering all the wrongs we have and continue to reveal.Real ProgressivesS2:E11 The Pecora Files: Systemic Corruption is the PointS2:E11 The Pecora Files: Systemic Corruption is the PointThis series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  

Countless numbers of Americans believe all politicians are corrupt and there’s nothing they can do about it, but this episode’s guest, Dennis Kucinich, once the youngest Mayor of a major US City, Cleveland, Ohio in the early 70’s and later elected to Congressman, reveals the remarkable story of the “Boy Mayor” who stood up to corruption refusing to sell Cleveland Municipal Light and Power back to the banks during an era of potential bankruptcy.  During the ordeal, Kucinich survived Cleveland Mob hits on his life.  In 1998 Kucinich was recognized by the City Council for saving Cleveland $198 MM in his courageous commitment to his public service. 

While we have continued to reveal unbelievably systemic corruption, we revisit a time when American politicians literally stood before potential assassination for the public good as a reminder that courage and the will of the people is what matters.  

Citizens need to be alerted to the root of problems which is corruption, according to Kucinich. Corporations can be challenged, and not everyone will be corrupted by those around them. Government does work, but it must be working for people and not corrupt interests if our society has a chance to flourish.  

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT! 

Book by Dennis Kucinich: The Division of Light and Power http://compliancepodcastnetwork.net/dennis-kucinich-the-division-of-light-and-power/ ]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  

Countless numbers of Americans believe all politicians are corrupt and there’s nothing they can do about it, but this episode’s guest, Dennis Kucinich, once the youngest Mayor of a major US City, Cleveland, Ohio in the early 70’s and later elected to Congressman, reveals the remarkable story of the “Boy Mayor” who stood up to corruption refusing to sell Cleveland Municipal Light and Power back to the banks during an era of potential bankruptcy.  During the ordeal, Kucinich survived Cleveland Mob hits on his life.  In 1998 Kucinich was recognized by the City Council for saving Cleveland $198 MM in his courageous commitment to his public service. 

While we have continued to reveal unbelievably systemic corruption, we revisit a time when American politicians literally stood before potential assassination for the public good as a reminder that courage and the will of the people is what matters.  

Citizens need to be alerted to the root of problems which is corruption, according to Kucinich. Corporations can be challenged, and not everyone will be corrupted by those around them. Government does work, but it must be working for people and not corrupt interests if our society has a chance to flourish.  

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT! 

Book by Dennis Kucinich: The Division of Light and Power http://compliancepodcastnetwork.net/dennis-kucinich-the-division-of-light-and-power/ ]]>m1jrkp61Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -050038:11nofull11Countless numbers of Americans believe all politicians are corrupt and there’s nothing they can do about it, but this episode’s guest, Dennis Kucinich, once the youngest Mayor of a major US City, Cleveland, Ohio in the early 70’s and later elected to Congressman, reveals the remarkable story of the “Boy Mayor” who stood up to corruption refusing to sell Cleveland Municipal Light and Power back to the banks during an era of potential bankruptcy.Real ProgressivesS2:E10 The Pecora Files: Justice is ComingS2:E10 The Pecora Files: Justice is ComingThis series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite “Control Fraud” driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.

Bruce Jacobs, a veteran prosecutor and defense attorney in Miami, joins Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan for a discussion beginning with the concept of integrity.

The story of David vs. Goliath has been memorialized throughout history and popular culture as each generation puts its own spin on the timeless story to translate for that era. The same can be said now through the story of Bruce Jacobs, a former Miami prosecutor turned defense attorney who has committed his life to the noble pursuit of justice.

As has been unpacked throughout each episode of The New Untouchables is the stark reality of the corruption most Americans are intuitively aware of, but now can understand clearly. We live in a system where the law serves upward and comes down hard; how the country can finance criminal fraud and then cover it up in the courts. However, you have yet to encounter a more straightforward revelation of what’s happened to millions of the most vulnerable until now.

Bruce Jacobs is a modern-day David combating the Goliaths of Bank of America and Chase that have outsized influence in the country and actually argue “Privilege” to prevent discovery of their criminal activity in the courts when pursuing foreclosures.

The truth has been presented time and again throughout The New Untouchables; from Addie Polk to Cindy Brown, to elderly women everywhere, and now Ms. Anna Rodriguez, a Senior Cuban woman who like everyone else was set up by the massive crime wave that constituted the 2008 Financial Crisis.

It never ended. What’s happening now with Rental Evictions and Forbearance Moratoriums ending is the exact same recipe.

See for yourself the up close and uncomfortable truths our judicial system leans heavily towards, the power of the county as they railroad the most vulnerable in bulldozing liberty and justice for all. Mr. Jacobs isn’t standing for it. Will you after learning the truth?

Only time will tell.

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!
]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite “Control Fraud” driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.

Bruce Jacobs, a veteran prosecutor and defense attorney in Miami, joins Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan for a discussion beginning with the concept of integrity.

The story of David vs. Goliath has been memorialized throughout history and popular culture as each generation puts its own spin on the timeless story to translate for that era. The same can be said now through the story of Bruce Jacobs, a former Miami prosecutor turned defense attorney who has committed his life to the noble pursuit of justice.

As has been unpacked throughout each episode of The New Untouchables is the stark reality of the corruption most Americans are intuitively aware of, but now can understand clearly. We live in a system where the law serves upward and comes down hard; how the country can finance criminal fraud and then cover it up in the courts. However, you have yet to encounter a more straightforward revelation of what’s happened to millions of the most vulnerable until now.

Bruce Jacobs is a modern-day David combating the Goliaths of Bank of America and Chase that have outsized influence in the country and actually argue “Privilege” to prevent discovery of their criminal activity in the courts when pursuing foreclosures.

The truth has been presented time and again throughout The New Untouchables; from Addie Polk to Cindy Brown, to elderly women everywhere, and now Ms. Anna Rodriguez, a Senior Cuban woman who like everyone else was set up by the massive crime wave that constituted the 2008 Financial Crisis.

It never ended. What’s happening now with Rental Evictions and Forbearance Moratoriums ending is the exact same recipe.

See for yourself the up close and uncomfortable truths our judicial system leans heavily towards, the power of the county as they railroad the most vulnerable in bulldozing liberty and justice for all. Mr. Jacobs isn’t standing for it. Will you after learning the truth?

Only time will tell.

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!
]]>m0jrrq80Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -050001:10:34nofull10Bruce Jacobs, a veteran prosecutor and defense attorney in Miami, joins Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan for a discussion beginning with the concept of integrity.Real ProgressivesS2:E9 The Pecora Files: Ignore at Your Own PerilS2:E9 The Pecora Files: Ignore at Your Own PerilThis series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  
 
Co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan delve into the opaque world of misdirection that obfuscates the true nature of the scheme which is theft by deception. In this episode our guests Kathleen Engel, research professor of law specializing in financial services at Suffolk University in Boston, and Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, former foreign exchange analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will transport viewers into the machine of corporate thievery that games malleable brokers to deceive the uninformed and most vulnerable.  
 
The great financial crisis created a diabolical model through which brokers would target widows using City and County records to set them up in a scheme so horrific that in many instances, death or homelessness was the consequence.  The conmen developed numerous ways to exploit those living on fixed incomes with equity to fall prey to the demands of the city that they have their roofs or driveways fixed or be fined. 
 
Complex loan products were created under the guise of giving people “better options and more choices,” but this was yet another false representation presented to folks who never understood the process and nor the risk involved.  
 
The Con would be significant enough it if ended with door-to-door salesmen pawning liars-loans, but all of it was engineered and puppeteer by those at the top such as then Chairmen of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan and Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin turned Chairman of CITI who prevented regulators from doing their jobs so they could be rewarded immensely by the system of corruption they guaranteed. 
 
The whole system was designed to bury the little guy in an act of such perversion and deception that it is very difficult to believe possible.  How can they get away with it? Because you don’t understand how it works, until now. 
 
This Financial Terrorism doesn’t care what color you are or your gender or your religion.  All are targets of this mammoth enterprise of corruption until you learn not to be the victim. 
 
For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  
We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!
]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  
 
Co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan delve into the opaque world of misdirection that obfuscates the true nature of the scheme which is theft by deception. In this episode our guests Kathleen Engel, research professor of law specializing in financial services at Suffolk University in Boston, and Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, former foreign exchange analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will transport viewers into the machine of corporate thievery that games malleable brokers to deceive the uninformed and most vulnerable.  
 
The great financial crisis created a diabolical model through which brokers would target widows using City and County records to set them up in a scheme so horrific that in many instances, death or homelessness was the consequence.  The conmen developed numerous ways to exploit those living on fixed incomes with equity to fall prey to the demands of the city that they have their roofs or driveways fixed or be fined. 
 
Complex loan products were created under the guise of giving people “better options and more choices,” but this was yet another false representation presented to folks who never understood the process and nor the risk involved.  
 
The Con would be significant enough it if ended with door-to-door salesmen pawning liars-loans, but all of it was engineered and puppeteer by those at the top such as then Chairmen of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan and Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin turned Chairman of CITI who prevented regulators from doing their jobs so they could be rewarded immensely by the system of corruption they guaranteed. 
 
The whole system was designed to bury the little guy in an act of such perversion and deception that it is very difficult to believe possible.  How can they get away with it? Because you don’t understand how it works, until now. 
 
This Financial Terrorism doesn’t care what color you are or your gender or your religion.  All are targets of this mammoth enterprise of corruption until you learn not to be the victim. 
 
For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  
We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!
]]>z0r58mp1Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -050001:01:43nofull9In this episode our guests Kathleen Engel, research professor of law specializing in financial services at Suffolk University in Boston, and Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, former foreign exchange analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will transport viewers into the machine of corporate thievery that games malleable brokers to deceive the uninformed and most vulnerable.Real ProgressivesS2:E8 The Pecora Files: Insurance is the PointS2:E8 The Pecora Files: Insurance is the PointThis series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. 

In this episode, co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan talk with Terrie Crowley, who fought her illegal foreclosure in the courts of Chicago for 12 years through 11 judges on her own against the legal fire power of one of the largest financial firms in the world. She understood the financial system having been both a broker and realtor in her career, but she had to binge on the law for years like so many other Pro Se litigants to fight the forces of darkness that were trying to steal the most important thing in her life. Her home. Enter Nicholas Kostopoulos, a former DOJ Prosecutor out of Miami who soon learned mortgage fraud wasn’t much different than the cocaine drug cases he was prosecuting in the 1980s.

Banks make money. They don’t make mistakes. Wells Fargo strikes again.

Truth in lending? Never has a more perverted concept become our system.

Why do bank servicers enter incorrect, fraudulent data on homeowners’ documents to foreclose? It’s the insurance stupid. What else would it be?

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!

#WiseUp #RiseUp #PurgeCorruption 
]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today. 

In this episode, co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan talk with Terrie Crowley, who fought her illegal foreclosure in the courts of Chicago for 12 years through 11 judges on her own against the legal fire power of one of the largest financial firms in the world. She understood the financial system having been both a broker and realtor in her career, but she had to binge on the law for years like so many other Pro Se litigants to fight the forces of darkness that were trying to steal the most important thing in her life. Her home. Enter Nicholas Kostopoulos, a former DOJ Prosecutor out of Miami who soon learned mortgage fraud wasn’t much different than the cocaine drug cases he was prosecuting in the 1980s.

Banks make money. They don’t make mistakes. Wells Fargo strikes again.

Truth in lending? Never has a more perverted concept become our system.

Why do bank servicers enter incorrect, fraudulent data on homeowners’ documents to foreclose? It’s the insurance stupid. What else would it be?

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!

#WiseUp #RiseUp #PurgeCorruption 
]]>z0r5n851Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -050001:33:45nofull8In this episode, co-hosts Patrick Lovell, Steve Grumbine and Eric Vaughan talk with Terrie Crowley, who fought her illegal foreclosure in the courts of Chicago for 12 years through 11 judges on her own against the legal fire power of one of the largest financial firms in the world. Enter Nicholas Kostopoulos, a former DOJ Prosecutor out of Miami who soon learned mortgage fraud wasn’t much different than the cocaine drug cases he was prosecuting in the 1980s.Real ProgressivesS2:E7 The Pecora Files: You Really Thought You Knew It AllS2:E7 The Pecora Files: You Really Thought You Knew It AllThis series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  

Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan are joined in this episode by attorneys Thomas Cox and Max Gardner who are legal professionals and experts in real estate and foreclosure law making them invaluable “whistle-blowers” in the legal profession and judiciary as they expose the criminal rot within the system. 

Foreclosure Mill Law Firms? Non-banks? Servicers? Non-bank mortgage brokers? Originators?  If it sounds like a foreign language in a maze of confusion, it’s because it’s designed that way.  It’s made to skim money in fees from you.  

The Con and The New Untouchables detail the process where person after person “doing their job” is carrying out a scheme to make as much money as quickly as possible through a business model of criminal deception that millions of vulnerable homeowners learned the hard way - what you don’t know can and will destroy you. The Con never ended. It got worse because it’s insanely profitable for the criminals who enrich themselves at your destruction. 

Where do the rights of homeowners as consumers converge or differ from civil rights afforded to citizens?   Are there black and white legal protocols to prevent massive criminal organizations from stealing trillions in real property and trillions in bailouts?  Do you know the difference between what you think happens versus your instincts about what actually happens? 

Why walk around aimlessly in a fog of confusion when we’re giving you the facts on a platinum platter? 

This episode presents details to be shared with everyone. Unless and until a civil rights-type movement is built to purge corruption, the money fix is in and you’re nothing but a number on someone else's spreadsheet. 

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and continuing today.  

Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan are joined in this episode by attorneys Thomas Cox and Max Gardner who are legal professionals and experts in real estate and foreclosure law making them invaluable “whistle-blowers” in the legal profession and judiciary as they expose the criminal rot within the system. 

Foreclosure Mill Law Firms? Non-banks? Servicers? Non-bank mortgage brokers? Originators?  If it sounds like a foreign language in a maze of confusion, it’s because it’s designed that way.  It’s made to skim money in fees from you.  

The Con and The New Untouchables detail the process where person after person “doing their job” is carrying out a scheme to make as much money as quickly as possible through a business model of criminal deception that millions of vulnerable homeowners learned the hard way - what you don’t know can and will destroy you. The Con never ended. It got worse because it’s insanely profitable for the criminals who enrich themselves at your destruction. 

Where do the rights of homeowners as consumers converge or differ from civil rights afforded to citizens?   Are there black and white legal protocols to prevent massive criminal organizations from stealing trillions in real property and trillions in bailouts?  Do you know the difference between what you think happens versus your instincts about what actually happens? 

Why walk around aimlessly in a fog of confusion when we’re giving you the facts on a platinum platter? 

This episode presents details to be shared with everyone. Unless and until a civil rights-type movement is built to purge corruption, the money fix is in and you’re nothing but a number on someone else's spreadsheet. 

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT]]>61m89kp0Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -050001:05:53nofull7Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan are joined in this episode by attorneys Thomas Cox and Max Gardner who are legal professionals and experts in real estate and foreclosure law making them invaluable “whistle-blowers” in the legal profession and judiciary as they expose the criminal rot within the system.Real ProgressivesS2:E6 The Pecora Files: Smoking GunS2:E6 The Pecora Files: Smoking GunMusical content License Number: CQXEULN7SXMY4GHT 

This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and still with us today.  

Ask a thousand random people what climate change is and does and imagine the array of responses you’d get.  It would be great if the baker, the butcher, and the brewer could unpack an accurate depiction of cause and effect that leads to a solution, but as far as society is structured, we expect the experts to understand the subject and that affords the leaders of society to formulate plans in accordance to the problem.  That’s how our democracy is engineered.  But unfortunately, that’s not how it works. 

As The New Untouchables continues to unpack the 2008 Great Financial Crises we continue to learn the event isn’t a stand-alone time period in American history everyone understands or that we solved. To the contrary, very few even understand the most basic facts let alone the tremendous consequences of our collective dystopia. 

In our next episode, you meet Lainey Hashorva, a woman who defines grit and determination to rise above the pollution of Wells Fargo criminality, but it didn’t come without exacting a pound of flesh.  We will also introduce you to Beth Jacobson, who has an extraordinary story and is an expert witness in the foreclosure madness. What she reveals to us is quite literally the smoking gun of the murder weapon that killed the American Dream. 

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/ 

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!]]>Musical content License Number: CQXEULN7SXMY4GHT 

This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008 and still with us today.  

Ask a thousand random people what climate change is and does and imagine the array of responses you’d get.  It would be great if the baker, the butcher, and the brewer could unpack an accurate depiction of cause and effect that leads to a solution, but as far as society is structured, we expect the experts to understand the subject and that affords the leaders of society to formulate plans in accordance to the problem.  That’s how our democracy is engineered.  But unfortunately, that’s not how it works. 

As The New Untouchables continues to unpack the 2008 Great Financial Crises we continue to learn the event isn’t a stand-alone time period in American history everyone understands or that we solved. To the contrary, very few even understand the most basic facts let alone the tremendous consequences of our collective dystopia. 

In our next episode, you meet Lainey Hashorva, a woman who defines grit and determination to rise above the pollution of Wells Fargo criminality, but it didn’t come without exacting a pound of flesh.  We will also introduce you to Beth Jacobson, who has an extraordinary story and is an expert witness in the foreclosure madness. What she reveals to us is quite literally the smoking gun of the murder weapon that killed the American Dream. 

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/ 

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!]]>40pw2nw1Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -050001:20:08nofull6In our next episode, you meet Lainey Hashorva, a woman who defines grit and determination to rise above the pollution of Wells Fargo criminality, but it didn’t come without exacting a pound of flesh. We will also introduce you to Beth Jacobson, who has an extraordinary story and is an expert witness in the foreclosure madness. What she reveals to us is quite literally the smoking gun of the murder weapon that killed the American Dream.Real ProgressivesS2:E5 The Pecora Files: When the Foundation Rots, Systems CollapseS2:E5 The Pecora Files: When the Foundation Rots, Systems CollapseThe New Untouchables is an extraordinary journey that reveals regular people from around the country who actually had the character to do their jobs correctly. People doing their jobs correctly isn’t particularly the extraordinary part, rather, the grotesque revelations about how many people were willing to lie, steal and cheat their way to fictional profits perversely incentivized by a criminal racket who never paid the price of accountability because CEO’s were able to float above the law puppeteering the whole thing and the law let them get away with it because everyone got in line and danced to the notes they were playing.  How?  Why?
   
That’s what this series reveals in every nook and cranny of the enterprise to once and for all reveal what has eluded millions and led to trillions in theft by the bad guys, who never faced the consequences for their actions that destroyed millions and are in more control than ever before.  Meanwhile tens of millions suffered and continue to suffer and to this day, and still don’t understand what turned their world upside down. 

Join us as Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan take the audience into the real world experiences of the one and only John O’Brien and Jeff Thigpen, two incredible public servants, men of courage and integrity who are quite probably the only two keepers of land records in America committed to the reliability of these records. These men discovered monumental fraud in the housing bubble and notified everyone from Elizabeth Warren to Eric Holder to the New York Times and Matt Taibbi, but no one came to look. 

But Eric and Patrick did, and they discovered O’Brien had uncovered hundreds of thousands of pieces of documentation fraud emanating from MERS and Robo Signing that led to millions of wrongful foreclosures that were bulldozed by corrupt courts across the country. 
 
You think you understand how the system is rigged?  You think you understand corruption?  You’ve seen nothing yet.

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit the Real Progressives website at https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/ 

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT! 
]]>The New Untouchables is an extraordinary journey that reveals regular people from around the country who actually had the character to do their jobs correctly. People doing their jobs correctly isn’t particularly the extraordinary part, rather, the grotesque revelations about how many people were willing to lie, steal and cheat their way to fictional profits perversely incentivized by a criminal racket who never paid the price of accountability because CEO’s were able to float above the law puppeteering the whole thing and the law let them get away with it because everyone got in line and danced to the notes they were playing.  How?  Why?
   
That’s what this series reveals in every nook and cranny of the enterprise to once and for all reveal what has eluded millions and led to trillions in theft by the bad guys, who never faced the consequences for their actions that destroyed millions and are in more control than ever before.  Meanwhile tens of millions suffered and continue to suffer and to this day, and still don’t understand what turned their world upside down. 

Join us as Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan take the audience into the real world experiences of the one and only John O’Brien and Jeff Thigpen, two incredible public servants, men of courage and integrity who are quite probably the only two keepers of land records in America committed to the reliability of these records. These men discovered monumental fraud in the housing bubble and notified everyone from Elizabeth Warren to Eric Holder to the New York Times and Matt Taibbi, but no one came to look. 

But Eric and Patrick did, and they discovered O’Brien had uncovered hundreds of thousands of pieces of documentation fraud emanating from MERS and Robo Signing that led to millions of wrongful foreclosures that were bulldozed by corrupt courts across the country. 
 
You think you understand how the system is rigged?  You think you understand corruption?  You’ve seen nothing yet.

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit the Real Progressives website at https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/ 

We bring this truth to weaponize all and build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT! 
]]>j12kvx50Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -050057:47nofull5O’Brien and Thigpen had the courage to do what was right in a world of a whole lot of wrong. This episode is monumentally bigger than Deep Throat and Watergate. Monumentally bigger than Oliver North and Contragate. It’s even monumentally larger than Trump and the Insurrection that will never be held accountable because we have become that corrupt.Real ProgressivesS2:E4 The Pecora Files: The Walls Cave InS2:E4 The Pecora Files: The Walls Cave InThis series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008.  

Who caused the 2008 great financial crisis? What was the continuing aftermath for real people targeted by the predators? 

Ilene Goldstein and her disabled husband were victims of calculated lies and fraud. After two years of losing equity in their home, paying on a loan fraught with everything the Goldstein’s did not sign up for but were duped into, Ilene reached a breaking point and attempted suicide.  

Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan speak with Ilene Goldstein, a real estate agent, whose husband had been a Wall Street stockbroker before his disability, thought they were somewhat sophisticated in financial matters, but discovered the deceit and fraud was overwhelming. This is not a victimless crime in any way, shape, or form. Government officials are the wolves right now preying on unwitting victims. Today, more than 13 years after this horror began, Ilene has no idea to whom payments should be made, what amount is owed, and what is a payoff amount. The lies continue, yet Ilene’s words to everyone are “keep fighting” no matter what roadblocks are put before you. Look at people as human beings 

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize everyone and to build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!]]>This series is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Eric Vaughan and Patrick Lovell’s “The Con” which took a simple but revolutionary approach to explain the epidemics of elite fraud driving the great financial crisis of 2007-2008.  

Who caused the 2008 great financial crisis? What was the continuing aftermath for real people targeted by the predators? 

Ilene Goldstein and her disabled husband were victims of calculated lies and fraud. After two years of losing equity in their home, paying on a loan fraught with everything the Goldstein’s did not sign up for but were duped into, Ilene reached a breaking point and attempted suicide.  

Steve Grumbine, Patrick Lovell, and Eric Vaughan speak with Ilene Goldstein, a real estate agent, whose husband had been a Wall Street stockbroker before his disability, thought they were somewhat sophisticated in financial matters, but discovered the deceit and fraud was overwhelming. This is not a victimless crime in any way, shape, or form. Government officials are the wolves right now preying on unwitting victims. Today, more than 13 years after this horror began, Ilene has no idea to whom payments should be made, what amount is owed, and what is a payoff amount. The lies continue, yet Ilene’s words to everyone are “keep fighting” no matter what roadblocks are put before you. Look at people as human beings 

For more information and extras about The New Untouchables, visit our website https://realprogressives.org/new-untouchables/  

We bring this truth to weaponize everyone and to build a movement to purge the corruption before us, the message those in power don’t want anyone to see. Watch, share, ACT!]]>80xm29w1Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -050045:49nofull4Ilene Goldstein and her disabled husband were victims of calculated lies and fraud. After two years of losing equity in their home, paying on a loan fraught with everything the Goldstein’s did not sign up for but were duped into, Ilene reached a breaking point and attempted suicide.Real ProgressivesS2:E3 The Pecora Files: The Devil is in the DetailsS2:E3 The Pecora Files: The Devil is in the Details 
What’s everyone’s ‘take’ in this scheme of financial terrorism?
 
Doug Boggs and Paris Dube join Steve Grumbine and Patrick Lovell to discuss their personal victimization engineered by liars and thieves. “It’s the same, old story,” Boggs says. Banks tell people who are current in their mortgage payments, “We can’t do anything until you stop making your payments for three months!” This is part of the scheme. The big lie. Then more lies. People trust banks and the court system, but when both are perpetrating financial terrorism, no one is safe.
 
Laws are set to steal people’s homes and Dube has created a “FACT Report” revealing ALL THE PLAYERS, complete with their criminal schemes. It is THEFT, people! Ever hear of a “Foreclosure Mill?” Watch, listen and learn.
 
We’ve assembled the answers and all you must do is #WiseUp, so together we can #PurgeCorruption.  We don’t have time to wait. It’s do or die.
 
Read Doug Boggs’ journey in his book “Quantum of Justice” https://bit.ly/3i8wTc4
]]> 
What’s everyone’s ‘take’ in this scheme of financial terrorism?
 
Doug Boggs and Paris Dube join Steve Grumbine and Patrick Lovell to discuss their personal victimization engineered by liars and thieves. “It’s the same, old story,” Boggs says. Banks tell people who are current in their mortgage payments, “We can’t do anything until you stop making your payments for three months!” This is part of the scheme. The big lie. Then more lies. People trust banks and the court system, but when both are perpetrating financial terrorism, no one is safe.
 
Laws are set to steal people’s homes and Dube has created a “FACT Report” revealing ALL THE PLAYERS, complete with their criminal schemes. It is THEFT, people! Ever hear of a “Foreclosure Mill?” Watch, listen and learn.
 
We’ve assembled the answers and all you must do is #WiseUp, so together we can #PurgeCorruption.  We don’t have time to wait. It’s do or die.
 
Read Doug Boggs’ journey in his book “Quantum of Justice” https://bit.ly/3i8wTc4
]]>x0lr6yv0Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -050001:08:43nofull3Doug Boggs and Paris Dube join Steve Grumbine and Patrick Lovell to discuss their personal victimization engineered by liars and thieves. “It’s the same, old story,” Boggs says. Banks tell people who are current in their mortgage payments, “We can’t do anything until you stop making your payments for three months!” This is part of the scheme. The big lie. Then more lies. People trust banks and the court system, but when both are perpetrating financial terrorism, no one is safe.Real ProgressivesS2:E2 The Pecora Files: No One Is SafeS2:E2 The Pecora Files: No One Is SafeVictims. Millions of them.

No matter who you were and are, financial terrorism looms large. In the aftermath of the 2008 Global Economic Collapse, tens of millions of people around the world were thrown into upheaval. 

The immediate narrative shouted by mainstream media was people got greedy, or in over their heads, using their homes as ATM machines as if millions outwitted the system of global finance to destroy the world.  If that were the case, why did trillions of dollars get funneled back into the system that created it, all while tens of millions of people had their lives completely destroyed?

Join Steve Grumbine and Patrick Lovell as they take you on a journey suffered by four victims: Margaret Carswell, Marina Read, Lynn Behrens, and Leslie James. This episode shows how the aftermath was insanely confusing, and for a reason.  To this day very few understand what happened and we’re driving to change that.

Absorb Marina Read’s words from this episode: “What people aren't realizing is they won't stop until we stop them. Period. It's a machine that has no heart, no soul. And cannot be satiated. Bottom line. And it doesn't care what kind of collateral damage it causes. And that those who have had the power to stop it, to put integrity back in are part of the machinery.”

The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files, an extension of The Con, is here for everyone to learn how corruption has a stranglehold on our country. Will we #WiseUp and restore integrity? Will we join together in a mass civil rights-type movement to #PurgeCorruption and work toward liberty and justice for all?

The facts are in front of all of us. This is our chance. Be the spark that ignites the flame.
#NoOneIsSafe
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]]>Victims. Millions of them.

No matter who you were and are, financial terrorism looms large. In the aftermath of the 2008 Global Economic Collapse, tens of millions of people around the world were thrown into upheaval. 

The immediate narrative shouted by mainstream media was people got greedy, or in over their heads, using their homes as ATM machines as if millions outwitted the system of global finance to destroy the world.  If that were the case, why did trillions of dollars get funneled back into the system that created it, all while tens of millions of people had their lives completely destroyed?

Join Steve Grumbine and Patrick Lovell as they take you on a journey suffered by four victims: Margaret Carswell, Marina Read, Lynn Behrens, and Leslie James. This episode shows how the aftermath was insanely confusing, and for a reason.  To this day very few understand what happened and we’re driving to change that.

Absorb Marina Read’s words from this episode: “What people aren't realizing is they won't stop until we stop them. Period. It's a machine that has no heart, no soul. And cannot be satiated. Bottom line. And it doesn't care what kind of collateral damage it causes. And that those who have had the power to stop it, to put integrity back in are part of the machinery.”

The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files, an extension of The Con, is here for everyone to learn how corruption has a stranglehold on our country. Will we #WiseUp and restore integrity? Will we join together in a mass civil rights-type movement to #PurgeCorruption and work toward liberty and justice for all?

The facts are in front of all of us. This is our chance. Be the spark that ignites the flame.
#NoOneIsSafe
SHOW LESS
 
]]>70yq7z70Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -050057:53nofull2No matter who you were and are, financial terrorism looms large. In the aftermath of the 2008 Global Economic Collapse, tens of millions of people around the world were thrown into upheaval.Real ProgressivesS2:E1 The Pecora Files: The American NightmareS2:E1 The Pecora Files: The American Nightmare A nightmare of unprecedented magnitude destroyed millions of Americans and tens of millions of people around the world caught in the web of deceit and no way out. No matter one’s race, gender, or even economic status, let alone personal achievement, if they got trapped in the machine of corruption, no one was immune to the inhuman betrayal of a judicial system that rewarded the criminals. 

The words “financial terrorism” is the only way to frame the horrific and tragic stories of people like Olympic Gold Medalist Cindy Brown, who discovered the truth and refused to yield to the lie. What it got her was a privatized swat team that forcefully removed her from her home at gunpoint using fabricated documentation to steal her home, forcing her into the streets and presumably oblivion while they liquidate her gold medals representing the United States to pay for fees to a corrupt machine that never stops. This is our collective miserable reality. 
Co-hosts Steve Grumbine and Patrick Lovell will take you through Cindy Brown’s story as well as personal experiences with the legal and judicial system from attorneys Dr. Raye Mitchell, Esq., Kellee Baker, Esq., James Imperiale, Esq., Joan Jackson, Esq., and H. Elizabeth Johnson, NAACP Housing Chair as they reveal similar horror stories throughout the nation. 

The American Dream is now a nightmare and will remain so until we come to terms with how this system operates so we can once and for all demand an end to the corruption. 
]]> A nightmare of unprecedented magnitude destroyed millions of Americans and tens of millions of people around the world caught in the web of deceit and no way out. No matter one’s race, gender, or even economic status, let alone personal achievement, if they got trapped in the machine of corruption, no one was immune to the inhuman betrayal of a judicial system that rewarded the criminals. 

The words “financial terrorism” is the only way to frame the horrific and tragic stories of people like Olympic Gold Medalist Cindy Brown, who discovered the truth and refused to yield to the lie. What it got her was a privatized swat team that forcefully removed her from her home at gunpoint using fabricated documentation to steal her home, forcing her into the streets and presumably oblivion while they liquidate her gold medals representing the United States to pay for fees to a corrupt machine that never stops. This is our collective miserable reality. 
Co-hosts Steve Grumbine and Patrick Lovell will take you through Cindy Brown’s story as well as personal experiences with the legal and judicial system from attorneys Dr. Raye Mitchell, Esq., Kellee Baker, Esq., James Imperiale, Esq., Joan Jackson, Esq., and H. Elizabeth Johnson, NAACP Housing Chair as they reveal similar horror stories throughout the nation. 

The American Dream is now a nightmare and will remain so until we come to terms with how this system operates so we can once and for all demand an end to the corruption. 
]]>70wvkyq1Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -050059:01nofull1The American Dream is now a nightmare and will remain so until we come to terms with how this system operates so we can once and for all demand an end to the corruption.Real ProgressivesS1:E5 The Pecora Files: Those Who Would Have Drained the SwampS1:E5 The Pecora Files: Those Who Would Have Drained the SwampIn this final episode of The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files, Steve, Eric, and Patrick introduce Chris Swecker, former Chief Deputy in the FBI Criminal Division during the George W. Bush administration and Paul Pelletier, former prosecutor in the Department of Justice under Obama. 

What we’ve learned so far through this series is that diabolical criminal geniuses will go to great lengths to erect mammoth felonious enterprises because they can. Why wouldn’t they? If they blow up the global economy, the Fed is there to save the day and they don’t get punished. How is that possible? Aren’t we supposed to be a nation of laws? Don’t we have the highest percentage of the prison population in the world? But if you blow up the lives of hundreds of millions to the tune of trillions and you have a guaranteed backstop by the Fed with no accountability, why wouldn’t you, right?  

You’ve got to be saying to yourself there is no way something like that could happen. But then think about it. You all know the system is rigged and corrupt, but you don’t know exactly how. Well, here’s your chance. Next up is our final episode of The New Untouchables featuring Chris Swecker of the FBI and Paul Pelletier from the DOJ, and of course, we have the one guy who not only proved he had the right stuff all along, but who could, with your help, be putting the bad guys on trial now. All roads lead to William K. Black. Hold onto your butts. What you’re about to hear will change everything!]]>In this final episode of The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files, Steve, Eric, and Patrick introduce Chris Swecker, former Chief Deputy in the FBI Criminal Division during the George W. Bush administration and Paul Pelletier, former prosecutor in the Department of Justice under Obama. 

What we’ve learned so far through this series is that diabolical criminal geniuses will go to great lengths to erect mammoth felonious enterprises because they can. Why wouldn’t they? If they blow up the global economy, the Fed is there to save the day and they don’t get punished. How is that possible? Aren’t we supposed to be a nation of laws? Don’t we have the highest percentage of the prison population in the world? But if you blow up the lives of hundreds of millions to the tune of trillions and you have a guaranteed backstop by the Fed with no accountability, why wouldn’t you, right?  

You’ve got to be saying to yourself there is no way something like that could happen. But then think about it. You all know the system is rigged and corrupt, but you don’t know exactly how. Well, here’s your chance. Next up is our final episode of The New Untouchables featuring Chris Swecker of the FBI and Paul Pelletier from the DOJ, and of course, we have the one guy who not only proved he had the right stuff all along, but who could, with your help, be putting the bad guys on trial now. All roads lead to William K. Black. Hold onto your butts. What you’re about to hear will change everything!]]>71wwzjz1Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -050001:10:02nofull5Steve, Eric, and Patrick introduce Chris Swecker, former Chief Deputy in the FBI Criminal Division during the George W. Bush administration and Paul Pelletier, former prosecutor in the Department of Justice under Obama. Swecker reflects on how he built a national dragnet to reign in mortgage fraud and prosecute its biggest perpetrators, only to be scuttled by the high-profile political relationship between the targets and his elected bosses. Pelletier, similarly, weighs in on how a massive, national case was built against the biggest predatory lenders, only to be pushed aside by twin villains, the revolving door between the public and private sectors and the pernicious pro-bank ideology held by his appointed superiors.Real ProgressivesS1:E4 The Pecora Files: Inside the Belly of the BeastS1:E4 The Pecora Files: Inside the Belly of the BeastAre you ready to ask the $50 trillion dollar question? You know what a trillion is?  It’s a thousand billion.  How many times have we been asked, “How are you going to pay for that?  Meanwhile do you know how much the Fed has pumped into the financial system since 2009?  That’s right: $50 trillion.   
Richard Bowen, former Citigroup VP and whistleblower, and William K. Black, attorney and economics professor, present a step by step trial-style discourse regarding what happens when one speaks the truth but money wins the day.  

For those of you who know how much M4A and Green New Deal might cost, let’s reconfigure the umbrella under a new yet old concept, and call it the Clean New Deal.  Why?  Because everything is as filthy as a heroine crash pad in Breaking Bad.  Seriously.  How do we know that?  It was shared and communicated by Richard Bowen, a whistleblower who refused to “play ball” and was in the midst of one of the greatest frauds played out in a myriad of them regarding the 2008 Great Financial Crises as a senior executive at CITIgroup, that at the time was chaired by Robert Rubin.   

Who was Robert Rubin?  Rubin was once CEO of Goldman Sachs turned Treasury Secretary under Clinton who then spun out of government and back to Wall Street as Citi Group’s Chairman.  Richard Bowen tried repeatedly inform everyone at CITI of the $80 billion fraud nuking the globe, destroying pensions of cops and teachers and other working-class folks.   

You will learn the board wasn’t too interested in coming to grips with fraud, but were just fine taking in over $500 billion in direct bailouts from the Fed, bailouts that backstopped one of the largest criminal enterprises in history.  You’ll want to stay glued to the broadcast as you hear William K. Black ask the questions of Richard Bowen, a witness always ignored. You may want to ask yourself why you never heard it like this and what stopped Congress from taking action.  

Episode 5 - Those Who Would Have Drained the Swamp, airs Sunday, March 14 at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST on Real Progressives’ platforms.]]>Are you ready to ask the $50 trillion dollar question? You know what a trillion is?  It’s a thousand billion.  How many times have we been asked, “How are you going to pay for that?  Meanwhile do you know how much the Fed has pumped into the financial system since 2009?  That’s right: $50 trillion.   
Richard Bowen, former Citigroup VP and whistleblower, and William K. Black, attorney and economics professor, present a step by step trial-style discourse regarding what happens when one speaks the truth but money wins the day.  

For those of you who know how much M4A and Green New Deal might cost, let’s reconfigure the umbrella under a new yet old concept, and call it the Clean New Deal.  Why?  Because everything is as filthy as a heroine crash pad in Breaking Bad.  Seriously.  How do we know that?  It was shared and communicated by Richard Bowen, a whistleblower who refused to “play ball” and was in the midst of one of the greatest frauds played out in a myriad of them regarding the 2008 Great Financial Crises as a senior executive at CITIgroup, that at the time was chaired by Robert Rubin.   

Who was Robert Rubin?  Rubin was once CEO of Goldman Sachs turned Treasury Secretary under Clinton who then spun out of government and back to Wall Street as Citi Group’s Chairman.  Richard Bowen tried repeatedly inform everyone at CITI of the $80 billion fraud nuking the globe, destroying pensions of cops and teachers and other working-class folks.   

You will learn the board wasn’t too interested in coming to grips with fraud, but were just fine taking in over $500 billion in direct bailouts from the Fed, bailouts that backstopped one of the largest criminal enterprises in history.  You’ll want to stay glued to the broadcast as you hear William K. Black ask the questions of Richard Bowen, a witness always ignored. You may want to ask yourself why you never heard it like this and what stopped Congress from taking action.  

Episode 5 - Those Who Would Have Drained the Swamp, airs Sunday, March 14 at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST on Real Progressives’ platforms.]]>p0kv69y1Mon, 08 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -050001:01:46nofull4Steve, Eric and Patrick are joined by William K. Black who reveals the curious case of Richard Bowen, former Citigroup VP and whistleblower, who blew the cover off the motherlode of fraudulent mortgages being sold through Citi. Bowen and Black engage in a trial examination-style conversation about why and to whom he reported Citi’s malfeasance, how the regulators teased him with their interest and despite the weight of his revelations, did nothing about it. Bowen also reveals why Robert Rubin deserves a special place in the history of financial crime.Real ProgressivesS1:E3 The Pecora Files: If You Can Fog A MirrorS1:E3 The Pecora Files: If You Can Fog A MirrorThis episode features Lori Noble, a professional real estate appraiser from West Virginia, as she discusses with Steve, Eric, and Patrick her experiences when honest appraisers were forced out of the mortgage process. Why did this happen? Because lies, greed and money were taking over. First there was the Federal Government’s 1999 repeal of Glass-Stegall and passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley. This was “sold” to appraisers as a way to enhance privacy of information to be shared across state lines. 

It brought carnage. Lenders like Countrywide inflicted devastation on communities, and Noble saw real death in the communities she served. It didn’t pay to be an honest appraiser because that meant you’d get no work. Yet, having an honest appraisal remains a crucial part of any mortgage application process.  

In the second part of this episode, Michael Winston, former Countrywide executive and whistleblower, discusses his education and grounding in ethical business practices, how his career took a giant U-turn at Countrywide, and the lonely, yet important nobility of being a whistleblower.  

Michael Winston is the definition of corporate governance. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology and rose through the corporate ranks in the 80’s and 90’s working for some of the most well-known and respected companies in the Fortune 500. Eventually his career path led him to fostering workforces that maximized efficiencies based on the Six Sigma protocol that in -turn led him to becoming these companies’ point person in the business press for reflecting the value of the company.  

Ironic that Winston was recruited to Countrywide Financial, which was at the time, the largest mortgage lender in the United States. He was considered a C-Suite guy with access to the Countrywide Board and infamous CEO Angelo Mozilo. It wasn’t long before Winston was penetrating the company's operations to do his job, but the more he started asking questions, the more terrifying the picture became.  

At one point, Winston happened upon a Countrywide sales exec who pulled up in a Mercedes with a license plate that said “Fund ‘Em.”When he asked what that meant, the answer was startling. “If they can fog a mirror, we’ll give them a loan.” That didn’t make sense to Winston who set off on an odyssey to understand, leading him to discoveries that would change his life.  

Both Michael Winston and Lori Noble would have their lives turned upside down because they knew people came before profit.
 
https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/MortgageLoanFraudSARAssessment.pdf
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/michael-winsto
]]>This episode features Lori Noble, a professional real estate appraiser from West Virginia, as she discusses with Steve, Eric, and Patrick her experiences when honest appraisers were forced out of the mortgage process. Why did this happen? Because lies, greed and money were taking over. First there was the Federal Government’s 1999 repeal of Glass-Stegall and passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley. This was “sold” to appraisers as a way to enhance privacy of information to be shared across state lines. 

It brought carnage. Lenders like Countrywide inflicted devastation on communities, and Noble saw real death in the communities she served. It didn’t pay to be an honest appraiser because that meant you’d get no work. Yet, having an honest appraisal remains a crucial part of any mortgage application process.  

In the second part of this episode, Michael Winston, former Countrywide executive and whistleblower, discusses his education and grounding in ethical business practices, how his career took a giant U-turn at Countrywide, and the lonely, yet important nobility of being a whistleblower.  

Michael Winston is the definition of corporate governance. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology and rose through the corporate ranks in the 80’s and 90’s working for some of the most well-known and respected companies in the Fortune 500. Eventually his career path led him to fostering workforces that maximized efficiencies based on the Six Sigma protocol that in -turn led him to becoming these companies’ point person in the business press for reflecting the value of the company.  

Ironic that Winston was recruited to Countrywide Financial, which was at the time, the largest mortgage lender in the United States. He was considered a C-Suite guy with access to the Countrywide Board and infamous CEO Angelo Mozilo. It wasn’t long before Winston was penetrating the company's operations to do his job, but the more he started asking questions, the more terrifying the picture became.  

At one point, Winston happened upon a Countrywide sales exec who pulled up in a Mercedes with a license plate that said “Fund ‘Em.”When he asked what that meant, the answer was startling. “If they can fog a mirror, we’ll give them a loan.” That didn’t make sense to Winston who set off on an odyssey to understand, leading him to discoveries that would change his life.  

Both Michael Winston and Lori Noble would have their lives turned upside down because they knew people came before profit.
 
https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/MortgageLoanFraudSARAssessment.pdf
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/michael-winsto
]]>71wwm9x1Mon, 01 Mar 2021 01:00:00 -050001:03:42nofull3Steve, Eric, and Patrick hear West Virginia real estate appraiser Lori Noble's tales from the front lines as she talks about the Federal Government's 1999 repeal of Glass-Stegall via passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley that was “sold” to appraisers to enhance privacy for information to cross state lines. What happened was carnage. Lenders like Countrywide inflicted devastation on communities, and Lori saw real death in the communities she served. It didn’t pay to be an honest appraiser because that meant you’d get no work. Yet, having an honest appraisal remains a crucial part of any mortgage application process.  In the second part of this episode, Michael Winston, former Countrywide executive and whistleblower, discusses his education and grounding in ethical business practices, how his career took a giant U-turn at Countrywide, and the lonely, yet important nobility of being a whistleblower. Real ProgressivesS1:E2 The Pecora Files: It's TheftS1:E2 The Pecora Files: It's TheftThis episode brings Marc Dann, former Attorney General of Ohio, and Tom Murphy, the leader of the successful Cleveland and Summit County Ohio’s Law Enforcement task force, to tell their stories.   

Dann was elected to the AG’s office committed to taking down mortgage fraud and put the resources of his office at the disposal of Murphy, a no-nonsense cop dedicated to rooting out crime.  

Murphy’s team, with the absolute backing of Dann set to work understanding the criminal scheme they identified as a RICO violation (The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) and went to work doing their job. They were the only ones in the country to execute a RICO act in this mammoth crime. Why? They were dedicated, courageous public servants working for the people. Dann and Murphy knew crime when they saw it.  They pieced together how the scheme was played out and went after the bad guys. 

What you’ll come to learn is when you’ve got the right guys with the right stuff, suddenly it all makes sense. If you don’t leave this episode wondering how what they achieved in Ohio wasn’t done nationally, then watch it again, and again, until you do.
 
Tune in Sunday, Feb. 28 @ 8 pm EST for Episode 3, If You Can Fog A Mirror
]]>This episode brings Marc Dann, former Attorney General of Ohio, and Tom Murphy, the leader of the successful Cleveland and Summit County Ohio’s Law Enforcement task force, to tell their stories.   

Dann was elected to the AG’s office committed to taking down mortgage fraud and put the resources of his office at the disposal of Murphy, a no-nonsense cop dedicated to rooting out crime.  

Murphy’s team, with the absolute backing of Dann set to work understanding the criminal scheme they identified as a RICO violation (The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) and went to work doing their job. They were the only ones in the country to execute a RICO act in this mammoth crime. Why? They were dedicated, courageous public servants working for the people. Dann and Murphy knew crime when they saw it.  They pieced together how the scheme was played out and went after the bad guys. 

What you’ll come to learn is when you’ve got the right guys with the right stuff, suddenly it all makes sense. If you don’t leave this episode wondering how what they achieved in Ohio wasn’t done nationally, then watch it again, and again, until you do.
 
Tune in Sunday, Feb. 28 @ 8 pm EST for Episode 3, If You Can Fog A Mirror
]]>71y4pzx0Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -050059:22nofull2Steve, Eric and Patrick connect with former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann and retired detective Tom Murphy. They reflect on the lessons of their historic fraud investigation and RICO prosecution of Ohio-based predatory lenders in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, why they were the only cops on the beat, and what the government blueprint should be moving forward. Real ProgressivesS1:E1 The Pecora Files: The Vaccine For Systemic CorruptionS1:E1 The Pecora Files: The Vaccine For Systemic CorruptionSteve, Patrick and Eric talk with two of the foremost experts on corruption within the financial system, William K. Black former Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) Regulator and Arthur Wilmarth, Professor Emeritus of Law, George Washington University. Listen as they describe how banking was made safe and “boring,” and how the walls that had worked effectively for years were systematically demolished leading to the white collar lawlessness of our current day. 

Black and Wilmarth are two modern day untouchables who worked inside the federal regulatory system during these financial crises, and share the behind the scenes details of what was really going on as our economy was crumbling. 

This episode lays the groundwork for the forensic financial fraud investigation detailed in this blistering and very human five-part series.  The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Vaughn and Lovell’s “The Con.”  

Episode two ‘It's Theft’ comes out Sunday, February 21st at 8pm ET / 5pm PT.
]]>Steve, Patrick and Eric talk with two of the foremost experts on corruption within the financial system, William K. Black former Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) Regulator and Arthur Wilmarth, Professor Emeritus of Law, George Washington University. Listen as they describe how banking was made safe and “boring,” and how the walls that had worked effectively for years were systematically demolished leading to the white collar lawlessness of our current day. 

Black and Wilmarth are two modern day untouchables who worked inside the federal regulatory system during these financial crises, and share the behind the scenes details of what was really going on as our economy was crumbling. 

This episode lays the groundwork for the forensic financial fraud investigation detailed in this blistering and very human five-part series.  The New Untouchables: The Pecora Files is an up-close-and-personal account of the heroes introduced by Vaughn and Lovell’s “The Con.”  

Episode two ‘It's Theft’ comes out Sunday, February 21st at 8pm ET / 5pm PT.
]]>j0283ry0Mon, 15 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -050001:03:42nofull1Steve, Eric and Patrick check in with former OTS regulator William K. Black and former FCIC consultant Art Wilmarth about the history of financial crime and bank regulation from Glass-Steagall to Dodd-Frank, what the billionaire class and the Federal Government have done to undermine those efforts and what work is left to be done.Real Progressives