– Obama’s Fed Nominee, Who Was Busted And Quit For “Impropriety”, Reports Up To $40 Million In Assets (ZeroHedge, Jan 26, 2015):
Three weeks ago, when reporting on Obama’s close personal friend and Bank of Hawaii “community banker” appointee to the Fed board, Allan Landon, we emphasized an apparently trivial data point that had somehow managed to slip through the background due diligence process. Namely, that about a decade ago, the same Landon stepped down as board member from the Seattle Federal Home Loan Bank after he was found to have “failed to comply with a rule requiring the disclosure of conflicts of interest by a director by failing to make disclosure to the Seattle Bank board of their institutions’ planned redemptions.” The full story can be read here, but in a nutshell a banker that the president himself has appointed to join the US money printing authority was on the cusp of being investigated for embezzlement, and was forced to quietly disappear into the night despite denying “any wrongdoing.” Today we learn just how much assets the banker who at least once was caught with “borderlineembezzlement ” made during his humble tenure as a “community banker.” The number: somewhere between $10 and $40 million.
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