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Mississippi sued over for-profit prisons that risk imates’ ‘death and loss of limbs’
Topic Started: May 30 2013, 08:13 PM (438 Views)
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Two civil rights groups have sued the state of Mississippi for alleged human rights abuses at one of the state’s for-profit prisons.

A class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes how a “perpetual state of crisis at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility puts inmates at a “grave risk of death and loss of limbs.”

The lawsuits asserts that prison officials have been aware of the conditions for years at the facility operated by the Management and Training Corporation, but have not corrected the problems.

“The issues found at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility represent a long history of inhumane prison conditions in which the state has allowed private prison operators to mistreat and abuse people,” SPLC managing attorney Jody Owens II said in a statement. “As we remember the tragic costs associated with private prison operators, we must demand more oversight of these facilities.”

Many cells in the facility do not have working lights and toilets, forcing prisoners to defecate in bags or on plastic trays, the lawsuit says. Inmates are often denied basic medical care. One prisoner allegedly went blind from a lack of glaucoma medication. Another developed gangrene and had his finger partially amputated after being stabbed.

Some prisoners spend years in solitary confinement and many others often lose 20 to 30 pounds from being underfed, according to the lawsuit.

Psychiatrist Terry A. Kupers studied the facility in 2011 and found that the mental health programs were poor and that the facility was inadequately staffed.

“All inmates report significant weight loss since arriving at EMCF, from ten to 60 pounds, and from my direct observation it is clear that all the men are much thinner, almost emaciated, in comparison to old snapshots I viewed in their charts or on their identity cards showing them much heavier,” Kupers wrote in his report.

Watch the video below from the ACLU, uploaded May 30, 2013.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/mississippi-sued-over-for-profit-prisons-that-risk-imates-death-and-loss-of-limbs/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter









KKR names former CIA head Petraeus as chairman of new institute


Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR.N) said it appointed former CIA Director David Petraeus as chairman of the newly created KKR Global Institute, which will study the investment implications of global macroeconomic, social and geopolitical issues.

Petraeus will also support KKR’s investment teams in the diligence process, particularly in considering investments in new geographies, KKR said on Thursday.

Petraeus was credited with helping pull Iraq from the brink of an all-out civil war as commander there and President Barack Obama turned to him to lead U.S. forces in Afghanistan before moving to him to the CIA in 2011.

Petraeus resigned as head of the CIA in November, saying he had engaged in an extramarital affair.

The sex scandal involving Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell, an Army reserve intelligence officer who is also married, provided fodder for comedians and triggered a media storm that followed his confession and resignation.

It was a stunning downfall for a revered military man who was seen as one of the top American leaders of his generation and was once considered a potential contender for the White House.

KKR, which has more than $78 billion in assets under management, has been involved in some of the biggest private equity buyouts in history including the $45 billion takeover of Texas power producer TXU, now known as Energy Future Holdings, in 2007.

KKR’s other investments include hospital operator HCA Holdings Inc(HCA.N), retailer Toys R US Inc, and internet domain registration company Go Daddy Group Inc.

Private equity still accounts for most of KKR’s assets under management, but the firm has been diversifying into credit and hedge funds.

(Reporting by Ankur Banerjee in Bangalore; Editing by Roshni Menon)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/30/uk-kkr-petraeus-idUSLNE94T00D20130530








Westpac caught up in world’s biggest money laundering sting


US prosecutors have announced what they say is the biggest international money laundering prosecution in history – a $US6 billion ($A6.2 billion) trail that allegedly includes $US36.9 million ($A38.4 million) deposited in Westpac Bank accounts.

The trail was allegedly left by Costa Rica-based Liberty Reserve, a currency-transfer and payment-processing company that allowed customers to move money anonymously from one account to another via the internet with almost no questions asked, and has travelled through 17 countries, including the Westpac accounts in Australia.

One person was registered under the name of “Joe Bogus” and the address “123 Fake Main Street” in “Completely Made Up City, New York.”

Prosecutors described Liberty Reserve as a “financial hub of the cyber crime world … one of the principal means by which cyber criminals around the world distribute, store and launder proceeds of their illegal activity … including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography and narcotics trafficking.”

“The scope of the defendants’ unlawful conduct is staggering,” officials said. Over roughly seven years, Liberty Reserve processed 55 million illicit transactions worldwide for 1 million users.

Prosecutors said 45 bank accounts have been restrained or seized.

According to the indictment, three Westpac accounts held in the name of Technocash Ltd contained $US36.9 million ($A38.4 million).

“We have rigorous processes in place to combat money laundering and have been working closely with regulators and law enforcement agencies,” said a Westpac spokeswoman.

In Australia, the agency responsible for detecting money laundering is AUSTRAC, which passes on intelligence to the Australian Federal Police and Australian Crime Commission.

‘Bank of choice’

The Liberty Reserve network “became the bank of choice for the criminal underworld,” US Attorney Preet Bharara said in announcing the unsealing of an indictment against the defendants, including founder Arthur Budovsky, an American who renounced his US citizenship after deciding to set up in Costa Rica.

Unlike traditional banks or legitimate online processors, Liberty Reserve did not require users to validate their identities, it is alleged.

It allowed users to open accounts using fictitious names, including “Russian Hacker” and “Hacker Account.” One person was registered under the name of “Joe Bogus” and the address “123 Fake Main Street” in “Completely Made Up City, New York.”

“The only liberty that Liberty Reserve gave many of its users was the freedom to commit crimes – the coin of its realm was anonymity, and it became a popular hub for fraudsters, hackers and traffickers,” said Bharara. ”It was the opposite of a know-your-customer policy.”

Cyber-age laundering

“We’re now entering the cyber age of money-laundering,” said Richard Weber, chief of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division, who also alluded to Chicago Crime boss Al Capone. “If Al Capone were alive today, this is how he would be hiding his money.”

The company operated one of the world’s most widely used digital currencies, allowing users to send and receive “instant, real-time currency,” according to the indictment in US federal court in Manhattan.

Digital currency, such as Bitcoin, was developed as a way to make anonymous transfers over the internet without paying fees to a bank. The US Justice Department warned as early as 2008 that criminals would increasingly rely on the digital currency industry to launder and move funds because it facilitates financial transactions outside the rules of the traditional banking system.

The alleged crimes involved only Liberty Reserve and its operators, and not any other digital currency, Bharara said.

“The actions brought today relate only to Liberty Reserve and no other system,” Bharara said. “We’re not taking any position on virtual currency generally and we’re not taking any position with respect to any particular other company that engages in something that may look on the surface that something that Liberty Reserve was doing.”

Arrests

Five of the seven defendants were arrested last week in a global swoop.

Budovsky, 39, was arrested in Spain, co-founder Vladimir Kats, 41, was arrested in Brooklyn, New York, while two other defendants, Ahmed Abdelghani, 42, and Allan Jimenez, 28, remain at large in Costa Rica, prosecutors said.

The names of the defendants’ attorneys were not immediately available.

“The global enforcement action we announce today is an important step towards reining in the Wild West of illicit internet banking,” said Bharara. ”As crime goes increasingly global, the long arm of the law has to get even longer, and in this case, it encircled the earth.”

A notice pasted across Liberty Reserve’s website on Tuesday morning said the domain “has been seized by the United States Global Illicit Financial Team.” As of Wednesday morning, the website is no longer accessible. Attempts to reach Liberty Reserve by phone and email were not immediately successful.

Liberty Reserve was incorporated in Costa Rica in 2006 and billed itself as the internet’s largest payment processor and money transfer system serving millions of people around the world.

Prosecutors alleged Liberty Reserve was used extensively for illegal purposes, providing an infrastructure that enabled cyber criminals around the globe to conduct untraceable financial transactions.

The network charged a 1 per cent fee on transactions through “exchangers” – middlemen who converted actual currency into virtual funds and then back into cash.

It is alleged when US authorities began to investigate the company, the defendants pretended to shut it down.

But it is alleged that they continued operating “and moved tens of millions of dollars through shell company accounts maintained in Cyprus, Russia, China, Hong Kong, Morocco, Spain, Australia and elsewhere”.

Budovsky and Kats have previous convictions on charges related to an unlicensed money-transmitting business, according to court papers. After that case, the pair decided to move their operation to Costa Rica, the papers said.

In an online chat captured by law enforcement, Kats admitted Liberty Reserve was illegal and noted that authorities in the US knew it was “a money-laundering operation that hackers use”.

Legitimate users

While authorities described Liberty Reserve as being rife with criminals, the site’s ease of use, low fees and irreversible transactions that deterred fraud also attracted legitimate users.

Mitchell Rossetti, whose Houston-based ePayCards.com was one of several mainstream merchants that accepted Liberty Reserve’s online-only currency, said his business still had about $US28,000 tied up in Liberty Reserve accounts.

“The irony of this is I went to them because of the security,” Rossetti said. “All sales were final.”

He acknowledged that the currency was being used by scammers but said Liberty Reserve funds were just like any other currency: “The US dollar can be donated to a church or it can pay a prostitute.”

Liberty Reserve appears to have played an important role in laundering proceeds from the recent theft of some $US45 million from two Middle Eastern banks, according to documents made public by authorities earlier this month. In that scheme, thieves stole debit card information and then used it to drain cash from thousands of ATMs around the world in a matter of hours.

As part of the Liberty Reserve investigation, authorities raided 14 places in Panama, Switzerland, the US, Sweden and Costa Rica. In Costa Rica, investigators recovered five luxury cars, including three Rolls-Royces. Bharara said authorities also seized Liberty’s computer servers in Costa Rica and Switzerland.

The seven defendants are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum term of 20 years jail.

They’re also charged with one count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and of operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business. Both of those charges carry a maximum jail term of five years.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/westpac-caught-up-in-worlds-biggest-money-laundering-sting-20130529-2naa8.html#ixzz2UnkAltFp



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This is a good test, let's see what success is made.
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Personally, I really don't give a damn what happens to them! I didn't put their asses in prison, they did. AFIK, they should be made to WORK like slaves. It appears that, that's the only way these miscreants will learn NOT to break the law.
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