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Justices Reject Mob Snitch Case Against NY Restitution Pool
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Justices Reject Mob Snitch Case Against NY Restitution Pool By Tracey Read The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed on a petition by a mob informant challenging an appellate court's decision deeming a New York fund that reimburses victims of thieving lawyers an "arm of the state," and thus immune from the informant's suit alleging that he was ripped off by a shady jailhouse lawyer. https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1692708?nl_pk=00e0f28d-575b-4889-8d…

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Re: Financial Disclosure Records Request
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Dear Ethics Officer: >From your prompt concerning the extension of Superintendent Harris' financial disclosure form, may we kindly request a copy? Do these forms include any cryptocurrency-related holdings and/or trading history? Thank you, Gunnar On Wed, May 24, 2023, 12:08 PM ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> wrote: > Mr. Larson – > > > > Adrienne Harris received an extension of time to file the FDS; it is now > due on June 19, 2023. > > Richard Weber left service in November 2022 and was not required to file > an FDS this year. > > > > Sincerely, > > RECORDS ACCESS OFFICER > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* Monday, May 22, 2023 8:38 AM > *To:* ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > *Subject:* Re: Financial Disclosure Records Request > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > > > Hello there: > > > > Are you able to send disclosure forms for NY-DFS: > > > > Adrienne Harris (2022) > > Richard Weber (2022) > > > > Thank you, > > > > Gunnar Larson > > xNY.io - Bank.org > > 917-580-8053 > > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 9:04 AM ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > wrote: > > Attached please see the 2021 Financial Disclosure Statement of Peter > Dean. We have calendared your additional requests. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Records Access Officer > > NYS Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government > > 540 Broadway > > Albany, NY 12207 > > (518) 408-3976 > > records(a)ethics.ny.gov <records(a)jcope.ny.gov> > > > > > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 25, 2023 2:06 PM > *To:* ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > *Subject:* Re: Financial Disclosure Records Request > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > > > Thank you. Can you please put our May 15, 2023 request for the 2022 > records on your calendar? > > > > Meanwhile, yes, please send Peter Dean's 2021 record. > > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 1:35 PM ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > wrote: > > Gunnar – the 2022 Financial Disclosure Statement is due to be filed by May > 15, 2023. They will become publicly available shortly thereafter. I can > get for you the 2021 Statement of Peter Dean but 2022 Statements at this > time. > > > > Sincerely, > > Records Access Officer > > NYS Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government > > 540 Broadway > > Albany, NY 12207 > > (518) 408-3976 > > records(a)ethics.ny.gov <records(a)jcope.ny.gov> > > > > > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 25, 2023 1:23 PM > *To:* ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > *Subject:* Re: Financial Disclosure Records Request > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > > > Records Access Officer: > > > > We are looking for the recent 2022 Financial Disclosure Forms for the > Governor and Attorney General. Do you know when those will be available? > > > > For the individuals at DFS, we are looking for the 2022 Financial > Disclosure Forms for: > > > > Adrienne Harris (2022) > > Richard Weber (2022) > > Peter Dean (2021, 2022) > > > > Thank you, > > > > Gunnar > > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 1:04 PM ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > wrote: > > Mr. Larson – the Financial Disclosure Statements of the Governor and the > Attorney General are posted on the Commission’s website here: > https://ethics.ny.gov/financial-disclosure-statements-elected-officials?f%5… > > > > For the Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services; and the > previous and current General Counsel at the Department of Financial > Services, please provide the individuals’ names and specify which years of > records you are seeking. > > > > Sincerely, > > Records Access Officer > > NYS Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government > > 540 Broadway > > Albany, NY 12207 > > (518) 408-3976 > > records(a)ethics.ny.gov <records(a)jcope.ny.gov> > > > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 25, 2023 12:54 PM > *To:* ethics.sm.records <records(a)ethics.ny.gov> > *Subject:* Financial Disclosure Records Request > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > > > Dear Madam or Sir: > > > > I would kindly like to request a batch of financial disclosure records for > the following: > > > > Governor, New York State > > > > Superintendent, Department of Financial Services > > > > General Counsel, Department of Financial Services (two forms, for previous > and current individuals) > > > > Attorney General, New York State > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > Gunnar > > > > Gunnar Larson > > xNY.io - Bank.org > > 917-580-8053 > >

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Cryptocurrency: IMF Fucks Over Argentina With Loans, Forces Ban Of Crypto
by grarpamp 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/05/05/argentinas-central-bank-bans-len… https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2023/06/22/cf-interest-in-cb-digital-c… https://finance.yahoo.com/news/argentina-imf-bailout-deal-includes-19074878… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yL2E0gt03Y " The IMF is back to manipulating the public. They claim Argentina has prohibited crypto use over concerns on financial stability, financial crimes, and corruption. The reality is the IMF forced Argentina to block crypto use in return for a IMF loan that Argentina badly needed through a deal clause I must say I'm rather pissed about this. I've been following Argentina as well as the economy and financial situation of Argentina and Latin America for while now. The IMF has always had significant power over these developing nations who have had quite a number of currency issues, namely inflation. And the manipulation by the IMF here is disgusting in their recent statement. They released a statement that reads "countries like Argentina and the Dominican Republic have prohibited the use of crypto assets due to concerns about their impact on financial stability, currency and asset substitution, tax evasion, corruption, and money laundering." There is a clear statement here that Argentina has organically and for themselves decided to discourage crypto usage, but this is not the case. In actuality, Argentina was forced to discourage crypto usage if they wanted to receive the loan. Letter of Intent for Loan Argentina has been grappling with inflation (currently over 100%) and financial and economic instability for many years now and have a very unhealthy relationship with the IMF. The actually hold a bunch of record with the IMF for the amount of times and money they have borrowed from the IMF. This latest IMF deal is the 23rd of the nations history. Instead of giving the people a real chance with something new and usable in crypto, they go right back to the IMF which has failed them time and time again. And of course, in the same article they bash crypto and go on to praise CBDCs. " " Argentina isn't blocking crypto at all. I should know, as I live there. All our government did was ban fintech from offering crypto, you still have regulated CeFi (unlike the US), although no Argentinian in their right mind is ever gonna use a regulated exchange or any financial service that leaves a trace, we use P2P for everything pretty much, as we also have strong "barrani" (off-the-books) trading communities. I know this might sound weird to Americans, but when you have 70 years of history to prove that your government is 100% corrupt, will screw with your savings to the point of freezing bank deposits and swapping fixed term accounts for trash bonds you'll be forced to hold to a 30 year maturity just to get your money back, will impose unsustainable monetary policy to the point of causing two ( now possibly three) hyperinflationary processes, and will impose criminally high taxes (to the sound of 110%), people simply stop reporting, using banks as safe havens and start dumping our legal tender into USD denominated assets, now we added cryptography to our toolset. We're the perfect context for crypto adoption as satoshi invisioned, the average joe can now escape their government easily with it. "

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Cryptocurrency: BTC-Lightning Fails - Santander Is As Dumb As Saylor Maxi's
by grarpamp 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/06/26/spains-largest-bank-… BTC Lightning Sucks, plenty of videos explain of why that is, including... - All parties must be online, also will not be used by antipodals - No cryptographic level of privacy - Only useful to preload (thus lockout) your funds from all other possible [priority] uses that may arise. - Only useful in a one way stream to a pre-known single recipient, such as a grocer or biller. - Bi-dir channels are made irrelevent by old school offline difference-keeping with settlement later, for less fees than all the channel and node bullshit would entail. - Fees already invalidate most small purchases, and will eventually eat up most other use cases since they all ultimately require settlement onchain. - Centralization regulatory nightmare. Bitcoin-BTC will now only be used as value store, it's fees will rise to alienate 90+% of humanity leading to paper shareholding schemes over centralized custody pools, and will, after one or two more huge waves, if left unchanged, be eventually obsoleted by a simple private p2p cash in the next 10 years. While riding the wave, seek the cash. "WHO KILLED BITCOIN?"

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FDA Publishes Draft Guidance On Psychedelic Drug Research
by professor rat 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Further and more particulars available through Diane who does what any person in her situation would do and begins experimenting with psilocybin https://www.vox.com/2020/5/5/21241559/good-fight-season-4-review-recap Reposts not Vox spews that are uniformly wrong and uniformly right

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[log][funny] observation during possible mitm & logsplice
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

tail of humorous experience where i just typed "git push" repeatedly until finally the certificate was no longer expired. [data prior to this disappeared from end of preceding castfile] fatal: unable to access 'https://codeberg.org/xloem/smallcosmoscript/': Peer's Certificate has expired. [K [user@localhost smallcosmoscript]$ git push [K fatal: unable to access 'https://codeberg.org/xloem/smallcosmoscript/': Peer's Certificate has expired. [K [user@localhost smallcosmoscript]$ git push [K Enumerating objects: 7, done. [K Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. [K Delta compression using up to 4 threads [K Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. [K Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 756 bytes | 756.00 KiB/s, done. [K Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 [K remote: . Processing 1 references [K remote: Processed 1 references in total [K To https://codeberg.org/xloem/smallcosmoscript [K b5a7acb3..76d57f54 main -> main [K [user@localhost smallcosmoscript]$ # what a weird experience [K [here i closed the preceding castfile, to extract the humorous recording, and opened a new one. unfortunately i had to use the new one to get this.] [thank you so much, whoever or whatever caused this, for making it clearer to me that it is actually happening.]

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Cryptocurrency: Hospitals Now Accepting Crypto, Free Market Solves Healthcare, Ends Insurance Gouge and Govt Subsidy
by grarpamp 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

https://cryptonews.com/news/brazilian-hospital-will-accept-crypto-pay-natio… Brazilian Hospital Will Accept Crypto Pay A hospital in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has become the first in the nation to accept crypto pay. Per the Brazilian media outlet Livecoins, the hospital in question is the Rolante Hospital Foundation (FHR), a large general hospital in the municipality of Rolante. FHR is the oldest hospital in the municipality. The media outlet noted that some 120 merchants and service providers in the municipality accept payments Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptoassets. More doctors around the world are becoming willing to accept crypto when asked.

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BBC News: The tech flaw that lets hackers control surveillance cameras
by jim bell 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

BBC News - The tech flaw that lets hackers control surveillance cameras https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65975446

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Goldman Taps Tom Montag for Board Amid Disquiet in Bank’s Ranks
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) plans to add Tom Montag to its board, enlisting a prominent alum at a time when discontent in the firm’s ranks has spilled into public view. Goldman Taps Tom Montag for Board Amid Disquiet in Bank’s Ranks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-26/goldman-taps-tom-montag-…

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Re: Your Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Request FOIL-2023-093329-019299
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

Ms. Verdejo: Would it be possible to receive an updated on the Coinbase records? Gunnar Larson On Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 11:52 AM <Joanne.Verdejo(a)dfs.ny.gov> wrote: > Good morning, > > Attached please find correspondence from the NYS Department of Financial > Services, pertaining to your FOIL request. > > > > Thank you. > > Tracking Number:FOIL-2023-093329-019299 > G(a)xny.io March 24, 2023 Gunnar Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 406 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 Re: FOIL Tracking No. 2023-093329 Dear Gunnar Larson: I write with respect to your above-referenced FOIL request. The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) requires additional time to respond to your request, assigned the tracking number 2023-093329, because the Department requires additional time to complete its response. DFS anticipates completing your request on or about April 28, 2023. We appreciate your continued patience. Thank you. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <Joanne.Verdejo(a)dfs.ny.gov> Date: Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 11:52 AM Subject: Your Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Request FOIL-2023-093329-019299 To: <G(a)xny.io> Good morning, Attached please find correspondence from the NYS Department of Financial Services, pertaining to your FOIL request. Thank you. Tracking Number:FOIL-2023-093329-019299 Thank you for submitting your FOIL request through Open FOIL NY. Here is your Open FOIL NY confirmation information for future reference: LARSON_DFS_20230114152649702 LARSON_DOB_20230114152649702 LARSON_DTF_20230114152649702 INFORMATION SUBMITTED: Records Requested From Department of Financial Services Division of the Budget Department of Taxation and Finance Short Title Coinbase $100M Settlement Investigation Records Description Dear Madam or Sir: xNY.io - Bank.org kindly seeks access to any and all records concerning New York State's investigation of Coinbase, comprising the $100M settlement mentioned here: https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr202301041. We are requesting all public records from 2018 to 2022 concerning New York's aforementioned Coinbase investigation. Moreover, xNY.io - Bank.org seeks access to any and all records concerning New York's regulatory scrutiny (and/or approval) of Goldman Sachs' partnership with Coinbase, issuing the bank's first Bitcoin loan mentioned here: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/goldman-sachs-partners-with-coinbase-for-ba…. In addition, xNY.io - Bank.org seeks any and all records concerning New York's approach to Coinbase and Goldman Sachs compliance programs mandated by the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section and Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section mentioned here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yx88RMoeLyyfbNK0RtPl4r-m8N21_1Sp/view?usp=…. Finally, xNY.io - Bank.org seeks records concerning New York's regulatory approval of Coinbase engaging a fine of $50M to implement heightened controls and additional procedures and policies relating to electronic surveillance and investigation, due diligence on transactions or clients and the use of third-party intermediaries across business units; and enhancing anti-corruption training for all management and relevant employees. Warm regards, Gunnar Larson Gunnar Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 646-454-9107 Uploaded Files FOIL Response Format Email If fees apply, please contact me if costs will be greater than $10000 Your FOIL request has been forwarded to the organization(s) you selected, and the respective Records Access Officer will contact you directly for further processing of your request. Please allow up to five business days for such communication(s). For your convenience, here is additional contact information: Department of Financial Services One State Street 20th Floor New York, NY 10004

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