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13-01-03 PRESS RELEASE: FATCA, Stanley Fischer - complaint asks release of $250,000 seized of "US Person" by Israeli Bank HaPoalim
The complaint asks the release of $250,000, unlawfully seized on January 1, 2013, from a "US Person" by the Israeli Bank HaPoalim, BM. The conduct has no foundation in either the law of the State of Israel, or the law of the United States, but appears to have been induced by Bank of Israel's Stanley Fischer unparalleled, unconditional submission to the United States FACTA. Petition, previously filed with the Israeli High Court of Justice claims that Fischer exchanged his loyalty to the State of Israel and its law with loyalty to another nation and its law, and/or loyalty to financial institutions and their interests. The case captures the financial crisis in a nutshell criminality by financial institution is patronized by national banking regulators and the national highest courts. In this case under the guise of compliance with United States law by Israeli banks. Eventually, the territory of "FACTA-compliance" is likely to coincide with the territory of the financial crisis, through corruption of banking regulation of other nations, under United States coercion.

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Stanley Fisher, Governor of the Bank of Israel and a Bilderberg member, shows off his newly acquired Israeli ID in 2005; FACTA is a United States act with no foundation in the law of the State of Israel. View as PDF: View as blog post: http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2013/01/13-01-03-press-release-fatcastanley.html

Jerusalem, January 6 complaint, filed with Bank of Israel-Banking regulation, documents the seizing on January 1, 2013, of some $250,000 of a "US Person's" funds, which were deposited with the Israeli Bank HaPoalim, BM. [1] The conduct of the Bank was purported by the Bank as part of its FATCA-related "New Policy". Under such "New Policy" the Bank demanded that the customer, a US citizen living in Israel, sign "Waiver of Privacy" to the United States government of his financial transactions in an Israeli bank in Israel. The customer refused to submit to the unlawful demands. In response, Bank HaPoalim now denies the customer's access to the customer's own deposit accounts, totaling some $250,000. The complaint also documents that: Bank HaPoalim in fact has no "New Policy". The Bank refused to provide a copy of the policy record and stated that none existed. Bank HaPoalim refuses to comply with pertinent United States Internal Revenue Regulations reporting to the account holder the total interest gained in his account

on an annual basis (US IRS form 1099-Int) conduct that is inconsistent with honest banking as well. Bank HaPoalim's conduct in seizing deposit accounts has no basis even in the purported US FATCA the act provides only for withholding tax on income from US financial assets held at the Banks by non-compliant customers.

Today, staff of Bank of Israel confirmed receipt of the consumer's complaint, filed by Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO). Whether the complaint would ever be registered, reviewed "according to legal standards", and whether a decision would ever be communicated to the complainant (as promised on the Bank of Israel web site for all complaints), remains questionable. In August 2012, a previous complaint was filed by Dr Zernik against Bank HaPoalim, which documented unlawful, extortionist demands and threats by the Bank, under the guise of FATCA compliance. [2] For months Bank of Israel refused to inform the complainant, whether the complaint was registered and reviewed. Most recently, from conversations with Bank HaPoalim, Dr Zernik discovered that the Bank had received a decision from Bank of Israel on Dr Zernik's August 2012 complaint, and that the Bank of Israel decision in part induced Bank HaPoalim's most recent unlawful actions. Bank of Israel persists in its refusal to disclose any details on the matter to the complainant. [3] In October 2012, petition was also filed with the Israeli Supreme Court to compel Mr Fischer to perform his duties by duly registering and reviewing the complaint against Bank HaPoalim. [4] The petition alleges that in permitting Israeli banks to act as they will under the pretense of enforcing the US FATCA, Stanley Fischer "undermines the rule of law" and "sovereignty of the State of Israel", and "substitutes his loyalty to the State of Israel and its laws with loyalty to another nation and its law, and/or with loyalty to financial institutions and their interests." [5] The petition in the Supreme Court of Israel was subjected to a fate that was remarkably similar to the fate of the complaint against Bank HaPoalim, BM, at Bank of IsraelBanking Regulation: The office of the clerk of the Supreme Court refused to duly register the petition. [6] The case of Bank HaPoalim is particularly striking, since in previous years Mr Fischer had removed some of the Bank's senior officers and initiated criminal investigations against them. Now Mr Fischer is patronizing criminal conduct by the same bank. The case of Mr Fischer is also striking, since review of Israeli media reports indicates that under his tenure, Bank of Israel was determined, even prior to the enactment of FATCA, that the matter was "not under its purview", and Bank of Israel refused to issue Banking Regulations of the State of Israel in this matter, even after being pressed to do so by Israeli banks. [7] The case captures the emergence of the basic conditions for a financial crisis in the State of Israel: Criminality by financial institutions is patronized by national banking regulators and the nation's highest courts. In this case under the guise of compliance with United States law by Israeli banks.

Corruption of banking regulation in collusion with the US courts, under the color of law, has been increasingly recognized as central to the current socio-economic crisis in the United States. [8, and see quotes below] The State of Israel has not yet seen financial institutions' defaults of the size, seen in the US and Europe in recent years. Eventually, the territory of "FACTA-compliance" is likely to coincide with the territory of the financial crisis, through corruption of banking regulation of other nations, under United States coercion.
LINKS: [1] 13-01-04 FATCA-related Consumer Complaint No 2 against Bank HaPoalim, BM, and its Chief Internal Auditor Jacob Orbach, filed with Bank of Israel-Banking Regulation http://www.scribd.com/doc/118926904/ [2] 12-08-25 Dr Zernik's complaint, filed with Israeli banking regulation against Bank HaPoalim - for attempting to extort compliance with US IRS regulations in Jerusalem http://es.scribd.com/doc/103922991/ [3] 13-01-03 Letter to Stanley Fischer, Bank of Israel Governor RE- request for immediate production of records re FATCA-related complaint against Bank HaPoalim, BM http://www.scribd.com/doc/118792468/ [4] 12-10-23 PRESS RELEASE Petition alleges Bank of Israel Fischer patronizes criminality at Bank HaPoalim, BM http://www.scribd.com/doc/110868267/ [5] 12-10-23 Joseph Zernik v Stanley Fischer (7650/12) Petition in the High Court of Justice of the State of Israel. http://www.scribd.com/doc/112418672/ http://www.scribd.com/doc/110868553/ [6] 12-12-27 PRESS RELEASE FATCA, Stanley Fischer, and "Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz in the High Court of Justice of the State of Israel http://www.scribd.com/doc/118152545/ [7] 13-01-06 FATCA - United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (2011) - Israel and other nations' responses - compilation of media reports http://www.scribd.com/doc/111468857/ [8] Zernik, J, Large-scale fraud in US court records is linked to failing banking regulation _ OpEdNews http://www.opednews.com/articles/Large-scale-fraud-in-US-co-by-Joseph-Zernik-120925-643.html

_____________ Joseph Zernik, PhD < josephzernik@humanrightsalertngo.org> Sent from "1984", Iceland-based Internet Service Provider _____________ Human Rights Alert (NGO) * United States - the 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations was reviewed and incorporated in the official HRC Professional Staff Report with a note referring to corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California.
[1] 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Records for 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States, where Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/

* State of Israel - the 2012 submission of Human Rights Alert to the HRC, titled, "Integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel', is scheduled for review in January 2013.
[1] 12-06-04 Human Right Alert's Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel http://www.scribd.com/doc/92826212/ [2] 12-05-10 Appendix I to Human Right Alert's Submission; 15th UPR - State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israe http://www.scribd.com/doc/108663259/ [3] 12-07-18 Human Right Alert's Appendix II to Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, in the electronic record systems in the courts of the State of Israel - Additional Responses by National Authorities/Experts, Re: ComSign, LTD - sole certifier and hacker of the digital signatures of the State of Israel http://www.scribd.com/doc/108662869/

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Secede! The US in its current form is simply unmanageable...

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Take away justice, then, and what are governments but great bandit bands?
Saint Augustine, Civitas Dei (City of God,4.4) _____________________________
WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS? * "I think it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history," said Raymond Brescia, a visiting professor at Yale Law School who has written articles analyzing the role of courts in the financial crisis. "I can't think of one where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." Reuters (Jan 22, 2012) http://www.scribd.com/doc/79572282/ * Foreclosure fraud: The homeowner nightmares continue CNN (April 7, 2011) * About 3 million homes have been repossessed since the housing boom ended in 2006 That number could balloon to about 6 million by 2013 Bloomberg (January 2011) * "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences." Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011) http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA? * "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit." Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001) http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/ * "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted." Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001) http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/ * "Innocent people remain in prison" * "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..." LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report

(2006) http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 / _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA? * "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010) http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES? * "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations." Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010) http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-262010_gideonalert _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE CONDITIONS IN THE PRISON IN MONROE COUNTY, TENESSEE? * "What goes on there is more like gulags of centuries ago." ACLU http://www.scribd.com/doc/72546279/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES? * "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others." More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011) http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/ _____________________________ WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? * "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..." Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003) http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? * In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice. Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009) http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/ ____________________________