[Greg Palast has investigated Paul “The Vulture”
Singer for BBC TV and The Guardian for the last 9 years.]
Paul Singer, known as The Vulture, won a $4.65
billion payment from Argentina — nearly ONE HUNDRED TIMES his “investment” of
$50 million in old Argentina bonds. It was, in finance speak, the most
successful “vulture attack” ever.
Singer’s actions are outlawed in most of the
civilized world. Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, attempted to stop
Singer’s predatory act, but Singer did a brilliant end-run: he used his
cash to help elect a new President in Argentina that would jump to his tune and
pay him billions.
Now, he’s attempting to do the same to the USA:
pick a president for us who will feather his vulture’s nest. He’s
the number one donor sugar daddy for Marco Rubio’s candidacy [See, “Who
Hatched Rubio”]. Singer is also the big bankroller of Karl Rove, to
make sure that, even if he can’t sell Rubio to the GOP base, at least The
Vulture can use “Turdblossom” Rove to ensure that Hillary won’t become
President and put him out the of vulture business.
Rubio, in fact, skirted some ethical lines in his
attempts to pressure the State Department to side with his corpse-chewing donor
against Argentina.
As I’ve said, Singer directs his fellow billionaires’
investments in candidates. So, it is not surprising to see The Koch’s
lend their top political operative, Marc Short, to Singer’s man, Rubio.
Rubio’s affection for carrion-eating birds has no
decent bounds. While Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders are currently siding with
Puerto Rico against a whole flock of vulture financiers. Sanders and Clinton
support Rico’s plea for the same bankruptcy protections afforded the 50 states
(and afforded to Donald Trump).
But Rubio has actually switched positions. The
Senator, who originally supported bankruptcy rights for Puerto Ricans, turned
on a dime the moment Vulture financier Andrew Herenstein of Monarch Capital
announced he would hold a big fundraiser for Marco in the Hamptons.
Rubio now is calling for Puerto Rico to lay off
teachers and sanitation workers to pay more to Herenstein and his fellow
vultures–financiers already cranking profits on Puerto Rico bonds.
Watching Rubio flip his positions to his donors’
wishes is like watching one of those little doggies glued to the top of an old
mechanical piggy bank who jump through a clown’s hoop when you put a coin in
their snout.
Well, God bless America
Help me
finish my film on Paul Singer and the other billionaires seizing the last
frail pieces of our democracy and get your
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The filming is 90% complete… so please, help us
get it over the finish line and out in the next months before the theft of
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The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy—A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, takes
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vote-heist trickery.
Later this year, Greg Palast will be releasing his
new feature film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy—A Tale of Billionaires and
Ballot Bandits, which includes his award-winning investigation Jim Crow
Returns.
Greg Palast is the author of several New York
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and Billionaires
& Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse and the highly acclaimed Vultures'
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