NY Ethics Scandal Tied to International Espionage Scheme (MORE, CLICK HERE)

Tammany Hall II Ethics Scandal Reaching New Heights

Reports surfaced in New York and around Washington, D.C. last week detailing a massive communications satellite espionage scheme involving major multi-national corporations and the interception of top-secret satellite signals.

The evidence in the corporate eavesdropping cover-up “is frightening,” according to an informed source who has reviewed the volumes of documentation. The espionage scheme, he says, is directly tied to the growing state bar ethics scandal at the Appellate Division First Department, Departmental Disciplinary Committee (DDC) in Manhattan.

Rumors had been Circulating Linking the NY Bar Scandal to International Corporate Espionage Ops Using Satellites

The highflying spy operation involves private and public companies, mainly in the U.S. and Europe, that operate apart- but not too far- from national intelligence services. Confidential sources have learned that the original source of much of the secret information comes from satellite intercepts sold by telecom companies under contract to government spy agencies.

Although it’s rarely addressed in any official proceedings, basically all private telephone conversations and email transmissions in the U.S., and essentially worldwide, are routinely intercepted by one government authority or another. Much of the work is done by independent telecom companies that transmit the signals on to giant computers that translate the text in real time. This instant translation capability put an end to many embarrassing backlogs, as in the case of the first World Trade Center bombing, where the FBI had received an intercept, but hadn’t translated the key incriminating conversation before that 1993 event.

Once translated, the reviewing super computers search for key words to flag suspect conversations and transmissions. Proper names of people, buildings, addresses, codes, arms, explosives and the like will trip a full-scale investigation of a transcript.

Apart from the official surveillance of signal intelligence (or “sigint” in the spy trade), what confidential sources have discovered is that there is lots of freelance spying going on, where top-secret corporate information is being offered for sale to the highest bidder. The payments are allegedly made for a tip of such secrets as planned corporate acquisitions, mergers, or some very positive or negative performance reports.

Advance knowledge of corporate information, and the corresponding improper company stock activity, has long been the focus of many insider trading investigations but has not, until now, directly  involved New York City’s attorney ethics committee. One source says it’s been the ‘perfect crime.’  "The brains behind this organized scheme have thwarted attorney ethics investigations in New York, federal criminal inquiries and various civil actions around the country by simply citing ‘national security,’” says the source.

Enter the DDC, again

Since this secret corporate information is sent across public telecom networks that are constantly subject to interception, the black market in top-secret corporate intel continues to grow, and it generally evades detection. Last week, however, investigators tripped across evidence of a law firm protecting a client that had been on the selling side of corporate espionage. When complaints were filed with the New York Attorney Disciplinary Committee against the firm for a series of ethical violations, those grievances apparently disappeared into one of the now-well-known DDC black holes.

Another trusted source from outside New York has indicated that federal court filings will soon provide detailed evidence showing how the dysfunctional DDC machinery covered-up actions by certain New York attorneys involved in the corporate spying activities.

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