Monday, April 9, 2012

The Jews Who Sell Rope To Their Hangmen

Lenin once said,  “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

As reported by the New York Post, Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman, who runs Alfa Bank, his nation’s largest private finance house (one that the Sunday Times of London called “one of the most controversial business empires on the planet”  in 2007), teamed up with developer Jack Rosen of Rosen Partners in December to invest $1 billion in US real estate from New York to Miami.  It could be a highly profitable agreement for everyone involved, especially Fridman, whose net worth is already $13 billion.  The two are eyeing a condo project at 56 Pine St. in Manhattan and a New Jersey townhouse development, but the deals have yet to be finalized, according to reports.

The New York Post revealed to Rosen that Fridman has a connection to the construction of Iran’s nuclear- power plant in Bushehr, which went online in September. Rosen says that he then reached out to Fridman — and that Fridman’s explanation was good enough for him.  “If [Fridman] knew he directly funded a nuclear facility in Iran, I would express my disappointment,” Rosen told The Post. “He told me that Alfa never directly funded nuclear projects.”
According to reports, Fridman’s Alfa Bank provided financing throughout the 2000s to Atomstroyexport, the state-owned Russian nuclear vendor that installed the reactors at Bushehr.  Rosen, who heads the American Jewish Congress and the Council of the World’s Jewry, said Fridman never disclosed the connection to him.

Many banks, Rosen said, have no idea how the money they lend is used.  He insisted that Fridman told him “he wasn’t aware how their money was used.”

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