Liberty News Online 04-03-2010 6:20 pm – John Wallace
The Federal Reserve has recently and very reluctently released details of its unlawful purchase of certain securities in order to help JP Morgan Chase takeover the Wall Street brokerage firm of Bear Stearns. Unfortunately for the Federal Reserve, this was a violation of federal law, as the Fed is not authorized to purchase anything other than securities that are backed by the full faith and credit of The United States.

Here is some basic information about three organizations that were created as part of the criminal scheme to defraud Americans that could also be considered part of a larger pattern of racketeering activity:

MAIDEN LANE LLC

Maiden Lane LLC is the first holding company bearing the name that was created when JPMorgan Chase took over Bear Stearns in early 2008. It holds an asset portfolio that JPMorgan found too risky to assume in whole, and consequently the Federal Reserve Bank of New York extended a $30 billion credit line to the limited liability company to facilitate the unwinding of these assets over time. Bloomberg, citing Bank of America analysts, reported on October 2, 2008, that the Federal Reserve might stand to lose $2 to $6 billion on the asset porfolio. A November 6, 2008, update by the Federal Reserve showed that the fair value of the assets was at $26.8 billion, meaning a book loss of $2 billion for the Federal Reserve. More