(Ponziism's defining characteristics: The promoter comes at you with a story line featuring huge guaranteed returns, generally pays them to investors who get in early, all of which attracts an avalanche of new investors whose money is partly used to keep on paying returns but mainly supports the swindler's expanding lifestyle until the whole edifice collapses).
So, whose money is behind the American Energy Alliance?
"The first question is, whose money is it?
But there is no way for any independent parties -- including the citizens of Iraq, whose money was actually spent on the goods -- to know.
On the issue of tackling the supply of drugs, it found "little evidence on the cost effectiveness of [criminal-justice] activities", and "that little we have does not offer strong support".This might have been of interest to the voters whose money was being spent on such untested schemes.
Deutsche Bank has not commented on whose money was expatriated through the mirror trades, although John Cryan, the C.E.O., has said that the bank has not knowingly assisted Russians on the sanctions list.
For the stations of the cross of a conservatism in power include not merely Sharon, Connecticut, but Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; not merely Mont Pelerin, but the competing Indian casinos whose money was laundered by conservative groups on Jack Abramoff's behalf.
Rybolovlev was the billionaire whose money was building the freeports.
(The too-clever-by-half money is on Belgium, whose talented team will be overwhelmed by the occasion).One of the 79,000 fans in the Maracanã will be inwardly cheering for a second outcome: Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's president, will hope to get through the tournament without being jeered.
The smart money is on Hogg, whose expenses claim while he was an MP didn't just include £2,115 for moat cleaning, the fact that has lodged in the nation's collective memory, but also £18,000 for his gardener, £40 for his piano tuner, £200 for his Aga maintainer and £611 for his mole catcher.
