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kpete

(72,013 posts)
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 09:36 AM Apr 2022

Federal informant who aided investigation into Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump found dead

A man believed to have worked with federal authorities to investigate the activities of Deutsche Bank and its ties with former President Donald Trump was found dead on an El Sereno high school's campus Monday.

A cleaning crew found the body of Valentin Broeksmit, 45, self-described as a "comically terrible spy," around 6:40 a.m Monday morning. He was declared dead at about 7:05 a.m. on the Woodrow Wilson High school campus off on the 4500 block of Multnomah Street according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. Officials have yet to release a cause of death pending an autopsy.

School police said that they had no video that shows him coming onto campus and are unsure how long he'd been on the campus.

Broeksmit was last seen driving a red Mini Cooper on April 6, 2021, in Griffith Park on Riverside Drive. Although Broeksmit had gone missing his Twitter account remained active. Freinds and journalists claimed to stay in contact with him during his disappearance, with Forensic News investigative journalist Scott Stedman tweeting that he last spoke with Broeksmit in January.

Stedman wrote that Broeksmit had given him "Deutsche Bank documents that highlighted the bank's deep Russia connections."

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/valentin-broeksmit-federal-informant-whistleblower-dead-el-sereno-high-school-california/
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Federal informant who aided investigation into Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump found dead (Original Post) kpete Apr 2022 OP
K&R secondwind Apr 2022 #1
man, I wish it was just those last four words in the subject line... (n/t) anarch Apr 2022 #2
So true. niyad Apr 2022 #5
My heart rate sped up milestogo Apr 2022 #15
Me too! I read it too fast, and for a second there... momta Apr 2022 #29
Mine too dflprincess Apr 2022 #45
just needed a comma BSdetect Apr 2022 #25
just needed a comma BSdetect Apr 2022 #26
don't we all housecat Apr 2022 #39
Took me awhile, but I finally got it! calimary Apr 2022 #47
+ infinity SoonerPride Apr 2022 #50
How to break the internet in one easy step! ShazzieB Apr 2022 #55
I read it the way they meant it for some reason I have no clue why Meowmee Apr 2022 #62
I read it the way they meant it for some reason and I know why NJCher Apr 2022 #64
My sympathies 😹 Meowmee Apr 2022 #73
a university where I used to teach NJCher Apr 2022 #74
I should apply there maybe 😹 Meowmee Apr 2022 #75
I know! NJCher Apr 2022 #76
rec'd for that reason alone. Sparkly Apr 2022 #70
lol Demovictory9 Apr 2022 #77
A sentiment shared by billions dalton99a Apr 2022 #78
"Russia if you're listening..do me a favor..." Budi Apr 2022 #3
Those authoritarian kleptocratic racketeers do hang tight, do they not? 2Gingersnaps Apr 2022 #61
Is this a typo Broeksmit was last seen driving a red Mini Cooper on April 6, 2021 MagickMuffin Apr 2022 #4
Has to be Bristlecone Apr 2022 #6
Looks like 2021 is correct muriel_volestrangler Apr 2022 #31
Hmmm, interesting... liberalla Apr 2022 #40
Thank you! Cha Apr 2022 #56
He was last seen over a year ago, and he was found on a high school campus? NT mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 #7
Occam's Razor declares it a typo EYESORE 9001 Apr 2022 #14
Looks like Occam's is wrong this time.. Cha Apr 2022 #51
Yes I remember when he went missing, they were at first concerned that Bev54 Apr 2022 #38
Yeah, but where was Hillary??? 🤔🤔🤔 dixiechiken1 Apr 2022 #8
+1, uponit7771 Apr 2022 #9
K & R Budi Apr 2022 #12
Most likely on samplegirl Apr 2022 #10
The documents were his fathers who also died. (by suicide) flying_wahini Apr 2022 #11
Hanging on Ron DeSantis' every word. Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #32
Last seen on April 6, 2021???? Was that a typo? msfiddlestix Apr 2022 #13
I watched the video at the link in the OP. MontanaMama Apr 2022 #18
Aloha.. looks like "2021" is correct.. Cha Apr 2022 #48
Aloha to you, my friend. MontanaMama Apr 2022 #49
Chilling! And, from past experiences Cha Apr 2022 #53
quite mysterious indeed. hard to make sense of the story, but you helped. thanks. msfiddlestix Apr 2022 #72
Is this Putler helping IQ4.5 out? KS Toronado Apr 2022 #16
If he's had it done or one of his inner circle has the reason would be to silence anyone else with Ford_Prefect Apr 2022 #19
On the other hand KS Toronado Apr 2022 #20
While hypothetically possible I doubt Putty has specific expectations just yet for that. Ford_Prefect Apr 2022 #41
It would be more like Putler helping HIMSELF and TFG out, I think. Captain Zero Apr 2022 #35
Autopsy will be key in this case. Suicide? Any signs of violence or restraint? Time of death? Midnight Writer Apr 2022 #17
Choked on his polonium tea, then accidentally fell out of a window into a patch of wild novachok. eggplant Apr 2022 #21
I was gonna make this joke... momta Apr 2022 #30
Cause of Death: Allegic reaction to COVID vaccine. speak easy Apr 2022 #58
But will they check for radionuclides? NullTuples Apr 2022 #57
Just another case of your totally normal finding a middle aged man dead on a high school campus RockRaven Apr 2022 #22
Add this to the four Russian oligarchs who've recently committed "suicide" by impossible means. TheRickles Apr 2022 #23
How many people have to die FeelingBlue Apr 2022 #24
If you believe the CDC numbers at least 993,983 and counting. To say nothing of Russian and other Ford_Prefect Apr 2022 #42
"As many as it takes." ShazzieB Apr 2022 #52
The silence of the dead Achilleaze Apr 2022 #27
What about the documents? SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2022 #28
Killed and dumped Warpy Apr 2022 #33
In 2019 & 2014, Trump's Deutsche Bank Bankers "committed suicide." Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #34
yes, Kid Berwyn: So weird that dead Trump Deutsch Bank bankers happens a lot... Captain Zero Apr 2022 #36
The Great Unger forever fried Pisswig the demented despot. Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #69
Do you suppose if you mapped and dated the last week's suicides questionseverything Apr 2022 #79
William must have been Valentin's father. soldierant Apr 2022 #60
NYT and WhoWhatWhy.org report he was one of the good guys at DB Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #67
Wouldn't just be awesome that his death is connected to Trump YoshidaYui Apr 2022 #37
The only thing better than that, would be if the last four words of the headline were true. nt C Moon Apr 2022 #63
oh yeah for sure YoshidaYui Apr 2022 #66
My eyes skipped to "Trump found..." UTUSN Apr 2022 #43
Kremlin has a long reach LT Barclay Apr 2022 #44
Check him for Novichock or other Russian poisons. Nululu Apr 2022 #46
There is another theory.... chowder66 Apr 2022 #54
This should be the #1 national story malaise Apr 2022 #59
GRRRRRRR proud patriot Apr 2022 #65
Journalist Scott Steadman , who used him as a source said JoanofArgh Apr 2022 #68
Broeksmit murdered by BrokeAsShit tRump Blue Owl Apr 2022 #71

dflprincess

(28,082 posts)
45. Mine too
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 03:04 PM
Apr 2022

I was casually scrolling while trying to pay attention to a meeting I was dialed into & those 4 words popped out at me.

ShazzieB

(16,497 posts)
55. How to break the internet in one easy step!
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 04:04 PM
Apr 2022

Because you know the entire internet would implode if that actually happened.

Not that it wouldn't be worth it, of course.

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
62. I read it the way they meant it for some reason I have no clue why
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 06:24 PM
Apr 2022

I read it the way they meant it for some reason I have no clue why- if I thought dumpster was dead I would be screaming for joy.

NJCher

(35,720 posts)
64. I read it the way they meant it for some reason and I know why
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 07:29 PM
Apr 2022

Because I'm so used to reading @#$ked up English because I've spent 25 years as a writing teacher.

Thanks to decades of reading tortured English, I can now go directly to what the writer is trying to say.

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
73. My sympathies 😹
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 11:16 PM
Apr 2022

And I have some experience of that too with years of correcting art history papers of students who could not write a coherent sentence if their lives depended on it. I would spend hours rewriting entire term papers they probably never even read again 😳 One of my friends told me her husband taught some courses in a law school and he said he had the same issues.

NJCher

(35,720 posts)
74. a university where I used to teach
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 11:46 PM
Apr 2022

here in NJ had one of our successful graduates come back to talk to current students in our communications program. This person had attained the position of division head of CNBC. When he was in our program (long before my time), he was one of the students who actually built the radio studio.

During Q & A time, a student asked him what his biggest workplace need was and the response was "good writers." He went on to say they are actually desperate for people who can write. He said his colleagues at other news companies said the same.

I remember practically rewriting entire term papers. Then I would make them come in and sit down and I would go through it with them point by point. However, the university took away our extra credit hour for doing such work so I quit doing it.





Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
75. I should apply there maybe 😹
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 12:06 AM
Apr 2022

I did it for free 😳 It was painful to see how bad the writing was. Now it is all done as a presentation, so no more proof reading and rewriting. It is more about trying to explain to people that copying and pasting text from the internet and not acknowledging it is plagiarism and then getting them to change it etc.

NJCher

(35,720 posts)
76. I know!
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 12:24 AM
Apr 2022

with these cut 'n paste submissions, they don't even know enough to make the fonts match!



 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. "Russia if you're listening..do me a favor..."
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 09:53 AM
Apr 2022

Putin's international criminal organization has a long reach.

But we were warned about that as well. And ignored by media & pols on a campaign high. Well, and the promise of million $$$ self enrichment.
'Burn it all down!!"
"When Trump is President things are going to really explode!"
"You don't even have to vote"

"Biden's a bowl of *hit"

Who all jumped in & cashed in to endorse this propaganda, this mass media driven campaign against our Country?

Go ahead, raise your fking hand. You must be so pleased wirh what you managed to pull off.
Wow. Step up and take a bow. Show your faces with pride.

Trump & his foreign mobsters won't stop til its burned down & they get what they came for.







MagickMuffin

(15,951 posts)
4. Is this a typo Broeksmit was last seen driving a red Mini Cooper on April 6, 2021
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 09:54 AM
Apr 2022


April 6, 2021

That was a year ago 🤔

Jeepers, I wonder how he died?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,359 posts)
31. Looks like 2021 is correct
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 12:15 PM
Apr 2022
Missing 45-Year-Old Male NR21113ti
April 19, 2021

Los Angeles: The family of Valentin Broeksmit and the Los Angeles Police Department are requesting the public’s assistance in locating him.

Valentin was last seen on April 6, 2021 around 4 p.m., at Griffith Park on Riverside Drive in the City of Los Angeles. He was last seen driving a 2020 red Mini Cooper. The vehicle has been recovered but he has not been seen since and his family is concerned.

https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/missing-45-year-old-male-nr21113ti/

Bev54

(10,067 posts)
38. Yes I remember when he went missing, they were at first concerned that
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 12:36 PM
Apr 2022

foul play might be involved but the more likely explanation was he went into hiding. He was outing some very important people.

flying_wahini

(6,643 posts)
11. The documents were his fathers who also died. (by suicide)
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 10:12 AM
Apr 2022

Article states he was bothered by his Dads subsequent suicide.


Has anybody checked to see what Lev Parnas and his buddies are up to?

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
18. I watched the video at the link in the OP.
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 10:59 AM
Apr 2022

The news anchor said this man was last seen April 6th. They did not say 2021, so it seems that’s a typo. The anchor also reported that security cameras at the high school did not show the informant entering campus. So they’re not sure how he got there. Quite mysterious.

Cha

(297,574 posts)
53. Chilling! And, from past experiences
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 04:02 PM
Apr 2022

with Genocidal putin.. we can well imagined what happened.

Poor guy.. Valentin Broeksmit only 45..



💙💛



Ford_Prefect

(7,918 posts)
19. If he's had it done or one of his inner circle has the reason would be to silence anyone else with
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 11:01 AM
Apr 2022

knowledge or documents. This would be done to protect the Russian side of the equation and the oligarchs who laundered money through Deutsche Bank.

I strongly doubt Putin would protect TFG other than to cover his ties with Moscow and its financial schemes.

Ford_Prefect

(7,918 posts)
41. While hypothetically possible I doubt Putty has specific expectations just yet for that.
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 12:56 PM
Apr 2022

I've no doubt he'll try it if the option arises, and I fully expect him to play spoiler or worse in the 2022 season.

eggplant

(3,913 posts)
21. Choked on his polonium tea, then accidentally fell out of a window into a patch of wild novachok.
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 11:11 AM
Apr 2022

Could have happened to anyone.

Ford_Prefect

(7,918 posts)
42. If you believe the CDC numbers at least 993,983 and counting. To say nothing of Russian and other
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 01:05 PM
Apr 2022

potential witnesses to TFG and Putin's crimes, which might be running at 48+ and counting (not including family members and pets)

Kid Berwyn

(14,953 posts)
34. In 2019 & 2014, Trump's Deutsche Bank Bankers "committed suicide."
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 12:29 PM
Apr 2022
Former Deutsche Bank Exec Connected to Trump Loans Dies by Suicide in Malibu

Thomas Bowers, who worked above Trump’s personal banker, was 55

By Ian Spiegelman
LA Magazine-November 27, 2019

A former Deutsche Bank executive who reportedly signed off on some of the institution’s unorthodox loans to Donald Trump killed himself in his Malibu home on November 19. Thomas Bowers, the onetime head of Deutsche Bank’s American wealth-management division, where he oversaw Trump’s private banker, committed suicide by hanging, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office. Bowers was 55.

Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank—which lent him around $2 billion after most other institutions had forsaken him for his history of defaults and bankruptcies—has come under investigation by two Congressional committees and the New York Attorney General, who are hoping the bank can shed light on Trump’s elusive finances, according to the New York Times. At one point, Bowers had a close connection to those finances.

Rosemary T. Vrablic, a managing director at Deutsche Bank who became Trump’s private banker in 2010 after being introduced by her client, Jared Kushner, reported directly to Bowers. Vrablic reportedly helped Trump secure loans from her bank, which Bowers approved—including more than $100 million to buy his Doral resort in Miami—even after Trump and Deutsche had to settle messy litigation over a Chicago loan that went bad.

Snip...

Bowers isn’t the first Trump-connected Deutsche exec to commit suicide. In 2014, Deutsche derivatives analyst William S. Broeksmit, who reportedly had links to Trump and Russia, hung himself from a dog leash at his home in London.

Source:

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/deutsche-bank-death/



https://www.fedortax.com/blog/deutsche-bank-nabbed-for-money-laundering-in-russian-laundromat-investigation

https://ips-dc.org/trumps-dirty-money/

So weird that dead Trump DB bankers happens a lot.

Captain Zero

(6,823 posts)
36. yes, Kid Berwyn: So weird that dead Trump Deutsch Bank bankers happens a lot...
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 12:35 PM
Apr 2022

Kinda crazy how many Deutsch Bank bankers, connected to Trump and loans from DB turn up dead, and everyone knows that as Eric Trump has said "we get all our financing from Russia" (through Deutsch Bank bankers ) hmmm.

Kid Berwyn

(14,953 posts)
69. The Great Unger forever fried Pisswig the demented despot.
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 08:02 PM
Apr 2022

What Craig Unger found when pee-resident Drumpf was new:



Trump’s Russian Laundromat

How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.


By CRAIG UNGER
The New Republic, July , 2017

Excerpt...

Trump made his first trip to Russia in 1987, only a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Invited by Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, Trump was flown to Moscow and Leningrad—all expenses paid—to talk business with high-ups in the Soviet command. In The Art of the Deal, Trump recounted the lunch meeting with Dubinin that led to the trip. “One thing led to another,” he wrote, “and now I’m talking about building a large luxury hotel, across the street from the Kremlin, in partnership with the Soviet government.”

Over the years, Trump and his sons would try and fail five times to build a new Trump Tower in Moscow. But for Trump, what mattered most were the lucrative connections he had begun to make with the Kremlin—and with the wealthy Russians who would buy so many of his properties in the years to come. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. boasted at a real estate conference in 2008. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

The money, illicit and otherwise, began to rain in earnest after the Soviet Union fell in 1991. President Boris Yeltsin’s shift to a market economy was so abrupt that cash-rich gangsters and corrupt government officials were able to privatize and loot state-held assets in oil, coal, minerals, and banking. Yeltsin himself, in fact, would later describe Russia as “the biggest mafia state in the world.” After Vladimir Putin succeeded Yeltsin as president, Russian intelligence effectively joined forces with the country’s mobsters and oligarchs, allowing them to operate freely as long as they strengthen Putin’s power and serve his personal financial interests. According to James Henry, a former chief economist at McKinsey & Company who consulted on the Panama Papers, some $1.3 trillion in illicit capital has poured out of Russia since the 1990s.

At the top of the sprawling criminal enterprise was Semion Mogilevich. Beginning in the early 1980s, according to the FBI, the short, squat Ukrainian was the key money-laundering contact for the Solntsevskaya Bratva, or Brotherhood, one of the richest criminal syndicates in the world. Before long, he was running a multibillion-dollar worldwide racket of his own. Mogilevich wasn’t feared because he was the most violent gangster, but because he was reputedly the smartest. The FBI has credited the “brainy don,” who holds a degree in economics from Lviv University, with a staggering range of crimes. He ran drug trafficking and prostitution rings on an international scale; in one characteristic deal, he bought a bankrupt airline to ship heroin from Southeast Asia into Europe. He used a jewelry business in Moscow and Budapest as a front for art that Russian gangsters stole from museums, churches, and synagogues all over Europe. He has also been accused of selling some $20 million in stolen weapons, including ground-to-air missiles and armored troop carriers, to Iran. “He uses this wealth and power to not only further his criminal enterprises,” the FBI says, “but to influence governments and their economies.”

In Russia, Mogilevich’s influence reportedly reaches all the way to the top. In 2005, Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian intelligence agent who defected to London, recorded an interview with investigators detailing his inside knowledge of the Kremlin’s ties to organized crime. “Mogilevich,” he said in broken English, “have good relationship with Putin since 1994 or 1993.” A year later Litvinenko was dead, apparently poisoned by agents of the Kremlin.

Continues...

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

Seems GQP wants no one to ever follow up DB at DoJ. Hence 2024 Big Lie 2.

questionseverything

(9,657 posts)
79. Do you suppose if you mapped and dated the last week's suicides
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 06:34 AM
Apr 2022

Could you pretty much trace the killer’s route?

Are passenger’s lists from planes ✈️ available?

soldierant

(6,914 posts)
60. William must have been Valentin's father.
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 06:07 PM
Apr 2022

Post #11 refers to Valentin's father having worked for DB and having suicided.

YoshidaYui

(41,853 posts)
37. Wouldn't just be awesome that his death is connected to Trump
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 12:36 PM
Apr 2022

and Trump would be blamed and sent to prison...for life... good bye asshole!!

LT Barclay

(2,606 posts)
44. Kremlin has a long reach
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 01:27 PM
Apr 2022

There were 2 guys from Kazakhstan that worked for a Russian oil company who were driving Route 66 and died from “food poisoning” in 2015 at a hotel in Springfield MO. I saw an article that said somebody finally realized there might be more to the story and were investigating again.

chowder66

(9,075 posts)
54. There is another theory....
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 04:03 PM
Apr 2022

This article is from April 28, 2021....

The whereabouts of a 45-year-old man who was last seen after he dropped his girlfriend off on April 6 at a Griffith Park tennis facility remain a mystery. Police are continuing to track down leads in the disappearance and are asking for tips that may lead to Valentin Broeksmit, who goes by Val, according to his girlfriend, Marie Peter-Toltz.

snip

Peter-Toltz said the information in the article was true regarding the FBI investigation but offered no specific details about what Broeksmit may have provided to government authorities or may still possess. She also denied Broeksmit was a substance abuser.

Peter-Toltz surmised that Broeksmit’s disappearance is somehow connected to a custody battle involving her son, but said she has no concrete evidence. She said she lost custody of her 9-year-old son to her ex-husband, and her relationship with Broeksmit was and remains a contentious part of the custody battle. She said Broeksmit spoke to a case worker from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services on the day he disappeared, and she thinks he may have been upset over prospects of her regaining custody of her son.

“We had my son with us full time until last year when I lost custody. Val tried to stop them. Since then, it’s been an ongoing battle,” Peter-Toltz said. “It’s not like Val to go missing. It’s not like him to say he is going to pick me up and he doesn’t. I just don’t know what happened to him.”



https://beverlypress.com/2021/04/mans-disappearance-still-shrouded-in-mystery/

JoanofArgh

(14,971 posts)
68. Journalist Scott Steadman , who used him as a source said
Wed Apr 27, 2022, 07:57 PM
Apr 2022

that Valentin Broeksmit's father committed suicide in 2014 and that he had a drug problem .

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