Money Laundering Through St. Louis Courts and Banks Is Easy
Want to fund terrorists and clean your drug trafficking cash? Use Missouri courts!
It’s another banner week for corruption in St. Louis. On July 12, 2024, the Feds revealed another Public Integrity prosecution tied to drug traffickers.
An employee of the St. Louis County Government, Monique Campbell, admitted she used her position in the Public Health Department to shake down Mohammed Almuttan, a then-indicted drug trafficker, for bribes. If Almuttan didn’t give her and her people a regular cut of his business, she would shut down his grocery store. Even better, she had just started working for the County Government, and wasn’t really a health inspector!
Almuttan had the last laugh though, since he was an FBI informant the whole time, had the FBI give him the cash to pay the bribe, and then Campbell got pinched. Five years later.
Almuttan may be a convicted drug trafficker but his cooperation with the American government has resulted in at least six successful Federal felony prosecutions. I figure there are more to come! He was apparently solicited for bribes by former Congressman and current foreign agent Lacy Clay, so this could get even more interesting!
How useful is a government as corrupt as St. Louis?
It probably sounds like a pain to live in a place as corrupt as St. Louis. From my perspective, it sure is! Last week, just as I fully briefed my civil rights case against the family court system (and friends!) at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the St. Louis County Court reached into the business accounts of my consultancy and just took out $5100. Just “transferred” it to the St. Louis County Court. Without due process, or reason, or…anything. LOL. I tried to discuss this with my bank, Together Credit Union, but given their connections to the Carpenters Union that has laundered Chinese money into St. Louis elections, I don’t expect the conversations to be very fruitful. Maybe the FBI, CFPB, and National Credit Union Administration will have more luck after my recent reports.
So, that’s not very useful to me. But who would maybe love it?
How about hostile intelligence services who want to launder money through the Midwest Mad Max Thunderdome pseudogovernment? I mean, obviously, if you pay off local “government” inspectors, they change the paperwork in Missouri courts at will. Do you think a foreign government might find that handy?
Let’s ask Lev Parnas, the Ukrainian/Russian/Chabad gangster who used the Railway Exchange construction project to launder money to operatives that attacked the 2020 election!
You guys remember that one? Back in 2019, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman—both since convicted for Federal felonies—took their salaries out of a fake construction project in St. Louis to fund their operations in Ukraine with Rudy Giuliani to dirty up Joe Biden before his presidential run. Given that St. Louis Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed was also taking bribes from Mohammed Almuttan—along with multiple aldermen!—the St. Louis government was likely to be docile and allow shenanigans.
I mean, obviously, Israeli and Russian intelligence would know all about that corruption through various spyware platforms, and if Reed, Boyd, and Collins-Muhammad suddenly grew a conscience, you could have Bill Barr’s DOJ get a tip from a foreign “ally,” and boom, they’re in prison.
And if there’s paperwork in the court system that implicates you? Bro, you just forge a judge’s signature. Easy Peasy!
Hold on, how easy is it to forge judicial documents?
I know, I know. You’re thinking, “Garland, that’s nuts, you can’t just change documentation!”
Oh dear, sit right down and I’ll tell a tale of my 14 years on the ground as an operative here in St. Louis. Yes, yes, it’s a violation of 18 USC 1519 if you alter or destroy court or police paperwork and you take more than $10,000 in Federal funds as an institution, which everybody here does.
Also, you might say, “Garland, we just saw your thread about those St. Louis police officers who were charged with 18 USC 1519 over turning off their Israeli-compromised Axon body cameras! Those cops from Northwoods, where Cori Bush is from!”
And yeah, that’s interesting. And really new.
Trust me, they’ve been into forging judicial paperwork here long before I got to witness destruction of evidence in my own case. Ironically, there was a recent Federal prosecution that revealed more corruption than it exposed.
In the case of United States of America v. Andrew Gavin Wynne, a St. Louis attorney was prosecuted for identity theft because he trafficked documents that falsely bore a judge’s signature. He was transferring assets from one party to another using a family law case with a judgment that was more than ten years old - rendering it invalid. As soon as there was some inquiry into this unusual real estate transaction, reportedly the St. Louis County judges threw the book at him and recommended that the Feds take him down.
I was at Wynne’s sentencing hearing, and I heard the comments of his Federal Public Defender, Bev Beimdiek, to the court. She reflected to the court that Wynne’s behavior was “crazy” and “ridiculous” and “the dumbest thing anybody could do.”
Now, this caught be a bit sideways, because I have had attorneys misrepresent documents to me in St. Louis the exact same way. I’ve seen many cases in which the attorneys of the St. Louis Bar forge judge’s signatures digitally and traffic draft documents without stamps from the clerk. It happens all the time. I have received these type of documents from the Clerk of the Court herself. So this comment from Beimdiek seemed beyond naive.
The above comment really stuck out - sorry, your honor, my client was overwhelmed by St. Louis parents fighting for their kids, so he went crazy.
Oh, is that what you can do with St. Louis family court? Report that any connection to it is an excuse for trafficking illegally signed documents? Or argue that the “domestic relations exception” applies to any Constitutional violations?
Then I guess if you wanted to set up a fake transaction between people not really married—and if the banks in St. Louis simply steal cash from businesses and hand it to the 21st Circuit Court—then that would be a dandy way to transfer huge sums of money with no oversight.
Like, if you wanted to flood St. Louis real estate with foreign money, use the properties for human trafficking, and then sell the assets off multiple times—with the proceeds going to fund Silicon Valley startups through St. Louis natives like Sam Altman and Jack Dorsey—if anyone tried to hold you accountable, you could just shield yourself with judicial immunity and the domestic relations exception?
Wow. Dirty stuff.
You might cross the line, though, when that money ends up in defense tech.
And perhaps that line has indeed been crossed.