The Mafia Godfather of Puerto Rico

War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony

 

In the film Godfather II, the birthday of mobster Hyman Roth was celebrated by cutting a cake of Cuba…which was exactly what Roth and the Mafia were doing at the time.

They were cutting up Cuba, and making stratospheric profits, with the complicity of the Cuban government.

The 2015 “Puerto Rico Investment Summit” featured the same Mafia and the same cake…only this time, the cake was Puerto Rico.

The cake-cutting…or rather, the Summit…was held in the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel, which is owned by billionaire hedge funder John Paulson.

Paulson made his greatest fortune…billions of dollars…by profiting on home foreclosures during the U.S. 2007 mortgage crisis.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/queens-born-john-paulson-fortune-home-foreclosures-article-1.344791

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/the-moral-compass-missing_b_358856.html

In 2007 alone, Paulson made over $15 billion “by short-selling the U.S. housing market, effectively betting on its collapse, even perpetuating the magnitude of the collapse.”

http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2010/04/28/was-john-paulson-the-goldman-scandals-real-ringmaster/

MEYER LANSKY…HYMAN ROTH…JOHN PAULSON

“Hyman Roth” was a fictional re-creation of the real-life Meyer Lansky. Now in Puerto Rico, Meyer Lansky lives again…in the body of John Paulson.

Paulson does not merely own the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel. He also owns La Concha Rennaisance Hotel, the San Juan Beach Hotel, the St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort, and a $500 million condominium development on Dorado Beach.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/rich-investors-flock-to-puerto-rico-as-the-debt-crisis-pushes-to-the-poor-to-the-mainland/208707/

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/flhm45geee/inside-billionaire-john-paulsons-puerto-rico-real-estate-investments/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-26/paulson-s-puerto-rico-paradise-lures-rich-fleeing-taxes

http://www.wsj.com/articles/some-investors-bet-on-puerto-rico-hotels-1438092464

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/realestate/puerto-rico-luring-buyers-with-tax-breaks.html

http://puertoricosir.com/insights/news/paulson-buys-puerto-ricos-bahia-beach-resort/

He owns the 326,000 square-foot AIG office building in the posh Hato Rey financial district, and “various land parcels for future development.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-15/paulson-co-adds-to-puerto-rico-real-estate-with-aig-building

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-puertorico-paulson-idUSL2N0QL20Q20140815

He owns 8.6% of Banco Popular, the island’s largest bank.

http://www.barrons.com/articles/SB51005578970899454132304580142130668645828

http://prospect.org/article/how-hedge-funds-are-pillaging-puerto-rico

He also owns a large share of Puerto Rico’s “public debt.”

If the US congress extends no Chapter 9 bankruptcy relief to the island, then Paulson will soon own a portion of Puerto Rico’s physical infrastructure (ie water, electricity, schools, roads, bridges).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/us/politics/puerto-rico-money-debt.html

https://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/2015/10/05/public-private-partnerships-for-the-plunder-of-puerto-rico/

Thanks to Act 20 and Act 22 – two Puerto Rico “economic development” statutes – Paulson will not pay any interest, dividend, or capital gains taxes on any of this hotel, office, or infrastructure income for twenty years.

U.S. CONGRESS…PUERTO RICO GOVERNMENT…JOHN PAULSON…ALL IN BED TOGETHER

With complicity from the US congress and the government of Puerto Rico – particularly from Alberto Baco, the “Secretary of Economic Development” – this mortgage vulture named John Paulson is now feeding on Puerto Rico.

He is buying “distressed properties” all over the island, even as one million Puerto Ricans had to leave the island, over the past fifteen years.

In fact, Paulson is buying the SAME “distressed properties” that these Puerto Ricans had to leave behind…and he buys them for pennies on the dollar.

John Paulson perfected his predatory business model in the 2007 US mortgage crisis. He helped to deepen that crisis…and now, he brings this business model to Puerto Rico.

In 2016, when a US Financial Control Board is installed, Paulson will sink his teeth even deeper into the Puerto Rican economy – with the full force and authority of a “control board,” which will ensure that Paulson gets paid.

BIGGER THAN U.S. STEEL

In Godfather II, Hyman Roth said “we’ll be bigger than US Steel.”

But in 2012, US Steel lost $74 million. In 2013, it lost $1.8 billion. In 2014, when US Steel finally reported net earnings of $104 million, that was its highest earnings report since 2008.

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/us-steel-2013-in-review-cm315490

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-states-steel-corporation-reports-highest-full-year-net-income-since-2008-300026622.html

By contrast, in 2013, John Paulson’s take-home pay was $2.3 billion.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-states-steel-corporation-reports-highest-full-year-net-income-since-2008-300026622.html

Which means that compared to US Steel’s best year, John Paulson is making 21 times ( 2,100 % ) more than US Steel.

John Paulson is already bigger than US Steel…about 21 times bigger….

And getting bigger in Puerto Rico.

Hyman Roth, Meyer Lansky and the Cuban Mafia never had it so good.

 

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10 Comments on “The Mafia Godfather of Puerto Rico

  1. Gifthorse: Your pathetic speech of fear and guilt dates back to the Cold War and that ended in 1989. Get a life,It’s 2019.There are original documents signed by Thomas Jefferson where he showed interest in ‘adquiring’ Puerto Rico and Cuba,Yep.since early 19th Century and according to French, British and North American consular letters available in book format at any bookstore here,under Spanish rule USA controlled no less than 26% of Puerto Rico’s import and export market by 1870. So no,we never needed your ‘protection’,nor your citizenship,funds or anything,44% of our actual economy is based in non USA countries,mostly with European nations using euros,which are stronger that your dollars and please,don’t bring that recycled rant about capitalism while USA trades with China,Venezuela and Cuba right now.

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  3. Take back your island and give back our federal funds. Wave your flag of freedom and deny our protection. Revoke your citizenship and let us return your people. Be free and #SavePuertoRico, push out those gringos, those capitalist, and watch your island thrive. After the next hurricane, the next economic disaster, the next Zika, hold your breath and wait…we won’t be there. When your bridges collapse, your crime triples, and the DR decides to overthrow you, don’t call us.

    Good Luck!

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  7. A blood sucking vampire who is taking advantage of Puertorico’s colonial and economic problems. Cono despierta boricua

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  8. Reblogged this on kingraized and commented:
    Americans have raped pillaged exhausted our people and resources. They have infected the Puerto Rican mind set and way of life. Puerto Riquenllo Enough is Enough. Give us oír Isand back withe the same vigor needs in which you took it !

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  9. Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
    The “many” benefitting of the “few” … Sadly the law of life, right? Puerto Rico continues to be ransacked …. #SavePuertoRico …. Someone!!

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