by:
Pam Martens, CounterPunch
| Report
Wall Street’s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of
government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150
million of taxpayer money going to equip a government facility in lower
Manhattan where Wall Street firms, serially charged with corruption, get
to sit alongside the New York Police Department and spy on law abiding
citizens.
According to newly unearthed documents, the planning for this high tech
facility on lower Broadway dates back six years. In correspondence
from 2005 that rests quietly in the Securities and Exchange
Commission’s archives, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly promised Edward
Forst, a Goldman Sachs’ Executive Vice President at the time, that the
NYPD “is committed to the development and implementation of a
comprehensive security plan for Lower Manhattan . . . One component of
the plan will be a centralized coordination center that will provide
space for full-time, on site representation from Goldman Sachs and other
stakeholders.”
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