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1 Don’t Fall For Their Hype And PR BS. Here is a look behind their curtain... Figure 1: Mark Zuckerberg and "The Paypal Mafia" pledged to operate as a secret organized crime entity 2 The Dirty Deeds Of Silicon Valley Volume One A detailed look at the people who run political bribery schemes in big tech By Westin Parker Draft 1.4 – Sneak Peek - Stay Tuned For Future Revisions 3 FORWARD When people think about electoral bribery and political corruption, they probably can’t imagine anything more than a man passing a manila envelope of cash to another man under a table at a funky diner. In fact, modern bribery involves every other form of hidden payola except the envelope-under-the- table. The tricks of corruption have evolved. This book is dedicated to exposing those tactics, which are destroying America. Every citizen suffers when their elected and appointed public officials sell the government like it was a garage sale. That is going to change. I swear to you, based on new open-source forensics software and millions of voters using the internet: “Deeds done in the dark will always come to light” I knew Mayor’s of San Francisco and their families, U.S. Senators and their families, Senior White House executives and their families and the people that bribed them. Most of the tech oligarchs and politicians who spend billions of dollars controlling the media to create a facade of kindly altruism around themselves are murdering, lying, sick, thieving sociopaths. Their dirty deeds don’t come-dirt- cheap. Their dirty deeds involve trillions of dollars of dirty money taken from taxpayers pockets! Should federal law enforcement bosses at the West Coast SEC, FTC, FBI, DOJ, and other offices, be arrested for refusing to arrest crooks Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, etc.? Thousands of reports of crimes against these tech mobsters have been filed yet they get “protection” instead of “prosecution”! The lawyers at the “corporate cover-up” crooked law firms of Perkins Coie, Mofo, Covington & Burling, and Wilson Sonsini certainly should be arrested for making the law take a right-turn straight up Satan’s anus. The dirty tricks operatives Steve Westly, Steve Spinner, David Plouffe, et al, certainly deserve some federal prison pick-up-the-soap time. If you doubt or deny any of these facts, please meet us at 450 Golden Gate Ave, on the 13th Floor in the investigator’s conference room to present any facts you may have. On a live global web broadcast at that location, we accept any challenge to the veracity of these claims. If you can supply credible evidence that any assertion in here is either 1.) not true or 2.) intentioned parody that is not parody, then we will remove the assertion. In intimate detail, here is how the crooks operate: 4 Figure 2: Steve Jobs was exposed putting hit jobs on competitors in the DOJ 'No Poaching' Lawsuit and his staff called him an "asshole" “FU” was his motto. Cook, Jobs cabin boy replacement, is now under investigation for lying about the huge drop in demand for iphones 5 FORWARD................................................................................................................................................4 SCUMBAGS..............................................................................................................................................8 SLOW DRIP INFILTRATION.................................................................................................................11 HIDING FROM THE TRUTH................................................................................................................28 THE CHALLENGE OF CORRUPTION AND THE ELECTIONS.......................................................34 PAYING BRIBES WITH THE STOCK MARKET................................................................................37 SOLYNDRA AND TESLA: PUMP AND DUMP...................................................................................54 WHAT TO TELL A SHILL REPORTER.................................................................................................63 THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY........................................................................................................106 THE COVERED-UP DEATHS AND SAFETY DEFECTS..................................................................107 WHO DO THEY HIRE TO PRODUCE THEIR FAKE TESLA ‘FAN-BOY’ POSTINGS?................115 SILICON VALLEY SHAREHOLDER SUITS PROVE TECH LIES ABOUT PRODUCT SAFETY 128 WHO ARE SILICON VALLEY’S MEDIA BITCHES?.......................................................................131 PAYING A SENATOR TO BE YOUR DOG.........................................................................................138 THE PAYPAL MAFIA DRINKS IT’S OWN KOOL AID....................................................................146 NEWS DIAGRAMS AND CRIME CHARTS......................................................................................157 ADDITIONAL LINKS, EVIDENCE, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES.................................166 MUCH MORE COMING. STAY TUNED…........................................................................................227 6 News and Congressional report sources are used in this report, those sections are copyrighted per each original author. Fair Use, Public WIKI rights, Public Domain, U.S. First Amendment Rights, Freedom of the Press, SLAPP, EU Press rights, UN Press Rights, and associated rights, are claimed and enforced. Some contributors did not want to be named in this report. This book is cooperatively, interactively, collaboratively, authored by the individuals who witnessed these crimes, the reporters who documented these crimes, the public who suffered from these crimes and the investigators who investigators these crimes. A special thanks to the tipsters and whistle- blowers inside the White House, The FBI, The Department of Energy and City Hall’s who made this all possible. The best punishment for these bastards is to make their companies and assets lose billions of dollars in stock value by using news media, CIA and forensic tactics. The main weapon that is being used is: THE TRUTH! It is the one thing they fear most! Please re-post this file on torrent sites, blogs, and your website to help all members of the public get involved in the interdiction of the crooks mentioned herein. 7 SCUMBAGS While certain names (like Steven Chu, Larry Page, David Dummond, Lachlan Seward, Andy Rubin, Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk, Nicholas Guido Denton, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Spinner, Steve Westly, Tim Draper, Vinod Khosla, Harvey Weinstein, Eric Schmidt, etc. ) stick out in the current news when the topic of ‘creepy asshole tech mobsters’ comes up, one name sticks out more than others. A darling of the Silicon Valley oligarchs is Tesla Motors. We will ‘pick on’ them, first, because Musk and his Cartel have been so audacious in their corruption. They have bribed almost as many public officials as Google, in order to keep a lid on things. They are the poster child of dirty deeds and payola. Tesla Motors has been accused of being a front for economic, social, political, moral and ethical crimes masquerading under the facade of “an altruistic ‘clean-tech’ company”, in order to discourage circumspection. The sketchiest things about Tesla and Elon Musk include: - The origins of Tesla and why Elon Musk had nothing to do with creating Tesla Motors and how he thieved the company from Marty, the actual founder - The relationship between Tesla owners and senior White House staff - The relationship between Tesla owners and Department of Energy staff who had ownership in Tesla - The relationship between Tesla owners and yuppie spy agency ‘In-Q-Tel’, many of whom now work for Musk - The relationship between Tesla owners and political campaign financiers - The fact that the ‘Silk Road’ murder and drug trafficking site was founded at Musk’s SpaceX company and Musk like the lead programmer of ‘Silk Road’. In-Q-Tel is deep in Musk operations, In- Q-Tel was caught with 4 tons of cocaine on it’s airplanes. Drug user Musk and drugs seem to go hand- in-hand. - The dirty quid pro quo relationship between Tesla owners and Google, especially Eric Schmidt, Musk bromance Larry Page and Google investors - The relationship between Tesla owners and Goldman Sachs - The relationship between Tesla owners and Russian oligarch “business men” - The relationship between Tesla owners and media outlets such as Think Progress, New America Foundation, ALICE, Media Matters, Gawker Media, Google, and related information control consortium's - The relationship between Tesla owners and John Doerr's Kleiner Perkins Company - The relationship between Tesla owners, the National Venture Capitol Association, the Silicon Valley 8 Cartel and the coordinated venture capital “Black-listing” of Tesla competitors - The relationship between Tesla owners and Troll Farm services that provide “click-farm”, “meat- puppet”, “sock-puppet”, “fake likes” and automated contrived social media - The deaths, and traumatic injuries, of Tesla Motor's staff, investors, investigators and customers - The war profiteering, and lobbied invasion efforts, by Tesla investors, for Afghanistan, Bolivian and other foreign rare earth mining contracts - The details of the political campaign kick-backs, and the pay-offs of gratis taxpayer cash, tax credits, real estate, government contracts, write-offs, stock warrants, and other payola as criminally “unjust rewards” - The known, and covered-up, dangers of toxic vapors, fires and explosions of lithium ion
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