#Peter Bernegger

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Kayla Gogarty at MMFA:

Amid Kamala Harris’ surging fundraising, right-wing media are alleging that Democratic PAC ActBlue is laundering money through a Virginia donor, claiming there were more than 22,000 donations listed for that individual, totaling over $800,000. But according to data from the Federal Election Commission, the alleged donor actually gave hundreds of thousands to WinRed and other Republican PACs. Regardless, the claim spread — including to former President Donald Trump — and right-wing media figures called on attorneys general to investigate. At least two Republican attorneys general have announced they are looking into it. After President Joe Biden announced that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, fundraising for her campaign surged. Amid that surge, right-wing personalities accused ActBlue of engaging in a money laundering scheme.

As part of these accusations, some right-wing media figures and social media accounts amplified data from a website for a tax-exempt organization, Election Watch, reportedly founded by serial election denier Peter Bernegger, which provides “smurfing data by state.” (“Smurf” apparently refers to “an individual whose ID may have been used to launder money into political campaigns.”) Users can click on a state to see the so-called “smurf” donors, which are apparently identified by “numbers and patterns of transactions” in FEC data “that indeed appear to be highly questionable.”

Right-wing media have seemingly latched onto the first Virginia entry, which the website claims made 22,619 transactions, totaling $839,466. According to FEC data for an individual of the same name living in the same zip code (or at the affiliated address), that individual has made nearly 25,000 transactions since 2019, totaling more than $765,000. Nearly half of the transactions were with WinRed — totaling nearly $380,000. Additional hundreds of thousands went to other Republican PACs. Only four transactions were apparently made with ActBlue — totaling just $66. (Previously, Republican donors have reportedly been “steered … into unwitting donations,” unknowingly signing up for weekly recurring contributions when contributing through WinRed.)

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07/29/24: Just over an hour after Trump made his post, Virginia’s Jason Miyares said his office was “looking into” the claims about ActBlue and money laundering. On social media, Miyares responded to Kirk and said, “My office is aware of these allegations and rest assured, we are looking into it.” The same day, Dan Bishops — the Republican candidate for North Carolina AG — suggested he would take action against ActBlue on “January 1” after being elected. [Twitter/X, 7/29/24, 7/29/24]

07/30/24: Wyoming Republican Secretary of State Chuck Gray announced an “investigation into ActBlue,” citing “nationwide money laundering and identity theft allegations.” In a press release, which he posted on social media, Gray encouraged “any Wyoming citizen who has reason to believe a political action committee stole their identity or falsely reported a donation using their name” to report it to his office. [Wyoming Secretary of State media release, 7/30/24]

08/01/24: Right-wing activist James O’Keefe said he would “personally pay” $3,000 to people who confront potential “smurfs” in their neighborhoods. O’Keefe, the ousted founder of Project Veritas who is now trying to build up O’Keefe Media Group, posted on social media: “Uncover ActBlue Smurfs and get paid like our Citizen Journalists,” urging people to go to Election Watch’s site, “ choose your state, enter your zip code, and start investigating. Not comfortable going door-to-door? … Submit potential Smurfs and links to your FEC findings through our X DMs or Signal.” The post included a video showing how to use Bernegger’s Election Watch site and instructing people to “knock on these people’s doors,” tell them they “seem to be a victim of a money laundering scheme,” and get bank statements from them. [Rolling Stone, 6/20/24; Twitter/X, 8/1/24]

At least two states’ Republicans are conducting politically-motivated investigations against Democratic fundraising agent ActBlue, baselessly accusing them of “laundering money.”

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In Milwaukee, a robust street-fighting group of activists, using data our StopBogusBallots.com team provided, challenged 4,900 addresses in the City of Milwaukee today.

Milwaukee allows any citizen to challenge any registration on the Wednesday before an election.

These 4,900 challenges are now added to the 55,000 challenged in June and 94,000 challenged in another recent lawsuit mostly through the work of Peter Bernegger.

Thus in a state where the 2024 margin of victory is likely around 25,000 ballots, the team identified over 150,000 addresses, able to receive a mail-in ballot, falling into one of 17 ineligible categories.

Such categories include “moved to another state,” or undeliverable address.  Those categories are listed on the scoreboard on StopBogusBallots.com.

The StopBogusBallots team recognized for over 2 years the 2024 election would be determined in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

Recent analyses from multiple sources agree there is no reasonable way for Trump to win without Pennsylvania. Only if an outlier comes in – one not prepped by the Lefties with NGO ballot mills – maybe Virginia or New Hampshire – can Trump win if Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are lost.

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Peter Bernegger has brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices over alleged fraud – now he faces criminal charges

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In late winter, I wrote a series on election fraud. The day after the last, the man I had written about Saturday, Peter Bernegger, a freaking hero, was arrested. Later that week another subject, Christina Bobb, Trump’s lawyer, and the Republican National Committee’s voter fraud expert, had to fly to Arizona and turn herself in. The left can no longer win on the merits of their ideas, much less their actions. They have created one catastrophe after another. The only way they can win elections is steal them. And they have developed three hundred separate, specific, methodologies to do it. In my … Continue reading →

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Breaking: "Campaign Finance Mule" Investigative Reporter/Researcher Peter Bernegger Arrested on Day of Wisconsin Primary - Charged With Rarely Used Crime | The Gateway Pundit - https://devishop.gives/breaking-campaign-finance-mule-investigative-reporter-researcher-peter-bernegger-arrested-on-day-of-wisconsin-primary-charged-with-rarely-used-crime-the-gateway-pundit/

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Breaking: "Campaign Finance Mule" Investigative Reporter/Researcher Peter Bernegger Arrested on Day of Wisconsin Primary - Charged With Rarely Used Crime | The Gateway Pundit | by Brian Lupo

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please Welcome to the Festival that don’t take place in a location that disappeared, this is the idea of the bookers of the Ghost Festival in Switzerland, involved are around 300 Swiss bands that mainly make a living from their music (Switzerland is expensive country, the bands they mostly poor), the problem is that most of them are their own Boss of their own company and cant get any money support  from the government .. so are the bookers (the sound guys and stage etc they are not included in that project) anyway its a great idea.. it shows there is nothing going on .. please don’t let that infrastructure Die what we build up for such a long time .. culture grows, you can’t click it on or off.. https://www.ghost-festival.ch/index.php

the Line up.. alphabetically :) hahahah insane....

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Swiss Banks Are Onboarding Crypto Clients and Assets

Another Swiss private bank has announced in a statement that it’s open to on-board cryptocurrencies. Maerki Baumann private bank in Zurich is open to accepting assets that were generated with cryptocurrencies, “under the condition that strict regulatory and legal requirements are fully complied with,” Managing Director Stephan Zwahlen told news.Bitcoin.com.

Also read: Many Swiss Bankers and Financial Regulators Quit to Join the Crypto Space

“Switzerland Knows How to Protect Assets”

Assets raised from cryptocurrency transactions are usually rejected by most Swiss banks, but there are a few exceptions. Maerki Baumann has reportedly followed Falcon and officially accepted handling such assets, but it does not offer asset management solutions in cryptocurrencies nor accounts in crypto, the Managing Director of the bank told news.Bitcoin.com. Funds raised from speculative crypto transactions, payments for services rendered, or from mining successes are increasingly growing, together with the popularity of cryptocurrencies. But these assets reportedly often meet rejection from Swiss banks. 

Vontobel, another Swiss private bank, together with Falcon, stands among the lenders that are agreeing to handle cryptocurrency-based investments on behalf of their clients.

The Swiss Contradiction

One of the contradictions about Switzerland which is aiming to become a “crypto nation” is that despite having hundreds of the most famous crypto companies worldwide based in Zug, hardly any of them have a Swiss bank account. The main reasons for that is the fear of black money that has tainted some of the major Swiss banks throughout history, Marc Bernegger, a Swiss Fintech and crypto entrepreneur, told news.Bitcoin.com in an interview in Zurich.

Bernegger has been a fintech entrepreneur for close to 20 years, and said he read Satoshi’s whitepaper in 2012. He then immediately felt that Bitcoin had a lot of potential. “I understood from day one the impact that the technology was going to have. Back in the old days, hardly anybody in the traditional financial services industry was even hearing about Bitcoin,” he said. 

Marc Bernegger, Board Member at Crypto Finance AG

“Nowadays, when it comes to cryptocurrencies, there is an understanding of financial services that reminds [me of] the old banking privacy,” Bernegger said. “It isn’t about replicating that again, but I think Switzerland has a strong reputation and knowledge about protecting assets.”

However, the Swiss entrepreneur noted that one of the issues in Switzerland is that, officially, there are hardly any banks doing crypto. “Everyone goes to Bank Frick, a tiny bank in Liechtenstein, one hour away from Zurich,” Bernegger explained, but this is slowly changing, he observed. Bernegger, who is also a board member at Crypto Finance Group, is part of a task force led by Switzerland’s Finance Minister, Ueli Maurer, and Economy and Education Minister, Johann Schneider-Ammann, including federal and local officials, as well as members of various startups and legal representatives. “The initiative is aiming to create a more crypto friendly environment for companies,” Bernegger explained, “the names of the banks [involved] are not public but there are a few major [Swiss] banks and several other Swiss banks which will soon on-board crypto clients,” he revealed. “I personally think that six months from now, it will be quite common to open accounts as a corporate client doing crypto business in Switzerland.”

Finance Minister Invites Banking Association and National Bank to Discuss

“Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer recently took the initiative to invite the Swiss Banking Association (SBA), the Swiss National Bank (SNB), and the Finma Banking Supervisory Authority for a round table to discuss the issue of the banking accounts of crypto companies. As a result of this round table, SBA has formed a working group to tackle the issue and is in the lead,” Peter Minder, the head of communication of the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, told news.Bitcoin.com in an email.

Swissquote Group, the Swiss online bank, reported a profit of 25.7 million CHF (~$26.1million USD) from the first half of this year, which represents an increase of 44 percent over the same period of the previous year since it started accepting crypto, news.Bitcoin.com reported earlier this month. From a turnover perspective, Swissquote is reportedly one of the Swiss companies with the highest revenue out of all crypto businesses in Switzerland.

Hypothekarbank Lenzburg, a Swiss legacy bank, also opened the door to crypto and blockchain firms in June of this year. Its CEO Marianne Wildi, who trained as a computer programmer, argued that Switzerland should adopt a crypto Swiss franc. The bank also evaluated potential compliance risks before deciding to open up to blockchain and crypto firms, and also informed Finma of its decision.

Swiss Crypto Companies Target Banking Licenses

Swiss crypto companies are also actively trying to acquire banking licenses with Finma, the nation’s financial market supervisory authority, and may soon operate just like banks. It’s a matter of time, some say.

The main problem for Finma is that many of the cryptocurrency tokens are considered securities, and in order to handle securities as a broker in Switzerland, a company needs to get a broker’s licence, which seemingly no one in Switzerland within the crypto industry has at this stage. “Finma differentiates payment tokens, utility tokens, and asset-backed tokens. The payment and utility tokens aren’t considered securities,” Yassine Ben Hamida, a former Swiss banker now fully involved in crypto projects, told news.Bitcoin.com during a phone interview in Switzerland. “The problem is that you need to have a broker/dealer’s license in order to handle the tokens that are considered securities,” he confirmed.

Crypto Broker, which belongs to Crypto Finance AG, was not granted the security dealer’s license from Finma, as the company isn’t trading security tokens at the moment, its CEO said in an email. However the company is in the process of obtaining the license, it was confirmed to news.Bitcoin.com.

Crypto Fund, an asset manager also part of Crypto Finance Group, is the first company in Switzerland which is able to distribute foreign funds to “qualified investors” or so-called high net worth individuals. But they aren’t the only ones, sources involved in the Swiss crypto world say, for there are allegedly many Swiss independent companies that jave launched certificates in order to invest in crypto. “This is one of our first milestones, because we are now ultimately moving to become a fully licensed Asset Manager and Broker. Crypto Finance Group is aiming at becoming the most advanced and secure investment and technology provider globally,” Mark Bernegger, who also serves as a board member at Crypto Finance Group, told news.Bitcoin.com in a statement.

Custody: How Crypto Assets Can Be Kept in Banks

Mainstream media recently reported that Goldman Sachs is considering a plan to offer custody for crypto funds, without citing any solid source. Japan’s Nomura, Bank of New York Mellon, JP Morgan Chase, and Northern Trust are all reportedly thought to be working on or exploring custody offerings. In Switzerland, there aren’t any banks at the moment offering deposit services of those securities. However, this is a market that will develop quickly, according to a former UBS executive and also a former Julius Baer executive in Switzerland.

Gazprombank Switzerland Ltd., a state-owned Russian bank, and third largest in the country by assets, is also looking into cryptocurrency asset custody service and working with auditors and with Finma, according to sources close to the matter. However, the bank couldn’t make any official statement on the topic at this stage, a spokeswoman told news.Bitcoin.com.

What do you think of Swiss crypto companies aiming to operate just like banks? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Politicians, Judges, Lawyers, and of course, the violence class, Police, are all in on it. Corrupt to their core.

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Month of Music

Mani Matter (& covers)

Gotthard, Krokus

Nella Martinetti, Francine Jordi, Beatrice Egli

Nicole Bernegger, Brandy Butler

TNT, Kleenex, QL

Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Tryptikon (Coroner)

Yello, The Young Gods

Eurovision 1: Lyss Assia, Furbaz, Peter, Sue & Marc

Eurovision 2: Pietro and the MusicStars, DJ BoBo

Eurovision 3: Anna Rossinelli, Sebalter

Plüsch, Züri West, Mash, Subzonic

Stephan Eicher, Peter Reber, Henri Dès

Eluveitie (Anna Murphy, Cellar Darling, Nulceus Torn), Abinchova

Zeal and Ardor, Schammasch

Rumpelstilz, Patent Ochsner, Stiller Has

Bastian Baker, Nickless

Chaostruppe, Nativ, Baze

Müslüm, EffE

Peach Weber

Bligg, Stress, Greiss

Sophie Hunger, Faber, Heidi Happy

Dodo, Lo & Leduc, Nemo

Adrian Stern, Florian Ast, Gustav, Baschi

Sektion Kuchichäschtli, Breitbild, Liricas Analas

BOY, Lunik, Jaël

Natacha, Mia Aegerter

77 Bombay Street, Pegasus

Die Minstrels, Trio Eugster

The latest version of this post can be found here, and I will also add the links for each musician’s/band’s post when I posted them!