{"id":1220,"date":"2014-11-07T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2014-11-07T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T13:48:04","slug":"the-9-billion-witness-meet-jpmorgan-chases-worst-nightmare-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase&#8217;s Worst Nightmare | Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/the-9-billion-witness-20141106'>The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase&#039;s Worst Nightmare | Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn&#8217;t take it anymore. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I thought, &#8216;I can&#8217;t sit by any longer.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fleischmann is a tall, thin, quick-witted securities lawyer in her late thirties, with long blond hair, pale-blue eyes and an infectious sense of humor that has survived some very tough times. She&#8217;s had to struggle to find work despite some striking skills and qualifications, a common symptom of a not-so-common condition called being a whistle-blower.<\/p>\n<p>Fleischmann is the central witness in one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history, possessing secrets that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon late last year paid $9 billion (not $13 billion as regularly reported \u2013 more on that later) to keep the public from hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2006, as a deal manager at the gigantic bank, Fleischmann first witnessed, then tried to stop, what she describes as &#8220;massive criminal securities fraud&#8221; in the bank&#8217;s mortgage operations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/the-9-billion-witness-20141106#ixzz3IOGK5Bxj <\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/the-9-billion-witness-20141106#ixzz3IOGFE1sU<br \/>\nFollow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase&#039;s Worst Nightmare | Rolling Stone. She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn&#8217;t take it anymore. &#8220;It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I thought, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[949,950,948,709],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-alayne-fleischmann","tag-fraud","tag-jp-morgan-chase","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}