8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (11)
#10399912 at 2020-08-24 07:37:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13309: "The Riots Just Go On" Edition
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/24/amp-chairman-David-Murray-resigns-over-companys-handling-of-sexual-harassment-allegations?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true
#10399459 at 2020-08-24 05:59:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13308: "No quiet Sundays around here" Edition
>>10399453
Resignations in the news 8/21/2020 thru 8/23/2020 - part 3
CISA infrastructure chief Brian Harrell resigns
https://fcw.com/articles/2020/08/20/johnson-harrell-resigns-cisa.aspx
Leader of SW Louisiana Parish Resigns to Focus on Health
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana/articles/2020-08-18/leader-of-sw-louisiana-parish-resigns-to-focus-on-health
Days after contract renewal, Hockey India's high performance director David John resigns
https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/hockey/days-after-contract-renewal-David-john-resigns-6563335/
Jefferson County deputy resigns over Facebook post about Democratic convention
https://www.wrdw.com/2020/08/20/jefferson-county-deputy-resigns-over-facebook-post-about-democratic-convention/
Local pastors retiring after nearly 18 years
https://www.miamiok.com/news/20200820/local-pastors-retiring-after-nearly-18-years
Jim Adams Retiring After 26 Years On Soddy Daisy Commission; Collegedale Incumbents Run Again
https://www.chattanoogan.com/2020/8/20/413869/Jim-Adams-Retiring-After-26-Years-On.aspx
Mayor of town in Kochi Prefecture resigns over groping incident
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/mayor-of-town-in-kochi-prefecture-resigns-over-groping-incident
Sequim city councilor Troy Tennseon resigns
https://www.sequimgazette.com/news/sequim-city-councilor-troy-tennseon-resigns/
AMP chairman, director resign amid shareholder revolt over board's handling of sexual harassment allegations
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-24/amp-chair-David-Murray-director-john-fraser-resign-boe-pahari/12588366
Florida mayor suspended after hurricane fraud charges
https://wbng.com/2020/08/20/florida-mayor-suspended-after-hurricane-fraud-charges/
Harnett County state representative resigns after pleading guilty to funneling campaign cash into personal account
https://abc11.com/David-lewis-resigns-plea-deal-harnett-county-representative/6380546/
Entire board resigns at Islamic Relief Worldwide
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/entire-board-resigns-at-muslim-charity-tnktpgb2g
Ripley Water Superintendent Resigns
https://www.post-journal.com/news/local-news/2020/08/ripley-water-superintendent-resigns/
Victorian Liberal powerbroker Marcus Bastiaan resigns from party following branch stacking allegations
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-24/marcus-bastaain-resigns-victorian-liberal-branch-stacking/12588886
Fredonia Central Schools accepts Reyda's resignation
https://www.observertoday.com/news/local-region/2020/08/fredonia-accepts-resignation-of-reyda/
Sonia Gandhi to Step Down as Congress President, Final Decision at CWC Meeting Tomorrow: Reports
https://www.latestly.com/india/politics/sonia-gandhi-to-step-down-as-congress-president-final-decision-at-cwc-meeting-tomorrow-reports-1981666.html
West Seneca cop involved in Planned Parenthood incident resigns
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/west-seneca-cop-involved-in-planned-parenthood-incident-resigns/article_92e6a560-e3ec-11ea-b5af-0372c4cca7ed.html
Kellyanne Conway to leave the White House at the end of the month, citing the need to focus on her family
https://archive.vn/XVWJa
MetService CEO of 9 years quietly resigns with Commerce Commission decision looming
https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/metservice-ceo-of-9-years-quietly-resigns-with-commerce-commission-report-due-soon
On Sunday (August 23), the 31st anniversary of Hawkins' murder, the station announced in a statement they'd fired longtime executive Paddy Duke for his involvement in his death.
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.57484/title.longtime-hot-97-executive-paddy-duke-fired-for-involvement-in-yusef-hawkins-murder
#10398892 at 2020-08-24 04:42:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13308: "No quiet Sundays around here" Edition
Global Announcements
>>10347454 POTUS responds to the 'Q'
>>10347880 Transcript of POTUS responding to the 'Q'
>>10394806 BUN on QAnon as a domestic terrorist threat - probably NEVER designated as such by FBI
Notables are NOT endorsements
13307
>>10398737 Last of Hercules recovery vehicles leaving USMC service
>>10398575 China July pork imports hit record 430,000 tonnes
>>10398549 Someone called 911 about a home invasion and 3 cops were abmbushed and shot in Baltimore
>>10398495 Claudia Conway freak out just before President Trump and RNC convention
Baker Change
>>10398369 Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Statement
>>10398274 Richard Grenell on Trump: 'He Doesn't Play Identity Politics'
>>10398258, >>10398303, >>10398324, >>10398335, >>10398366 Gas pipleine explosion in Syria
>>10398257 Andy Ngô Outbreak of anti-police violence in Kenosha, Wisc. after a police-involved shooting of a black male. #BlackLivesMatter
>>10398238 James Comey Claims Former Trump Advisor Steve Bannon Is 'in a World of Trouble'
>>10398120 China pledges 100 years of gold backed currency in a deal to reopen trade negotiation
>>10398875 #13307
#13306
>>10397618 , >>10397792, >>10398021 Truman Center membership: Lots of familiar names
>>10397947 Fresh FLOTUS tweet: Readout from the reopening of The Rose Garden
>>10397812 , >>10397842, >>10397879, >>10397936, >>10397942 Kellyanne Conway to leave the WH II
>>10397654 , >>10397724, >>10397753, >>10397834, >>10397989, >>10398037 Kellyanne Conway to leave the WH I
>>10397789 Video: ALICE Tunnel Boaring Machine
>>10397782 Gas pipeline explosion causes 'total blackout' in Syria - state media
>>10397744 Melanie Sharp diggz
>>10397727 Tweet: Man escorted off United Airlines flight for wearing a Trump 2020 mask
>>10397690 , >>10397910 Planned Parenthood Quietly Aborts Annual 'Margaret Sanger Award'
>>10397673 Dan Scavino scheduled to speak at the GOP convention this week
>>10397612 Cars being tagged for human trafficking?
>>10397555 New Catherine Herridge tweet re FISA, including pens
>>10397539 DNC Tweet and video from James Woods
>>10397521 Planefaggin'
>>10397519 , >>10397751 Yale Epidemiologist on HCQ: Fauci, FDA Caused Hundreds of Thousands of deaths
>>10397501 MSM negativity on Plasma Therapy noted
>>10397464 Full Show: Life Liberty and Levin 8/23/20
>>10397458 , >>10397478 Video: BOOM! HCQ! Fresh DJT
>>10397433 , >>10397487 3 Police Officers Shot in Maryland around 6pm
>>10397405 , >>10397632, >>10397755 Video: Protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin after man shot by police
>>10397397 , >>10397409 Hazmat/Gas situation in NJ that started as a fire
>>10398056 #13306
#13305 Baker change
>>10397178 , >>10397210 @USMC: Marsh Madness - connects to Q posts
>>10397247 @USNavy: 2020 is a wrap. Week two will be an even bigger BLAST!
>>10397175 Planefaggin'
>>10397141 Fresh DJT tweet and video
>>10397061 Pompeo to address Republican convention from Jerusalem
>>10396973 Steve Tisch's daughter, Forrest Gump Producer & Owner Of The New York Giants, suicided
>>10396986 , >>10397010 Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 23, 2020
>>10396964 Sentencing hearings to start for New Zealand mosque shooter
>>10396926 The guy who pointed out YT deleting dislikes on Biden Videos made a second video
>>10396851 , >>10396851 Political Scientist Gives President Trump 91% Chance of Re-Election
>>10396722 Trump's CoS says POTUS wants FDA to 'feel the heat' to quicken vaccine development
>>10396782 Daily Guidance And Press Schedule For August 24 2020
>>10396781 The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. "We are the storm"
>>10396770 HRC Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell's Nephew Alexander Djerassi
>>10396748 Video refresh: Alex Jones Apologizes to James Alefantis (Pizzagate) - March 26, 2017
>>10396744 National Guard Can Assist at Polling Places with State Approval, Officials Say
>>10396740 , >>10396747 "Qanon" hit piece down under
>>10396728 Hezbollah Shot Down Israeli Drone Over Southern Lebanon
>>10396711 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10396707 , >>10397004, >>10397201 Flip this !!!
>>10396642 Perkins Coie did Amazon's 1997 IPO
>>10397322 #13305
Previously Collected Notables
>>10396558 #13304, >>10397322 #13305, >>10398056 #13306
>>10394205 #13301, >>10394997 #13302, >>10395786 #13303
>>10391967 #13298, >>10392694 #13299, >>10393469 #13300
>>10389604 #13295, >>10390408 #13296, >>10391198 #13297
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#10398063 at 2020-08-24 03:03:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13307: Kellyanne - Less Drama More Mama Edition
Global Announcements
>>10347454 POTUS responds to the 'Q'
>>10347880 Transcript of POTUS responding to the 'Q'
>>10394806 BUN on QAnon as a domestic terrorist threat - probably NEVER designated as such by FBI
Notables are NOT endorsements
#13306
>>10397618 , >>10397792, >>10398021 Truman Center membership: Lots of familiar names
>>10397947 Fresh FLOTUS tweet: Readout from the reopening of The Rose Garden
>>10397812 , >>10397842, >>10397879, >>10397936, >>10397942 Kellyanne Conway to leave the WH II
>>10397654 , >>10397724, >>10397753, >>10397834, >>10397989, >>10398037 Kellyanne Conway to leave the WH I
>>10397789 Video: ALICE Tunnel Boaring Machine
>>10397782 Gas pipeline explosion causes 'total blackout' in Syria - state media
>>10397744 Melanie Sharp diggz
>>10397727 Tweet: Man escorted off United Airlines flight for wearing a Trump 2020 mask
>>10397690 , >>10397910 Planned Parenthood Quietly Aborts Annual 'Margaret Sanger Award'
>>10397673 Dan Scavino scheduled to speak at the GOP convention this week
>>10397612 Cars being tagged for human trafficking?
>>10397555 New Catherine Herridge tweet re FISA, including pens
>>10397539 DNC Tweet and video from James Woods
>>10397521 Planefaggin'
>>10397519 , >>10397751 Yale Epidemiologist on HCQ: Fauci, FDA Caused Hundreds of Thousands of deaths
>>10397501 MSM negativity on Plasma Therapy noted
>>10397464 Full Show: Life Liberty and Levin 8/23/20
>>10397458 , >>10397478 Video: BOOM! HCQ! Fresh DJT
>>10397433 , >>10397487 3 Police Officers Shot in Maryland around 6pm
>>10397405 , >>10397632, >>10397755 Video: Protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin after man shot by police
>>10397397 , >>10397409 Hazmat/Gas situation in NJ that started as a fire
>>10398056 #13306
#13305 Baker change
>>10397178 , >>10397210 @USMC: Marsh Madness - connects to Q posts
>>10397247 @USNavy: 2020 is a wrap. Week two will be an even bigger BLAST!
>>10397175 Planefaggin'
>>10397141 Fresh DJT tweet and video
>>10397061 Pompeo to address Republican convention from Jerusalem
>>10396973 Steve Tisch's daughter, Forrest Gump Producer & Owner Of The New York Giants, suicided
>>10396986 , >>10397010 Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 23, 2020
>>10396964 Sentencing hearings to start for New Zealand mosque shooter
>>10396926 The guy who pointed out YT deleting dislikes on Biden Videos made a second video
>>10396851 , >>10396851 Political Scientist Gives President Trump 91% Chance of Re-Election
>>10396722 Trump's CoS says POTUS wants FDA to 'feel the heat' to quicken vaccine development
>>10396782 Daily Guidance And Press Schedule For August 24 2020
>>10396781 The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. "We are the storm"
>>10396770 HRC Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell's Nephew Alexander Djerassi
>>10396748 Video refresh: Alex Jones Apologizes to James Alefantis (Pizzagate) - March 26, 2017
>>10396744 National Guard Can Assist at Polling Places with State Approval, Officials Say
>>10396740 , >>10396747 "Qanon" hit piece down under
>>10396728 Hezbollah Shot Down Israeli Drone Over Southern Lebanon
>>10396711 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10396707 , >>10397004, >>10397201 Flip this !!!
>>10396642 Perkins Coie did Amazon's 1997 IPO
>>10397322 #13305
#10397329 at 2020-08-24 01:47:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13306: Marsh Madness Edition
Global Announcements
>>10347454 POTUS responds to the 'Q'
>>10347880 Transcript of POTUS responding to the 'Q'
>>10394806 BUN on QAnon as a domestic terrorist threat - probably NEVER designated as such by FBI
Notables are NOT endorsements
#13305 Baker change
>>10397178 , >>10397210 @USMC: Marsh Madness - connects to Q posts
>>10397247 @USNavy: 2020 is a wrap. Week two will be an even bigger BLAST!
>>10397175 Planefaggin'
>>10397141 Fresh DJT tweet and video
>>10397061 Pompeo to address Republican convention from Jerusalem
>>10396973 Steve Tisch's daughter, Forrest Gump Producer & Owner Of The New York Giants, suicided
>>10396986 , >>10397010 Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 23, 2020
>>10396964 Sentencing hearings to start for New Zealand mosque shooter
>>10396926 The guy who pointed out YT deleting dislikes on Biden Videos made a second video
>>10396851 , >>10396851 Political Scientist Gives President Trump 91% Chance of Re-Election
>>10396722 Trump's CoS says POTUS wants FDA to 'feel the heat' to quicken vaccine development
>>10396782 Daily Guidance And Press Schedule For August 24 2020
>>10396781 The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. "We are the storm"
>>10396770 HRC Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell's Nephew Alexander Djerassi
>>10396748 Video refresh: Alex Jones Apologizes to James Alefantis (Pizzagate) - March 26, 2017
>>10396744 National Guard Can Assist at Polling Places with State Approval, Officials Say
>>10396740 , >>10396747 "Qanon" hit piece down under
>>10396728 Hezbollah Shot Down Israeli Drone Over Southern Lebanon
>>10396711 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10396707 , >>10397004, >>10397201 Flip this !!!
>>10396642 Perkins Coie did Amazon's 1997 IPO
>>10397322 #13305
#13304
>>10396513 @DLAMIL Sunlit Saber
>>10396444 Potus: Watch Mark Levin, on air now. Great! @FoxNews
>>10396434 The Bee: Trump Asked To Please Stop Making 'Pew Pew' Noises Throughout Space Force Strategy Meeting For The Keks!
>>10396371 OG Content by ABCU|8
>>10396342 RudyG "I finally succeeded in getting the number of words in my convention speech below the number of small time Marijuana smokers Comrade Kamala put in prison."
>>10396337 WSJ Poll: Swing Voters Like Trump
>>10396335 Clear signs that food shortages are worrying China's communist overlords
>>10396261 Sidney Powell: WHAT a coincidence! I'm just stunned. . . STUNNED……
>>10396064, >>10396104 Metrópolis (1927) | Full Movie, restored and with English titles and text, also pdf book
>>10396024, >>10396034, >>10396102, >>10396408, >>10396356? Mil planes moving out of storms path
>>10395997 Painting over BLM....again!!!
>>10395927 Pompeo: Looking forward to sharing with you how my family is more SAFE and more SECURE because of President Trump. See you all on Tuesday night!
>>10395925 Firefighters, military planes, troops arrive in California to fight massive blazes
>>10395917 CNN's Stelter says network will do live 'fact-checks' of Republican convention, gets blasted for not doing same with Democrats /keep blasting!
>>10395905 California Vote By Mail Scam Released
>>10395858 Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. announced the list of speakers for this week's historic Republican National Convention.
>>10396558 #13304
#13303
>>10395767 PLANDEMIC 2
>>10395596 Meme Ammo updated
>>10395511 Hearing tomorrow with Mr. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General
>>10395498, >>10395530 President Trump has already approved emergency declarations for Puerto Rico and Louisiana.
>>10395491 anon: Rally the Troops, Get this Treatment to All the People!
>>10395479 President Trump approved a major disaster declaration for California as they battle 2 wildfires……
>>10395271 LEON BLACK diggz
>>10395214, >>10395227 Presser ends at 5:50, crickets
>>10395117, >>10395136, >>10395166, >>10395344, >>10395366 If you Have Recovered from WuFlu Be a Hero,Save Lives, Help Crush The Wuflu forever
>>10395112, >>10395132, >>10395229, >>10395259, >>10395611 17,000 FDA workers
#13303
Previously Collected Notables
>>10394205 #13301, >>10394997 #13302,
>>10391967 #13298, >>10392694 #13299, >>10393469 #13300
>>10389604 #13295, >>10390408 #13296, >>10391198 #13297
>>10387302 #13292, >>10388104 #13293, >>10388833 #13294
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#10397322 at 2020-08-24 01:46:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13305: Festering Pie Holes For DNC BTFO Edition
#13305 Baker change
>>10397178 , >>10397210 @USMC: Marsh Madness - connects to Q posts
>>10397247 @USNavy: 2020 is a wrap. Week two will be an even bigger BLAST!
>>10397175 Planefaggin'
>>10397141 Fresh DJT tweet and video
>>10397061 Pompeo to address Republican convention from Jerusalem
>>10396973 Steve Tisch's daughter, Forrest Gump Producer & Owner Of The New York Giants, suicided
>>10396986 , >>10397010 Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 23, 2020
>>10396964 Sentencing hearings to start for New Zealand mosque shooter
>>10396926 The guy who pointed out YT deleting dislikes on Biden Videos made a second video
>>10396851 , >>10396851 Political Scientist Gives President Trump 91% Chance of Re-Election
>>10396722 Trump's CoS says POTUS wants FDA to 'feel the heat' to quicken vaccine development
>>10396782 Daily Guidance And Press Schedule For August 24 2020
>>10396781 The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. "We are the storm"
>>10396770 HRC Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell's Nephew Alexander Djerassi
>>10396748 Video refresh: Alex Jones Apologizes to James Alefantis (Pizzagate) - March 26, 2017
>>10396744 National Guard Can Assist at Polling Places with State Approval, Officials Say
>>10396740 , >>10396747 "Qanon" hit piece down under
>>10396728 Hezbollah Shot Down Israeli Drone Over Southern Lebanon
>>10396711 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10396707 , >>10397004, >>10397201 Flip this !!!
>>10396642 Perkins Coie did Amazon's 1997 IPO
#10397258 at 2020-08-24 01:39:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13305: Festering Pie Holes For DNC BTFO Edition
Ubdated Notes
Dough: >>10396589
>>10397178 , >>10397210 @USMC: March Madness - connects to Q posts
>>10397175 Planefaggin'
>>10397141 Fresh DJT tweet and video
>>10397061 Pompeo to address Republican convention from Jerusalem
>>10396973 Steve Tisch's daughter, Forrest Gump Producer & Owner Of The New York Giants, suicided
>>10396986 , >>10397010 Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 23, 2020
>>10396964 Sentencing hearings to start for New Zealand mosque shooter
>>10396926 The guy who pointed out YT deleting dislikes on Biden Videos made a second video
>>10396851 , >>10396851 Political Scientist Gives President Trump 91% Chance of Re-Election
>>10396722 Trump's CoS says POTUS wants FDA to 'feel the heat' to quicken vaccine development
>>10396782 Daily Guidance And Press Schedule For August 24 2020
>>10396781 The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. "We are the storm"
>>10396770 HRC Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell's Nephew Alexander Djerassi
>>10396748 Video refresh: Alex Jones Apologizes to James Alefantis (Pizzagate) - March 26, 2017
>>10396744 National Guard Can Assist at Polling Places with State Approval, Officials Say
>>10396740 , >>10396747 "Qanon" hit piece down under
>>10396728 Hezbollah Shot Down Israeli Drone Over Southern Lebanon
>>10396711 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10396707 , >>10397004, >>10397201 Flip this !!!
>>10396642 Perkins Coie did Amazon's 1997 IPO
#10397124 at 2020-08-24 01:23:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13305: Festering Pie Holes For DNC BTFO Edition
Notes @ 500
Dough: >>10396589
>>10397061 Pompeo to address Republican convention from Jerusalem
>>10396973 Steve Tisch's daughter, Forrest Gump Producer & Owner Of The New York Giants, suicided
>>10396986 , >>10397010 Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 23, 2020
>>10396964 Sentencing hearings to start for New Zealand mosque shooter
>>10396926 The guy who pointed out YT deleting dislikes on Biden Videos made a second video
>>10396851 , >>10396851 Political Scientist Gives President Trump 91% Chance of Re-Election
>>10396722 Trump's CoS says POTUS wants FDA to 'feel the heat' to quicken vaccine development
>>10396782 Daily Guidance And Press Schedule For August 24 2020
>>10396781 The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. "We are the storm"
>>10396770 HRC Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell's Nephew Alexander Djerassi
>>10396748 Video refresh: Alex Jones Apologizes to James Alefantis (Pizzagate) - March 26, 2017
>>10396744 National Guard Can Assist at Polling Places with State Approval, Officials Say
>>10396740 , >>10396747 "Qanon" hit piece down under
>>10396728 Hezbollah Shot Down Israeli Drone Over Southern Lebanon
>>10396711 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10396707 , >>10397004 Flip this !!!
>>10396642 Perkins Coie did Amazon's 1997 IPO
#10396917 at 2020-08-24 00:59:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13305: Festering Pie Holes For DNC BTFO Edition
Notes Incoming
Dough: >>10396589
>>10396851 Political Scientist Gives President Trump 91% Chance of Re-Election
>>10396722 Trump's CoS says POTUS wants FDA to 'feel the heat' to quicken vaccine development
>>10396782 Daily Guidance And Press Schedule For August 24 2020
>>10396781 The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. "We are the storm"
>>10396770 HRC Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell's Nephew Alexander Djerassi
>>10396748 Video refresh: Alex Jones Apologizes to James Alefantis (Pizzagate) - March 26, 2017
>>10396744 National Guard Can Assist at Polling Places with State Approval, Officials Say
>>10396740 , >>10396747 "Qanon" hit piece down under
>>10396728 Hezbollah Shot Down Israeli Drone Over Southern Lebanon
>>10396711 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10396707 Flip this !!!
>>10396642 Perkins Coie did Amazon's 1997 IPO
#10396775 at 2020-08-24 00:42:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13305: Festering Pie Holes For DNC BTFO Edition
>>10396750
firmed yo
you had me at yo btw
kek
habby Sunday and bakes to you too
>>10396744 National Guard Can Assist at Polling Places with State Approval, Officials Say
>>10396740, >>10396747 "Qanon" hit piece down under
>>10396728 Hezbollah Shot Down Israeli Drone Over Southern Lebanon
>>10396711 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10396707 Flip this !!!
>>10396642 Perkins Coie did Amazon's 1997 IPO
#13305
This what i got, red text notable tweaker might not agree
tyvm for relief
have a guud one
#10396711 at 2020-08-24 00:33:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13305: Festering Pie Holes For DNC BTFO Edition
AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
AMP chairman David Murray has resigned and top executive Boe Pahari has stood down as AMP Capital chief executive after investors demanded accountability over the handling of the sexual harassment case at the troubled wealth giant.
AMP told the market on Monday morning Francesco De Ferrari would remain as chief executive and would replace Mr Pahari as AMP Capital chief executive on an interim basis. Mr Pahari will return to his previous role within AMP Capital's infrastructure equity business.
Non-executive director Debra Hazelton will replace Mr Murray as chair, effective immediately.
Former Treasury secretary John Fraser voluntarily resigned as non-executive director, as a result of Mr Murray's decision to leave the company.
"These changes respond to feedback expressed by some major shareholders regarding the appointment of Mr Pahari as AMP Capital CEO on 1 July 2020," AMP said in a statement.
AMP promoted Mr Pahari to lead AMP Capital after penalising him $500,000 - or a quarter of his annual bonus -as part of the settlement of a sexual harassment complaint made by former colleague Julia Szlakowski in 2018.
Details of the complaint were made public last week causing major investors and federal politicians to call for accountability and transparency.
Mr Murray said AMP needed to continue its "transformation" under Mr De Ferarri with the support and confidence of investors, institutional clients, employees, partners and clients, "without distractions".
"The board has made it clear that it has always treated the complaint against Mr Pahari seriously. My view remains that it was dealt with appropriately in 2017 and Mr Pahari was penalised accordingly. However, it is clear to me that, although there is considerable support for our strategy, some shareholders did not consider Mr Pahari's promotion to AMP Capital CEO to be appropriate.
"Although the board's decision on the appointment was unanimous, my decision to leave reflects my role and accountability as chairman of the board and the need to protect continuity of management, the strategy and, to the extent possible, the board," Mr Murray said.
New AMP chair Ms Hazelton acknowledged Mr Murray's leadership and thanked him for "professionalism, dedication and commitment" to AMP.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/amp-chairman-David-Murray-resigns-top-exec-boe-pahari-stands-down-20200824-p55ol3.html
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (16)
#20322661 at 2024-01-29 08:57:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
Horror behind the gate: how internet sleuths rescued 'Nenita'
Clues peppered through thousands of text messages, a blink-and-you-miss-it detail in this photo, and an Australian charity that harnesses an army of citizen sleuths has just exposed a heinous crime.
David Murray - January 28, 2024
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A prolific sex abuse ring in The Philippines has been busted by an Australian charity that uses citizen sleuths to track down child victims of heinous crimes, leading to the rescue of a five-year-old girl.
Destiny Rescue was instrumental in the dramatic removal from harm of the girl and the arrest of her mother, another relative and a neighbour.
A former New Zealand detective working for the charity was able to find her by following clues in thousands of messages allegedly sent by the neighbour over more than 18 months.
In the end, it was a distinctive green gate in the background of imagery that led to the breakthrough, with the investigator using Google's Street View to find the gate and locate the girl.
She was allegedly offered along with other children for abuse that would be live-streamed online - a growing scourge fed by Australians - for as little as $40.
Suspected customers had been traced to Australia, the US, UK and Norway, the charity said.
Her neighbour, Melchor ?Santos, and the girl's mother are accused of child exploitation and rape, in a case that will ignite ?debate about non-government organisations being involved in child abuse investigations overseas.
Destiny Rescue said it had been told by Philippines authorities that Santos had been linked to almost 400 Australians.
The former New Zealand ?detective based in Thailand for Destiny Rescue said he was tipped off in early 2022 that videos and live-streaming of child abuse were being offered to users of online dating site Thai Friendly.
The investigator informed Thai authorities and, to corroborate, he established contact with the person offering the abuse. He said he was almost immediately sent child abuse videos, without requesting them, as a preview of what could be provided in live-streaming.
The investigator, known by the pseudonym "Caleb" to allow him to perform undercover work, traced the child-sex trafficker to Taguig in Manila and called in the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in The Philippines.
A young girl, given the pseudonym Nenita, was repeatedly ?offered for live-streaming, despite Caleb's refusal to buy any child ?exploitation material.
Caleb said that as the NBI built a case, he maintained contact with the trafficker while attempting to establish the girl's location.
Exchanging about 7000 messages with the trafficker, the investigator followed clues in the con?versations and videos to find a Facebook page for the girl's mother.
Walking Taguig's ramshackle streets virtually on Google's Street View for "hundreds of hours", Caleb eventually came across the green gate that was in the background of imagery of the girl.
He had been about to give up on the search just before finding it.
"I was working with a colleague on the case," he said.
"At two o'clock in the morning, I rang them and said `look, I'm done, I don't think I can do it'. "For some reason, I gave it another five minutes and it was just right there and very unique. That was the last piece of the puzzle."
It established the victim's ?location, and Philippines authorities arranged the raid.
Investigators from Britain's National Crime Agency, local media and Destiny Rescue representatives, including Caleb, were present for the rescue of Nenita and the arrest of her mother, ?another male relative and Santos last July.
Caleb engaged with Santos on the day of the arrest to help authorities catch him actively offering a child for exploitation.
Santos allegedly offered that day to live-stream several children, including a baby in a cot and, lastly, Nenita.
Destiny Rescue chief executive Paul Mergard said it "will be the biggest case that we've ever worked on that taps into Aussies as pedophiles exploiting kids".
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#20152622 at 2023-12-30 13:28:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
Sextortion a case of 'life and death' for kids
David Murray - DECEMBER 30, 2023
Vulnerable children and teenagers are being actively encouraged to take their own lives by sexual ?extortionists, with tragic cases in Australia, the US and other countries of deaths by suicide as a result.
Online safety experts and child-abuse investigators have slammed social media giants for not doing the basics to protect users from the ruthless scammers, who are trapping children into sending intimate images and then threatening to expose them to family and friends.
Hundreds of reports are being made to federal police every month of children sharing intimate images to overseas-based scammers who are using hacked and fraudulent social media ?accounts to pose as attractive youths on social media sites.
Julie Inman Grant, head of the nation's online safety ?regulator eSafety, urged parents to "swallow any fear or judgment or ?bewilderment" if a child admits to being targeted.
Ms Inman Grant's urgent message is for anyone caught up in "sextortion" to immediately cut all contact with and block black?mailers, seek help, and to make no payments. "These criminals are skilled and know how to manipulate," she said.
US authorities have pursued extortionists in Nigeria, successfully extraditing two brothers who allegedly encouraged teenagers and young men to take their own lives when they couldn't immediately pay the blackmail demands.
Faced with difficulties arresting sextortionists overseas, the Australian Federal Police and financial watchdog Austrac are trying to cut off their money supply, closing thousands of bank accounts linked to sexual blackmail.
Retired detective Jon Rouse, former operations manager with the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, took the issue up with tech giant Meta after observing the prolific targeting of people on its Instagram platform. The company had technology for more than a decade to detect and stop accounts being used for rampant extortion of ?people of all ages, he said.
Meta recently teamed with the AFP to target teenagers with online safety messages, but ?eSafety says Instagram remains one of the worst sites for sextortion complaints.
"In many cases they hit up married men and they have absolutely taken them to the cleaners to make sure that they 'don't tell my wife, don't tell my family, destroy my life'," Mr Rouse said.
"Tragically our kids are being caught up in this. They don't care who you are.
"The overarching problem is that we're dealing with countries where collectively, we've never been able to stop the scams. Nearly everyone has been subjected to a Nigerian scam."
Ms Inman Grant, who is being inundated with reports of young men being targeted, has powers to remove intimate content shared without consent.
"The number of sexual extortion reports to this scheme has ?exploded in recent years - but are likely just the tip of the iceberg," she said. "It's a wicked problem that regulators, law enforcement and governments globally are struggling to throttle."
Under the Online Safety Act, eSafety could do little against ?social media platforms who failed to take preventive action.
"While we can compel information from platforms about certain user safety issues under the basic online safety expectations, those expectations are not ?enforceable as such," Ms Inman Grant said.
A Meta spokeswoman said the company had created preventative technology that identified potentially suspicious adults who tried to interact with young people online.
She said it had helped develop the global Take It Down platform that allowed young people to ?prevent their intimate images being shared.
"As this type of activity often occurs across a range of apps and services this is an issue that ?requires cross-industry collaboration," the spokeswoman said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/sextortion-a-case-of-life-and-death-for-kids/news-story/a8c4a34e6f9f547a78e43758b42566da
#20114546 at 2023-12-22 14:13:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
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Security agencies mobilise to stem attack on operator of 10 hospitals and 26 aged-care facilities
SARAH ISON, JOSEPH LAM and David Murray - DECEMBER 22, 2023
Cyber criminals have hacked into one of Australia's biggest health networks, stealing data in an attack that has set off alarm bells across the nation.
The federal government's cyber security defence capabilities have joined forces to contain and investigate the extent of the breach at St Vincent's, operator of 10 hospitals and 26 aged-care facilities in NSW, Queensland and Victoria.
It's the latest in a series of major cyber attacks over the past 18 months that have led to tens of millions of people having their records stolen or data compromised from organisations including Medibank, Optus and Latitude Financial.
St Vincent's confirmed on Friday it was the target of a cyber security breach which it had first detected and begun responding to on Tuesday.
Initial investigations led to the health network on Thursday discovering data had been removed from its systems.
"St Vincent's is working to determine what data has been removed," a spokesman for the organisation, which employs 30,000 people across the country, said on Friday.
Two sources close to the investigation said there had been no communication from the criminals as of Friday afternoon.
The healthcare sector globally has been the target of malware attacks that lock down an organisation's data until a ransom is paid, severely impacting services and posing a direct threat to patient safety.
St Vincent's has instead been the victim of theft, leaving services functioning normally.
"It's a really small amount of information at the moment. There's been no ransomware deployed in the system," one source said.
However investigators were still seeking to confirm if more data was stolen, how long the cyber criminals were in the system and what else they did while they had access, along with trying to determine who was behind the attack.
Shortly after the St Vincent's statement, Acting National Cyber Security Co-ordinator Hamish Hansford confirmed he was working with the health network, alongside the National Office of Cyber Security and the Australian Signals Directorate to contain the breach and investigate possible damage.
"My team is working with Services Australia, the Department of Health and Aged Care, and relevant state and territory agencies to ensure a co-ordinated government response to this incident and to mitigate any flow-on effects," Mr Hansford said.
"We're advised that this incident has not affected the ability of St Vincent's to deliver their important services to patients, residents, and the broader community across their hospital, aged care, and virtual and home health networks."
A hospital spokesman said an investigation was underway as was an action plan with "key activities (which) include securing and containing the incident, understanding what the cyber criminals have done, and identifying what data may have been accessed and stolen".
The St Vincent's breach arrives just one month after a cyber attack on a multinational logistics operator which controls four Australian ports responsible for 40 per cent of the nation's exports.
The breach on the Australian arm of Dubai-based DP World on November 10 shut down the company's ports in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, and resulted in a backload of 30,000 containers.
The breach at the time sparked major concerns over the ability for imports to reach Australian shelves in time for Christmas.
It was later revealed the personal details of former and current staff were stolen by a hacker.
A St Vincent's spokesman said the hospital network was still able to function despite early mitigation efforts to contain the breach.
"Our priority is the health and safety of our patients, residents, and our people, and the continuity of St Vincent's services for the community," he said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/security-agencies-mobilise-to-stem-attack-on-operator-of-10-hospitals-and-26-agedcare-facilities/news-story/7270d2c75b3952a1c0a786c99c0c985a
#19656358 at 2023-10-03 09:30:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
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Unmasked: the face of Australia's worst alleged pedophile - Ashley Paul Griffith
MACKENZIE SCOTT, David Murray and MICHAEL MCKENNA - OCTOBER 3, 2023
This is the face of the childcare worker alleged to be Australia's worst pedophile.
Ashley Paul Griffith can be identified for the first time under new Queensland laws that allow alleged sex offenders to be named before they are committed to stand trial.
The 45-year-old former childcare worker stands accused of 1623 charges relating to the abuse of 91 little girls over a 15-year period in a dozen centres spanning states and continents.
The Australian could reveal his identity as of 12.01am on Tuesday when new laws came into effect to "modernise" the reporting of such offences and hold perpetrators to account, with media now able to name those accused in a slew of cases before the courts.
However, other accused serious sex offenders, including a high-profile Australian man and two reality show contestants, can still not be named due to court-issued suppression orders that override the legislative changes.
Griffith has remained anonymous since his arrest by the Australian Federal Police in August 2022. The case was made public by the AFP a year later in August after more than 1000 child exploitation charges were laid against him for offences at 10 centres in Brisbane, one in Sydney's inner-west and another in Pisa, Italy between 2007 and 2022.
It followed an eight-year-long investigation that had allegedly connected the Gold Coast man to child abuse material posted online in 2014, AFP officers said while announcing his arrest eight weeks ago.
Court documents viewed by The Australian allege he systematically recorded each assault and rape on phones and cameras, keeping meticulous files of each of his victims. The charges revealed a pattern of escalating offending, with two little girls at one centre raped more than two dozen times each over several months.
Prior to his arrest, Griffith worked as a director of a childcare centre on Brisbane's northside. In a since-deleted staff profile on the childcare centre's website that has been viewed archived online, Griffith said he was a "firm believer in play-based learning".
"I love engaging children in meaningful experiences that inspire their play and learning," he said.
"Young children are natural inquirers, exploring the world through their senses, seeking answers and building theories. As an Early Childhood Teacher I hope to share this journey, learning side-by-side children and inspiring them."
The first known alleged offences took place at a Brisbane centre in 2007 and continued until Griffith moved to Pisa, Italy in 2013, to work at an international school. He moved back to Australia in 2014, settling in Sydney's inner-west and working at the same centre until 2017. He returned to Brisbane for family reasons in 2018, according to his staff profile.
It was while working in Europe that police allege he posted abuse material to an online forum, with 27 charges laid for the distribution of child pornography outside of Australia between October 2013 and June 2014.
The AFP said families attending the affected locations had been notified prior to the arrest being made public.
Griffith had previously been investigated by Queensland Police on two occasions in 2021 and again in 2022, but no charges were laid despite a former colleague alleging she had seen him kissing a child.
His blue card which allowed him to work with children was unaffected as a result, with court documents revealing he had allegedly continued to offend up until two months before his arrest.
The changes to Queensland laws to publicly name adults charged with rape and other prescribed sexual offences before they are committed to stand trial were passed in September.
The move was born from the landmark Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce to bring Queensland more in line with the rest of the country.
Previously, media could not name accused persons until after they were committed to trial, due to concerns over "reputational damage" caused if somebody maliciously made up complaints.
Griffith is due to appear in court again on November 6.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/unmasked-the-face-of-australias-worst-alleged-pedophile/news-story/5701e1a810bab1646a293141392a66e2
#19289945 at 2023-08-03 11:42:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
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Australia's alleged worst pedophile 'first detected in police sting'
David Murray, MACKENZIE SCOTT and LYDIA LYNCH - AUGUST 3, 2023
One of the nation's worst alleged pedophiles went deeper underground after a dark web child-sex ring was busted by Australian authorities almost a decade ago.
The childcare worker, now charged with the rape and sexual abuse of 91 young girls in 10 centres in Queensland, one in NSW and one overseas, allegedly shared images and videos on the dark web with members of a site called The Love Zone in 2013 and 2014, The Australian understands.
The Queensland Police Service's internationally renowned Task Force Argos investigators infiltrated and then secretly took over the global network of child-sex offenders in 2014 after the head administrator had been identified as South Australian public servant Shannon Grant McCoole, who sexually abused at least seven children in his care.
Among images and videos of abuse scooped up in the operation were those shared by the 45-year-old Gold Coast-based childcare worker, who the Australian Federal Police this week announced had been charged with 1623 child abuse offences over the 15 years leading up to his arrest last ?August.
It was only his sharing of those images that led to his identification and arrest, with AFP victim identification team members cracking the case when they were last year able to trace bedsheets in the background to a Brisbane childcare centre at which he worked.
After The Love Zone sting, Task Force Argos moved into a new undercover operation, secretly taking over and running a child abuse forum called Childs Play on the dark web so they could covertly gather details on members and identify victims.
Meanwhile, having narrowly escaped detection and arrest, the Australian childcare worker is believed to have become more cautious about material he shared, The Australian has been told.
More than 100 children were rescued in the Childs Play operation. Lawyers, military personnel, IT workers and a healthcare professional working with children were among those arrested.
The Love Zone operation led to the arrest of "Britain's worst pedophile", Richard Huckle, who was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of 23 children from Malaysia and Cambodia.
Investigations into the childcare worker are understood to have taken a toll on the Australian victim identification experts and investigators, some of whom had children in childcare, with counselling offered to help them deal with the trauma of their work.
Disturbingly, the childcare worker had the confidence to allegedly abuse children in centres across Brisbane, home city of some of the world's best victim identification experts and investigators, from Argos and the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation.
The AFP alleges the man recorded his offending on phones and cameras while working in childcare centres in Brisbane between 2007 and 2013, at an overseas centre in 2013 and 2014, at a Sydney centre between 2014 and 2017, and again in Brisbane from 2018 to 2022.
AFP assistant commissioner Justine Gough on Wednesday said the childcare worker "had all the qualifications he needed to work in the centres".
The Attorney-General, Yvette D'Ath, said Queensland's pro?tection watchdog had "acted ?appropriately".
"After being briefed by my department on the shocking case involving dozens of child abuse allegations, I'm advised our Blue Card Services acted appropriately," she said.
"Queensland's Blue Card system is one of if not the most stringent in the nation."
Ms D'Ath said the man's working with children approval was suspended and employers alerted the day Blue Card Services was notified by the AFP of the alleged disqualifying offences.
The efforts of the AFP, and NSW and Queensland police were applauded by NSW Premier Chris Minns, who went on to call for a tightening of loopholes in relation to working with children checks, including better communication and information sharing between state and territory jurisdictions.
"It would be an unimaginable job to go through this investigation," he said.
"And the fact that their vigilance, their dedication, their caring and their empathy for victims is what drives them to this public service is so important for law enforcement and the protection of children.
"We owe you a huge debt of gratitude and we thank you for your service."
Queensland's Child Safety Minister Craig Crawford supported Mr Minns's calls.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/australias-alleged-worst-pedophile-first-detected-in-police-sting/news-story/bf7403d6f074504cb454431be6488695
#19278301 at 2023-08-01 11:17:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
Breakthrough that led police to alleged abuser of 91 girls at daycare centres
David Murray and MACKENZIE SCOTT - AUGUST 1, 2023
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A trusted childcare worker was ?secretly able to prey on 91 young girls across 15 years, and was only exposed as one of the nation's most heinous paedophiles when investigators traced bed sheets seen in a horrific video back to one of his centres, police allege.
In a case some of Australia's most senior officers have described as "unfathomable" and "beyond the realm of anyone's ?imagination", the 45-year-old Gold Coast man allegedly targeted vulnerable pre-pubescent girls in 10 childcare centres in Brisbane, one in Sydney and another overseas before his arrest in August last year.
Authorities and the centres face questions about how the man could have roamed from one workplace to the next and allegedly offended with impunity for so long - and how he appears to have been able to keep his Blue Card to work with children in Queensland despite two reports to police about him.
The former childcare worker has been charged with 1623 child abuse offences, including 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10. The charges against the man involved 87 child victims from Australia, and four overseas, police allege.
Queensland Police said they received the two reports about the man in 2021 and last year without being able to prove he was involved in wrongdoing at the time.
Acting Queensland assistant commissioner Col Briggs said: "Both reports were subject to ?investigation. However, there was insufficient evidence to take action against any person based on the evidence available to ?investigators at that time."
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald said it was "beyond the realms of anyone's imagination what this person did to these children"
"This is one of the most horrific child abuse cases that I have seen in nearly 40 years of policing," Mr Fitzgerald said.
Police allege the man recorded his offending on phones and ?cameras while working in Brisbane child care centres between 2007 and 2013, an overseas location in 2013 and 2014, the Sydney centre between 2014 and 2017, and again in Brisbane between 2018 and 2022.
He was only tracked down and stopped after investigators last year allegedly traced bed sheets - pictured in the background of ?horrific images and videos he posted on the dark web between 2013 and 2014 - to a Brisbane childcare centre.
Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath on Tuesday was seeking urgent briefings on how the man kept his Working with Children pass, as the opposition questioned the strengths of the Palaszczuk government's child-protection regime.
Childcare centre owners could face payouts to the alleged paedophile's victims, as the co-chair of the National Office for Child Safety's advisory board, Hetty Johnston, said children should never be left alone with any adult in a childcare centre and owners would be held responsible.
AFP assistant commissioner Justine Gough said the man "had all the qualifications that he needed to work in the centres".
Ms Gough said what the police investigation named Operation Tenterfield had uncovered would "seem unfathomable". It was "chilling and shocking news for any parent", she said at a joint news conference with Mr Briggs and NSW Police assistant commissioner Michael Fitzgerald.
"I can assure members of the Australian public that if you have not been contacted by law enforcement, it is extremely unlikely your child was allegedly offended against by the man," Ms Gough said.
Under Queensland laws, the man cannot be identified.
"The man worked at other childcare centres but the AFP is highly confident the man did not allegedly offend at those centres," the AFP said in a joint statement with Queensland and NSW counterparts.
"The AFP is also highly confident that all 87 Australian children who were recorded in the alleged child abuse material have been identified. The AFP believes the man recorded all his alleged offending. The parents of all the Australian children recorded in the alleged child abuse material have been informed of the investigation."
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#15761384 at 2022-03-02 07:51:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition
51 Australian children rescued in global police operation
David Murray - MARCH 2, 2022
More than 100 Australians have been charged with child abuse-related offences and 51 children removed from harm across the country as part of a massive global police operation spanning more than two years.
Known as Operation H globally, and as Operation Molto in Australia, it began with an intelligence referral from New Zealand authorities to international counterparts in 2019.
The referral advised thousands of offenders were using a cloud storage platform to share horrific child abuse images and videos.
The Australian Federal Police-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation has since been working with police from every state and territory to identify and investigate offenders across the country.
It also involved assistance from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and AUSTRAC.
The multinational police response has resulted in 153 children being removed from harm, including 79 in the UK, 51 children in Australia, 12 in Canada, six in New Zealand, four in the US and one child in Europe.
Some of the alleged offenders in Australia are accused of producing their own child abuse material online.
They were also sharing horrific videos produced by convicted Australian pedophile Peter Scully involving the rape and torture of girls as young as 18 months, classified as the most abhorrent produced.
In Australia, federal and state police last year formed a special task force to review 3.75 million files seized in Operation Molto. It led to the discovery of new child victims - all of them victims of "sextortion" where they had been coerced into taking and sharing images and videos of themselves.
Molto was first made public in October 2020 but has been continuing and the full scale of its work can only now be revealed.
Police from every state and territory in Australia executed 158 search warrants, charging 117 men with 1248 charges.
AFP Assistant Commissioner Lesa Gale said victims "remain front of mind for law enforcement" when referrals are received.
"Viewing, distributing or producing child abuse material is a horrific crime. Children are not commodities and the AFP and its partner agencies work around-the-clock to identify and prosecute offenders," Ms Gale said.
"The success of Operation Molto demonstrates the importance of partnerships for law enforcement, at a national level here in Australia, but also at an international level, with our colleagues in New Zealand and around the world."
New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Digital Child Exploitation Team manager Tim Houston said the operation represented a major success in international efforts to dismantle networks that sought to exploit children.
"I commend the ongoing support of our law enforcement partners domestically and across the world for their dedication and hard work," Mr Houston said.
"This operation will have an impact on the global networks that deal in the most horrific and damaging material, and we are extraordinarily proud of the effect it will have on children's lives around the world."
The alleged offenders include workers in law enforcement, construction, transport and hospitality and are aged between 18 and 61 years old.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/51-australian-children-rescued-in-global-police-operation/news-story/46f70327aab9e6b1a96c5e5ba2249b10
#15024803 at 2021-11-18 04:11:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition
Court hears offending of Bret Anthony Chesworth, caught in Operation Arkstone sting, 'particularly depraved'
Giselle Wakatama - 17 November 2021
A New South Wales paedophile who was a member of a global child abuse network should be eligible for some lenience when he is sentenced because he has contracted COVID and been bashed in jail, his lawyer says.
But prosecutors have argued that Bret Anthony Chesworth's offending was "abhorrent", "particularly depraved" and that the material he was caught with was of "the worst kind".
Chesworth, 55, was arrested by Australian Federal Police at his New Lambton Heights home, on the outskirts of Newcastle, in November last year.
He was the 15th of more than 20 suspects arrested as part of Operation Arkstone, which was established following a report from the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Chesworth was charged with nine offences and pleaded guilty to seven of those in June this year.
The guilty pleas related to the possession of child abuse material and using a carriage service to transmit and access child abuse material between March 2019 and September last year.
He also pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to offend by discussing sexual activity with an underage person and using a carriage service to prepare or plan to procure a person under 16 to engage in sexual activity.
Two charges were dropped, including a bestiality charge against his cavoodle pet dog between December 2019 and November 2020.
'Particularly depraved'
In her sentencing submission in Newcastle District Court, Commonwealth prosecutor Sarah Short said the material seen in the Chesworth case was "of the worst kind".
"It is abhorrent," she said.
"The offending is very, very serious and should be denunciated by this court.
"With the internet, there is no way to shut it down - it is the nature of internet."
Ms Short noted the distress to the children involved and said his behaviour was "particularly depraved, particularly abhorrent, especially a video".
"The offender encouraged his co-offenders to produce material to engage with those co-offenders' children and to really sexualise them," she said.
"If it had been unknown children and children cartoons, perhaps under the offending would be mid-range.
"The offender knew those were someone else's children and he encouraged those co-offenders.
"We are dealing with very young children who are seriously distressed."
COVID-positive and bashed
Defence barrister David Murray argued his client had done it tough already in Parklea prison, where Chesworth became infected during a COVID outbreak.
He said that was extra punishment that had been exacerbated by a second lockdown in response to another outbreak.
"As of Sunday last week Parklea was put into a period of lockdown, 24 hours a day," Mr Murray said.
"There are no clean clothes, no washing is done, to clean dishes in the sink of the cell they have to use hand products, there is no disinfectant and no toilet cleaning products."
Mr Murray also noted his client had been bashed.
"He has been a victim of an assault, punched in the face and had his foot stomped on multiple times," he said.
"As a result he had fractures in his foot and still wears a moon boot on his foot, because there is now very little medical treatment available."
The defence argued the offending was in the mid-range, but the prosecutor disagreed.
Judge Chris O'Brien is due to hand down his sentence on December 10.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-17/operation-arkstone-paedophile-bret-chesworth-faces-sentencing/100627578
#13833433 at 2021-06-05 06:08:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition
US, Aussie cops bring down drug lord
David Murray - JUNE 4, 2021
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Investigators have revealed a drug trafficker jailed in NSW last month was one of their biggest targets, as an unprecedented level of collaboration between Australia and the US notches up a series of blows against organised crime.
For up to a decade, Zhen Tao Qi of Sydney was the major drug trafficker that Australian authorities just couldn't catch in the act.
With direct contacts with Colombian cartels, Qi was suspected of being behind huge shipments of cocaine and other drugs to feed an insatiable market, funding a lavish lifestyle he couldn't otherwise afford or explain.
It would take a massive international effort involving a stunning undercover operation for law enforcement to finally catch their man, as he attempted to ship half a tonne of cocaine to Australia from South America.
Co-operation between Australian and US law enforcement has resulted in the interception and disruption of vast drug shipments, including the foiling of an alleged attempt to import from South America three tonnes of cocaine worth $900 million that led to the arrest of three men in NSW this week.
More announcements from law enforcement are imminent, with the US Drug Enforcement Administration's attache to Australia, Kevin Merkel, saying investigations have never been so focused or effective.
"We're teaming up in ways we haven't teamed up before," Mr Merkel told The Weekend Australian. "For criminals, they're getting punched in the mouth in ways they haven't been before."
Australian Federal Police Detective Superintendent Ben McQuillan said Qi had been a "longstanding, entrenched organised crime" figure in NSW.
"He was the subject of significant previous targeting activity over an extended period by multiple law enforcement agencies," Superintendent McQuillan said.
"We considered him to have high-level and enduring international connections, which helped him to facilitate his drug importation activities."
Qi's network was significant enough that he was on the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission's priority organisation target list, reserved for serious and organised crime figures and groups regarded as posing the greatest risk to the nation. Names of priority targets are usually kept secret, and there are currently only 16, the list recently updated to include an outlaw motorcycle gang identified as warranting the full attention of Australian law enforcement.
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#13351781 at 2021-04-03 09:51:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition
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Citizen sleuths to the rescue in child abuse cases
If you've got an eye for piecing together clues, Trace an Object needs you.
David Murray - April 2, 2021
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The picture shows a young girl standing on a deck, paint peeling off the railings behind her, with a partial view of a lake in the background. Carefully edited to conceal the girl's identity, it was almost all that Carlos Gonzales had to go on, and the clock was ticking. According to police, this non-explicit image was of a girl who was being abused by a man who appeared to be her father.
Gonzales is an engineer, not a cop, who just happens to have discovered he has a freakish talent for identifying locations from tiny clues in photographs.
His skills first came to the fore after Europol, the EU's police force, launched its groundbreaking Trace an Object campaign.
As part of the campaign, which has been running for almost four years and recently has been replicated in Australia, investigators publicly release images of objects and places from unsolved child abuse cases to try to find victims.
Gonzales tried his hand in tracking down the Europol images and had some stunning success, publishing his results on investigative journalism website Bellingcat.
It earned him the attention and respect of some of the leading child-victim identification experts in international law enforcement, who were soon approaching him for assistance.
Since September last year, Australian police - at the forefront of the global fight against child exploitation - have been sending pictures from the world's most intractable cases to Gonzales, tapping into his skills in forensic online investigations, popularly known as open source intelligence.
One of the images shared with him was of the girl by the lake, along with some images of blurred background objects from other pictures in the same series.
She could have been anywhere in the world, but one object, a partially obscured water bottle, allowed Gonzales to narrow the search.
"I tracked it to one specific region in Mexico, found a lake in the city where I thought the image was from, and bang! Found it," Gonzales tells Inquirer this week. "Three days it took us to narrow down the place and timeframe."
Co-operative effort
Adele Desirs pulls up the girl's redacted image on her over-size computer screen at the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation.
"Once he had the location, we managed to identify the girl and the father. So we forwarded all of that to the country (Mexico)," she says. Desirs is a French police captain recruited to work as a victim identification analyst in the Queensland Police Service's renowned anti-online child exploitation squad, Taskforce Argos, four years ago.
In a remarkable example of federal and state co-operation, Desirs now sits side-by-side with Australian Federal Police analysts at the new federally funded ACCCE facility in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. By dismantling cross-agency silos, the centre is raising the capacity of investigators in the pursuit of a single goal - protecting children.
Inquirer was allowed on to the investigation floor as the victim ID analysts arrived for work from 6am, followed by covert investigators.
"I first heard about Carlos from what he did in Trace an Object Europol because I read his articles on Bellingcat," says Desirs.
"I was just very, very impressed, from an old series that was not even really reviewed any more, how much he could find. I learned a lot from what he did."
Believing that Gonzales might be able to find other children, Desirs initially sent him images from five unsolved cases. To the amazement of Desirs and her colleagues, he found all five locations, working on each for just five days with a team of other volunteer online investigators.
Gonzales is extremely generous with his time and will "work on one picture for hours and hours and hours", she says. Police, on the other hand, must "work every day, as much as we can, on thousands and thousands and thousands of pictures and cases".
On the anonymous dark web, where Desirs is focused, vast new sets of photographs and videos are shared among global networks of offenders each day.
As they appear online they are filtered through law enforcement databases to automatically identify those already discovered, while Desirs and her colleagues scramble to find the new images of children at immediate risk of harm.
(continued)
#13351778 at 2021-04-03 09:50:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition
Civilian expert tracks the child abusers
David Murray - APRIL 3, 2021
Australian police are using civilian sleuths with expertise in open source intelligence techniques to help solve the world's toughest online child sexual abuse cases.
Since September last year, carefully selected images from a dozen cases have been sent overseas by Queensland's Task Force Argos to a volunteer online investigator with remarkable skills in finding locations from small clues in photographs.
Working with a team of other international volunteer investigators, the engineer has directly tracked down locations or generated significant leads in 10 of the cases, leading to authorities rescuing children.
He first discovered his proficiency in online investigations through Europol's Trace an Object crowdsourcing campaign, in which the public is asked to identify objects and places from unsolved child abuse cases.
The Australian Federal Police-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) in March launched its own version of the campaign, initially releasing images of nine objects.
Investigators say they are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of new images being generated every day and public assistance is key to fighting back against child exploitation.
"In many cases, we know the sex offender communities are demanding more content from some of these people," says Detective Superintendent Jon Rouse, manager of covert online investigations, victim ID and training at the ACCCE.
"So, you know it's going to keep happening, and police are working against the clock with what we have, to try to find the location and get an investigative team somewhere in the world or Australia onto it.
"There's people out there that once they realise what we are up against, and with the very, very, very thin blue line that we have to put against it, they want to help."
ACCCE victim identification analyst Laura Smith has been driving the Australian Trace campaign since returning from a three-year stint with Interpol's Crimes Against Children Unit in France.
"The crime type as a whole can be a really hard and uncomfortable topic to talk about for people in general, but it's so important because the effects of abuse on children last a lifetime," she said.
The hope is that in some cases the victim would come forward and recognise that the object used to belong to them, and that they know that they've been abused and photographed.
Superintendent Rouse said investigators had been unable to identify hundreds of abused and at-risk Australian children on photographs and videos retrieved from the surface web, dark web and other sources, so had to think laterally to try to solve them.
"Crime scenes are something police deal with all the time," Superintendent Rouse said.
"Our problem is we don't know where the crime scene is, we don't know who the victim is and we don't know who the offender is. And all that we've got is that image or video."
Since its launch, Trace an Object Australia's website has had about 37,500 page visits and received 425 reports from the public that are being assessed, an AFP spokesman said on Friday.
Victim identification analyst Adele Desirs from Argos has been selecting images for the civilian investigator.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/civilian-expert-tracks-the-child-abusers/news-story/a9a4ec119ba3c16c85000fd37c06f8b1
https://accce.gov.au/report/trace
#10705304 at 2020-09-19 06:02:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
#9 - Part 16
Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition Bun
>>10292284 Lawyers for Julian Assange say '11th hour' decision by US government to lodge new charges against him is 'astonishing and potentially abusive'
>>10368354 Crowdfund appeal launched for Julian Assange
>>10368361 Stella Moris: Join my fight to free Julian Assange and stop US extradition
>>10423178 Partner says Assange 'in a lot of pain'
>>10542765 Mother of Assange's two children tearfully warns of the WikiLeaks founder's fate as the US begins its Old Bailey extradition bid
>>10563657 Julian Assange's new friend Bob Carr fights his US extradition
>>10563697, >>10563701 Julian Assange 'a suicide risk', says defence
>>10575174 'This is nonsense': Julian Assange interjections earn stern warning
>>10586571 Trump is targeting Assange because he dislikes Obama, court told
>>10600877 Assange's extradition hearing delayed by lawyer's wife's COVID scare
>>10653978 Julian Assange extradition delayed by further tech, coronavirus issues
>>10664636 Assange defence questions why Obama didn't seek to prosecute him
>>10664658 Julian Assange, like Jeffrey Epstein, may not be safe in US prison
>>10679059 Julian Assange interrupts extradition hearing again
>>10691837 Julian Assange aimed for 'stringent redactions', extradition court hears
>>10611062 UK extradition hearing for Assange to resume Monday after negative COVID test
#9 - Part 17
Australian / Regional Resignations Bun
>>10122451 Labor Senator Penny Wong's chief of staff, Marcus Ganley 'quit after sex claim'
>>10143641 James Murdoch resigns from News Corporation board of directors
>>10176837 David Hutchinson resigns as Queensland LNP president
>>10176837 SANFL CEO Jake Parkinson announces resignation
>>10197874 iCare review brought forward as CEO John Nagle quits
>>10197874 AMP Australia boss Alex Wade exits over 'internal matter'
>>10220297 'Inappropriate photos' behind sudden exit of AMP executive Alex Wade
>>10398399 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10491765 QBE CEO Pat Regan to depart following probe
>>10587369 Besieged icare chief and deputy, Michael Carapiet and Gavin Bell, to step down
>>10587369 Queensland Natural Resources and Mines Minister Anthony Lynham announces resignation
>>10601128 Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques resigns amid ancient Juukan Gorge rock shelter blast crisis
#10705070 at 2020-09-19 05:35:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition
#9 - Part 16
Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition Bun
>>10292284 Lawyers for Julian Assange say '11th hour' decision by US government to lodge new charges against him is 'astonishing and potentially abusive'
>>10368354 Crowdfund appeal launched for Julian Assange
>>10368361 Stella Moris: Join my fight to free Julian Assange and stop US extradition
>>10423178 Partner says Assange 'in a lot of pain'
>>10542765 Mother of Assange's two children tearfully warns of the WikiLeaks founder's fate as the US begins its Old Bailey extradition bid
>>10563657 Julian Assange's new friend Bob Carr fights his US extradition
>>10563697, >>10563701 Julian Assange 'a suicide risk', says defence
>>10575174 'This is nonsense': Julian Assange interjections earn stern warning
>>10586571 Trump is targeting Assange because he dislikes Obama, court told
>>10600877 Assange's extradition hearing delayed by lawyer's wife's COVID scare
>>10653978 Julian Assange extradition delayed by further tech, coronavirus issues
>>10664636 Assange defence questions why Obama didn't seek to prosecute him
>>10664658 Julian Assange, like Jeffrey Epstein, may not be safe in US prison
>>10679059 Julian Assange interrupts extradition hearing again
>>10691837 Julian Assange aimed for 'stringent redactions', extradition court hears
>>10611062 UK extradition hearing for Assange to resume Monday after negative COVID test
#9 - Part 17
Australian / Regional Resignations Bun
>>10122451 Labor Senator Penny Wong's chief of staff, Marcus Ganley 'quit after sex claim'
>>10143641 James Murdoch resigns from News Corporation board of directors
>>10176837 David Hutchinson resigns as Queensland LNP president
>>10176837 SANFL CEO Jake Parkinson announces resignation
>>10197874 iCare review brought forward as CEO John Nagle quits
>>10197874 AMP Australia boss Alex Wade exits over 'internal matter'
>>10220297 'Inappropriate photos' behind sudden exit of AMP executive Alex Wade
>>10398399 AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
>>10491765 QBE CEO Pat Regan to depart following probe
>>10587369 Besieged icare chief and deputy, Michael Carapiet and Gavin Bell, to step down
>>10587369 Queensland Natural Resources and Mines Minister Anthony Lynham announces resignation
>>10601128 Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques resigns amid ancient Juukan Gorge rock shelter blast crisis
#10398399 at 2020-08-24 03:42:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition
>>10220297
Resignations in the news
AMP chairman David Murray resigns, top exec Boe Pahari stands down
AMP chairman David Murray has resigned and top executive Boe Pahari has stood down as AMP Capital chief executive after investors demanded accountability over the handling of the sexual harassment case at the troubled wealth giant.
AMP told the market on Monday morning Francesco De Ferrari would remain as chief executive and would replace Mr Pahari as AMP Capital chief executive on an interim basis. Mr Pahari will return to his previous role within AMP Capital's infrastructure equity business.
Non-executive director Debra Hazelton will replace Mr Murray as chair, effective immediately.
Former Treasury secretary John Fraser voluntarily resigned as non-executive director as a result of Mr Murray's decision to leave the company.
"These changes respond to feedback expressed by some major shareholders regarding the appointment of Mr Pahari as AMP Capital CEO on 1 July 2020," AMP said in a statement.
AMP promoted Mr Pahari to lead AMP Capital after penalising him $500,000 - or a quarter of his annual bonus - as part of the settlement of a sexual harassment complaint made by former colleague Julia Szlakowski in 2018.
Details of the complaint were made public last week causing major investors and federal politicians to call for accountability and transparency.
Mr Murray said AMP needed to continue its "transformation" under Mr De Ferrari with the support and confidence of investors, institutional clients, employees, partners and clients, "without distractions".
"The board has made it clear that it has always treated the complaint against Mr Pahari seriously. My view remains that it was dealt with appropriately in 2017 and Mr Pahari was penalised accordingly. However, it is clear to me that although there is considerable support for our strategy, some shareholders did not consider Mr Pahari's promotion to AMP Capital CEO to be appropriate.
"Although the board's decision on the appointment was unanimous, my decision to leave reflects my role and accountability as chairman of the board and the need to protect continuity of management, the strategy and, to the extent possible, the board," Mr Murray said.
New AMP chair Ms Hazelton acknowledged Mr Murray's leadership and thanked him for "professionalism, dedication and commitment" to AMP.
"Under my leadership, the board will focus on working with Francesco and his leadership team to deliver long-term value for our shareholders and clients by executing the transformation strategy.
"I am determined to restore the trust and confidence of our clients, shareholders and employees," she said.
Managing director of AMP's second-largest shareholder Allan Gray, Simon Mawhinney, said he was satisfied with the development after calling for transparency last week.
"I feel these are quite decisive moves on behalf of AMP," Mr Mawhinney said. "I think now is the time we need to give the company some space or latitude and freedom to carry out and execute their strategy and any necessary cultural change."
AMP last week announced it would release the investigation report into Mr Pahari's behaviour once it had the consent of Ms Szlakowski.
However, lawyers for Ms Szlakowski said she had not seen the report and would only be permitted to view it under strict supervision and limited legal representation. Maurice Blackburn principal Josh Bornstein said AMP's behaviour was unprecedented, and has requested additional documents, bringing the negotiations to a stalemate.
Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility executive director Brynn O'Brien welcomed the resignation of Mr Murray, claiming his appointment was always questioned by the investor community.
ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson said the resignations were an "important step" in addressing concerns raised by investors.
"Investors will be continuing to engage with AMP to understand how these decisions were made and how the company intends to strengthen company culture," Ms Davidson said. "Clearly AMP's initial response to community, staff, and shareholder concerns around the appointment of Pahari and the treatment of [allegations of] sexual harassment was inadequate."
Labor Senator Deborah O'Neill criticised Mr Pahari's continuation at the company, calling it "window dressing for change".
"Mr Pahari's continuing engagement at a senior level still speaks volumes to the problems at AMP," she said. "Again, it shows a lack of sensitivity to community expectations."
https://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/amp-chairman-David-Murray-resigns-top-exec-boe-pahari-stands-down-20200824-p55ol3.html
#10220297 at 2020-08-08 04:51:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition
'Inappropriate photos' behind sudden exit of AMP executive
The sudden exit of AMP's Australia chief Alex Wade from the under-pressure wealth group this week was related to allegations of poor conduct, including lewd photos, presented to the company.
Multiple sources told The Weekend Australian that AMP received material that alleged Mr Wade had sent inappropriate photos to a woman.
The claims are understood to have been the final straw and triggered the end of Mr Wade's tenure as a senior executive at AMP. The allegations added to other claims relating to Mr Wade's conduct and performance that had already been raised with the board.
An AMP spokesman on Friday declined to comment on the circumstances of Mr Wade's departure. He referred to Thursday's ASX statement that said AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari had accepted Mr Wade's resignation.
The statement said the departure was "effective immediately" and no explanation was given.
A spokesman for Mr Wade said on his behalf: "I arrived at my decision to resign from AMP in the interests of all parties.
"My focus now is on a period of personal reflection and the relationships that are most important to me."
Mr Wade joined AMP as head of wealth in January last year.
His role was later expanded to cover wealth management and AMP's bank division, including spearheading a shake-up of the financial advice model by slashing the amount the company would pay to buy back planning practices. The departure leaves a gaping hole on AMP's front bench, even though Mr De Ferrari has appointed Blair Vernon, AMP's New Zealand wealth management chief, as acting head of AMP Australia while a search is conducted for a permanent replacement.
Mr Wade and Mr De Ferrari worked closely together at Credit Suisse, where the latter was head of the Asia-Pacific private banking business.
AMP chairman and banking veteran David Murray also had a stint at Credit Suisse as a senior adviser, before the trio crossed paths again at the embattled wealth company.
Sources said Mr De Ferrari was "devastated" at the chain of events that led to Mr Wade's departure from AMP.
The CEO's judgment has been thrown into question in 2020 after a run of missteps as Mr De Ferrari and the board seek to fix AMP's past issues and untangle a complex structure.
Sparked controversy
The exit of Mr Wade comes after AMP's promotion of Boe Pahari to lead the AMP Capital division sparked controversy, given he had been financially penalised over a harassment incident several years earlier.
Mr Pahari - who has been repeatedly backed by Mr De Ferrari - took the AMP Capital reins from retiring Adam Tindall in July.
AMP was one of several companies ravaged by the Hayne royal commission in 2018, losing its then CEO Craig Meller and chairman Catherine Brenner.
They left amid revelations AMP misled the corporate regulator, while the company was also entangled in a series of scandals relating to its financial planning business.
Mr De Ferrari, who started in the top job at AMP in late 2018, is seeking to accelerate a three-year turnaround program outlined in 2019 after this year completing the $3bn sale of AMP's life insurance unit to Sir Clive Cowdery's Resolution Life.
But AMP is suffering from weaker earnings and structural changes in its wealth division.
Last week the group warned of a halving in underlying group profit to between $140m and $150m for the six months to June 30.
This compares to $309m at the same time last year.
AMP hands down its official half-year results on Thursday.
The earnings update showed AMP's wealth management arm had trebled its outflows over the past two years to $4.4bn in the first half alone.
Operating earnings in the wealth unit are expected to print at $60m for AMP's first half while the bank's earnings are pegged at $50m. Those results are down from $103m for wealth and $71m for the bank in the same period last year.
The announcement of Mr Wade's departure added to AMP's woes after the corporate regulator signalled it expected to file a Federal Court action against the group by year's end.
The company was subject to several referrals to regulators following the royal commission.
AMP was also hit with two class actions in recent weeks, one from aggrieved financial advisers over a decision to slash the amount the company would pay them for their businesses.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/financial-services/lewd-photos-behind-sudden-exit-of-amps-australia-chief-alex-wade/news-story/44bdb59fe90c4227da259db149b9d4e8
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AMP Australia leadership update
https://corporate.amp.com.au/newsroom/2020/august/AMP-Australia-leadership-update
#10197874 at 2020-08-06 08:54:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition
Resignations in the news
iCare review brought forward as CEO quits
The chief executive and managing director of beleaguered NSW government-owned insurer iCare has quit amid reports of poor financial management at the company.
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet confirmed on Monday night the resignation of John Nagle, who had held the top job since early 2018.
Mr Perrottet on Tuesday said that despite retaining faith in the iCare board, a statutory five-year review of the company's workers' compensation scheme would be brought forward and inquire into the board's conduct and culture.
The inquiry will be headed by former NSW Supreme Court judge Robert McDougall QC.
It comes after the NSW Labor opposition last week released a document stating iCare's workers' compensation scheme had reported a $2 billion net loss to March 31.
Its funding ratio - a key measure of financial sustainability - had fallen to 98 per cent, the undated document shows. The state-owned insurer aims to keep the scheme's funding ratio, or proportion of assets to liabilities, above 110 per cent.
The issue came to a head after ABC and Nine reported last week on poor performance and financial management of iCare, created out of the 2015 break-up of WorkCover.
The company last week insisted in a statement there was no risk of insolvency in its workers' compensation scheme and that conduct issues such as scheme agent incentives and so-called "doctor shopping" had already been addressed.
Mr Nagle said in a statement on Tuesday he was sad to leave.
A non-executive board director - incumbent NSW Labor president Mark Lennon - also resigned last week after being on iCare's board since inception.
But the Public Service Association on Tuesday said the entire iCare board should step down after a NSW parliamentary inquiry on Monday heard the company had sought to terminate compensation payments to some 17,000 workers.
It also heard Mr Nagle had been sanctioned by the iCare board last year for a conflict of interest involving his wife's position at the company.
https://thewest.com.au/business/icare-review-brought-forward-as-ceo-quits-ng-s-2023632
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AMP Australia boss Alex Wade exits over 'internal matter'
Embattled wealth management group AMP has shocked the market with the departure of Alex Wade, the chief executive of its sprawling Australia division, in an immediate and unexplained resignation following an unidentified "internal matter".
The latest executive departure from AMP comes after The Australian Financial Review reported that the company had made Boe Pahari chief executive of its asset management division AMP Capital after penalising him $500,000 following a sexual harassment claim in 2017.
In a short statement filed early on Thursday, AMP said it had accepted Mr Wade's resignation and confirmed he would leave the business "effective immediately".
Chief executive Francesco De Ferrari welcomed interim replacement Blair Vernon but made no public statement on the reasons for Mr Wade's departure or the former executive's contribution to the business.
In an internal town hall meeting to introduce Mr Vernon on Thursday, Mr De Ferrari cited privacy concerns in response to staff questions about the circumstances of Mr Wade's departure.
An AMP spokesman also declined to answer a detailed list of questions about Mr Wade's conduct. Mr Wade did not respond to calls or texts.
Senior AMP staff told their employees on Thursday that Mr Wade was asked to address an "internal matter" and that he tendered his resignation.
Mr Wade had worked at Credit Suisse in Singapore with Mr De Ferrari, and as a private banking executive at Credit Suisse Australia, where current AMP chairman David Murray was an adviser and fellow AMP director John O'Sullivan was once chairman.
Mr Wade, who joined AMP in January last year, had only been promoted to head of AMP Australia in October 2019 following the merger of the company's advice, banking and wealth management division and the departure of banking boss Sally Bruce.
The departure comes at a difficult time for AMP. During a virtual town hall meeting last month where staff expressed frustration at "AMP's #MeToo moment", AMP head of corporate affairs Helen Livesey said there were "many people who are in AMPA [AMP Australia] who would say that there is behaviour that needs to be addressed in the organisation" and that she was the "the most vocal member of GLT [global leadership team]" about what constitutes acceptable behaviour. There is no suggestion Mr Wade's departure is related to behaviour of that kind.
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/amp-australia-boss-alex-wade-exits-amid-cultural-overhaul-20200806-p55j1r