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Jan D.Weir

@jandweir.bsky.social

Lawyer, 50 years of experience. Taught law at the University of Toronto. Represented banks in $400M+ lawsuits, led class action benefitting 40,000+ pensioners. https://janweirlaw.medium.com

185 Followers  |  29 Following  |  128 Posts  |  Joined: 23.07.2024  |  1.3087

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Epstein wired his mansions for surveillance

The FBI seized hundreds of DVDs from Epstein’s safe

None have been disclosed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztgn...

26.12.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As Bloomberg has reported, wholesale electricity is β€œup to 267 percent more expensive than it was five years ago” in areas near US data hubs. In Virginia and Oregon, data centers reportedly consume one-third of the state’s electricity. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

10.12.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. Trump once did the very thing he called β€œdeceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

08.12.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today I want to share with you a statement by former federal judge Mark L. Wolf explaining why he resigned from the federal bench in early November. I found it sobering and troubling. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/winner-of-this-weeks-joseph-welch

01.12.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1583    πŸ” 585    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 20
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Congress has left an obvious dodge so that the Department of Justice can withhold files that may implicate Trump. Congress should have appointed a non-partisan oversight committee to review all of the original documents that the DOJ either redacts or withholds.

20.11.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For more on how private equity does it: janweirlaw.medium.com/how-hedge-fu...

19.11.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Private Equity Guts Everything from Red Lobster to Hospitals: Let's Talk About the Economy Episode 5
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Private Equity Guts Everything from Red Lobster to Hospitals: Let's Talk About the Economy Episode 5

Elizabeth Warren correctly explains the unrecognized danger of private equity, which is allowed to loot corporations at the expense of jobs and worker pensions: youtu.be/8_A_Th4aj_0?...

19.11.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders

AI is replacing jobs far faster than most understand: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dthb...

04.11.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Senior Treasury official Dr May Edwards disclosed this repeated unresponsiveness to notices of crime at Treasury and was given jail time for exposing it: janweirlaw.medium.com/the-most-imp...

31.10.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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JP Morgan warned US of $1bn in Epstein transactions possibly related to human trafficking that Treasury ignored: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

31.10.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada can harm the US auto industry as it has harmed the US wine and liquor industries: youtu.be/xtRqNhjq86Q?...

26.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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21.10.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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20.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CEO and executive pay are a main cause of today’s income inequality.
Raising income taxes on the rich would tax CEOs and executives. See: How the American Billionaires Got Their Power janweirlaw.medium.com/how-the-amer...

15.10.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A recent study shows in the case of the United States, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times. melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/publications...

15.10.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed

β€œThe three hundred largest yachts in the world emit as much carbon dioxide as the ten million inhabitants of Burundi.” β€”from Burned by Billionaires
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

11.10.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s Tax Justice podcast explains how a conservative Catholic organization helps to fund the conservative movement including Trump from an investigation into the failed Spanish bank Banco Popular. podcasts.taxjustice.net/production/t...

26.09.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My presentation today at 5:30 PM EST: Your Salary Has Been Stolen Here How
Explains how most workers’ salaries could be doubled from the amount spent on buyback alone without putting up product price.
Go to: mediumday.com

19.09.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There are completely indefensible tax breaks for the rich.

They likely endure simply because the public is not fully aware of them:
medium.com/@janweirlaw/...

16.09.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bill Pulte’s parents claimed 2 primary residences:
www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
This follows on the revelation that three Trump cabinet members did the same: www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2...

07.09.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump quietly hurts the workers who put their faith in him.

He lets job killing private equity raise money from employer-employee pension plans.

The strategy works: The more he hurts them in these undetected ways, the more they commit to him..

janweirlaw.medium.com/trump-just-g...

03.09.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new study by the Institute for Policy Studies finds CEO pay at firms that pay their workers the lowest escalated to over 600 times median worker pay: ips-dc.org/report-execu...

For more on this: medium.com/age-of-aware...

27.08.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hedge funds and private equity do not make their huge profits by management skill but by slashing jobs and looting worker pensions

Absurdly, their predatory tactics against workers are largely funded by federal pension funds

Series begins here:
janweirlaw.medium.com/the-new-mark...

21.08.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hedge Funds and Private Equity: The Hottest Game in Town β€œOne of the most ruthless, predatory industries in America, private equity, now controls 1 in 5 U.S. companies. These firms buy up…

Hedge funds and private equity make their profits by looting workers pensions not superior marketing skills

Absurdly, pension funds are their biggest source of investment

Their predatory tactics are a major mechanism for the upward transfer of wealth janweirlaw.medium.com/hedge-funds-...

17.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Progressive Agenda for the US Economy undoing the last fifty years of rule by the rich and corporations

A Progressive Agenda for the US Economy
open.substack.com/pub/markorto...

14.08.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice:
www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

07.08.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How tax evasion is easier and more convenient than ever for the truly rich: janweirlaw.medium.com/the-us-the-n...

05.08.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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15 years ago Robert Reich made this accurate prediction on Stephen Colbert: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

04.08.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Groceries are still expensive β€” and Republicans in Congress hope you won’t notice who’s responsible.

So we built something they can’t ignore:

🚨A brand-new price tracker that exposes how GOP policies are fueling the rise in food costs.

Check out Don’t Inflate Our Plates:
dontinflateourplates.com

31.07.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 378    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 10
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andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet

IG 3sixteen

02.08.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8189    πŸ” 2391    πŸ’¬ 318    πŸ“Œ 133

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