The Athens bank fraud report is John Kiriakou’s account of a whistleblowing effort that went nowhere. In May 2020 he took what he calls a “job from heaven” — chief operating officer of an Athens-based investment company — only to discover, about six weeks in, that the whole thing was “an elaborate bank fraud.” On his lawyer’s advice he downloaded 15,000 to 20,000 pages of documents proving large-scale fraud and quit.[1][2] Unable to reach the FBI — told to “call 311” — he used a contact, a former FBI deputy director, to get a meeting at the Washington field office, where the agent put up his hands: “if this doesn’t have the words terrorism, China, or January 6th, we’re not interested.”[3][4] He and his lawyer ultimately flew, at their own expense, to Athens and Israel, where the Israeli police took the case.[5]
Athens bank fraud report
John Kiriakou's account of taking a dream job as COO of an Athens investment firm in 2020, discovering it was an elaborate bank fraud, and being unable to get the FBI to act — an agent telling him that without 'terrorism, China, or January 6th,' they were not interested.
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