Board of Aldermen 04-23-2019 Page 11
R-19-138
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Jan Schmidt
RELATIVE TO THE APPROPRIATION OF ADDITIONAL U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM FUNDS TO
NEIGHBORWORKS OF SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President Wilshire
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES — None
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
President Wilshire
Again, | want to just clarify that the ordinance does say that we have 15 minutes of comment period at the
beginning and at the end of our meeting. Tonight we welcome up Steven Elliott. Would you give your name
and address again for the record please.
Steven Elliott, 256 Pine Street
| just wanted to mention to my local government, | don’t know if you guys have been paying attention to current
events at the federal level and the world level, but today the S&P 500 went higher than the last record close
which happened 14 plus 17 weeks ago before that 20 percent drop. This doesn’t surprise me because all the
central banks have been pumping money into the S&P 500 or the markets around the world since December
24. This concerns me because the number one stock on the Dow is Boeing, and Boeing today is the number
one recipient of government dollars through the export-import bank at the federal level which is bi-partisan,
democrats and republicans almost vote 100 percent for it. I’m just really concerned about this because today
the number one buyer of weapons internationally country-wise is Saudi Arabia. The number one weapons
dealer is the United States. Almost 50 percent of the weapons they are buying is coming from us. Almost all of
it is coming from Boeing. So, this concerns me.
What else. The President has been bragging about these deals with Saudi Arabia. Last year, two years ago,
one of the biggest Saudi investors who owns the top floors of the Mandaly Bay Hotel and four percent of
Twitter and some Facebook ownership. He also owns a majority stake in the Citi Group. His name is Al-
Waleed bin Talal. Apparently he was thrown in jail under secret charges, put in a five-star hotel under secret
charges. I’m pretty sure that was all a lie, but if you look at the history in 1998, this Al-Waleed bin Talal
character, who is the richest man in Saudi Arabia aside from the king, had shareholder control of Citi Group
and his best friend as the CEO changed the Citi Group logo in 1998. Then in 1999, the Citi Group invested in
Boeing by taking control of their retirement accounts and probably doing some other deals that weren’t
exposed to people. That same year when the Saudis made this investment through Citi Group, they did a 12
percent stock buy-back and fired the head American. Then within two years once the Chevron investor,
Robert Mueller, was put in charge of the FBI, Boeing airplanes full of Saudis full into the twin towers. Since
that day up until right around Tesla delivered their first electric vehicle the value of Citi Group increased like ten
X, ten times. Then in 2007, the housing bubble peak, Al-Waleed bin Talal sold 25 percent of his stake and
then oil crashed. Then the market crashed once Tesla delivered their first electric vehicle. Then at the bottom
of the market S&P 666, Obama, who got more donations from Citi Group than any other candidate, in 2013,
we learned that Citi Group got the most bailout money from the TARP program secretly because the Federal
Reserve decided to keep it secret who gets the money. Apparently he said it was a good time to buy, and if
you did you probably made a lot of money.
