# Deutsch Bank and Trump whistleblower found dead {2022-04-27} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580 "2022-04-28T03:09:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/1 "2022-04-28T03:09:08Z")
I have no idea if this has been posted somewhere already, nor even any idea what existing thread it would best fit in. So, new Breaking News thread here: > **[Whistleblower who aided investigation into Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump...](https://www.rawstory.com/valentin-broeksmit/)** > > A Deutsche Bank whistleblower was found dead in California.The body of 45-year-old Valentin Broeksmit was found by a cleaning crew Monday morning on the campus of Woodrow Wilson High School in Los Angeles, reported KCBS-TV."It is very sad," said... Looks like the same story at CBSNEWS here, ad-blocked: > **[Federal informant found dead on El Sereno high school's campus](https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/valentin-broeksmit-federal-informant-whistleblower-dead-el-sereno-high-school-california/)** > > Valentin Broeksmit was found dead on the Woodrow Wilson High School campus after he went missing almost a year ago. It says the guy, whose step-dad had worked at Deutsch Bank, had given hundreds of docs to journalists and investigators. But he also had a history of drug abuse, credit card theft, and connections with North Korean hackers. Not obvious if there was foul play here. (But the commenters at the end of the Raw Story article sure seem to think it’s obvious. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/2 "2022-04-28T04:53:26Z")
With the Trump cabal trying so hard to emulate Putin’s propaganda and cyber control tactics, here’s another story that might give us pause. > **[A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers](https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-business-border-patrols-automobiles-fa3f88e07e51bcaf81bac8a40c4da141)** > > BOSTON (AP) — Russia's relentless digital assaults on Ukraine may have caused less damage than many anticipated From the article: > As the digital age evolves, information dominance is increasingly wielded for social control, as China has shown in its [repression of the Uyghur minority](https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-china-race-and-ethnicity-asia-pacific-1ec5143fe4764a1d8ea73ce4a3e2c570). It was no surprise to Ukrainian officials that a prewar priority for Russia would be compiling information on the citizenry. > > “The idea was to kill or imprison these people at the early stages of occupation,” Victor Zhora, a senior Ukrainian cyber defense official, alleged. > > Aggressive data collection accelerated just ahead of the invasion, with hackers serving Russia’s military increasingly targeting individual Ukrainians, according to Zhora’s agency, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection. Seriously creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/3 "2022-04-29T03:04:26Z")
This happened before. The German government spent several years in the 1920s & early 1930s building data files on all citizens (on IBM punched cards). Thus they were able to quickly identify Jews, gays, liberal politicians, etc. so quickly (they opened the first concentration camp 30 days after Hitler took power). This is covered rather extensively in the book _IBM and the Holocaust_. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/4 "2022-04-29T03:31:10Z")
… _Etaoin shrdlu_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/5 "2022-04-29T15:12:45Z")
The time for Mysterious Conspirators to take out an informant is _before_ he gives authorities a truckload of (potentially) incriminating documents. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/6 "2022-04-30T00:29:14Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Etaoin shrdlu Mr. Etaoin Shrdlu was found dead too? (Journalist character in _The Circus of Dr. Lao_.) ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/7 "2022-05-01T01:00:31Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The time for Mysterious Conspirators to take out an informant is _before_ he gives authorities a truckload of (potentially) incriminating documents. Or before they can reveal more. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/8 "2022-05-01T11:08:11Z")
Or _pour encourager les autres_. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580/9 "2022-05-01T11:10:20Z")
I wondered why it seemed the Russians weren’t very successful in shutting down Ukraine’s mobile communications. I noticed in videos of Ukraine that people were constantly on their phones.