Companies who take personal checks or perform check advances, do verify through services like Telecheck. Depending on the amount of the check, a secondary non-reported credit check also may occur through a credit tracing service. This information is not from the Big 3 credit reporting agencies, but rather through companies like ChoicePoint and other data collection services. Always ask the pawn shop or other check cashing company what personal information is shared with others when accepting a check. This is after all an extension of #Credit.

Added: Whether they do, or not, is purely a business decision on the owner's part. They are not required to do so.

Well there is a process involved in getting a record expunged. I wil try my best to explain as I am currently trying to get my record expunged as well without the assistance of an attorney.

1. Visit the following website to see if your charges qualify to get expunged http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/expunge/. NOTE: PLEASE READ THROUGH THIS WEBSITE AS IT WILL EXPLAIN ALL THE NECESSARY STEPS TO TAKE WHEN SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION. IF YOU ARE COMPLETING THIS PROCESS WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF AN ATTORNEY, I RECOMMEND RE-READING THE STEPS UNTIL COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD. ONE MINOR MISTAKE CAN CAUSE YOUR APPLICATION PROCESS TO BE DELAYED. YOU CAN ALSO HIRE AN ATTORNEY THAT COST ANYWHERE FROM $395-$2000.
2. Contact the clerk of court (county where you were arrested) for a certified copy of the disposition
3. Send a copy of the disposition to your State Attorney (SA) along with the application (1st page only) for Certification of Eligibility (COE) for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE (can be downloaded from website provided above)). I recommend attaching a letter of explanation as to why you are looking to getting your record sealed/expunged. It helps in your case and also overnighting a package to the SA office.
4. The SA then has to either approve or deny your expungement. Please keep in mind that this process can take anywhere from 8+ weeks. Depends on when the SA gets to the file and if they're backed up.
5. Once you receive the approved COE from the SA, you then have to send the completed application to the FDLE along with a $75 money order (via overnight if you can). Be certain to get your fingerprints taken at an approved agency. I recommend keeping a copy of everything. This process can take anywhere from 8+ weeks as well.
6. Once you've received a certified COE from the FDLE you then have to file a Petition to expunge your criminal record with the court. The petition can be downloaded from www.formsworkflow.com or you can get one from your local law library.
7. The original petition must be sent to the clerks office along with the certified COE. Copies should be sent to the assigned Judge (call your clerk of court to get this info), SA and Arresting Agency (AA). You will then want to contact your Judge's JA (secretary) and schedule a hearing or I believe this can also be done with the clerk of court. Each case is different and depends on the Judge if he/she wants to schedule a hearing. If a hearing is scheduled, I recommend buying a ticket (if you live outside of FL) to attend the hearing. This looks good on your part and will probably help in receiving the expungement. I would go prepared to explain to the Judge why you are looking to getting your record expunged. Also, thrive on the positives in your life (holding down a good job, education currently being sought, etc). Also go with a positive attitude and a wonderful personality.
8. Once this is done, the clerk of court will submit the court order to the AA, SA and FBI for your record to be expunged.
9. Alot of people aren't aware that your records can be sold to 3rd parties (LexisNexis, Accurint, Choicepoint and others) which can still possibly have a record recorded. I would recommend researching on how to get this removed as well. You can seek the assistance of an attorney or do it on your own. I am currently trying to research those steps as well.

I know this is a lengthy process that can take anywhere from 6 - 9 months, but I think it will be worth your while. This way you don't have to worry about background checks from prospective employers, rental agencies, student and bank loans, etc. By law, you can deny having a criminal record.

Hope this helps and anyone can feel free to correct me if I missed anything.

His grandfather, Senator Prescott Bush was given a Cease & Desist Order by the President of the United States to stop supplying weapons to the Nazis -after- the U.S. entered WWII.

The Masons in Mexico use the 'Heil Hitler' Salute during their meetings. Whenever Mexicans form any non-profit association, they likewise use a 'Nazi Salute' as part of their pledge to honor the new association. Choicepoint (aka DBT Technologies, the ones that used bogus 'common black names like Lincoln Hayes, Tyrone Johnson, et al. on felony name lists from Texas in the Florida Elections of 2000, to deny the right to vote to some 100,000 mostly African Americans who later it was discovered the lists were 75-90% inaccurate) purchased the Voter Registration Records of Mexican Nationals (which is illegal to have if you are in Mexico) right before their Presidental Elections of 2006. On the eve of the elections, a hacker brinked the fire wall of the PAN Party's Web Site in Mexico City and found the Voter Registration Lists on the PAN Party's Computers (violation of Mexico's Federal Constitution) with U.S. F.B.I. markings and notations all over the Mexican Voting Records.

Mexicans filmed massive voter fraud (PAN Party members 'stuffing' ballot boxes and meeting with Americans purported to have been men that assisted the Bush Campaign with their fraud in the U.S.) indicating that the Bush Administration assisted the PAN Party to commit widespread fraud in Mexico's Elections. Targets may include control over Ensenada's New High Capacity Shipping Port, Baja California's Natural Gas Reserves and other assorted concessions and controls to Bush's people, in exchange for their expertise help to put the PAN Party in power, by fraud methods used by the Bush Machine during the 2000 & 2004 elections in Florida and Ohio and other US States.

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Home » Open Mic » Fernando's blogHISTORY REPEATING ITSELFSubmitted by Fernando on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 1:22pm.

The Guardian

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

In March of 1940, a New York Times article revealed that the Domestic Fuel Corporation had earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first American company to appear on the Canadian blacklist of suspected enemy persons and corporations.[2]

On July 31, 1941, a New York Herald Tribune article revealed that the UBC had been created and funded by the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, a Dutch bank formed and controlled by German steel magnate and one-time Nazi supporter Fritz Thyssen.

[ Editing Note: We believe the white panel van trucks around town (San Francisco and other major cities) that say 'Thyssen/Krupp' Elevator Service are the same companies that date back to the Thyssen & Krupp Families of the 1940's ]

The UBC was formed by Thyssen with the assistance of W. A. Harriman; the executive board consisted of trusted partners of Harriman and Thyssen. At the time the article was written, several members of Brown Brothers Harriman served on the board of the UBC, including Prescott Bush.

As a Dutch-owned company, the U.S. assets of the UBC were frozen by the United States Government on May 10, 1940 when Germany invaded the Netherlands. However, at the advice of William R. White, New York Superintendent of Banks, the Harriman directors of UBC were to remain in control of the UBC until the entire corporation was formally seized by the government in 1942.[3].

On October 20, 1942, pursuant to the Trading with the Enemy Act, the United States seized all of the shares of the Union Banking Corporation.

Jonathan Bush - He is the fourth child of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Brother of Prescott "Pressy" Bush, Jr. (1922), George H. W. Bush (1924), Nancy Bush (1926), and William "Bucky" Bush (1938). He is an uncle to current U.S. president George W. Bush.

Jonathan Bush founded J. Bush & Co. which provided discreet banking services for the Washington D.C. embassies of foreign governments for many years. In 1997, Riggs Bank bought J. Bush & Co. and made Bush CEO & President of Riggs Investment, a firm based in New Haven, Connecticut.

In 2003, after uncovering extremely troubling information in connection with accounts associated with Saudi Arabia, the OCC took its first enforcement action against the bank, issuing a cease and desist order requiring it to revamp its AML program.

This order was more comprehensive and capable of enforcement in court than directives in prior examination reports, but included no punitive measures at the time such as a civil fine. It was only in 2004, six years after the OCC began citing Riggs for AML deficiencies, that federal regulators imposed their first civil fine on the bank.

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The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has concluded that Riggs executives and bank regulators, even after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, failed to monitor suspicious financial transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

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The scrutiny of the bank involves accounts it held for Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, and for the Saudi Arabian Embassy. It comes at a time when several new books and the documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" have put a spotlight on the kingdom's ties to the Bush administration.

The sources of about $700 million in cash and investment accounts at Riggs Bank owned by the African nation of Equatorial Guinea or some of its leaders are also being examined, at a time when American companies have been courting that oil-rich nation to secure petroleum sources outside the Middle East.

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The F.B.I. investigation, focusing on accounts controlled by the wife of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia's longtime ambassador to the United States, was news to regulators. Once again, as the Senate report showed, outside forces were making them examine Riggs more closely and Riggs executives were proving to be, at best, indifferent gatekeepers.

Although the F.B.I. told The New York Times in late 2002 that it had no evidence that money from Prince Bandar's wife went to the hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks - a conclusion that the 9/11 commission also reached last month - news reports prompted regulators to scrutinize Prince Bandar's transactions at Riggs. The F.B.I. briefed them on the Saudi funds in December 2002, and bank regulators told Riggs a month later that they would examine the accounts.

What regulators expected to be a one-month examination lasted five months as regulators uncovered improprieties in some of 150 Saudi accounts at Riggs. Under law, banks are required to vet the background of their customers, report outsized movements of cash and alert regulators when any banking activities are suspicious.

Regulators and members of Congress said Riggs frequently failed to carry out these duties, and the Saudi accounts were no exception.

Last week's Senate report said that the Saudi accounts were "equally troubling" as other accounts at Riggs that have come under scrutiny, but noted that a more thorough Congressional examination of the Saudi accounts was under way at the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

Federal investigators and people close to Riggs said regulators had concluded that Riggs inadequately monitored the destinations and uses of large amounts of cash, often more than $1 million at a time, in the Saudi accounts. Many of these transactions involved Prince Bandar personally, these people said.

Riggs fined $25M

Washington Post

A Riggs spokesman could not be reached last evening. But a source familiar with the multiple federal investigations of the bank's Saudi accounts and other embassy accounts say Jonathan Bush's investment advice unit has "no relationship whatsoever" with any of the Riggs's Saudi accounts.

A spokesman for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, one of Riggs's primary federal banking regulators, said any suggestion of political influence in the Riggs situation is "preposterous."

2005 The Guardian reports arrests.

Washington-April 13, 2006-TomFlocco.com-Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is in possession of filmed evidence allegedly showing Senator Hillary Clinton entering Bank Crozier in the British territory of Grenada during early 2003 for the purpose of withdrawing stolen and laundered U.S. Treasury funds for alleged personal use after presenting the bank with CIA code numbers in her capacity as a U.S. senator, CIA operative and wife of a former president, according to a team of intelligence sources.

BAE accused of secretly paying £1bn to Saudi prince

BAE claimed that it was about to lose out on a third phase of the Al-Yamamah deal, in which the Saudis would buy 72 Typhoon aircraft in a deal worth £6bn. The Saudis had also hinted that they would do a deal with the French instead if the inquiry pushed ahead. A 10-day ultimatum was reportedly issued by the Saudis earlier this month.

AP, WASHINGTON

Monday, Feb 11, 2008, Page 4

A US federal judge has temporarily blocked Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the US, from removing real estate sales proceeds from the US pending resolution of a class-action lawsuit.

The suit filed last September by a tiny Michigan city retirement system accuses current and former directors of BAE Systems, a giant British defense company, of breaches of fiduciary duties in connection with US$2 billion or more in alleged illegal bribes paid to Bandar in connection with a US$86 billion BAE arms sale to Saudi Arabia in 1985.

Bandar also is named a defendant in the suit, along with the former

Riggs Bank of Washington and its successor, PNC Financial Group.

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The retirement system suit maintains that Bandar used funds illicitly obtained from BAE Systems to acquire US real estate, including a Colorado ranch and mansion once placed on the market at US$135 million and the former William Randolph Hearst mansion in California, offered for sale last summer at US$165 million.

Government rolled over to Saudi BAE threats, says judge

She said Blair and other officials intervened after renewed threats by the Saudi royal family to cancel a proposed order for Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft and withdraw security and intelligence cooperation if the investigation continued. The deal was signed last September.

Rose said government lawyers did not dispute that Bandar told Blair during a meeting to stop the inquiry or lose the contract. "We have made the allegation," she said. "It hasn't been denied."

Lord Justice Moses, who is sitting with Mr Justice Sullivan, suggested a possible view was that it was "just as if a gun had been held to the director's head", and expressed surprise that alternative responses to the Saudi threats were not considered.

LINK to pbtrue1's post on Bush scandals.

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Will BAE Scandal of Century Bring Down Dick Cheney?, 27 Jun 2007

US officials have begun an inquiry into whether BAE Systems paid bribes to a Saudi prince.

New revelations that Vice President Dick Cheney has been behind the now-failed effort to cover up an $80-100 billion criminal slush fund, run through the British arms cartel BAE Systems, Many now have demanded that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi drop her stubborn and ill-conceived rejection of the need to remove Cheney from office, and take the lead in his immediate impeachment.

The Essentials of the BAE Scandal-

And Dick Cheney's Role

With the U.S. Department of Justice now confirmed to be investigating money laundering and bribery by the British aerospace giant BAE Systems, Congress and the American people must make certain that the investigation does not turn into one more Bush-Cheney-Gonzales coverup.

The issue on the table is far bigger than the alleged $2 billion in bribes that BAE Systems paid out to former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, through the now-defunct Washington, D.C.-based Riggs Bank. As EIR revealed in an exclusive report last week ("Scandal of the Century Rocks British Crown and the City"), at least $80 billion in unaccounted-for loot has been generated by the Al-Yamamah oil-for-jet fighters barter deal, since it was signed in September 1985.

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Citing his interviews with Tony Edwards, the one-time head of the British government's Defence Export Sales Organization (DESO), which administered the Al-Yamamah project, Simpson wrote:

"Edwards admitted that for the Saudis the use of oil meant that the contract was effectively an off-balance-sheet transaction: it did not go through the Saudi Treasury. Edwards also confirmed that one of the main attractions for the Saudis in this unique arrangement was British flexibility. 'The British were much more flexible than the Americans,' he said. 'The Americans went through the Foreign Military sales system, which has congressional law behind it.

If the customers get out of line and they fail to pay the money, then they are cut off. In this country, it was quite flexible; sometimes the oil flow and the associated monies that were received by selling it were ahead, at other times it fell behind.'"

Simpson continued, "The phenomenal amount of money generated from the sale of oil comes through DESO, before being paid to British Aerospace. Edwards admitted that the government does charge a little commission for administering the contract, money that attracted the attention of the Treasury as it built up a considerable surplus."

What neither Edwards nor Simpson chose to point out was the fact that the oil revenues generated from the 600,000 barrels per day that the Saudis paid into the Al-Yamamah fund from 1985 through to the present, amounted to an estimated $160 billion-four times the actual cost of the entire military package delivered by BAE to Saudi Arabia. Nobody in London is talking about where the rest of the money landed-and what it was used for.

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Between the more than $80 billion in untraced funds generated through Al-Yamamah, according to EIR's conservative estimate, corroborated by U.S. intelligence sources, and the use of the project as a cover for covert activities around the globe and unauthorized weapons purchases, both the Justice Department and the U.S. Congress have a much bigger series of crimes to probe than the $2 billion in fees allegedly conduited through the Saudi accounts at Riggs Bank. The issue is the British corruption and subversion of American law on a grand scale.

Prince Bandar's ghost writer, William Simpson, has revealed that Al-Yamamah provided off-balance-sheet covert funding for the decade-long Mujahideen covert war to drive the Soviet Army out of Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence sources have independently confirmed that at least some of those funds went to the recruitment and training of foreign Muslim fighters, who were sent to Afghanistan. Some of those fighters, following the Afghan War (1979-90) would later surface in such faraway places as Algeria, the Philippines, Indonesia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, as Islamist insurgents, including members of al-Qaeda.

Simpson also revealed that Al-Yamamah funds went to the purchase of Soviet-made weapons, that were provided to Chad, to drive Libyan forces out of that country. John Bedenkamp, a onetime top aide to Rhodesia's apartheid-era President Ian Smith, and a major arms broker throughout Africa, is currently under investigation by Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for his role in BAE arms dealings in South Africa. U.S. intelligence sources have identified Bedenkamp as a conduit for Soviet arms to African insurgents, raising questions about his earlier involvement with the Al-Yamamah project in these weapons deals fueling wars in Africa.

Cheney on the Hot Seat

Washington sources have reported to EIR that the Al-Yamamah revelations have sent shock waves through the City of London. According to one senior U.S. intelligence source, who spoke to EIR on condition of anonymity, "The Al-Yamamah story opens a window into the inner world of Anglo-Dutch financial power. While Al-Yamamah is not the only such off-budget arrangement, it is one of the largest, and it provides a clear picture of a mode of operation-totally outside the control of any government agency, especially the U.S. government. Ultimately, this is a London scandal, not a Riyadh scandal."

One consequence of those shock waves is that Vice President Dick Cheney, according to Washington insiders, is in deep trouble with his London friends. Cheney, the sources report, was the guarantor that the story of the $80-100 billion fund would never see the light of day. And, while the American and British establishment press have attempted to bury the scandal, either through blacking it out altogether, or focusing attention on tertiary features, like the relatively small flow of cash to Prince Bandar, the EIR revelations have saturated the U.S. Congress and have been picked up around the world.

The next chapter is now being written in the scandal of the century, and that could mean the political doom of Dick Cheney. Ironically, it could come at the hands of his own political boosters in the City of London, rather than from Congressional Democrats, who remain divided on the issue of Cheney's impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Ultimately, the real powers behind the throne in London have very low tolerance for failure.

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