Hey FBI....
- A deal involving the federal government’s most expensive lease in Chicago produced millions of dollars in profits for a development group that included Penny Pritzker, a top campaign fund-raiser for President Barack Obama who is now his commerce secretary, a Chicago Sun-Times / Better Government Association investigation has found.
The developers also included Jack Higgins, a friend and political backer of former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Over the 14-year term of the lease, the government will pay $280 million in rent and operating expenses for the Near West Side property, which houses the FBI’s Chicago headquarters.
That’s more than double what it cost to build the complex at 2111 W. Roosevelt Rd., which opened in 2006, records show.
Didn't the FBI have something like three or four separate task forces investigating public corruption in Chicago? New York City had one and so did Los Angeles. Even New Jersey had one for the whole state, but Chicago had at least three. And there they are in a building paying rent to the Pritzkers and Higgins that will net their families untold millions.
Evidently, the feebs have zero shame and no sense of irony.
Evidently, the feebs have zero shame and no sense of irony.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
67 Comments:
I hate to put this so bluntly...but sometimes, ya just gotta laugh at all this dumb shit! It's like a front row seat to "Family Guy!" Hilarious!
The FBI is a weapon, similar to the IRS, to be used by the powers that be to achieve advantage.
We , the people, are fucked !
What can we say. We live in an Obamanation.
The depth of corruption in this city and state is staggering. There is not one single stich of our lives here that is not touched in some way by it. You would think its as easy as shooting ducks in a barrel for the Feebs...until you realize they are in it up to their necks too.
Come on, it's the Chicago Way.
No time to look under our feet for an investigation there's a cop getting free pop and chips that needs to promptly be investigated !
Corporate sponsored government at the federal level?
As if the Chicago version isn't enough to make your eyes water?
"You didn't build that."
"Corporations are people too."
"Too big to fail."
(As long as they're able to continue propelling continually diminishing in value treasure away from the hands of the tax payers at ever increasing velocity)
Pritzkers huh?
Them and all the other "Friends of Maggie" phony charitible institutions/instruments of mass financial bojankery (money laundering) and political fuckery?
Naahhh...
The Feebs ain't seein' shit SCC...
Bunch of willfully non-observant m/fers who have marching orders to look the other way regarding this bullshit.
BUT...
They're a virtual Roman Legion of occupation sent here to very publicly affix Policemen to the knotty pine of crucifixion for any slight, error, human failing, momentary lapse in judgement and the like...
The Romans crucified enough people wanting to be free to line both sides of the Via Appia for miles...
STFU haters... Those coppers found to be dirty do need to be dealt with but most Police trangressions do not rise to the level of being cause for federal investigation and prosecution.
Next thing you know, Holder will drop a gigatonnage yield stupid bomb about CPD is being investigated under RICO because he "found evidence" of a criminal conspiracy among the blue shirted ranks.
Yeah... Fucking nice...
We have old retired folks trying to figure out a way to shield them selves from Rahm's healthcare increase "Fuck You" and the attempted backwards pimp-walk of Policemen into poverty and irrelevance.
"Why are you Cops so full of anger and hatred? That's why we don't like you!"
We wonder... What will be said when these people decide to raise their hands in victory over the Police?
"You wild-assed, out of control Chicago Cops need to be fixed! THEN, you'll REALLY see some changes in this city."
Rahm is here to provide cover for Daley while he and his big money contributors vaccuum up every nickel Shortshanks missed.
The only reason "Him Self" is in the white house is because Daley Inc. was scared that the "smart black guy" was making noise about running.
The pink guys shit themselves because that would mean no more multi-generational, eye watering graft and thievery that they felt was their birthright.
40+ years and the feebs ain't seen SHIT!
Greylord, Silver Shovel, Gambat etc... all of these investigations into public corruption and the like were carefully steered and orchestrated to protect the usual people to important for the churls to have the pleasure of seeing rotting to a skeleton on a live feed into their federal prison cells.
Viva Hate...
This city is destroyed beyond hope and salvage...
"Over the 14-year term of the lease, the government will pay $280 million in rent and operating expenses for the Near West Side property, which houses the FBI’s Chicago headquarters."
Is my math wrong or does that come out to $20 million rent per year, or $1.66 million per month?
Money talks . . . .
5 Pritzkers on Forbes 2012 richest Americans:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120919/BLOGS03/120919733/sam-zell-ken-griffin-and-a-lot-of-pritzkers-on-forbes-billionaire-list
11 Pritzkers are on this list of the world's richest people:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140303/BLOGS03/140309973/forbes-list-of-richest-includes-griffin-zell-reyes-walsh
Need more be said . .
Come on Deuce trying to slam the FBI on this is a bit of a stretch............even thugs in Englewood and the West Side fear the Feebs. Nobody on this blog can remember the last time an FBI Special Agent was arrested for corruption. On the other hand nobody can remember the last year CPD went an entire year without one of our own getting arrested and prosecuted for such crimes.
A Huge SCC Fan who disagrees on this one.
Hey feebs - Dance Puppet Dance! Bwahahahahaha
Come on Deuce trying to slam the FBI on this is a bit of a stretch............even thugs in Englewood and the West Side fear the Feebs. Nobody on this blog can remember the last time an FBI Special Agent was arrested for corruption. On the other hand nobody can remember the last year CPD went an entire year without one of our own getting arrested and prosecuted for such crimes.
How about this Ex-Chicago FBI agent
http://www.fbi.gov/losangeles/press-releases/2009/la031809.htm
Come on Deuce trying to slam the FBI on this is a bit of a stretch............even thugs in Englewood and the West Side fear the Feebs. Nobody on this blog can remember the last time an FBI Special Agent was arrested for corruption. On the other hand nobody can remember the last year CPD went an entire year without one of our own getting arrested and prosecuted for such crimes.
I think it's a bit of a stretch that thugs in Englewood and the West side fear FBI agents...how could they fear someone that is never there??? Asshat..
And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
The feds must have a really good internal corruption department. Let's see how they deal with this one. The owners of this building will look like hero's when this is over.
Just a few years ago a special agent in California was arrested for corruption and acting like he was a character on Sons of Anarchy. He was Asian. Look it up.
Damn. Talk about a hard, mean crew running this town. Even the FBI is getting eaten alive on the rent.
Bring in Joe Perillo -- yeah, the Ford guy -- to manage the property like he does his SRO's. Sick elderly people see a notice on the door, "Be out by noon."
I suggest that you check out a documentary recently released on ON DEMAND comcast.
It's called "Whitey" and it's about WHitey Bulger.
The corruption at the federal level that is revealed will boggle your mind.
You might think you've heard the whole story, but you have not.
"...can't remember when an FBI agent was arrested for corruption..."
I remember the guy who helped Whitey Bulger. I remember Robert Hansen. I remember the computer guy in California.
Please work on your memory.
I know you do not seriously think the FBI will do anything that it is not told to do. Remember the Blago wire and why they mysteriously cut it short and arrested a sitting governor on probable cause? How many times has an FBI agent made a pc arrest? Not saying Blago did not deserve it, but who was supposed to be calling him that morning? FBI legit? hahahaha And now go after someone as plugged in as the Pritzkers? another haha
And now we know why that land that was supposed to be the new 012 district/crime lab was given away instead!
Too valuable to use for coppers!
The Feds have two very understaffed Public Corruption squads. Less than 20 agents.
They don't have enough Agents in Chicago to investigate corruption in Chicago.
That's because there are 50 of them in Ferguson trying to railroad a white cop.
And just who was the US Attorney when this scam was formulated? Oh Yeah!
Patrick Firzgerald! The only guy in Illinois who didn't lknow Daley was a thief and a total crook.And just where is Pat these days? Working for mega bucks at a law firm run by pals of Daley. Go figure!
You want to know why Chi is broke, broken and violent.
Corruption, corruption and still more corruption. And that is the Chicago way. So keep the cycle going by electing more democrats citizens! Chicago politics.
MS
Come on Deuce trying to slam the FBI on this is a bit of a stretch............even thugs in Englewood and the West Side fear the Feebs. Nobody on this blog can remember the last time an FBI Special Agent was arrested for corruption. On the other hand nobody can remember the last year CPD went an entire year without one of our own getting arrested and prosecuted for such crimes.
A Huge SCC Fan who disagrees on this one.
Plenty of Feds get locked up all the time-they just have different rules and you don't find out about it until long after it's over or they quietly get to fade off into the sunset. You are an idiot if you think they are above reproach. They have nobody watching them, only their own.
The FBI agents are always bragging about how they will: "Self-Report" themselves or other agents, if they even suspect the slightest wrong doing. Unless of course it occurs at the highest level of government, then they revert to being the naive hillbillys that they really are! And that is why people like Rahm with no experience or knowledge of finance can go to work in Government and become wealthy.
The Pritzkers own the Hyatt Hotel chain and make millions a year in profit yet Rahm still gave them millions of our tax dollars via (TIF) funds to build a hotel near the soon to be built with public funds DePaul basketball arena?
I remember a fed going to prison for selling secrets to the Russians. He was exCPD. Also a member of Opus Dei.
they busy playing footise with tow truck drivers trying to lock up coppers
Boston Globe
Disgraced former FBI agent apologizes to family of Whitey Bulger victim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4q2oelz1LE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuKvgGxL9w8
FBI Kills Man They Questioned About Boston Marathon Bombings
The House Oversight Committee plans to ask the FBI whether all the guns that were used to kill a federal agent are accounted for. Sharyl Attkisson reports on the latest of the fallout from the "fast and furious" operation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L22kQ_2wcpE
John J. Connolly Jr former F.B.I. agent was arrested for his role in the 1982 murder of John B. Callahan; Connolly acted as handler and protector of James (Whitey) Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster; Connolly was convicted in 2008 to serve a 40-year prison sentence for his role in the 1982 murder of John B. Callahan!
June 13, 1990 FBA Special Agent 30 year old Mark Putnam admitted killing his 27 year old pregnant mistress, Susan Daniels Smith. the FBI Special Agent Putnam met Smith who was an informant for a car theft investigation. one year after Smith disappeared Putnam made a deal with the Police and showed them where her remains were left behind near an old coal mining road outside of lexington, KY Putnam was charged and convicted for manslaughter instead of murder!
there are numerous accounts of FBI Special Agents charged with murder and crimes of violence what you have been reading in the local newspapers about former cop or Chicago Police officer involved in acts of crimes is not new in law enforcement;
WHATS NEW IS THIS PIECE OF CRAP OF PROPOSED CONTRACT-
VOTE NO!
DIVIDE AND CONQUER!
SI SE PUEDE!
Not to pour cold water here, but the charactgerization of this deal is misleading. Receiving back, over the course of a long-term lease and operating agreement, far in excess of the original costs to build the property, is neither unusual nor unetheical -- it's common sense and common business practices. It's how virtually ALL commercial property is built and operated. An 8% annual return over 14 years is actually on the low side.
Come on Deuce trying to slam the FBI on this is a bit of a stretch............even thugs in Englewood and the West Side fear the Feebs. Nobody on this blog can remember the last time an FBI Special Agent was arrested for corruption.
9/15/2014 03:20:00 AM
Who watches the Watcher? Who checks the Checker? Who guard the Guardian?
ssc it doesnt matter becasuse in a couple of years patrick daley thompson will be our next mayor
Wait till you see the next building the FBI moves in to when the lease on the current joint is up.
The Feds lease land!!!
CMON
Anonymous said...
Come on Deuce trying to slam the FBI on this is a bit of a stretch............even thugs in Englewood and the West Side fear the Feebs. Nobody on this blog can remember the last time an FBI Special Agent was arrested for corruption. On the other hand nobody can remember the last year CPD went an entire year without one of our own getting arrested and prosecuted for such crimes.
A Huge SCC Fan who disagrees on this one.
9/15/2014 03:20:00 AM
Huh?
Are you REALLY this non-observant and obtuse?
Here... Cliff Notes version of how the feebs do business as far as THEIR misdeeds are concerned.
The Feds:
Bury their fuck-ups.
Burn their fuck-ups to the ground.
Exile their fuck-ups if they have no clout.
Reward, promote and hide their fuck-ups to a corner office in an attempt to keep them from getting other
agents fucked-up.
Pay lots of money to make their fuck-ups go away.
Exert a lot of pressure to keep their fuck-ups out of the media and away from public eyes.
Cannibalize their own whistle-blowers which when exposed, constitutes what? A FUCK-UP!
(Hiya J-Fled! ;^)
So...
What up, Slick?
Anything else?
SCC alludes to none of this strange series of events being accident or happenstance.
It was cynically executed and is corrupt, ethically questionable and vicious by design and intent.
SpankDaddy said...
"...can't remember when an FBI agent was arrested for corruption..."
I remember the guy who helped Whitey Bulger. I remember Robert Hansen. I remember the computer guy in California.
Please work on your memory.
9/15/2014 07:39:00 AM
Robert Hanson was a Chicago Police officer working the "red squad" before he joined the FBI.
Do you think Jody Weis was their revenge?
Leftists say that all billionaires are bad....unless of course those billionaires are leftists and stand to make money by crafting development deals funded by taxpayers.
"Don't embarrass the Bureau."
We in the FBI only do what our Imam, Eric Holder, tells us to do.
Anonymous said...
Come on Deuce trying to slam the FBI on this is a bit of a stretch............even thugs in Englewood and the West Side fear the Feebs. Nobody on this blog can remember the last time an FBI Special Agent was arrested for corruption. On the other hand nobody can remember the last year CPD went an entire year without one of our own getting arrested and prosecuted for such crimes.
How about this Ex-Chicago FBI agent
http://www.fbi.gov/losangeles/press-releases/2009/la031809.htm
9/15/2014 05:57:00 AM
Anonymous said...
Come on Deuce trying to slam the FBI on this is a bit of a stretch............even thugs in Englewood and the West Side fear the Feebs. Nobody on this blog can remember the last time an FBI Special Agent was arrested for corruption. On the other hand nobody can remember the last year CPD went an entire year without one of our own getting arrested and prosecuted for such crimes.
How about this Ex-Chicago FBI agent
OR:
http://www.fbi.gov/losangeles/press-releases/2009/la031809.htm
9/15/2014 05:57:00 AM
this stuff is very easy to find, to bad you didn't check a little.
Speculation is no guarantee of endless, limitless wealth.
Here, skyscrapers abandoned in mid-construction, the wind howling through -- falling apart in the weather, showering down debris.
Just thought I'd give the Pritzkers a little something to make their smiles more forced, their stride less certain -- their nights less restful.
Ask the Madoff family -- what's left of it. One suicided, one died of cancer, one will be in prison for the rest of his life.
"And the last shall be first, and the first, last."
http://weburbanist.com/2010/10/02/silent-skyscrapers-the-ghost-towers-of-bangkok/
"We live in an Obamanation."
9/15/2014 12:23:00 AM
It's simply Obamanible.
I don't think that the FBI proper deals with real estate and so forth. You probably want to look at GSA, the General Services Administration.
Still, and all...
I don't think that the FBI proper deals with real estate and so forth. We probably want to look at the GSA -- the General Services Administration.
Still, and all...
Fuck it...
When this lease is up, why not let the Feds HAVE the top floors of City Hall?
Oh wait... Since this is a Pritzker operation, why doesn't the Pritzker Clan lease the upper floors of the Hyatt to the feebs?
>Snicker!<
Everyone with an intact conscience should be doing all they can to draw the guns of the firing squad these dirty fucks are orchestrating, inward into a circle...
Anonymous poster @ 02:37:00 PM summed it up nicely...
Complete and total bullshit and willful failure to safeguard the tax payer's treasure in leasing this building from the Pritzkers.
The developer needs a bright hot light shined down his ass too...
Nothing will happen with corruption in Chicago as long as Rahm keeps raising money for the guy in the White House. Rahm made it very ear to the new us attorney that the emphasis is on guns and gangs not Rahm and Daley and soon to be rauners deals.
Anonymous said...
The Feds lease land!!!
CMON
9/15/2014 02:37:00 PM
That's a city of Chicago thing, the city leases land and pays too much, the usual suspects make out and kicks back to a campaign fund. Or some financial wizards like Vanecko and Davis work a version of the same scam. How's Patrick Daley and his sewer inspection company doing?
Anonymous said...
I remember a fed going to prison for selling secrets to the Russians. He was exCPD. Also a member of Opus Dei.
9/15/2014 09:57:00 AM
Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001. He is serving a life sentence at ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado.
Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. His activities have been described by the US Department of Justice's Commission for the Review of FBI Security Programs as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history.
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Hanssen's father was CPD. He grew up in Norwood Park and went to Taft HS. When Hanssen got on the CPD he went to work in Internal Affairs, specializing in forensic accounting. He quit after 4 years and got hired by the FBI.
FBI has a history of fronting off CIA agents and of blaming security breaches on the CIA. 4 star General David Petraeus retired from the military and ws named director of the CIA. It was an FBI agent, carrying on the FBI's tradition of fucking the CIA, and acting alone, who outed Petraeus for having an affair with the author of his biography. The FBI tried to cover the outing as being "discovered during an investigation." Bullshit.
The FBI are low down dirty rat bastards. The one contact I had with an FBI agent was at a bank robbery. The FBI agent and partner came to the scene and asked for this and that etc. I made him show me ID. He had no uniform, no FBI written across his forehead. Fuck him, he didn't like pulling out his ID wallet, fucking turd. Show me. He did. I got a kick out of that one.
Why don't the feds investigate 130 n garland ct. It was built with two extra floors. One penthouse for the struttering pr!@& and another for the community organizer. All off the books and held in trusts. Ask the security detail about the golf cart in the underground walkway. Why during Taste was a northbound lane on Wabash Av put in from Randolph to Lake? Look at the southbound facing traffic signals not walk signals installed at Lake and Wabash in 2006?
michaelesullivan1@gmail.com
OT... What's going on in 25?
Anonymous said...
I don't think that the FBI proper deals with real estate and so forth. You probably want to look at GSA, the General Services Administration.
Still, and all...
9/15/2014 05:57:00 PM
Chicago style scam, lease to government and charge too much. Connected people get the inflated rent.
Anyone remember when the City of Chicago owned the old traffic court building at 321 N LaSalle St?
The City sold the property to a "developer." For a song I imagine, a connected developer no doubt. Then the city had to scramble to find a new traffic court because there was none ready to move into. Another great planning move by Daley or Sawyer, I do not recall which..
The judges didn't want to go to the west side for traffic court, where the city had land but no traffic court yet. So they came up with moving traffic court "temporarily" to the Civic Center. (daley center) at a cost of around $20 million. Temporarily turned into permanently.
But there was no traffic court courtrooms at daley center and they didn't own the old building any more.
So the City of Chicago paid rent to the developer for the use of traffic court until they were ready to move to traffic court at the daley center. That took a year at least.
In the intervening time, the city paid enough rent to give the developer all his purchase mney back. He got the traffic court building at 321 N LaSalle for free and the City got nothing for it and had to spend at least $20 million to move to the daley center. Cook County Deputy Sherrifs also had to build and staff security checkpoints and metal detectors.
In addition, the building wass declared an historical landmark which got the developer tax rehab credits. Free building plus money to rehab. The developer won the lottery.
No stink was made, no federal investigation. The city essentially gave away, for free, a valuable downtown property and paid millions in relocation costs and still has a court in a basement unsuited for it's purpose.
Anonymous said...
"FBI has a history of fronting off CIA agents and of blaming security breaches on the CIA. 4 star General David Petraeus retired from the military and ws named director of the CIA. It was an FBI agent, carrying on the FBI's tradition of fucking the CIA, and acting alone, who outed Petraeus for having an affair with the author of his biography. The FBI tried to cover the outing as being "discovered during an investigation." Bullshit."
9/15/2014 08:53:00 PM
Interesting...
If such is true? Why does the CIA even stands still for FBI bullshit?
Are they like CPD?
No hitting back allowed?
Or if they do hit back, it has to be a weak hand push to the chest and not a full power dominant hand cross through the front teeth?
I made him show me ID. He had no uniform, no FBI written across his forehead. Fuck him, he didn't like pulling out his ID wallet, fucking turd. Show me. He did. I got a kick out of that one.
9/15/2014 08:53:00 PM
Do you realize how juvenile you sound? Probably not.
I would like to hear the rest of the story. All that land in the area around the FBI building, (Roosevelt to 15th-Damen to Ashland), was obtained by either the Illinois medical District or the University of Illinois. I heard that they were allowing the city to use the land where the FBI building is for a Police station. That didn't happen. Than the land at 14th and Ashland was going to be set aside for a new Police station. That land is now a Costco.
When the parking meter deal started every parking space on the streets in that area which where vacant lots at that time had a parking meter! Wonder who actually owns, transfers or just uses the land and what tax dollars were used?
Anonymous said...
I made him show me ID. He had no uniform, no FBI written across his forehead. Fuck him, he didn't like pulling out his ID wallet, fucking turd. Show me. He did. I got a kick out of that one.
9/15/2014 08:53:00 PM
Do you realize how juvenile you sound? Probably not.
9/16/2014 05:56:00 AM
How many of your fellow PO's got fucked by the feds over bullshit? Newcomer.
Anonymous said...
"FBI has a history of fronting off CIA agents and of blaming security breaches on the CIA. 4 star General David Petraeus retired from the military and ws named director of the CIA. It was an FBI agent, carrying on the FBI's tradition of fucking the CIA, and acting alone, who outed Petraeus for having an affair with the author of his biography. The FBI tried to cover the outing as being "discovered during an investigation." Bullshit."
9/15/2014 08:53:00 PM
Interesting...
If such is true? Why does the CIA even stands still for FBI bullshit?
Are they like CPD?
No hitting back allowed?
Or if they do hit back, it has to be a weak hand push to the chest and not a full power dominant hand cross through the front teeth?
9/16/2014 01:29:00 AM
Not if it is true, it is true. Remember 9/11? Remember the flap about FBI and CIA not sharing intel? Why do you think that is?
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Robert Hanson was a Chicago Police officer working the "red squad" before he joined the FBI.
9/15/2014 04:29:00 PM
All the Red Squad files are at the old Chicago Historical Society, now the Chicago History Museum at North and Clark per a consent decree with Fed Judge Susan Getzendanner. Minus names of officers and informants and informants ID numbers. You can go there and look at the files and get copies. Expensive though, they charge 50 cents a page.
Anonymous said...
I made him show me ID. He had no uniform, no FBI written across his forehead. Fuck him, he didn't like pulling out his ID wallet, fucking turd. Show me. He did. I got a kick out of that one.
9/15/2014 08:53:00 PM
Good. Fuck the FBI.
"Chicago style scam, lease to government and charge too much. Connected people get the inflated rent.
"Anyone remember when the City of Chicago owned the old traffic court building at 321 N LaSalle St?..."
--9/15/2014 11:39:00 PM
Oh, man, thanks. What a story!
How did the song go? "Watch out now, take care, beware, of soft-shoe shufflers, take you where you should not go." Real estate speculation at its finest.
Anyway, I think I meant that the FBI does not deal with their landlords (although they should be investigating them!). They just moved in there and went to work doing their thing.
I believe that GSA, General Services Administration, "finds housing" for all other federal agencies, does the lease negotiations, arranges construction, whatever. That may be an interesting direction in which to look.
"The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices, [and] provides transportation and office space to federal employees...
"GSA employs about 12,000 federal workers and has an annual operating budget of roughly $26.3 billion. GSA oversees $66 billion of procurement annually. It contributes to the management of about $500 billion in U.S. federal property, divided chiefly among 8,300 owned and leased buildings and a 210,000 vehicle motor pool..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Services_Administration
Fresh meat for Rahm's meat slicer when they come into this town!
To: "not to pour cold water, etc."
I'm sure its also quite common for the Government to reject the low bidder for a $280 million lease and award it to Obama's favorite local campaign contribution bundler. Yeah, nothing out of the ordinary.
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