David Russell

Ex Parte Petition for Leave to Serve 'John Doe' Summonses on Federal Express Corporation, FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., DHL Express, United Parcel Service , Inc., Western Union Financial Services, Inc., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Clearing House Payments Company LLC, and HSBC Bank USA, National Association regarding a tax investigation into clients of Sovereign Management & Legal, Ltd., filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

First Swedish Savings, formerly known as First Baltic Savings, is being investigated by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen).First Swedish maintains identical web-sites at www.firstswedish.com and www.firstbaltic.com where, inter alia, it promotes an "offshore hedge fund" called Athena Growth Fund, which, apparently, is "a registered trademark and dba of (sic) Direct Trading Partners (Nevis) LLC".