Loan Entanglement

Today’s poem is a weird one, folks, but stick with it awhile
And it may finally make enough sense to bring forth a smile
The reason for its weirdness is its convoluted theme
About a bizarre loan request entangled to extreme.

Steve Bannon sought the loan as his involvement on Jan 6
Spiraled to the top of his staying out of jail list

Amid his mounting legal woes he sought to borrow dough

Against palatial property his non-profit did know.

The house was in Connecticut to which the loan applied

The loan request to a bank branch in Phoenix which was tied

To a Kansas-based lender via a Delaware firm

Named for the house address for which the loan request did yearn.

The house was owned (maybe) to a non-profit Bannon set

Up with a Chinese billionaire along the line he’d met

Who is a fugitive disinformation kingpin who

For illegal shenanigans SEC did pursue.

The tangled web this poem relates now adds another tangle

Because Bannon’s non-profit did not own the house his angle

Was to use as collateral for the loan being slated

Across three states and a Chinese crook all interrelated.

Of evidence Steve’s non non-profit owned the house there’s plenty

But sold it to a right-wing nut case back in 2020

Long before the loan requested passed through three whole states

And so the loan’s collateral is open to debates.

The tangled web theme in this poem at this point grows too weird

To attempt more untangling towards which it has veered

Because strange Chinese links and non non-profits are in play

Which are too hard to untangle given what’s known today.

Because this crooked Chinese guy entangled as can be

Has paid a half a billion buck fine to the SEC

And some kind of “Mountain of Spices” spices up the story

As both a bogus non-profit and also allegory.

For now this poem is giving up its attempt to unravel

The convoluted world Steve Bannon built to beat the gavel

And pay off mounting legal fees by requesting a loan

Based on a house he did not own and never called his home.

It’s time to leave Steve tangled up in his loan-seeking web

And return to reality and clarity instead

Here’s hoping that some future poem returning to these themes

Will find his ass in jail due to failure of weird loan schemes.

10 January 2022

Steve Bannon sought bizarre loan as his Jan 6 woes spiraled. https://flip.it/6fiVBd

The messy money drama behind Steve Bannon’s propaganda machine https://flip.it/6fiVBd