Russ and Pam Martens

Russ and Pam Martens, the investigatory duo behind Wall Street On Parade—a financial news website operated “to help the investing public better understand systemic corruption on Wall Street”—were the Solari Report’s 2020 Heroes of the Year. Their June 2020 article, “BlackRock Authored the Bailout Plan Before There Was a Crisis—Now It’s been Hired by Three Central Banks to Implement the Plan,” made a significant contribution to Solari’s understanding and coverage of the central bankers’ Going Direct Reset.

Although the Martens currently are publishing their Wall Street On Parade column only intermittently, they have made a point of drawing attention to the top-down suppression of the Epstein files, describing the Epstein case as “the clarion call to Americans to finally deal with the metastasizing rot in the campaign finance/revolving door/institutionalized wealth transfer system at the New York Fed/Wall Street.” In an article published at CounterPunch on September 18, they also emphasize the integral role played in the Epstein operation by “5-count felon bank” JPMorgan Chase, as well as outlining a number of JPMorgan Chase’s other business-as-usual scandals.

Over the years, the Martens have been fierce in calling out the endemic corruption at JPMorgan Chase and the New York Fed. In a July 2024 article, they wrote:

“[T]he New York Fed has exclusively used JPMorgan Chase to hold, as custodian, more than $2.3 trillion of the Federal Reserve’s Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) for the past 15-1/2 years—despite JPMorgan Chase admitting to five felony counts brought by the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice during that time. If there was an admitted felon in your neighborhood, would that be your first choice for a house sitter?”

In 2019, Solari tallied up selected JPMorgan Chase legal, regulatory, and enforcement settlements between 2002 and 2019—the results left us “flabbergasted.”

We applaud the Martens for their righteous indignation about the Epstein affair and the intelligent dot-connecting that, together with the excellent Epstein coverage by Whitney Webb, shines a light on the higher-level players and institutions involved.