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Peter Lanza had a hell of surprise when he pulled into his driveway Friday afternoon, only to be confronted by a local newswoman who informed him his son Adam had killed his ex-wife, then 20 very young children at an elementary school, along with 6 adult teachers.

Though he had no prior knowledge of the tragedy, he does have something in common with thefather of the Joker, another mass murderer who pulled the same kindof weapon, an AR-15, at a midnight showing of a Batman film duringthe United Nations conference on a small arms treaty that would banprivate ownership of firearms if ratified by the U.S. Senate.(click here for a previous report)

The latest news regarding the law of guns prior to young Mr. Lanza's tragic behavior? The United States 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals declared Illinois law unconstitutional in its uncategorical ban on concealed weapons and gave the Legislature 180 days to craft new law that will permit qualified applicants to carry concealed handguns in public – outside their homes. Illinois was the last state left in the nation with such a law banning concealed carriage of handguns by qualified applicants for permits.

According to News World Wide,(click) “The father of Newtown Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza is Peter Lanza who is a VP and Tax Director at GE Financial. The father of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes is Robert Holmes, the lead scientist for the credit score company FICO. Both men were to testify before the US Sentate in the ongoing LIBOR scandal. The London Interbank Offered Rate, known as Libor, is the average interest rate at which banks can borrow from each other. 16 international banks have been implicated in this ongoing scandal, accused of rigging contracts worth trillions of dollars. HSBC has already been fined $1.9 billion and three of their low level traders arrested.

Mr. Lanza is a tax specialist, but he is also part of the audit team that helped define the dimensions of the scandal, and the various methods used by the bankers to scam their investors.

For an update on the LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) scandal, apoints-shaving scam that allows international investment bankers to shaft institutional investors in derivatives and other complicated securities whose values and earnings are tied to the interest rates banks chargeeach other for overnight loans to cover cash deposit requirements, one need only click here.(click here for a report from "Rolling Stone")

The resulting litigation includes RICO civil suits initiated by municipalities and states hard hit by the scam. Baltimore, Maryland, was the first to file under the provisions of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations statute.