Ned Johnson III was the chairman of the board and the chief executive officer of FMR Corporation (parent company of Fidelity Investments). Ned Johnson III was a descendent of loyalist merchant and slaveholder Robert Gilbert Livingston (1712-1789) and Catharina Johnson McPheadres Livingston . Livingston had over a hundred thousand acres in New York on the Hudson River Valley, Brooklyn, Long Island and Harlem. By royal charter of George I of Great Britain in 1686, Robert "The Elder" Livingston (1654-1728) was granted a patent to 160,000 acres along the Hudson River.

Kiliaen van Rensselaer was a Dutch West India Company director. Patroons were entitled to the slave labor by the Dutch West India Co. His son Nicholas van Rensselaer married Alida Schuyler in 1675. Nicholas' widow (Nicholas suspiciously died young in 1678 at 42), Alida Schuyler van Rensselaer (23), married her late husband's secretary, Robert Livingston (25) in 1679. They had nine children together, including Philip Livingston, Robert Livingston and Hubertus "Gilbert" Livingston - all tremendous slavers in their own right.

At one time the Livingston family had one million acres, they were hyperactive in politics , were slave merchants and were involved in multigenerational slavery as the foremost patroonship in the Hudson River Valley for two centuries [Story Map Of Runaway Slave Advertisements Submitted By King's College And Columbia Slaveowning Students And Affiliates (Class Of 1760-1805) | https://slaveryexhibits.ctl.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/runaway-slave-advertisements-s/runaway-slave-advertisements- |(Livingston, Bayard, Ogden, Morris, Delancey, Van Wagenen)]. Ned Johnson III was so fascinated with his families slaving history, he allowed the name of "Pierrepont" to continue through giving the name to his heirs. The Cortlandt Patent (patroon) was the location of the Pierrepont Estate.

(https://columbiaandslavery.columbia.edu/content/dam/cuandslavery/seminars/hist-3518/2015-projects/Liao%202015%20-%20Livingstons%20and%20Watts.pdf)

It's no wonder that the Johnson/Livingston tribe are intensely private (Bloomberg "Fidelity Family's Vast Wealth Is Matched by Passion for Privacy"). Phillip and John Whorehouse Livingston were the original pimps of Manhattan. (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5FhJ3IMDUo | https://columbiaandslavery.columbia.edu/content/dam/cuandslavery/seminars/hist-3518/2016-projects/Brewington%202016%20-%20Run-away%20from%20the%20Subscriber.pdf | https://slaveryexhibits.ctl.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/livingston-brothels--columbia- ).

Being the product of first cousins, Ned the Rip-Off King of Boston famously said "The market is like a beautiful woman--always fascinating, always mystifying." He died at his home in Wellington, Florida after a long battle with a neurodegenerative brain disorder known as Parkinson's disease.

"After attending Harvard and serving in the U.S. Army, Ned Johnson III joined the then 70-person company as a research analyst 1957. Ned Johnson III was promoted in 1972 to president of the Boston-based firm his father had founded after World War II, and he served as chief executive officer until 2014. During his tenure at the top, assets jumped to more than $2.1 trillion from $3.9 billion, making Fidelity the second-biggest U.S. mutual fund company." Bloomberg. However, Fidelity needed cash from the US taxpayer (Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)) while shedding thousands of jobs in 2008-2010.

From the Library of Congress we find a Map of Bar Harbor Maine, with the corresponding owners of the "cottages". In the summer of '29 most people were having a blast; they were rich, smiling and without a care. Except in Bar Harbor Maine where a group of insidious bankers met in a private room at the Kebo Valley Golf Club. JP Morgan Jr was the head of the "Bar Harbor Gang". The plan was, have a huge market sell off sometime in October. The American people didn't know "shorting" was a tactic used for profiting from a decrease in share price in 1929. As John Pierpont Morgan Jr. addressed the room, Phillip Livingston, John H. Livingston, John Callendar Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay, John D. Rockefeller Jr. (son-in-law to Senator Nelson "Central Bank" Aldrich (Jekyll Island), John Kennedy Tod ( John "Central Bank" Kennedy (Jekyll Island nephew), Henry Phipps Jr., Astor Family, Geraldyn Livingston Redmond, J. Peirrepont Edwards, Edward de Veaux Morrell, John Winthrop Auchincloss, David Bayard Ogden, Morgan Pierpont, Edgar Thomson Scott, S. S. Kimball Constable, Russell Cornell Leffingwell (JP Morgan chairman and president of the Council on Foreign Relations), John Innes Kane, Clinton Ledyard Blair, Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Henry Morgenthau Jr. (chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and served as secretary of the Treasury from January 1, 1934, to July 22, 1945), George Washington Vanderbilt II, disgraced Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Albert Henry Wiggin and others shucked steamers and dreamed of all the suckers they would rob. Ferdinand Pecora followed through on the "Anti-Wiggin" provision in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, (for Albert Wiggin) which required officers, directors, or other corporate insiders to account for profits made from insider trading in the company's stock.

Eddie "The Kid" Johnson listened intently. Eddie had turned thirty-one this year, looked barely twenty and he was determined to make CousinElsie proud of him at last. "I'll borrow $2M from father, tell him the plan and give him 10% on is money!" thought Eddie. Eddie was excited. Eddie's son, Edward Crosby Johnson III was born on June 29, 1930. Nine months after the Great Crash". Excited indeed.

" The American stock market had sustained steep losses the last week in October 1929, Tuesday, October 29 is remembered as the beginning of the Great Depression. The Boston Stock Exchange, drawn into the whirlpool of panic selling that beset the New York Stock Exchange, lost over 25 percent of its value in two days of frenzied trading. The BSE, nearly 100 years old at the time, had helped raise the capital that had funded many of the Commonwealth's factories, railroads, and businesses. "[128] Governor of Massachusetts Frank G. Allen appointed John C. Hull the first Securities Director of Massachusetts.[129][130][131] Hull would assume office in January 1930. His term would end in 1936.[132]" (Wikipedia - Massachusetts). Wayne Jett* in his book, "The Fruits of Graft" details that The Great Depression was a planned crash. In October 1929, wholesale fraud occurred in the financial markets: "naked short selling", "watering the stock", "unlisted securities", "stock manipulation", "insider trading", "selling fake shares", "front-running" and "curb exchanges" etc. such that by 1931, the unemployment rate was over 30%. While Ned was opening presents and eating his 4th birthday cake, over 7 million souls had died of starvation in the US alone.

His father, CousinEddie applied to have the "Fidelity Fund" approved 1930. The "FIDELITY FUND, INC." was Incorporated in Massachusetts May 1, 1930 as an investment trust of the general management type (1)". CousinElsie was pregnant with the Rip-Off King when Fidelity was started in 1930. Not 1946. The truth is uncomfortable as there were bank panics in Massachusetts in 1930. John Carpenter Hull, the First Securities Director of Massachusetts approved the "Fidelity Fund". It became Fidelity Investments. During the Great Depression in the United States the "Fidelity Fund" was the only fund approved by Hull. Interestingly, Fidelity's location was only a three minute walk to Charles Ponzi 's company on School Street, the " Securities Exchange Company (SEC)". The Federal Reserve is a Ponzi, Madoff, Bankman-Fried scheme. There is a no reserve requirement for banks. The Fed calls it a "fractional reserve".

On May 4, 1932, John Carpenter Hull introduced a bill to the committee on Banks and Banking in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the law relative to the sale of securities. "Hull was helpful in the passing of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with his wars on "unlisted securities" and "The New York Curb Exchange" giving testimony to the US Senate." "Fraud" or 'fraudulent" were major tenets of House, No. 1417 bill (Chapter 110A). It survives to this day.

Hull's great grandson, another John C. Hull, would get a life threatening brain condition; that of a Cerebral arteriovenous malformation with a Intracranial hemorrhage. In 1994, a team of surgeons Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin performed three craniotomies totaling 65 hours to remove (resect) a Spetzler-Martin grade 4 AVM. However the cerebral hemorrhage was profuse and resulted in multi-month coma , hemiparesis and he would spend months at Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Inpatient Center in West Allis, WI, wheelchair bound, aphasic, with dysarthria and characterized as having as having "apraxia of speech". The younger John C. Hull with his traumatic brain injury, would proceed to lose many hundreds thousands dollars over fifteen years to Fidelity Investments. "Fidelity was acquainted with me, Fidelity knew I had extensive cognitive issues. Fidelity's salesmen called me at least a twenty times asking for me to roll over my 401K after the crash of 2008. Finally, barely speaking, I did in March 2009". Despite pleas to the Chief Executive Officer Abigail Johnson and Chairman Emeritus Edward Johnson III of Fidelity Investments said no remunerations were necessary. A qualifier is not listed relative to recovering from brain surgery in Chapter 110A; Section 101: Sales and Purchases. (NOTE: No possibility of losing the property without brain surgery.)

John Carpenter Hull could not see the future. If he were able, Hull would not have approved EC Johnson 2d's "Fidelity Fund" in hopes that his great-grandson would be spared the greed that is all things "Fidelity Investments" or "Ned Johnson III" related. As Robert G. Livingston seized and branded slave labor, as Johnny "Whorehouse" Livingston snatched as much as 80% from his ladies, Ned Johnson III preyed on the brain compromised. (Robert Livingston branded three diamonds into Nell's face for repeatedly running away).

Ned Johnson III's grandfather Sammy was the president of C.F. Hovey and Co. "The Bar Harbor Gang" gave Sammy plenty of time to sell the company to Jordan Marsh. Jordan Marsh bought Hovey's on February 4, 1925. The C.F. Hovey and Co. property on Summer Street was once Robert Hull's. Robert received a "great allotment" in 1636 and passed the property to his son John Hull and Judith Quincy Hull of the "Hull Mint" fame. Daniel Quincy came to live with his Aunt Judith at age 7. Daniel apprenticed under Hull. (Daniel Quincy is John C. Hull's ancestor.) The mint operated from 1652 to 1683. By 1680, the mint master John Hull greatly expanded his ownership on Summer Street.

From Clough's map, John Hull in 1676 also owned a wharf (Olivers Dock corr. to the Central Wharf today). Today they are named "Water Street" and the cross street is "Devonshire Street". The address corresponding to Water and Devonshire is 82 Devonshire Street is the "Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)" (Page 7 SEC offices - . Zone 2 -Edmund J. Brandon, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass 1935) AND the owners were Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass (2). A conflict of interest may be determined in the fact that Fidelity owned the building that the SEC occupied. Originally, Water Street was "The Road to the Town Cove". The land that One Exchange Place in Boston was built was originally owned by the Mintmaster and Treasurer of the colony John Hull (Hull's Wharf). Additionally, John and Judith Quincy Hull owned a 300 acre farm in Brookline Massachusetts (Muddy River). The property boundaries (north to south) were the Charles River and the Sears Memorial Church. In later years, the Kennedy's bought a house on Beal Street, right in the middle of the Hulls property centuries earlier.

The Rip Off King was a descendant of Samuel, son of James Johnson. Hull knew JimmieJ as they were in the same circles. Hull didn't drink and Jimmie was excommunicated from the First Church of Boston for drinking and causing a row. Samuels mother Abigail Oliver "apparently died between 24 Feb 1673/4 (when she joined her husband as grantor in a deed) & __ Apr 1674 (when her husband sold land without her participation). Source: Great Migration Study Project". Abigail wanted to go the to the Third Church as her family, The Oliver's were all going there. The land in question was a gift from Thomas Oliver to his daughter. Judith Hull and Sarah Oliver (wife of Peter) were close as they lived within a 1/4 mile from each other and were accepted in the 3rd Church on the same day. Sarah's sister in law Abigail married the drunk James Johnson and one day she fell down and died at 52.

"My grandfather founded one of the world's largest investment companies " bragged the greedy bully Abby Johnson piously. "ONE American family is behind $4.2trillion worth of assets, including the retirement accounts of millions of customers. Fidelity Investments was founded in 1946, and the granddaughter of the founder, Abigail Johnson, is the chief executive officer and chairman today. His eldest, Abigail, began working for Fidelity in 1988. She even tried to oust her own father as chief executive officer in 2001 with a secret meeting of stockholders. Although it was unsuccessful, the cunning move won the respect of her father." The Sun, James Lawley, 5.10.2023. Showing Ned Johnson's appreciation of such a brazenly manly move and Abby's vile money-grubbing ways.

The 1st Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,  Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was from Boston.[82] In his address to the Boston Chamber of Commerce on November 15, 1934, Kennedy said this: "Deplorable loss was the consequence of ill-considered conception, preparation, and execution. We don't want the staccato tempo of much of the frenzied financing of the late twenties." Kennedy continued, "We have the tremendous task of educating the American public to protect itself against high-pressure salesmanship. No law has ever been devised or administered which successfully eradicated crookedness. The Federal Government, however, hopes to fill a much needed want, hopes to be a vigorous factor in the relentless war on stock frauds."[83] At the Massachusetts Statehouse, John C. Hull authored and introduced a bill to the committee on Banks and Banking in the Massachusetts House of Representatives the law relative to the sale of securities (Chapter 110A), on May 4, 1932.[7] In House No. 1417 Hull wrote the following: "Section 20. The commission shall investigate all complaints as to the sale of fraudulent securities or the fraudulent sale of securities or the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter as shall be referred to it, and shall report such violations to the attorney general if it considers the public interest so requires."