Although the planes probably didn't contain drugs while in the Tampa Bay area, investigators say both aircraft were purchased with cartel money and were used to carry cocaine, most likely from Colombia into Mexico."Cartel money"? Is there any proof of this?
Clyde O'Connor paid -- we are told -- two million for the jet, even though most people think he didn't have that kind of money. But his partner, a pilot named Greg Smith, says that the money came from a man named Don Whittington, widely acknowledged to have CIA connections. Not only that. Several sources have said that the actual bill of sale lists the purchase price as $100. If that's true, then we may fairly surmise that the "sale" was a temporary on-paper ruse designed to hide the aircraft's true owner. (In a previous post, we noted that the craft was controlled by the mysterious Arik Kislin.)
The Tampa Tribune's reporters cannot engage in surmise, of course. But they can dig up that bill of sale, which is hard evidence.
Tribune reporters Howard Altman and Karen Branch-Brioso offer up one additional nugget about O'Connor:
He has also filed for bankruptcy twice, in 1997 and 1998, in South Florida, listing dozens of creditors, including a number of casinos.Casinos, eh? Methinks that if you owe money to those guys, you might be willing to play Let's Make a Deal...
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N48PA, the drug smuggling Gulfstream I I've previously mentioned that belonged to Anthony Aiello and Geoffrey Hodgson, was financed through Castle Bank, P.O. Box 150, Sandwich, IL. Perhaps it's just me, but it seems odd for a bank's address to be a P.O. box.
Now, N210TM, Clyde O'Connor's Cessna, is currently owned by Mellon Investments. It was sold to them by Mesquito Holdings (can anyone read the signature of the Vice President on that?), another O'Connor company, which purchased it from Indy Aero, LLC. Indy Aero financed it with the same branch of Castle Bank, at the same P.O. box.
Victor __________. Just can't tell the last name.
Is somebody playing games here? I mean, the original Castle Bank -- the one that Paul Helliwell founded in the Bahamas in the 60's as the first of the great CIA drug profit money-laundering operations -- is long gone, right? And even if it weren't, it wouldn't be living in Sandwich, IL, would it?
Yeah, nothing to see here, must be time to go to bed. It's just the universe displaying its trickster nature.
starroute, I noted the coincidence myself, but Castle Bank has been in Illinois for a long time. As in -- Lincoln might have banked there.
http://www.castlebank.com/index.asp?page=1701
John, are you sure Victor ____ should not be "Viktor"?
And might I prevail on someone else to supply a last name without a first? That should cover us, legally.
No Joe, that's definitely Victor with a "c."
There is also a Mesquito Holdings in Wilmington,DE:
Business Search.
Seemed to be in business with:
American East Explosives, Inc
N210TM is deregistered since 10/30/2007 (exported to Portugal :-):
FAA-Information
This article suggests Greg Smith, the person alleged to have purchased N987SA along with Clyde O'Connor, may have flown over 30 flights to South America for the DEA, FBI, and CIA.
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