Remember the DC9 with 5.5 tons of coke? We've talked about it at some length on these pages. Well, looks like we can trace it right to a key player within the GOP:
The crime ring backing the flight of the DC9 was led by self-described Iran Contra insider Marc Harris, whose associates number at least three convicted drug traffickers of note.It gets juicier and juicier:
Harris is a former staffer for Senator Jesse Helms, and his ties to the national Republican Party go back to at least 1988, when he was the Florida manager for former US Army General, National Security Advisor and White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig’s presidential campaign.
According to a newspaper in Panama, where he operated while on the lam, many of Harris' biggest clients were prominent Republican politicians.
In addition to drug trafficking, the ring is also accused of looting dozens of publicly-held companies for a period spanning almost two decades, duping investors in 'small cap' publicly-held companies using 'pump and dump' stock fraud schemes.It's important to keep inmind that SkyWay was a con -- a firm set up for the sole purpose of deceiving investors. The people who initiated the scam never did a day in jail. In fact, the company has reformulated itself, and is ready to bilk afresh.
According to experts in financial crime, the ring operates as a so-called “hyena pack" responsible for bankrupting dozens of public companies like SkyWay Communications.
In addition to General Al Haig, Harris also boasts a more than passing acquaintance with Iran Contra stalwarts like Gen. Jack Singlaub.Very intriguing. Singlaub links up to the World Anti-Communist League, a fascist enclave that attracted an insufficient amount of attention back in the 1980s; a key player was our old firend, the Reverend Moon. Singlaub also figures heavily in the many bizarre stories involving the recovery of Yamashita's gold in the Philippines. (This legendary horde includes much of hte gold looted by the Japanese in Asia.) See, for example, this New York Times piece from 1987, and this excerpt from Sterling Seagrave's should-be-classic investigtion, Gold Warriors.
And as befits anyone engaged in global organized crime, his spook connections are multinational, extending from Chile to Peru.
Seagrave indicates that Singlaub did find something -- and if he did, then a money launderer like Harris would be an excellent contact.
Back to Hopsicker. Although Harris is now in prison, he and his associates put together a crime ring composed of seemingly unconnected companies.
The Orlando-based ring maintains connections to political figures in Florida and Texas, as well as to well-known former Iran Contra operatives, and operates with seeming official impunity...How do they operate with impunity? Their buddy-buddy relations with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush probably helped...
It includes such well-known fraudsters as Saudi arms dealer (and CIA fixer) Adnan Khashoggi, himself no slouch when it comes to busting out public companies. Khashoggi made off with 300 million from GenesisIntermedia, court documents reveal, in the Stockgate fraud.
One of the three companies used in the swindle, Holiday RV, was owned and run by Michael Farkas, who founded SkyWay, and a secretive Midwestern media baron and Bush "Pioneer," Stephen Adams, who personally bought one million dollars worth of billboard ads in support of Bush's 2000 run for the Presidency.
Just two weeks before SkyWay's biggest stockholders sued company management for fraud as the firm lurched towards bankruptcy, Gov. Bush’s Florida Dept. of Transportation issued a glowing press release touting the firm’s bright future in Homeland Security while announcing SkyWay had been chosen to be the state’s primary provider of airport security applications.I've barely skimmed the surface. Go here now.
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For those seriously interested in the gold stuff and it's relation to politics, I'd suggest looking at the work of David Guyatt. His "The Secret Gold Treaty," and "Project Hammer," (the large files directly from him, not pages copied on the net ) contain lots of scanned documents among other things.
Gary McGowan
Finally a gem on this page again. :) Please return this to the norm.
What's that you say, John? You want me to deliver more expose of wrong-doing by Barack Obama? Well, if you insist...
Deliver an expose on anything, Joe. It will be a welcome change from the whining about what other people say on other boring blogs. :)
Dan Hopsicker is doing a great job. I personally hope he continues and surfaces more detailed information on “Clyde O’Connor” who happens to be my ex-sister-in-law’s brother. Her husband is Clyde’s Money Man. Plus I can’t forget about all the other Investigative Reporters who are doing a great job too as many separate stories are starting to blend into one.
I was in this family for more than 26 years. They started in this criminal system in the later 70’s and continue to this day. Clyde that I know of is foot loose and fancy free after being busted in Mexico with Ton’s of cocaine on board his jet plane. Maybe because the family called themselves a “CIA Asset” might have something to do with it? .
The family was involved laundering Drug and Gun Running Money straight into property for this system during the Iron Contra Affair. They were also involved during “Argentina’s Dirty War” and others too. When you’re laundering money for CIA operations, you’ll be doing many different secret things over time. You’ll also learn more about what you’re involved in too which is how I came to learn about this.
But there is another part to this that hasn’t surfaced and WHY it isn’t surfacing is also interesting. Always as “Follow The Money”! In this case, the money often went into property mainly using high level Executives in big Banks with Mortgage Fraud schemes to bury the ownership. I know they used others and in most cases those used were high level executives. They were instructed not to use the “Recorder of Deeds” departments because corruption was out of control and sooner or later they would take a fall. The Banks though never get in trouble they said and even following the White House Coup in 1933, there were little to no consequences paid for anything.
Knowing what happened during Iran Contra only a few chosen ones seemed to get in trouble and still they were pardoned. Presidential Pardoning seems to be a good way out for those involved in serious crimes. Wait till everyone finds out why our Presidents have been pardoning these criminals! I know the answer, do you? This may be when the real fun begins.
But the Laundromat in Chicago is also protecting everyone who is involved. When ever I try to get the word out, I’m blocked. Guess who is involved in blocking me? There are also other security and protection groups protecting this system. When this surfaces, I guarantee you the detail will be overwhelmingly breathtaking. You may even start fastening your seatbelt!
Rezko is on Federal Trial but there’s a huge story waiting to pop with whom else is involved. Also, besides corruption there are other larger situations ready to be added to the mix and whom is involved goes all the way up. It’s my opinion that when this starts to unravel, many old questions from the past will start to be answered. The Rezko thing is also personal to me since my youngest son has an involvement with him. Certainly his involvement came from the family’s terrific guidance. Hopefully they don’t guide him into doing many of the other things they have done.
Marty Didier
Northbrook, IL
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