Stephen Samos person
also: Steve Samos, Samos, Stephen Sander Samos
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Claims (6)
Stephen Samos sold
Houston Holdings documented
“by its previous owner to hold several million dollars of Pandemanian banks and financial institutions. I had purchased the financial statements of this company from Samos for prior years, along with the stock of the company for about $10,00…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 32:53
Stephen Samos laundered_money_for
Tony Fernandez documented
“Tony Fernandez, a narcotics trafficker and CIA contract agent, because they just go together. And Ray Corona, a money launderer by Sunshine State Bank in Miami. How do you buy a state bank when you're a drug trafficker and a money launderin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 33:48
International Management and Trust Corporation secretly_owned
Stephen Samos documented
“International Management and Trust Corporation, which had been owned by Samos. The Wall Street Journal reported, it is not known whether Samos retained control of the company after he sold it in 83 or what his role may have been in setting …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 36:21
Stephen Samos laundered_money_for
Lawrence Iorizzo documented
“wanted to use some of his drug smuggling proceeds to buy a bank in Miami. His Panamanian money launderer, Stephen Sandor Samos, advised against it because it was inevitably going to be scrutinized by bank regulators. This is the same Steve …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 11:36
Stephen Samos laundered_money_for
Robert Corson documented
“Tony Fernandez, a narcotics trafficker and CIA contract agent, because they just go together. And Ray Corona, a money launderer by Sunshine State Bank in Miami. How do you buy a state bank when you're a drug trafficker and a money launderin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 33:48
Stephen Samos financed_via
Robert Corson documented
“based on questions about his banking experience. Finally, in mid-1978, Corona won permission to buy Sunshine State Bank in Miami. As a down payment, Samos wired him $1.15 million from Fernando's bank account from Panama, Banco de Iberia, Am…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 15:33
Mentions (14)
▶ 31:46
was a Pandamanian shell company. In as much as I had literally purchased the company's papers from a lawyer in Panama who maintained them, along with other entities, on the shelf of a bookcase in his office in Panama, meaning there was no s…
▶ 32:53
by its previous owner to hold several million dollars of Pandemanian banks and financial institutions. I had purchased the financial statements of this company from Samos for prior years, along with the stock of the company for about $10,00…
▶ 33:22
Free Trade Zone Corporation in Miami, another one of them. Samos moved to Panama, married Alma Robles Chiari, a relative of Panama's last freely elected president, and began selling off all of the shell companies to anyone that needed one. …
▶ 33:48
Tony Fernandez, a narcotics trafficker and CIA contract agent, because they just go together. And Ray Corona, a money launderer by Sunshine State Bank in Miami. How do you buy a state bank when you're a drug trafficker and a money launderin…
▶ 34:17
They were caught in the mid-1980s and Samos turned state evidence against Corona while receiving immunity from prosecution for admitting to money laundering drug money. Corona got a $3 million loan in 84 from People's Savings and Loan in Te…
▶ 36:21
International Management and Trust Corporation, which had been owned by Samos. The Wall Street Journal reported, it is not known whether Samos retained control of the company after he sold it in 83 or what his role may have been in setting …
▶ 36:50
after Corona went to jail, related to Oliver North. A Southern Air vice president then flew to Panama to meet Samos and set up ACE. ACE bank accounts for the Contra operation was at Banco de Iberia America, a Panamanian bank principally own…
▶ 11:36
wanted to use some of his drug smuggling proceeds to buy a bank in Miami. His Panamanian money launderer, Stephen Sandor Samos, advised against it because it was inevitably going to be scrutinized by bank regulators. This is the same Steve …
▶ 12:04
launder money through offshore companies and who was linked to amalgamated commercial enterprises, which was funneling money and equipment to the Contras. According to an attorney in the case, Samos' grand jury testimony made reference to N…
▶ 12:31
Sanchez was in the film distribution business in Panama. It is not known if this is the same Nestor Sanchez who was Oliver Norse's associate and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Inter-American Affairs during the Iran…
▶ 13:03
Sanchez was also in Panama during the mid-70s, according to his testimony before the Senate subcommittee that Kerry was running. So he could very well have been that contact with Fernandez, who was a CIA contract agent at the time with Samo…
▶ 13:31
congressional testimony Sanchez denied that he had any business relationships in Panama but he phrased his answer in the present tense they're known liars and they know how to lie they know how to say something that gives you the illusion t…
▶ 14:32
In the early 60s, the family had moved to Miami from Cuba, where their father had been a banker, which means he was banking for the mafia, because that was the only money in town, and they controlled everything. Well, them and the CIA. So C…
▶ 31:50
That's where Polulo steps in. By that time, Sunshine State Bank had been closed for two years and Ray Corona was in jail on his 20-year term. After Tony Fernandez and Steve Samos testified against him, for which Samos got immunity from pros…