Pulver Group organization
also: Pulver's group, Pulver's group deals
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Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Mainland Savingsorganization · 2Sandia Federal Savings and Loanorganization · 2Walter Mischerperson · 1Meyer Lanskyperson · 1Wallace Grovesperson · 1Brooklyn Organized Crime Strike Forceorganization · 1Bruce Mafioperson · 1Martin Schwimmerperson · 1Lou Cheslerperson · 1Seymour Lazarperson · 1Castle Bank & Trustorganization · 1Cantor Fitzgeraldorganization · 1Mario Rendaperson · 1
Claims (9)
Mainland Savings financed_via
Pulver Group documented
“Written on Mainland. Which is the name of a bank. By the Houston Post. In June of 1987. It was under. Say. And Bruton. The guy that authored this book. It dealt with Mainland's purchase. Of a promissory note. From Pulver's group. We talked …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 2:35
Anthony Pidoni member_of
Pulver Group documented
“The apartment syndicators from New York consisted of four principals, Pulver, Anthony Pidoni, Stuart Goldman, and Jerome Gladstein, all from New York City. In the late 1960s, Pulver, Pidoni, and Gladstein had been insurance salesmen at John…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 5:44
Stuart Goldman member_of
Pulver Group documented
“The apartment syndicators from New York consisted of four principals, Pulver, Anthony Pidoni, Stuart Goldman, and Jerome Gladstein, all from New York City. In the late 1960s, Pulver, Pidoni, and Gladstein had been insurance salesmen at John…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 5:44
Jerome Gladstein member_of
Pulver Group documented
“The apartment syndicators from New York consisted of four principals, Pulver, Anthony Pidoni, Stuart Goldman, and Jerome Gladstein, all from New York City. In the late 1960s, Pulver, Pidoni, and Gladstein had been insurance salesmen at John…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 5:44
Leonard Malin member_of
Pulver Group documented
“The apartment syndicators from New York consisted of four principals, Pulver, Anthony Pidoni, Stuart Goldman, and Jerome Gladstein, all from New York City. In the late 1960s, Pulver, Pidoni, and Gladstein had been insurance salesmen at John…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 5:44
Nicholas Katzenbach member_of
Pulver Group documented
“By the end of 1974, even before the group's limited partnership business had really cranked up, Palmer purchased a mansion on three-acre lot in a wealthy suburb of Long Island called Kingsport. Three years after that, Pidoni bought a mansio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 7:47
Seymour Lazar member_of
Pulver Group documented
“And in 1978, they unloaded their investments and leases to a guy by the name of Seymour Lazar, L-A-Z-A-R, who lived in California. The investigative reporters couldn't find him or any information about him. But three years later, when he wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 20:46
Richard Russell member_of
Pulver Group documented
“What? Seymour Lazar was banking at Castle Bank? Lazar, who was an investor and an attorney in Palm Springs, California, had gotten in trouble with the SEC in 1973 during an attempted takeover of Armor Corporation by General Host. One of Laz…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 21:48
Pulver Group financed_via
Sandia Federal Savings and Loan documented
“were with Mainland, but the few that weren't were also significant. After Raymond Hill quit as chairman of Mainland in October 1985, Pulver's group immediately turned to Sandia Federal Savings Loan in Albuquerque to finance their next big H…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 24:58
Mentions (10)
▶ 2:35
Written on Mainland. Which is the name of a bank. By the Houston Post. In June of 1987. It was under. Say. And Bruton. The guy that authored this book. It dealt with Mainland's purchase. Of a promissory note. From Pulver's group. We talked …
▶ 5:12
Most of the S&Ls in the country that stuck with the traditional home mortgages all survived. So this is money laundering 101. So the investigators, reporters, turned to find out who Pulver and his group were and who their limited partners w…
▶ 15:54
The last date was around the time that Mainland began negotiating with the New York apartment syndicators to buy the promissory notes. Were the payments to Pulver's group linked to that purchase? The reporters went to talk to Pulver. He liv…
▶ 18:57
In a scheme where it is known that loans are linked to deposits, and then shortly thereafter, Swimmer's King Point neighbor, Pulver, sells practically worthless property to Mainland for tens of millions of dollars. Meaning he potentially wa…
▶ 20:17
The connections of Renner and Swimmer to the mafia were known. What about the Pulver group, aside from just rumors? Pulver and his group first came to Texas in 1973, but they started out in Corpus Christi, not Houston. They bought one apart…
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start up the gambling in the Bahamas after the mob was kicked out of Cuba. Another of Chesler's casino partners was Wallace Groves, a mobster, convicted felon, and Lansky associate who had been on the CIA's payroll from 1965 to 1972. He was…
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to finance Houston deals. Sandia paid off a $9 million promissory note owed to the Pulver Group by another New York investment outfit, an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald on a downtown Houston office building. This other New York group then d…
▶ 25:58
was a $9 million payment from the American taxpayers to the Pulver Group. Sandia was part of a daisy chain of savings and loans centered in Texas that made loans to and had financial affiliations with Mafia and CIA. Another Pulver Group dea…
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Colonial House Apartments, which was a huge apartment complex in Southwest Houston for swinging singles. The apartment project was notorious in Houston. It was on television commercials all the time. The mortgage on Colonial House was one o…
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such as Morris Schenker and Herman Beebe, when they got into trouble. DRG also lent, the Washington entity, lent $15 million on a piece of vacant land in Houston that was purchased by several of the principal characters, including Michener'…