Ellison Starnes Jr. person
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Claims (7)
Silverado Savings and Loan financed_via
Ellison Starnes Jr. documented
“was directly to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. That's all laundered money. All laundered money from the CIA going directly into the back pockets of senators. On September 30th, 1986, exactly eight months after Starn made his …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 37:27
Ellison Starnes Jr. financed_via
Continental Savings documented
“personal bankruptcy was $15.6 million to Continental Savings, the same one owned by Carol Kelly, but controlled by mobster Herman Beebe. And that bank was financed by Allied Bank as well. And then that loan was transferred to San Joaquino S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 24:20
Ellison Starnes Jr. member_of
John Riddle documented
“One person close to Riddle and Corson said that Starnes was a John Riddle partner from the get-go. They called him E.T. Starnes had bank accounts and borrowed money from Riddle's Texas National Bank, and at least one of Starnes' continental…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 25:50
Ellison Starnes Jr. financed_via
Allied Bank documented
“The next clue are the people that he did business with, who was his partners and associates. What savings in loan did he borrow the money from? According to his 1988 bankruptcy filing, the first bank loan Starnes got after his 77 bankruptcy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 22:56
Ellison Starnes Jr. funded
Contras documented
“for inclusion in the session with the president was a $30,000 or more contribution to Chanel's group, meaning funding the Contras. A National Endowment for Preservation of Liberty note on the meeting reported the following, quote, R.R. Rona…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 34:31
Ellison Starnes Jr. funded
Republican Party documented
“was directly to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. That's all laundered money. All laundered money from the CIA going directly into the back pockets of senators. On September 30th, 1986, exactly eight months after Starn made his …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 37:27
Ellison Starnes Jr. laundered_money_for
Contras host_asserted
“law firm. Michael DeBakey is another principal in Republic Health. Perhaps Starn's relationship to Riddle, Corson, Atkinson, and the banks of Michener and Lyon go a little way towards explaining why a bust-out car owners like him was one of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 31:02
Mentions (46)
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this guy's very busy, provided office space for Reza Pavlovi, the late Shaw's son, who was known as Baby Shaw, and was in contact with the CIA doing that. He would also form a company with a former Air America pilot. He also owned stock in …
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an agent and attorney for the original investors who would go on to be named in the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency in 1985. West Belt stockholders included Atkinson and E. Trine Starnes, Jr. Atkinson's name does not appear on West Belt's …
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It was listed on his financial statement as being worth $100,000. He was later named to the bank's board of directors. One of the original stockholders in the bank was Starrs. He had been introduced, he had been a private donor to the Contr…
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Christopher Still, that Stephan Halper that was employed by the Pentagon in the Office of Net Assessment, that Stephan Halper. He, with BB's money, created Palmer National Bank in Washington, D.C. So that bank was set up to help funnel mone…
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one of the biggest borrowers at BB Controlled Savings and Loan, and one of the biggest private donors to the Contras. So he wasn't privately donating. He was borrowing this money laundered money through the savings and loans in these, remem…
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and San Joaquino, Lincoln, and Silverado, which of course is where Neil Bush lived, was on the board. MDC first told the author of this book that it had never borrowed any money from Silverado and had never engaged in any deals with Neil Bu…
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was the biggest con man that Texas ever produced, according to the author. In terms of a dollar amount, he easily outdistanced Billy Sol Estes, the friend of LBJ and Morris Jaffe, and on a national scale is right up there with Robert Vesco,…
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Southern Baptist-dominated town. Are you ready for it, Bridget? Waco, Texas. Every road leads to Waco. Every road. Waco, Texas produced the biggest fraudster ever. Purely coincidence. Purely. His father, Trine, T-R-I-N-E, Starnes Sr., was a…
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Southern Baptist-dominated town. Are you ready for it, Bridget? Waco, Texas. Every road leads to Waco. Every road. Waco, Texas produced the biggest fraudster ever. Purely coincidence. Purely. His father, Trine, T-R-I-N-E, Starnes Sr., was a…
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with the Church of Christ. Starnes Sr. moved to Houston, where he became a preacher at Lawndale Church of Christ, while Abilene Christian University named part of its Bible studies the Trine Starnes Center for Evangelism. That's weird. You …
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with the Church of Christ. Starnes Sr. moved to Houston, where he became a preacher at Lawndale Church of Christ, while Abilene Christian University named part of its Bible studies the Trine Starnes Center for Evangelism. That's weird. You …
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Tom Dyer, who was an attorney in Memphis, Tennessee, said the first time Starnes Jr. apparently strayed from the straight and narrow was in 1973 when he was 28. He put a Dallas company called CIC Cosmetics International Corporation into ban…
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Psycho Cybernetics Corporation. What a name. The next year, he lost two fraud judgments in Houston. And then in 76, at 31, he filed for personal bankruptcy, listing $2.4 million in debts with an asset of $6,000. In January 77, Starnes was d…
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and started on a career in real estate. His first job was with San Francisco-based Regency Development. He was also working part-time for a Las Vegas company, Scribe Property Group. At his height in 1984, Starnes controlled 175 companies an…
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and an alleged net worth of $222 million. Sounds like he's investing for the CIA to me. He owned a million dollar home in Houston, a $2 million home in Dallas, a million dollar condominium in Vail, Colorado, and a skybox at Texas Stadium to…
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and once bought a single piece of jewelry worth about $300,000. Then in October 88, Starnes did something almost unheard of. He filed for personal bankruptcy a second time, less than 12 years after his first one. He was able to do it twice.…
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Sure to warm the coldest cynic's heart, the list of creditors took up 70 pages of a total of more than 800 pages in the bankruptcy. There were at least 21 banks and savings and loan all the way from New Jersey to Florida to Minnesota to Tex…
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Starnes listed 48 pending lawsuits against him, and the FDIC had sued Starnes in his bankruptcy filing, claiming that he had defrauded at least seven failed banks. Starnes cited debts of approximately $103 million, but that figure is very m…
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$77.5 million to Silverado Savings in Denver. The Associated Press estimated his total debt to be more like $500 million. He definitely sounds like a CIA money launderer. Starnes even overshadowed debtors in bankruptcies like John Riddle, w…
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and Richard Rossmiller, who had borrowed $200 million from Hill Financial Savings and allegedly had the largest personal bankruptcy in Colorado at around $57 million. Starn's lifestyle and possessions were on top of a mountain of debt. How …
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Ellison Trine Starnes Jr. lies in the ultimate destination of all that money he borrowed. Did he get it or was he a front man? Since tracking the money is not possible for everyone without subpoena power and may not even be possible for tho…
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The next clue are the people that he did business with, who was his partners and associates. What savings in loan did he borrow the money from? According to his 1988 bankruptcy filing, the first bank loan Starnes got after his 77 bankruptcy…
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Guy. Ten years after the loan, Starnes listed a debt of $85,000 still owed to Allied Bank. Starnes listed two other Allied Banks as creditors. He owed $70,000 in debt from a 1985 corporate real estate acquisition owed to an Allied subsidiar…
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He also owed an unspecified amount to Allied Bank North Central in Dallas, all Michener banks. In his bankruptcy filing, Starn stated that he had three checking accounts at Allied Banks and that he received a dividend from Allied Bank share…
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personal bankruptcy was $15.6 million to Continental Savings, the same one owned by Carol Kelly, but controlled by mobster Herman Beebe. And that bank was financed by Allied Bank as well. And then that loan was transferred to San Joaquino S…
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including $12.7 million to buy a 10-story Marina City office building in Chicago. Art Blaser, the former Savings and Loan Department chief examiner, said he remembered the Marina City loan because there was no appraisal and the purchase pri…
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The $25 million plus that Starnes got from Continental made him one of the savings and loans largest borrowers. There was no way he could have done that without an okay by Bebe the mobster who was in charge of the bank. Lister says that Sta…
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One person close to Riddle and Corson said that Starnes was a John Riddle partner from the get-go. They called him E.T. Starnes had bank accounts and borrowed money from Riddle's Texas National Bank, and at least one of Starnes' continental…
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from Westside National Bank, where Robert Corson and his mother were the largest stockholders. And Robert Corson, of course, is a CIA asset as well. He also showed a debt of $60,000 to Westside in his bankruptcy and had a checking account t…
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Files there referenced an E. Trine Starnes Jr. financial statement, and there were several files with his name on it. These references are the same page of a 112-page listing of all of Atkins' files together, with a reference to Compendium …
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A reference to John Riddle in Riddle's investment title company and a reference to 8.5 million promissory note involving Robert Corson. So this is just massive money laundering people. Sarns also had a close relationship with Westbelt Natio…
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That's an offshore company involved in secreting ill-gotten gains out of savings and loan and money laundering, narco-trafficking for the CIA. Starnes was one of the original stockholders in this bank, whose charter was handled by Robert Cl…
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for inclusion in the session with the president was a $30,000 or more contribution to Chanel's group, meaning funding the Contras. A National Endowment for Preservation of Liberty note on the meeting reported the following, quote, R.R. Rona…
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on the NAPL's list of the top 25 contributors. Starn's contribution was designated for Chanel's Central American Freedom Program, a propaganda campaign to get Congress to pass Reagan's weapons assistance proposal for the Contras. Policymake…
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Prouty, a retired Air Force colonel who served as a Pentagon liaison with the CIA in the 50s and 60s and was author of The Secret Team. Although during Starnes' borrowing rampage at savings and loans and his contributions to the Contras, he…
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was directly to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. That's all laundered money. All laundered money from the CIA going directly into the back pockets of senators. On September 30th, 1986, exactly eight months after Starn made his …
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That made Starnes the second largest borrower there. The loans were made according to a $200 million lawsuit filed by the FDIC against the officers and directors, including Neil Bush, the son of George Bush, the vice president at the time. …
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So you just give him $77 million. You do if the CIA tells you that's what they want done. The lawsuit said the DNO directors and officers defendants were willing to make large sums available to Starnes even for speculative and poorly underw…
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declining financial condition. The Silverado loans to Starnes violated federal loan to one borrower regulations and prudent lending considerations and Silverado's own limitations on how much any one person can borrow. The largest of the thr…
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on a orange juice processing plant in Fort Pierce, Florida. That was sold from one of Starnes' partnerships to another. So he owns both things. He's just basically laundering the money. The plant was leased to Tree Sweet Products, which had…
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Treesweet continued to lose money. Less than one year after the loan was made, Treesweet declared bankruptcy with losses to Silverado being substantial, but they had already laundered the money and they had already gotten their profit shari…
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to fund the Contras. Massive money laundering at our expense. The federal examination report on Silverado stated that although the written appraisal on the property later came in at $31 million, this was $14 million higher than the price St…
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The Orange Juice loan was tied into the second biggest loan as Silverado made to Starnes. It was a $30 million loan for a Starnes-controlled limited partnership to buy Breckenridge Hilton Hotel in Breckenridge, Colorado, in the ski country.…
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For the same property that can't pay its existing loan. This is a repeat throughout this entire book. The lawsuit also said that the loan to the Starnes Group quickly went into default. Again, so the total loss on the Orange Juice loan and …
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will likely give rise to significant additional loss recommendation, the fraud suit said. The FDIC claims that Starnes falsified financial statements on the loan application to Silverado for the Breckenridge Hilton and states the hotel loan…
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The loan provided that if a new appraisal reduced the value of the property, the loan would be reduced. A new appraisal did, in fact, indicate a reduced value, but no reduction to the loan was made. Starnes Group defaulted on the Colorado S…