Charles Bloom person
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“Pakistan. Isn't that where BCCI is from? I'm sure it's just a coincidence. I'm sure. Okay. So he was Noriega's personal banker in Miami, by the way, Awan was. So you've got Bloom who asked Kerry Commission for subpoena of power over the fou…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 31:23
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Pakistan. Isn't that where BCCI is from? I'm sure it's just a coincidence. I'm sure. Okay. So he was Noriega's personal banker in Miami, by the way, Awan was. So you've got Bloom who asked Kerry Commission for subpoena of power over the fou…
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in Tampa for the money laundering case, which they, the one we were just talking about that they busted, that operation was called C-Chase. So Awan tells Bloom that BCCI secretly owns First American Bank. He was the first one that tipped Bl…
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And basically at the time, First American Bank was an $11 billion bank. Bloom gets a sworn statement from Awan in October 1988. Now this is important for a lot of different reasons. 1988 is October, is the month before the election in 88, r…
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and George H.W. Bush coming in, right? Got it. So the OJ arrests Awan and pulls the plug on basically looking into this, and he doesn't have a trial until 15 months later. BCCI will not comply with any of the subpoenas that the Senate issue…
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interest in doing stuff like that. So he becomes a partner in the law firm of Clark Clifford and basically becomes his assistant. And everywhere that you see Clark Clifford in the BCCI story, Robert Altman is right behind him and definitely…
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And in walks another witness, and we're going to refer to him as Witness B. If you do any research into BCCI, in some documents, they made up a nickname for him. And his nickname was Ali Mirza, M-I-R-Z-A. But that is a nickname. That is not…
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hilarious okay um so bloom tells witness b to call the tampa customs office because he's going out of business so his funding's been cut they're closing the commission down um and witness b still you know he wants to get his so he puts him …
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He trusts Bloom in the information. So Bloom flies down to Miami. But he contacts the custom guys and all of the good people that had been working really hard that were disappointed in what the Justice Department ended up doing with the sma…
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And they don't go into too much of it in the book, but he talked about all of the politicians in the United States that had been bought off. And I mean, he named names and they're on the tapes. He identified who owned the DC bank, who owned…
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Bloom brings back witness A to be taped in the same format. So now they've got the three days worth of tapes of witness B. So he calls in witness A to come into the same setup here that we've got set up in the hotel. And he gets him all on …
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They deny everything. And this is when Witness B ends up telling Bloom that Clifford is operating as basically the lawyer of First American Bank, as well as being the chairman of the board and that Altman is the president of the DC Bank too…