Bobby Hall person
also: Bobby Hill, Hall
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Claims (10)
George Yoakum introduced
Bobby Hall host_asserted
“It comes out that Hall was introduced to Kelly by a guy by the name of George Yoakum. Yoakum and Hall both said that they gave Ginsburg, the pornographer, a .38 caliber revolver. And that's what he was killed with. So we don't ever find out…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 49:54
Robert Richards Jr. hired
Bobby Hall host_asserted
“of bugs. So they didn't get implicated. So he goes on to say that Hall's relationship to Richardson was complicated and the indicted stockbroker had hired the private detective to learn the identity of government witnesses against him. Conv…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 45:11
Thomas Richardson recruited
Bobby Hall book_quoted
“federal narcotics officer John Kelly to have Vesco's New Jersey office swept for bugs. As it happened, Richardson had also employed Bobby Hall at the same time, dispatching the private eye to the Bahamas for the supposed purpose of removing…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 32:32
Gene LaBelle member_of
Bobby Hall host_asserted
“This community, colony, whatever you want to call it, was an opium den that engaged in kinky sex. He was a financial consultant to Richardson. Gene LaBelle was another candidate. He was a wrestler and karate master. He was a partner in Hall…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 46:18
Bobby Hall carried_out_attack
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“that doubled as an intelligence gathering apparatus. Very, very interesting. Okay, so towards the end of this introduction, we're still only on the introduction. He says, for example, the plots of private investigator Bobby Hall and some Br…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 1 @ 44:58
Bobby Hall did_business_with
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“You can mention Kenny Bernstein, Warbell's associate, Colonel Robert Banyard, who was shot down in Atlanta parking lot in 1975. Another Warbell associate and co-defendant in his marijuana case, John Nardi, was shot and killed in Cleveland. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 1:00:09
Bobby Hall did_business_with
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“Used to smuggle drugs and weapons back and forth across the border. And that he frequently allowed, either through lease or whatever, Robert Vesco to use that exact same aircraft. Huh. Jaibuddin's kidnapping plot was supposedly, according t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 44:03
Bobby Hall did_business_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“by a Jewish pornographer from Shanghai. He was a corrupt private investigator, drug dealer, and wiretapper. Hall was hooked on the adrenaline of being a spook. He even tried blackmailing Robert Vesco. Probably not a good idea from what we'v…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 1 @ 14:31
Bobby Hall plotted
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“He had a contingency plan. A politically ambitious prosecutor might well be willing to exchange the fugitive financier for the jailed stockbroker. But Richardson's information, no matter how incriminating, could never guarantee Vesco's retu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 38:29
Robert Vesco ordered_assassination_of
Bobby Hall book_quoted
“His teenage daughter said that a month before he was murdered, Hall had taken her on a picnic for Father's Day. She noticed that her dad was carrying a gun and she asked him why. His exact words were, I think Robert Vesco is trying to kill …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 27:45
Mentions (29)
▶ 13:53
and coups and he really really enjoyed his job then he goes on to talk about bobby hall he loved the work he did too he was a jewish pornographer from shanghai oh sorry hold on i got that wrong so bobby hall is a cop and he was killed…
▶ 14:31
by a Jewish pornographer from Shanghai. He was a corrupt private investigator, drug dealer, and wiretapper. Hall was hooked on the adrenaline of being a spook. He even tried blackmailing Robert Vesco. Probably not a good idea from what we'v…
▶ 44:58
that doubled as an intelligence gathering apparatus. Very, very interesting. Okay, so towards the end of this introduction, we're still only on the introduction. He says, for example, the plots of private investigator Bobby Hall and some Br…
▶ 26:01
chapter was kind of interesting from a couple of different perspectives. So this chapter was about a guy by the name of Bobby Hall, who the author described as a sleazebag. He was listed professionally as a private investigator, a wiretappe…
▶ 26:35
And he was continuously worried about somebody trying to kill him. So it says that this is the guy. If you guys remember, we talked about him a long time ago. But he's the guy that was at his refrigerator. Forget which book it was. May have…
▶ 27:08
Someone was in his house, steps up behind him, shoots him with a .38 in the back of his head. So, he was found the next morning. Bobby Hall had known that someone was out to kill him, according to his estranged wife, is how she's described.…
▶ 27:45
His teenage daughter said that a month before he was murdered, Hall had taken her on a picnic for Father's Day. She noticed that her dad was carrying a gun and she asked him why. His exact words were, I think Robert Vesco is trying to kill …
▶ 28:17
because he was such a good wiretapper. He, according to the investigator, Al Madrid, that is the guy that found him on the floor after someone called when they couldn't get a hold of him. That was the well check. He said that what he found …
▶ 28:50
Cases of electronic bugging and debugging, a tranquilizer, dart gun, drug-tipped darts, tear gas cylinders, syringes, narcotics, lock-picking devices, cartons filled with more than 200 tapes, each one containing conversations recorded by Ha…
▶ 29:18
He had the habit of bugging both his own clients and his friends, in addition to anyone he was hired to spy on. He routinely taped incoming telephone calls to his own apartment. So there was a track record of everybody that tried to hire hi…
▶ 29:51
In the United States, there was evidence of blackmail, extortion, prostitution, narcotics, embezzlement, bribery, conspiracy. The tapes were a catalog of felonies. What was worse is the tapes revealed Bobby's Hall tangled relationships with…
▶ 31:00
of policing. Bobby Hill's archive implicated the community's residents in a slew of sins. If the tapes became public in the course of a trial and its aftermath, Carell's careers would be ended overnight. What Beverly Hills wanted was a quic…
▶ 31:30
eddie fisher being one of them professed shock at his assassination but claimed to know nothing about it the police were able to put together some remarkable lines of investigation and yes they involved robert vesco one of his associates th…
▶ 32:03
detective's murder, had received a six-year prison sentence for bilking brokerage banks and Ivy League College of millions of dollars. It was Richardson who'd provided Vesco with the use of his executive jet to ferry prostitutes and crates …
▶ 32:32
federal narcotics officer John Kelly to have Vesco's New Jersey office swept for bugs. As it happened, Richardson had also employed Bobby Hall at the same time, dispatching the private eye to the Bahamas for the supposed purpose of removing…
▶ 34:14
Vesco's home was being swept by Bobby Hall. Huh, that's really weird. Why would the DEA want to remove bugs on a suspected heroin trafficker? Well, we all know the answer to that. Four years later, John Kelly would find himself as a private…
▶ 34:47
And when that happened, Kelly would attach himself to the homicide investigation, telling reporters that he had been called in by the police to help. No, he'd been made himself available to cover his ass. So Lieutenant Al Madrid, one of the…
▶ 35:22
proved helpful. He told police that he'd hired Bobby Hall to perform a number of delicate assignments. One of them was to obtain information that would force the government to return his confiscated Learjet or drug hauler, weapons hauler, w…
▶ 35:55
The stockbroker had been begging Vesco for money to pay his lawyers. Hall recorded these conversations and Vesco's callous replies. Richardson can go to the joint, Vesco said, or jump bell and join him in Costa Rica. That pissed Richardson …
▶ 36:26
Message. If Vesco didn't come up with the cash, Richardson and Hall would go to the police with information and tape recordings that would ensure his extradition. I doubt it because he's not going to bring him back. He knows too much, but w…
▶ 36:55
offering to bring Vesco to the United States in exchange for a reduction of Richardson's sentence. Richardson claimed that he had offered to provide information about Vesco's gun running, information that ought to have resulted in his extra…
▶ 37:26
purposely being sabotaged by federal officials. And the senators were particularly interested in Richardson's gun-running role. The stockbroker pleaded the Fifth to the subcommittee at the very moment his wireman, Hall, was negotiating with…
▶ 37:56
just two weeks before Hall's assassination. Nobody wants this information public. The detective's reply to the Fed's declination was, quote, that's surprising, but if that's the way it is, so be it, unquote. The Bureau's apparent disinteres…
▶ 38:29
He had a contingency plan. A politically ambitious prosecutor might well be willing to exchange the fugitive financier for the jailed stockbroker. But Richardson's information, no matter how incriminating, could never guarantee Vesco's retu…
▶ 39:00
that that does seem to be what was happening. The police seem to have regarded the tranquilizer gun and its accessories found among Bobby Hall's effects as curiosities. Some suspected that they were related to a kidnap plan. A month before …
▶ 42:59
Jiveden told Eisenhower that he was in touch with three contract CIA operatives in Latin America who would provide support, weapons, and maintenance for a kidnapping. Central to his scheme and giving it the earmarks of a professional operat…
▶ 43:31
It would stun the financier into submission, permitting his kidnappers to bring him back, hopefully alive. So he asked the question, was that a coincidence that Jividen mentions a Lear 25 as the vehicle for smuggling, for heroin smuggling p…
▶ 44:03
Used to smuggle drugs and weapons back and forth across the border. And that he frequently allowed, either through lease or whatever, Robert Vesco to use that exact same aircraft. Huh. Jaibuddin's kidnapping plot was supposedly, according t…
▶ 1:00:09
You can mention Kenny Bernstein, Warbell's associate, Colonel Robert Banyard, who was shot down in Atlanta parking lot in 1975. Another Warbell associate and co-defendant in his marijuana case, John Nardi, was shot and killed in Cleveland. …