Thomas Richardson person
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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
Thomas Richardson supplied_arms_to
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 32:03
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▶ 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…
▶ 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…