Henry Gonzalez person
also: Gonzalez, Gonzales, U.S. Representative Henry Gonzalez
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Henry Gonzalez exposed
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“It was a sign to cover up embarrassing and potential illegal activities of everybody in the U.S.-Iraq relationship, except, of course, Sarkis. Gonzalez exposed instances in 1990 and 1991 when the Bush Commerce Department altered records in …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 43:31
Morris Jaffe funded
Henry Gonzalez documented
“Jaffe was one of Gonzales' first major backers when he ran for Congress in 1961 and continued to support him throughout his career. Quote, frankly, I have a great deal of admiration for Morris, unquote. Gonzales told the San Antonio Express…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 11:10
Henry Gonzalez covered_up
Savings and Loan Association host_asserted
“many of which were just as bad, if not worse. The only failed Texas savings and loan that got any attention from Gonzalez was Sunbelt. There was no mention of Jaffe's loan. Perhaps that's because Gonzalez, considered to be a fierce and ecce…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 10:42
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They also kidnapped Dan Meterone. Meterone's driver was a police sergeant named Gonzalez. He had left the garage of the police station that morning in a white Opel. Meterone never kept him waiting more than a minute or two. With Meterone in…
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Sunbelt loans takes an added significance when U.S. Congressman Henry Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Antonio, is factored in because Gonzalez was head of the House Banking Committee. He did an admirable job of putting the public spotlight on…
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many of which were just as bad, if not worse. The only failed Texas savings and loan that got any attention from Gonzalez was Sunbelt. There was no mention of Jaffe's loan. Perhaps that's because Gonzalez, considered to be a fierce and ecce…
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Jaffe was one of Gonzales' first major backers when he ran for Congress in 1961 and continued to support him throughout his career. Quote, frankly, I have a great deal of admiration for Morris, unquote. Gonzales told the San Antonio Express…
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He was the one who opened up San Antonio's home ownership for Mexican-American purchasers, he later told the San Antonio newspaper. And why was Gonzalez saying all those nice things about Jaffe? Because Jaffe and his son were under fire for…
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but not officially criticized by his House colleagues for his attempt to get federal regulators to go easy on the Texas savings and loan, including Don Dixon's Vernon Savings, Tom Galbert's Independent American Savings, and Scott Mann's Cre…
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about all of the secret relationships that they had with the Iraqis. Ted Koppel's nightline had formed a special unit called Project X to examine Bush's role in Iraq. Bush's National Security Council, in turn, formed a special task force to…
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Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, forged ahead with an investigation into how the agricultural aid had been used to purchase weapons using BCCI. Around the world, Kamal Adom's house of cards at BCCI was on the verge o…
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Meanwhile, in Washington, Congressman Henry Gonzalez, who was in charge of the House Banking Committee, was learning more details about the Bush White House attempts to cover the tracks in Iraq. National Security Council documents show that…
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It was a sign to cover up embarrassing and potential illegal activities of everybody in the U.S.-Iraq relationship, except, of course, Sarkis. Gonzalez exposed instances in 1990 and 1991 when the Bush Commerce Department altered records in …
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BCCI branch that had been bought outside of Atlanta, Georgia as well. And in September 1990, Gonzalez received a private letter from the Attorney General urging him to stop investigating and doing his constitutional duty because he was inte…
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Gonzalez later learned from documents provided by Sarkis and others that the Bush administration had contrived the agricultural credit trade. When the media stories began to refer to Gonzalez's probe as Iraqgate, the administration moved Sa…
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Gonzalez, who retired after a long career in the DEA, his last post as the head of the agency's El Paso, Texas field office. Gonzalez told the author, quote, they ruined his reputation over the stuff that happened in El Salvador and he beca…
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If Ureger was allowed to come and go, he likely was allowed to roam around. What was he doing? A retired DEA commander, Gonzalez, who served in the mid-90s as the head of the DEA South American operations, said, quote, usually you relocated…
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unaccountable. Gonzalez, the DEA guy, the retired guy, says what sense does it make for the government to smuggle drugs into the country itself to try to make a case? It literally makes no sense at all. The U.S. market is flooded with cocai…
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That was given to him by the United States government. He also says that the CIA might well have turned a blind eye to his criminal activity, including drug running, in order to advance a quote-unquote national security objective. What nati…
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prior to retiring, makes it clear that in all likelihood, Eureka remained involved in narco-trafficking and money laundering, even as a cooperating source with valid driver's license and visas to come and go into the United States. Gonzalez…
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which was part of Texas Rennebake scandal. It was a dress rehearsal for the collapse of the savings and loan. Surety Savings and the Texas Rennebake scandal had it all. Mobsters, CIA, politician, Ben Barnes, which is Neil Bush's future busi…