Morris Jaffe person
also: Jaffe, Joffrey, Morse Jaffe
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Claims (12)
Doug Jaffe member_of
Morris Jaffe documented
“the son of a San Antonio businessman, Morris Jaffe. In 89, one of Jaffe's closest friends and associates, John White, a lawyer, lobbyist, and former DNC chairman, was telling reporters that Azima had gone into the hush kit business with Bur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 33:46
Morris Jaffe member_of
Longoria family documented
“Haas apparently escaped any serious legal problems. In a search of the public records in San Antonio, it was revealed that Haas is connected to two very influential entities. One of them is the Longoria family from the Rio Grande Valley, a …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 36:51
Farm and Home Savings financed_via
Morris Jaffe documented
“which Jaffe and his family owned. Jaffe got his original financing for a mall from Farm and Home Savings, a Missouri savings and loan with connections to Walter Michener. But Haas denied that Jaffe financed his bar. He said he was just a la…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 37:52
Morris Jaffe financed_via
Billie Sol Estes documented
“his ice skating rink. Jaffe went over the colonel's head and eventually got the base to bus the airman to his rink over the colonel wing commander. In 1962, Jaffe bought the assets of West Texas con man, Billy Sol Estes out of bankruptcy fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 40:52
Morris Jaffe financed_via
Leroy Kerwin book_quoted
“If there was some way I could personally take responsibility, I would do it, Jaffe told the judge. Jaffe hired Kirwan as a special consultant to his insurance company for $1,000 a month, according to Kidney, and then Kirwan used a Jaffe com…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 48:13
Leroy Kerwin front_for
Morris Jaffe book_quoted
“If there was some way I could personally take responsibility, I would do it, Jaffe told the judge. Jaffe hired Kirwan as a special consultant to his insurance company for $1,000 a month, according to Kidney, and then Kirwan used a Jaffe com…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 48:13
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
Morris Jaffe financed_via
Marvin Haas host_asserted
“That's a big name in Texas, a big family name. Asked to characterize his relationship with Jaffe, Haas replied, I worked for him. He's been a friend of mine for 30 years. Joel Daniel, the managing officer at People's, said Haas and Jaffe we…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 37:22
Morris Jaffe member_of
Carlos Marcello host_asserted
“but they do it quietly and behind the scenes. Both were strong supporters of LBJ, Jaffe perhaps more than Michener. Both are feared and talked about in hushed tones, and both had contacts with Carlos Marcello in New Orleans, the mafia boss.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 39:23
Morris Jaffe financed_via
Churchill Farms host_asserted
“First, Jaffe claimed that he'd been trying to buy Carlos Marcello's Churchill Farms, a 6,400 acre spread in New Orleans. The deal fell apart and Marcello went to jail in 70 for assaulting an FBI agent. I'd have served his time for him if he…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 41:50
Morris Jaffe front_for
Carlos Marcello host_asserted
“as one organized crime investigator believes, to front for Marcello so the good state of Louisiana could build a highway in good conscience. But when Marcello's assault conviction made him too hot for Jaffe even. Also, the events leading up…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 42:49
Morris Jaffe member_of
Walter Mischer host_asserted
“fixed-based operation in San Antonio's airport right next to Jaffe's, and that People Bank, who financed it, had lost $2 million on the deal. Morris Jaffe is a unique individual in Texas, as unique as Walter Michener. Jaffe could be called …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 38:54
Mentions (31)
▶ 6:20
We were talking about, Shelly, absolutely, he knows what the F is going on. Thank you, Shelly. All right, so we left off talking about Joffrey and Joffrey's son, Doug. He wanted to get into making the hush kits for the Boeing 707s. One of h…
▶ 6:48
then formed a joint venture called TRACOR, T-R-A-C-O-R, the Austin-based defense contractor with connections to Michener Circle in Houston to manufacture and install these kits. In 1985, Doug Jaffe was supplying Hush kits to Azima's Buffalo…
▶ 7:14
That had belonged to Azima's Global International Airways and was repossessed after Global filed for bankruptcy. The financing for this purchase came from Tesoro Savings and Loan in Laredo, Texas, which had been implicated in drug money lau…
▶ 7:42
large amounts of money from two other fraud-ridden savings and loans. In January of 84, Doug was a trustee and bought seven tracts of land totaling 92 acres in a Texas county and signed a $7 million promissory note to Commerce Savings in An…
▶ 8:14
Commerce Savings also lent a Longoria Partnership $20 million on land in Austin. Jaffe's property was foreclosed on and sold to Commerce Savings for almost $4 million, leaving a deficit of $1.2 million for which Commerce then sued Jaffe. Wh…
▶ 10:42
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…
▶ 11:10
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…
▶ 11:38
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…
▶ 13:04
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…
▶ 46:25
Texas Politics and Banking, the author Harvey Katz described a 1969 swearing-in ceremony of Ben Barnes as Lieutenant Governor of Texas after listing all of Barnes' supporters, including Walter Michener and Robert Strauss. He stated the foll…
▶ 46:54
in his two campaigns, such as free use of their private airplanes. Jaffe is one of the biggest construction magnets in the state. Gray is a banker from Beaumont who had intimate dealings with Walter Bichner. Among Gray's business associates…
▶ 33:46
the son of a San Antonio businessman, Morris Jaffe. In 89, one of Jaffe's closest friends and associates, John White, a lawyer, lobbyist, and former DNC chairman, was telling reporters that Azima had gone into the hush kit business with Bur…
▶ 36:51
Haas apparently escaped any serious legal problems. In a search of the public records in San Antonio, it was revealed that Haas is connected to two very influential entities. One of them is the Longoria family from the Rio Grande Valley, a …
▶ 37:22
That's a big name in Texas, a big family name. Asked to characterize his relationship with Jaffe, Haas replied, I worked for him. He's been a friend of mine for 30 years. Joel Daniel, the managing officer at People's, said Haas and Jaffe we…
▶ 37:52
which Jaffe and his family owned. Jaffe got his original financing for a mall from Farm and Home Savings, a Missouri savings and loan with connections to Walter Michener. But Haas denied that Jaffe financed his bar. He said he was just a la…
▶ 38:23
Horatius, one of Haas's nightclubs. As collateral for the loan, the nightclub assigned to the bank, Allied American Bank of San Antonio, its interest in a lease with Morse Jaffe. Haas did not answer a question about whether people's savings…
▶ 38:54
fixed-based operation in San Antonio's airport right next to Jaffe's, and that People Bank, who financed it, had lost $2 million on the deal. Morris Jaffe is a unique individual in Texas, as unique as Walter Michener. Jaffe could be called …
▶ 39:23
but they do it quietly and behind the scenes. Both were strong supporters of LBJ, Jaffe perhaps more than Michener. Both are feared and talked about in hushed tones, and both had contacts with Carlos Marcello in New Orleans, the mafia boss.…
▶ 39:50
He made his first fortune after allegedly discovering uranium in Carnes County, where Michener grew up. By flying over it with a newfangled detection device, he managed to sell his leases and options for a big profit. Jaffe also got into th…
▶ 40:20
to get some Americans home, and John Mecham Sr., the rich Houston oilman, whose son, John Mecham Jr., allegedly hot-nobbed with mobsters. Jaffe, like Michener, was never too proud to suck off the government teat. In a celebrated incident in…
▶ 40:52
his ice skating rink. Jaffe went over the colonel's head and eventually got the base to bus the airman to his rink over the colonel wing commander. In 1962, Jaffe bought the assets of West Texas con man, Billy Sol Estes out of bankruptcy fo…
▶ 41:21
He had only paid $1.3 million on the deal. So the IRS auctioned off the remaining $5.7 million note. And who bought that note? Morris Jaffe, of course, for $200,000. That's crazy. Then in early 1970s, a number of mob connections to Jaffe ca…
▶ 41:50
First, Jaffe claimed that he'd been trying to buy Carlos Marcello's Churchill Farms, a 6,400 acre spread in New Orleans. The deal fell apart and Marcello went to jail in 70 for assaulting an FBI agent. I'd have served his time for him if he…
▶ 42:20
He had grandiose plans for it. First, he had gotten the state of Louisiana to put dikes all around the swampland, and then he had the state install huge pumps to drain it. The next thing he wanted was a superhighway going through it, but th…
▶ 42:49
as one organized crime investigator believes, to front for Marcello so the good state of Louisiana could build a highway in good conscience. But when Marcello's assault conviction made him too hot for Jaffe even. Also, the events leading up…
▶ 44:49
one of the richest, most powerful, most feared, and most convicted mafia bosses in the country, I laughed. I laughed even harder when I read Jarboe's question to Jaffe. Of course, Jaffe, whose father was Jewish and mother was Hispanic, isn'…
▶ 46:18
from Chicago, who hired Burton Cantor as their attorney, who had all of those accounts at Castle Bank, like more than anybody else. Burton Cantor had more accounts at Castle Bank, the CIA bank, than anybody else. He was the attorney for the…
▶ 47:20
met the loan scam artist and mob associate Leroy Kerwin. Kerwin had earlier gone to jail in a car and bankruptcy scam ran by Chicago Mafia Felix Milwaukee Phil Adoriso, a feared killer and scam artist. Jaffe apparently first encountered Ker…
▶ 47:47
Through a restaurant franchise, Joppy started with the former New York Yankee star Mickey Mantle. Kidney reported that Kerwin went to Chicago to appeal a tax evasion sentence. Joppy accompanied him to petition the judge on his behalf. I wou…
▶ 48:13
If there was some way I could personally take responsibility, I would do it, Jaffe told the judge. Jaffe hired Kirwan as a special consultant to his insurance company for $1,000 a month, according to Kidney, and then Kirwan used a Jaffe com…
▶ 51:32
Other prominent mafia figures stayed at the Warwick as well, such as Sam Giacconi from Chicago. Another author, Thomas Ross, who worked at the time at the Chicago Sun-Times, said Mecham's father and Joffrey's close friend and partner, John …