Bradley Brunin person
also: Brunin, Brennan, Bland Brunnen, Brunan, Blam
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There was business considerations as well. Blanton's attorney, Bradley Brunin, said Blanton's used car dealership had been extremely successful and had widespread patronage from the Latin community. But the raids had destroyed it. So he was…
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Blanton's lawyer, Brad Brunin, confirmed the couple's close ties to Somoza and produced a photo of them at a wedding with the president and his spouse. That just showed what fine families they were, he said. Yeah, the murderous dictator. Fi…
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Brunin argued, was politically motivated because of Mr. Blanton's activities with the Contras in the 80s. Damn, here it is again. His own lawyer saying he worked with the Contras. Brunin argued that the government had no case against his cl…
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What you have are accusations from a series of informants, but the judge didn't see it that way and allowed, while allowing the wife to postpone, he ordered the husband held without bail. From the docket sheet, I could see that the case had…
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But Perry's hunch paid off. My FOIA request produced several important clues, among them a 1986 FBI report about Blanton that alluded to a police raid and reported that Blanton's attorney, Brad Brunin, had called the L.A. Sheriff's Departme…
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a file on Blanton in May of 1983 after getting a tip from a confidential informant that he was a member of a cocaine trafficking organization. His attorney, Bradley Brunin, said in court in 1992 that the DEA's voluminous knowledge of Blanto…
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like so many other things that we've found. Who told you that, by the way, going back to the beginning of this? Doomling said Oliver North. He said North instructed him not to dislodge or replace existing arrangements. They certainly were, …
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The Contra's cocaine was arriving in the United States literally by the plane load. Transportation channels got established and got filled up with cocaine rather quickly, Brunin said in his interview. As I understood it, these large transpo…
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Bothy and Garner took copies home with them to safeguard them from theft. Now imagine that. You're cops and you can't trust the evidence custodian in the cop station to protect the evidence. These guys are making copies, taking them home be…
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called the sheriff's station to ask where his client was and how he could bail him out. He said Tom Gordon answered the phone and tore him a new asshole. He was a vile, vicious son of a bitch, Brennan said. He said Gordon screamed, I'm not …
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I mean, just boom, off the wall. So Brunin called Gordon's supervisor. Hoffman took notes of the odd conversation, which he later passed along to the FBI. Hoffman had suspected all along that there was something creepy about the Blanton's c…
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is what Brunin told the astonished detective. Quote, now that U.S. Congress had voted funds for the Nicaraguan Contra movement, the U.S. government now appears to be turning against the organization like this. Unquote. The detective was lik…
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said Bland's attorney, Bland Brunnen. The official police records of the raid seemed to disappear also. Despite his best efforts, he was unable to come up with more than an informal note about the pre-raid briefing, and that only by acciden…
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They did a 15 location raid. Nothing turned up. Nobody got busted. There was a little tiny bit of cocaine found at one location. Nobody got filed on. They gave all of the stuff back. The whole thing was very strange, Brunin said. I'd never …
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and knew the Menendez family before the revolution. He continued, and I don't doubt that they wanted to raise money for the FDN. That's only natural. They were doing their patriotic duty. Bradley Brunin was Blanton's lawyer. He said that Bl…
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while defending a middle-class Nicaraguan exile accused of drug trafficking. People were being arrested who had high government connections and high military connections in the Somoza regime, who didn't have any particular lifestyle consist…
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that they were involved in was the Contras. Brunan went on to say that it was his understanding that the Contras, and I don't even know if they were known as that then, had no above the line funding. Everything was coming from the cocaine. …
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About his role with the Contras. I don't know the former particulars of other than that there was an atmosphere of the CIA and clandestine activities and so forth that surrounded him every time I met him. Brunin also went on to say he never…
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Beyond that, I don't have any particulars. I didn't have a need to know, said the attorney. An air of mystery also surrounded another associate of Blanton's. Shortly after going to work for Menendez, there was a map that would remain at Bla…
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to get their share of the profits in weapons, which they would be giving to the Contras. Blanton's attorney, Brad Brunson, described Lister as one of these guys who would boast about having bugging capability, would boast about wiretapping …