Harlan Braun person
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Harlan Braun exposed
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“Braun responded in an inflammatory motion opposing the gag order in which he exposed a long hidden detail of the Major's 1986 raid on Ron Lister's house. Lister, who wasn't identified by name, was referred to as a money launderer who the Ma…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 46:52
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there were more indictments to come. One of the first to be charged was Deputy Danielle Garner, a hard-nosed detective who had been one of the quote-unquote spiritual leaders of Majors 2. Garner decided that if he was going down, he was tak…
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who had defended Lee Marvin in the famous palimony suit and would later successfully represent one of the officers in Rodney King's beating case. Dan Garner came in my office and told me that there was nothing the feds were going to be able…
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And he gave me these papers he said he had seized in a drug raid several years earlier. They were documents the majors had taken from Ron Lister's house, which Garner had secreted away as insurance. Though Braun privately doubted the record…
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and the federal prosecutors let off their case by playing the devastating videotape for the jurors, who had become noticeably upset at the sight of police officers helping themselves to drug money and joking about it. Braun decided it was t…
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about the seized drug money laundered by the federal government and then diverted to the Contras by the CIA. The federal prosecutors leapt to their feet to object. Braun let the question hang in the air before moving on. After court, Braun …
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Reporter asked about the strange question he'd put to the FBI agent about the Contras and the CIA. Braun calmly replied that he was laying the groundwork for his client's defense. Outrageous government conduct. Deputy Garner, Braun pointed …
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They were accused of stealing from drug dealers had been laundered by the CIA to buy weapons for the Contras. Braun's startling claims were mentioned in the 17th paragraph of the L.A. Times trial story the next day. But the Justice Departme…
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Edward Rafidi, and demanded a gag order against the defense attorneys in the case, complaining that he had publicized matters that were likely to seriously impair the right of the defendants, the government, and the public to a fair trial. …
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Braun responded in an inflammatory motion opposing the gag order in which he exposed a long hidden detail of the Major's 1986 raid on Ron Lister's house. Lister, who wasn't identified by name, was referred to as a money launderer who the Ma…
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all of the recovered property. Mysteriously, all records of the search, seizure, and property had disappeared from the sheriff's department. Garner, Braun wrote, had secretly made copies of 10 pages of the documents seized from the CIA oper…
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A list of various weaponry that had been purchased and even diagrams on the route the drug money was being routed through in the United States. And then back to the Contras and that the State Department was involved. Braun said he asked the…
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but it had refused to do so, which Braun interpreted as an admission. The count will note that nowhere in the declaration by the U.S. attorney does he state that this allegation is false. From this, the council concludes that, in fact, the …
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obviously fears the exposure of this drug finance Central American operation. The seven deputies on trial, Braun noted, weren't the ones complaining about unfair publicity, even though they had been pillared with media by federal prosecutor…
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The next morning and lashed out at Braun, calling him sneaky and unprofessional. And the motion that he had filed, the judge said, was in bad faith. Even if everything that you have said is true, it has nothing to do with whether or not you…
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That is, what the CIA or government did has nothing to do with that, so far as I can see. I cannot conceive of any theory under which that evidence would be admissible in the case, and therefore, putting this information out in the guise of…
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a lawyer of your ability and skill, would ever consider doing this. The judge would later display the same sensitivity to suggested CIA links during one of the trials involving a 1985 murder of a DEA agent by the name of Enrique Kiki Camare…
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When defense lawyers tried to introduce evidence alleging CIA and Contra involvement with the Mexican drug lords, the same judge ruled the information was irrelevant to the murder and refused to allow it. Except it was directly relevant. St…
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is the most clear and convincing evidence that an order, a restraining order, is necessary, the judge said. This document manifests a continuing intention to use the media to make statements in the public, which violate the American Bar Ass…
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It didn't matter what he had to say. He was issuing the gag order. The order he was informed prevented him from saying anything that a reasonable person would expect to be construed as public communication. Any violation would be viewed as …
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Finally, Braun was permitted to speak. He asked the judge to give him some time and some leeway to gather additional evidence to substantiate the claims. We are not trying to determine the Iran-Contra affair, the judge said. Suppose I accep…
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Garner's contention, but the judge was unmoved, and he refused to allow Braun to pursue that subject. Garner, during his testimony, did manage to tell the jury that he discovered the CIA was doing, conducting illegal activities in which the…
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The last big spender indictment to come down was against Sergeant Thomas Gordon, the chief investigator of the Blanton case, who was accused of spending stolen money to fix up his house. He was charged with money laundering, tax evasion, an…
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No way of knowing it, of course, but his efforts to drag Ron Lister into the Big Spender case came perilously close to exposing the Contra drug connection, which may explain the Justice Department's efforts to gag Braun and keep a lid on th…