Blanton family organization
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Claims (3)
Ron Lister member_of
Blanton family book_quoted
“of El Salvador, Colombia, Italy, and Iran. He knew intelligence operatives, weapon smugglers, the whole thing. He knew Norwin Menendez. He knew Daniel O'Blanton, everybody. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mesa, in a 1997 interview with the CIA insp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 1:01:32
Blanton family trafficked
Colombia book_quoted
“into the United States. Braun's motion linked the Blanton family to the crash that Hassan Foss C-123 drug plane in Nicaragua in October 86. In other words, he's going for broke here. The same crash Scott Weakley claimed on tape that he'd be…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 48:17
Jerry Gazzetta investigated
Blanton family guest_asserted
“He filed a lawsuit against the city, which was later settled out of court, and he retired. He remains convinced that he and the majors were targeted for destruction because of their investigation of Blanton. Every policeman who ever got clo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 57:20
Mentions (8)
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in Central America with the Contras showing military equipment and military bases. The suspect also discovered to have maintained two-way communications for Nicaraguan transients coming into California. Officers also pieced together the fac…
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54 months. And in 1996, he was released from prison. He emerged defiant. I didn't dump 500 tons of cocaine into a ghetto, Garner said. I stole American money and spent it in America. The U.S. government can't say the same. Before the big sp…
▶ 57:20
He filed a lawsuit against the city, which was later settled out of court, and he retired. He remains convinced that he and the majors were targeted for destruction because of their investigation of Blanton. Every policeman who ever got clo…
▶ 57:48
by the conspiracy, which damaged and ruined many police officers who had attempted to bring Blanton to justice. Former Deputy Virgil Bartlett, who assisted on the Blanton raids, disagreed. Nobody set us up. We screwed ourselves, he said.…
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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…
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of El Salvador, Colombia, Italy, and Iran. He knew intelligence operatives, weapon smugglers, the whole thing. He knew Norwin Menendez. He knew Daniel O'Blanton, everybody. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mesa, in a 1997 interview with the CIA insp…
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conducted against Daniela Blanton. So she asked Lister's attorney, Lynn Ball, if Lister would be interested. The reaction from Lister's lawyer was memorable. Ball indicated that Lister was going to have to check with the agency first to see…