Big Spender scandal event
also: big spender investigation, Big Spender case, big spender indictment
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Blanton familyorganization · 3Contrasorganization · 2CIAintelligence service · 2Ron Listerperson · 2Harlan Braunperson · 2U.S. Department of Justiceorganization · 1Danielle Ganserperson · 1Don Haleperson · 1Tom Gordonperson · 1Majorsorganization · 1FBIintelligence service · 1Nicaraguacountry · 1United Statescountry · 1
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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…
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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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naming roughly 80 people who worked with the Blanton drug ring. He also provided information to San Francisco FBI Don Hale about Norwin Menendez. Lister said that Hale was convinced that Lister and the Nicaraguans were connected with the CI…