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Claims (24)
Mario Renda financed_via
Empire Savings book_quoted
“Two years later, that's money laundering. More than half of the deposits came from Mario Renda in his brokered loan scam. Since Empire failed, it had been the subject of massive civil and criminal investigations and litigations by federal a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 29:47
Lloyd Monroe spied_on
Mario Renda documented
“their tracking of Mario Renda across the country, they had encountered organized crime strike force prosecutor in Kansas City, Lloyd Monroe, who had been after Renda and his mob associates in a Kansas City banking scam. Lots of mafia in Kan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 53:16
Mario Renda headed
International Planners and Development documented
“We talked about him a few chapters ago. He's the guy up in New York. Expensive taste. Basically, he's the guy that lived in that big mansion. He became chairman of an international construction company called International Planners and Deve…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 22:22
Mario Renda business_partner_of
Adnan Khashoggi documented
“slaves that wanted to go back to Africa. And we've been involved in their politics ever since. Renda told Mafio that a government official demanded and received a concealed interest in the project in exchange for government support. In 77, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 25:18
Mario Renda headed
Soviet International Bank documented
“had quit his job at iPad and was the treasurer of the Arab International Bank in Saudi Arabia, of Saudi Arabia, sorry. It was an offshore bank where he cut his teeth on banking and CDs. Also around this time, he was negotiating to purchase …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 27:16
Mario Renda founded
First United Bank documented
“The official reneged and Renda never got his casino. Renda was at Arab International for about a year when he left and formed his own company, Arabus, which was set up under a vague rubric of international trade and finance. In 1980, after …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 27:44
Lawrence Iorizzo business_partner_of
Mario Renda documented
“and was then placed in Federal Witness Protection Program. I wonder how many mafia people and CIA assets are in that program. In his affidavit, Irizzo tells about being introduced to Rinda in 81 by a mutual friend, V. Leslie Winkler. Winkle…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 29:46
V. Leslie Winkler business_partner_of
Mario Renda documented
“feeding with Iorizo and was participating in linked financing scams with Renda. Winkler, Iorizo stated in his affidavit, told me that Renda was very close to Aiden Khashoggi and that Renda might be able to assist me in obtaining a Kuwaiti o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 30:17
Martin Schwimmer laundered_money_for
Mario Renda documented
“who later turned state evidence against Renda. DeCarlo then took the cash to another Renda partner, Martin Schwimmer, who used it to bribe Teamster Union officials. These officials, in exchange, handed over their pension funds for Renda to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 38:49
Mario Renda lent
Adnan Khashoggi documented
“That would be us. The money on the closing table at the cell from the Myers family to DGI was $47.1 million wired from Lamar Savings. This is an Austin savings and loan that had a special interest rate deposit deal with Mario Rendo, the mob…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 6:24
Anthony Russo recruited
Mario Renda documented
“Apuca, A-I-U-P-A, a Chicago mob boss who had been brought in by Anthony Russo. Mario Renda and his brokered deposits were also brought in by Russo. Renda brokered more than $6 million into the little bank in exchange for loans to his straw …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 14:38
Mario Renda laundered_money_for
Mainland Savings documented
“brokered union funds, and then skimmed the interest off into secret accounts. Renda had a motley crew around him. One of his sidekicks was Salvador Piga, P-I-G-A. He was a mob enforcer and associate to a crime family. His rap sheet included…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 12:49
Mario Renda laundered_money_for
Luchese crime family documented
“and criminal possession of stolen property. Renda's partner, Swimmer, whom Renda later turned state's evidence against after they were indicted together, was accused of laundering money for members of the Luishi family and the mobster Morri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 13:20
Mario Renda laundered_money_for
Morris Shanker documented
“and criminal possession of stolen property. Renda's partner, Swimmer, whom Renda later turned state's evidence against after they were indicted together, was accused of laundering money for members of the Luishi family and the mobster Morri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 13:20
Mario Renda laundered_money_for
Paul Castellano documented
“routinely in Renda's business diary. Also, according to Lawrence Arizo, an associate of the Colombo Mafia family, Renda controlled a lot of money being loaned for the benefit of Paul Castellano, the boss later murdered of the Gambino Mafia …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 13:53
Bruce Mafio exposed
Mario Renda documented
“A former Brooklyn organized crime strike force attorney who prosecuted Renda and Swimmer said that the two brokered into Mainland several million dollars of pension funds from the sheet metal workers local in New York and a Teamsters local …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 14:55
Mario Renda member_of
Adnan Khashoggi book_quoted
“Khashoggi also had another connection to Mainland through money broker Mario Renda. He used to be a partner with Khashoggi, the guy from New York. Mainland proposed to buy the Galleria track for $68 million. The bulk of the money would come…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 44:51
Lucky Luciano laundered_money_for
Mario Renda documented
“Charles laundered the money for Renda. He turned it into cash so it couldn't be traced back to Renda. Charles washed the money by first wiring it to bank accounts in Switzerland. After that, investigators lost track of it. But when it came …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 39:50
Charles Brazarian member_of
Mario Renda book_quoted
“Not only was Bazarian a friend of Mario Rendo, he had actually been convicted with Renda in a baking scam in Florida in 1987. This was Renda's first conviction for bank fraud, in which he got involved in a scam with Michael Rapp, R-A-P-P. W…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 21:18
Michael Rapp member_of
Mario Renda book_quoted
“Not only was Bazarian a friend of Mario Rendo, he had actually been convicted with Renda in a baking scam in Florida in 1987. This was Renda's first conviction for bank fraud, in which he got involved in a scam with Michael Rapp, R-A-P-P. W…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 21:18
Mario Renda member_of
Antoinette Rizzo book_quoted
“Obviously, something was big and involved the mafia in the savings and loans all over the country. The author set out to see if they could find other connections between Bebe and Renda. One place where Renda and Bebe's circles intersected w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 23:53
Mario Renda financed_via
San Dequinto National Bank book_quoted
“Some $700,000 of those deposits were union pension funds from New York City that had been wired there by Renda and his partner, Martin Swimmer. According to the indictment prepared by the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 25:24
Mario Renda financed_via
Penn Square Bank book_quoted
“were Penn Square Bank in Oklahoma City. Fueled by brokered deposits from Renda and others, Penn Square had engaged in wild lending in the oil patch before expiring in 1982. Even though it was only a $500 million institution, Penn Square had…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 26:17
Mario Renda member_of
Mafia book_quoted
“like mob associate Mario Renda, R-E-N-D-A, and the creditors are the taxpayers.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 14:50
Mentions (67)
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like mob associate Mario Renda, R-E-N-D-A, and the creditors are the taxpayers. The frontmen, the cutouts, and the mustaches, like Don Dixon, Tyrell Barker, Ed McBurney, Jarrett Wood, Roy Daly, Mike Adkinson, and Robert Corson, are left to …
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That would be us. The money on the closing table at the cell from the Myers family to DGI was $47.1 million wired from Lamar Savings. This is an Austin savings and loan that had a special interest rate deposit deal with Mario Rendo, the mob…
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The Justice Department Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn had gotten a federal grand jury there to indict money brokers Mario Renda and Martin Swimmer for racketeering and fraud in connection with a deposit of union pension funds in f…
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It's basically money laundering made official policy. Mario Renda was the king of broker deposits and linked financing. Beginning on a shoestring in 1980, by 1983, Renda and his company, First United Fund of Garden City, Long Island, were p…
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Renda brokered deposits into some 130 savings and loan, according to author Stephen Pizzo. Every one of them later failed. Mainland was the name in Renda's indictment as one of the 18 savings and loan nationwide and only one of two in Texas…
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brokered union funds, and then skimmed the interest off into secret accounts. Renda had a motley crew around him. One of his sidekicks was Salvador Piga, P-I-G-A. He was a mob enforcer and associate to a crime family. His rap sheet included…
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and criminal possession of stolen property. Renda's partner, Swimmer, whom Renda later turned state's evidence against after they were indicted together, was accused of laundering money for members of the Luishi family and the mobster Morri…
▶ 13:53
routinely in Renda's business diary. Also, according to Lawrence Arizo, an associate of the Colombo Mafia family, Renda controlled a lot of money being loaned for the benefit of Paul Castellano, the boss later murdered of the Gambino Mafia …
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for the CIA. In 1987, Renda was convicted in Florida with Michael Hellerman, a former Wall Street broker, doing stock scams for the mafia. He too turned state's evidence against several mafia members, got a new last name, and wrote a book c…
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A former Brooklyn organized crime strike force attorney who prosecuted Renda and Swimmer said that the two brokered into Mainland several million dollars of pension funds from the sheet metal workers local in New York and a Teamsters local …
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That led the investigative reporters to wonder what loans at Mainland had been linked to Renda's total deposits there, which were estimated at that time to be $100 million. The indictment of Renda and Swimmer lists seven wire transfers of i…
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He gave them 10 seconds to get off his property. They had initially been looking for connections between Renda and Pidoni or Pulver. In particular, whether Renda's deposit at Mainland were linked to the Pulver's group deals with Mainland. W…
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So several days after trying to talk to Pulver, we decided to find Martin Swimmer and talk to him. Swimmer was a PhD professor and author who lived in Kings Point too. When they were driving down the road where Swimmer lived, a secluded cul…
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and had been so for at least 11 years. When asked about Pulver and mainland savings, Swimmer responded, who? Then when asked about Renda's firm, First United, he said, you'll have to talk to them. I'm not interested in talking and slammed t…
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In a scheme where it is known that loans are linked to deposits, and then shortly thereafter, Swimmer's King Point neighbor, Pulver, sells practically worthless property to Mainland for tens of millions of dollars. Meaning he potentially wa…
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After the investigative reporters had nailed down Renda's and Shimmer's connection to the mafia, we started looking for other mob ties to mainland savings. The next one we found was Leonard Capaldi, C-A-P-A-L-D-I. He's from Detroit, but he …
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Khashoggi also had another connection to Mainland through money broker Mario Renda. He used to be a partner with Khashoggi, the guy from New York. Mainland proposed to buy the Galleria track for $68 million. The bulk of the money would come…
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and beginning of the savings and loan debacle in the mid and late 80s. The two most egregious cases of savings and loan fraud before deregulation, Surety Savings and Jefferson Savings, were crawling with mobsters and CIA operatives. Therefo…
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We talked about him a few chapters ago. He's the guy up in New York. Expensive taste. Basically, he's the guy that lived in that big mansion. He became chairman of an international construction company called International Planners and Deve…
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and was making deals with Aiden Khashoggi. No investigator, prosecutor, or reporter has come up with how Renda was able to make such a transition and enter the world of international finance and business. Perhaps it was good through his fat…
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and was using it as a drug trafficking transit point. So there's no way that Renda escaped the notice of the CIA. In 1976, Renda brokered the construction of the National Guard headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Long Island construc…
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the Brooklyn organized crime prosecutor, that he was told by a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family that the construction bid would be awarded in exchange for a 10% kickback. Now, what's interesting about this, understand how these Nati…
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Also, in 1976, Renda arranged for financing for construction of a hotel in the Ivory Coast, a country on the west coast of Africa and a neighbor to Liberia. Liberia, that's the former colony of the United States that after the Civil War, we…
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slaves that wanted to go back to Africa. And we've been involved in their politics ever since. Renda told Mafio that a government official demanded and received a concealed interest in the project in exchange for government support. In 77, …
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apparently as did several others, that proposed construction of a cement plant in Haiti. Renda was negotiating the cement plant in 1978 and agreed to pay Haitian official a concealed interest in the plant in exchange for government support.…
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earthquakes is so devastating because the concrete is of such poor quality that even the slightest jarring of it completely decimates the entire building. They have no rebar in it and it's literally homemade and they've been doing that fore…
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had quit his job at iPad and was the treasurer of the Arab International Bank in Saudi Arabia, of Saudi Arabia, sorry. It was an offshore bank where he cut his teeth on banking and CDs. Also around this time, he was negotiating to purchase …
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The official reneged and Renda never got his casino. Renda was at Arab International for about a year when he left and formed his own company, Arabus, which was set up under a vague rubric of international trade and finance. In 1980, after …
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He was off and running on brokered deposits. As previously noted, Aiden Khashoggi, a Renda associate, made more than $12 million in profit out of land deal with Mainland Savings, where Renda was brokering deposits. Brokering deposits is mon…
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to start the U.S.-Iran arms for hostage. They were using a savings in loan broker deposits to pay for the missiles going to Iran. I want to make that emphatically clear. Khashoggi's relationship with Renda is discussed in an affidavit by La…
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feeding with Iorizo and was participating in linked financing scams with Renda. Winkler, Iorizo stated in his affidavit, told me that Renda was very close to Aiden Khashoggi and that Renda might be able to assist me in obtaining a Kuwaiti o…
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but had encountered resistance from the local authorities. Renda told me that I could ingratiate myself with Khashoggi if I could get him the permits. In a press conference in Houston in the summer of 90, after Khashoggi had been acquitted …
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And by the way, that gold they were hiding was tied to the CIA too. Another person with connections to the intelligence community also appeared in I.O. Rizzo's affidavit. I.O. Rizzo discusses how he and Renda planned a linked financing scam…
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was a Pandamanian shell company. In as much as I had literally purchased the company's papers from a lawyer in Panama who maintained them, along with other entities, on the shelf of a bookcase in his office in Panama, meaning there was no s…
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He was introduced to him by V. Leslie Winkler, or possibly from another guy, Eric DeAnton. Renton and V. Leslie Winkler and I discussed that Houston Holdings was a company which had been originally created and used as an offshore cast laund…
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This bank also was used by Samos in transactions with Sunshine State Bank. However, in all of Renda's ramblings and business dealings, he hooked up with an attorney from Omaha, Nebraska named Jack Chapman. Chapman had worked for the CIA dur…
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Chapman indeed told federal investigators that he worked for the CIA. One official of the CIA confirmed to the FBI that Chapman had been some sort of contract employee, but the FBI felt that he had gone off the reservation. Yeah, sure. Chap…
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on behalf of his attorneys in California and New York. They were breaches of contract with various people. At the time, we were trying to help him do some activities. We weren't earning any money out of it. We were just there to help. Accor…
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who later turned state evidence against Renda. DeCarlo then took the cash to another Renda partner, Martin Schwimmer, who used it to bribe Teamster Union officials. These officials, in exchange, handed over their pension funds for Renda to …
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The books, bank accounts where he and Schwimmer put their money skimmed from the union pensions fund deposits. The money was then wire transferred to a bank in New York and next wired to a man by the name of Clemard Joseph Charles. Charles …
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on another Haiti operation. This indicates that Warbel and Charles and the CIA had been working together to get rid of Dovier in 67. Papa Doc found out about it and clapped Charles in jail. After Charles got out of jail, he apparently put h…
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But three days before the election, the Haiti Supreme Court tossed his name off the ballot along with four other candidates. The first place Mario Renda got caught with his broker deposits linked financing scam was to a tiny bank in a strip…
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at their disposal to include the pension funds of many unions where they would deposit them. And then they, the depositor, got to dictate who took loans out on their deposit. So if the CIA or the mafia was depositing money in a bank, then t…
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Apuca, A-I-U-P-A, a Chicago mob boss who had been brought in by Anthony Russo. Mario Renda and his brokered deposits were also brought in by Russo. Renda brokered more than $6 million into the little bank in exchange for loans to his straw …
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in Washington, approved Russo's employment by the bank, despite his felony conviction, mob connections, and a recommendation by the FDIC's regional office not to do it. The second biggest borrower at Indian Springs, next to Renda's linked f…
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When Azizma was asked about the large overdrafts that Global had at Indian Springs, he replied, oh, I don't get involved in that level of detail in my business. I have no idea what that's about. The company had credit lines and authorized o…
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filed bankruptcy in 83, owing $280,000 in unsecured loans to Indian Springs. At the time, Global had $145,000 of CDs at Indian Springs and was later allowed to offset those deposits against loans owed. After Indian Springs failed, January 1…
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After this investigation discovered Azizma's connections to the failed Indiana Springs State Bank, he went to the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force in Kansas City, which was investigating Mario Renda. The IRS official met wi…
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Palulo claiming the payment was prepaid interest that was not supposed to go to Freeman. Freeman was convicted and Paluno, Palulo was not. Freeman had bought Savings One in 83. Around the same time, Mario Renda and Martin Swimmer were also …
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So they take off to San Diego. It was the first step in connecting the world of Bebe, the Louisiana mobster, and the world of Mario Renda, R-E-N-D-A. The New York mob associate involved in the failure of financial institutions across the co…
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Not only was Bazarian a friend of Mario Rendo, he had actually been convicted with Renda in a baking scam in Florida in 1987. This was Renda's first conviction for bank fraud, in which he got involved in a scam with Michael Rapp, R-A-P-P. W…
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and Bazarian. The three cooked up a scheme to get control of Florida Center Bank during a Halloween party at Bazarian's mansion outside of Oklahoma City. It was a complicated scam using bounced checks, brokered deposits, and loans. It backf…
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Bazirian was also borrowing large amounts of money from a California savings and loan that Renda was brokering deposits to. And remember, brokering deposits is putting money on deposit at a bank and then dictating who that money gets lent t…
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Horne also did business at Ron Daly's First Savings of East Texas, which Daly was a cousin of Robert Corson, the guy that married Michener's daughter. You just can't make this shit up. Several years later, the Detroit Free Press reported th…
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Obviously, something was big and involved the mafia in the savings and loans all over the country. The author set out to see if they could find other connections between Bebe and Renda. One place where Renda and Bebe's circles intersected w…
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Renda is the daughter of Vincent Rizzo, the owner of Bernardo Wineries in San Diego. In August 1982, Renda and several of his partners met at the La Casa resort to talk over a new scam of brokered deposits to money launder. Renda and Bebe h…
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bank outside of La Costa called San Deguento National Bank. In 1983, Beebe had a bank account there when he guaranteed the previously mentioned $75,000 loan to a travel agency controlled by Scott Salusa. We talked about that a couple of cha…
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Some $700,000 of those deposits were union pension funds from New York City that had been wired there by Renda and his partner, Martin Swimmer. According to the indictment prepared by the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn,…
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DeQuinto National Bank was one of only six banks across the country where Renda and Swimmer had off-the-books accounts used in their criminal enterprise. Renda and Swimmer were convicted of racketeering in skimming union pension funds and b…
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were Penn Square Bank in Oklahoma City. Fueled by brokered deposits from Renda and others, Penn Square had engaged in wild lending in the oil patch before expiring in 1982. Even though it was only a $500 million institution, Penn Square had…
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The Sharpsdown scandal. The Penn Square experience, this is a quote, gave us a rough alert to the damage that can be done by brokered deposits funneled through troubled institutions, said the former FDIC chairman, Irvin Sprague, in his book…
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before a congressional committee about broker deposits, but nothing came of it. And apparently no one attempted to determine if any of the bad loans at Penn Square was linked to Renda's broker deposits. Interestingly, Morris Schenker had a …
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Two years later, that's money laundering. More than half of the deposits came from Mario Renda in his brokered loan scam. Since Empire failed, it had been the subject of massive civil and criminal investigations and litigations by federal a…
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have been obtained by prosecutors, although the biggest fish, the owner and major borrowers, escaped in their first trial with a hung jury. The Justice Department kept after them, though, and they were convicted in the second one and senten…
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Any of the money lost was in the hands of the mafia. Not allowed to look there. The owner of Empire, Spencer Blaine, had been in the savings and loan business for a long time. He was the director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Little Rock…
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was convicted of fraud at Flushing Federal, where he was obtaining and brokering loans. Also convicted at Flushing were Mario Renda. He was brokering deposits there as well. Several mob associates who were involved in a scheme that received…
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their tracking of Mario Renda across the country, they had encountered organized crime strike force prosecutor in Kansas City, Lloyd Monroe, who had been after Renda and his mob associates in a Kansas City banking scam. Lots of mafia in Kan…