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Claims (46)
Dale Bellema Company funded
Robert Corson documented
“Bellema defaulted on the loan and declared bankruptcy. But prior to that, Bellema bought out Corson's interest for $33,000 in 87. So Corson walked away with $33,000 and never had a penny involved in any of it. Bellema executive Larry Thropp…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 25:17
Robert Corson paid
People's Savings and Loan documented
“20 days after it was due and four months before Ray Corona was indicted for racketeering and money laundering, Corona paid back the loan after he sold the property to South Miami Hospital for a profit of a million dollars. Joel Daniel, the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 34:24
Robert Corson financed_via
People's Savings and Loan documented
“They were caught in the mid-1980s and Samos turned state evidence against Corona while receiving immunity from prosecution for admitting to money laundering drug money. Corona got a $3 million loan in 84 from People's Savings and Loan in Te…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 34:17
Robert Corson member_of
Total Bank documented
“fellow Cuban exile, Jose Alvaro Cruz, then the biggest drug smuggler in Miami. Fernandez went to work for Cruz, who then introduced him to Miami banker Ray Corona. Corona, like Fernandez, hungered after a bank of his own. He was the vice pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 14:02
Robert Corson founded
Sunshine State Bank documented
“based on questions about his banking experience. Finally, in mid-1978, Corona won permission to buy Sunshine State Bank in Miami. As a down payment, Samos wired him $1.15 million from Fernando's bank account from Panama, Banco de Iberia, Am…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 15:33
Robert Corson financed_via
People's Savings and Loan documented
“So he saved it. To bolster the bank's capital and keep it alive, Ray Corona bought the land that the bank headquarters was on and some of the surrounding property, including tracts that Palulo had sold to the bank for a profit of $160,000. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 32:51
Robert Corson secretly_owned
West Belt National Bank book_quoted
“and leader in building the Republican Party in Houston. And keep in mind, Trinidad and Tobago, even back then, was a drug trafficking hub. Michener has also acknowledged that Fay was a good friend of his. Fay served on the board of director…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 23:32
Robert Corson associate_of
Walter Mischer host_asserted
“and immediately got involved in all of these shenanigans. One of the first loans Parker made was to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture, which was comprised of TMC Funding, a Michener company, of course, and two other of Michener's associates, inc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 20:35
Paula Michener member_of
Robert Corson documented
“which was owned by Michener and Terry. That's what I was telling you guys at the beginning of this story. They just trade board seats around like a merry-go-round. In 1982, Duncan's stepson, Dempsey Watson, married Michener's daughter, Paul…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 43:17
Robert Corson member_of
Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center documented
“that Farm and Home inherited when it bought Surety in 1979 was almost a million dollar loan to Michener's company and his two associates at the Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center, which we mentioned earlier. Michener's partners were his former …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 47:20
Rebecca Sims member_of
Robert Corson documented
“When the ex-son-in-law, Robert Corson, found out about this, he became furious and told an employee never to talk to Michener's employees again and never to mention Michener's name in his office. This story was told to the Houston Post repo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 48:47
Rebecca Sims exposed
Robert Corson documented
“and had quit when asked to commit bankruptcy and tax and bank fraud. She then started investigating Corson and his associates, who also owned a savings and loan. Sims called one of the investigative reporters and chewed him out over a savin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 49:17
Robert Corson recruited
Richard Benenke book_quoted
“Corson introduced Benenke to Michener in mid-1970s in the lobby of Michener's bank, Allied Bank, in downtown Houston. Benenke recalled describing a mural on the wall. I met Michener originally through Corson. I didn't work with Michener. He…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 22:36
Tony Fernandez financed_via
Robert Corson documented
“turned more than $1 million in cash over to Corona to consummate the deal. After Fernandez was indicted and then kidnapped to Colombia, he sold his shares in Sunshine to Corona, putting the Coronas in full control of the bank by the middle …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 16:00
Robert Corson financed_via
St. Joe Paper Company book_quoted
“private landowner in Florida. He owned over 1 million acres, and it basically was forest for his paper mill. In the summer of 86, Corson's savings and loan was bankrupted and eventually failed, primarily because it had lent $20 million towa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 30:37
Manzor Harani member_of
Robert Corson book_quoted
“So they just wrote the note off but gave it to somebody else? Yeah. Lamar then conveyed the property to Harani, the Lebanese investor who had done business with Robert Corson and was good friends with Orrin Hatch. A former high-ranking offi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 1:04:03
Robert Corson member_of
Balama book_quoted
“In Houston, Corson bought the land in late 1985 with a real estate company, weirdly, out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, called Balama. Tomorrow, we're going to find out about Balama and Chicago. So that's it for today. And I don't see Bridget.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 1:05:33
Robert Ferguson front_for
Robert Corson book_quoted
“The $20 million loan was secured by four mortgages on four pieces of property totaling 107 acres. The four companies buying the property were fronts for Atkinson and Corson. One of the straw borrowers for Corson was Robert Ferguson, the Kap…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 57:41
Robert Corson member_of
Walter Mischer book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 23:19
Roy Daly member_of
Robert Corson book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 23:19
Robert Corson married
Paula Michener book_quoted
“Back in 1964, Corson was 17 and chasing after a 16-year-old girl. His mother had found her and was pushing her son towards her. She was all he could talk about during the summer. Just after he turned 18 and just before Christmas in 64, Cors…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 5:31
Billie Jean Banks married
Robert Corson book_quoted
“Her name is Billie Jean Banks. And throughout this story, she's going to be referred to as BJ. So she ends up, according to some accounts, being married as many times as eight different times. So one of her husbands, of course, is this Cors…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 2:14
Walter Mischer funded
Robert Corson book_quoted
“After Michener tracked down Paula and Corson living in Nevada in early 1965, several months after they had eloped to Mexico, he brought them back to Houston, where Corson was put into the real estate business by his mother and Michener. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 7:04
Stephen Samos financed_via
Robert Corson documented
“based on questions about his banking experience. Finally, in mid-1978, Corona won permission to buy Sunshine State Bank in Miami. As a down payment, Samos wired him $1.15 million from Fernando's bank account from Panama, Banco de Iberia, Am…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 15:33
John Riddle financed_via
Robert Corson documented
“Then in December 85, Ballas bought about 1,500 acres to the northwest of that property from John Riddle and his partner, Richard Dover. This is the property that Corson and Riddle had contracted to buy from General Homes. Riddle bought Cors…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 38:46
Robert Corson laundered_money_for
CIA book_quoted
“who is also a close friend and political operative of George Bush's. That's going to be discussed in the next chapter. According to Meneke, Corson worked with him in laundering money for the CIA. He went on to say his group would take cash …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 10:11
Robert Corson funded
General Coffee Corporation documented
“Who purchased some $100 million in surplus vacant property in the Houston area from General Holmes? Robert Corson. In a class action lawsuit filed by General Holmes and American Savings and Loan in a Dallas court in 1988 by some of the Gene…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 53:01
Robert Corson funded
KinderCare documented
“One of the guys involved would plead guilty to illegal fraud activity involving himself in the Kindercare and Drexel Burnham operation. Another person that was involved in this in 77 and 78 was Robert Corson and his mother. They were buildi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 56:21
Robert Corson member_of
Vision Banc Savings book_quoted
“Jake Garn, and the White House. Oh, Vice President Bush and Ronald Reagan. Meanwhile, across Houston, another CIA asset was struggling for his financial life. By the middle of 1987, Vision Bank savings money had run out and Robert Corson wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 1:05:01
Stephen Samos laundered_money_for
Robert Corson documented
“Tony Fernandez, a narcotics trafficker and CIA contract agent, because they just go together. And Ray Corona, a money launderer by Sunshine State Bank in Miami. How do you buy a state bank when you're a drug trafficker and a money launderin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 33:48
Robert Corson headed
Sunshine State Bank host_asserted
“Ray Corona, former head of a mafia bank called Sunshine State Bank in Miami, which he fronted for drug smugglers, convicted felons.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 27:17
Robert Corson member_of
Continental National Bank host_asserted
“I didn't know if I knew about Atkinson's role, he said. There are other connections between the law firm and Robert Corson. In the 80s, Marvin Nathan was a trustee in a complicated land deal involving Corson and his partner, Sandy Aaron. On…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:06:13
Walter Mischer recruited
Robert Corson book_quoted
“is notorious for not telling the truth. Several people who were familiar with the CIA believe that Michener engineered the involvement of his former son-in-law, Robert Corson. And remember what I said, out of the three names of his daughter…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 16:29
Robert Corson laundered_money_for
CIA book_quoted
“a former federal law enforcement official familiar with Corson's money laundering activities, because, you know, the CIA loves to money launder, that Corson's participation began around the time Jimmy Carter won the 76th presidential electi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 17:30
Robert Corson laundered_money_for
IDF book_quoted
“This officer said that Corson also did work for the Israelis, but may not have known it because there were several layers of cutouts between him and the Israelis. A former Israeli intelligence officer, Aryan bin Minash, who was involved in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 11:12
Robert Corson headed
Vision Banc Savings host_asserted
“He was a Houston good old boy and developer who owned Vision Bank Savings in Kingsville.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 27:50
Marvin Nathan front_for
Robert Corson host_asserted
“I didn't know if I knew about Atkinson's role, he said. There are other connections between the law firm and Robert Corson. In the 80s, Marvin Nathan was a trustee in a complicated land deal involving Corson and his partner, Sandy Aaron. On…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:06:13
Alvis Vandegrift covered_up
Robert Corson host_asserted
“So it's a direct mafia connection. The former Texas Savings and Loan Commissioner, Alvis Vandegrift, became counsel to these attorneys' law firm after he retired and had the distinction of shepherding through the regulatory process, Robert …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 35:51
General Coffee Corporation did_deals_with
Robert Corson host_asserted
“And that did around $100 million worth of land deals with Robert Corson, i.e. the CIA. According to several people close to Corson and Powers, Walter Michener flew with B.J. Garman, Corson's mother, and Powers in Powers aircraft to Belize i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 29:54
John Dick laundered_money_for
Robert Corson host_asserted
“Involved in the Isle of Jersey Trust Company that was laundering drug money for Jack DeVoe and Lawrence Freeman and savings and loan money for Robert Corson and Mike Atkinson.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 29:22
Robert Corson member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Spain was using the Canary Islands for Operation Gladio and their aquatic training for sea operations conducted on the Canary Islands where we find Martin and Robert Corson all at the same time. That was going on in the 1980s. In a 1987 div…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 26:32
Robert Corson funded
Paul Lewis host_asserted
“And Brownstein, Walters, Mizzle, and others were allegedly flying all over in Davis's private jet. One place they liked to go was the vintage club near Palm Springs, California, where Davis would reportedly hold court. Maybe they ran into R…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 1:09:51
Robert Corson laundered_money_for
Mafia host_asserted
“He was a borrower from People's Savings in Texas, associate of mobsters and CIA operatives, because, of course, he was laundering money for them.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 27:50
Robert Corson front_for
CIA host_asserted
“He performed duties for the CIA and he was indicted along with Mike Atkinson for the $200 million savings and loan land deal in Florida.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 28:19
Robert Corson laundered_money_for
CIA host_asserted
“He was a borrower from People's Savings in Texas, associate of mobsters and CIA operatives, because, of course, he was laundering money for them.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 27:50
Frank Castro recruited
Robert Corson speculative
“Haas said he did not meet Corona until January of 84, about a month before a $3 million loan was made to him. Quote, I think it was only a couple of times I saw him, unquote. Perhaps Frank Castro made the introductions. People's Managing Of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 14:01
Mentions (120)
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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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not only knew about all of this, but had approved it. So having said that, I want to get to a couple of the key players. The one that you're going to hear over and over again is a guy by the name of Robert Corson, C-O-R-S-O-N. Another guy t…
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was convicted for fraud in the $200 million savings and loan land fraud in Florida and sentenced to 11 years in prison. And he worked very closely with Robert Corson. And again, most of these people did not serve their full term and made te…
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That was controlled by the mafia, Herman Beebe. He helped charter West Belt National Bank, where Mike Atkinson took out lots of loans and was a stockholder. Ray Corona, former head of a mafia bank called Sunshine State Bank in Miami, which …
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He was a borrower from People's Savings in Texas, associate of mobsters and CIA operatives, because, of course, he was laundering money for them. And let's see, Robert Corson. We're going to talk a lot about him. He was a Houston good old b…
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He was a borrower from People's Savings in Texas, associate of mobsters and CIA operatives, because, of course, he was laundering money for them. And let's see, Robert Corson. We're going to talk a lot about him. He was a Houston good old b…
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former son-in-law. He performed duties for the CIA and he was indicted along with Mike Atkinson for the $200 million savings and loan land deal in Florida. We're going to hear a lot about him. And here's a guy on the other end of this money…
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Involved in the Isle of Jersey Trust Company that was laundering drug money for Jack DeVoe and Lawrence Freeman and savings and loan money for Robert Corson and Mike Atkinson. He was also selling wheat to Russians and used the non-profit Yo…
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So they kind of controlled the entire Gulf Coast of mafia-related activity. Okay, I think, well, yeah, there's a little blurb here about Walter Mishner Sr., Houston developer, banker, power broker, who headed Allied Bank, Corson's former fa…
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Literally nothing. So in the case of Corson, he was one of the developers. He would buy a piece of real estate and he would borrow on that piece of real estate from three different banks. So now he's got $20 million, $30 million in loans on…
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he produced intelligence to say whatever MacArthur wanted him to. So MacArthur didn't have any intelligence. He just had a piece of paper written on it, whatever he wanted it to say. And you have to know that in order for this to make any s…
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on Bath's resume. A source close to Bath said that Trotter was one of the Houstonians most responsible for introducing Bath around Houston and getting him all the right connections. Bath and Land Benson brokered a number of multi-thousand d…
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So they just wrote the note off but gave it to somebody else? Yeah. Lamar then conveyed the property to Harani, the Lebanese investor who had done business with Robert Corson and was good friends with Orrin Hatch. A former high-ranking offi…
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Jake Garn, and the White House. Oh, Vice President Bush and Ronald Reagan. Meanwhile, across Houston, another CIA asset was struggling for his financial life. By the middle of 1987, Vision Bank savings money had run out and Robert Corson wa…
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is notorious for not telling the truth. Several people who were familiar with the CIA believe that Michener engineered the involvement of his former son-in-law, Robert Corson. And remember what I said, out of the three names of his daughter…
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and Corson happened while he was CIA director. A Washington lawyer familiar with the CIA told the reporter, the author of this book, that Corson's work for the CIA began in 1976 when Michener's friend, Bush, was director. In addition,…
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a former federal law enforcement official familiar with Corson's money laundering activities, because, you know, the CIA loves to money launder, that Corson's participation began around the time Jimmy Carter won the 76th presidential electi…
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that had been removed from the CIA by Jimmy Carter. And that's around the same time this Robert Corson begins a relationship with George Bush Sr. And as we're going to find out, he's money laundering basically for CIA activities, which kind…
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In addition, a former federal law enforcement official who had worked on Corson's investigation and his money laundering activities believed that Corson's participation was significant as far as being a money launderer. The law enforcement …
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and leader in building the Republican Party in Houston. And keep in mind, Trinidad and Tobago, even back then, was a drug trafficking hub. Michener has also acknowledged that Fay was a good friend of his. Fay served on the board of director…
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which is beyond question, but to show the deep and wide-ranging influence that Jaffe had in the halls of Congress. One question was left dangling about people's savings loan to Ray Corona to add capital to Miami's Sunshine State Bank. How d…
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Haas said he did not meet Corona until January of 84, about a month before a $3 million loan was made to him. Quote, I think it was only a couple of times I saw him, unquote. Perhaps Frank Castro made the introductions. People's Managing Of…
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Haas danced around the questions when the author asked him about Castro. Later in the interview, Haas said that he thought Castro was a lawyer. Then he began speculating on who told me about the author, about him and Castro. When told about…
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who would have alluded to that fact, unquote. People's Managing Officer Joel Daniel agreed that the introduction to Corona came from a Florida developer by the name of Harold White. When I asked how he met Harold White, Haas said, let me ge…
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In 82, Skinner pled guilty to two misdemeanors in the so-called Outrigger scandal involving loans to organized crime associates from the Miami National Bank, the bank formerly controlled by Lansky's associate in which Ray Corona got his sta…
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and chairman of his loan committee. He was indicted for mail fraud, making false statements to bank examiners, filing false bank records, loan fraud, and racketeering. His criminal defense attorney would also represent Ray Corona in his cri…
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And they're all connected with the mafia and former presidents, to include a current president at the time, George Bush. When People's Savings lent $3 million to Ray Corona in February of 84, it also made a $2.3 million loan to Harold White…
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Sunrise was founded and controlled by Philadelphia's second largest law firm, Blank, Rome, Comiskey, and Macaulay, which agreed to pay $50 million in 88 to settle a civil lawsuit by the feds alleging misconduct in their oversight. No kiddin…
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which was guaranteed by Corona, Rafael Corona, who had borrowed $150,000 to pay interest on a Litico's delinquent loan. And that obviously is a reoccurring theme through this entire book. They take out a loan, they can't make the loan payme…
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It seems curious that it would be for a Florida savings and loan rather than for one in Texas or Colorado. However, considering Sunrise's big Houston office ran by former mainland savings official, its loans to Corona and White and the big …
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It seems curious that it would be for a Florida savings and loan rather than for one in Texas or Colorado. However, considering Sunrise's big Houston office ran by former mainland savings official, its loans to Corona and White and the big …
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These parties included DuPont, who was the largest private landowner in Florida, Robert Corson and John Riddle, Mike Adkinson, Lawrence Freeman, Hill Savings and Loan, and Corson's Vision Bonk Savings, which provided some of the financing. …
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It was listed on his financial statement as being worth $100,000. He was later named to the bank's board of directors. One of the original stockholders in the bank was Starrs. He had been introduced, he had been a private donor to the Contr…
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the $5 million allied note from West Belt National Bank. This was one of the very first transactions Corson did after he got control of the savings and loan. In fact, he hadn't even changed his name. Continental Savings later bought this no…
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where he was accompanied by bankers from Westbelt National Bank and San Joaquino Bank. Haley and Atkinson loved to indulge in high-stake poker games on his trips to Mexico. In the summer of 86, Atkinson went with Riddle and Corson on vacati…
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in the foreclosure saying the entire thing was his homestead. When Powers first began getting into financial problems in early 1980s, his buddy, Mike Atkinson, moved his companies to the Arena Tower to pay rent and help the cash flow. Power…
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And that did around $100 million worth of land deals with Robert Corson, i.e. the CIA. According to several people close to Corson and Powers, Walter Michener flew with B.J. Garman, Corson's mother, and Powers in Powers aircraft to Belize i…
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Snitsker said he didn't go through with the transaction because he didn't feel comfortable with it. Atkinson and the boys still wanted to come up with another $20 million to $30 million in addition to Hill's financial $70 million. By this t…
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DuPont St. Joe Paper Company came out as the biggest winner. At the sale closing, the company got $62 million in cash from Hill Financial, plus $5 million in cash from Corson's Vision Bank Savings. Hill also put $7 million into an interest …
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What about the rest of the $100 million in the deal? About $15 million of that came from Corson Savings and Loan. Who got it? Sanson Financial Consultants of the Isle of Jersey got almost half of Vision Blog's money, $7 million. Sanson also…
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because they were actually tracing the money from a CIA-controlled Isle of Jersey account into the bank accounts of Americans. So you can't see that. Sorry. Hughes made his ruling without hearing arguments from the federal regulators. His d…
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on the beach, plus a Ferrari and some townhouses in Houston. So everybody got rich but us. On the date of the sale, the 23 acre track was sold three times. It was sold three times, the value jumping from less than 1.5 million to 20 million.…
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The document was signed. It jumped up in price up to $20 million. The property was transferred from St. Joe Company to an Atkins company to Corson and then to another Atkinson and then back to Corson. So Corson ended up with it. In the last…
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And Corson took the land back and then pledged it against a $7 million loan at InBank Houston that he used to buy Vision Bank Savings. Keep in mind, Corson is CIA. Also making out on the deal was John Riddle, who had used a $3 million promi…
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related deal involving a swap of two pieces of property in Houston for some of the Florida land that Atkinson got. Vision Bank lost several million dollars on this swap deal because it had a second mortgage on some of the property north of …
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The $20 million loan was secured by four mortgages on four pieces of property totaling 107 acres. The four companies buying the property were fronts for Atkinson and Corson. One of the straw borrowers for Corson was Robert Ferguson, the Kap…
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And that is a fact. Another interesting relationship in the Florida land deal involves the attorneys for Corson's Savings and Loan, the Houston law firm of Laction and Nathan. This law firm also represented Continental Savings and one of it…
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I didn't know if I knew about Atkinson's role, he said. There are other connections between the law firm and Robert Corson. In the 80s, Marvin Nathan was a trustee in a complicated land deal involving Corson and his partner, Sandy Aaron. On…
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They routinely did that. Although Nathan's partner, Herbert Lackshin, represented Corson's mother, BJ Garman, in her 1985 divorce from William Garman, between the time that Nathan was representing Corson and Erin in the disputed land deal a…
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Robert Corson's first cousin, approached Hill Financial about buying the Florida land. Daly told Hill officials that he was working with a company called Government Securities. He had a letter of credit from who? BCCI, another CIA front. Fo…
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a Florida construction contractor whose lawsuit against the IRS in 1964 is noted in a 1985 report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigating Crimes in Secrecy, the Use of Offshore Banks and Companies. The Senate report, which was…
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And hopefully everyone has a happy new year. We have such great people here in Rumble and in Spaces. And people provide a lot of information. So, given that, I'm still looking at Corson. And I have been all over the internet looking for a p…
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Now, he was scheduled to go to trial. When he found out he was being indicted, he fled to Latin America. He came back. He was scheduled for trial and later found dead in a motel room. Supposedly of a heart attack. Supposedly of a heart atta…
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You can't testify. Yeah, you can't testify. You know too much. You've done too many of our dirty deals. You can't actually testify in a court. So damn your luck. You're going to die of a heart attack. Sorry. And I bet I know where he went i…
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He was known to hang out at one of the restaurants owned by Michener's former son-in-law, Robert Corson. Another listed secretary of Sarah was Paget, Brown and Company, a Cayman Island entity. Both Sarah and Paget, Brown and Company have ma…
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But the plan fell apart when Bebe's bank, Bossier Bank and Trust, which had the loan on the polo ground, failed in the summer of 1986. Before that happened, Continental was having trouble keeping Terry's $19 million loan from going default.…
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A federal regulator familiar with the case said that the Illinois federal prosecutors were ready to indict Riddle when their counterparts in Dallas contacted them and for unknown reasons told them not to do it. I bet we know what those reas…
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Riddle and Corson did a number of business deals together, including the purchase of a 1,300-acre west of Houston next to Cinco Ranch. Cinco Ranch was the over 5,000-acre development acquired in 1984 by Walter Michener and American General …
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who have seen the records, said that Corson took some of the money laundering trips to Latin America in this very plane. Former Israeli intelligence officer, Arya Ben-Maneshe, has alleged that first Western aviation was a cutout by both the…
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was just fronting First Western Aviation for Walter Michener. First Western Aviation obtained bank financing from United Bank Houston, which is controlled by Vincent Ciccarello. He was a very close friend of Walter Michener's. Michener even…
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A-D-G-E-R, whose brother John was a partner with Corson and Ron Daly in the early 1970s in a real estate company called Adger, Corson, and Daly. John Adger testified in Daly's fraud trial in 1990 that he took $300,000 in cash to Daly as a k…
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from the Daley's First Savings in East Texas. There were several other Kappa Sigmas in Corson's operation. One was the previous mentioned Robert Ferguson, who was a member of the fraternity at the same time George Aubin and Walter Beard wer…
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according to several law enforcement. So they used the bank to kick the guy's wife out and then gave the house back to him. You just can't make this shit up. Another Kappa Sigma in business with Corson was Ford Hubbard, another fraternity m…
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Hubbard wrote a letter of recommendation on Westside National Bank stationary for Corson when he was trying to buy a savings and loan. Whoa. When a group of about 30 savings and loan executives from across Texas met secretly in Houston in J…
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He then went on to serve in conservative think tanks and posed as an expert on anti-terrorism. The guy who's responsible for the terrorism was serving as an expert on anti-terrorism. After the Democrats took over the White House in 77, Stef…
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In a letter to the author from Victor Rogers' attorney, George Michael Jamal states, Victor Rogers had met Walter Michener Sr., who he understands is associated with Allied Bank. He has never met Jr., and he's never socialized with them. Vi…
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In fact, he apparently overdid it there because the casino filed a lawsuit against him for past due gambling debts and won a judgment of $92,000. Caesar was also Corson's mother's favorite place to launder cash. After Victor Rogers II, the …
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Tony Fernandez, a narcotics trafficker and CIA contract agent, because they just go together. And Ray Corona, a money launderer by Sunshine State Bank in Miami. How do you buy a state bank when you're a drug trafficker and a money launderin…
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They were caught in the mid-1980s and Samos turned state evidence against Corona while receiving immunity from prosecution for admitting to money laundering drug money. Corona got a $3 million loan in 84 from People's Savings and Loan in Te…
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International Management and Trust Corporation, which had been owned by Samos. The Wall Street Journal reported, it is not known whether Samos retained control of the company after he sold it in 83 or what his role may have been in setting …
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after Corona went to jail, related to Oliver North. A Southern Air vice president then flew to Panama to meet Samos and set up ACE. ACE bank accounts for the Contra operation was at Banco de Iberia America, a Panamanian bank principally own…
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Bellarmine executive Larry Thropp told the Albuquerque Tribune that he had met Vineyard in 1983 when Vineyard was representing a Houston buyer of some of Bellarmine's property. In November 1985, Bellarmine formed a joint venture with our bu…
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They bought 283 acres in Bazoria County, about nine miles south of the Astrodome. Bellarmine put up the entire $4.4 million purchase. Then in October of 86, amid talks of grandiose development plans, M. Bank of Houston lent the joint ventur…
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Bellema defaulted on the loan and declared bankruptcy. But prior to that, Bellema bought out Corson's interest for $33,000 in 87. So Corson walked away with $33,000 and never had a penny involved in any of it. Bellema executive Larry Thropp…
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arranged the deal with Corson. Bellarmine's only other Houston area land deal got its partner, MDC Holdings, into trouble with Security and Exchange Commission because MDC Holdings is a large Denver-based home builder and residential develo…
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in Vernon loans for Sandia stock were later refinanced at Sunbelt Savings, which bumped them up to $19 million, giving the investors $3 million pocket change. Sandia was heavily involved in deals and lending to Texas companies connected to …
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and had gotten into thoroughbred racing. A Houston private investigator reported that Riddle had introduced Ballas to George Aubin at the Kentucky Derby, and one of Ballas' horses raced that year in the Derby. In 1990, Ballas pleaded guilty…
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Then in December 85, Ballas bought about 1,500 acres to the northwest of that property from John Riddle and his partner, Richard Dover. This is the property that Corson and Riddle had contracted to buy from General Homes. Riddle bought Cors…
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Because it's all prearranged. Robert Corson is another connecting link between Cantor and his associates in the Galettas. The Florida St. Joe Paper Company land deal brought Lawrence Freeman, that's the DuPont family land deal that we're go…
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The $25 million plus that Starnes got from Continental made him one of the savings and loans largest borrowers. There was no way he could have done that without an okay by Bebe the mobster who was in charge of the bank. Lister says that Sta…
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One person close to Riddle and Corson said that Starnes was a John Riddle partner from the get-go. They called him E.T. Starnes had bank accounts and borrowed money from Riddle's Texas National Bank, and at least one of Starnes' continental…
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from Westside National Bank, where Robert Corson and his mother were the largest stockholders. And Robert Corson, of course, is a CIA asset as well. He also showed a debt of $60,000 to Westside in his bankruptcy and had a checking account t…
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Files there referenced an E. Trine Starnes Jr. financial statement, and there were several files with his name on it. These references are the same page of a 112-page listing of all of Atkins' files together, with a reference to Compendium …
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Avro Aviation that had offices in Houston and some weird ties. Investigators traced an airplane once owned by Corson and his associates for money laundering trips to Latin America to a company affiliated with Avro Aviation. Stone's son-in-l…
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law firm. Michael DeBakey is another principal in Republic Health. Perhaps Starn's relationship to Riddle, Corson, Atkinson, and the banks of Michener and Lyon go a little way towards explaining why a bust-out car owners like him was one of…
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And Brownstein, Walters, Mizzle, and others were allegedly flying all over in Davis's private jet. One place they liked to go was the vintage club near Palm Springs, California, where Davis would reportedly hold court. Maybe they ran into R…
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Who purchased some $100 million in surplus vacant property in the Houston area from General Holmes? Robert Corson. In a class action lawsuit filed by General Holmes and American Savings and Loan in a Dallas court in 1988 by some of the Gene…
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and occurred in connection with various General Holmes projects throughout Houston, including Silver Mill Project, Park 45 Project, and another subdivision. Many of the cells from General Holmes were to Robert Corson or people affiliated wi…
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One of the guys involved would plead guilty to illegal fraud activity involving himself in the Kindercare and Drexel Burnham operation. Another person that was involved in this in 77 and 78 was Robert Corson and his mother. They were buildi…
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And it starts off with the connection of Robert Corson to the CIA via Michener and was first told to the author by two intelligence operatives and was confirmed by two Texas law enforcement officials. According to Will Northrup, Corson rode…
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Ask about, but also understand the CIA is in bed with them too. Ask about Corson. Northrop replied, quote, I have heard that Corson had very heavy agency connections. Corson has all the moves and all the connections, but I can't tell you th…
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Corson was really sort of a homegrown Republican type of guy. The difference between a guy like Beneke and a guy like Corson is that Beneke was born into this stuff. And Corson sort of rode or seemingly rode the mule in with the Republican …
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I've run across his name and somebody would mention him from time to time, but I can't really say he was a CIA operative in the sense like Beneke was. I've seen Beneke in the field. All this is such home cooking. You don't know where the CI…
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who is also a close friend and political operative of George Bush's. That's going to be discussed in the next chapter. According to Meneke, Corson worked with him in laundering money for the CIA. He went on to say his group would take cash …
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couriers who transported the money, Vanake said. Quote, there was no doubt in my mind that Corson was a contract agent. The people in Langley, meaning CIA, the eight-hour types, said Corson was agency, and he spoke about his friends in Wash…
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This officer said that Corson also did work for the Israelis, but may not have known it because there were several layers of cutouts between him and the Israelis. A former Israeli intelligence officer, Aryan bin Minash, who was involved in …
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Criticizing a theory by attacking its proponents rather than the substance is a weak and questionable mythology. And these people have greater credibility and a better record of telling the truth than anyone in the CIA or George Bush. That'…
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several other countries over there during this time period. So that's the work they're talking about. Benenke said there was very little activity with this company in the first years of its existence. It was then turned over to the CIA to l…
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vouchers Northrop, Mike Harari was just following orders. D'Onofio said he doesn't remember Corson, but adds that that's not unusual because Beneke had other people that he used. Corson is listed in a federal law enforcement record as a kno…
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But sometime between 87 and 89, information on Corson's airplane trips from the United States to Panama and to the Cayman Islands, both well-known money laundering havens, was erased from federal crime information computers, according to pe…
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It appears that Corson and his attorney, Stephen Cass Weiland, may know this. In December 21st, 1989, in a letter to the author, Weiland stated, you may recall that you told me on December 20th that you had law enforcement records that indi…
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He knows that that data has now been erased, and he tells the author that it's not there anymore. That's how bold these people are. Weiland never responded to a letter from the author six days later, asking him on how many trips Corson had …
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Corson introduced Benenke to Michener in mid-1970s in the lobby of Michener's bank, Allied Bank, in downtown Houston. Benenke recalled describing a mural on the wall. I met Michener originally through Corson. I didn't work with Michener. He…
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But he added that he had no doubt that Michener had strong connections to the CIA since it's Michener that went down and bought 12% of Belize for terrorist training camps for the CIA and dirt airport strips for connecting flights. Neither d…
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about the Houston CIA agent, Michener had said, he commented, quote, about the only thing Walter, meaning Michener, could use that letter for was to blow his nose, unquote. And that's literally true. As a matter of policy, the CIA never con…
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What in the world would he be doing for the CIA, he asked. Questioned whether he knew Ramon de Onofio, he said no. Is he a CIA guy? The CIA has some strange people from time to time, Michener said. In a letter dated February 20, 1990, to th…
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That is not an explicit denial. The question is whether Corson did any work for the CIA. If he was a cutout, he could have worked for the CIA, yet his statement could have actually been true as well. They're very careful about how they word…
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and also represents him in the savings and loan criminal charges, and who has represented him on civil matters, Stephen Cass Weiland, with Jackson and Walker in Dallas. It is unusual for a Dallas attorney to be representing a native Houston…
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That was the DEA chief for money laundering, and he retires and gets arrested for money laundering. This is how this whole system works. I want you guys to understand it. It's how they've been able to get away with it for decades. They have…
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private landowner in Florida. He owned over 1 million acres, and it basically was forest for his paper mill. In the summer of 86, Corson's savings and loan was bankrupted and eventually failed, primarily because it had lent $20 million towa…
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fellow Cuban exile, Jose Alvaro Cruz, then the biggest drug smuggler in Miami. Fernandez went to work for Cruz, who then introduced him to Miami banker Ray Corona. Corona, like Fernandez, hungered after a bank of his own. He was the vice pr…
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fellow Cuban exile, Jose Alvaro Cruz, then the biggest drug smuggler in Miami. Fernandez went to work for Cruz, who then introduced him to Miami banker Ray Corona. Corona, like Fernandez, hungered after a bank of his own. He was the vice pr…
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In the early 60s, the family had moved to Miami from Cuba, where their father had been a banker, which means he was banking for the mafia, because that was the only money in town, and they controlled everything. Well, them and the CIA. So C…
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The first bank they picked was National Bank of South Florida, which was owned by none other than Guillermo Hernandez Cartier, the same guy that we know was already trafficking money laundered. Hernandez Cartier had managed to defraud the b…
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based on questions about his banking experience. Finally, in mid-1978, Corona won permission to buy Sunshine State Bank in Miami. As a down payment, Samos wired him $1.15 million from Fernando's bank account from Panama, Banco de Iberia, Am…
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turned more than $1 million in cash over to Corona to consummate the deal. After Fernandez was indicted and then kidnapped to Colombia, he sold his shares in Sunshine to Corona, putting the Coronas in full control of the bank by the middle …
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for loans that they were making. Like many of the crooked savings and loan owners, Corona cultivated politicians. One of Sunshine's directors was Howard Gary, the Miami city manager, who borrowed $95,000 from the bank to buy two apartment b…
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at Sunshine. Lewis also presided over the failure of ESM Government Securities, which was located in Fort Lauderdale. It was ESM that caused the failure of Marvin Warner's home state savings in Ohio and led to the $55 million loss at Americ…
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So Gerald Lewis is Florida's comptroller. His cousin was in the failed banking industry whose bank was being used to money launder. And he impeded the investigation into Sunshine Bank because it was money laundering as well and owned by maf…
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This is how all of this gets done. Meanwhile, Ray Corona was living it up. The former Golden Glove boxer bought a white Rolls Royce, a cigarette boat, and a half-blank mink coat. He had a Rolex and favored silk suits. He had become addicted…