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Mike Adkinson funded Development Group Inc. documented
“Two years later, in 79, he transferred to Houston, where he worked for another two years as vice president in charge of their Houston operations. Atkinson quit Regal Homes and formed Development Group Inc. with Frank Gammon Jr., the treasur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 54:39
Mike Adkinson funded Regal Homes documented
“Drafted in the Army in 68, he served for two years, including a stint in Germany. He went to work as a foreman for a Florida construction company and from there created his own company. He went broke two years later in 1974. Atkinson then j…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 54:09
First South Savings financed_via Mike Adkinson host_asserted
“The Dallas Morning News reported that Beebe actually controlled Merchantson's bank and that the loans were passed back and forth between the banks and Beebe's Bossier Bank and Trust. Merchantson also borrowed $20 million from First South Sa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 55:36
Mike Adkinson laundered_money_for Compendium Trust documented
“including Harvey, the same people Lawrence Freeman dealt with in laundering Jack DeVoe's drug money and who Mike Atkinson had dealt with in moving Texas savings and loan money to the Isle of Jersey that we already talked about. In fact, som…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 4:26
Sanson Financial Consultants Limited laundered_money_for Mike Adkinson book_quoted
“Sanson also transferred $1 million to DGI and $600,000 to Atkins attorney Robert Collins. The documents showing these transfers was placed into evidence in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals during the federal home loan investigation. The f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 54:33
Mike Adkinson funded Taylor Construction Company documented
“Drafted in the Army in 68, he served for two years, including a stint in Germany. He went to work as a foreman for a Florida construction company and from there created his own company. He went broke two years later in 1974. Atkinson then j…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 54:09
John Singletary judged Mike Adkinson documented
“hearing in the case before U.S. District Judge John Singleton, who years later narrowly escaped getting tied into the Sharpstown scandal. During the middle of the court hearing, Tom Alexander reminded the judge that they had played golf tog…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 21:26
West Belt National Bank lent Mike Adkinson documented
“His company bought three airplanes, including one jet. One was a Lockheed Jetstar that DGI acquired from Hughes Tool Company in March of 1984. In 1987, that same plane was sold to Aero Centers in Laredo for export to Mexico. Another plane w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 23:49
Mike Adkinson owned Pandamanium International Oil Company documented
“south of the border. One destination just coincidentally happened to be Belize. Haley said that they looked at some land in Belize to purchase 16,000 acres. Another frequent destination was Panama, where Atkinson had a company called Pandam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 24:19
Mike Adkinson founded Skyway Aviation documented
“But it had been loaned $10 million from San Joaquino Savings. Atkinson also formed an airplane company called Skyway Aviation and hired a couple of pilots. According to Haley, BB was one of the powers behind that company. Atkinson was broug…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 24:45
Mike Adkinson moved_companies_to Arena Tower documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 29:23
Mike Adkinson front_for Panhandle Coast Investment book_quoted
“Freeman is the registered agent for the company, whose incorporation papers were filed in Florida one day before the contract was signed. Jake Boleyn said to the author that Freeman was supposed to be representing Atkins in some manner. Atk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 38:40
Panhandle Coast Investment front_for Mike Adkinson book_quoted
“Freeman is the registered agent for the company, whose incorporation papers were filed in Florida one day before the contract was signed. Jake Boleyn said to the author that Freeman was supposed to be representing Atkins in some manner. Atk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 38:40
Mike Adkinson paid Harry Blake Terry book_quoted
“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.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 16:40
Mike Adkinson member_of West Belt National Bank documented
“an agent and attorney for the original investors who would go on to be named in the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency in 1985. West Belt stockholders included Atkinson and E. Trine Starnes, Jr. Atkinson's name does not appear on West Belt's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 17:48
Mike Adkinson member_of West Belt National Bank documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 18:18
Mike Adkinson supplied_arms_to Iran book_quoted
“Mike Atkinson was a con man from the panhandle of Florida. He built houses in Houston and sold arms to Kuwaitis and Iraqis.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 20:34
Mike Adkinson supplied_arms_to Kuwait book_quoted
“Mike Atkinson was a con man from the panhandle of Florida. He built houses in Houston and sold arms to Kuwaitis and Iraqis.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 20:34
Mike Adkinson supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted
“Savings sued Dick in 1990 for $3.5 million loan. As we covered in chapter six, surety savings, Ross Miller told a number of people in Denver that he, Ross Miller, had worked for the CIA. Ross Miller also told several people that John Dick s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 11:35
Lawrence Freeman front_for Mike Adkinson book_quoted
“Freeman is the registered agent for the company, whose incorporation papers were filed in Florida one day before the contract was signed. Jake Boleyn said to the author that Freeman was supposed to be representing Atkins in some manner. Atk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 38:40
Mike Adkinson laundered_money_for Raymond Harvey book_quoted
“Freeman is the registered agent for the company, whose incorporation papers were filed in Florida one day before the contract was signed. Jake Boleyn said to the author that Freeman was supposed to be representing Atkins in some manner. Atk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 38:40
Mike Adkinson laundered_money_for Keith Allen Cox book_quoted
“Freeman is the registered agent for the company, whose incorporation papers were filed in Florida one day before the contract was signed. Jake Boleyn said to the author that Freeman was supposed to be representing Atkins in some manner. Atk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 38:40
Sanson Financial Consultants Limited laundered_money_for Mike Adkinson book_quoted
“alone was valued at about almost $17 million. This money and land came from another one of the bogus debt deals in which Sanson claimed that Atkins owed it $20 million. There was no evidence of the debt. Sanson apparently got $7 million in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 52:06
Mike Adkinson trafficked Iran book_quoted
“One theory holds that the money taken offshore was used to buy war supplies for Iraq. The evidence for this is circumstantial and includes the following. Before the deal, Atkinson was allegedly running guns to Iraq with some of the Kuwaitis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 58:41
John Dick laundered_money_for Mike Adkinson 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
John Dick member_of Mike Adkinson host_asserted
“By means of Saudi and Kuwait. So it appears they were doing business together. Both Atkinson and Dick were dealing with the same Isle of Jersey trust that were connected to wealthy Saudis. A person close to Dick confirmed that Dick traveled…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 12:05

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Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 14:50 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 …
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 19:57 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…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 20:34 was a Florida guy involved in arms going to Kuwait and Iraq. And yeah, let me just read what he said about him. Mike Atkinson was a con man from the panhandle of Florida. He built houses in Houston and sold arms to Kuwaitis and Iraqis. He b…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 21:07 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…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 27:17 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 …
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 28:19 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…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 29:22 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…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 31:20 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. …
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 53:11 facilities. But Belen, like Ball before him, came under pressure from Delaware and Florida to increase contributions to Nemours Foundation. So instead of developing the property, he put it up for sale. Many major Florida developers expresse…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 53:40 houston home builder showed up in early 1985 wanting it i like mike we're a couple of west florida rednecks he's from crestview and i'm from defaniac springs so i figured we'd get along fine on the surface adkinson appeared to be just anoth…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 54:09 Drafted in the Army in 68, he served for two years, including a stint in Germany. He went to work as a foreman for a Florida construction company and from there created his own company. He went broke two years later in 1974. Atkinson then j…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 54:39 Two years later, in 79, he transferred to Houston, where he worked for another two years as vice president in charge of their Houston operations. Atkinson quit Regal Homes and formed Development Group Inc. with Frank Gammon Jr., the treasur…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 55:09 which is the exact same initials of Fidel Castro's intel, just FYI. Atkinson got involved in something that showed he had moved into different circles altogether. He traveled to Kuwait and other Middle Eastern countries and began representi…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 55:39 by Mary Faza, F-A-Z-A, who had came from a wealthy Kuwaiti family with connections to the royal family. Faza said she met Atkinson when she bought a house in Houston from his brother. Michael didn't have a penny when I took him to the Middl…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 56:07 a wealthy Saudi Arabian who had a car dealership in Kuwait. Also, Nazi al-Dajani, who owned a construction company in Saudi Arabia. Atkinson began arranging investments in Houston for his newfound clients, but ended up cheating Baza and all…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 56:37 Faza would tell the author, I believe he was into arms. No kidding. I heard about gun deals, but I don't know anything about him. He had a lot of money real quick. Joseph Haley, who was his accountant, said Atkinson bragged to him about mak…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 57:07 He said Mike was too dumb to be CIA, but they could use him as a pawn. One official close to a federal investigation of Atkinson and the Florida land deal said that Atkinson was asked in a deposition whether he worked for the CIA. And his r…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 58:45 perhaps through his Middle East activities and connections, perhaps through his home building. In a financial statement in November of 1982, Atkinson listed Walter Michener's company as a credit reference. And it was reported through Michen…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 59:14 The property was the old Meyerlin Shopping Center built by George Meyer in the 50s in the midst of a large, wealthy Jewish community in southwest Houston. Atkinson and his lawyer, Robert Collins, went to see the matriarch of the Myers famil…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 59:46 Impression she told the author was, I couldn't stand them. She said that Atkinson and Collins basically gave her the creeps. She ran them out of her office. Hess didn't want to sell the shopping center, much less sell it to him, Atkinson. B…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 1:00:15 Hess finally went along with her family, but they decided they wanted to sell for at least $35 million. The New York developer, Arthur Fisher, who operated another shopping center in Houston, was the first who wanted to buy it. But he dropp…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 1:00:40 There's something wrong with people who want to spend $35 million and don't want the shopping center. Several weeks before Atkinson showed up at her door, Hess was in a downtown Houston visiting her attorneys who happened to be Fulbright an…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 1:01:13 You're not doing anything with it anyway. You just need to retire. So several weeks later, Atkinson introduced himself to Hess and he told her that Walter Michener had sent him. Haley, Atkinson's accountant, who joined him at the Meyerland …
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 1:01:41 However, Michener, when asked about it, said, guess. I don't know him. Not only did Atkinson use Michener as a reference, Michener's allied bank lent Atkinson $5 million to secure part of the shopping center, while Southmark San Joaquino Sa…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 1:02:12 Herman Beebe the mobster. Atkinson said Beebe was partly responsible for his original rise to stardom. Atkinson knew Beebe well. There was correspondence between the two. Beebe was on his private Rolodex. Joe Cage, the U.S. attorney in the …
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 1:02:42 Atkinson offered to turn state's evidence against Beebe in exchange for leniency from prosecution in Houston. For some reason, Cage shuttled him off to assist an attorney and nothing apparently ever came of it. Both Beebe and Atkinson are n…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 4:22 which owned some other property in addition to the shopping center. They sold it to a company called Vervados, V-O-R-V-A-D-O-S, who happened to be registered in the Isle of Jersey. The same day, Vervados flipped the property to DGI, for app…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 5:53 And only part of the shopping center was used as collateral. This means that in one day, Atkinson and his cohorts had taken a property worth $25 million and inflated it to about $100 million. The purpose of that exercise was to borrow more …
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 9:29 For example, the Isla Jersey Trust that Freeman set up for Jack DuBose, which had names like Kathmandu and Himalaya, were registered under Freeman and his imaginary Dr. Robert Oka. But DuBose was the beneficiary. In the case of Vervetos, th…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 12:53 And the next event in the Meyerland saga occurred in December 1984, when the Isle of Jersey Company filed a $30 million mortgage against the western half of the shopping center. The company, Sanson Financial Consultants Limited, had the sam…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 13:48 $30 million mortgage was apparently bogus. Sanson did not pay any money to DGI. The mortgage was filed in December to secure a $30 million promissory note Atkins had allegedly signed in January. But that meant that for almost 12 months, San…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 15:16 Which, of course, had it been real, there would have been no reason to do that. That indicated to them that the money the two institutions lent to DGI was actually sent to Sanson. Next, in January 86, Carol Kelly's Continental Savings made …
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 17:17 Most of the remaining trash money went to DGI to buy bad loans from Continental that were made to John Riddle that he wasn't paying on. In June 1986, the $5 million Allied loan to DGI was sold by Allied to West Belt National Bank in Houston…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 17:48 an agent and attorney for the original investors who would go on to be named in the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency in 1985. West Belt stockholders included Atkinson and E. Trine Starnes, Jr. Atkinson's name does not appear on West Belt's …
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 18:18 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 19:21 They just keep inflating the loans that they're not paying and switching banks. Finally, another $60 million in mortgages were filed against other property in the Meyerland cell. This consisted of a strip shopping center across the street a…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 19:51 from Delta Savings, a fraud bank savings and loan in Alvin, Texas, which is close to Houston. This means that between $30 million and $40 million went to the Isle of Jersey companies in the Meyerland transaction. The private attorney hired …
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 20:23 Anderson, of course, vowed publicly to pursue Atkinson and his money to the ends of the earth. However, the only way up money Anderson recovered was his fee being paid by Continental because he's not going to find any money if his best budd…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 20:56 Atkinson filed for bankruptcy and claimed to be broke. Nevertheless, these lawsuits were just farces designed to conceal the fact that the savings and loans were in on it and Atkinson was as well from the beginning. The proof of this was th…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 21:54 Anderson tried to portray the case as a money laundering scheme in which the money eventually was funneled back to Atkinson and to Robert Collins, his attorney. Other than one or 2% they got for fronting the paper deal, there's little evide…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 22:19 the SNLs, and thus ultimately the taxpayers. It was just being stolen and taken offshore, which we call laundering. No one involved in the Meyerland deal had been indicted. Lamar and Continental Savings, and ultimately their federal receive…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 23:17 He and his minions tried to run renters off and threatened to cancel leases for some of the best stores there. They really hurt a lot of people. This was simply more evidence that the whole scheme was just a scam to take money from Texas ba…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 23:49 His company bought three airplanes, including one jet. One was a Lockheed Jetstar that DGI acquired from Hughes Tool Company in March of 1984. In 1987, that same plane was sold to Aero Centers in Laredo for export to Mexico. Another plane w…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 24:19 south of the border. One destination just coincidentally happened to be Belize. Haley said that they looked at some land in Belize to purchase 16,000 acres. Another frequent destination was Panama, where Atkinson had a company called Pandam…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 24:45 But it had been loaned $10 million from San Joaquino Savings. Atkinson also formed an airplane company called Skyway Aviation and hired a couple of pilots. According to Haley, BB was one of the powers behind that company. Atkinson was broug…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 25:17 Perhaps that's why Joe Cage shuttled Atkinson off to a drug task force attorney when he showed up in Shreveport to talk to Bebe. In 84, Atkinson bought a yacht and named it after himself and his girlfriend. They called it Mika for Michael a…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 25:48 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 29:23 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 32:19 In 82, he put the mansion on the market. Atkinson shopped it with his Arab investors and partners, eventually selling it to the guy that was one of the officers in the Isle of Jersey, Al-Babton. The newspaper said the sale price was $1.5 mi…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 32:50 $5 million for the house and some other properties, cheating the Kuwaiti out of several million dollars. When Faza said Al-Fabtim was unable to enjoy his new mansion because he couldn't leave Kuwait for some reason. So Atkinson just helped …
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 33:19 Another house located on a 7.5 acre plantation subdivision outside of Richmond, Texas, about 20 miles from Houston. Atkinson had one of his companies buy property from the CEO of San Joaquino Savings and then Michener's Allied Bank lent him…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 16:40 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.…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 26:58 Carol Kelly's continental savings. Some of these bad riddle loans would later foisted upon Mike Atkinson in a cash for trash deal. Some 30 million to 40 million from Sunrise Savings in Boynton Beach, Florida, where then Vice President Bush …
The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17
▶ 58:43 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18
▶ 11:59 deal that we're going to talk about in a later chapter. Southmark was all lined up for a joint venture with Mike Atkinson with the financing to come from San Joaquino. It was spelled out in a sales contract with Lawrence Freeman's company, …
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18
▶ 26:21 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18
▶ 26:50 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 …
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18
▶ 27:19 A reference to John Riddle in Riddle's investment title company and a reference to 8.5 million promissory note involving Robert Corson. So this is just massive money laundering people. Sarns also had a close relationship with Westbelt Natio…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18
▶ 27:47 That's an offshore company involved in secreting ill-gotten gains out of savings and loan and money laundering, narco-trafficking for the CIA. Starnes was one of the original stockholders in this bank, whose charter was handled by Robert Cl…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18
▶ 28:20 Bank and Trust in Houston. This loan totaled $280,000, indicating that Starnes owned a little over 10% of the bank stock, more than Atkinson owned. Atkinson also financed his West Bank stock. This bank, in the wealthiest section of Houston,…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18
▶ 31:02 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…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19
▶ 4:26 including Harvey, the same people Lawrence Freeman dealt with in laundering Jack DeVoe's drug money and who Mike Atkinson had dealt with in moving Texas savings and loan money to the Isle of Jersey that we already talked about. In fact, som…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19
▶ 5:19 There were several lawsuits accusing Dick and his partners of fraud. Then in 79, Harvey and Wadman participated in a land deal along with Dick and Paul's involving a major part of the Denver Tech Center. Also, at least one of Dick's family …
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19
▶ 5:50 paper deals involving the mafia, which we're going to discuss later. This particular arrangement occurred in August of 86, just two months after Atkinson closed on the Florida land deal with St. Joe's Paper Company, and Corson's savings and…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19
▶ 11:35 Savings sued Dick in 1990 for $3.5 million loan. As we covered in chapter six, surety savings, Ross Miller told a number of people in Denver that he, Ross Miller, had worked for the CIA. Ross Miller also told several people that John Dick s…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19
▶ 12:05 By means of Saudi and Kuwait. So it appears they were doing business together. Both Atkinson and Dick were dealing with the same Isle of Jersey trust that were connected to wealthy Saudis. A person close to Dick confirmed that Dick traveled…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 31:03 which made his one of the biggest personal bankruptcies in Colorado history. Ross Miller and his affiliated companies borrowed close to $180 million from Hill Financial Savings in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, one of the biggest, dirtiest savings…
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 55:36 The Dallas Morning News reported that Beebe actually controlled Merchantson's bank and that the loans were passed back and forth between the banks and Beebe's Bossier Bank and Trust. Merchantson also borrowed $20 million from First South Sa…