Raymond Hill person
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Claims (17)
James Baker member_of
Raymond Hill book_quoted
“James Baker was also very good friends with Raymond Hill. Their families were close. They grew up together and hung out together. When the author called Hill's office for comment about his relationship to Baker, Miss Macy, the same Hill emp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 12:54
Raymond Hill overbilled_or_diverted
Mainland Savings book_quoted
“Hill not only was the largest stockholder at Mainland and the chairman, his law firm handled property foreclosures for Mainland. Hill, according to the unfiled lawsuit, drained in excess of $4 million from Mainland or its subsidiaries durin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 10:19
Allied Bank financed_via
Raymond Hill book_quoted
“The financing bank, according to the statements on file in Miami, was Allied Bank, Michener. Continental Savings wasn't the only savings and loan whose stock was financed by Allied Bank. Raymond Hill, a Houston attorney and owner of Mainlan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 16:20
Raymond Hill member_of
Houston Oil Company book_quoted
“Raymond Hill appeared to be an odd match for Michener and Beebe. Hill was a fifth generation Texan born into a prominent wealthy family. His mother, a Vandenberg from Victoria, Texas, and his father, an attorney and CEO of Houston Oil Compa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 17:48
Raymond Hill financed_via
Walter Mischer book_quoted
“his little savings and loan up to the big time. He bought a huge Spanish Mediterranean style building with a clock tower in the area that was purchased from none other than Walter Michener. It was not known then, but Hill and Michener had m…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 20:49
Allied Bank financed_via
Raymond Hill book_quoted
“Mishner was actually only three years older than Hill. And the purchase of the Allen Parkway building in 1975 was basically done with Allied Bank. So Hill's mainland stock was also financed by Allied Bank. So they had a lot of business rela…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 21:52
Raymond Hill laundered_money_for
Allied Bank book_quoted
“One of the people involved, a guy by the name of Art Leiser, L-E-I-S-E-R, said that Hill had an interesting way of dealing with mainland's stock dividends. Hill would not pay out all the dividends in cash. He would instead reinvest them in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 22:27
Raymond Hill financed_via
Suburban Bank book_quoted
“After Hill moved his stock loan out of Allied, he financed it at several different Houston banks. According to a former mainland CEO, Ron Bearden, these included Suburban Bank, South Main Bank, North Shore Bank, and River Oaks Bank and Trus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 23:25
Raymond Hill financed_via
South Main Bank book_quoted
“After Hill moved his stock loan out of Allied, he financed it at several different Houston banks. According to a former mainland CEO, Ron Bearden, these included Suburban Bank, South Main Bank, North Shore Bank, and River Oaks Bank and Trus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 23:25
Raymond Hill financed_via
North Shore Bank book_quoted
“After Hill moved his stock loan out of Allied, he financed it at several different Houston banks. According to a former mainland CEO, Ron Bearden, these included Suburban Bank, South Main Bank, North Shore Bank, and River Oaks Bank and Trus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 23:25
Raymond Hill financed_via
River Oaks Bank and Trust book_quoted
“After Hill moved his stock loan out of Allied, he financed it at several different Houston banks. According to a former mainland CEO, Ron Bearden, these included Suburban Bank, South Main Bank, North Shore Bank, and River Oaks Bank and Trus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 23:25
Raymond Hill member_of
Coopers and Libra book_quoted
“You're asking me to remember the details of actions that I didn't personally handle? He then tried to hide Mainland's accounting firm. Then he hid behind the accounting firm saying, in every case, we consulted with Coopers and Libra. Then h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 33:25
Raymond Hill member_of
St. John's, the Divine Episcopal Church book_quoted
“He maintained that he was merely a caretaker owner and didn't even serve on the loan committee, which was contrary to all of the documentation that had already been filed in the lawsuit. Finally, after they kept asking him the question, Hil…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 33:58
Raymond Hill member_of
Mainland Savings host_asserted
“Why gave Raymond Hill the idea that he was never going to get subpoenaed about these deals? Who was he really working for? Searching for the answers to those questions led to a discovery of Hill and Mainland's relationship to Mafia CIA, Ira…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 35:03
Raymond Hill member_of
Mainland Savings book_quoted
“Hill not only was the largest stockholder at Mainland and the chairman, his law firm handled property foreclosures for Mainland. Hill, according to the unfiled lawsuit, drained in excess of $4 million from Mainland or its subsidiaries durin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 10:19
Raymond Hill financed_via
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“Why would you loan somebody money to buy a stock? Hill went to Continental Savings, Carol Kelly, who sent him to Bebe. And according to Bebe's partner, Dale Anderson, one day Bebe called Anderson to tell him that they were going to Houston …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 16:51
Raymond Hill member_of
Vinson & Elkins book_quoted
“said, hey, you need to hire my son. And he got a job. Hill got into the savings and loan business in the 1960s when he was riding in an airplane with a good friend, William Shepard, who told him that two of them should buy a savings and loa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 18:49
Mentions (40)
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live on once they were convicted and served their time. And of course, just as a reminder, James Baker, White House Chief of Staff, former Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. He was the former partner at Andrews and Kurth, whi…
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because he was long-term friends with Raymond Hill. Okay, Jim Bath. We're going to talk a lot about Jim Bath in this book. Jim Bath was a Houston Airplane Company owner. He had worked numerous times for the CIA. He also was the front man in…
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However, he rejoined the Minutemen shortly thereafter because of what he described as internal problems within the organization. As he was absent from leadership less than five months, it can be assumed that he was the only important nation…
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Also, the Minutemen used numbers instead of names for identification purposes. Each state had some one person who was the sort of leader for the state. According to Hill, the Minutemen were loosely organized into small cells and that the or…
▶ 59:18
close to Houston. To get the money to buy the land, Bath put White in touch with Sergio Lussani. Lussani was a loan broker who had his office at Mainland Savings. He's a PhD economist from Italy. Another PhD economist. Lussani was brought i…
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So Lamar arranged for them to borrow the $200,000. You can't make your payments, so we're going to give you the money to make the payments. This is a repeating pattern through this entire thing because they're doing business for the CIA as …
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Found in a Houston bankruptcy court proceeding, the federal receiver for the failed mainland, in other words, us, sold $21 million of the notes for less than $400,000. Less than half a million for $21 million? Hill had tried to convince us …
▶ 24:58
were with Mainland, but the few that weren't were also significant. After Raymond Hill quit as chairman of Mainland in October 1985, Pulver's group immediately turned to Sandia Federal Savings Loan in Albuquerque to finance their next big H…
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was dug out by journalist Jonathan Kitney. In his book in 1974, the Maldori murder case describes the events leading up to a 1970 murder of Malandori III, an Oklahoma rancher. Malandori's sister, Katsi, married John Mecham Jr. Katsi and Mai…
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Although Andrews and Kurth was paid millions of dollars for its legal work at Mainland, it apparently did not recover a single penny. Much of the law firm's effort was spent defending Mainland and thus several of its officers, including Ray…
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The claim by the feds that Mainland officers and directors didn't have any assets to go after was nonsense and proven so in the details of the unfiled lawsuit. The attorneys at Andrews and Kurth determined that Raymond Hill had received $4 …
▶ 10:19
Hill not only was the largest stockholder at Mainland and the chairman, his law firm handled property foreclosures for Mainland. Hill, according to the unfiled lawsuit, drained in excess of $4 million from Mainland or its subsidiaries durin…
▶ 10:51
between 82 and 85, was outrageous, unreasonable, excessive, and not commiserate with the quality of his duties at mainland. He destroyed it and got paid handsomely for it. Hill, who happened to also be an Episcopalian Sunday school teacher,…
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He said he had done nothing wrong and claimed that the statements in the unfiled lawsuit was libelous. He also claimed to be broke, although he never disputed the actual dollar figures in the unfiled lawsuits for his services. Hill had that…
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There has even been speculation that Hill had signed a secrecy agreement with the CIA himself. Basically, a get out of jail free card. The junior attorneys at Andrews and Kurth, who worked on the lawsuit, apparently wanted to file it agains…
▶ 12:54
James Baker was also very good friends with Raymond Hill. Their families were close. They grew up together and hung out together. When the author called Hill's office for comment about his relationship to Baker, Miss Macy, the same Hill emp…
▶ 13:24
not addressing the actual relationship, was who he talked to when he called the office. In an April 2nd, 1990 letter to FBI Director William Sessions, Houston attorney Ted Walker, who had also borrowed money from Mainland, and later filed a…
▶ 13:57
According to him, on March 15, 1990, I'm quoting him, I happened to meet Raymond Hill, former chairman of the board and president of Mainland Savings, outside the Harris County Courthouse. After seven years of disagreement between us, a fri…
▶ 16:20
The financing bank, according to the statements on file in Miami, was Allied Bank, Michener. Continental Savings wasn't the only savings and loan whose stock was financed by Allied Bank. Raymond Hill, a Houston attorney and owner of Mainlan…
▶ 16:51
Why would you loan somebody money to buy a stock? Hill went to Continental Savings, Carol Kelly, who sent him to Bebe. And according to Bebe's partner, Dale Anderson, one day Bebe called Anderson to tell him that they were going to Houston …
▶ 17:18
Hill was a scared weakling, according to Anderson. You could smell it. We said we'd give him a million dollars tomorrow, but we wanted a piece of the action. He didn't want to do it. Although that particular deal didn't go through, there we…
▶ 17:48
Raymond Hill appeared to be an odd match for Michener and Beebe. Hill was a fifth generation Texan born into a prominent wealthy family. His mother, a Vandenberg from Victoria, Texas, and his father, an attorney and CEO of Houston Oil Compa…
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had both passed away. Hill had went to Hotchkiss Prep School and served briefly in World War II, came back to Houston, graduated from the University of Houston, and then from the university's law school. The story is told how Hill's mother …
▶ 18:49
said, hey, you need to hire my son. And he got a job. Hill got into the savings and loan business in the 1960s when he was riding in an airplane with a good friend, William Shepard, who told him that two of them should buy a savings and loa…
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bank located just outside of Houston. Hill's friend and partner, Shepard, is a major character in Jonathan Kitney's groundbreaking book, The Fountain Pen Conspiracy, that was written in 1973. I have that book. It's an interesting book. In 1…
▶ 20:49
his little savings and loan up to the big time. He bought a huge Spanish Mediterranean style building with a clock tower in the area that was purchased from none other than Walter Michener. It was not known then, but Hill and Michener had m…
▶ 21:21
One of the CEOs said, Hill and Michener have both separately attempted to downplay their relationship, as Michener did with everybody. Maybe just met him once or twice. And when people would say something about it, the excuse that they gave…
▶ 21:52
Mishner was actually only three years older than Hill. And the purchase of the Allen Parkway building in 1975 was basically done with Allied Bank. So Hill's mainland stock was also financed by Allied Bank. So they had a lot of business rela…
▶ 22:27
One of the people involved, a guy by the name of Art Leiser, L-E-I-S-E-R, said that Hill had an interesting way of dealing with mainland's stock dividends. Hill would not pay out all the dividends in cash. He would instead reinvest them in …
▶ 22:56
for more loans at Allied Bank. So he was basically using dividends, which should have been paid out to the customers, to put deposits on banks. But then he was going to Allied Bank, drawing out loans based on that collateral. So it kind of …
▶ 23:25
After Hill moved his stock loan out of Allied, he financed it at several different Houston banks. According to a former mainland CEO, Ron Bearden, these included Suburban Bank, South Main Bank, North Shore Bank, and River Oaks Bank and Trus…
▶ 23:57
Michener's friend, Jimmy Lyons. Who's Jimmy Lyons? Well, Jimmy Lyons just happens to be one of the big fundraisers for Iran-Contra. In June 1984, Mainland paid out almost $20 million to Allied in a deal that showed Hill's friendship with Me…
▶ 25:26
was a last resort. It was almost unheard of for a medium-sized savings and loan like Mainland to buy a big oil and gas loan by itself, much less buy one for 90 cent on the dollar. It just was not done. Also at that time, oil drilling was in…
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So basically, the net result of that was Mainland just handing over $20 million. So Mainland lost $14 million on the deal. And it didn't make any sense unless you look at the relationship between Hill and Michener. But there was more to Mai…
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that Houston Post investigated to include this author. In the spring of 1987, two Houston reporters, the author and Gregory Say, were interviewing Raymond Hill at Mainland Savings. It had failed in 1986, the year before. It was the biggest …
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How much did it and ultimately the taxpayers lose on this purchase when mainland savings went bust? The reporters went to see Raymond Hill for answers. The interview was intended to be a friendly information gathering fact-finding one. We b…
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condescending holier-than-thou attitude was too much. At one point, he bragged about his prophecy about the plight of the savings and loan industry had come true. I've been giving the curse of a certain amount of foresight. When the two rep…
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You're asking me to remember the details of actions that I didn't personally handle? He then tried to hide Mainland's accounting firm. Then he hid behind the accounting firm saying, in every case, we consulted with Coopers and Libra. Then h…
▶ 33:58
He maintained that he was merely a caretaker owner and didn't even serve on the loan committee, which was contrary to all of the documentation that had already been filed in the lawsuit. Finally, after they kept asking him the question, Hil…
▶ 35:03
Why gave Raymond Hill the idea that he was never going to get subpoenaed about these deals? Who was he really working for? Searching for the answers to those questions led to a discovery of Hill and Mainland's relationship to Mafia CIA, Ira…