Herman Beebe person
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Claims (68)
Herman Beebe secretly_owned
Mainland Savings documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 17:18
Herman Beebe financed_via
First National Bank of Jefferson Parish documented
“Smith is listed in the 1985 Comptroller's Report as well as part owner of First National Bank of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, where Beebe, Anderson, and others owned $1.6 million in debitors for the bank's parent corporation and held warr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 9:44
Herman Beebe member_of
John Dick documented
“back in the 70s and probably was still doing business with him based on the banks that he owned. There was evidence of contact between Bebe and Dick as Bebe's name and phone numbers, including the number of his house in La Costa, were in Di…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 9:43
George Aubin paid
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“introduced him to Bebe. By 1975, Aubin and his childhood friend from Stocksdale, Jarrett Wood, had borrowed $30,000 from Bebe. In his 1979 personal bankruptcy filing, Aubin declared a $25,000 debt to Bebe. In an interview, Aubin said that i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 8:05
Lomas and Nettleton financed_via
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“financed many of Herman Beebe's deals, The Mobster. The two companies shared several directors. In fact, the original loan to John Jamel was from the Bank of Southwest, which would become InBank. Khashoggi had a very grandiose expensive pla…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 41:45
Southmark financed_via
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“A mob associate from Chicago, Joseph Groves, G-R-O-S-E, came in to make all of the big loan decisions. Anderson, who was Bebe's partner, said they dealt primarily with Groves in their transactions with Southmark. While Southmark, and rememb…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 15:19
Herman Beebe member_of
Bossier Bank and Trust book_quoted
“He found a 5,000 square foot beach house overlooking Solana Beach, north of San Diego, which happens to be very close to my aunt's house where she used to live. Bebe brought Vernon Savings, Don Dixon, into a complicated refinancing and prop…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 17:29
Herman Beebe financed_via
San Dequinto National Bank book_quoted
“bank outside of La Costa called San Deguento National Bank. In 1983, Beebe had a bank account there when he guaranteed the previously mentioned $75,000 loan to a travel agency controlled by Scott Salusa. We talked about that a couple of cha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 24:54
Robert Dahl member_of
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“As an associate of Faulkner and Blaine, a guy by the name of Robert Davis was indicted with Beebe in 1987 for bank fraud. The indictment alleged that Davis conspired with mafia boss Beebe and others in misapplying loans from banks controlle…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 33:23
Herman Beebe laundered_money_for
New York Life Insurance Company book_quoted
“And it was about that time that Allied had some 40 banks across Texas. Allied meaning Michener. Anytime Beebe got control of a financial institution, he would require borrowers of that institution to purchase credit-like insurance from his …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 8:13
Carol Kelly financed_via
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“first introduced Kelly to Beebe. Kelly was also a Kappa Sigma. In 1970s, Kelly bought Harrelson and Wiley stock in Brasso Sports Savings and then consolidated it with several other savings and loans that he had purchased with financing from…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 14:17
Continental Savings financed_via
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“who got indicted during the FBI's Brylab sting operation. Kelly also, along with his minority partner BG Wiley's son David, renamed the savings and loan Continental Savings and then got a loan on its stock at Walter Bichner's Allied Bank, w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 14:49
Joseph P. DeLorenzo financed_via
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“P. DeLorenzo. He had sold Navarro Savings and Loan in East Texas to Kelly and Wiley with financing for mafia Herman Beebe. DeLorenzo went to jail in 1977 for fraud that he committed while at another bank, Central National Bank in Houston. T…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 17:35
Herman Beebe financed_via
API Oil Tools and Supply host_asserted
“all kinds of oil drilling equipment around Houston. Haynes incorporated API oil tools and supply in 81. It is around that time that Wilson's criminal activities began to be exposed. And who financed that setup of API oil tools for Hayes? Th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:11:13
Haynes Inter financed_via
Herman Beebe host_asserted
“Beebe also brought Haynes Inter that borrowed $4 million from Beebe's controlled state savings and loan in Lubbock, Texas, to buy a lumber company in New Mexico from Pennzoil. That deal stuck to high hell, said one person. Two other people …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:12:46
Ed McBurney associated_with
Herman Beebe documented
“McBurney also had several direct dealings with mobster Bebe. One was just a straight loan to McBurney on an apartment project in Dallas. Another one was something completely different. McBurney wanted Sunbelt to buy an airplane for his use,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 13:33
Herman Beebe loaned_to
Ed McBurney documented
“McBurney also had several direct dealings with mobster Bebe. One was just a straight loan to McBurney on an apartment project in Dallas. Another one was something completely different. McBurney wanted Sunbelt to buy an airplane for his use,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 13:33
Southmark financed_via
Herman Beebe documented
“Among the investments was $50 million to purchase Herman Beebe, the mobsters, chain of nursing homes in 1984 and 85, while Beebe was under criminal indictment. They let him continue doing business, even though he was under indictment for do…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 4:54
Herman Beebe funded
San Dequinto National Bank book_quoted
“Savings and loan owner Don Dixon, with whom he had developed condominiums associated with championship golf courses located next to La Costa. Bebe and Susilas also got caught up in a lawsuit involving a bank loan to a La Costa travel agent.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 20:43
Herman Beebe financed_via
Carol Kelly documented
“included a $17 million loan to Carroll Kelly, secured by his Continental Savings Stocks. This loan had been transferred from Michener's Allied Bank and guaranteed by Herman Beebe, the mobster. A $17 million loan to William King that had bee…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 7:44
Herman Beebe secretly_owned
La Costa Resort and Spa documented
“due to a financial statement that he submitted to the Texas Insurance Department while he was applying for permission to start an insurance company there. This statement said he owned 50% of a house in La Costa. It was dated 1972. San Diego…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 24:24
Charles Waters funded
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“A fellow Louisiana businessman, one of Beebe's early backers and mentors, deeded him and his wife half interest in a lot in La Costa. The older man was Charles Waters. He was an insurance man who was caught in 1965 by the SEC in a stock sca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 24:55
Herman Beebe founded
American Motel Industries book_quoted
“So he starts selling insurance. He moved to Alexandria, Louisiana, and by 1958 was the vice president of Savings Life Insurance Company. Three years later, he formed his own company, American Motel Industries. He also created kind of like a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 28:11
Herman Beebe member_of
U.S. Navy book_quoted
“Beebe ended up dropping out of Northwestern to go into the Navy at the end of World War II. He re-enrolled in Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he ended up getting his bachelor's degree. The Korean War happens and he re-enlis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 27:38
Herman Beebe member_of
International Brotherhood of Teamsters documented
“to be with Marsala after Attorney General Robert Kennedy had the mafia boss abruptly deported. In addition, when Marsala came to Shreveport, he usually hung out at Eddie's Supper Club, which is exactly where Bebe hung out all the time. Cage…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 51:00
Herman Beebe secretly_owned
Holiday Inns book_quoted
“Beebe owned at least six Holiday Inns in Texas and Louisiana, including one in New Orleans that was a hotbed of mafia activity. He would later put that hotel up for collateral on a loan guarantee for his close associate, Don Dixon, to buy t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 31:55
Herman Beebe provided_bridge_financing_for
Don Dixon book_quoted
“Beebe owned at least six Holiday Inns in Texas and Louisiana, including one in New Orleans that was a hotbed of mafia activity. He would later put that hotel up for collateral on a loan guarantee for his close associate, Don Dixon, to buy t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 31:55
Herman Beebe member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“was involved in the Texas Rennebank scandal. He and his partner, Richard Rossmiller and William Wall, bought control of East Texas Bank that was part of Herman Beebe, the mobster, and Ben Barnes' Rennebank circle. Barnes and Beebe then brok…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 55:05
Ben Barnes member_of
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“Texan politician Ben Barnes was also named in the morning news stories. Barnes promptly sued the Dallas paper for libel to the tune of $20 million. Beebe then had Bozier Bank and Trust sue the newspaper as well in federal court for $12 mill…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 34:58
Herman Beebe member_of
Pontchartrain State Bank book_quoted
“They published a story on BB's interesting bank and savings and loan network, which showed connections between him and Marcella. The paper's reporters, Alan Pouzet and Bill Lodge, found the mob boss, Carlos Marcello, his son Joseph, and som…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 36:00
Joe Cage covered_up
Herman Beebe documented
“Cage, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, and one of Beebe's chief nemesis, is convinced of that connection. Cage won two fraud convictions against Beebe. He believes that Beebe got a great deal of his power and authori…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 43:11
Terry Wilkinson member_of
Herman Beebe documented
“a story of Terry Wilkinson and William Wortley. He explained how Wilkinson is a BB man from Oklahoma City who owned a nightclub there. Wilkinson hung out with the mafia at the Jockey Club in Miami and would stay with BB whenever he went to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 43:39
William Wortley member_of
Herman Beebe documented
“who is now in federal prison in Kentucky on weapons charges. Wortley and Beebe owned a barge company together, according to Cage, the investigator. Art Leaser, a former chief examiner for the Texas Savings and Loan Department, the guys who …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 46:11
James Haig financed_via
Herman Beebe documented
“at Liberty Federal Savings in Louisiana that was controlled by a San Antonio guy by the name of James Haig. Haig was involved in the savings and loan debacle, which included John Riddle and George Aubin, and involved borrowing hundreds of m…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 48:23
Joe Cage covered_up
Herman Beebe documented
“Joe Cage, the guy we've been talking about, testified under oath that he had never had any suspicion that Mr. Beebe was tied into the mafia and has no evidence of that in his files. However, Cage made these statements in July 1987 under que…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 49:28
Gary Spence member_of
Herman Beebe documented
“Joe Cage, the guy we've been talking about, testified under oath that he had never had any suspicion that Mr. Beebe was tied into the mafia and has no evidence of that in his files. However, Cage made these statements in July 1987 under que…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 49:28
Harry Hart financed_via
Herman Beebe documented
“that Shreveport businessman Harry Hart had received loans from a BB Bank state savings and loan in Lubbock, Texas. Hart's attorney is Mike Moran, who is also Marcella's Shreveport attorney. Keep it in the family. It was Maroon who traveled …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 50:31
Edmund Regge member_of
Herman Beebe documented
“In an affidavit by Cage in response to Beebe's attempt to disqualify him, Cage explained the connections of Edmund Regge, a Louisiana attorney, judge, and power broker, and close business associate of Beebe's with organized crime, mafia, an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 51:33
Herman Beebe funded
Edwin Edwards documented
“and other BB-owned or controlled companies paid Edwin Edwards, the former now governor, $100,000 a year for apparently nothing. Edwards was also close to Marcello. During the 1979 investigation of Marcello, undercover FBI agents tape-record…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 52:32
Carol Kelly member_of
Herman Beebe documented
“that were guaranteed by Bebe. Kelly and his fellow investors purchased this bank from Senator Lloyd Benson. Kelly told the savings and loan regulators that he was Bebe's representative in Texas and took Bebe to meet with them when Bebe was …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 54:32
Herman Beebe member_of
Carol Kelly documented
“Tumblin's statement that Kelly and Marcello, since he had gone to New Orleans to do some remodeling for Kelly in Marcello's kitchen. These were favors to the Don from Kelly and Tumblin, unquote. Fairley goes on to link Beebe and Marcello by…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 55:34
Herman Beebe member_of
Carol Kelly documented
“had a part in all of this financing. He went on to say that he had met Bebe at Whitehall Hotel with Kelly. They had brunch together, and Kelly was acting like a lapdog to the mob boss. Tomlin said later that Marsalo controlled Continental t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 56:06
Ben Barnes member_of
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“He was a very close associate of Herman Beebe and Walter Michener. And when asked about whether or not they knew each other, Ben Barnes was like, I don't even know if they knew each other, which of course they did. So when the author interv…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 3:58
Herman Beebe funded
Allied Bank book_quoted
“He disclosed that Beebe had established ties with Michener and his allied bank way back in 1975. Anderson said that he had never met with Michener, but that Herman met with him several times. Beebe used Michener's allied bank for a number o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 6:42
Herman Beebe financed_via
Palmer National Bank documented
“good friend and financier, Mafia Herman Beebe. He arranged a loan to start the bank from Bossier Bank and Trust. So this was a Mafia bank. Palmer National Bank was a Mafia bank. McLean seemed an odd match for Beebe, but they were tight and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 17:02
Gene Phillips financed_via
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“was $1.2 billion in a financial arrangement from Michael Milken, the junk mob king. What? In the summer of 1984, when it was clear that the U.S. attorney Joe Cage in Shreveport was going to nail Bebe, who should come to Bebe's financial res…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 13:51
Gene Phillips financed_via
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“They consummated the deal after Beebe was indicted and convicted of defrauding the Small Business Administration. Then Phillips and his partner, William Friedman, who was the vice president of Southmark, bought Beebe's Bossier Bank and Trus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 14:21
Herman Beebe secretly_owned
Palmer National Bank documented
“Palmer National Bank as one of 12 national banks which Beebe owned some controlling interest or influence over the bank. Beebe's loan to McLean for developments in Shreveport for homes, apartment complexes, and commercial developments made …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 19:39
Raymond Nouvelli did_business_with
Herman Beebe host_asserted
“When he was arrested, Novelli told reporters he had flown some politicians around in his Learjet, but he refused to say which ones. 16 years later, the author filmed one of Novelli's pilots, Ronnie Poledge, P-O-W-L-E-D-G-E, who revealed tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 14:27
Herman Beebe financed_via
San Jacinto Savings documented
“Needless to say, they knew nothing about savings and loan. They borrowed the money to buy peoples from another dirty savings and loan, First South Savings in Houston. First South was controlled by two attorneys, one of whom bought a title i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 35:22
Clint Murchison member_of
Herman Beebe host_asserted
“a Dallas-based company with affiliates in tax havens in the Netherlands, Attili's, to buy a piece of property in Dallas for Murchison's bankrupt estate from it. Herman Beebe also had, he's the mafia guy, also had a number of relationships w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 53:26
Herman Beebe financed_via
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Bank host_asserted
“including one transaction involving Bebe's partner, Albert Previtt, that began with Allied Bank, which is Michener's bank. This is all money laundering. Murchison eventually became directly involved in the financial industry. He purchased a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 55:03
Herman Beebe controlled
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Bank 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
Austin Savings and Loan financed_via
Herman Beebe documented
“Among the first things Bob and Crocker did after taking control of Bellarmine was to raise cash by selling 20% of their interest in the company to Albuquerque's savings and loan, ABQ, for $6 million. Then one year later, they sold another 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 20:40
Richard Ross Miller member_of
Herman Beebe documented
“Dick signed the mortgage as president of Noramco and also gave a personal guarantee to the note. Dick was introduced to Hill Financial by Richard Rossmiller, Walter's old partner and a $180 million plus borrower at Hill Financial. Rossmille…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 9:14
Herman Beebe funded
Palmer National Bank host_asserted
“completely by mafia member Herman Beebe. And it was used to funnel private donations to the Contras.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 30:54
Herman Beebe traded_network_to
Barry Seal host_asserted
“Another mafia guy is a guy by the name of Herman K. Beebe. And he's out of La Costa, California. And they're my old hometown mafia organization. He's connected to Barry Seal. So that's Herman K. Beebe. All these guys were running SNLs in th…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:29:24
Herman Beebe funded
Carl Elmer Jenkins host_asserted
“One of Jenkins' first assignments with the CIA was in the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Jenkins and his helicopter company in Guatemala were also customers of commercial helicopters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This company got most of its financin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 43:22
Scott Susala recruited
Herman Beebe book_quoted
“A very successful businessman picked him up off of the La Casa playground and used him in a world of big real estate deals and money laundering. The identity of that businessman could be read from the license plate of Sallusa's BMW. It lite…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 13:39
Herman Beebe traded_network_to
San Diego Police Department book_quoted
“as having organized crime connections. The San Diego police had contacted the New Orleans Crime Commission about Beebe. The casino deal eventually fell through. The FBI had discovered in the late 1970s that Beebe's friend and partner, Lance…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 23:23
Herman Beebe member_of
Marcella Mafia Family book_quoted
“In a groundbreaking series of articles on a circle of Texas banks being looted in what was referred to as the Texas Renovate scandal, reporters Earl Goles, G-O-L-E-S, and Dave McNeely made the allegation that Beebe had associations with mob…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 33:56
Herman Beebe laundered_money_for
Allied Bank book_quoted
“was one for $800,000 and was in connection with an Allied loan on Carol Kelly's Continental Savings stock, which Beebe's company guaranteed. In addition to loans, Anderson said, Allied gave Beebe's company a big hunk of the credit life insu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 7:41
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
Herman Beebe behind
Skyway Aviation host_asserted
“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
John Ballas member_of
Herman Beebe host_asserted
“And that deal, where Ballas received a two-year probated sentence, while Daly was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison, all formed around Herman Beebe, the mobster's loans. The land on which Ballas got the Sandia loan had been sold…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 36:42
Southmark laundered_money_for
Herman Beebe host_asserted
“Also entered into some financial transactions in negotiations with the Dallas-based Southmark. Remember, that's the real estate investment firm. And a Houston Savings and Loan subsidiary called San Joaquino Savings. As noted, Southmark was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 27:35
Herman Beebe member_of
Savings and loan crisis host_asserted
“Another mafia guy is a guy by the name of Herman K. Beebe. And he's out of La Costa, California. And they're my old hometown mafia organization. He's connected to Barry Seal. So that's Herman K. Beebe. All these guys were running SNLs in th…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:29:24
Herman Beebe member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“completely by mafia member Herman Beebe. And it was used to funnel private donations to the Contras.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 30:54
Mentions (120)
▶ 23:15
Herman Beebe, Herman Beebe, the senior. We talk a lot about him in this book. He was a Louisiana financier, convicted felon and mafia associate that they all did business with. He had multiple connections to the intelligence community and b…
▶ 23:47
It's just it's like a spider web. He had connections through his bank to which was basically a mafia owned bank in Louisiana to almost all of the Texas savings and loans that eventually went under either by. He had an insurance company, too…
▶ 24:14
providing collateral from his bank, which was non-existent. They just forged pieces of paper saying they had these assets. And he was tied to the mafia in New Orleans, like in a big way. His son was also involved in it as well. We talked a …
▶ 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 …
▶ 30:54
completely by mafia member Herman Beebe. And it was used to funnel private donations to the Contras. He is son-in-law, Stefan Halper is the son-in-law of CIA Deputy Director Ray Klein. He also helped set up the legal fund for Oliver North. …
▶ 35:19
is the mob boss down in New Orleans that was best friends with the Herman Beebe guy. And he basically controlled a lot of what went on with the mafia in Texas as well. Because, you know, New Orleans is right around the corner from Houston. …
▶ 37:23
murdered drug smuggler, gun runner, DEA informant, and CIA asset used by the CIA on drug stings with the Sandinistas, flew resupply missions for the Contras, caught in 1972 in a guns for drugs operation with Cuban exiles in Mexico that incl…
▶ 39:20
go into that long story. But it is a very weird childhood that kind of set him up for his winner-take-all kind of attitude later on in life. And then tomorrow, we're going to go into the background of Herman Beebe and his mafia ties.…
▶ 39:51
so that you can understand how well placed he was. Because again, he is one of the major kingpins in this story. His name comes up repeatedly as kind of a branching. If there was any way to do one of those brain maps, you would see that eit…
▶ 43:28
So basically what they were doing in a nutshell, and I'm just going to use fake numbers. If BB, Herman BB, put in $10 million to create a bank and they could then loan out like one to nine. I don't know what the ratio was at the time, but l…
▶ 1:29:07
Another mafia guy is a guy by the name of Herman K. Beebe, and he's out of La Costa, California, near my old hometown mafia organization. He's connected to Barry Seal. So that's Herman K. Beebe. All these guys were running SNLs in the same …
▶ 11:34
McBurney's beginnings in the thrift industry go back to George Aubin and Jarrett Woods, with many connections to mobster Herman Beebe. Before McBurney consolidated several smaller Texas savings and loan into Sunbelt, he was the president of…
▶ 13:33
McBurney also had several direct dealings with mobster Bebe. One was just a straight loan to McBurney on an apartment project in Dallas. Another one was something completely different. McBurney wanted Sunbelt to buy an airplane for his use,…
▶ 42:11
Another investor in this bank was Herman Beebe. We introduced Herman Beebe when we did the first show. He's the mafia guy. One last connection is in 1970, Michener had some questionable loans with Houston First Savings, an S&L that was owne…
▶ 54:59
in the hotel rooms. A sergeant in the vice division of the Houston Police Department said Coyle was an associate of the mafia Marcello family. Coyle had a similar X-rated hotel in San Antonio. He also had one, oh I'm sorry, he had one calle…
▶ 58:30
in the Victorian House Hotel in Belize with Albert Belfray, the guy we talked about, who was George Bush's mentor. What? And yet another individual who confirmed Michener's relationship to Marcello was a private investigator in Houston who …
▶ 59:04
and the so-called godfather of the crooked Texas SNLs. Bebe deserves an entire book, but we're going to go through him in chapter three. He literally could have an entire book because he's littered throughout the Savings and Loan debacle. O…
▶ 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 …
▶ 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…
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in the forms of these loans so that they don't get caught, which they all did. In this case, $1 million went to pay the interest on the continental loan that they hadn't been paying to Harry Terry, Earl Kelly's Kappa Sigma brother, who was …
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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…
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to Denver developer and Herman Beebe associate Richard Rossmiller and his partner, including Robert Anderson. Hill Financial was reportedly brought into the deal by W.A. Andy Erskine, a loan broker who had worked at Delta Savings, one of Me…
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Beebe's standard way of guaranteeing a bank loan for an associate to buy a savings and loan means that they would guarantee $30 million of the Hill loan and actually pay Hill off and take over the mortgage at a certain time in the future. S…
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Also entered into some financial transactions in negotiations with the Dallas-based Southmark. Remember, that's the real estate investment firm. And a Houston Savings and Loan subsidiary called San Joaquino Savings. As noted, Southmark was …
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financed many of Herman Beebe's deals, The Mobster. The two companies shared several directors. In fact, the original loan to John Jamel was from the Bank of Southwest, which would become InBank. Khashoggi had a very grandiose expensive pla…
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and he's at the heart of it. His main partner, Bill Haley, and uncle of one of his Kappa Sigma brothers, Walter Beard. They're all, it's so incestuous, it's absolutely ridiculous. It was during this time that Aubin met Herman Beebe, Mr. Maf…
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introduced him to Bebe. By 1975, Aubin and his childhood friend from Stocksdale, Jarrett Wood, had borrowed $30,000 from Bebe. In his 1979 personal bankruptcy filing, Aubin declared a $25,000 debt to Bebe. In an interview, Aubin said that i…
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And since that time, he'd only heard his name in passing. However, Dell Anderson, who joined Beebe's empire in 75, said Aubin and Beebe was always hanging around with each other. Aubin also knew who the power in Louisiana was. When he sent …
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Savings and loan from Lloyd Benson. Back to the Senate. Harrelson took over as president of Brazzo Sports Savings while Wiley was a majority shareholder. Wiley was a partner with Richmond Harper in a meat packing plant in Eagle Pass. Basica…
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Harrelson claimed that he had only met Bebe one time and had never done business with him. But that's basically not true. The half-brother, Carol Kelly, was the same savings and loan executive who had told state regulators that he was Bebe'…
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first introduced Kelly to Beebe. Kelly was also a Kappa Sigma. In 1970s, Kelly bought Harrelson and Wiley stock in Brasso Sports Savings and then consolidated it with several other savings and loans that he had purchased with financing from…
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who got indicted during the FBI's Brylab sting operation. Kelly also, along with his minority partner BG Wiley's son David, renamed the savings and loan Continental Savings and then got a loan on its stock at Walter Bichner's Allied Bank, w…
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This raises the question of whether Bebe's money ended up in the pockets of Brazzo Sports' original owner, Lloyd Benson, the senator. Apparently it did. During the 1988 presidential campaign, Benson told the Houston Post that he didn't know…
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The big borrower at Continental Savings was one of Kelly's Kappa Sigma brothers, Harry Blake Terry, who was used by Kelly and Bebe as a front man to buy Continental. Terry borrowed $19 million from Continental to purchase several hundred ac…
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P. DeLorenzo. He had sold Navarro Savings and Loan in East Texas to Kelly and Wiley with financing for mafia Herman Beebe. DeLorenzo went to jail in 1977 for fraud that he committed while at another bank, Central National Bank in Houston. T…
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from Teamsters Union to buy two casinos in Las Vegas. Glick was booted out of Nevada Gaming Authorities by the Nevada Gaming Authorities after they discovered the mob was skimming $12 million a year from his casinos that he bought with Team…
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Walter Michener Jr. Welcome to Kappa Sigma. So, very interesting. There was something more to Herman Beebe than just being a mafia member, a embezzler of Teamster Union, and his relationship with Carlos Marcelo. There were helicopters for t…
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Quiet. That's the United States government. They're not interested in the truth. So there was Beebe's financing the establishment of Palmer National Bank in Washington, D.C. Remember Palmer? Palmer is, what's his face? Oh, good gosh. Stephe…
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the CIA Dirty Trick Squad, John Ehrlichman, buddies with Jack Caulfield, who's buddies with Ambrose. In addition to the scheme to sell explosives to the anti-Castro Cubans, Harper had also been observed by customs agents flying arms and amm…
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The possibility that it was increases with three additional pieces of information. One, the warehouse where the explosives were stored in Shreveport was owned by Herman Beebe, the mafia guy, according to a private investigator and a customs…
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money laundering, from Surety Savings in Houston, where Bebe was doing business and brokering deposits. See what I said? You deposit the money, you say where it goes. And three, one of the principals of the helicopter company that Bebe fina…
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Ross landed on his feet. He was appointed a top position in the Louisiana Department of Transportation by the corrupt Mafia-associated governor of Edwin Williams, the guy that hung out with Mafia guy Herman Beebe all the time. Commercial he…
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all kinds of oil drilling equipment around Houston. Haynes incorporated API oil tools and supply in 81. It is around that time that Wilson's criminal activities began to be exposed. And who financed that setup of API oil tools for Hayes? Th…
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And Pemex and Bush, through Zobata Oil, created the mobile oil drilling rigs, which didn't really do a lot of mobile drilling. It did a lot of CIA training on those rigs. Convenient that you can move them around. Commercial helicopter bankr…
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more than $2 million. It would have owed them more than $3 million, except Edmund Regge's Acadia Savings took out more than $1 million of the company's debt to Beebe's Bolsier Bank and Trust. In addition, one of Beebe's insurance companies,…
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Beebe also brought Haynes Inter that borrowed $4 million from Beebe's controlled state savings and loan in Lubbock, Texas, to buy a lumber company in New Mexico from Pennzoil. That deal stuck to high hell, said one person. Two other people …
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is the CIA could have a front guy. And let's just say it's Herman Beebe, the mafia guy. He deposits $20 million in a bank. A brokered loan means that Herman Beebe, as a customer of that bank, gets to decide who borrows his $20 million. Only…
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He just happened to be a real estate developer from Shreveport, Louisiana. Shreveport, Louisiana. You mean where Herman Beebe runs the show? Yes, the mafia guy. McLean's father was in the oil business in Shreveport. And at one time, he had …
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good friend and financier, Mafia Herman Beebe. He arranged a loan to start the bank from Bossier Bank and Trust. So this was a Mafia bank. Palmer National Bank was a Mafia bank. McLean seemed an odd match for Beebe, but they were tight and …
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where his own boss didn't know what he was doing half the time, said of McLean, he practiced a form of information control more carefully and secretly than anyone I met. Dale Anderson, the former Mafia King Herman Beebe's right-hand man, re…
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ownership of the bank or profit participation or even an option to buy some of the bank. I don't know why we didn't have a piece. I don't know why McLean went to Washington either. It was curious to me why anyone would go that far to own su…
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or have profit participation. I heard that he did on Palmer. There had to be some connection to Herman. Or he may have told Harvey, I've got a bank I want you to buy in DC and we're going to use your name. McLean did use the name of his gra…
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Palmer National Bank as one of 12 national banks which Beebe owned some controlling interest or influence over the bank. Beebe's loan to McLean for developments in Shreveport for homes, apartment complexes, and commercial developments made …
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All told, McLean and his companies borrowed over $34 million from Vernon Savings. One of his companies, Iona Development, borrowed $17 million from Beebe Controlled Continental Savings, which was owned by Beebe's frontman, Carol Kelly. In a…
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them on default loans on Texas real estate developments. The bankruptcy also showed he owed Continental Savings $11.7 million in unpaid loans. All in all, it appears that the taxpayers had to absorb more than $40 million in bad loans taken …
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Among the first things Bob and Crocker did after taking control of Bellarmine was to raise cash by selling 20% of their interest in the company to Albuquerque's savings and loan, ABQ, for $6 million. Then one year later, they sold another 1…
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Chain of Rotten Savings and Loans. And it was listed in the 1985 Comptroller of the Currency Report on BB as being controlled by BB. So they're selling. And this is part of the brokered loans too. So when you do that, you get to decide who …
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who had earlier represented Don Dixon in his purchase of Vernon Savings and Tyrell Barker in his purchase of State Savings of Lubbock, all of which was financed by Herman Beebe, the mobster. Vineyard took an active role in the operations of…
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Of course, Vineyard hungered for a savings and loan of his own, and in the middle of 83, conspired with Barker to buy Key's savings. Vineyard was first approached by Clint Murchison Jr. for financing the purchase of Key. To help induce such…
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And that deal, where Ballas received a two-year probated sentence, while Daly was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison, all formed around Herman Beebe, the mobster's loans. The land on which Ballas got the Sandia loan had been sold…
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Over the tower, a new buyer appeared, Southmark. The mob-infested real estate investment company ran by Herman Beebe steps up. And Southmark, in the proposed transaction, was a man named Joseph Groves, G-R-O-S-E, that we've already said is …
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That's where Herman Beebe parked all of his real estate. He was also a senior VP of Southmark's Savings and Loan, San Joaquinto Savings. And apparently, unbeknownst to Continental Illinois and the Chicago Press, Gross was from Chicago, wher…
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Among the investments was $50 million to purchase Herman Beebe, the mobsters, chain of nursing homes in 1984 and 85, while Beebe was under criminal indictment. They let him continue doing business, even though he was under indictment for do…
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According to Dale Anderson, who was Beebe's right-hand man, said that he and Beebe dealt primarily with Gross, G-R-O-S-E, on the details of their transactions with Southmark and San Joaquino. Not only did Southmark deal with Beebe and the l…
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But testimony before the Nevada Gaming Board revealed that Gross was involved in negotiating a $5 million Southmark loan for the purchase of a Nevada casino by Harry Wood, a reputed organized crime associate from Shreveport, Louisiana, whic…
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Wise was an associate of Beebe's and is named in several instances in the 1985 Comptroller of the Currency report on Herman Beebe, the mobster. Kennedy is also named in that report, which states that in 1975, Kennedy was barred from securit…
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included a $17 million loan to Carroll Kelly, secured by his Continental Savings Stocks. This loan had been transferred from Michener's Allied Bank and guaranteed by Herman Beebe, the mobster. A $17 million loan to William King that had bee…
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This loan to the Houston attorney who controlled several savings in loan was arranged by Herman Beebe. He got a commission of almost a half million dollars. Art Leiser, L-E-I-S-E-R, the retired Texas Savings and Loan Department chief examin…
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personal bankruptcy was $15.6 million to Continental Savings, the same one owned by Carol Kelly, but controlled by mobster Herman Beebe. And that bank was financed by Allied Bank as well. And then that loan was transferred to San Joaquino S…
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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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he stated that the amount of the debt was unknown. It wasn't unknown. Given the connections to Corson, Bush, Michener, and BB Circle, it is not too difficult to imagine how he got the loans at Silverado. It is also known that some of the bo…
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who got a big loan from Silverado, was Californian Wayne Reeder, R-E-E-D-E-R. The Denver Savings and Loan lent Reeder's company $14 million for real estate in Caramillo, California, about 40 miles north of LA. That loan went bad too. Reeder…
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Reeder got into the insurance business through Herman Beebe. In 1990, Reeder's insurance operations were under federal investigation in Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Arizona. Reeder also was involved in bingo games on an Indian reservation w…
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was involved in the Texas Rennebank scandal. He and his partner, Richard Rossmiller and William Wall, bought control of East Texas Bank that was part of Herman Beebe, the mobster, and Ben Barnes' Rennebank circle. Barnes and Beebe then brok…
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Dick signed the mortgage as president of Noramco and also gave a personal guarantee to the note. Dick was introduced to Hill Financial by Richard Rossmiller, Walter's old partner and a $180 million plus borrower at Hill Financial. Rossmille…
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back in the 70s and probably was still doing business with him based on the banks that he owned. There was evidence of contact between Bebe and Dick as Bebe's name and phone numbers, including the number of his house in La Costa, were in Di…
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One of Jenkins' first assignments with the CIA was in the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Jenkins and his helicopter company in Guatemala were also customers of commercial helicopters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This company got most of its financin…
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Jenkins later appears in a bankruptcy filing in a Louisiana helicopter company whose principals have close business and personal association with the mafia, Herman Beebe, and business partner of Michener's Allied Bank. He also has dealings …
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multiple times because it's infiltrated with CIA. Azizma told the Kansas City Star that Eatsco's contract accounted for more than half of their cargo. Eatsco, as previously noted in this book, had a connection to Herman Beebe, the mafia guy…
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former chief examiner for the Texas Savings and Loan Department, said Friedman was originally from Ohio and connected to Tyrell Barker, the Herman Beebe mobster associate who owns state savings in Lubbock. Friedman was trying to arrange the…
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Needless to say, they knew nothing about savings and loan. They borrowed the money to buy peoples from another dirty savings and loan, First South Savings in Houston. First South was controlled by two attorneys, one of whom bought a title i…
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He has a considerable record of forming business partnerships with individuals and partners of Carlos Marcelo and other major members of his structure, including Roy and Frank Okopenty. Mecham later sold the Saints to San Antonio and New Or…
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Because you can tell, even on the reports that they did, like on Herman Beebe, a lot of the information that's in this book came out of the report that was written at the federal government level. And basically, not a lot of it was ever act…
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Open lines. Yeah. Right. Oh, my God. Yeah. But anyway, it was the craziest thing. So anyway, I don't guess they needed a witness because it was so blatantly obvious what happened. Anyway. OK, we're going to go ahead and get started. We are …
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A very successful businessman picked him up off of the La Casa playground and used him in a world of big real estate deals and money laundering. The identity of that businessman could be read from the license plate of Sallusa's BMW. It lite…
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B.B. the mobster? Yeah, Herman K. B.B., Sr., the mobster. B.B. was located in Shreveport, Louisiana. And just as an aside, you guys, in the early 2000s, one of my best friends, a fellow colonel, was assigned to Barksdale Air Force Base. He …
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with the mafia ties. So all of this kind of just goes hand in hand. All right, back to the story. So Susala was thanking him for all of the money that he had earned working real estate deals, which is money laundering for Bebe. Bebe may hav…
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because he was the son of Fast Eddie. In 1985, a report on Beebe's banking activities by the Comptroller of the Currency noted, quote, because Beebe owns two residences in Southern California and spends the majority of his time there, specu…
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his real estate investments, unquote. The name of that company is TLC Investments. It stood for Texas, Louisiana, and California, the three states where they were doing the bulk of the real estate deals. In San Diego, Susala was also a gene…
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Savings and loan owner Don Dixon, with whom he had developed condominiums associated with championship golf courses located next to La Costa. Bebe and Susilas also got caught up in a lawsuit involving a bank loan to a La Costa travel agent.…
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San Dequinto National Bank to the tour company. That was the name of their travel agency. It was headed by a guy by the name of Stephen Leo, who like Ken Beebe also listed his same, the address of Scott Susala in the business drafting docum…
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The former All-American wide receiver from Arkansas and then star with the San Diego Chargers, Lance Bambi Allworth. There was also a former Texas state senator, Peyton McKnight from Tyler, who later broke with the group because of a $1 mil…
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that he had known him for years and that he had socialized with him at La Costa Country Club. During the research this author did, he was told by California journalist Mary Fricker that sometime during the late 70s or early 80s, B.B. was ne…
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as having organized crime connections. The San Diego police had contacted the New Orleans Crime Commission about Beebe. The casino deal eventually fell through. The FBI had discovered in the late 1970s that Beebe's friend and partner, Lance…
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in several Las Vegas casinos. Also around the same time, Glick's company was a beneficiary of a fraud deal at BB's Connected Houston Bank, which we'll go into a little bit later. BB had been coming to play at La Costa, his home away from ho…
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due to a financial statement that he submitted to the Texas Insurance Department while he was applying for permission to start an insurance company there. This statement said he owned 50% of a house in La Costa. It was dated 1972. San Diego…
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A fellow Louisiana businessman, one of Beebe's early backers and mentors, deeded him and his wife half interest in a lot in La Costa. The older man was Charles Waters. He was an insurance man who was caught in 1965 by the SEC in a stock sca…
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in American motel industries. The next year, because they only got a slap on the wrist, Bebe got a piece of his first bank. So the SEC knows this guy's a mobster and basically does nothing to him. And the next year, feeling protected, he bu…
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It's located across the river from Shreveport. Beebe then proceeds to build a small empire of banks, hotels, nursing homes, and insurance companies, all done to launder money. By 1985, a study by the Comptroller of the Currency found his fo…
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He ended up doing 10 months in jail for bank fraud in 1989. And he became known afterwards as the godfather of the dirty Texas savings and loans scandal. There's little in Beebe's background to predict that he would become this notorious fi…
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And even did. So he went to college, Northwestern State University in Massachusetts, where he ended up being employed as a janitor for his room and board. He had a college roommate there by the name of Raymond Reed, who was very, very outgo…
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Beebe ended up dropping out of Northwestern to go into the Navy at the end of World War II. He re-enrolled in Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he ended up getting his bachelor's degree. The Korean War happens and he re-enlis…
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So he starts selling insurance. He moved to Alexandria, Louisiana, and by 1958 was the vice president of Savings Life Insurance Company. Three years later, he formed his own company, American Motel Industries. He also created kind of like a…
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from American Motel Industries, AMI. In the late 60s, after he had his run-in with the SEC and had bought a few banks, he moved to Shreveport and set up his empire. He would then come to the attention of the Louisiana State Police and the N…
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of New Orleans mafia family, Carlos Marcello. And of course, picked up lots of information about Bebe because he had a close association with him. They were also monitoring Marcello's personal attorney, Philip Smith. On the inside of the do…
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That's a weird sign to have on your office door, unless you're mafia. Attorney Aaron Cohn, a former FBI agent and the leading expert on the New Orleans mafia, called Smith the messenger boy lawyer for Marcella. One day, Louisiana State Poli…
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survived 30 years in the heart of this mafia organization, according to the Metro Crime Commission. Marcella controlled at least five Holiday Inns in Louisiana through front companies and close associate. I'm not even going to try to say th…
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Beebe owned at least six Holiday Inns in Texas and Louisiana, including one in New Orleans that was a hotbed of mafia activity. He would later put that hotel up for collateral on a loan guarantee for his close associate, Don Dixon, to buy t…
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was a close associate of Beebe's as well and would later become chairman of the board and CEO of Beausier's Bank and Trust. Huh, that's interesting. The Morning News also discovered that Marcello's business associate, John Drew Langford, tr…
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money laundered into real estate as the collateral for the bank. Marcello testified that Langford was a business partner and Marcello wanted to help him with the Pontchartrain loan. The Morning News also discovered another link between Beeb…
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Probably a lot because he's doing like, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business money laundering. This attorney was the director of Sunbelt Life Insurance Company, headquartered in BB's Shreveport offices. Not just in Sh…
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who in the early 1980s was CEO of Bebe's umbrella company, AMI. The victim of this deal, a Mississippi businessman, received a phone call out of the blue from Carlos Marcello, making an unsolicited offer to help settle his problem with Bebe…
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bought First United Bank in Meridian, Mississippi, then transferred more than $13 million in loans from Bossier's bank to First United. Huh. So he buys a bank and he transfers $13 million in loans from a mobster's bank to his bank. When Bos…
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It took down this guy's bank, First United, because none of the loans are actually collateralized. This failure led to a lawsuit between First United's receiver, the FDIC, and Paul Broadhead. Broadhead is a business leader from Meridian, Mi…
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Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, and Florida mafia families. The President's Commission on Organized Crime confirmed in 1986 that the Teamsters had been firmly under the control of organized crime since the 1950s. Beebe's longtime presence at…
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Cage, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, and one of Beebe's chief nemesis, is convinced of that connection. Cage won two fraud convictions against Beebe. He believes that Beebe got a great deal of his power and authori…
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a story of Terry Wilkinson and William Wortley. He explained how Wilkinson is a BB man from Oklahoma City who owned a nightclub there. Wilkinson hung out with the mafia at the Jockey Club in Miami and would stay with BB whenever he went to …
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who turned state's evidence against Beebe, told Cage that in 1983, Wilkinson told him that he had lost a good friend, Alan Dorfman. Dorfman was a mob associate from Chicago. He helped the mob control Teamsters and their pension fund, like f…
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They latch on to a defense attorney and they represent multiple mobsters. And they even represent people who don't know who they are in order to throw cases, kind of like what they did to General Flynn. Cage said that another of Beebe's ass…
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who is now in federal prison in Kentucky on weapons charges. Wortley and Beebe owned a barge company together, according to Cage, the investigator. Art Leaser, a former chief examiner for the Texas Savings and Loan Department, the guys who …