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Surety Savings organization

also: Surety Savings, surety SNL, Surety

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Claims (11)

Raymond Nouvelli owned Surety Savings host_asserted
“quite frequently in these stories. When he was indicted, he controlled five banks and had interest in two additional savings and loans. He owned a 3,500 acre ranch near Dallas and an island off Haiti where he was trying to set up a casino. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 13:56
Vannie Cook member_of Surety Savings host_asserted
“everybody being the CIA, on different, he was in business with the Bushes. Yeah, his name shows up everywhere. And we're going to get into Bath in a lot of depth in this book later. Cook was on the board of directors with Lloyd Benson at a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 16:30
Raymond Nouvelli indicted_for Surety Savings documented
“Then in January 1973, Novelli and five former security savings officers and directors were indicted for fraud. The charges included Novelli's purchase of stock in five small Texas banks from the officers using a loan from Surety.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 17:07
Surety Savings sold_to Cyril Smith Jr. host_asserted
“Texas Savings and Loan Examiner said that in the mid-1980s, he ran across Novelli's wife as one of the proposed purchasers of a savings and loan that he put a stop to. After Novelli had been indicted in January 1972, Surety Savings was sold…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 18:02
Cyril Smith Jr. indicted_for Surety Savings documented
“Jr. Smith was the son of the state's leading water district attorney who had helped Michener set up his utility districts on the properties that he was developing. Smith Jr. was indicted in 1978 for fraud at Surety Savings, along with the f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 18:34
Surety Savings loaned_to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture host_asserted
“and immediately got involved in all of these shenanigans. One of the first loans Parker made was to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture, which was comprised of TMC Funding, a Michener company, of course, and two other of Michener's associates, inc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 20:35
Surety Savings bought_from Bossier Bank and Trust host_asserted
“and refinanced an earlier loan of half that amount. That earlier loan had been made by Michener himself at his allied Spring Bank. Teamster Union deposits began to flow into Surety, which was buying certificates of deposit at Beebe's Bossie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 21:07
Bossier Bank and Trust bought_from Surety Savings host_asserted
“and refinanced an earlier loan of half that amount. That earlier loan had been made by Michener himself at his allied Spring Bank. Teamster Union deposits began to flow into Surety, which was buying certificates of deposit at Beebe's Bossie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 21:07
Surety Savings loaned_to Richmond Harper host_asserted
“ranches municipal utility bonds from surety. Again, you just see this round, I know it's a lot of names, but just think of it as like washing money. It's just moving it from one entity to another entity to another entity, almost like trying…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 21:38
Robert Michener financed_via Surety Savings documented
“that Farm and Home inherited when it bought Surety in 1979 was almost a million dollar loan to Michener's company and his two associates at the Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center, which we mentioned earlier. Michener's partners were his former …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 47:20
International Brotherhood of Teamsters deposited_in Surety Savings host_asserted
“and refinanced an earlier loan of half that amount. That earlier loan had been made by Michener himself at his allied Spring Bank. Teamster Union deposits began to flow into Surety, which was buying certificates of deposit at Beebe's Bossie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 21:07

Mentions (23)

The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 49:50 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…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 50:22 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13
▶ 1:16 talking about the so-called deregulation of the savings and loan industry, before it was even a gleam in Ronald Reagan's eyes, there was another savings and loan in Texas besides surety that was giving regulators problems in the 70s. This i…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13
▶ 1:43 Jefferson Savings and Loan was chartered in 1956 with six directors, including U.S. Senator Lloyd Benson Jr., his brothers Donald and father Lloyd Benson Sr. Another director was Vannie Cook, who would one day be a business partner of reput…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13
▶ 21:49 and beginning of the savings and loan debacle in the mid and late 80s. The two most egregious cases of savings and loan fraud before deregulation, Surety Savings and Jefferson Savings, were crawling with mobsters and CIA operatives. Therefo…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19
▶ 11:08 Dick and Lutz eventually worked out a deal in which one of Dick's companies, Wellington Management Service, would get two loans, totaling the $3.5 million from Nationwide Lending Group of Colorado, Hill Financial's Colorado affiliate. With …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 57:13 Corson since he divorced his daughter. It's just a convenient story. Why would you? But he did. But one deal between the two that was continued after the divorce was the Enchanted Oak Shopping Center, the strip mall north of Houston. This w…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6
▶ 42:46 Again, these are basically money laundering deals where you can get this after you've already siphoned a whole bunch of loans for pennies on the dollar, and then you go ahead and finish the construction project. The failure of Empire Saving…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6
▶ 43:15 which was part of Texas Rennebake scandal. It was a dress rehearsal for the collapse of the savings and loan. Surety Savings and the Texas Rennebake scandal had it all. Mobsters, CIA, politician, Ben Barnes, which is Neil Bush's future busi…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 17:07 Then in January 1973, Novelli and five former security savings officers and directors were indicted for fraud. The charges included Novelli's purchase of stock in five small Texas banks from the officers using a loan from Surety.…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 18:02 Texas Savings and Loan Examiner said that in the mid-1980s, he ran across Novelli's wife as one of the proposed purchasers of a savings and loan that he put a stop to. After Novelli had been indicted in January 1972, Surety Savings was sold…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 18:34 Jr. Smith was the son of the state's leading water district attorney who had helped Michener set up his utility districts on the properties that he was developing. Smith Jr. was indicted in 1978 for fraud at Surety Savings, along with the f…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 20:35 and immediately got involved in all of these shenanigans. One of the first loans Parker made was to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture, which was comprised of TMC Funding, a Michener company, of course, and two other of Michener's associates, inc…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 21:07 and refinanced an earlier loan of half that amount. That earlier loan had been made by Michener himself at his allied Spring Bank. Teamster Union deposits began to flow into Surety, which was buying certificates of deposit at Beebe's Bossie…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 23:11 made loans, two different loans, to Harper at the urging of Ben Barnes. By May of 1977, Parker signed a $100,000 promissory note to Denver developer Richard Ross Miller. It was secured by 8,000 shares of surety stock. That same day, Ross Mi…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 23:41 Ross Miller had signed an $800,000 promissory note to Bebe and Bebe's partner, Casey Hood. This note was secured by seven other promissory notes to Surety Savings. One of them included George Aubin's company and several others signed by a c…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 24:12 At the time, Aubin had a home loan financed at surety as well. And his front man to be, J.B. Harrelson, went to work for surety after the rent-a-bank scandal broke in Texas. It's not clear how the promissory notes to surety ended up being c…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 28:04 name was changed to Silverado, where Neil Bush is. The director of enforcement for the Office of Thrift Supervision that sought sanctions against Neil Bush in the late 80s was Rosemary Stewart. This is the same Rosemary Stewart who 13 years…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 28:35 who saw the almost $2 million loan to Richmond Harper, who saw the involvement of Ben Barnes and Herman Beebe, and who saw the loan to Walter Michener's associates. And then she apparently did nothing and said nothing when all of those peop…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 35:07 from another CIA landing strip and trans-shipment point for the CIA. In 1978, Surety was brain-dead from all the years of abuse. Federal and state regulators were scrambling to find something to do with the savings loan or someone to buy it…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 41:39 be given back to us who lost the money on them. So just to clear up, they've got all of this property. It's sold at pennies on the dollars in bankruptcy. The same freaking people that caused the bankruptcies buying it back up and are gonna …
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 47:20 that Farm and Home inherited when it bought Surety in 1979 was almost a million dollar loan to Michener's company and his two associates at the Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center, which we mentioned earlier. Michener's partners were his former …
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 48:22 which took the property back. Three months later, Michener's company defaulted on its loan of almost a million dollars from Surety and Farm and Home foreclosed on the mortgage and took the property. This foreclosure created an additional ta…