Gould family family
also: the Goulds, condomania first family, Galeta family, Galetas, Guleletes, Goletas, Galletta family, Goulet
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Claims (7)
Victor Gouletas member_of
Gould family documented
“elected to shorten his last name to Goulet, G-O-U-L-E-T. After college, he worked for Martin Marietta on a prototype of the space shuttle and then returned to Chicago to become a lawyer. In 1969, the three decided to go into a real estate b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 2:32
Evangeline Gouletas member_of
Gould family documented
“The oldest brother, Nicholas, went to a junior college for a year and then became a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. He goes on to be a wrestling champion, blah, blah, blah. The sister, Evangeline, two years older than Nicholas, earned a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 1:27
Nicholas Gouletas member_of
Gould family documented
“The oldest brother, Nicholas, went to a junior college for a year and then became a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. He goes on to be a wrestling champion, blah, blah, blah. The sister, Evangeline, two years older than Nicholas, earned a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 1:27
Gould family founded
American Invesco documented
“elected to shorten his last name to Goulet, G-O-U-L-E-T. After college, he worked for Martin Marietta on a prototype of the space shuttle and then returned to Chicago to become a lawyer. In 1969, the three decided to go into a real estate b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 2:32
Alan Tesler member_of
Gould family documented
“whose main partner, Milton Gould, was a close friend, attorney, and confidant of William Casey. Tesler served on the board of several of the Goulet's affiliated companies, including Imperial Savings and Loan in California. Tesler is also a …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 10:52
Nelson Rockefeller member_of
Gould family host_asserted
“Well, besides being born a Rockefeller. So he's the son of William Avery Rockefeller Jr. So he's also related to Oliver Gould Jennings. We just talked about the Goulds a little bit. He's the nephew of the other co-founder of the Rockefeller…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady Secret Societies Skull&Bones cont'd @ 1:01:03
American Invesco laundered_money_for
Gould family host_asserted
“In 1978, the L.A. District Attorney issued a confidential intelligence bulletin that cited an information source who connected American Invesco to Breyer Management Company, which was a vehicle for organized crime infiltration in Chicago re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 3:57
Mentions (17)
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You know, we've got a couple of good lists of skull and bones, and I've got them sorted chronologically. And we're starting from oldest to newest. And I could probably, you know, we could do a few minutes on just about every single name on …
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was one of the robber barons who pops up throughout some of these stories. And you'll hear more about him in a little bit. But this guy is somehow a relative of the Gould family. And as we've been talking since the first of these series, th…
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What is it? Gore Vidal is the son. Yeah, relative, yeah. But the Gore family is really interesting. I don't know if our recent Gore is related, probably, but they were one of the 19 families who sold their property to found Washington, D.C.…
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Well, besides being born a Rockefeller. So he's the son of William Avery Rockefeller Jr. So he's also related to Oliver Gould Jennings. We just talked about the Goulds a little bit. He's the nephew of the other co-founder of the Rockefeller…
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in this entire fiasco. Because, of course, we're talking about the mafia, so you know you're going to have to at least have some part of Chicago mentioned. So, it starts out with the Galeta family. Galetas, G-O-U-L-E-T-A-S. Two brothers and…
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at North American Aviation. In 1981, Eveline married then New York Governor Hugh Carey. That's interesting, from Chicago to New York. She had claimed to the press to be a widow, but a little research turned up three previous husbands, all o…
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elected to shorten his last name to Goulet, G-O-U-L-E-T. After college, he worked for Martin Marietta on a prototype of the space shuttle and then returned to Chicago to become a lawyer. In 1969, the three decided to go into a real estate b…
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The next 10 years, they became the country's largest converter of apartments to condominiums. They were dubbed the condomania first family. By 1981, their company, American Invesco, I-N-V-S-C-O, had bought 79 apartment buildings in 33 citie…
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grossing $667 million. The Guleletes were also noted for their corporate structure and massive bank borrowing to finance their purchases and expansions. And there's this persistent story that it all evolved around organized crime, because a…
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The Los Angeles Mafia crime family was under the dominion of the Chicago crime family. In 1980, Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal, who was chairman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs, was conducting an invest…
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came from mobsters in Chicago. In 1982, the family had much more to worry about than the reports of mob ties. Their creditors were starting to close in on them as the condo market plummeted. Their banks, including the lead financier, Contin…
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ERA was purchased in 1985 for $35 million by Tamco, the family's other major holding company, so they sold it to themselves. Tamco had been formed in 1977 by Victor Golett, the guy who shortened his name, who put $25 million into the compan…
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who owned about 10% of the company's stock to increase his holdings to 21%. After Goulet founded TAMCO in 77, its only asset was the Dale Bellema Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This company was formed in 1947 by Abdul Hamid Bellema, wh…
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Douglas Crocker II, and some other investors, mostly Bellarmine executives. Who's Douglas Crocker? He's just this run-of-the-mill Harvard graduate that had been president of American Vesco, the same family's company, and had written an angr…
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So he's a watchdog for the mob-adjacent family, Galetas. And why was he angry at the article? Because they accused the family of being associated with the mob. When Bob and Crocker, who owned 60% of Bellama, took over the New Mexico company…
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This 50-50 joint venture, Beloma Community Development, began buying land in New Mexico and other adjoining states. There were several unanswered questions about the purchase of Beloma from the Goleta family. What was the purchase price? Wh…
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Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings and San Joaquino Savings and Silverado, where we found Neil Bush on the board of directors. The Houston deal occurred in January 1986. MDC bought Wood Brothers Homes, a home builder that was spun off of Cit…