Joe Rosso person
also: Rosso, Russo
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Claims (4)
Joe Rosso member_of
Kappa Sigma book_quoted
“a former San Diego football player. In 1958, the year before Carroll Kelly joined Kappa Sigma, the grandmaster of the fraternity was a guy by the name of Joe Rosso from Houston. Rosso went on to become Houston businessman noted for developi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 19:05
Joe Rosso founded
Lyric Center book_quoted
“a former San Diego football player. In 1958, the year before Carroll Kelly joined Kappa Sigma, the grandmaster of the fraternity was a guy by the name of Joe Rosso from Houston. Rosso went on to become Houston businessman noted for developi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 19:05
Joe Rosso secretly_owned
Houstonian Hotel and Conference Center book_quoted
“UPI, by the way, at one point was owned by Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. He also had ownership of the Houstonian Hotel and Conference Center, which was where President Bush lived when he was in Houston. Oh, crazy. Houston Post g…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 19:35
Joe Rosso member_of
Kappa Sigma book_quoted
“He and his affiliated companies had borrowed from failed savings and loan. He said, gee, I have no idea. Joe Russo and Carol Kelly may have controlled more federally insured savings and loan deposits than any other of their fraternity broth…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 24:35
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▶ 19:05
a former San Diego football player. In 1958, the year before Carroll Kelly joined Kappa Sigma, the grandmaster of the fraternity was a guy by the name of Joe Rosso from Houston. Rosso went on to become Houston businessman noted for developi…
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UPI, by the way, at one point was owned by Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. He also had ownership of the Houstonian Hotel and Conference Center, which was where President Bush lived when he was in Houston. Oh, crazy. Houston Post g…
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once ran an item on Bush and Russo, saying that Russo was waiting at the Houstonian to greet Bush when he arrived for an economic summit in July of 1990. He had his elephant-emblazoned Hermes tie for the occasion. Joe Russo waited at the fr…
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Like, hello, friend. Russo is also a personal friend of Senator Lloyd Benson. Asked to characterize his relationship with George Bush, Russo replied, oh God, I'd say to you the relationship would be just like any other American. That we're …
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Okay, to further ask to characterize his relationship with Lloyd Benson, Russo said, same way. I mean, just glad to have a Texan like that on the team, but I have no relationship with him, just like the president. It'd be just the same thin…
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night party of a Houston City Councilman candidate whom he and Russo had been backing against Kathy Whitmer's favorite candidate. Kathy Whitmer is one of their nemesis. They don't like her at all. The Michener-Russo candidate lost. That sam…
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to offer his congratulations along with the women who had helped seal Whitmire's triumph. Russo ran into physical problems in the 1980s and filed for bankruptcy, coming in for criticism of transferring assets to his children, including his …
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Ameriway Savings, which failed in 1990, just two months before President Bush was seen greeting him at the Houstonian. The Resolution Trust Corporation, set up to dispose of assets in the failed savings and loan, assumed $137 million of its…
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Well, ask if he had ever been interviewed by the FBI or appeared before a grand jury. He said, no, no. In 1990, Russo tried to buy a piece of property near the Houstonian from the Resolute Trust Corporation, which is supposed to have a poli…
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But there were many people lined up to buy these assets, and some of that did happen through front companies. Russo and his affiliated entities also borrowed tens of millions of dollars from five exceedingly dirty Texas savings and loan. La…
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He and his affiliated companies had borrowed from failed savings and loan. He said, gee, I have no idea. Joe Russo and Carol Kelly may have controlled more federally insured savings and loan deposits than any other of their fraternity broth…
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They were called together by Kappa Sigma, Carol Kelly, Kappa Sigma, Joe Russo, also attended the meetings. On June 11th, excuse me, the June 11th meeting was called by Kelly and David Wiley in May 22nd, 1985.…