John Riddle person
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Robert Corsonperson · 15Richard Doverperson · 5John Ballasperson · 5George Aubinperson · 5Mike Adkinsonperson · 5Vernon Savingsorganization · 5Victor Rogers IIperson · 4Ellison Starnes Jr.person · 4Kappa Sigmaorganization · 4Herman Beebeperson · 4Sunrise Savingsorganization · 4Wade Kilpatrickperson · 4Continental Savingsorganization · 3Walter Mischerperson · 3Western Savingsorganization · 3San Joaquin Savingsorganization · 3First Western Aviationorganization · 3Carol Kellyperson · 3Don Dixonperson · 3Hill Financial Savingsorganization · 2Liberty Savingsorganization · 2Vision Banc Savingsorganization · 2Isle of Jerseyplace · 2People's Heritage Federal Savings Loanorganization · 2
Claims (22)
Ellison Starnes Jr. member_of
John Riddle documented
“One person close to Riddle and Corson said that Starnes was a John Riddle partner from the get-go. They called him E.T. Starnes had bank accounts and borrowed money from Riddle's Texas National Bank, and at least one of Starnes' continental…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 25:50
Victor Rogers II member_of
John Riddle documented
“True Blue Home Loans. That's what the savings and loans was for. Leaser said he couldn't find out why San Joaquino, which is different from San Joaquino Savings in Houston, owned by Southmark, made the loan. But an examination of the board …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 39:38
John Riddle member_of
Kappa Sigma book_quoted
“who was also a grand scribe of the Kappa Sigma in 1971, was two years behind his idol there. Some college boys want to be president of the United States. Some others want to be National League batting champions. John Riddle wanted to be jus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 25:04
John Riddle founded
Investors Title book_quoted
“a part of the Rogers family from Beaumont, who will be discussed in a later chapter. Rogers attended the University of Texas at the same time, but he was a little too aristocratic from a better family than to join Kappa Sigma. Riddle, Kilpa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 25:57
John Riddle financed_via
Continental Savings book_quoted
“dirty Texas savings and loans deals. By the mid 80s, the law firm had essentially split up and Riddle was into real estate development in a big way. He was doing projects, mostly the strip mall centers and apartment complexes in Florida, Te…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 26:27
John Riddle financed_via
Sunrise Savings book_quoted
“Carol Kelly's continental savings. Some of these bad riddle loans would later foisted upon Mike Atkinson in a cash for trash deal. Some 30 million to 40 million from Sunrise Savings in Boynton Beach, Florida, where then Vice President Bush …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 26:58
John Riddle financed_via
People's Heritage Federal Savings Loan book_quoted
“Carol Kelly's continental savings. Some of these bad riddle loans would later foisted upon Mike Atkinson in a cash for trash deal. Some 30 million to 40 million from Sunrise Savings in Boynton Beach, Florida, where then Vice President Bush …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 26:58
John Riddle financed_via
Vernon Savings book_quoted
“40 million to 50 million from Vernon Savings, more than 2 million from Mercury and Ben Malone Savings, controlled by his fellow Kappa Sigma brother, George Aubin, 5 million from Liberty Savings in Leesville, Louisiana, and a $195 million lo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 27:28
John Riddle financed_via
Mercury Savings book_quoted
“40 million to 50 million from Vernon Savings, more than 2 million from Mercury and Ben Malone Savings, controlled by his fellow Kappa Sigma brother, George Aubin, 5 million from Liberty Savings in Leesville, Louisiana, and a $195 million lo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 27:28
John Riddle financed_via
Ben Malam Savings book_quoted
“40 million to 50 million from Vernon Savings, more than 2 million from Mercury and Ben Malone Savings, controlled by his fellow Kappa Sigma brother, George Aubin, 5 million from Liberty Savings in Leesville, Louisiana, and a $195 million lo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 27:28
John Riddle financed_via
Liberty Savings book_quoted
“40 million to 50 million from Vernon Savings, more than 2 million from Mercury and Ben Malone Savings, controlled by his fellow Kappa Sigma brother, George Aubin, 5 million from Liberty Savings in Leesville, Louisiana, and a $195 million lo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 27:28
John Riddle financed_via
Western Savings book_quoted
“from Western Savings in Dallas, controlled by Auburn's childhood friend, Jarrett Wood. In 1990, Sunbelt Savings, which had taken over Western Savings, was awarded $284 million in damages in a federal lawsuit against Riddle and his partner, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 27:59
John Riddle paid
M&R Investment documented
“Riddle had already filed for bankruptcy, though. He owed the federal receivers for all of the failed banking loans so much money that on his bankruptcy forms, he said he had $1 to his name. Riddle's bankruptcy papers also showed a debt of $…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 28:24
Richard Dover member_of
John Riddle book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 42:01
John Ballas member_of
John Riddle documented
“Sandy's money went straight to Allied Bank, Michener, to pay down $35 million, a loan Allied made to Ballas to buy a track of land. Ballas was a former dentist in Beaumont who moved to Houston and married the daughter of Chester Reed, a wea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 35:40
Savings and Loan Association exposed
John Riddle documented
“from Western Savings in Dallas, controlled by Auburn's childhood friend, Jarrett Wood. In 1990, Sunbelt Savings, which had taken over Western Savings, was awarded $284 million in damages in a federal lawsuit against Riddle and his partner, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 27:59
John Riddle financed_via
General Coffee Corporation documented
“Then in December 85, Ballas bought about 1,500 acres to the northwest of that property from John Riddle and his partner, Richard Dover. This is the property that Corson and Riddle had contracted to buy from General Homes. Riddle bought Cors…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 38:46
John Riddle financed_via
Robert Corson documented
“Then in December 85, Ballas bought about 1,500 acres to the northwest of that property from John Riddle and his partner, Richard Dover. This is the property that Corson and Riddle had contracted to buy from General Homes. Riddle bought Cors…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 38:46
John Riddle financed_via
Continental Savings documented
“Riddle and Dover borrowed $40 million from Continental Savings when they purchased the land in 84. In addition, DRG, the Washington, D.C. company under investigation for HUD fraud, lent another $15 million on the property. In July of 85, th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 39:16
John Riddle financed_via
Vernon Savings documented
“Riddle and Dover borrowed $40 million from Continental Savings when they purchased the land in 84. In addition, DRG, the Washington, D.C. company under investigation for HUD fraud, lent another $15 million on the property. In July of 85, th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 39:16
John Riddle member_of
George Aubin documented
“and had gotten into thoroughbred racing. A Houston private investigator reported that Riddle had introduced Ballas to George Aubin at the Kentucky Derby, and one of Ballas' horses raced that year in the Derby. In 1990, Ballas pleaded guilty…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 17 @ 36:11
John Riddle trafficked
Iran book_quoted
“operation that worked out of Arizona. According to him, in late 85, First Western began shipping arms to Iraq as well. The Reagan-Bush administration were seriously considering sending arms to Iraq during Iran-Iraq war to try to balance out…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:01:10
Mentions (38)
▶ 27:31
One of the biggest borrowers at Sunrise with a total of $30 million was John Riddle. That's the guy we talked about several chapters ago that was one of the fellow Kappa Sigma guys. He had borrowed money on some seven Houston area strip sho…
▶ 28:02
was reportedly introduced to Sunrise by Laddie Howard, who had worked at Mainland Savings and Lamar Savings in Austin before heading over to Sunrise's Houston office. Howard had borrowed $150,000 from Sunbelt Savings in Dallas to buy the st…
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It seems curious that it would be for a Florida savings and loan rather than for one in Texas or Colorado. However, considering Sunrise's big Houston office ran by former mainland savings official, its loans to Corona and White and the big …
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These parties included DuPont, who was the largest private landowner in Florida, Robert Corson and John Riddle, Mike Adkinson, Lawrence Freeman, Hill Savings and Loan, and Corson's Vision Bonk Savings, which provided some of the financing. …
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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 …
▶ 25:48
where he was accompanied by bankers from Westbelt National Bank and San Joaquino Bank. Haley and Atkinson loved to indulge in high-stake poker games on his trips to Mexico. In the summer of 86, Atkinson went with Riddle and Corson on vacati…
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Dixon got some financing from Sandia Savings in Albuquerque for the club and would suggest to Vernon by borrowers that they buy memberships in the club. Riddle, of course, was a big borrower at Vernon. Sometime between 81 and 82, Atkinson m…
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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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And Corson took the land back and then pledged it against a $7 million loan at InBank Houston that he used to buy Vision Bank Savings. Keep in mind, Corson is CIA. Also making out on the deal was John Riddle, who had used a $3 million promi…
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Some of DeVos' legal fees paid by Harvey Silette, the tax attorney in Chicago, who was also representing Burton Cantner, came from this account on the Isle of Jersey, according to Florida investigators. A former Israeli intelligence officer…
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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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who was also a grand scribe of the Kappa Sigma in 1971, was two years behind his idol there. Some college boys want to be president of the United States. Some others want to be National League batting champions. John Riddle wanted to be jus…
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Riddle earned a law degree after graduating from the University of Texas and started working for David Bolton, a real estate appraiser in Houston. But before too long, he went into law practice with Wade Kilpatrick and Victor Rogers II. Kil…
▶ 25:57
a part of the Rogers family from Beaumont, who will be discussed in a later chapter. Rogers attended the University of Texas at the same time, but he was a little too aristocratic from a better family than to join Kappa Sigma. Riddle, Kilpa…
▶ 26:27
dirty Texas savings and loans deals. By the mid 80s, the law firm had essentially split up and Riddle was into real estate development in a big way. He was doing projects, mostly the strip mall centers and apartment complexes in Florida, Te…
▶ 26:58
Carol Kelly's continental savings. Some of these bad riddle loans would later foisted upon Mike Atkinson in a cash for trash deal. Some 30 million to 40 million from Sunrise Savings in Boynton Beach, Florida, where then Vice President Bush …
▶ 27:28
40 million to 50 million from Vernon Savings, more than 2 million from Mercury and Ben Malone Savings, controlled by his fellow Kappa Sigma brother, George Aubin, 5 million from Liberty Savings in Leesville, Louisiana, and a $195 million lo…
▶ 27:59
from Western Savings in Dallas, controlled by Auburn's childhood friend, Jarrett Wood. In 1990, Sunbelt Savings, which had taken over Western Savings, was awarded $284 million in damages in a federal lawsuit against Riddle and his partner, …
▶ 28:24
Riddle had already filed for bankruptcy, though. He owed the federal receivers for all of the failed banking loans so much money that on his bankruptcy forms, he said he had $1 to his name. Riddle's bankruptcy papers also showed a debt of $…
▶ 28:58
Richard Dover was convicted for income tax fraud in federal court in Houston in 1990. Riddle, like his idol Auburn, had escaped any criminal indictment. Riddle was found in the middle of a Ponzi scheme involving savings and loans in Illinoi…
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A federal regulator familiar with the case said that the Illinois federal prosecutors were ready to indict Riddle when their counterparts in Dallas contacted them and for unknown reasons told them not to do it. I bet we know what those reas…
▶ 29:56
Riddle and Corson did a number of business deals together, including the purchase of a 1,300-acre west of Houston next to Cinco Ranch. Cinco Ranch was the over 5,000-acre development acquired in 1984 by Walter Michener and American General …
▶ 30:59
who have seen the records, said that Corson took some of the money laundering trips to Latin America in this very plane. Former Israeli intelligence officer, Arya Ben-Maneshe, has alleged that first Western aviation was a cutout by both the…
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was just fronting First Western Aviation for Walter Michener. First Western Aviation obtained bank financing from United Bank Houston, which is controlled by Vincent Ciccarello. He was a very close friend of Walter Michener's. Michener even…
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True Blue Home Loans. That's what the savings and loans was for. Leaser said he couldn't find out why San Joaquino, which is different from San Joaquino Savings in Houston, owned by Southmark, made the loan. But an examination of the board …
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In fact, he apparently overdid it there because the casino filed a lawsuit against him for past due gambling debts and won a judgment of $92,000. Caesar was also Corson's mother's favorite place to launder cash. After Victor Rogers II, the …
▶ 48:23
with Wade Kirkpatrick and John Riddle. This is the same John Riddle, the Kappa Sigma guy, who was the business partner with Corson and borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from the savings and loans, including Vernon. In fact, Dixon tri…
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Sandy's money went straight to Allied Bank, Michener, to pay down $35 million, a loan Allied made to Ballas to buy a track of land. Ballas was a former dentist in Beaumont who moved to Houston and married the daughter of Chester Reed, a wea…
▶ 36:11
and had gotten into thoroughbred racing. A Houston private investigator reported that Riddle had introduced Ballas to George Aubin at the Kentucky Derby, and one of Ballas' horses raced that year in the Derby. In 1990, Ballas pleaded guilty…
▶ 38:46
Then in December 85, Ballas bought about 1,500 acres to the northwest of that property from John Riddle and his partner, Richard Dover. This is the property that Corson and Riddle had contracted to buy from General Homes. Riddle bought Cors…
▶ 39:46
To Ballas, in December of that year, Western Savings purchased the promissory note to Vernon and Continental and Sandia Savings lent another $15 million. In addition, People's Heritage Savings and Loan in Kansas had a mortgage on some of th…
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was a Kansas savings and loan that lent big money to John Riddle and John Ballas deal in Houston. In January of 1991, Gross was indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas regarding loan participations that he was involved with at People's H…
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$77.5 million to Silverado Savings in Denver. The Associated Press estimated his total debt to be more like $500 million. He definitely sounds like a CIA money launderer. Starnes even overshadowed debtors in bankruptcies like John Riddle, w…
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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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One person close to Riddle and Corson said that Starnes was a John Riddle partner from the get-go. They called him E.T. Starnes had bank accounts and borrowed money from Riddle's Texas National Bank, and at least one of Starnes' continental…
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Files there referenced an E. Trine Starnes Jr. financial statement, and there were several files with his name on it. These references are the same page of a 112-page listing of all of Atkins' files together, with a reference to Compendium …
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law firm. Michael DeBakey is another principal in Republic Health. Perhaps Starn's relationship to Riddle, Corson, Atkinson, and the banks of Michener and Lyon go a little way towards explaining why a bust-out car owners like him was one of…
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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…