Vaughn R. Bobby Ross person
also: Bobby Ross, Ross
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Profits were sent to the Contras. The Post quoted unnamed law enforcement officials as saying Blanton sold $30,000 to $60,000 worth of cocaine, which is a bold-faced lie. The story also drove right through the window that O'Neill had opened…
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There is no connection between the Contras and African-American drug dealers because Blanton said he had stopped sending money to the Contras by the time he met Ross. No mention was made of the DEA reports, the Sheriff Department's affidavi…
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How else do you explain that all of that drugs came into the United States and the CIA, FBI, and DEA didn't do a damn thing about it? It literally makes no sense. The first part on the genesis of crack in LA was written by Jesse Kratz, thou…
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starting in 1994 and continuing through the summer of 96, had repeatedly referred to Ross as the first and biggest crack dealer in South Central, the master marketer whose activities were key to the spread of crack. He now found that Ross w…
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While Wheaton was tracking SEAL and other CIA assets, he ran into a helicopter company that was based in Lafayette, Louisiana, called Commercial Helicopters. The president and majority owner was a timber man named Charles Haynes Jr. The oth…
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of Barry Seale. Ross said they grew up together. It was the same crowd around Ed Wilson that introduced me to Bobby Ross, said Wheaton. Ed Wilson, of course, that's Edwin Wilson to us. He's the Libya guy that the CIA imprisoned after he wou…
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terrorists on offshore rigs that's another story and it grew rapidly to include 35 helicopters i bet it did because it was doing work for the cia the time it it came into financial problems and it had 26 helicopters and left numerous credit…
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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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There's more to commercial helicopters than just offshore oil work and ferrying Edwards around Louisiana. Ross, while denying that the company ever did business with his buddy Barry Seal or the CIA, did volunteer, we used to lease helicopte…
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It goes on and says, the Dark Alliance series recounts how Ross began peddling small quantities of cocaine in the early 1980s and rapidly grew into one of the largest cocaine dealers in Southern California until he was convicted of federal …
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Two individuals with ties to the FDN, one group comprising the Nicaraguan Contras. And the FDN, just for a reminder, is the former Samosan National Guard element that had been actively involved in drugs for decades. Blanton and Menendez rep…