Joao Malago person
also: Malego, Malago, Milago, Mr. Malago, Malayo
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Claims (7)
Joao Malago headed
Donna Blue Aircraft documented
“although it fits all the patterns. For example, Joao Malego, one of the owners of the alleged ice front company Donna Blue, confirmed to the author previously that he had served as a business partner to the biofuel company called Atlantic A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 11:18
Joao Malago member_of
Atlantic Alcohol documented
“although it fits all the patterns. For example, Joao Malego, one of the owners of the alleged ice front company Donna Blue, confirmed to the author previously that he had served as a business partner to the biofuel company called Atlantic A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 11:18
Joao Malago member_of
Operation Mayan Jaguar documented
“on drug trafficking aircraft. If the goal was to track and apprehend drug planes, the prosecutor said, which again, allegedly ran from 2004 through part or all of 2007, with Malago as the key informant, no seizures in the U.S. was prosecute…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 29:23
Joao Malago headed
Northern Atlantic Aircraft Services Corp. documented
“are fronts for the CIA. It's crazy. Okay, back to the story. I just think that's funny. In June of 2008, Florida Corporation records show Donna Blue's name was changed to Northern Atlantic Aircraft Services Corp. And Malago was listed as th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 24:03
Joao Malago member_of
Skyway Aircraft Inc. book_quoted
“It'll be shut down immediately. Behind the scenes, they use the hammer of national security. Malago was not alone in helping to broker the sale of planes later linked to the CIA. ICE informant Peters and his Skyway aircraft also is connecte…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 39:20
Joao Malago member_of
Atlantic Alcohol book_quoted
“Peters was listed as one of the managers of the biofuel company, according to Florida Corporation records. Malago told the author that he had served as a business partner in the venture. In 2007, in a company brochure, it listed him as an o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 44:19
Joao Malago member_of
JLM Aviation Services book_quoted
“listed as team members of, yes, another one, a brokerage company called JLM Aviation Services in Boca Raton, Florida. That website was still live on October 2025, listed Milago as CEO and Peters as a sales rep.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 49:12
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although it fits all the patterns. For example, Joao Malego, one of the owners of the alleged ice front company Donna Blue, confirmed to the author previously that he had served as a business partner to the biofuel company called Atlantic A…
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who supplies airplanes for cocaine. Skyway also happens to have brokered the sale of at least nine planes to Venezuelan buyers between 2003 and 2008. At least two of the planes involved in brokered sales handled by Malago's or Peter's compa…
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deny any connections to drug operations. The corporate jet sold by Malego's Donna Blue to O'Connor and Smith, as well as the one Peters, one of the ones that Peters owned at Skyway Aircraft sold to Venezuelan buyers, were both later found e…
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Jaguar as it played out for at least four years in Latin America and allowed tons of cocaine into the United States, not resulting in a single prosecution, but we got a plane that fell out of the sky. In court pleadings that surfaced in 201…
▶ 24:03
are fronts for the CIA. It's crazy. Okay, back to the story. I just think that's funny. In June of 2008, Florida Corporation records show Donna Blue's name was changed to Northern Atlantic Aircraft Services Corp. And Malago was listed as th…
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Mayan Jaguar, however, was exposed at least two Mexican officials who had been kept in the dark about it after the Jetstream 2 crash. Quote, all of that U.S. government's role came to a head when a plane crashed in Mexico carrying tons of c…
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At that point, Malago's attorneys allege in court pleadings that ICE agents met him in Brazil and urged him to move his family immediately to the U.S. because his cover had been blown. In other words, they're not ICE, they're CIA. CIA goes …
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quote unquote ICE, told him it's dangerous for you and you need to move your family up here. He moved the entire family to Florida because we need one more drug trafficker and money launderer here in Florida. And they continued to ask him t…
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government at this time did something unlawful. Since that time in 2008, when his house was raided to present, they have done nothing, the government, but attempt to put significant pressure on him to cooperate and flip against the quote un…
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And they have been waiting for years for them, the U.S. government, to now come up with an indictment with the quote-unquote ICE agents and Malago so that they could just address it and move on, unquote. The federal prosecutor in the case a…
▶ 29:23
on drug trafficking aircraft. If the goal was to track and apprehend drug planes, the prosecutor said, which again, allegedly ran from 2004 through part or all of 2007, with Malago as the key informant, no seizures in the U.S. was prosecute…
▶ 29:59
A startling fact about the suspected drug planes allegedly sold to narco-traffickers by Milago as part of this operation. Virtually all, if not every single one of them, had a transponder on it. Those aren't the planes that were captured, a…
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crossed into U.S. airspace. One exception, Hoffman says, was the Gulfstream II cocaine jet, which Malago's attorney contends did have an ICE transponder on board. That transponder, discovered by the Mexican authorities, led to the exposure …
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The U.S. government, in its criminal case against Malago, contends essentially that the informant went rogue, set up Donna Blue aircraft on his own without any coordination with the CIA at all, and just began brokering sales of airplanes to…
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That makes such a great story. It's 100% not believable, but it makes a great story. An application for a search warrant filed by agents in a separate federal case in Colorado seems to support Malago's version of events. That filing alleges…
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one of which, of course, was Donna Blue, blah, blah, blah. But in June of 2014, there's another court pleading that identified Larry Peters, the owner of the St. Petersburg Skyway Blue Inc., as a confidential informant in the operation. Quo…
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Malago's criminal prosecution, however, was suddenly dismissed in March of 2014, about a month after the author exposed the entire operation in his reporting. He also said that it looked like the entire operation had CIA fingerprints on it.…
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It'll be shut down immediately. Behind the scenes, they use the hammer of national security. Malago was not alone in helping to broker the sale of planes later linked to the CIA. ICE informant Peters and his Skyway aircraft also is connecte…
▶ 44:19
Peters was listed as one of the managers of the biofuel company, according to Florida Corporation records. Malago told the author that he had served as a business partner in the venture. In 2007, in a company brochure, it listed him as an o…
▶ 44:49
September 26, 2014, according to the Florida Corporation records. It had not filed an annual report in a while. Malago told the author in 2008 that Atlantic Alcohol had operations in Brazil, as well as British West Indies and the Dominican …
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Because that's where they make drugs. It was based in St. Petersburg, Florida, with the same address as Skyway Aircraft. Interestingly, Malago was an officer in Peters for a short time with a similar firm called North Atlantic Aircraft Serv…
▶ 46:39
with a system update. So that's not all that weird. They did go on to say that Milago, as of June 2014, was employed by Omni International Jet Trading Company, where he was described as a sales rep. He just loves selling aircraft. A con-…
▶ 48:42
that they had been working for years in a global undercover operation, part of which was referred to as Mayon Jaguar, with all of the CIA-associated aircraft. All of it involved narco-trafficking. And the author goes on to say that both Mal…
▶ 49:12
listed as team members of, yes, another one, a brokerage company called JLM Aviation Services in Boca Raton, Florida. That website was still live on October 2025, listed Milago as CEO and Peters as a sales rep.…
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was questioned as to whether that was the same one that Vega had mentioned flying CIA missions. The author's efforts to contact Smith and O'Connor, who was the other name on the bill of sale, proved unsuccessful. But he did manage to track …
▶ 7:35
the company that sold the jet to Smith and O'Connor. Malayo, who is a Brazilian citizen with business interests in Florida, shared his concern about how his company had been portrayed in the news. Quote, I had some problems when I sold the …
▶ 8:41
to Toluca, Mexico. After two weeks, they did that flight with drugs. The authorities in the US call me and I show all the papers for that. And I was never part of the DEA, CIA, or FBI. Some people told on the internet that my company is a C…
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first, it's not true. And you can imagine if these people came to talk with me, I have family and I don't want any more problems. Well, number one, you're not going to tell me that it's true anyway. So whatever. Malayo agreed to email the a…