The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20

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0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel. Good afternoon, Bridget. How are you? Oh, pretty good. Starting to fight this goofy crud going around, but nothing too bad. Nothing we can't handle. Cool. We don't have any crud going down around here yet. Well, the spell was finally broken. This morning it was 14 degrees with a 30 mile an hour wind. Oh, yuck. Yeah, so?

0:33 And yesterday it was 78. Oh yeah, that'll definitely mess you up. My husband has a friend that lives in Detroit and he was sending him the whiteout pictures and the, you know, massive car pile up and everything out there. My husband responds with a picture of me sitting out on the back deck reading and in the sunshine and he gets,

1:02 He gets the response with a whole bunch of middle fingers on a hand. That is pretty funny. Yeah. Anyway. All right. We are almost done. We're on chapter 20. Chapter 20, sunrise, sunshine, sunset, Florida and the Texas connection. We start with a guy's name.

1:33 Yuleo Francisco Frank Castro. And he was a well-known terrorist and drug smuggler. His rap sheet shows only one conviction, for carrying a weapon in Miami in 1981. That same year, he was charged with four counts of importing, delivering, and selling marijuana. But mysteriously, the case got dismissed.

2:05 Two years later, in 83, he was indicted for conspiracy and smuggling 425,000 pounds of marijuana into Beaumont, Texas, as a spinoff of DEA's Operation Grouper. Some of Grouper's targets, drug money was laundered through Marvin Warner's ComBanks in Florida.

2:33 These charges against Frank Castro was also dismissed. So does that tell you that he works with the CIA? Yes, it does. From July 83 to January of 84, the same time period in which he was under indictment for drug smuggling, Castro was providing food, weapons, and equipment for a secret military camp for Nicaraguan Contras in the Everglades.

3:04 near Naples, Florida. Castro told FBI agents that he provided food, ammunition, and M14 rifles to the camp. He would go to the camp weekly to take the supplies. He told that to the FBI. Castro also traveled to Costa Rica and met with the infamous John Hall, who also worked with the CIA, and a Contra leader there. Quote,

3:35 Castro went to Costa Rica in order to assist Rene Carvo and the Cuban exile fighting there, said the FBI report. Castro tried to tell the FBI agents that John Hall, quote, does not work for the CIA but funnels information to them, unquote. The statement is laughable. John Hall not only worked directly for the CIA, he worked for Rob Owens as well.

4:05 who is the right-hand man to Oliver North in the State Department. More important, according to the CIA's official pronouncements, its primary work is the funneling of information. That's the code word for he's CIA. Perhaps Castro didn't realize that stated purpose when he worked for the CIA as well. Perhaps he perceived

4:34 It's worked to be the elimination of foreign politicians. It doesn't like, because of course the CIA does that too. The Cuban exile, Frank Castro, was a member of the infamous Brigade 2506, which of course put him in close contact with Felix Rodriguez. That participated in the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs. The head of the National Front for Liberation of Cuba, Frank Castro, was also a top...

5:04 at C-O-R-U, which was a Cuban exile terrorist group that was connected to and partly financed by Guillermo Hernandez Cartier. Castro, who owned the Golden Falcon Skydiving Club in the Florida Everglades, shuttles between Miami and the Dominican Republic, where he lives with his wife.

5:35 the daughter of an admiral close to the president of the Republic. And as I've explained multiple times, the leadership of the Dominican Republic has been in bed with the CIA for a very long time. And it's been used as one of the stop-offs and grouping of weapons and drugs going north and south.

6:03 Frank Castro is a very dangerous individual. He's CIA trained, according to the assistant U.S. attorney, Daniel Cassidy, who prosecuted some of Castro's associates involved in drug smuggling and control of a bank. In the mid-1970s, when Castro's compatriots, Orlando

6:26 Bosch and Rolando Otero was going around blowing up all sorts of things like post offices and passenger airliners Castro told the Miami Herald which had CIA people working in it as well I believe the United States had betrayed the freedom fighters around the world they trained us to fight brainwashed us how to fight and now they put Cuban exiles in jail for what they taught us to do

6:55 Unquote. In June of 88, Frank Castro and five others were indicted for violating the U.S. Neutrality Act for taking part in a military expedition and enterprise to be carried on from hence against the territory of Nicaragua, a foreign state with whom the United States at all times mentioned herein has been and is now at peace. So in other words.

7:26 The U.S. government hadn't technically declared a war against Nicaragua. They had just conducted one for years. In announcing the indictment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Snap said that Castro financed the 60-man training camp near Naples. In defiance, Castro's attorney, Kirk Monroe, said that Castro would provide aid to the Contras again if he was asked. The defendants took the position.

7:56 that they had set up the camp and trained the Contras with the approval of the White House. But the prosecutors claimed the operation was not sanctioned by the Reagan administration. It certainly was sanctioned by the vice president because he was intimately involved in it, as was Donald Gregg, his national security advisor, and his assistant, Felix Rodriguez. The argument was rendered mute and never...

8:27 adjudicated when the judge threw out the charges ruling that the United States was not technically at peace with Nicaragua at the time, but that the question remained whether Castro used drug money to finance the operations. In May of 21st, 1986, a letter from the chief counsel of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the Justice Department detailed allegations that Frank Castro and his associate, Francisco Chains, quote,

8:57 are said to be partners in seafood business and use business to smuggle cocaine into the United States from Costa Rica. Funds from the cocaine cell said to be used for the purchase of weapons for the Contra, unquote. The information was based on an investigation by the staff of Senator John Kerry, who headed the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations. This was apparently the only...

9:25 investigation into the allegations, which of course, all of that is true. Gary Webb's book articulated it in detail. We've already been through that. And it wasn't just seafood business. It specifically was a shrimp company that they used. In Frank Castro's most famous drug smuggling exploit, he was not even charged.

9:50 He was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the marijuana smuggling syndicate headed by fellow Cuban exile and CIA contract agent Tony Fernandez. From 77 to 81, Fernandez and his associates smuggled more than 1.5 million pounds of marijuana into the United States from Colombia. In early 1981, Fernandez, known on the streets as La Mentrita,

10:20 the little lie, was arrested and jailed in New Orleans for his smuggling activities. Fernandez made bail with the help of a banker friend. Upon release, he was kidnapped by Frank Castro and taken to Colombia. That was according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Cassidy. His Colombian suppliers

10:44 had some questions to ask about payment for the marijuana shipment that had been confiscated by the DEA. Fernandez managed to scrape up the money to satisfy the Colombians, then bounced around Spain, Costa Rica, and finally Brazil. Weird how Spain keeps coming up in this. Where the DEA caught up with him? In Brazil.

11:08 In 1984, he was extradited to the U.S., where he turned state's evidence against his Baker associates and received a 30-year prison sentence. By 1990, La Menterita was back out on the streets. But all that is just a prologue to this story. In 77, Fernandez...

11:36 wanted to use some of his drug smuggling proceeds to buy a bank in Miami. His Panamanian money launderer, Stephen Sandor Samos, advised against it because it was inevitably going to be scrutinized by bank regulators. This is the same Steve Samos who helped New York mafioso Lawrence Irizo

12:04 launder money through offshore companies and who was linked to amalgamated commercial enterprises, which was funneling money and equipment to the Contras. According to an attorney in the case, Samos' grand jury testimony made reference to Nestor Sanchez, who originally told Fernandez about Samos and his services. Samos testified that this Nestor

12:31 Sanchez was in the film distribution business in Panama. It is not known if this is the same Nestor Sanchez who was Oliver Norse's associate and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Inter-American Affairs during the Iran-Contra. There's a lot of indication that it is. And before that, he was a CIA agent for 30 years.

13:03 Sanchez was also in Panama during the mid-70s, according to his testimony before the Senate subcommittee that Kerry was running. So he could very well have been that contact with Fernandez, who was a CIA contract agent at the time with Samos, who was setting up offshore companies in Panama at the same time.

13:31 congressional testimony Sanchez denied that he had any business relationships in Panama but he phrased his answer in the present tense they're known liars and they know how to lie they know how to say something that gives you the illusion that what you're asserting is not true without actually lying they're trained to do that sometime in 1976 Fernandez was introduced to a fellow

14:02 fellow Cuban exile, Jose Alvaro Cruz, then the biggest drug smuggler in Miami. Fernandez went to work for Cruz, who then introduced him to Miami banker Ray Corona. Corona, like Fernandez, hungered after a bank of his own. He was the vice president at Total Bank in Miami, where his father, Rafael, was the CEO, and his three brothers worked there as well.

14:32 In the early 60s, the family had moved to Miami from Cuba, where their father had been a banker, which means he was banking for the mafia, because that was the only money in town, and they controlled everything. Well, them and the CIA. So Corona, Fernandez, and Samos cooked up a scheme to buy a bank. The money would come from Fernandez's drug smuggling and would be funneled to Corona through Samos's wife, Alma Robles Chiquita.

15:03 The first bank they picked was National Bank of South Florida, which was owned by none other than Guillermo Hernandez Cartier, the same guy that we know was already trafficking money laundered. Hernandez Cartier had managed to defraud the bank into the ground in less than a year, but the comptroller of the currency's office rejected Corona's bid.

15:33 based on questions about his banking experience. Finally, in mid-1978, Corona won permission to buy Sunshine State Bank in Miami. As a down payment, Samos wired him $1.15 million from Fernando's bank account from Panama, Banco de Iberia, America. Later, Fernandez...

16:00 turned more than $1 million in cash over to Corona to consummate the deal. After Fernandez was indicted and then kidnapped to Colombia, he sold his shares in Sunshine to Corona, putting the Coronas in full control of the bank by the middle of 1982. Before the end of the year, federal examiners were expressing concern over their lending practices and insufficient collateral.

16:29 for loans that they were making. Like many of the crooked savings and loan owners, Corona cultivated politicians. One of Sunshine's directors was Howard Gary, the Miami city manager, who borrowed $95,000 from the bank to buy two apartment buildings for $85,000. Another stockholder was South Miami chief of police, Sal Vincini.

16:59 And a big borrower was Lazaro Albo, the right-hand man of the former Miami mayor, Maurice Ferre. But the politician who most helped Coronas was Florida Comptroller Gerald Lewis, whose office continually frustrated the efforts of the FDIC to remove the Coronas and shut down the bank. Two of Lewis's biggest campaign contributors were large borrowers.

17:30 at Sunshine. Lewis also presided over the failure of ESM Government Securities, which was located in Fort Lauderdale. It was ESM that caused the failure of Marvin Warner's home state savings in Ohio and led to the $55 million loss at American Savings in Miami, while it was headed by Warner. Gerald Lewis is Warner's second cousin.

18:00 So Gerald Lewis is Florida's comptroller. His cousin was in the failed banking industry whose bank was being used to money launder. And he impeded the investigation into Sunshine Bank because it was money laundering as well and owned by mafia CIA connected people.

18:31 This is how all of this gets done. Meanwhile, Ray Corona was living it up. The former Golden Glove boxer bought a white Rolls Royce, a cigarette boat, and a half-blank mink coat. He had a Rolex and favored silk suits. He had become addicted to cocaine himself. From October 81 to 84, Corona bought nine guns.

19:00 while hooked on the drug and then lied on his gun dealer form. In 86, he was convicted of illegally purchasing the guns while addicted to cocaine. Corona may have gotten his cocaine from Willie Falcon, the drug smuggler and partner of Jack Duvaux and Fernando Burbauer. Sunshine State Bank made Falcon and his wife a mortgage loan in 79 and then they renewed it in 84.

19:31 And although Fernandez apparently never used Sunshine to launder his drug profits, Falcon did, according to the assistant U.S. prosecutor and an attorney who represented Sunshine State Bank. Other Miami attorneys who keeps turning up is Theodore Klein, the attorney for CIA-connected gun dealer Ron Martin, and also, for a while, of Jack DeVoe. Klein...

19:58 represented Rafael Corona, Ray's father, in racketeering and money laundering trials. Something else was going on at Sunshine besides high rolling, fast living, drug smuggling, money laundering, and questionable lending, political bankrolling, and connections to CIA-trained Cuban exiles. In addition to all of that, the $100 million bank was doing business with the mafia. A lot of it.

20:30 This begins in 1971 when 23-year-old Ray Corona returned to Miami to start his banking career at Miami National Bank. At the time, this bank was controlled by Sam Cohen, an associate of mob financier Meyer Lansky. Cohen was indicted in 71 along with Lansky and a Caesar Palace official, Jerry Gordon.

20:58 for illegally skimming money from the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Cohen copped a plea and did four months in club fed. One of Corona's customers at Miami National was Joseph Klein, the CEO of a company called Kavanaugh Communities Corporation.

21:17 Kavanaugh, according to the Miami Herald, was a controversial outfit that sold Florida swampland in the 70s and tried unsuccessfully to get a casino built down there. Klein also was connected to organized crime figures in Philadelphia. One of his business deals, Klein bought some property at the Cricket Club in Miami, which was owned by Sam Cohen and Alvin Malnick, another one of Meyer Lansky's protégés.

21:48 After Corona took over Sunshine Bank, he put Joseph Klein's wife on his board and began to do business with Royale Group Limited. That was the successor company to Klein's Kavanaugh Communities Incorporation. And its new CEO was Leonard Palula, Palulo, another mafia associate from Philadelphia.

22:19 first came to the public's attention in 85 when the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation released a report on organized crime in boxing. The report stated, quote, the previous episode described boxing manager Barry Shapiro as being part of a mob-tainted supporting cast for his brother Kenneth Shapiro's financial empire. A similar relationship existed between boxing manager, author,

22:49 Palullo, 30, and his brother Leonard, a key organized crime associate in Philadelphia, currently based in Florida. Palullo vehemently denied his connections to organized crime and in 1990 filed a libel suit in federal court in Miami against New Jersey's commission. The New Jersey commission responded to the suit by denying Palullo's claim that he had no connections to organized crime.

23:20 The suit was apparently aimed at stopping journalists from printing such statements. As the New Jersey Commission pointed out, the statute of limitation for libel suit had already ran out. And regardless, the commission could not be sued for such statements because Palulu himself admitted to a reporter before he filed the suit. In 91, the roof fell in on poor Lenny.

23:47 First, he got thrown in jail in New Jersey on contempt charges relating to a lawsuit accusing him of stealing $1.75 million from a pension fund of a printing company he controlled. Then he was indicted by a federal grand jury in Philadelphia for cheating American Savings and Loan in Stockton, California out of $1.6 million.

24:13 out of a loan that he had gotten for $16 million to renovate hotels in Miami Beach. And that's kind of weird when you think about it. Why would you go to Stockton, California to get a loan when you control a whole bunch of savings and loans in Florida, according to the mafia? A 55-count indictment also charged that Palula

24:41 took $114,000 from Royale Group Limited to pay back a personal loan from Philadelphia Man by the name of Anthony DiSalvo at the request of two mafia-linked guys, one of which was Nicodemo Scarfo. Scarfo was the boss of the Philadelphia Mafia. He was currently serving a 60-year printed sentence for...

25:12 prison sentence for racketeering. The other guy, Philip Linetti, was one of Scarfo's underbosses. He was also convicted of racketeering and was cooperating with law enforcement turning state's evidence. Fred Martins, executive director of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, told the Wall Street Journal that DeSalvo is a longtime Scarfo associate and that

25:43 Pululo is a close associate of Scarfo's. In July 91, Pululo was convicted of 50 of the 55 counts against him in Philadelphia, including the theft of the $114,000 to repay a loan shark commanded by the Philadelphia mafia boss, Scarfo. All of these convictions, except for the $114,000 theft, was later overturned on appeals.

26:14 due to technicalities. Before he was jailed on contempt charges, Palula was already dodging a couple of bullets regarding banks and savings and loan fraud. He was the vice president of Dominion Bank in Denver when it failed. Although he was never formally charged of any criminal wrongdoing, regulators questioned whether some of his property pledged to Dominion Loans had also been pledged to Sunshine State Bank Loans.

26:42 Then in 89, he was indicted for fraud at Savings One and SNL in Ohio. Palullo and Savings One owner, David Friedman, a Houston businessman, was charged with five counts of fraud regarding a $145,000 payment to Freeman out of a $1 million loan to a Palullo's company.

27:10 Palulo claiming the payment was prepaid interest that was not supposed to go to Freeman. Freeman was convicted and Paluno, Palulo was not. Freeman had bought Savings One in 83. Around the same time, Mario Renda and Martin Swimmer were also attempting to buy the savings and loan. Little is known about Freeman in Houston, where his companies were headquartered. Lart, Art, Leaser.

27:41 former chief examiner for the Texas Savings and Loan Department, said Friedman was originally from Ohio and connected to Tyrell Barker, the Herman Beebe mobster associate who owns state savings in Lubbock. Friedman was trying to arrange the purchase by Barker of several other savings and loans around the country.

28:05 In 1980, Friedman was involved in a scam to sell grain to Iran in violation of the embargo during the Iran hostage crisis. Friedman lost a federal lawsuit over this in New York. Meanwhile, before any of the savings and loan fraud hit the fan, Polulo

28:26 And his companies and relatives were borrowing from Sunshine State Bank to the tune of $15 million, making them the single largest borrower at the bank. He was also a director of King Crown Corporation, who owned about 6% of Sunshine. All the other officers and directors of King Crown were members of the Corona family.

28:51 Also, long after Sunshine Bank was closed and Ray Corona went to jail, one of the Coronas was found working for Palulo. Needless to say, all of Palulo's loans from Sunshine became delinquent. So he sold Don Pedro Island off the west coast of Florida to the bank for forgiveness of the $2.5 million debt.

29:19 Plus, Sunshine paid to settle some lawsuits against the Royale Group. In November 1984, when the bank was struggling to stay alive, the Florida State Cabinet voted to buy the island for $6 million as part of the state's Save Our Coast program and provided Sunshine with badly needed capital. And I'm sure that had absolutely nothing to do with Gerald Lewis, except he was involved in the entire purchase.

29:48 The comptroller guy that blocked the investigation into this nefarious shit several years before. Even after the deal, Polulo again defaulted on his loans, this time in late 85. The bank was on his last legs. So what did it do? It hired two of the Royal Group senior executives. Then Polulo and the bank agreed that the bank would take back the collateral for the loans and forgive the debt.

30:18 and in addition, issue $15 million in bank stock to Royale, which they're also associated with. The bank regulators halted this transaction, pointing out that it would basically wipe out any personal guarantees of which Palulo was on the hook for. Furthermore, the bank would have to fork over another $3.5 million in cash to the guy, Palulo. The collateral in question was some land in Vermont.

30:48 and a two-acre track in Atlantic City that Polulo wanted to develop as a casino. To that purpose, Polulo had made an agreement with Resorts International, which was a casino company linked to Meyer Lansky, the mob. Like any good mobster, what Polulo coveted most was a casino of his own. He finally got his wish in 88 when he bought the unfinished dunes in Atlantic City.

31:20 a project with a very checkered history. The late mob lawyer, Morris Shanker, had started it and then defaulted on his union pension loan. Shanker sold the project to San Diego developer Jack Bona, one of the select group that borrowed more than $200 million from savings and loans, all of which failed. Bona defaulted on his loans and put the project in bankruptcy.

31:50 That's where Polulo steps in. By that time, Sunshine State Bank had been closed for two years and Ray Corona was in jail on his 20-year term. After Tony Fernandez and Steve Samos testified against him, for which Samos got immunity from prosecution and Raphael Corona's three-year sentence was overturned on appeal. However, before Sunshine State Bank was closed,

32:21 In the summer of 86, the Coronas and Palulo had fought a hard, protracted battle with the feds to keep it open. The first real trouble occurred in 83 after federal bank examiners found that Sunshine had a high probability of failure and decided to take Coronas out of Sunshine Bank. By January of 84, the state comptroller's office under Lewis Still intervened and issued a less severe memorandum of understanding that the bank could improve its situation.

32:51 So he saved it. To bolster the bank's capital and keep it alive, Ray Corona bought the land that the bank headquarters was on and some of the surrounding property, including tracts that Palulo had sold to the bank for a profit of $160,000. And where did the money come to do this? From another bank, People's Savings and Loan in Texas.

33:22 By February of 84, People's Savings and Loan wired almost $3 million to Sunshine State Bank. At that time, there was no documentation for the loan at People's. There was no loan closing statement. There was no recorded mortgage. There was not even a loan application. All of these omissions are violations of federal statute.

33:48 The loan was a six-month loan, which was highly irregular for a small savings and loan of assets with only $129 million. And it was basically being loaned to recapitalize a failed bank in another state, which is the violation of what the savings and loans were for. None of that mattered because it's money laundering. Okay, the loan was paid back.

34:24 20 days after it was due and four months before Ray Corona was indicted for racketeering and money laundering, Corona paid back the loan after he sold the property to South Miami Hospital for a profit of a million dollars. Joel Daniel, the managing officer at Peoples, then said he didn't want to make the loan, but was told he had to do so by the new owners who had taken over just prior to this.

34:52 just three months before the money was wired to Corona. The new owners was Marvin Haas, H-A-A-S-S from San Antonio, and Jerry Holly from Waco. They were construction contractors who also owned some nightclubs and bars in San Antonio, Austin, Waco, and El Paso. Some of the names were Texas Down Under, Doc Holidays, Rocky Raccoon, Abracadabra.

35:22 Needless to say, they knew nothing about savings and loan. They borrowed the money to buy peoples from another dirty savings and loan, First South Savings in Houston. First South was controlled by two attorneys, one of whom bought a title insurance company with a $20 million loan from San Joaquino Savings. That was brokered by Herman Beebe. And again, Herman Beebe puts money in and then decides who gets to borrow that money.

35:51 So it's a direct mafia connection. The former Texas Savings and Loan Commissioner, Alvis Vandegrift, became counsel to these attorneys' law firm after he retired and had the distinction of shepherding through the regulatory process, Robert Corson's application to take control of one of his savings and loan. So the guy who's supposed to be protecting Texas gets in bed.

36:20 with the mafia CIA savings and loan scandal and shows everybody how to do it. Haas and Hawley are two fairly undistinguished gentlemen whose takeover of Peoples gives them the appearance of either being front men or someone like a gopher for Peoples' savings. Hawley ended up being convicted of perjury for statements made during an investigation after Peoples failed itself.

36:51 Haas apparently escaped any serious legal problems. In a search of the public records in San Antonio, it was revealed that Haas is connected to two very influential entities. One of them is the Longoria family from the Rio Grande Valley, a rich, powerful, Mexican-American family. The other is Morris Jaffe. After Jaffe and his first wife divorced, he married a Longoria.

37:22 That's a big name in Texas, a big family name. Asked to characterize his relationship with Jaffe, Haas replied, I worked for him. He's been a friend of mine for 30 years. Joel Daniel, the managing officer at People's, said Haas and Jaffe were supposedly tight. Jaffe reportedly financed Haas' nightclub in San Antonio.

37:52 which Jaffe and his family owned. Jaffe got his original financing for a mall from Farm and Home Savings, a Missouri savings and loan with connections to Walter Michener. But Haas denied that Jaffe financed his bar. He said he was just a landlord. In February of 84, the same month Peoples lent $3 million to Ray Corona, a Michener allied bank in San Antonio lent half a million to...

38:23 Horatius, one of Haas's nightclubs. As collateral for the loan, the nightclub assigned to the bank, Allied American Bank of San Antonio, its interest in a lease with Morse Jaffe. Haas did not answer a question about whether people's savings ever did any business with Jaffe. However, Daniel denied that the savings and load did any business with them, but he acknowledged that there was a

38:54 fixed-based operation in San Antonio's airport right next to Jaffe's, and that People Bank, who financed it, had lost $2 million on the deal. Morris Jaffe is a unique individual in Texas, as unique as Walter Michener. Jaffe could be called the Walter Michener of San Antonio. Both men exercised a great deal of political influence.

39:23 but they do it quietly and behind the scenes. Both were strong supporters of LBJ, Jaffe perhaps more than Michener. Both are feared and talked about in hushed tones, and both had contacts with Carlos Marcello in New Orleans, the mafia boss. Jaffe returned to his native San Antonio after serving as an aircraft engineer in World War II and went in the construction business.

39:50 He made his first fortune after allegedly discovering uranium in Carnes County, where Michener grew up. By flying over it with a newfangled detection device, he managed to sell his leases and options for a big profit. Jaffe also got into the oil business with his buddy Oscar Wyatt, a Texas oilman who went to Iraq with John Conley during the Gulf War to get some American home.

40:20 to get some Americans home, and John Mecham Sr., the rich Houston oilman, whose son, John Mecham Jr., allegedly hot-nobbed with mobsters. Jaffe, like Michener, was never too proud to suck off the government teat. In a celebrated incident in 57, Jaffe got into a dispute with an Air Force colonel at Lackland Air Force Base, who wouldn't go along with Jaffe's efforts to get more airmen to frequent.

40:52 his ice skating rink. Jaffe went over the colonel's head and eventually got the base to bus the airman to his rink over the colonel wing commander. In 1962, Jaffe bought the assets of West Texas con man, Billy Sol Estes out of bankruptcy for $7 million to be paid over a 10 year period. However, by 1971,

41:21 He had only paid $1.3 million on the deal. So the IRS auctioned off the remaining $5.7 million note. And who bought that note? Morris Jaffe, of course, for $200,000. That's crazy. Then in early 1970s, a number of mob connections to Jaffe came out.

41:50 First, Jaffe claimed that he'd been trying to buy Carlos Marcello's Churchill Farms, a 6,400 acre spread in New Orleans. The deal fell apart and Marcello went to jail in 70 for assaulting an FBI agent. I'd have served his time for him if he had sold me the land, Jaffe said. Key points of the alleged explanation for this deal don't make sense. Churchill Farms was one of Marcello's greatest pride in Joyce. It's where he went to do a lot of his scheming.

42:20 He had grandiose plans for it. First, he had gotten the state of Louisiana to put dikes all around the swampland, and then he had the state install huge pumps to drain it. The next thing he wanted was a superhighway going through it, but that was too much even for Louisiana to swallow. That's when Jaffe appeared on the scene wanting to buy the property. Perhaps Marcella figured he'd never be able to get a highway through his property, so he'd just sell it. But perhaps Jaffe was brought in.

42:49 as one organized crime investigator believes, to front for Marcello so the good state of Louisiana could build a highway in good conscience. But when Marcello's assault conviction made him too hot for Jaffe even. Also, the events leading up to Marcello's assault on the FBI agent did much to blow Marcello's cover. Up until then, he had consistently denied being connected to the mafia. But in September,

43:18 66, Marcello was caught by New York police having lunch at La Stella's restaurant in Queens. Seated at Marcello's table was none other than Carlo Gambino, the boss of the biggest New York mafia family. Seated next to Marcello's left was Santo Trafficani, the Florida mob boss. Seated directly across from him was Thomas Ebola.

43:48 acting boss of the Genovese family. And seated next to him was Joseph Colombo, boss of the Colombo family. After being arrested, Marcello returned to New Orleans where he took a swing at an FBI agent at the airport. In August of 1990, in the Texas Monthly, there was a story about Jaffe's son, Doug, traveling to Romania to drum up capital. Jan Jarboe,

44:20 A former San Antonio columnist who wrote occasional fluff about the Jaffe's stated that Marcello is known as the little man with a wide-ranging mafia connections. When I first met Morris Jaffe in 75, I asked him straight out if he was in the mafia. He laughed so hard he practically fell out of his desk chair. He said, hell no. Well, when I read that description of Marcello,

44:49 one of the richest, most powerful, most feared, and most convicted mafia bosses in the country, I laughed. I laughed even harder when I read Jarboe's question to Jaffe. Of course, Jaffe, whose father was Jewish and mother was Hispanic, isn't in the mafia. Only Sicilians and Italians could be mafia. The questions are what organization, enterprises, businesses, and contracts Jaffe has.

45:17 with the members of the mafia and their associates. So what do you call the Jewish mob? Is it the mob or the mafia? Because you have the Italian version and you definitely had the Jewish version. One curious business deal Jaffe attempted in 72 was the purchase of King's Castle Hotel and Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The casino had been owned by Nathan Jacobson.

45:48 who bought it after he sold his interest in Caesars, where he had been one of the original owners, along with the Rogers brothers from Beaumont. Jacobson bought King's Castle with a loan from a mob-controlled Teamsters Union pension fund, but went broke in 72. The pension fund had been fishing around for new owners when Jaffe put his bid in, but he was beaten out. Who bought that casino? Oh, the Pritzkers.

46:18 from Chicago, who hired Burton Cantor as their attorney, who had all of those accounts at Castle Bank, like more than anybody else. Burton Cantor had more accounts at Castle Bank, the CIA bank, than anybody else. He was the attorney for the Pritzkers when they bought the casino. That's crazy. Another mob connection to Jaffe.

46:50 was dug out by journalist Jonathan Kitney. In his book in 1974, the Maldori murder case describes the events leading up to a 1970 murder of Malandori III, an Oklahoma rancher. Malandori's sister, Katsi, married John Mecham Jr. Katsi and Mainland Savings' Raymond Hill are good friends.

47:20 met the loan scam artist and mob associate Leroy Kerwin. Kerwin had earlier gone to jail in a car and bankruptcy scam ran by Chicago Mafia Felix Milwaukee Phil Adoriso, a feared killer and scam artist. Jaffe apparently first encountered Kerwin

47:47 Through a restaurant franchise, Joppy started with the former New York Yankee star Mickey Mantle. Kidney reported that Kerwin went to Chicago to appeal a tax evasion sentence. Joppy accompanied him to petition the judge on his behalf. I would be willing to stick my neck out to guarantee Mr. Kerwin as I know him.

48:13 If there was some way I could personally take responsibility, I would do it, Jaffe told the judge. Jaffe hired Kirwan as a special consultant to his insurance company for $1,000 a month, according to Kidney, and then Kirwan used a Jaffe company as a front for loan swindles. Jaffe claimed later that this swindle cost him $250,000 and that he then turned Kirwan into the authorities. Kirwan fled the country and his body

48:42 would be found in a shallow grave in Canada. He had been shot in the head at close range. No one was ever charged. So he was executed. John Mecham Jr.'s involvement with the mob figures didn't stop with Leroy Kerwin. In testimony before the House Select Committee in 72, Aaron Cohn.

49:06 The director of New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission stated that Mecham, who owned the New Orleans Saints professional football team, was seen frequently at a New Orleans restaurant called Marcello's. The restaurant that was connected to the Marcello's. The restaurant's name was La Louisiane. It was owned by the Morin brothers.

49:36 who received financing from the mobster Marcello. Mecham became closely affiliated with the Morin brothers. They frequented the restaurants. They went together on trips. Finally, Cohn stated, I make reference to another astonishing involvement of the president and major owner of the New Orleans Saints. Last month, April 12th, 1972, John Mecham Jr. was a principal in the organization.

50:08 of two corporations in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Two other principals are a convicted gambler and a developer with ties to Marcello's syndicate. One of the principals was Sam Presley Jr., a notorious gambler sentenced to one year in prison for gambling in 1971. The other was Gerald Sinner, S-E-N-N-E-R.

50:32 He has a considerable record of forming business partnerships with individuals and partners of Carlos Marcelo and other major members of his structure, including Roy and Frank Okopenty. Mecham later sold the Saints to San Antonio and New Orleans car dealer Tom Benson, who, according to a 1985 Comptroller Currency Report on Herman Beebe,

51:00 had purchased Ponsatrain State Bank from Beebe, the mobster. Mecham also owned Warwick Hotel in Houston. When Marcello would come to Houston for his visits, one of his favorite places to stay was Warwick. He would be comped, meaning given free rooms there, by management. That was according to a police criminal intelligence official.

51:32 Other prominent mafia figures stayed at the Warwick as well, such as Sam Giacconi from Chicago. Another author, Thomas Ross, who worked at the time at the Chicago Sun-Times, said Mecham's father and Joffrey's close friend and partner, John Mecham, was one of the original incorporators of the San Joaquino Fund.

52:01 which was used by the CIA to launder and funnel money. Mecham Sr. was also very close to the author describes as the CIA asset, George DeMorganshield, that George. John Mecham, with all of his mobster ties, was close to George DeMorganshield. Just let that sink in a little bit. That's crazy, totally crazy.

52:40 So that's probably, we're gonna continue, but I think that's enough for today. This is a good place to break. It's so much, it's so much. I can't believe that this guy survived writing all of this stuff and outing all of these people and putting all these pieces together. And as I've told Alicia, who,

53:10 knows him, I would love, after we're done with this book, to be able to talk to him. Because honestly, I don't know how he survived. There's just so many connections in here to all of our stories. So we're going to stop there. What you got for us, Ron? Oh, just really interesting about George DeMorenshield.

53:42 You were talking about the Jewish mafia. Well, I mean, if anybody ever goes back and looks at the JFK assassination, I mean, everything about that was he was – I mean, he was on his way to the trademark. That was basically – I think it was a Jewish – I mean, I'm very careful not to – I'm not one that says it's all the Jews. But you can't really deny the –

54:09 The lineage here. Who was the guy who filmed it? Zabruder? I mean, that whole thing, and when you factor in what JFK was trying to do with Dimona and restrict the Israeli nuclear program, a lot of connections there as well. Well, there is clearly... Can you mute? I'm getting a little bit of feedback. There's clearly a Jewish...

54:39 just like there was the Italian mob. There's clearly, I mean, in the book that we were reading about BCCI and you look at the arrangements and who owned what down in Australia in the Sydney area where they had set up the R&R hotel, there was clearly a Jewish mafia down there. And Rupert Murdoch was in the middle of it.

55:06 And, you know, obviously there's lots of the, that's why like, what's his name? Jack Ruby changed his name. Rubenstein is his name. He was associated with the Chicago Mafia. And so there is clearly that same Pritzkers. There's a lot of them going around in that same.

55:33 uh bootleg whiskey um the brothmans all of that stuff there there's clearly a link there um regardless of what anybody wants to say i i agree with you and the um i think i don't remember where i heard this but uh reuben when when jack ruby was asked why he did it

55:56 While he killed Lee Harvey Oswald, he said he did it for Israel, if I remember correctly. I don't remember where that quote came from, and if I'm wrong, I'll own it. But that just comes to mind. Yeah, I've never heard that. But, I mean, there's clearly that whole backdrop.

56:18 And that's one of the things that when I first started doing this research, the name changing. When you would go to actually research the names in these books, and they just seem like regular names until you actually look them up. And that name is a derivative of the original name. So, you know.

56:43 And they all seem to be these people with nefarious backgrounds that did this as a way of not connecting themselves to something that had happened in a previous era in their family history. So it's just a very interesting observation. And another thing you said in there that one of those guys was really close to LBJ. And LBJ was probably the most friendly president.

57:12 Up to that point with in connection with Israel, I think he had a I think one of his mistresses was was a Mossad agent or whatever. And that was right around the time of the of the Liberty incident. So anyway, I'm not trying to connect too many dots and get it off track. I just it's just interesting. A lot of the stuff you said in terms of Chicago, Texas.

57:35 This is fascinating. Yeah, and LBJ is also the only president that I know of that had his own personal assassin, which he did in Texas. And there was a lot of people that, I mean, he was Hillary Clinton before Hillary Clinton. There was a lot of people that knew that LBJ had cheated in the Senate race in Texas, and all of the people mysteriously ended up dead. That's a crazy story.

58:07 And that guy was protected his whole life. So a lot of interesting stories. And another – just – this isn't really ancillary, but LBJ is the one who put in the Johnson Amendment. I want to say it was like 1954, and essentially what that did was that prohibited – it didn't really have a lot of teeth, but it still caused –

58:32 preachers to not necessarily talk about politics from the pulpit. And as soon as all the preachers stopped doing that, that was when you removed prayer from school, you removed Bible reading from school, and then all of a sudden the moral decay of the country just started going off the cliff. Yeah, not a good guy. Definitely not a good guy. The only way he could have ever become president was the way he became president.

59:02 And they were in the middle of an investigation of his crimes in Texas at the time of the assassination. There was an entire investigation going on into his assassins deadly rampage in Texas. It was huge. And that is the rumor that JFK was going to take him off the ticket. And then, you know, in short order.

59:33 As soon as he became president, all of the investigations were dropped. Stellar, go ahead. And I'm just shaking my head between all of these ties within the gaming. So that's the laundering, these families, CIA stuff, you know, these entertainers that have been here, then also back to JFK time. You know, I grew up with some of these families. Never in my world of dreams thought anything about it, you know, and it's like.

1:00:02 Just mind blown. And the banks and Texas and all over Florida and holy. Yeah. I mean, and it's funny because, you know, growing up, I remember these banks, you know, my parents' banks at some of these banks. And it was kind of, it's kind of mind boggling to me that you have all of these, you know,

1:00:29 what appears to normal Americans as fairly prestigious banks. And to find out that this amount of banks, I mean, it was hundreds of them, were all owned and operated by mafia, CIA type people. It's like dumbfounding to me. And how in the world, if the federal government was not complicit in this, did all of this stuff happen?

1:00:59 Because you can tell, even on the reports that they did, like on Herman Beebe, a lot of the information that's in this book came out of the report that was written at the federal government level. And basically, not a lot of it was ever acted upon. And again, back then, judge shopping is not new.

1:01:24 they would get acquitted on certain accounts or they would cop a plea deal because the DOJ was involved in it as well. It's just, it's those people that were not indicted, repeatedly not indicted. And no one, Congress, no one ever looked into it. The very few commissions that were ever done, John Kerry's one of them, but it appears now,

1:01:53 in hindsight, that while there was some exposure, there was no accountability in most cases. And if there was any accountability, it was the low hanging fruit, not the primary perpetrators of it. So that's why after reading as many books as I've had on this, I realized that Congress is theater. It's a kabuki dance. The commissions, the committees that they have, all kabuki dances.

1:02:23 And it's the same in, especially in Florida back then, a lot of corruption, a lot of corruption. The Cuban exile community was very, very big and influential at the time because if you didn't go along with what they wanted you to, they'd kill you. So there was a lot of corruption in Florida politics back then.

1:02:51 Well, I'm just thinking about some of the families, you know, like you guys are talking about the Jewish mob stuff and I'm just like linking things together like after, I mean, the families, you know, of course they're around here, but when they got in trouble, when there was just too much light on them, they had to go somewhere and they were still under control. I mean, and they all went to, you know, a lot of them did go to Florida and stuff like that. Families are still here, Southern California. It's just kind of crazy and the history between.

1:03:20 Las Vegas. Holy cow. It just totally ties in everything. Every freaking thing. It's a small world. Yeah. And then when you start thinking internationally, the tie-ins with Macau and Hong Kong. Bora Bora. All of them. Exactly. Yes. Same network. Yeah. Totally incredible. And of course, I think back.

1:03:49 I think I've told you guys this story, but the one Northern Iraqi guy that was very wealthy, that used to come to all of General Garner's dinners that the Northern Iraqis hosted for us, asked me to go on a tour of the world casinos with him, like to go to Monaco and to Bora Bora. I'm like, I can't do that, I'm married. He goes, oh, I don't care. Well, I do.

1:04:19 And it's just like, that's their playground. They're all very at ease there. And another interesting dynamic of this, that they designated locations among themselves, all the different Jewish faction, Italian faction mobs of designated locations that were free from competition. And I found out that,

1:04:48 The Warm Springs in Arkansas was one of them. If you go back and you look at the history of that town, it was one of the places they all went. They got along, even if they were in the middle of a war, they all went there together and sat around, jibber jabbered. And there were several of those places that they had designated as like,

1:05:14 community property where they could all go and have fun in their fun way. But some of them were very odd. I couldn't believe one of them was in Arkansas, but of course we know about Arkansas. So in the aftermath, it makes perfect sense, but it didn't at the time. Colonel, I just posted a book in the pill there, and it's a book by a French author named Laurent Guillaume.

1:05:48 He does a very good and thorough job connecting the JFK assassination and potentially the RFK assassination with Israeli forces. I still don't believe that Israel was the only ones that had a hand in that. Everybody did, I think, because everybody wanted him out of the way. But he does a really good job of connecting.

1:06:17 that aspect of it so i put that in the thank you and i would i find that slightly ironic since we've confirmed that french oas officers were in dallas that day their version of the gladio at least two by some accounts three or four depending on who you read and what your source of information and that they were the people that were on the grassy knoll that took the shot from the front and that

1:06:46 you know, there were other assassins there from behind and that at least two of the shots that hit came from behind up above. So, you know, it was a kill zone. There was no way he was going to make it out of there alive. They had decided that was going to be the deal and it was the deal. And like I said, I don't, I'm of the opinion now after

1:07:14 Looking at this, I mean, look at Columbia. You had MI6 there, you had the CIA, and you had the IDF intelligence and some Mossad associated figures in Columbia when they were setting up all of the cocaine triangle at the time. I'm of the opinion that there's not a lot of difference between all of them.

1:07:36 The MI6, all of them were modeled off of the MI6 model. They were all set up post-World War II, and they all collectively worked together. We have found the CIA working with the KCIA in Korea, the intelligence organization they set up in Iran in the immediate aftermath of the war under the Shah. All of the intelligence agencies that they set up after they overthrew the government in

1:08:05 Latin America. They work as a hive. I don't see a lot of distinction. Do they have some competition based on personality between them? Yes, they do. But at the end of the day, they all work together. The old Saudi government was in bed with the CIA. John Brennan is a perfect example of that. So the German BND, the Galen organization.

1:08:34 derivative of the CIA. They picked who was going to be in charge of it. They bought Crypto AG together. They deployed Crypto AG together. So I just, I don't see a lot of difference. And just about every place you see the CIA, there's going to be an MI6 person there as well. Go ahead, Ron. To your point there, I always kind of like to describe that as

1:09:03 It's like there's a Walmart in every town. The Walmart in one town is different. It has a different management structure than the one that's two towns over, but they still operate under the same Walmart banner. And I kind of use that as a loose.

1:09:24 understanding of Intel agencies. All these Intel agencies at the very extreme corporate level, they all are on the same team. But each individual store is like the United States CIA or MI6 or KGB or GRU or whatever. And I don't know how accurate that is to describe it, but that's generally kind of how I've come to understand it. Yeah.

1:09:55 I understand that point. And of course, stores that are co-located in the same city, they compete against each other to some extent as far as sales goes and stuff like that. So it's definitely a loose, good example of the internal rivalries in trying to promote one agenda over the other.

1:10:20 And do they do some backstabbing things? Yes. James Angleton is probably the best example of that. You won't find anybody else that has two memorials in a foreign country, i.e. Israel. And he was also running the Vatican deaths at the same time. And that's where you have all of them being inducted into the Knights of Malta.

1:10:43 the Masonic Lodge of P2 that they were associated with. And it's just an interesting web that they have spread around the world. I refer to the entire organization as the world's Praetorian Guard. They are the Praetorian Guard for the International Syndicate. At the end of the day, it is the syndicate that decides.

1:11:10 what's going on and where it's going to go on. And they just carry out the orders. That was very well put. So anyway, all right. If we don't have any more comments, we're going to go ahead and close up. And let's see. I did a very interesting interview with a podcaster in Malaysia today. Very interesting interview.

1:11:44 And I love doing the foreign interviews to get their insight into how they see the world. And I definitely really enjoyed that one. So let's look over. I am going to be on CanCon and show tomorrow.

1:12:09 They're at six o'clock on Badlands Media. They're reviewing the book that was written by the author. And I don't remember his name off the top of my head. Hold on, I'll get his name. Hold on just one second. Ralph Pozzuolo. He's the guy that showed up in that Operation Condor was going on that made the comment that his dad used to come home and share all of his.

1:12:40 news of the day with him, with the CIA Bernhardt guy, Bernhardt, whatever his name is. They're reviewing his book that supposedly Patrick Burns paid to have written about how the CIA isn't the election interference guy. It's all from Venezuela. So they invited me on their show.

1:13:08 to discuss, I think we're going to go over chapter four. So he sent me the book. I'm going to participate with him for just that chapter tomorrow at six o'clock on Badlands Media on Ashes and King Kong's show. So- I'm guessing that's the book Stolen Elections?

1:13:37 Go on elections? I put it in the pill. Alpha Warrior Show for right now is on for Wednesday night at 9.30. I wouldn't be surprised if that gets canceled, but for now it is. And on New Year's Day, Warhamster and I do plan on doing our noon show. I'll let you know if there's any conflicts with that.

1:14:07 I likely will not do a show that day. I will definitely do our, obviously I did Mondays, that's today, Tuesday and Wednesday. And then we will definitely do one on Friday. So that's kind of the schedule. How is Warhamster doing after his surgery? He's doing great, according to him. You know, we did the show last week, so, or whenever that was.

1:14:33 the last show that we did since he's, so he can sit in his chair for an hour, but yeah, but it's about an hour long. That's about as long as he can last right now. So anyway, keep him in your prayers for a speedy recovery. Okay. That's it guys. Thanks for being here. And I will see you tomorrow at four. Take care.

Entities here

Robert Corson23 Leonard Palulo21 Morris Jaffe19 Sunshine State Bank18 Frank Castro17 Tony Fernandez12 Carlos Marcello10 John Mecham Sr.9 People's Savings and Loan8 Stephen Samos7 Philadelphia7 Marvin Haas6 Gerald Lewis5 Leroy Kerwin5 Lyndon B. Johnson5 Walter Mischer4 United States4 Contras4 David Friedman4 Herman Beebe4 New Orleans4 Jonathan Kitzman4 Colombia3 Nicodemo Scarfo3 Nestor Sanchez3 Royale Group Limited3 New Jersey State Commission of Investigation3 Marvin Warner3 Costa Rica3 Meyer Lansky3 Joel Daniel3 Joseph Klein3 Iran2 Guillermo Hernandez-Cartier2 Texas2 Operation Gladio2 Aaron Cohn2 Dominican Republic2 Pritzker family2 Burton Cantor2

Claims made here

Frank Castro supplied_arms_to Contras documented ▶ 2:33

“These charges against Frank Castro was also dismissed. So does that tell you that he works with the CIA? Yes, it does. From July 83 to January of 84, the same time period in which he was under indictm…”

Rob Owens member_of U.S. State Department documented ▶ 4:05

“who is the right-hand man to Oliver North in the State Department. More important, according to the CIA's official pronouncements, its primary work is the funneling of information. That's the code wor…”

Frank Castro member_of Brigade 2506 documented ▶ 4:34

“It's worked to be the elimination of foreign politicians. It doesn't like, because of course the CIA does that too. The Cuban exile, Frank Castro, was a member of the infamous Brigade 2506, which of c…”

Frank Castro financed_via Sunshine State Bank documented ▶ 7:26

“The U.S. government hadn't technically declared a war against Nicaragua. They had just conducted one for years. In announcing the indictment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Snap said that Castro finance…”

Tony Fernandez trafficked Colombia documented ▶ 9:50

“He was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the marijuana smuggling syndicate headed by fellow Cuban exile and CIA contract agent Tony Fernandez. From 77 to 81, Fernandez and his associates smuggl…”

Tony Fernandez kidnapped Frank Castro documented ▶ 10:20

“the little lie, was arrested and jailed in New Orleans for his smuggling activities. Fernandez made bail with the help of a banker friend. Upon release, he was kidnapped by Frank Castro and taken to C…”

Stephen Samos laundered_money_for Lawrence Iorizzo documented ▶ 11:36

“wanted to use some of his drug smuggling proceeds to buy a bank in Miami. His Panamanian money launderer, Stephen Sandor Samos, advised against it because it was inevitably going to be scrutinized by …”

Amalgamated Commercial Enterprises supplied_arms_to Contras documented ▶ 12:04

“launder money through offshore companies and who was linked to amalgamated commercial enterprises, which was funneling money and equipment to the Contras. According to an attorney in the case, Samos' …”

Robert Corson member_of Total Bank documented ▶ 14:02

“fellow Cuban exile, Jose Alvaro Cruz, then the biggest drug smuggler in Miami. Fernandez went to work for Cruz, who then introduced him to Miami banker Ray Corona. Corona, like Fernandez, hungered aft…”

Stephen Samos financed_via Robert Corson documented ▶ 15:33

“based on questions about his banking experience. Finally, in mid-1978, Corona won permission to buy Sunshine State Bank in Miami. As a down payment, Samos wired him $1.15 million from Fernando's bank …”

Robert Corson founded Sunshine State Bank documented ▶ 15:33

Tony Fernandez financed_via Robert Corson documented ▶ 16:00

“turned more than $1 million in cash over to Corona to consummate the deal. After Fernandez was indicted and then kidnapped to Colombia, he sold his shares in Sunshine to Corona, putting the Coronas in…”

Gerald Lewis covered_up Sunshine State Bank documented ▶ 16:59

“And a big borrower was Lazaro Albo, the right-hand man of the former Miami mayor, Maurice Ferre. But the politician who most helped Coronas was Florida Comptroller Gerald Lewis, whose office continual…”

Gerald Lewis member_of Marvin Warner documented ▶ 17:30

“at Sunshine. Lewis also presided over the failure of ESM Government Securities, which was located in Fort Lauderdale. It was ESM that caused the failure of Marvin Warner's home state savings in Ohio a…”

Sunshine State Bank laundered_money_for Willie Falcon documented ▶ 19:31

“And although Fernandez apparently never used Sunshine to launder his drug profits, Falcon did, according to the assistant U.S. prosecutor and an attorney who represented Sunshine State Bank. Other Mia…”

Sam Cohen overbilled_or_diverted Flamingo Hotel documented ▶ 20:30

“This begins in 1971 when 23-year-old Ray Corona returned to Miami to start his banking career at Miami National Bank. At the time, this bank was controlled by Sam Cohen, an associate of mob financier …”

Sam Cohen member_of Meyer Lansky documented ▶ 20:30

Joseph Klein member_of Kavanaugh Communities Corporation documented ▶ 20:58

“for illegally skimming money from the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Cohen copped a plea and did four months in club fed. One of Corona's customers at Miami National was Joseph Klein, the CEO of a compa…”

Leonard Palulo member_of Royale Group Limited documented ▶ 21:48

“After Corona took over Sunshine Bank, he put Joseph Klein's wife on his board and began to do business with Royale Group Limited. That was the successor company to Klein's Kavanaugh Communities Incorp…”

Leonard Palulo member_of Nicodemo Scarfo documented ▶ 25:12

“prison sentence for racketeering. The other guy, Philip Linetti, was one of Scarfo's underbosses. He was also convicted of racketeering and was cooperating with law enforcement turning state's evidenc…”

Leonard Palulo member_of Dominion Bank documented ▶ 26:14

“due to technicalities. Before he was jailed on contempt charges, Palula was already dodging a couple of bullets regarding banks and savings and loan fraud. He was the vice president of Dominion Bank i…”

David Friedman member_of Savings One documented ▶ 26:42

“Then in 89, he was indicted for fraud at Savings One and SNL in Ohio. Palullo and Savings One owner, David Friedman, a Houston businessman, was charged with five counts of fraud regarding a $145,000 p…”

David Friedman member_of Tyrell Barker documented ▶ 27:41

“former chief examiner for the Texas Savings and Loan Department, said Friedman was originally from Ohio and connected to Tyrell Barker, the Herman Beebe mobster associate who owns state savings in Lub…”

Leonard Palulo financed_via Sunshine State Bank documented ▶ 28:26

“And his companies and relatives were borrowing from Sunshine State Bank to the tune of $15 million, making them the single largest borrower at the bank. He was also a director of King Crown Corporatio…”

Leonard Palulo financed_via Don Pedro Island documented ▶ 28:51

“Also, long after Sunshine Bank was closed and Ray Corona went to jail, one of the Coronas was found working for Palulo. Needless to say, all of Palulo's loans from Sunshine became delinquent. So he so…”

Florida State Cabinet financed_via Don Pedro Island documented ▶ 29:19

“Plus, Sunshine paid to settle some lawsuits against the Royale Group. In November 1984, when the bank was struggling to stay alive, the Florida State Cabinet voted to buy the island for $6 million as …”

Leonard Palulo financed_via Resorts International documented ▶ 30:48

“and a two-acre track in Atlantic City that Polulo wanted to develop as a casino. To that purpose, Polulo had made an agreement with Resorts International, which was a casino company linked to Meyer La…”

Robert Corson financed_via People's Savings and Loan documented ▶ 32:51

“So he saved it. To bolster the bank's capital and keep it alive, Ray Corona bought the land that the bank headquarters was on and some of the surrounding property, including tracts that Palulo had sol…”

People's Savings and Loan financed_via Sunshine State Bank documented ▶ 33:22

“By February of 84, People's Savings and Loan wired almost $3 million to Sunshine State Bank. At that time, there was no documentation for the loan at People's. There was no loan closing statement. The…”

Jerry Holly member_of People's Savings and Loan documented ▶ 34:24

“20 days after it was due and four months before Ray Corona was indicted for racketeering and money laundering, Corona paid back the loan after he sold the property to South Miami Hospital for a profit…”

Marvin Haas member_of People's Savings and Loan documented ▶ 34:24

Robert Corson paid People's Savings and Loan documented ▶ 34:24

First South Savings financed_via People's Savings and Loan documented ▶ 35:22

“Needless to say, they knew nothing about savings and loan. They borrowed the money to buy peoples from another dirty savings and loan, First South Savings in Houston. First South was controlled by two…”

Herman Beebe financed_via San Jacinto Savings documented ▶ 35:22

Alvis Vandegrift covered_up Robert Corson host_asserted ▶ 35:51

“So it's a direct mafia connection. The former Texas Savings and Loan Commissioner, Alvis Vandegrift, became counsel to these attorneys' law firm after he retired and had the distinction of shepherding…”

Jerry Holly member_of People's Savings and Loan documented ▶ 36:20

“with the mafia CIA savings and loan scandal and shows everybody how to do it. Haas and Hawley are two fairly undistinguished gentlemen whose takeover of Peoples gives them the appearance of either bei…”

Jerry Holly front_for People's Savings and Loan host_asserted ▶ 36:20

Marvin Haas front_for People's Savings and Loan host_asserted ▶ 36:20

Marvin Haas member_of Longoria family documented ▶ 36:51

“Haas apparently escaped any serious legal problems. In a search of the public records in San Antonio, it was revealed that Haas is connected to two very influential entities. One of them is the Longor…”

Morris Jaffe member_of Longoria family documented ▶ 36:51

Morris Jaffe financed_via Marvin Haas host_asserted ▶ 37:22

“That's a big name in Texas, a big family name. Asked to characterize his relationship with Jaffe, Haas replied, I worked for him. He's been a friend of mine for 30 years. Joel Daniel, the managing off…”

Farm and Home Savings financed_via Morris Jaffe documented ▶ 37:52

“which Jaffe and his family owned. Jaffe got his original financing for a mall from Farm and Home Savings, a Missouri savings and loan with connections to Walter Michener. But Haas denied that Jaffe fi…”

Allied American Bank of San Antonio financed_via Marvin Haas documented ▶ 37:52

Morris Jaffe member_of Walter Mischer host_asserted ▶ 38:54

“fixed-based operation in San Antonio's airport right next to Jaffe's, and that People Bank, who financed it, had lost $2 million on the deal. Morris Jaffe is a unique individual in Texas, as unique as…”

Morris Jaffe member_of Carlos Marcello host_asserted ▶ 39:23

“but they do it quietly and behind the scenes. Both were strong supporters of LBJ, Jaffe perhaps more than Michener. Both are feared and talked about in hushed tones, and both had contacts with Carlos …”

Morris Jaffe financed_via Billie Sol Estes documented ▶ 40:52

“his ice skating rink. Jaffe went over the colonel's head and eventually got the base to bus the airman to his rink over the colonel wing commander. In 1962, Jaffe bought the assets of West Texas con m…”

Morris Jaffe financed_via Churchill Farms host_asserted ▶ 41:50

“First, Jaffe claimed that he'd been trying to buy Carlos Marcello's Churchill Farms, a 6,400 acre spread in New Orleans. The deal fell apart and Marcello went to jail in 70 for assaulting an FBI agent…”

Morris Jaffe front_for Carlos Marcello host_asserted ▶ 42:49

“as one organized crime investigator believes, to front for Marcello so the good state of Louisiana could build a highway in good conscience. But when Marcello's assault conviction made him too hot for…”

Thomas Eboli member_of Carlos Marcello documented ▶ 43:18

“66, Marcello was caught by New York police having lunch at La Stella's restaurant in Queens. Seated at Marcello's table was none other than Carlo Gambino, the boss of the biggest New York mafia family…”

Santo Trafficante Jr. member_of Carlos Marcello documented ▶ 43:18

Carlo Gambino member_of Carlos Marcello documented ▶ 43:18

Joseph Colombo member_of Carlos Marcello documented ▶ 43:48

“acting boss of the Genovese family. And seated next to him was Joseph Colombo, boss of the Colombo family. After being arrested, Marcello returned to New Orleans where he took a swing at an FBI agent …”

Pritzker family financed_via King's Castle Hotel and Casino documented ▶ 45:48

“who bought it after he sold his interest in Caesars, where he had been one of the original owners, along with the Rogers brothers from Beaumont. Jacobson bought King's Castle with a loan from a mob-co…”

Nathan Jacobson financed_via King's Castle Hotel and Casino documented ▶ 45:48

Burton Cantor member_of Pritzker family documented ▶ 46:18

“from Chicago, who hired Burton Cantor as their attorney, who had all of those accounts at Castle Bank, like more than anybody else. Burton Cantor had more accounts at Castle Bank, the CIA bank, than a…”

Jonathan Kitzman exposed Leroy Kerwin book_quoted ▶ 47:20

“met the loan scam artist and mob associate Leroy Kerwin. Kerwin had earlier gone to jail in a car and bankruptcy scam ran by Chicago Mafia Felix Milwaukee Phil Adoriso, a feared killer and scam artist…”

Leroy Kerwin member_of Felix Milano book_quoted ▶ 47:20

Leroy Kerwin front_for Morris Jaffe book_quoted ▶ 48:13

“If there was some way I could personally take responsibility, I would do it, Jaffe told the judge. Jaffe hired Kirwan as a special consultant to his insurance company for $1,000 a month, according to …”

Morris Jaffe financed_via Leroy Kerwin book_quoted ▶ 48:13

John Mecham Sr. member_of Carlos Marcello documented ▶ 49:06

“The director of New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission stated that Mecham, who owned the New Orleans Saints professional football team, was seen frequently at a New Orleans restaurant called Marcel…”

Tom Benson financed_via New Orleans documented ▶ 50:32

“He has a considerable record of forming business partnerships with individuals and partners of Carlos Marcelo and other major members of his structure, including Roy and Frank Okopenty. Mecham later s…”

John Mecham Sr. member_of Sam Presley Jr. documented ▶ 50:32

Tom Benson financed_via Pontchartrain State Bank documented ▶ 50:32

Carlos Marcello member_of Warwick Hotel documented ▶ 51:00

“had purchased Ponsatrain State Bank from Beebe, the mobster. Mecham also owned Warwick Hotel in Houston. When Marcello would come to Houston for his visits, one of his favorite places to stay was Warw…”

Sam Giancana member_of Warwick Hotel documented ▶ 51:32

“Other prominent mafia figures stayed at the Warwick as well, such as Sam Giacconi from Chicago. Another author, Thomas Ross, who worked at the time at the Chicago Sun-Times, said Mecham's father and J…”

John Mecham Sr. member_of San Joaquino Fund book_quoted ▶ 51:32

John Mecham Sr. member_of George de Mohrenschildt book_quoted ▶ 52:01

“which was used by the CIA to launder and funnel money. Mecham Sr. was also very close to the author describes as the CIA asset, George DeMorganshield, that George. John Mecham, with all of his mobster…”

Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald host_asserted ▶ 55:56

“While he killed Lee Harvey Oswald, he said he did it for Israel, if I remember correctly. I don't remember where that quote came from, and if I'm wrong, I'll own it. But that just comes to mind. Yeah,…”

Organisation armée secrète carried_out_attack Dallas host_asserted ▶ 1:06:17

“that aspect of it so i put that in the thank you and i would i find that slightly ironic since we've confirmed that french oas officers were in dallas that day their version of the gladio at least two…”

James Jesus Angleton member_of Knights of Malta host_asserted ▶ 1:10:20

“And do they do some backstabbing things? Yes. James Angleton is probably the best example of that. You won't find anybody else that has two memorials in a foreign country, i.e. Israel. And he was also…”

James Jesus Angleton member_of P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted ▶ 1:10:43

“the Masonic Lodge of P2 that they were associated with. And it's just an interesting web that they have spread around the world. I refer to the entire organization as the world's Praetorian Guard. The…”

Patrick Byrne funded Stolen Elections host_asserted ▶ 1:12:40

“news of the day with him, with the CIA Bernhardt guy, Bernhardt, whatever his name is. They're reviewing his book that supposedly Patrick Burns paid to have written about how the CIA isn't the electio…”