The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19

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0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel and SR-71. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. I see Meganuk in the audience. Woohoo! Shout out. We're doing great today, Bridget. Hopefully you're doing well as can be. It's 68 degrees in December, so I can't complain whatsoever. 68 in the upper Midwest. That's not bad at all. Woohoo! All right.

0:29 Just don't plant your garden yet. Yeah, I'd be a little too early for that. I was out weeding mine, though. Bragger. I know. All right, we're going to get started. We're still on the chapter about Silverado, where we found Neil Bush and a bunch of other shady characters. So we're going to dig in. There were two relationships at Silverado, one business and the other personal.

0:59 that led to the most fascinating characters in the savings and loan debacle. The first relationship, a Silverado director, Diane Ingalls, a Denver real estate broker, who was also on the board of the Federal National Mortgage Corporation, was living with a Denver businessman named Ray Neer, spelled N-E-A-R. The second relationship, Silverado lent

1:30 almost $8 million to William Paul's to buy a Boston and Champa building in Denver from Bill Walters. We talked about him yesterday. What Rainiers and William Paul's have in common is that they both worked for a man named John W. Dick, whose background and story seems close to fictional.

1:58 Dick was born and raised in a Mennonite community near Kitchener, Canada, northwest of Toronto. His father's family originally was from Holland, immigrated to Russia. Just before the Bolshevik Revolution, his father, Peter Dick, traveled to Canada on business and then decided to stay there with all the turmoil going on in Russia.

2:25 John Dick's father eventually married a Mennonite woman and went to work in a meatpacking plant. His wife was a maid to a doctor. Dick was born in 1938 and spoke German for the first three years of his life. The family was poor. The Mennonites, an evangelical Christian group like the Amish, emphasized plain, simple living. Dick quickly shed his Mennonite upbringing when he went to college to become a lawyer.

2:55 When he was 26, he moved to Denver and started working for Denver attorney Clarence Arch Decker, a Colorado state senator who would later represent Dick's wife in a fierce divorce battle. Dick clerked for Decker for three years, after which Decker sponsored Dick for admission to the Colorado Bar. But Dick wanted to get rich in a hurry and quickly left the practice of law for real estate.

3:24 He was joined by his fellow Canadian and Mennonite, William Pauls. Sometime in the mid-70s, Dick became involved with people in business in the Isle of Jersey, where the mafia and CIA loved to launder their money. This reportedly came about when he was searching around for financing to get involved in a new Denver tech center on the southeast side of the city. Dick first approached Barclay Bank in England.

3:55 who sent him to the Isle of Jersey. Isn't that interesting? In May of 1988, an affidavit in his divorce action on Jersey, Dick stated that he had been considering moving to Jersey since 75 and had resided there since 1980. Sometime in that period, Dick became acquainted with the principles of compendium trust in financial consults.

4:26 including Harvey, the same people Lawrence Freeman dealt with in laundering Jack DeVoe's drug money and who Mike Atkinson had dealt with in moving Texas savings and loan money to the Isle of Jersey that we already talked about. In fact, some people close to Dick believe he was instrumental in having the Jersey Trust established. Compendium, because he's a lawyer.

4:53 Compendium and Sanson were set up in 77 and 78 after Ray Harvey and his associates moved to Jersey from the Bank of Nova Scotia in the Bahamas. Also in 78, Harvey and his Isle of Jersey partner, John Wadman, were involved in Denver land transactions with Dick, Paul's, and Dick's brother-in-law, Warner Heinrich.

5:19 There were several lawsuits accusing Dick and his partners of fraud. Then in 79, Harvey and Wadman participated in a land deal along with Dick and Paul's involving a major part of the Denver Tech Center. Also, at least one of Dick's family trusts was under the compendium umbrella. Dick entered into a real estate transaction with Sanson that was reminiscent of those at Atkinson in the Meyer land and senior Joe.

5:50 paper deals involving the mafia, which we're going to discuss later. This particular arrangement occurred in August of 86, just two months after Atkinson closed on the Florida land deal with St. Joe's Paper Company, and Corson's savings and loan transferred $7 million to Sandcent on the Isle of Jersey.

6:19 In this instance, Sanson had lent Dick $5 million, secured by a $17 million promissory note on the Colorado land, which was then transferred to Dick by Pauls several years earlier. These notes required no interest of principle to be paid until 1996. The California judge hearing Elizabeth Dick's

6:46 Divorce petition called the creation of the $17 million promissory note a sham transaction. Another interesting tidbit leaked out during the divorce. Decker, Elizabeth Dick's attorney, stated in court that Dick had helped his friend Bill Walters, the big millionaire in Denver, move $20 million in 86 to the Isle of Jersey.

7:16 Dick denied this when questioned. Several sources close to Dick said that Walters definitely traveled to the Isle of Jersey in 86, where he stayed at Dick's mansion. In 84, Dick's purchased the lordship of St. John, one of the 12 entities on the Isle of Jersey.

7:46 It consisted of a huge multi-million dollar 16th century manor and 120 surrounding acres. When friends, including Diane Ingalls and Bill Neer, would come to visit Dick on the Isle of Jersey, any of the overflow crowd would be put up at the Little Grove Inn, which was owned by none other than St. Joe Paper Company.

8:15 of the DuPonts in Delaware had a in on the place where the CIA likes to money launder. Crazy. Also in partnership with St. Joe was Ed Ball and Charters Oil, Raymond Mason. They were all there. There was at least one direct transaction where Dick and Walters worked together.

8:51 In August of 1985, Walters sold a lot and house at the Vintage Club outside of Palm Springs to Dick's company, Noramco Management Group. To buy the property, Noramco borrowed $1.7 million from Hill Financial, Red Hill in Red Hill, Pennsylvania.

9:14 Dick signed the mortgage as president of Noramco and also gave a personal guarantee to the note. Dick was introduced to Hill Financial by Richard Rossmiller, Walter's old partner and a $180 million plus borrower at Hill Financial. Rossmiller, as noted before, had done business with mobster Herman Beepy.

9:43 back in the 70s and probably was still doing business with him based on the banks that he owned. There was evidence of contact between Bebe and Dick as Bebe's name and phone numbers, including the number of his house in La Costa, were in Dick's private Rolodex. Ross Miller, in an April 4th, 1986 letter,

10:11 to the president of Hill Financial, stated that John Dick visited me last night concerning a loan. Dick had purchased four condominiums across the street from his own house for his parents and their servants and wanted to purchase the remaining 19 condos in the complex. In his letter to Lute, Ross Miller said, John would like to borrow $4 million for a period of three years.

10:37 $3 million would be used for the acquisition and $1 million for an interest reserve. Ross Miller then closed his letter by saying, John, I think Jess felt more comfortable asking me to write you because it was I who made the introduction. John spoke about using another local lender for the loan. I told him, heck no, this is a heel-tight deal. It was a good deal and a solid sponsorship. Please give John a call.

11:08 Dick and Lutz eventually worked out a deal in which one of Dick's companies, Wellington Management Service, would get two loans, totaling the $3.5 million from Nationwide Lending Group of Colorado, Hill Financial's Colorado affiliate. With a guarantee from Dick, Dick, of course, defaulted on the good deal loan and the Resolute Trust Corporation as receiver for the failed Hill Financial saving.

11:35 Savings sued Dick in 1990 for $3.5 million loan. As we covered in chapter six, surety savings, Ross Miller told a number of people in Denver that he, Ross Miller, had worked for the CIA. Ross Miller also told several people that John Dick sold weapons to Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s. It was around the same time that Mike Atkinson was allegedly selling weapons to Iraq.

12:05 By means of Saudi and Kuwait. So it appears they were doing business together. Both Atkinson and Dick were dealing with the same Isle of Jersey trust that were connected to wealthy Saudis. A person close to Dick confirmed that Dick traveled to Saudi Arabia in 81 and had entertained Saudi Arabian royalty at his house in Denver, Colorado. Ross Miller, who was a captain in the Air Force, apparently had a special relationship with the CIA too.

12:37 John Kelso, who shows up twice in Oliver North's White House notebook and claims to have worked on a contract basis for the CIA, told Washington journalist Paul Mulalo that Ross Miller laundered money for the CIA. Kelso, who went to jail for trying to sell missiles to Iraq, worked for Ross Miller once on a project to extract gold from water.

13:03 A Denver attorney close to Ross Miller and one of Ross Miller's associates and neighbors said that Ross Miller used to brag about working for the CIA. This bragging by Ross Miller was confirmed by several people. Ross Miller lived several houses down from Dick on Sunset Drive in Englewood, and the two would get together and discuss business often. Another neighbor at the end of the street was William Pauls.

13:32 who purchased his house from Bill Walters, the real estate guy, builder. Walters had purchased the property, torn down the house and built another one. The person Walters bought the property from was the godfather of white color crime and con artist in Colorado named John McCandish King. King had moved to Denver in 63 from Chicago after serving three terms as an Illinois State

14:03 legislature. He got into the oil business, made some money, then went broke and started selling oil tax shelters and mutual funds. In the manner of international con men, Keene eventually met up with mutual fund swindler Bernie Kornfeld and attempted to buy Kornfeld's IOS company. He lost out and IOS eventually was swallowed by Robert Vesco, another criminal.

14:34 connected to the CIA. In the mid-1970s, King did a year in jail for income tax fraud and quietly retired to a Colorado ranch. Before that happened, King had gotten close to Richard Nixon and claimed to have been an advisor to President Johnson, Kennedy, Herbert Hoover when he ran the Hoover Commission under Truman. King also had an account at Paul Helliwell's Castle Bank in the Cayman Islands.

15:03 And some of his advisors included former astronaut Wally Sharira and Frank Borman, as well as Richard Allen. Allen later served as Ronald Reagan's first national security advisor and resigned under a cloud of scandal fueled by stories in the Wall Street Journal written by Jonathan Kidney. King is also mentioned in the Iran-Contra documents.

15:31 That is an exhibit to the testimony of Richard Secord. It is in a 1986 letter to Albert Hakim, Secord's Contra resupply partner from Willard Zucker, their attorney, who helped to set up the corporations and Swiss bank accounts to do all the money laundering. Zucker stated that he knows King and had a mutual acquaintance.

15:58 that he would not be investing in one of King's new oil ventures. Another person close to Dick said that King had taught Dick all he knew about how to create trust accounts and launder money. Dick also cultivated Atlantic Richfield's Robert Anderson, Michener's land partner. They had several things in common. They both knew and did business with Richard Ross Miller, and they both borrowed money from Hill Financial.

16:28 Dick had Anderson over to his house for dinner while Anderson invited Dick to his annual Christmas dinner for the world's most powerful men at the Claridge Hotel in London. The only women in attendance, according to a source close to Dick, was then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. There are other indications that Dick moved in international circles. He owned a farm in Manitoba from which he sells wheat to the Soviet Union. He holds citizenship.

16:59 in the Dominican Republic. That's extremely bothersome since we know the Dominican Republic was basically ran by the CIA and used for both drugs and weapons transfers. How convenient, especially if you're a money launderer and live on the Isle of Jersey where they launder money. Private detectives have tracked his travels all over the world, from Europe to the Middle East to the Far East, and he allegedly uses evangelist...

17:32 evangelist Billy Graham's Youth for Christ International to travel under their banner. I'd like to say I'm shocked. Dick was reportedly instrumental in establishing Youth for Christ International headquarters in Singapore where he traveled frequently. In 1990 Dick attended a Youth for Christ meeting in Chicago where he praised Graham where he praised he was praised by Graham for heading

18:02 a $10 million used for Christ trust fund. So wait a minute. The guy that's famous for setting up trust funds on the Isle of Jersey was praised for setting up a trust fund under a ministry of Billy Graham's. Okay. This fund, according to a source, was operated out of the Isle of Jersey.

18:35 Isn't that convenient? Dick also has a number of businesses in London because of course he does. In 1987, Dick and his partner, Paul's, were attempting to buy an office building in London across the Thames from Parliament for about 5 million pounds with a 20-year lease to the British government agency. Hill Financial was going to make the loan.

19:03 And there was correspondence between property consultants in London and Al Lutz. Federal examiners said the deal apparently fell through. Also in London, Dick and Paul's owned a business called Hooper's Royal Carriage, which rebuilt Rolls Royces. They refurbished a Rolls Royce for the Sultan of Brunei and also for Marvin Davis.

19:29 One of the biggest social events of the year in Denver was Marvin Davis's Carousel Ball, which had moved to Los Angeles. The event was to raise money for the treatment and research of juvenile diabetes, which afflicted one of Davis's daughters. One year, Dick and Paul's took Hills Financial, Allen Lutz, to the Carousel Ball. A source close to Dick said that Dick

19:54 actively pursued Davis. This included his purchase of a house at Davis's reported favorite country club, The Vintage, near Palm Springs, and the Rolls Refurbishing. Then in 86, Davis's Denver real estate firm, Milner Klitschnik Davis Gray Company, entered into a three joint ventures.

20:19 in three-way joint venture in Denver area with a British company called European Ferries. European Ferries owned the largest private drive-on car ferry company in Europe and in 1979 had formed a joint venture with Noramco Holdings, a John Dick company in the Isle of Jersey to buy into the Denver Tech Center. In January 86, the giant

20:49 London-based conglomerate Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, known as P&O, purchased the holdings of Dick and Paul in European Ferries for almost $51 million. Dick and Paul stayed on the board of European Ferries for four months and four months later bought Marvin Davis' company. Excuse me.

21:20 And four months later, Marvin Davis's company bought half of European Ferry's interest in the three major Denver developments. In the early 80s, Dick persuaded his European Ferry's partner to begin buying real estate in other parts of the United States. For one reason or another, they decided to concentrate in Atlanta and Houston, because of course they did. Dick sent Rainier to Houston in 81 to look for properties. By March of 81,

21:48 They were already buying land in Houston with a new partner, Houston developer Ned Holmes. In 84, Holmes merged his real estate development company with none other than European Ferries to form Parkway Investments. I'm beginning to think European Ferries is a front company, which bought eight pieces of property totaling 1,000 acres in Houston.

22:15 Holmes is a noted Houston developer with a good reputation. He grew up in the city, the son of wealthy businessman who had served on the Houston City Council. He had a degree from the University of Texas. After two years at Morgan Guarantee Trust in New York, he returned to Houston in 71 and started up his own investment and real estate company. In 87, Parkway Investments had taken over the P&O in the purchase of European Ferries.

22:45 Holmes stayed on as the president of the company and said in an interview in 1990 that he deals with P&O people in London. Also in 87, Holmes was appointed to the Port of Houston Authority Commission, where they were bringing in all the drugs, which governs, let's see, they govern the Port of Houston, the third largest port in the country. And coincidentally, where P&O...

23:14 did quite a bit of their business. Holmes has said that there's no conflict of interest in this because he has no involvement in the maritime business of P&O. Then in 88, Holmes was named chairman of the Port Authority Commission. This appointment was a joint decision by the city of Houston and Harris County Commissioner Court, which just so happened.

23:43 is where the guy that Michener controlled ran the court. So Holmes replaced Archie Bennett as chairman of the Port Authority. Bennett was noted in an earlier chapter as a good friend of Walter Michener's. Bennett had sold his hotel company to Southmark and moved to Dallas and then filed bankruptcy. In 81, the Port of Houston got into a legal battle with a couple of Houston developers.

24:14 over a large track of land on the Houston Ship Canal. The lawsuits were settled when the port got back a $250,000 down payment, but the port ended up paying its attorneys $450,000 to represent them. That sounds like money laundering too. One of the outside attorneys hired by the port was Tom Alexander, Robert Michener's personal attorney and good friend.

24:43 The land the port backed out of buying was later purchased by a group led by Michener's close friend, Kenneth Snitchner. In 1990, Holmes was a member of a group of local investors who were vying to win a $1 billion contract to build a rail transit system for Houston. His partner was Leo Lindbeck, a construction contractor and fellow Kappa Sigma brother of Carol Kelly's and Walter Michener Jr.

25:14 In the summer of 92, a controversy arose over the port of Houston's dealings with Snitchner. It appeared as if a closed-door agreement had been cut between Snitchner and the Port Authority, led by Snitchner's former mass transit partner, Ned Holmes. The Port Authority had agreed to buy 500 acres from Snitchner for $12 million and lease him a terminal at the port. In exchange,

25:43 Snitchner agreed to drop his bidding war with the port over another terminal. One port commissioner, the president of the International Longshoremen Association, questioned the deal and got Texas Attorney General to investigate. Snitchner denied any deal had been cut and said that the local union was mad because of his decision to use non-unions at his leased terminal. An article about John Dick

26:10 was the last one of the savings and loan crisis that the author had written about in the Houston Post. It appeared in December of 1990 and was followed eight days later by a series of articles on Walter Michener. Those articles were never published. Why they weren't is explained later in the book, because they let him go. I'll go ahead and tell you. Moving on.

26:42 That kind of closes up the chapter on Silverado. At the same time that Farhad Azima had bought Buffalo Airlines, he was engaged in a big controversy over two DC-8s in Spain with individuals who led to a vast international interconnected web of airplanes, boats, drug smuggling.

27:13 weapon smuggling, money laundering, banks, savings and loans, Colombians, Cuban exiles, CIA, and mafia. And where did it all happen? Well, of course, it happened in Miami. Almost all of the mazes and threads, if followed far enough, eventually lead back to Texas. Just like Robert Sensei, who I started out in Florida.

27:41 I ended up in Jacksonville. I went to Houston and then back to, it's a connection there. I'm telling you. They also somehow touch Robert Corson and Robert Mitzner and the mafia. Fernando, and I don't know how you say his name. I'm going to butcher it, but I'm going to spell it first. B-I-R-B-A-B, excuse me. Let me start over. B-I-R-B-R-A-G-H-E-R.

28:12 Berbrager, that's how I'm going to say it, Berbrager, was a Jewish Russian from Colombia. Okay, let me say that again. A Jewish Russian from Colombia, Fernando Berbrager, whose father, Abraham, had immigrated to Colombia from Russia in 1928. Berbrager was also an officer or director in a number of Miami companies.

28:43 that was involved in real estate development, restaurants and automobiles. All right, let me just say this. When I see this combination, real estate, restaurants, and automobiles, you immediately think Mafia CIA. Why? Because they money launder their money in real estate.

29:09 They buy restaurants because at the time it's an all cash business. So it's a perfect way to launder money. And automobiles, every one of these bastards that we've went through in the United States from the Nicaraguans that came here and went out to LA and was selling, they smuggle drugs in automobiles. They modify the trunks. They pull up the seats.

29:38 And they love having dealerships in the United States because they can use the cars and have people coming in from out of the country drive those cars. And the cars are never tied to anything because there's no paperwork. They just drive them temporarily, especially the used car lots. They just drive them temporarily and fly back out. And then there's no record of them having been here, which is why they also have stash houses.

30:05 which is great to have real estate investments because you have stash houses. It's the perfect cover. So even when I was first reading this book, before I ever went any further in this chapter, I was like, I know where we're going. In addition, he owned aircraft refurbishing companies in Miami with a joint venture with major U.S. aircraft maintenance companies. Wonder if that, they don't name it, but I wonder if that was evergreen.

30:36 Probably. On September 19th, 1984, Berbrogger incorporated his aircraft company, Quiet Nacelle, to manufacture and install the noise suppression equipment called Hush Kits.

30:52 on DC-8s in order to meet the new FAA noise requirements. And I told you about that, that happened in the 80s when I was working at Evergreen at Stanaford Field. We had to send the DC-8s either to Miami or to France, Paris. There was another facility there to install these kits. And all of the DC-8s that we had at UPS,

31:18 were old, former Flying Tiger aircraft. The same Flying Tigers that flew opium in Southeast Asia. Those Flying Tiger aircraft. After incorporating Quiet Nacelle, Burr-Brogger needed almost three years to gear up to design and manufacture the Hush kits and then get FAA approval to install them. Quiet Nacelle worked.

31:47 with an Orlando-based Page Abjet, which markets the Hush Kits, selling for $2.5 million for a four-engine jet like the DC-8. Page Abjet performs maintenance for business aircraft and airlines and runs a fixed-based operations at airports in a number of cities. By the summer of 87,

32:17 Berbragger was looking around for DC-8s to put his hush kits in. Another person looking for DC-8s was Farad Azima. In May of 87, Azima Aviation Leasing Group signed a contract to buy two DC-8s from a Swiss company, Industry Leasing AG, a subsidiary of the Swiss Bank Corporation.

32:46 Azima agreed to pay half a million dollars for each of the airplanes, which had originally been owned by United Airlines. However, there was a problem. The airplanes were all leased to Air Cargo Spain, which was in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings in Madrid. To further complicate matters, Azima and his right-hand man, Manzor Raznavad, found out that they had some competition for the planes, according to a lawsuit they filed later.

33:17 Burr Brauer was also trying to buy the aircraft and had succeeded in getting the bankruptcy liquidation committee to approve the sale of the aircraft to him for $930,000. But it was really a fight between Azima and Burr Brauer. Quiet Nacelle's biggest competition in the hush kit business is a San Antonio company headed by Doug Joffrey.

33:46 the son of a San Antonio businessman, Morris Jaffe. In 89, one of Jaffe's closest friends and associates, John White, a lawyer, lobbyist, and former DNC chairman, was telling reporters that Azima had gone into the hush kit business with Burr Brower. Both Azima and Buffalo Airways had previously purchased hush kits from Doug Jaffe's operation.

34:16 Interestingly, Azima's Global International Airways listed a $71,000 letter of credit due to Page Abjet, Burr Brower's future partner, as one of the liabilities owed to an Indian Springs state bank. On the surface, it appears that the lawsuit between Azima and Burr Brower was pretty hard fought.

34:44 with strong accusations and recriminations on both sides. But the suit was settled in 1989. Burr Brauer's company buying the interest of Azima's group in the two aircraft for $2 million. But they only cost $500,000 a piece. So where did the $2 million come from? So Azima had more than doubled his money in less than three years.

35:15 What? That sounds like a money laundering operation. I'm sorry to keep saying that, but they all are. The same year in 89, Berbrower, his wife and his father purchased an expensive Torah for a small Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Miami in memory of Berbrower's mother who had recently died. He is quoted as saying, after my mother died, I became very dedicated to the synagogue.

35:43 Our hopes are not only to dedicate the Torah, but also to help build a synagogue that will be used for the glory of God. Before Burr Braugher dedicated himself to the synagogue, he had dedicated himself to something completely different. Three months before he had incorporated quiet in a cell, Burr Braugher had pleaded guilty to laundering drug money for fear that a powerful Colombian drug cartel was out to get him.

36:15 After Burbrugger was indicted in 82, he either fled the country for his native Columbia or was already there. Miami Herald's story about the indictments in 82 described him as a fugitive. Burbrugger's attorney claimed in a sentencing hearing that we knew about the case. We knew about the pending indictments months and months before it occurred. Fernando went to the DEA here in Miami and tried to work something out with them, unbeknownst to me.

36:44 What they started with him was, okay, let's go out and buy 300 kilos, 3,000 kilos or whatever. It was some kind of thing like that, like the normal type of activity a DEA agency would be involved in. He couldn't do that. He left. He did not leave the United States, Your Honor. He never left. He never ran. The fact remains that he came back voluntarily.

37:14 Attorney Melvin Kessler was later convicted himself of investing drug money in the bicycle club in South Florida, which was a card casino. After he was indicted, Burbrower decided to cooperate with U.S. authorities. He ultimately returned to Miami, pleaded guilty, and turned state's evidence. When he was sentenced, he got off with a slap on the wrist, a three-year probation, and a $10,000 fine.

37:46 which tells you he was working for the CIA again. Prosecutors said he got off easy because of the evidence he gave him, including some that led to higher echelons in the Medellin cartel. However, there were other relationships that Burr brought as criminal activities that indicate he was connected to the CIA. No shit, Sherlock. These relationships, while not proof of CIA connections, are suggestive, especially when combined with his business with Azima.

38:16 and the identity of one of his quiet nacelle partners, consider first the bank where Burr Brower was caught, Great American Bank in Miami. At the time, in 1980-81, Burr Brower was laundering the cartel's drug money through Great American Bank. It was owned by Marvin Warner, an Alabama native whose business was based out of Cincinnati. Like Charles Keating,

38:44 His fellow Cincinnatian, who also got caught in the savings and loan debacle, Warner is full of arrogance, bluster, a man who thought his political connections and influence would keep him free. Warner got his start building homes after World War II. In the late 50s, he bought home state savings in Ohio and prospered investing in racehorses and professional sports teams, which means you come in contact with the mafia.

39:14 In 1977, his support of Democrats paid off when Jimmy Carter appointed him as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland. During his absence overseas, Warner hired Donald Beasley, a Miami banker and former federal bank examiner, to run Great American. Before Beasley joined Warner, he had worked for a while for Guillermo Hernandez Cartier, the CIA money launderer.

39:46 According to an author, James Ring Adams, in a book called The Big Fix. We probably need to buy that book too. CIA asset Hernandez Cartier had gotten involved with Warner's close associate at the fraud-infested ESM Securities. In fact, ESM files contain a note.

40:10 from Hernandez Cartier thanking an ESM principal for his offer to help in the sale of a purchase of Jefferson Savings and Loan in McAllen, Texas to Lloyd Benson, Senator Lloyd Benson. When Warner returned from Switzerland, so they're money laundering here and he's the ambassador to Switzerland where they money launder all over. Okay, are you following that?

40:41 All right, so he gets back from Switzerland in 79. He took Beasley's place at Great American Bank. Beasley, where did he go? Anybody want to guess? He went to Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. Another CIA front bank. You can't make it up. That bank was the subject of a book by Jonathan Kishny, The Crimes of Patriots, which we've already went over. Oh my God.

41:18 According to this author, was crawling with CIA. It wasn't crawling with CIA. It was CIA. All right. And high-ranking military people, don't forget, ran all of the branches all over the world. Retired generals, Hawaii, Singapore, Chiang Mai, all over. Hong Kong, all retired generals. And was notorious for drug money laundering, weapons trafficking, blah, blah, blah.

41:50 When Beasley was working for Great American Bank, he was approached by an individual on behalf of Nugent Hand who wanted to buy Great American Subsidiary Bank, the second national bank of Homestead, Florida. Its parent bank was Great American. The deal eventually fell through, but there were allegations that second national bank had been connected to Paul Helliwell.

42:15 the China OSS veteran and CIA master operative who practiced law in Miami and set up Castle Bank to money launder for the CIA. While Beasley was the CEO of Nugent Hand, he took part in the attempted acquisition of a London bank. One of his partners in the deal was Ricardo Chavez, a Cuban exile.

42:40 and CIA contract agent who was a member of Edwin Wilson, Ted Shackley, and Tom Klein's group. In fact, Chavez was an officer in Wilson's Houston-based API distributors, all CIA fronts, all of them. Despite all these relationships to CIA operatives, Beasley, of course, denied that he had anything to do with it. He's literally bumping into CIA on all four sides.

43:10 and supposedly has no clue. After Beasley left Nugent Hand, when it disintegrated, following the suicide of one of the founding members, he returned to Florida banking. First as president of Gulfstream Banks. So again, it's just crazy. Nugent Hand, in the immediate aftermath of it going under, was under investigation for money laundering. So the guy who's now been in charge of two banks,

43:40 that are no money laundering is allowed to come back in the United States and get into banking again. That's how you know the whole system's corrupt. All right, first as president of Gulfstream Banks and then as president of City National Bank of Miami. City National was owned by Roberto Duque, a Colombian whose father was a wealthy coffee magnate. The attorney for the bank,

44:11 was Stephen Arkey, Marvin Warner's son-in-law. Arkey's firm also represented Beasley in a threatened lawsuit against Kidney for the stories he wrote about the guy being associated with the CIA and money laundering. Arkey committed suicide in July of 1985 after SEM government security fraud scandal broke. The collapse of ESM wrecked

44:40 the home state savings of Arkey's father-in-law, Warner, and led to Warner's conviction for fraud. After Arkey's suicide, he was praised by his former boss at the SEC, where Arkey had worked when he got out of law school. So as soon as he's found to be a fraud, he commits suicide, and then they hail him as a great guy at the SEC.

45:10 He was one of the real success stories, according to Stanley Sporkin, who was then the general counsel of the CIA. Yes, Beasley found himself enmeshed in yet another financial institution in the web of scandal. His boss, Alberto Duque, got caught using phone bills of lading of coffee. Oh, excuse me, phony bills of laden.

45:43 of coffee as collateral to get more than $100 million in bank loans. He was convicted in 86 and sentenced to 15 years in jail. Besides Beasley, another Miami businessman embarrassed by Duquay's fall from grace was Jeb Bush. In 83, just days before Duquay's empire started collapsing, Jeb Bush accompanied Duquay on one of his private planes to the inauguration of the president of Costa Rica.

46:14 Now, isn't that interesting? That's in 86. And that's when Costa Rica was in the throes of hiding Robert Vesco and facilitating the DEA and CIA running the Contra operation out of Costa Rica. That's where they had set up shop. So Jeb Bush goes to the...

46:44 inauguration of the new president in a very, very corrupt country. That's where John Hall had his CIA ranch, where they were running contra operations, weapons trafficking, drugs trafficking out of it. That's all in Costa Rica. So Jeb Bush, who was the money launderer in Venezuela at a bank for the CIA, is going to Costa Rica for an inauguration. Okay.

47:18 Duquay was building a new headquarters in downtown Miami for his General Coffee Corporation. Before that, Beasley had managed to escape the drug money laundering scandal at Great American Bank by months. Warner, too, had dodged indictment, although the bank itself, as well as three employees, were charged. Just before the indictments were handed down in December of 82,

47:45 Warner sold Great American Bank to Barnett Bank. What? So was he tipped off? It was Barnett Bank, not Warner, who had to pay the fine levied on Great American Bank. So he bailed out just in time to avoid indictment. So why wouldn't the DOJ actually go after the guy that did it and not the new owners? Because that's not what they're all about.

48:19 So Great American Bank pleaded guilty to drug money laundering. Warner, however, reaped a profit of $18 million in the sale to Barnett before the scandal broke. Also about that time, Warner was trying to sell a bank holding company he owned in Florida to a problem-plagued Freedom Savings and Loan in Tampa.

48:47 in which Warner owned a little less than 5% of the stock. Freedom refused to go for the deal, so Warner had his home state savings bank in Ohio buy 7.5% of Freedom's stock to try to get it to have enough votes to swing the deal. Another stockholder, a big borrower at Freedom, was Oklahoma conman and mob associate Charles Bazarian.

49:16 who we've talked about before. And in 86, when freedom was in the death throes after Warner Bazarian and a mob associate from New York had looted it, Chicago businessman Sam Zale, an old business partner of Douglas Crocker and Burton Cantor, bought control of freedom. But before Zale bought freedom savings, Warner was trying to get American Savings and Loan in Miami to buy the bank, or at least purchase his stock.

49:46 American Savings and Loan is a multi-billion dollar savings and loan in Miami that was controlled by Shepard Broad, an attorney and Russian immigrant himself, along with his son Morris. In December of 82, Warner and the Broads signed a vote trust agreement on control of American Savings. The federal loan home bank approved the agreement in November of 83.

50:12 Warner purchased approximately $13 million in American stock. In January of 84, Warner took over as chairman of the board and CEO of American Savings. He then placed his good friend and best business partner he had ever had, according to him, Ronnie Uten of ESM Government Securities on American's board of directors. Arkey introduced Uten to his father-in-law, Arkey, the guy that shot himself.

50:40 after he was identified as fraudster. Warner then had American Savings enter into a $1 billion deal with ESM that involved the purchase and repurchase of U.S. government securities, with American giving ESM $110 million in U.S. Treasury notes. Shepard Broad finally called a halt to the ESM deals and had them reversed. That caused American Savings to lose $55 million and brought down ESM.

51:10 Warner's home state savings lost $150 million because of ESM and failed precipitously as a savings and loan crisis in Ohio broke out. Among others, the city of Beaumont, Texas also lost $20 million in that deal. Warner eventually lost his liberty too. In 87, he was convicted in Ohio of fraud involving

51:37 Home State Savings, and ESM. Two years later, his conviction was reversed by Ohio Appeal Court, then reinstated by the Ohio Supreme Court. Finally, in 91, the U.S. Supreme Court let his fraud conviction stand. Also, a federal court jury in Miami ordered Warner to pay $22 million in restitution to ESM's bankruptcy estate for his fraudulent activities.

52:06 Warner then filed for bankruptcy. While Warner was involved in American Savings, the savings and loan owned about 42% of General Homes Corporation in Houston, a home building company. In fact, American Savings bought its interest in General Homes in 83, one month after Warner signed the Vote Trust Agreement for dual control of American with Shepard Broad. The CEO of General Homes, Jeffrey Payson,

52:36 was placed on the board of directors as a result. American also participated in General Holmes' bank lines of credit totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, and the savings and loan purchased $125 million in mortgages of people who bought their houses. Guess who bought some raw land from General Holmes more than any other?

53:01 Who purchased some $100 million in surplus vacant property in the Houston area from General Holmes? Robert Corson. In a class action lawsuit filed by General Holmes and American Savings and Loan in a Dallas court in 1988 by some of the General Holmes junk bond holders, the plaintiffs alleged that General Holmes would sell portions of tracts of land to friendly purchasers at inflated price.

53:31 and upon information and belief in some instances with provisions that general homes would buy it back under certain circumstances. These friendly purchases would then sell or flip the property to other purchases, taking out profits and fees. The purpose of this scheme and course of conduct was to artificially create high sales. That's the thing I was telling you about the other day. They sell it to...

53:58 front companies or their friends at an inflated price when they own all of these other things. And then they drive the price of those other things up and then through the back door, settle with the original guy by buying it back at an inflated price. He takes the profit, but he started the whole chain reaction. And that's what they were doing. It's fraudulent. These fraudulent sales of real estate were made to various partners.

54:28 and occurred in connection with various General Holmes projects throughout Houston, including Silver Mill Project, Park 45 Project, and another subdivision. Many of the cells from General Holmes were to Robert Corson or people affiliated with him. And keep in mind, he's part of the CIA.

54:55 Some of the transactions General Holmes would actually finance the sale and take a first mortgage with a promissory note. The buyer would then obtain second mortgages from the savings and loan like Vernon, Continental, or Western, and later default on all of them. Thus, the borrowers would walk away with the savings and loan money, and General Holmes would take the land back. It's money laundering from the savings and loans. And it goes on to talk about...

55:25 how much of that was done, and they give us a bunch of details. But also, the Broads, the dad and son, were involved in KinderCare, which was an Alabama-based daycare chain. And the Broads sold KinderCare to American Savings for $138 million.

55:51 Warner had founded KinderCare in 69 and then allegedly sold out in 76. A principal at KinderCare from Montgomery, Alabama was a longtime friend of Marvin Warner. Another person involved in it was a friend of Michael Milken's. They had raised $350 million through Drexel Burnham junk bonds while American Savings was buying other Drexel.

56:21 One of the guys involved would plead guilty to illegal fraud activity involving himself in the Kindercare and Drexel Burnham operation. Another person that was involved in this in 77 and 78 was Robert Corson and his mother. They were building daycare homes in Houston and leasing them to Kindercare. So Kindercare being associated with these people is just deathly scary to me.

56:55 But they were intimately involved in it. So that's pretty much it for this section of the loan or a book. And we will continue tomorrow with the rest of this chapter. It's just, it's crazy. So what we learned today is that the Isle of Jersey.

57:23 can be added on to our long list of places where they love to money launder. And a lot of these people are involved in that particular thing. We moved into the state of Florida from Colorado. We're going to stay in the state of Florida for a while as far as the chapters go and the nefarious in the savings and loans here. And what's weird is growing up, I mean, I recognize a lot of these banks that were based here in Florida.

57:53 So, yeah, Barnett Bank, obviously a big bank located here. So anyway, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Megan, go ahead. Colonel, God damn it. Another freaking awesome X space. Hey, I got a question that's kind of off the rails here along this chapter that you just concluded.

58:25 Please tell me, what is a hush kit? So the DC-8s that when they were originally manufactured were very loud engines. And a hush kit was...

58:38 put into the DC-8 engines to quiet their operations in order for them to comply with the new FAA rules of being able to land in residential areas. So the only way that you could use, and a lot of companies own those former, because there was a ton of DC-8s around. The only way after that was implemented that you could.

59:03 operate a DC-8 in U.S. airspace was to have hush kits on it, so that, and I, if you've never heard a DC-8 take off without those hush kits on it, louder than hell, like the back end of a F-4 taking off with afterburners on, that's how loud they were, which is hilarious for me, because I was at Stanford Field, and the guard unit at Stanford Field

59:32 had F4s, and so UPS was having to retrofit all of their DC-8s with hush kits when the exact same flight line had F4s taken off with afterburners on it all the time. Well, the reason why I asked is I was in from 87 to 95, and I remember B-52s and KC-135s.

1:00:00 With water burners. Yeah. And those things would rattle the windows for miles around. But none of the FAA rules apply to military aircraft.

1:00:14 I understand that, Colonel. Hence my question about the- And that's kind of the funny thing, right? So I was at Grissom with, they had 135s, loud as hell, just as you say. But the funny thing is so many of those airports around the United States are co-located with guard jets. And so it's just the lunacy of our government. They will make you put hush kits on an aircraft.

1:00:42 That's co-located with military aircraft that the sound thing doesn't even apply to. Well, what I thought was now that you explained it, it really blows my mind because I was stationed at Hickam Air Force Base over in Hawaii. And there the airport that the military used was.

1:01:05 Honolulu International. Yeah, I've been there many times. And a B-52 taken off with water from there. Holy caramel. Okay, anyway, but my whole point, yeah, okay, thank you for the clarification on that. And let me just tell you the joke in the B-52, because obviously I was in SAC for about four years. The funny story in at least our

1:01:30 maintenance uh environment was that every time a b-52 landed at hickam it was gonna have hot breaks and oh hell yeah well not really they just use that as an excuse to stay overnight yeah but any b-52 that landed in hickam was gonna have a problem and the most notorious problem that they always reported was hot breaks so we can't go we can't take off and i'm like

1:01:57 You can still take off. You're not going to use your brakes for like another 3,000 miles. Well, as a crew chief on KC-135s, I know the whole game. Yeah. I had pocket write-ups that I could put in anywhere we went around the world if somebody wanted to stay the night. I'm all, I know, I know. Yeah, and it was so funny because if you thought, and you know, as a young airman, I was like,

1:02:27 Because I'm thinking they're serious. You know, I don't know. They're joking. And I'm like, but it flies at like 40,000 feet in the air. And it's like, it's cold as hell up there. So what's hot brakes got to do anything? But you don't want to appear stupid in front of anybody and go, what the hell are you talking about? That doesn't even make any sense. You don't use your brakes when you take off.

1:02:51 And you're not going to be in hot weather. You're going to be flying at 40,000 feet. It's cold as hell up there. Well, I'm going to tell you. Well, hold on. It took me about six months to realize that the whole thing was a scam. And I did figure it out on my own. But they're just waiting for you to be stupid enough to open your mouth as an airman so they can make you look stupid.

1:03:18 Well, I can tell you as a crew chief on Boeing 707 airplanes, hot brakes are a real thing. And you don't want to take off without checking everything out and making sure it's all good. Because if you fry them axles, your next landing could go very, very wrong. I'm just going to say. Anyway, I'm out.

1:03:41 Thanks, Colonel. It's another awesome space. And you pissed me off again with all the info that you freaking just spit out like a fucking 50 cow. Thanks. Thank you. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everyone for attending here on Spaces and on Rumble. And I hope everyone's having a grand time in the holiday season. And have a Merry Christmas and a safe one. And hopefully New Year's will be the same.

1:04:11 Anyway, Colonel, what I was looking at, you mentioned Robert Vesco. And I can say we have been watching the International Syndicate at work on TV for quite some time. Because Robert Vesco is a character that was played by Stacey Keech in The Blacklist. The other thing I'm thinking here is I'm hoping the book will get into the Keating Five at the end of the book.

1:04:39 Not a lot because that's what I'm hoping for. So I'm holding fire here, Colonel. It really doesn't. I mean, it talks around it because this is particularly about the savings and loan, which they played a peripheral. As you can see, they did business with all of these people. But he was focused mainly on the savings and loan.

1:05:03 We can do a show on that, especially looking at it with our Gladio glasses on now would be quite interesting. Maybe we'll get Warhamster to join us on one. That would be awesome. Yeah, that's a great idea. All right. Anybody else? Bridget? Always with the car dealerships. Always with the cars. Dang, it sounds like you've got a kennel going on. Yeah, right. Crazy.

1:05:39 All right. Yeah. McModern says Besko's been all over the place. He really was. He shows up in so many of these stories. He was very nefarious and, you know, supposedly very elusive. But I think he was elusive because they loved using him. Kind of like Edwin Wilson until he fell out of favor and they wanted his company and then they just sent him to prison. So.

1:06:14 That's what happens when you get in bed with these guys. As long as you're useful to them, you can live. But once you become not useful to them, you're either going to jail or you're going to die. So unfortunately, I don't think enough of the people believe that. Or maybe they're so arrogant that they think they can outfox them. I don't know. Or maybe they're blackmailed into it. I think all of that happens. But anyway.

1:06:45 So we're going to continue tomorrow at four and plow through the rest of this book with another holiday coming up. We probably won't do anything on New Year's. So definitely want to get through the rest of the book. So I will go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel. Just one more thing that that I want to take note of here for everybody that's been paying attention to what's going on.

1:07:14 talking about the banks involved. And we just heard about Nugent Bank, which we had been talking about prior, BCCI Bank. All of these places are involved in every bit of it. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. And, you know, that is kind of the funny thing about reading through all of these books, because obviously none of these authors know anything about Operation Gladio.

1:07:45 And so you find all different, all the same characters hover around in all of these books. We just see it from a different angle. Like we saw the Gary Webb book gave it to us from the drug angle and specifically how it affected Los Angeles. And this book gives it to us from the savings and loan perspective. But from the top down,

1:08:12 you're still looking at all the same players. And what really amazes me, and I just said this to my husband this morning, all of these investigative journalists, I mean, they're just amazing, amazing people.

1:08:30 All of them doing their little slice of this ginormous pie and putting this information out. Because this information, the Gary Webb information was put out in the 80s. This book was put out. And yet, they obviously, they're reporters, so they're reading each other's material. This book was put out in 92.

1:08:58 You know, just as a respect for other journalists, they're in the newspaper business, so they read news. And I think about the only person that was able to see the big picture was Danny Casolaro. And of course, they murdered him, in which he talks incessantly about the octopus. I think he was one of the people.

1:09:23 During this time period that Ashley had figured out, they're all connected. They're all tentacles of the same main body. Renee, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Hey, everyone. Hope you're enjoying the holiday weekend. I'm feeling a little fuzzy, but enjoying the show. I just wanted to bring up, I noticed another pattern.

1:09:49 And I think I'm going to do a little digging on it. You mentioned a Russian individual who went to Columbia University. No, he was from Columbia. They migrated to Columbia. Oh, sorry. Not Columbia University. Whoopsie. See, still a little fuzzy going on. But anyway, yeah. Sometimes when I do some digging.

1:10:13 I keep going back. It keeps taking me back to Columbia University or an individual from Columbia University. Not that Columbia in South America doesn't come up. Yeah. Nor British Columbia, nor Washington District of Columbia. But anyway, yeah, a lot of people always come up with Columbia. But yeah, I find I have come across people who.

1:10:38 Went to Columbia University in the early 1900s. There seems to be a pattern there. And even some people who were writers who wrote for some Hollywood films, but CIA connections, early... I'm curious if there's an early...

1:11:01 pre-Bolshevik thing going on. Something in my gut is telling me to look in this a little more because I keep every blue moon someone, a Russian immigrant in Columbia University comes up. So anyway, anyway, that's where my brain's at. Just wanted to share how all of y'all are doing good. Yeah, we're doing great. Okay, good, good. Yeah, and it's funny how so many of these people

1:11:31 These nefarious people in some of these books, I'm not a good person when it comes to genealogy. Dr. DeProgram is excellent at that. But a lot of these people in our books share common last names. And I always do a cursory search of,

1:12:02 looking to see if there's any relationships to the people. Because the name that came up in this chapter, Joppy, is shared with quite a few other people that I've came across in banking. And then this one in this book was in banking as well.

1:12:24 Um, but I don't, I did not find any relationship to them. It doesn't mean they're not related, but, um, it does make you wonder. Um, so anyway, SR, go ahead. The name Brie, Brie Bogger, by the way, Colonel. Yeah. Is a Jewish surname. So how he winds up in two nationalities and Jewish is, ah.

1:12:57 Well, but that's the guy. Hold on just a second. Let me go back. So he's a Russian Jewish person. That's where his family is originally from. Probably the Pella settlement that goes to base. Patrick Henry likes to talk about, but they migrated to Columbia.

1:13:32 And of course, that's very interesting from the perspective of all of the goings on in Colombia. Now, obviously, he was in Colombia pre-cocaine trafficking, but they did still have the coca plant down there during that time. But it was during the...

1:14:00 20s, 30s, and 40s, it was still being used as a traditional plant for medicinal purposes and teas and stuff like that and trading. It wasn't until the 70s and 80s before they started chemically processing the plant and creating cocaine. But it does seem weird that some of these people kind of migrate to

1:14:30 these countries that then go on to get selected as being the next major drug network. And they all seem to just happen to be there at the time they transform into this nefarious operation. So anyway, and they happen to be in all of the industries that make it easy to launder the money, like cars.

1:15:00 restaurants and real estate. So maybe it's a coincidence, but it's definitely a pattern that we've come up with. So anyway, all right, we're going to call it a day. Thanks for being here. Appreciate you guys. And I will see you tomorrow at four o'clock. Take care.

Entities here

John Dick25 Marvin Warner18 Miami16 Denver15 Isle of Jersey14 Houston13 Paul L. Williams12 Burr Brauer11 Columbia9 Richard Ross Miller9 General Coffee Corporation8 Farhad Azima8 Donald Beasley8 Colorado7 ESM Securities7 Ned Holman7 Austin Savings and Loan7 London6 John McCandish King6 Bill Walters6 Quiet Nacelle6 Hill Financial Savings5 Mafia5 Nugan Hand Bank5 European Ferries5 Great American Bank of Miami5 Port Authority5 Fernando Berbrager5 Mike Adkinson5 Ohio4 Shepard Broad4 Ray Neer4 Lute4 Alberto Duque4 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company4 Marvin Davis4 Walter Mischer4 Switzerland4 Robert Corson3 Chicago3

Claims made here

Diane Ingalls member_of Silverado Savings and Loan documented ▶ 0:59

“that led to the most fascinating characters in the savings and loan debacle. The first relationship, a Silverado director, Diane Ingalls, a Denver real estate broker, who was also on the board of the …”

Diane Ingalls member_of Federal National Mortgage Corporation documented ▶ 0:59

Diane Ingalls member_of Ray Neer documented ▶ 0:59

Silverado Savings and Loan financed_via Paul L. Williams documented ▶ 1:30

“almost $8 million to William Paul's to buy a Boston and Champa building in Denver from Bill Walters. We talked about him yesterday. What Rainiers and William Paul's have in common is that they both wo…”

Ray Neer member_of John Dick documented ▶ 1:30

Paul L. Williams member_of John Dick documented ▶ 1:30

John Dick member_of Clarence Arch Decker documented ▶ 2:55

“When he was 26, he moved to Denver and started working for Denver attorney Clarence Arch Decker, a Colorado state senator who would later represent Dick's wife in a fierce divorce battle. Dick clerked…”

John Dick member_of Paul L. Williams documented ▶ 3:24

“He was joined by his fellow Canadian and Mennonite, William Pauls. Sometime in the mid-70s, Dick became involved with people in business in the Isle of Jersey, where the mafia and CIA loved to launder…”

Barclay Bank provided_bridge_financing_for John Dick documented ▶ 3:24

John Dick member_of Compendium Trust documented ▶ 3:55

“who sent him to the Isle of Jersey. Isn't that interesting? In May of 1988, an affidavit in his divorce action on Jersey, Dick stated that he had been considering moving to Jersey since 75 and had res…”

Lawrence Freeman laundered_money_for Jack DeVoe documented ▶ 4:26

“including Harvey, the same people Lawrence Freeman dealt with in laundering Jack DeVoe's drug money and who Mike Atkinson had dealt with in moving Texas savings and loan money to the Isle of Jersey th…”

Mike Adkinson laundered_money_for Compendium Trust documented ▶ 4:26

John Dick founded Compendium Trust host_asserted ▶ 4:26

John Wadman member_of John Dick documented ▶ 4:53

“Compendium and Sanson were set up in 77 and 78 after Ray Harvey and his associates moved to Jersey from the Bank of Nova Scotia in the Bahamas. Also in 78, Harvey and his Isle of Jersey partner, John …”

John Dick member_of Warner Heinrich documented ▶ 4:53

John Dick member_of Sanson Financial Consultants Limited documented ▶ 5:19

“There were several lawsuits accusing Dick and his partners of fraud. Then in 79, Harvey and Wadman participated in a land deal along with Dick and Paul's involving a major part of the Denver Tech Cent…”

Sanson Financial Consultants Limited financed_via John Dick documented ▶ 6:19

“In this instance, Sanson had lent Dick $5 million, secured by a $17 million promissory note on the Colorado land, which was then transferred to Dick by Pauls several years earlier. These notes require…”

Clarence Arch Decker laundered_money_for Bill Walters documented ▶ 6:46

“Divorce petition called the creation of the $17 million promissory note a sham transaction. Another interesting tidbit leaked out during the divorce. Decker, Elizabeth Dick's attorney, stated in court…”

John Dick laundered_money_for Bill Walters documented ▶ 6:46

Bill Walters member_of John Dick host_asserted ▶ 7:16

“Dick denied this when questioned. Several sources close to Dick said that Walters definitely traveled to the Isle of Jersey in 86, where he stayed at Dick's mansion. In 84, Dick's purchased the lordsh…”

John Dick secretly_owned Isle of Jersey documented ▶ 7:16

St. Joe Paper Company secretly_owned Little Grove Inn documented ▶ 7:46

“It consisted of a huge multi-million dollar 16th century manor and 120 surrounding acres. When friends, including Diane Ingalls and Bill Neer, would come to visit Dick on the Isle of Jersey, any of th…”

DuPont member_of St. Joe Paper Company host_asserted ▶ 8:15

“of the DuPonts in Delaware had a in on the place where the CIA likes to money launder. Crazy. Also in partnership with St. Joe was Ed Ball and Charters Oil, Raymond Mason. They were all there. There w…”

Bill Walters member_of John Dick documented ▶ 8:15

Bill Walters member_of Noramco Management Group documented ▶ 8:51

“In August of 1985, Walters sold a lot and house at the Vintage Club outside of Palm Springs to Dick's company, Noramco Management Group. To buy the property, Noramco borrowed $1.7 million from Hill Fi…”

Noramco Management Group financed_via Hill Financial Savings documented ▶ 8:51

John Dick member_of Noramco Management Group documented ▶ 9:14

“Dick signed the mortgage as president of Noramco and also gave a personal guarantee to the note. Dick was introduced to Hill Financial by Richard Rossmiller, Walter's old partner and a $180 million pl…”

Richard Ross Miller member_of Bill Walters documented ▶ 9:14

Richard Ross Miller member_of Hill Financial Savings documented ▶ 9:14

Richard Ross Miller member_of Herman Beebe documented ▶ 9:14

Herman Beebe member_of John Dick documented ▶ 9:43

“back in the 70s and probably was still doing business with him based on the banks that he owned. There was evidence of contact between Bebe and Dick as Bebe's name and phone numbers, including the num…”

Richard Ross Miller member_of John Dick documented ▶ 10:11

“to the president of Hill Financial, stated that John Dick visited me last night concerning a loan. Dick had purchased four condominiums across the street from his own house for his parents and their s…”

John Dick member_of Wellington Management Service documented ▶ 11:08

“Dick and Lutz eventually worked out a deal in which one of Dick's companies, Wellington Management Service, would get two loans, totaling the $3.5 million from Nationwide Lending Group of Colorado, Hi…”

Wellington Management Service financed_via Nationwide Lending Group of Colorado documented ▶ 11:08

Resolution Trust Corporation member_of Hill Financial Savings documented ▶ 11:08

Resolution Trust Corporation member_of John Dick documented ▶ 11:35

“Savings sued Dick in 1990 for $3.5 million loan. As we covered in chapter six, surety savings, Ross Miller told a number of people in Denver that he, Ross Miller, had worked for the CIA. Ross Miller a…”

John Dick supplied_arms_to Saudi Arabia host_asserted ▶ 11:35

Mike Adkinson supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 11:35

John Dick member_of Mike Adkinson host_asserted ▶ 12:05

“By means of Saudi and Kuwait. So it appears they were doing business together. Both Atkinson and Dick were dealing with the same Isle of Jersey trust that were connected to wealthy Saudis. A person cl…”

Doug Jaffe member_of Morris Jaffe documented ▶ 33:46

“the son of a San Antonio businessman, Morris Jaffe. In 89, one of Jaffe's closest friends and associates, John White, a lawyer, lobbyist, and former DNC chairman, was telling reporters that Azima had …”

Farhad Azima funded Doug Jaffe documented ▶ 33:46

Farhad Azima funded Burr Brauer documented ▶ 33:46

Global International Airways funded Page Abjet documented ▶ 34:16

“Interestingly, Azima's Global International Airways listed a $71,000 letter of credit due to Page Abjet, Burr Brower's future partner, as one of the liabilities owed to an Indian Springs state bank. O…”

Burr Brauer funded Farhad Azima documented ▶ 34:44

“with strong accusations and recriminations on both sides. But the suit was settled in 1989. Burr Brauer's company buying the interest of Azima's group in the two aircraft for $2 million. But they only…”

Burr Brauer laundered_money_for Medellin Cartel documented ▶ 35:43

“Our hopes are not only to dedicate the Torah, but also to help build a synagogue that will be used for the glory of God. Before Burr Braugher dedicated himself to the synagogue, he had dedicated himse…”

Marvin Warner headed Great American Bank of Miami documented ▶ 38:16

“and the identity of one of his quiet nacelle partners, consider first the bank where Burr Brower was caught, Great American Bank in Miami. At the time, in 1980-81, Burr Brower was laundering the carte…”

Burr Brauer laundered_money_for Medellin Cartel documented ▶ 38:16

Donald Beasley spied_on Guillermo Hernandez-Cartier book_quoted ▶ 39:14

“In 1977, his support of Democrats paid off when Jimmy Carter appointed him as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland. During his absence overseas, Warner hired Donald Beasley, a Miami banker and former fe…”

Guillermo Hernandez-Cartier member_of ESM Securities book_quoted ▶ 39:46

“According to an author, James Ring Adams, in a book called The Big Fix. We probably need to buy that book too. CIA asset Hernandez Cartier had gotten involved with Warner's close associate at the frau…”

Guillermo Hernandez-Cartier funded Lloyd Bentsen book_quoted ▶ 40:10

“from Hernandez Cartier thanking an ESM principal for his offer to help in the sale of a purchase of Jefferson Savings and Loan in McAllen, Texas to Lloyd Benson, Senator Lloyd Benson. When Warner retu…”

Donald Beasley headed Nugan Hand Bank documented ▶ 40:41

“All right, so he gets back from Switzerland in 79. He took Beasley's place at Great American Bank. Beasley, where did he go? Anybody want to guess? He went to Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. Another CI…”

Marvin Warner headed Great American Bank of Miami documented ▶ 40:41

Nugan Hand Bank funded Second National Bank of Homestead documented ▶ 41:50

“When Beasley was working for Great American Bank, he was approached by an individual on behalf of Nugent Hand who wanted to buy Great American Subsidiary Bank, the second national bank of Homestead, F…”

Second National Bank of Homestead front_for Paul Helliwell documented ▶ 41:50

Donald Beasley funded Ricardo Chavez documented ▶ 42:15

“the China OSS veteran and CIA master operative who practiced law in Miami and set up Castle Bank to money launder for the CIA. While Beasley was the CEO of Nugent Hand, he took part in the attempted a…”

Paul Helliwell front_for Castle Bank & Trust documented ▶ 42:15

Ricardo Chavez member_of Edwin Wilson documented ▶ 42:40

“and CIA contract agent who was a member of Edwin Wilson, Ted Shackley, and Tom Klein's group. In fact, Chavez was an officer in Wilson's Houston-based API distributors, all CIA fronts, all of them. De…”

Donald Beasley headed Gulfstream Banks documented ▶ 43:10

“and supposedly has no clue. After Beasley left Nugent Hand, when it disintegrated, following the suicide of one of the founding members, he returned to Florida banking. First as president of Gulfstrea…”

Alberto Duque secretly_owned Miami National Bank documented ▶ 43:40

“that are no money laundering is allowed to come back in the United States and get into banking again. That's how you know the whole system's corrupt. All right, first as president of Gulfstream Banks …”

Donald Beasley headed Miami National Bank documented ▶ 43:40

Stephen Arkey spied_on Jonathan Kishny documented ▶ 44:11

“was Stephen Arkey, Marvin Warner's son-in-law. Arkey's firm also represented Beasley in a threatened lawsuit against Kidney for the stories he wrote about the guy being associated with the CIA and mon…”

Stephen Arkey member_of Marvin Warner documented ▶ 44:11

Jeb Bush member_of Alberto Duque documented ▶ 45:43

“of coffee as collateral to get more than $100 million in bank loans. He was convicted in 86 and sentenced to 15 years in jail. Besides Beasley, another Miami businessman embarrassed by Duquay's fall f…”

Robert Vesco spied_on Costa Rica documented ▶ 46:14

“Now, isn't that interesting? That's in 86. And that's when Costa Rica was in the throes of hiding Robert Vesco and facilitating the DEA and CIA running the Contra operation out of Costa Rica. That's w…”

Marvin Warner funded Barnett Bank documented ▶ 47:45

“Warner sold Great American Bank to Barnett Bank. What? So was he tipped off? It was Barnett Bank, not Warner, who had to pay the fine levied on Great American Bank. So he bailed out just in time to av…”

Marvin Warner funded Freedom Savings documented ▶ 48:19

“So Great American Bank pleaded guilty to drug money laundering. Warner, however, reaped a profit of $18 million in the sale to Barnett before the scandal broke. Also about that time, Warner was trying…”

Marvin Warner funded Home State Savings documented ▶ 48:47

“in which Warner owned a little less than 5% of the stock. Freedom refused to go for the deal, so Warner had his home state savings bank in Ohio buy 7.5% of Freedom's stock to try to get it to have eno…”

Charles Brazarian member_of Freedom Savings documented ▶ 48:47

Sam Zale funded Freedom Savings documented ▶ 49:16

“who we've talked about before. And in 86, when freedom was in the death throes after Warner Bazarian and a mob associate from New York had looted it, Chicago businessman Sam Zale, an old business part…”

Sam Zale member_of Robert Crocker documented ▶ 49:16

Marvin Warner funded Austin Savings and Loan documented ▶ 49:16

Marvin Warner funded Austin Savings and Loan documented ▶ 49:46

“American Savings and Loan is a multi-billion dollar savings and loan in Miami that was controlled by Shepard Broad, an attorney and Russian immigrant himself, along with his son Morris. In December of…”

Shepard Broad headed Austin Savings and Loan documented ▶ 49:46

Marvin Warner headed Austin Savings and Loan documented ▶ 50:12

“Warner purchased approximately $13 million in American stock. In January of 84, Warner took over as chairman of the board and CEO of American Savings. He then placed his good friend and best business …”

Marvin Warner member_of Ronnie Uten documented ▶ 50:12

Shepard Broad removed_from_power Government Securities Corporation documented ▶ 50:40

“after he was identified as fraudster. Warner then had American Savings enter into a $1 billion deal with ESM that involved the purchase and repurchase of U.S. government securities, with American givi…”

Austin Savings and Loan funded Government Securities Corporation documented ▶ 50:40

Jeffrey Payson headed General Coffee Corporation documented ▶ 52:06

“Warner then filed for bankruptcy. While Warner was involved in American Savings, the savings and loan owned about 42% of General Homes Corporation in Houston, a home building company. In fact, America…”

Austin Savings and Loan funded General Coffee Corporation documented ▶ 52:06

Robert Corson funded General Coffee Corporation documented ▶ 53:01

“Who purchased some $100 million in surplus vacant property in the Houston area from General Holmes? Robert Corson. In a class action lawsuit filed by General Holmes and American Savings and Loan in a …”

Shepard Broad funded KinderCare documented ▶ 55:25

“how much of that was done, and they give us a bunch of details. But also, the Broads, the dad and son, were involved in KinderCare, which was an Alabama-based daycare chain. And the Broads sold Kinder…”

KinderCare funded Drexel Burnham documented ▶ 55:51

“Warner had founded KinderCare in 69 and then allegedly sold out in 76. A principal at KinderCare from Montgomery, Alabama was a longtime friend of Marvin Warner. Another person involved in it was a fr…”

Marvin Warner founded KinderCare documented ▶ 55:51

Robert Corson funded KinderCare documented ▶ 56:21

“One of the guys involved would plead guilty to illegal fraud activity involving himself in the Kindercare and Drexel Burnham operation. Another person that was involved in this in 77 and 78 was Robert…”

Besko member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:05:39

“All right. Yeah. McModern says Besko's been all over the place. He really was. He shows up in so many of these stories. He was very nefarious and, you know, supposedly very elusive. But I think he was…”

BCCI laundered_money_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:07:14

“talking about the banks involved. And we just heard about Nugent Bank, which we had been talking about prior, BCCI Bank. All of these places are involved in every bit of it. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. …”

Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:07:14

Gary Webb exposed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:07:45

“And so you find all different, all the same characters hover around in all of these books. We just see it from a different angle. Like we saw the Gary Webb book gave it to us from the drug angle and s…”

Danny Casolaro exposed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:08:58

“You know, just as a respect for other journalists, they're in the newspaper business, so they read news. And I think about the only person that was able to see the big picture was Danny Casolaro. And …”

Jonathan Kitzman member_of Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted ▶ 1:12:02

“looking to see if there's any relationships to the people. Because the name that came up in this chapter, Joppy, is shared with quite a few other people that I've came across in banking. And then this…”

Besko member_of Columbia host_asserted ▶ 1:12:57

“Well, but that's the guy. Hold on just a second. Let me go back. So he's a Russian Jewish person. That's where his family is originally from. Probably the Pella settlement that goes to base. Patrick H…”