How the Bush Crime Syndicate Funneled Foreign Cash Into the U.S. Political System
Florida Investigator Who Got Too Close to Florida "Coin Gate" Silenced by Jeb Bush's Gangsters
Wayne Madsen
FLORIDA PANHANDLE, June 10, 2005 --
Experienced federal investigators, acting independently, have discovered a
covert funding channel used by the 2000 and 2004
Bush-Cheney campaigns and the administrations of Jeb Bush in
Florida and Bob Taft in Ohio to illegally funnel foreign and
other questionable money into Republican coffers.
Ever since the brutal death of Florida Department of
Transportation (FDOT) investigator Ray Lemme in July 2003,
the focus of investigators in Florida and Georgia has been on
the political scandal Lemme was uncovering. After his official
investigation of contract fraud, money laundering, illegal
immigration, and election fraud was shut down on orders of
Jeb Bush, Lemme continued to investigate the use of FDOT to
launder cash for the Bush Brothers and their allies. Lemme's
focus was on the use of the Florida turnpike system to launder
cash for the Jeb and George W. Bush campaigns. It was an
investigation that would ultimately lead to Lemme's body being
discovered in a motel room bath tub in Valdosta, Georgia. A
two-state police cover up of Lemme's death, threats directed
at Florida and Georgia investigators, and a virtual media
blackout indicates that the GOP administrations of Jeb Bush
and Georgia's Sonny Perdue wanted the Lemme story to go
away -- and fast.
The reason for the cover-up of Lemme's reported "suicide" is
simple. Investigators have now discovered that foreign cash,
including Chinese, Saudi, and Nigerian money, was laundered
via the biggest state-run cash cow in Florida -- the Florida
Turnpike system. Because most of the transactions involving
Florida's toll roads involve cash and huge amounts of it, it was
easy for foreign and other questionable money to be laundered
via FDOT.
Lemme had reportedly become aware of the use of FDOT to
commit criminal acts. Valdosta, where Lemme went to meet a
still unknown source, is a key center for international organized
criminal activity, including illegal foreign worker smuggling,
involving close political allies of George W. and Jeb Bush.
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