More Bush family corruption?

[BridgeTheGap]

Special Report

'Cha Ching,' from ¢¢¢ to $$$: How the Bush Crime Syndicate funneled foreign cash into the U.S. political system

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

FLORIDA PANHANDLE, June 21, 2005 (waynemadsenreport.com)—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 bathtub 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.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/062105Madsen/062105madsen.html

[ewagner]

1. I don't know about this

I think I'll keep my skepticism in place until hard, solid proof is provided......

[groovedaddy]

4. Hard, solid proof?

I believe it has now been effectively "burried!"

[orwell]

2. BFEE

When will this sorry debacle come to its rightful inglorious end...

[leveymg]

3. A lot of Bush investigators do end up in motel bathtubs, don't they?

Another lavatory "suicide" after someone uncovered damning evidence of Bush family crimes. Gee, where HAVE I seen that before? :eyes:

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Nothing to see here.

Keep moving.
Nothing to see here.
God bless Murika.

[libertypirate]

5. This is solid...

It is mainly historical with small updates.

[Trish1168]

8. The Ohio story is known and is exploding

Much of the article is factually true. The ties to Feeney were told by Clint Curtis (who supplied an affadavit testimony). The apparent (and fake) suicide of the investigator is known. His claims to have found corruption going to the very top were known.

Things in this article that are news to me is that there were other investigations regarding these activities. Still, the president has no authority to shut something like that down (how did he do that? bribes? threats?).

Some of this is speculative. I had heard of five star trust and its strange associations, but I have not seen hard facts. And the assertions of parts of Florida being a headquarters for Bush family criminal activities seems wildly speculative, considering there are no specifics.

[groovedaddy]

7. More dirt on this topic

http://www.insider-magazine.com/Valdosta-Lemme.pdf

[corbett]

9. Keep It Around, People!

Jeb will be on the ticket in 2008 and this time the truth will not be buried.

[tx_dem41]

10. Ahhh....another "Wayne Madsen special".

Grinding out the scandal du jour from that sausage making machine of his.