Just in case you have forgotten,
the FBI has problems.
http://www.karisable.com/crlebcfbi.htmRobert Mueller, the current head operator of the FBI has been linked to the Boston mob via one Sammy the Bull Gravano.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/bull/The FBI scandal was investigated for two years by the House Government Reform Committee, then under the chairmanship of Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN), who introduced legislation to remove Hoover’s name from FBI headquarters as a result of what he learned.
But the scandal gets worse than that. When Burton tried to acquire official records on the case from the Justice Department, he was stonewalled, and Attorney General John Ashcroft persuaded President George W. Bush to invoke “executive privilege” to block the committee’s subpoenas. This was President Bush’s first, and thus far only, use of executive privilege to withhold information from the Congress. Some think Bush is trying to protect current FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston during part of the relevant time period. The confrontation with Burton prompted columns on the controversy by William Safire and Robert Novak.
http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2003/7.htmlSammy was involved in many rackets.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/gravano/gravano.htmlSammy was professionally
http://www.laborers.org/Gravano.htmland he was also personally involved in the demolition business in New York city.
The last two murders Gravano was involved in came in 1990. The first was Eddie Garofalo not to be confused with Gravano's brother-in-law Edward Garafola. A demolition contractor known as "Cousin Eddie," in 1985 he illegally demolished four buildings in Times Square in the middle of the night. On August 9 Garofalo was shot to death by Gravano crewmembers in front of his Brooklyn home.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/gravano/notches_16.html?sect=15Eventually Sammy broke out of the New England small time and into the international BIG LEAGUE.
Gravano was transferred under heavy guard to the United States Marine base in Quantico, Virginia. There he signed his witness deal and spent weeks working with the government preparing his testimony for the trial.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/gravano/rat_19.html?sect=15After ratting out John Gotti, Sammy went of to Phoenix AZ where he re-opened his construction company called Marathon Development. This was used as a from for many and several illegal operations, presumably with the blessings of those in high office.
The Phoenix cops working outside the authority of the FBI collected evidence and busted Sammy once and for all. The news of this particular trifecta has not been well recieved in certain quarters.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.htmBurton has subpoenaed more FBI documents, but Attorney General John Ashcroft has refused to supply them, and President Bush has backed Ashcroft up with an order of executive privilege. The White House maintains that airing the documents “would be contrary to the national interest.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/25/60minutes/main325595.shtmlWhich brings us right back to September 11.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28501http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0921-01.htmFinally, the United States will use this moment of opportunity to extend the benefits of freedom across the globe.We will actively work to bring the hope of democracy, development, free markets, and free trade to every corner of the world. The events of September 11, 2001, taught us that weak states, like Afghanistan, can pose as great a danger to our national interests as strong states. Poverty does not make poor people into terrorists and murderers. Yet poverty, weak institutions, and corruption can make weak states vulnerable to terrorist networks and drug cartels within their borders.
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/secstrat.htmGravano views his homicidal history in a cultural context, like the moral relativism of war.
"I watched a guy (on TV) who dropped a bomb on Hiroshima," he says. "Killed 100,000 people in one day. What's that about?"
http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/bull/071899sammy1.htmlOudeVanDagen,
you keep bringin up the Fresh Kills landfill, which is where much of the WTC rubble was taken.
Mob labour is known to have been used in the WTC cleanup.
Whatever those boys hauled off
will remained buried in that toxic dump and
nobody, as long as the perpetrators and the associates are in power, will ever be granted access to investigate that rubble.
Citing alleged mob ties, the city has sacked a construction firm owned by two former Staten Islanders and hired to help close the Fresh Kills landfill, but City Hall maintains the departure of Interstate Industrial Corp. should not delay the dump's closing.
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A Sanitation Department source said Interstate, which has a subsidiary in Rossville that had been supplying some of the materials for work at Fresh Kills, was bounced after the city Department of Investigation (DOI) disclosed the $100 million company has indirect ties to the Gambino crime family.
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Since May, he said, the DiTommasos have been cooperating with the New York City Trade Waste Commission on the operation of the company since the firm acquired Metropolitan Stone Corp., a transfer station for dirt and debris.
"They've provided detailed information on everything right down to checks issued for as little as $50," Ruvoldt said. "Clearly the Department of Sanitation's decision is unjustified."
Metropolitan was owned by a reputed member of the Gambino crime family, Mario Garafola, and controlled by his father, Edward Garafola, a fixture in the construction industry for more than two decades.
Edward Garafola is the brother-in-law of Mafia snitch Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, the Graniteville mobster whose testimony put Gambino boss John Gotti away for life.
http://www.americanmafia.com/News/9-6-00_Landfill_Closing.htmlNow everybody knows that the NYSE was in deep doo just before September 11, 2001 and anyone who doesn't agree with that still has to admit that the stock market has pretty much collapsed since then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_downturn_of_2002However almost nobody recalls that a certain bunch saw whole thing coming.
I believe we can blame Bush (or his cronies) for the stock market drop.
July 20th 2001, I got an e-mail, sent by an old friend, from my RW days.
This person is on the staff of a Republican Senator.
"Sell all stocks by fall. They are going to harvest that middle class money."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/forum_archive_html/DCForumID27/1564.html#11And almost nobody recalls that on September 13, 2000, the SEC was hearing testimony concerning the forays of organized crime into the affairs of Wall Street.
Mob involvement on Wall Street is not new. As organized crime advanced into the white-collar arena, the stock market became one of its targets.2 Indeed, there is evidence that organized crime had made inroads on Wall Street back in the 1970's. (WTC buildings constructed in the 70s)
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Mob activity on Wall Street reportedly increased in the 1990's. On February 10, 1997, The New York Times reported that "Mafia crime families are switching increasingly to white-collar crimes" with a focus on "small Wall Street brokerage houses."13 According to The New York Times story, the Mafia's entry into the securities markets was spurred by its reported loss of $500 million a year in profits from the dissolution of its garbage-hauling cartels, and its reported loss of $50 million a year in profits following its eviction from the Fulton Fish Market.14
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The stock that was the subject of the manipulation was Transun International Airways, Inc. ("TSUN"), which traded on the Nasdaq OTC electronic bulletin board stock market. According to the indictment, TSUN purported to be a chartered airline; however, it never owned or operated any planes, never conducted any airline business, and never generated any revenues. The defendants were charged with gaining control of the company's stock at minimal cost, artificially inflating its price by touting it aggressively at Capital Planning and issuing spurious claims about the health of the fly-by-night company, and then unloading over $8 million worth of stock on unsuspecting customers. Froncillo, as well as four other defendants, plead guilty to the charges.
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Another major strike against organized crime in the securities markets came on March 3, 2000 when the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York indicted 19 people, including six with alleged ties to organized crime. The indictment alleged that a broker-dealer, White Rock Partners (later renamed State Street Capital Markets), working with brokers at several notorious boiler rooms, including J.W. Barclay & Co., A.R. Baron & Co., and D.H. Blair, engaged in microcap "pump and dump" manipulations. The indictment also alleged that the defendants most frequently relied on fraudulent Regulation S offerings to obtain their inventory of stock to manipulate. The six alleged organized crime members in the criminal enterprise are as follows:
Name Position Organized Crime Family
Frank Coppa Sr. Captain Bonanno
Edward Garafola Soldier Gambino (*****SAMMY's COUSIN EDDIE)
Eugene Lombardo Associate Bonanno
Ernest Montevecchi Soldier Genovese
Daniel Persico Associate Colombo
Joseph Polito Sr. Associate Gambino
The indictment alleges that the organized crime defendants, among other things, (i) resolved disputes relating to the hiring and retention of brokers, (ii) halted attempts by other members of organized crime to extort members of the criminal enterprise, and (iii) halted efforts to reduce the price of securities underwritten by White Rock and State Street through such techniques as short selling.
http://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/ts142000.htmAnd this leads us right back to Phoenix AZ by way of Florida.
In the world of multimedia components, Phoenix-based SC&T International Inc. has carved out a small but significant niche. SC&T's products have won raves in the trade press, but working capital has not always been easy to come by. So in December, 1995, the company brought in Sovereign Equity Management Corp., a Boca Raton (Fla.) brokerage, to manage an initial public offering. ''We thought they were a solid second- or third-tier investment bank,'' says SC&T Chief Executive James L. Copeland.
http://www.businessweek.com/1996/51/b35061.htmAnd if you are looking for a Texas connection, you are in luck.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/06/21/national/main208009.shtmlhttp://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/bull/0807sammy07.htmlWe could say a whole lot more about the drug scene and Sammy Gravano, but we do not want to be called anti-semitic.
"There are a lot of Israeli criminals in the three major hubs, New York, Miami and Los Angeles, so they didn't have to reinvent the wheel," Mr. Abramovsky said. The Israelis also had good connections to Russian criminal gangs, which often serve as the Israelis' partners in the ecstasy business.
American officials started noticing the growing presence of Israelis on the ecstasy scene in the late 1990s. In July 1999, after a 21-month investigation, a joint federal-state organized crime-drug enforcement task force uncovered a smuggling operation that relied mostly on carriers of an unexpected nature in the drug business: young chasidic men. Some of them, dressed in the traditional long coats and hats, thought they were carrying diamonds, according to authorities. But others knew, or at least suspected, what their cargo was. Task force officials reported that more than one million pills had been brought into the country that way, with dealers racking up huge profits.
The young chasidim, most hailing from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Monsey, N.Y., were promised a free round trip to Europe and $1,500 for bringing back the pills, the authorities said. Some got $200 recruitment fees for bringing a friend into the ring.
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....It is too early to tell which group will dominate it in the long run.
If so, then the fact that names like Gravano are now allegedly involved may signal a new trend. The question, Mr. Abramovsky said, is whether Israeli criminals, who have a reputation for ruthlessness in the cities where they have been active, will prove forceful enough to maintain their market share.
http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.01.19/news3.htmlWhich brings us back full circle to the FBI and the problems of one Robert S. Mueller III.
Sammy Gravano’s state trial on 181 counts of conspiracy, drug distribution, and running a criminal enterprise is scheduled to begin June 4. This winter new federal charges were piled on Sammy, Gerard, and Mike Papa in New York, based on the investigation of the drug network of Ilan Zarger and Koki Orgad.
The federal government is paying in full for Sammy Gravano’s defense. “I think the Feds are going to offer Sammy a deal,” former Gotti defense attorney John Mitchell told Court TV. “Sammy knows a great deal of information that was never disclosed…I don’t think
want that to come to light, and they’re going to step in and take care of their boy.”
http://www.maximonline.com/grit/articles/article_4010.html
Now, there are many and several who visit this forum and argue vociferously against the fact that the FBI routinely engages in coverups.
To them I say, that Sammy Gravano's current underwear is every bit as pink as that of Edgar J. and if they have further comments on the "incompentence" of the FBI, they should take a closer look at this document.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020603/memo.html
And then perhaps they will be so kind as to explain this to the rest of us.
Sunday June 2, 2002
Nor is it certain that Bulger does not maintain an absentee role in the Boston-Irish underground. What is certain is that the FBI has never made it a priority to catch him, despite his figuring on its '10 Most Wanted List' for nearly eight years. The task force assigned to catch him is comprised of just one federal agent, one Boston police officer, and one state parole officer.
The Connolly-Bulger case places the FBI in a conflicted position. When the scale of the corruption first came to light, the then Attorney General Janet Reno issued new rules to limit the relationship between agents and criminal informers. Many of those restrictions, including having FBI-informant relationships reviewed by government prosecutors, were lifted last week (May 2002) by Reno's successor, John Ashcroft.
Last week, (May 2002) FBI director Robert Mueller, head of the Boston FBI in the Nineties, sought to reassure critics that overturning Reno's reforms was not at odds with the lessons of the Connolly case. 'Even before Agent Connolly's conviction, we at the bureau understood its need to reform its handling of confidential informants to make sure that this doesn't happen again,' he said.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,726367,00.html
And perhaps they can remind again, us of why we do not need an investigation into 9:11 since Robet S. Mueller III has already given us the business.
The idea of four innocent men going to prison for life for a murder they didn't commit is horrifying enough by any standards. But the fact that Boston FBI agents knew of their innocence, set up the conviction, and allowed the injustice to roll on for more than 30 years, has horrified America.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/120603fbiframe.html
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