New details emerge of SunCruz-linked bribe to ex-lawmaker

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16395700.htm

New details emerge of SunCruz-linked bribe to ex-lawmakerNew court documents provide fresh details of a SunCruz-linked bribe to an ex-Ohio congressman who faces sentencing soon.
BY JAY WEAVER

One-time powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave a $10,000 campaign bribe to an Ohio congressman for his public words of praise for Abramoff's business partner in the purchase of a South Florida fleet of gambling ships more than six years ago.

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Abramoff and his SunCruz business partner, Adam Kidan of New York, who is serving a similar prison sentence, used that money to buy the gambling fleet for $147 million from Fort Lauderdale tycoon Konstantinos ''Gus'' Boulis in fall 2000. (Boulis would be slain months later, but Abramoff and Kidan have not been implicated in any way in that case.)

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Scanlon contacted Ney's chief of staff, Neil Volz, to arrange to have Ney disparage Boulis and his company in the Congressional Record. Scanlon drafted a statement that Ney put into the Record in March 2000, saying: ``There are a few bad apples out there who don't play by the rules and that is just plain wrong. One such example is the case of SunCruz Casinos, based out of Florida.''

The motive: ''To soften the negotiating position'' of Boulis and ''secure a better deal'' for Abramoff and his business partner Kidan, according to the court documents filed Wednesday.

Scanlon, who also pleaded guilty to corruption charges, told investigators that Abramoff and Kidan asked for another favor from Ney after the SunCruz sale that September. ''Abramoff and Kidan wanted a second statement, this time praising Kidan as the new manager of the business,'' the documents state.

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And in a phone call with Ney and Volz, ''Scanlon offered them a $10,000 contribution to the National Republican Campaign Committee in return for agreement to insert the second statement into the Congressional Record,'' the documents say.

In late October 2000, Ney inserted these remarks: ``I have come to learn that SunCruz Casinos now finds itself under new ownership and, more importantly, that its new owner has a renowned reputation for honesty and integrity.''

[JackBeck]

1. Now if they could just get a hold of those passenger records.

Rumor has it some of the 9/11 hijackers were on board a few days before the attack.

[sce56]

2. Latest from [e-mail]

*Mohamed Atta's Best Friend Caught in South Pacific:*

*"You can't arrest me, I'm working for the CIA."*

http://voxpopnet.net/attascia.html

Published today, 12/18/06, in New York Megaphone, print run: 40,000
circulation: 66,700, NYC and Environs

Sander Hicks

Daniel Hopsicker is an independent journalist working in Venice,
Florida, outside the decommissioned military airstrips where three
pilots from the 9/11 attack were trained. Hopsicker found the secret
life of 9/11 ring-leader Mohamed Atta, who lead the operation by
piloting the first plane into the World Trade Centre. Hopsicker
found Atta's American girlfriend, Amanda Keller. What she said broke
new ground for truth-seekers worldwide. Atta had social connections
and a party-boy life that indicated there was more to his story than
people had been told. The American media establishment turned a
blind eye to Hopsicker's work, however. He has been called a
"conspiracy theorist" in mainstream media in Florida, when he's paid
any attention at all.

Yet, in November, 2006, Hopsicker's career turned a corner. Sources
connected to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) told the
Megaphone that his work began to be used to track Atta's former
associates. A researcher close to JTTF, speaking on condition of
anonymity, told the Megaphone that the "JTTF relied heavily on
Daniel's research on Atta and Amanda . I faxed them pages
from Welcome to Terrorland."


The lead paid off: on November 16, 2006, the Joint Terrorism Task
Force issued a "Terror Alert" for a certain Wolfgang Bohringer, a
German-born, naturalized U.S. citizen who had reportedly partied
with and protected Mohamed Atta in Florida. Bohringer's name came up
often in interviews with Amanda Keller. Amanda called the two
"inseparable" and described how they had been kicked out of bars
together. Atta called Wolfgang "brother" a name he reserved for
particular white Europeans.


Why "Brother?" During Atta's university years in Cairo, the
engineering guild that he joined had made him a member of the group
Muslim Brotherhood. (9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is also
a card-carrying Muslim Brother.) The group has two wings. Their
front men in Egypt are non-violent, but the sordid history of the
Brotherhood is that, since 1928, its anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist
ideologies have made it a partner in crime for Nazis, European
fascists, American far-rightists, and their powerful counterparts,
the neo-conservatives.


The JTTF swiftly descended on Wolfgang Bohringer, outside Fanning
Island, in the South Pacific, about 1000 miles south of Hawaii, on
the 17th of November. Sources reported that the arresting officers
said, "The first thing out of his mouth made him go from a '5' to an
'8'" (on a scale of importance). Allegedly, Bohringer had claimed,
"You can't arrest me, I'm working for the CIA."


It looks like Bohringer was right. The day after the arrest, The
Megaphone's JTTF sources did an about-face. With a mix of threats
and attempts at persuasion, they claimed that an error had been
made: Bohringer had not been arrested. It was someone else. They
couldn't say who. That identity was secret.


Daniel Hopsicker felt betrayed. In an email to a JTTF source, he
said, "perhaps y'all are unaware up there that i haven't spent the
past five years in venice bumfuck florida because i have a fetish
for blue-haired widows. i'm the person who discovered that mohamed
atta had a close german associate named wolfgang bohringerŠif NOBODY
there feels that i deserve to be briefed on this story, please pass
on my cordial 'fuck you' to all involved."


The Megaphone approached other sources inside national and
international security agencies. One source, a former JTTF informant
and undercover operative for the anti-terrorist Operation
Diamondback, phoned The Megaphone office on Dec. 11, and confirmed
that Wolfgang Bohringer was arrested on Nov. 17, 2006: "The answer
is yes, and he's working-can't talk about it."


The message was pithy, but the effect is devastating: This might be
the closest anyone has come to "proof" that Mohamed Atta had
connections to the CIA.


If sources are correct, Bohringer was working for CIA when he
befriended Atta in Florida. Bohringer was CIA when he was arrested
by the Joint Terrorism Task Force on November 17th, 2006.


And according to the Diamondback source, Mohamed Atta best friend,
Wolfgang Bohringer today is still "working" for CIA.


At this point, The New York Megaphone is out front on a story no one
else has. The only thing we can say is "Qui custodiat ipso
custodies?" latin for "Who watches the watchmen?"


According to polls, national opinion is shifting towards thinking
more critically about 9/11. But the only people who seem adamant
these days about defending a lie are the people tasked with finding
the truth.

To unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" in the subject line and please
include your username at the 9/11 CitizensWatch site.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Amazing! One point I need clarity on--

It was said of the Brotherhood that

"its anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist
ideologies have made it a partner in crime for Nazis, European
fascists, American far-rightists, and their powerful counterparts,
the neo-conservatives."

How do you get "anti-semitism and anti-Zionist ideologies" into the same sentence with "neo-conservatives?"

[sce56]

4. I don't know this was an email I recived from the 911 truth forums

October 17, 2006,Will be remembered as the Enabling day of the 21st Century!
"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures..."
~Adolf Hitler, March 23, 1933, before the German Parliament (Reichstag) as he urged them to pass his "Enabling Act"

Got Fascism Yet?


http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bush-nazilinkconfirmed.htm



Fascism Accomplished!

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Neocons...

Strauss, Perle, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Horowitz, Bloom, Jonah Goldberg--Yup. Antisemites all.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Actually, religious affiliation doesn't seem to matter to the neocons

just as long as you're a true believer.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. True in general, I think, but there are some strong links

between our neocons & the crazier segments of the Israeli right wing.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. There are also strong links

with the religous insane xian fundies and there are even a few radical islamics, ie the Saudis for example.

That's why it seems what flavor you happen to be doesn't matter much, just as long as you're a true believer in the cause.

[Independent_Liberal]

5. K&R!