Guest reallyveryradical Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Closing In On The Clintons As the 2008 Presidential Primaries loom ever nearer increasing interest is being paid to the front-runner among the Democrats. While the Republican race for President is still wide open it now appears that Barack Hussein Obama and John Edwards, also known as Jon Edwards have been eclipsed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who now appears to be unstoppable in her race for the nomination of the Democrats. As such she may well become the next President of the United States of America. What do we really know about this remarkable person? Some of the material below is excerpted from: Politics and Bedfellows An Age Old Story Told Once Again do a search on that exact title to read more of that material We do not know what to make of the gossip being circulated about likely 2008 Dem Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton these days. Though the name Arthur Turco is known to few Americans today, if the allegations about his romantic and political relationship with Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1969 when Hillary was at Yale turn out to be true Arthur Turco's name might become as much a household word as Monica Lewinsky's name was in the late 1990s. Unlike Monica Lewinsky however, Arthur Turco in 1969 was no starry eyed 20 something intern being s-xually used and abused by the most charming President of the United States ever to hold that office. Gerald Lefcourt, David Brothers, Abbie Hofmann, Dave Dellinger, William Kunstler, Jerry Rubin, and Arthur Turco can be seen at a Black Panther Rally at Federal Court, in a photo taken on March 22nd, 1969. Arthur Turco is the clean shaven white man in the dark glasses,wearing a tie with his hand in the pocket of his rain coat, standing behind bearded Jerry Rubin. You can see the photo in which Turco appears at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowTheEnemy/ in the Birds of A Feather photo album at http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowTheEnemy/photos Arthur Turco was the New York City based leader of a weird white group called THE PATRIOTS in 1969. THE PATRIOTS were allied with THE BLACK PANTHERS and a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS in something called THE RAINBOW COALITION. This was a different group from the Jesse Jackson related Rainbow Coalition group. THE PATRIOTS operated relatively openly from an office in far uptown Manhattan but reputedly also used one or more covert "Safe House" style apartments in the CHELSEA section of Manhattan. Some of those "Safe House" style apartments were allegedly fortress like places,allegedly filled with heavy weapons including explosives, as well as handguns, and automatic weapons. Some alleged background on Black Panther Party attorney and ally, Arthur Turco may be found at http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=11450 which describes Arthur Turco as the "Panthers' New York lawyer,Arthur Turco." The article states that : "Caplan says he believes that the Panthers' New York lawyer, Arthur Turco, was the ringleader in the commission of this crime. "He was apparently in the house when the torture and the murder took place and was part of the conspiracy to kill and remove the body," Below is an example of a post which dates back to the Bill Clinton era we found describing some of the story. "Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized his'friends'tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Mr.Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn. Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something? As a `60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head,and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only in America! Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board. How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy? Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? No, Neither! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as The "smartest woman in the world." She is none other than...Hillary Rodham Clinton." We checked Hillary's official White House bio and found that: "In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action..." source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/hc42.html We also dug up the 1997 piece below on Bill Lan Lee "G.O.P Leader Says Nominee Will Be Halted November 10, 1997, Monday By STEVEN A. HOLMES (New York Times) National Desk Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 22, Column 1, Senator Orrin G Hatch, chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, says nomination of Bill Lan Lee, President Clinton's choice for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, is dead; nomination has run into opposition among Republicans, who accuse him of supporting racial quotas and affirmative action..." Want to know something really scary? We do not know if there is any truth to them at all, but allegations are beginning to resurface concerning the alleged connections, which may have begun in 1969, between Hillary Rodham,while she and her husband to be Bill Clinton were Yale students, and something callled THE RAINBOW COALITION, not the one associated with Jesse Jackson, but another one, which was composed of 3 allied groups: THE BLACK PANTHERS, a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS, and a bizarre Maoist "white" group called THE PATRIOTS. The so-called RAINBOW COALITION was an alliance between ARTHUR TURCO'S white terrorist group THE PATRIOTS, and the original BLACK PANTHERS,(not to be confused with a group using that name today), and a Puerto Rican group called THE YOUNG LORDS in 1969 when Hillary and Bill Clinton were Yale students. A relatively covert alliance also existed between THE PATRIOTS and heavily armed international arab terrorists,including those controlled by arafat,operating even then in the United States,and elsewhere. In particular the allegations center around the alleged connections between Hillary Rodham and Arthur Turco, and others. Turco was the leader of THE PATRIOTS. THE PATRIOTS members wore dungaree "uniforms" including dungaree pants and dungaree jackets and held Maoist style "self-criticism sessions". THE PATRIOTS were allegedly heavily involved in drug use, which included "snorting" horse tranquilizer drugs, among other things, and allegedly were regular visitors to YALE. They also allegedly regularly read responsively from Lin Piao's radical book. ("Encyclopedia of World Biography on Lin Piao (1907-1971) was a Chinese Communist military commander and political leader. His distinguished military career and loyalty to the principles of Mao Tse-tung were the basis for his rise to second position in the Chinese Communist leadership. He was involved in an unsuccessful coup d'etat in 1971.") We would like to know what, if anything, you have found about this story? Is there any truth to it at all? We do not know. Then there is the matter of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Famed Jewish columnist A.M.Rosenthal of THE NEW YORK TIMES called Bill Clinton, who he had backed in the 1992 Presidential race against then President George Herbert Walker Bush, BOMBER BILL because of Clinton's prosecution of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. In those wars some 5,000 Serbian civilians were slaughtered in Guernica like air raids. Many of the same targets in Serbia that were bombed by the Luftwaffe in World War Two were bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1999. Bill Clinton turned the US Airforce into AIR BIN LADEN, flying missions against Serbians who were fighting against Osama bin Laden's forces in the Balkans. Why would Bill Clinton, the former anti-war activist of the 1960s,who had demonstrated against the Vietnam War,wage war against Serbia as President of the United States in the 1990s? The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution limits Presidential terms of office to 2 terms. Bill Clinton was elected to those 2 terms and served them. His last full year in office was 2000, the year his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the US Senate from New York State. He left office on January 20th, 2001. Many observers viewed the 2000 US Senate race in which she was elected from New York State as a stepping stone to the White House for Hillary Rodham Clinton. In New York State winning state wide Republican candidates need the nomination of the New York State Republican Party to be augmented by the nominaton of the New York State Conservative Party. Winning statewide without BOTH nominations is not an easy thing for any Republican candidate in New York State. The website of the New York State Conservative Party proudly proclaims : "The 1994 elections were a breakthrough for the Conservative Party as we provided the margin of victory for Governor George E. Pataki with the 326,605 votes cast on our line." source: http://www.cpnys.org/history/history.html In New York State the votes of candidates on for example the Republican Party line may be combined with votes for the same candidates received on for example the New York State Conservative Party line. Thus winning the nomination of the New York State Conservative Party is vital to making a successful statewide run for office in New York State. Things were not shaping up at all well for Rudy Guiliani, who was the odds on favorite for the Republican nomination for the US Senate race in 2000 against Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Giuliani at Fund-Raiser, but Not Conservative Party's November 17, 1999, Wednesday By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN (New York Times)Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 5, Column 1 Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani attends Broadway fund-raiser for his presumptive United States Senate campaign, but he is left out of State Conservative Party's annual fall cocktail party--which may have even more important implications for his political future; Conservative Party chairman Michael R Long says Giuliani was not invited because he has not yet expressed interest in winning party's endorsement..." To his credit then Governor George W. Bush did what he could to pitch in to help Rudy Guiliani. "Bush Offers Giuliani Help On the Right November 30, 1999, Tuesday By ELISABETH BUMILLER (New York Times)Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 5, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, on his first political trip since Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her intention to run for United States Senate, basks in praise of political benefactor, Texas Governor George W. Bush. Bush, at rally in Austin, Texas, volunteers to help Giuliani win endorsement from New York State Conservative Party in his likely race against Hillary Clinton; endorsement has been held up over Giuliani's position on abortion rights; at issue is Giuliani's opposition to ban on what critics call `partial-birth' abortions..." The alleged Clinton master plan to win Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York State as a vital stepping stone to the White House was built on a very simple proposition: DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Winning that seat in the Senate for Hillary in 2000 could theoretically be accomplished by assuring that the 2000 US Senate nominaton of the New York State Conservative Party did not go to the 2000 US Senate nominee of the New York State Republican Party. But how could such a thing be accomplished? Who could be persuaded to split the right so that Hillary Rodham Clinton could be elected to the US Senate from New York State in 2000? Ominously it was on May Day of 2000 that the following happened: "Giuliani Gets A New Rival On the Right May 1st, 2000, Monday By ADAM NAGOURNEY (New York Times) Metropolitan Desk Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 1, Column 6, Former United States Congressman from Westchester County Joseph J DioGuardi, in move that could complicate Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani's campaign for United States Senate, says that he will seek support of Conservative, Right-to- Life and Independence Parties in campaign for Senate; repeatedly assails Giuliani as being out of step with Conservative-minded Republicans..." Who was Former United States Congressman from Westchester County Joseph J DioGuardi, and how did he fit in to the alleged Clinton master plan to win Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York State as vital stepping stone to the White House? DioGuardi has been described by New York City's Village Voice newspaper as : "NEW YORK'S KOSOVO KINGPIN" http://www.villagevoice.com/features/9915/vest.shtml In 2000 DioGuardi was poised to give not-so-hilarious Hillary Rodham Clinton a seat in the US Senate from New York by virtue of his own campaign for that seat that would have split right-wing opposition to Hillary, thus ensuring her election. We opposed Ms.Clinton then,and we oppose her now. Unlike Ms.Clinton who favors a so-called "palestinian" state we are opposed to such an entity coming into existence. We were also opposed to Clinton's anti-Serbian policy in the Balkans. There is more data available on the so-called "palestinian" state issue: " B'NAI B'RITH DISAPPOINTED WITH THE FIRST LADY'S COMMENTS ON A PALESTINIAN STATE" http://bnaibrith.org/pr/hillaryclinton.html http://www.usaid-wbg.org/98dec14a.html A group calling itself the "National Association of Arab Americans" http://www.naaa.net/alerts/aa050898.html urged its members to "Please write, phone, or fax the First Lady at the following address to express your appreciation for her remarks" which favored a so-called "palestinian" state.) Nor has Hillary, not-so-Hilarious Clinton been squeamish about supporting Albanians " Hillary Clinton awarded Albania's highest civilian honor" http://www.cnn.co.uk/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/22/hrc.award/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/columns/hrc040799.ht ml Please see the url below from THE NEW YORK TIMES regarding the 2000 DioGuardi US Senate candidacy. http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/politics/camp/050100sen-ny.html DioGuardi hopes to run on the Conservative Party, Right-to-Life and Independence Party lines in New York State. The Independence Party was the name for the Reform Party in New York State which then appeared likely to have Patrick J. Buchanan as its Presidential standard bearer in the fall 2000 elections. http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/buchanan_intro. html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_nazis.html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_segregation. html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/on_women.html http://www.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/2585_52.html http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/window_buchanan .html http://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/3481_12.html http://www.adl.org/frames/front_buchanan_own_words.html http://www.adl.org/backgrounders/reform_party_and_fulani_and_newman.h tml http://www.adl.org/frames/front_background_article2.html "Buchanan has consistently portrayed war criminals as patriotic Americans, innocent victims of "revenge-obsessed Nazi hunters" in Washington. Virtually everything the accused and their defenders have said he accepts as truth, and, in the words of one critic, he wages "journalistic guerilla warfare" on their behalf. Says Neal Sher, former director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations: "Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America." Liberty Lobby, the leading anti-Semitic and racist organization in America, overwhelmingly endorsed Pat Buchanan during the 1996 presidential primaries. An editorial in its publication, The Spotlight, pointed out that "the 112 issues or legislative positions that Liberty Lobby has taken over the past 40 years...shows that Pat Buchanan stands with us." The predominant issue they share is Holocaust revisionism, the spearhead of the international anti-Semitic movement. Buchanan used his syndicated column and his office as communications director in the Reagan White House from 1981-1987 to assist pro-Nazi Eastern European organizations in trying to block the denaturalization and deportation of Karl Linnas, John Demjanjuk, and at least seventeen others who had been charged by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations or had been convicted in federal courts of concealing war crimes in order to gain illegal entry into the U.S. The Karl Linnas Case In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, NY stripped 67-year-old Karl Linnas of his citizenship for having lied to immigration officials thirty years earlier about his Nazi past. Linnas's crimes, the judge said, "were such as to offend the decency of any civilized society." From 1941-43 Linnas had commanded a Nazi concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia, where he directed and personally took part in the murder of thousands of men, women, and children who were shot into anti-tank ditches. A 1986 federal appeals court upheld his deportation order, ruling that the evidence against the defendant was "overwhelming and largely uncontroverted." Summarily rejecting the court's findings because evidence had been obtained from the Soviet Union, Buchanan orchestrated a national media effort to exonerate Linnas, demanding that his citizenship be reinstated. He championed the Linnas cause in his syndicated newspaper column and TV program "Crossfire," and arranged for then U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III to meet with him and members of Eastern European organizations who hailed Linnas as a hero. On March 31, l987, Menachem Rosensaft, founder of the International Network of Children of Holocaust Survivors, wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece calling for a congressional investigation to determine whether any American official or functionary had intervened on Mr. Linnas's behalf. Buchanan responded by saying it was the Office of Special Investigations that needed to be investigated. "Let us get it all out in the open," he wrote, "nothing un-American can live in the sunlight." Attorney General Meese delayed the deportation of Linnas as long as possible, all the while searching for a haven. After sixteen countries had refused, Panama agreed to accept Linnas "on humanitarian grounds." News of the decision prompted Rosensaft and others to intercede with Panamanian officials in Washington, who told them that their government had not been informed of Linnas's wartime atrocities. Panama withdrew its offer and issued a statement saying that "our country and our Government reject and condemn the crimes committed by fascists." On April 20, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal. At that point Meese was legally bound to comply with the deportation order. Linnas was flown to the Soviet Union and three months later died in a prison hospital while awaiting trial." http://uahc.org/rjmag/1096ca.html The obvious question came to mind. Was the potential third party DioGuardi 2000 Senate candidacy, which could have guaranteed Hillary the US Senate seat from New York a "big payoff" for the Clintons for the 1999 pro-Albanian Balkan war against Serbia which saw Kosovo stolen from Serbia? http://aacl.com/indexmain.html is the url of a group which describes itself at that website as "the Albanian American Civic League. The Civic League was founded by former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi and a board of Albanian Americans in 1989 as the only registered lobby in Washington, DC, representing the concerns and interests of the Albanian people. Pay close attention to the phrase "living side by side in" found in the quote below, and note how it has since been used by advocates of a so-called Two State Solution, which envisages a so- called "palestinian" state "living side by side in" so- called "peace" with Israel. In reality the so-called Two State Solution is more like Hitler's infamous FINAL SOLUTION, as it is really a Two Step or Two Stage plan, with the first step being get Israel to hand over everything it will without total war, and then wage total war against Israel from the land Israel hands over to destroy the rest of Israel. The self-described "purpose of the Civic League is to further the human rights and the national cause of the divided nation of more than seven million Albanians living side by side in the Balkans in Albania, Kosova, western Macedonia, southeastern Montenegro, Presheve, Medvegje, Bujanovc (southern Serbia), and Chameria (northern Greece). By bringing the political perspectives of 400,000 Albanian Americans to the US Government, the civic League works to end the repression and oppression of Albanians living under hostile Slavic Communist regimes in the Balkans and to preserve the culture, identity and human rights of Albanians throughout the world." While you are digesting that quote, which sounds to me to be more than a bit like the propaganda sprouted by the nazis about the so-called "Sudetenland" http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chluplinks/sudeten.html http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/albums/palbum/p02/a0133p5.html http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/chluplinks/munich.html http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Chlup/czechcon.html and other places inhabited by Germans and others which used the German population as a pretext for annexation and in some cases war by Germany. Saddam did the same thing when he move arabs into Kurdish sections of so-called Iraq. Syria has moved a million so-called "civilian" FIFTH COLUMNISTS into Lebanon, a nation which numbers under four million people, not counting those million Syrian FIFTH COLUMNISTS. NATO bombed Belgrade TV repeatedly, after Belgrade TV started to show the comedic film "Wag the Dog" which is about a US President who starts an Albanian War while he is in the midst of a s-x scandal. Ken Starr, where are you now that we really do need you? (Ken Starr was the anti-Clinton prosecutor who got nowhere in his attempts to oust Bill Clinton from the Presidency.) Some more thoughts from a different source are quoted below: "Fri, 2 Jul 1999 From: SendMeHack@aol.com SendMeHack at aol.com VOICE OF THE GRUNT SPECIAL REPORT FROM BEN WORKS BUYING AN INTERVENTION: KOSOVO AND ALBANIAN PAC MONEY IN CONGRESS By Benjamin Works, Director, The Strategic Issues Research Institute Hack and I, along with a select group of others, have been at war with the KLA over its heroin and terrorist connections. We also knew something about how political money bought this war policy. Here's the story. Back in 1995, late in the Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986 Senate Resolution proposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying Yugoslavian official oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo-that's 1986, when the Albanian Autonomous government was still fully operational. Joseph DioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion House Resolution, both of which never emerged from committee. I got a copy of that Senate Resolution Nr. 150 from the Congressional Register of June 19, 1986 and then let it sit in my file for a long time, while the NATO occupation of Bosnia appeared to keep things calm. Meanwhile, Bob Dole managed to lose the 1996 Presidential Election, then vigorously supported Mr. Clinton's year-by-year extensions for keeping some 6900 US soldiers in Bosnia. As the KLA insurrection in Kosovo reached civil war levels, I began to think about that resolution and how it misrepresented history. I had done considerable reading on the origins of the Yugoslav conflicts, pulling Washington Post, New York Times and other reports from the 1980s, bearing on Kosovo and the collapse of the Federative Republic's communist government under the pressure of ethnic-nationalism. Well, pieces fit together showing that all along it has been the ethnic nationalist fascist losers of World War II in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo who have been exploiting the political process in Germany and the United States. Their goal has been to effect the division of Yugoslavia and the cleansing of Serbian populations from their territories, while purporting that "Greater Serbia" was the menace to European security and not the post- fascist "Greater Croatia" and "Greater Albania." Survivors of the Croat Ustashe movement in southern Germany began their work in the 1960s, but Joseph DioGuardi must be given credit for a sustained campaign to influence Congress beginning in the mid-1970s. DioGuardi, an Albanian American whose ancestors came from an Albanian transplant community in the heel of Italy, sat in Congress for several years in the mid-1980s as a Conservative Republican from New York's Westchester County, but creating a Greater Albania was his agenda as a map on his website shows (http://www.aapac.com). "His Political Action Committee (PAC) activities are easy to follow from 1988 on. What makes the PAC and individual contributions to campaigns more interesting is the demonstrated connection between the Kosovo Heroin Mafia, its "pizza connection" distribution ("inherited" from the Gambino crime family) and money-laundering networks, and the number of pizzaria owner-contributors listed in DioGuardi's filings. The Croats and Albanians came up with big pots of laundered money, then spread it around selectively, with American politicians helping to persuade other members in Congress. I have indications of a political alliance between DioGuardi and Bob Dole going as far back as the early 1970s, but have not yet got all the evidence in hand. What I do have is sufficient to reach tentative conclusions about how foreign policy, in a democracy, can be "bought"-that is precisely what happened in the case of the Kosovo Air War. In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest the GOP nomination from then-vice president George Bush, Dole received $1.2 million from Albanian American supporters in New York City, while DioGuardi received $50,000 at the same dinner. I expect the funding trail goes back further, at least to Dole's 1976 campaign.It certainly continued from 1987 through to the present. As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanian lobbies continued their campaign: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, Mar 31, 1993 issue, reported as much as $50 million was larded around Capitol Hill in a two-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush and led to Bob Dole's control of the Republican party: The United States Congress, still reeling from a series of financial scandals involving representatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: the massive financial "contributions" which have been made to election funds of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to three years. One Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washington lobbying by the Croatians over the past two years "could well exceed $50-million." "Much of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists, and some from Croatian American businessmen "Many of the campaign contributions have been recorded legally," the investigator said, "but many are questionable. But what is more important is that there has been a pervasive attempt to push the United States along a line defined by foreign powers-Croatia and Germany-and it has not been subtle. Elected officials are being told to either support the Croatian line or face either a removal of funding or are told that funding will be given to their opponents. Or they are literally bribed into supporting the Croatian line. This was going on long before Croatia even made its open bid for recognition as an independent state." Now, as to individual contributions, there are campaign contribution limits on individuals, then there are Political Action Committees (PACs), "Soft Money" contributed to the parties and fed back to candidates, and there is the time-honored custom of passing bundles of hundred dollar bills in brown paper bags to favored candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records are on-line (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/) and I have been able retrieve records for Joseph DioGuardi's PACs going back to the 1988 election cycle, and have also tested Bob Dole's 1996 Campaign and Liddy Dole's Campaign-2000. It is all there in the lists of candidates and contributors. In particular, most of the Congressmen speaking loudest against Serbia and Serbs are those receiving money from DioGuardi's PAC. Some have simply been beguiled,others may be more disingenuous. Recipients come from both sides of the aisle but are mostly members of the House or Senate foreign relations committees...These records do not reveal monster sums of money, but demonstrate the tip of the iceberg, where "soft money," individual declared contributions and bags full of $100 bills also find their way to select candidates. It is clear that Bob Dole and Joe DioGuardi, in league with Croat and Bosnian fascist emigrees, worked very effectively to set up US foreign policy to dismantle Yugoslavia and ruin the Serb people. They have succeeded admirably because they were organized and persistent, while their opponents were disorganized and, ultimately, outnumbered by the overwhelming flood of media propaganda. Now, the US taxpayer is on the hook for Billions of Dollars, while our service personnel will be tied down for years in Bosnia and Kosovo,again attempting the kind of nation building that failed so spectacularly in Somalia and Haiti. For those wishing to inspect the details of these fundraising, I have loaded the summary lists compiled thus far at my website along with a companion reading file on the KLA and Heroin:" http://www.siri- us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980- 98.html and http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Drugs.html see also: http://www.truthinmedia.org/TruthinMedia/Kosovo/Peace/ps13.html http://glasgowcrew.tripod.com/albanian.html "I am not naive," KT McFarland told the Republican Convention in late May(of 2006), as she announced her continuing campaign to take a senate seat from former First Lady Hillary Clinton. "I know Mrs. Clinton has considerable resources and advantages and that the race ahead will be formidable. Let's face it, at this point she's probably better known in Albania than I am in Albany." source: http://www.politicalnotebook.org/2006/06/to_feel_better_.html What do you think? Did the Bill and Hillary Clinton anti-Serbian Balkan War of 1999 almost reap its reward with a seat in the US Senate almost being handed to Hillary, not-so-Hilarious Clinton by former New York Congressman Joseph DioGuardi? "15 YEARS OF THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE February 1999. Congressman Jim Traficant joins a Civic League delegation to Tirana to speak at an international conference on the independence of Kosova." SOURCE: http://aacl.com/12m.htm Note: re above Albanians spell Kosovo with an a at the end of it rather than an o, hence the Albanian spelling Kosova above. Shirley A. Cloyes married Joseph DioGuardi in June 1998 according to the material about her excerpted from below in which she is described as "Balkan Affairs Adviser" to the Albanian American Civic League,whose President is Joseph DioGuardi, which states that :"In 1983, she coauthored a book entitled To Work and To Love with German political theologian Dorothee Soelle and joined the staff of The Seabury Press as an editor. Following the closure of the house in 1984, she became marketing director and editorial consultant in Black and women's studies at Orbis Books. In 1986, she joined the staff of Lawrence Hill & Company, an offshoot of the breakup of Hill & Wang, as associate publisher. The press specialized in African American and African studies, the Middle East, women's studies, and controversial domestic and international political issues. When Larry Hill died in 1988, she took over the house and was its publisher until the end of 1995. Some of the noteworthy titles that she published are The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy, Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean by Jan Carew, My Friend, the Enemy by Uri Avnery, and M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America by H. Bruce Franklin. In 1995, she published Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare, the first book on the causes and far-reaching consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of Bosnian Muslim, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian journalists who opposed the war inside the former Yugoslavia. That year she became the Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League. She has since written and lectured widely about the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict and made eight trips to the region. Cloyes proposed the first Congressional hearing on the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict. Following the hearing in February 1995, which included representatives from all the Albanian lands in the former Yugoslavia, she and Civic League President Joseph DioGuardi traveled with Yugoslav dissident Mihaljo Mihaljov to Macedonia at the invitation of Albanian leaders there to monitor the reopening of the Albanian-language University of Tetova. The Macedonian government attacked the university on the morning of their departure, killing a student, wounding hundreds, and jailing the professors. In September of that year, she traveled to Tirana with DioGuardi and Congressman Benjamin Gilman, chair of the House Committee on International Relations, to meet with then President Sali Berisha and to Istanbul to make the case for the the independence of Kosova at the National Press center and at the University of Marmara. Cloyes has testified before Congress at two historic turning points in the life of the Albanian nation. In July 1996, she testified on behalf of the State of Albania before the House Committee on International Relations and exposed the role of Nicholas Gage of the Panepirotic Federation and the Albanian Communists in attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of Sali Berisha. In 1998, she testified in support of U.S. troop deployment in Kosova, following Bob Dole, Jean Kirkpatrick, and Henry Kissinger. In February 1998, after the Serbian army attacked Drenice, Cloyes worked with CNN to gain more complete coverage of the crisis in Kosova. In March, she and DioGuardi shifted the focus of a Congressional hearing with U.S. Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard from Bosnia to Kosova, and positioned the questions that forced Gelbard to retract his earlier depiction of the KLA as a "terrorist" organization. In August of that year, she published two major articles on U.S. foreign policy in the Balkans: "The Agony of Kosova" and "Presiding over Genocide: The Shame of the West." Cloyes is the author of the Civic League's October 1999 public declaration, entitled "Resolving the Albanian National Question," which examines the internal and external factors that stand in the way of creating a free and independent Kosova and bringing a just and lasting peace to the Balkans. With the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia in March 1999, Cloyes and DioGuardi appeared separately and together on more than 50 radio and TV broadcasts. Since the war ended in June 1999, they have made three trips to Kosova to report back to Congress on postwar conditions. Cloyes and DioGuardi were married in June 1998." SOURCE: http://aacl.com/shirley2.html If the name Assata Shakur in the bio of Mrs. Joseph DioGuardi above rang any bells with you it is likely that you recall that Assata Shakur is the alias of Joanne Chesimard. Recall that the bio of Mrs. Joseph DioGuardi above states that among "the noteworthy titles that she published" was "Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur" For those who may be unfamiliar with Joanne Chesimard a.k.a. Assata Shakur the article below may be helpful: "Trooper Executed By Female Militant New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster was murdered by JoAnne Chesimard. On May 2, 1973, New Jersey State Police Troopers James Harper and Werner Foerster were patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike in the East Brunswick area. They stopped a car with three occupants and began to question them. The female passenger, JoAnne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army. She suddenly pulled out a semi-automatic pistol and opened fire. Trooper Foerster was struck twice in the chest and Trooper Harper was hit in the shoulder. Chesimard then picked up Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shot him twice in the head, execution style, while he lay in the road. Chesimard then picked up Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shot him twice in the head, execution style, while he lay in the road. Killer Escapes JoAnne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army and convicted murderer Chesimard was quickly captured, convicted and sentenced to life plus 26 to 33 years in prison--authorities wanted to make sure this dangerous woman would never roam the streets again. But despite their best efforts, Chesimard wasn't going to let the law stop her. On November 2, 1979, Chesimard escaped from prison with the help of a domestic terrorist group. In the early 1980's, she resurfaced in Cuba under the protection of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. The Fight For Justice Continues $1 million reward poster for Chesimard Two generations of New Jersey State Police detectives have been assigned to the fugitive investigation since Chesimard's escape. Authorities refuse to let Chesimard go without a fight--Chesimard has now been placed on all of the terrorist watch lists and there is a $1 million reward for information leading to her arrest. Authorities hope the reward will destabilize Chesimard's sense of security inside Cuba and lead to her capture, and subsequently, her return to New Jersey." source: http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=31956 The terrorist group mentioned above: "the Black Liberation Army" was an offshoot of the original BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Arthur Turco associate Twyman Myers left the BLACK PANTHER PARTY to join "the Black Liberation Army". If you have never heard of Twyman Myers it may be because he is dead. Myers was a young man when he left the BLACK PANTHER PARTY to join "the Black Liberation Army". The article below mentions the late Twyman Myers "30 Years in the Making--Justice at Last for Slain Officer In the early hours of 3 November 1971, a young Atlanta police officer by the name of Jimmy Greene was ambushed and killed as he sat in his patrol wagon eating his late-night supper. On 13 October 2003--some 32 years later-- the man responsible was found guilty of his murder in Fulton County Superior Court. Freddie Hilton (51) was convicted of murder in the long-ago death of Jimmy Greene in a case prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Al Dixon, Senior Assistant District Attorney Michele McCutcheon, and Senior Assistant District Attorney Peggy Katz. Atlanta Police Detective Jimmy Rose and Senior Investigator M.C. Cox of the District Attorney's Office investigated the case. Judge Stephanie Manis will sentence Hilton on 10 November, and he faces a possible double life sentence in prison. At the time of the murder, Hilton was a member of an organization known as the "Black Liberation Army," a militant group infamous for attacks on law enforcement officers in New York City and across the country. A handful of the group's members had come to Atlanta after breaking away from the Black Panther Party in the early 1970s. Hilton was among these. Officer Greene, engaged to be married and the father of one infant daughter, was sitting in his vehicle at a gas station at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Boulevard when he was approached by Hilton and his now-dead co- conspirator Twyman Meyers. Hilton shot Officer Greene three times at close range, stole his revolver and badge, and fled the scene. A witness saw Greene slumped over in the front seat and soon realized he had been shot. Greene died two hours later. Several other former BLA members testified at the trial that Hilton and Meyers returned to the group's residence where the pair bragged of the killing. Shortly after the incident, Atlanta police found a witness who said he heard Hilton confess to the killing, but then-District Attorney Lewis Slaton felt there was not enough evidence to bring formal charges. So the story ended there...or so it seemed. In early 2001, Detective Rose received a call from New York City Police Detective Chris Karolkowski who had come across Hilton as a suspect in a child molestation case and soon discovered that he had been the prime suspect in Greene's murder. Rose soon re-opened the case, and, with the help of Investigator Cox, a Grand Jury indicted Hilton for the murder in July of last year. (Incidentally, Rose and Cox received the National Association of Police Organizations' highest honor last year for their work on the case.) Hilton, who had changed his name to Kamau Sadiki and was now working in telecommunications in New York, was brought back to Atlanta to face trial. Aside from justice for Officer Greene, perhaps the most positive aspect of this painful incident was the re-uniting of Greene's long-estranged daughter Melody Adams (now 34) of North Carolina with aunts and uncles she had never known. Hearing about the trial in the news, Adams traveled to Atlanta to sit in on the trial and soon revealed her identity to other family members in attendance. A family long-separated by a brutal crime was now re-united." SOURCE: http://www.fultonda.org/featuredarticle/30years.htm Why is Joe DioGuardi so happy? by Jared Israel [27 February 2000] Here's John McCain at a campaign rally with Joseph DioGuardi, a former Congressman and head of the Albanian political action committee which raised huge amounts for American politicians (for instance, Bob Dole) who in turn have supported the on-going attacks on Serbia. Notice the scarf DioGuardi is wearing. That double-headed eagle was the insignia of the World War II Nazi Skanderbeg SS division. (See document on left; click to enlarge.) Among other achievements, this Nazi outfit massacred Kosovo's Jews in the streets of Pristina and shipped the survivors to the Bergen- Belsen and Treblinka death camps. Why is McCain holding Presidential campaign rallies with this man who proudly sports a Nazi emblem? And why is DioGuardi so happy? http://www.tenc.net/yugo.htm Emperor's Clothes articles dealing with media misinformation and the breakup of Yugoslavia "MONEY FROM THE AMERICAN MUSLIM ALLIANCE it is no wonder that the American Muslim Alliance chapter in Massachusetts held what it called a "successful fundraiser" for First Lady Hillary Clinton at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston on June 13, 2000. AMA Massachusetts Chair Tahir Ali said afterwards, "We are attempting to send an important message to all AMA chapters: we must support all who have [Muslim] interests at heart, regardless of what part of the country they are running in." EMERSON'S TESTIMONY According to Steve Emerson, a well-known investigative journalist specializing in militant Islamic organizations, the AMA's leaders "have sanctioned terrorism, published anti-Semitic statements, and repeatedly hosted conferences that were forums for denunciations of Jews and exhortations to wage jihad." Faced with pressure on the matter, Mrs. Clinton announced on Oct. 25th that she was returning the $50,000 in campaign contributions raised for her by the AMA. She failed to give a credible explanation as to why it took her more than four months from June 13th until October 25th until she saw it necessary to return the money. Mr. Emerson, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, noted: "As first lady, Mrs. Clinton began in 1996 an outreach program to Muslim leaders in the U.S. With America's Muslim population at some six million and growing, an effort to include the community's leaders in the mainstream of American politics is unquestionably a worthy undertaking. But curiously, nearly all of the leaders with whom Mrs. Clinton elected to meet came from Islamic fundamentalist organizations. A review of the statements, publications and conferences of the groups Mrs. Clinton embraced shows unambiguously that they have long advocated or justified violence. By meeting with these groups, the first lady lent them legitimacy as "mainstream" and "moderate"." But this should not be unexpected, considering Mrs. Clinton's past radical affiliations. During the 1980's, ultra-liberal lawyer Hillary Rodham- Clinton served on the board of the New World Foundation, which funneled money to the Palestine Liberation Organization, at a time when the PLO was officially recognized by the United States as a terrorist organization. Similarly, in February 1996, Hillary hosted a reception at the White House for leaders of Hamas-supporting groups such as the American Muslim Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. And in January, 1998, Hillary hosted another White House reception honoring Muslim leaders and the Muslim Public Affairs Council who defended militant Islamic fundamentalism and also supported radical Islamic groups. THE REAL HILLARY This, then, is the real Hillary Rodham-Clinton. An ambitious woman willing to utter any banal cliche on behalf of "Israel's security" to placate unaware New York Jewish voters, but one whose pre-Senate race record on Israel is appalling. It's a record of supporting the terrorist PLO, even before the 1993 signing of the first Oslo Agreement on the White House lawn, of ignoring blatant calumny heaped on Israel by Suha Arafat, of supporting the creation of a Palestinian PLO State, of hosting and legitimizing extremist Islamic groups in the United States. Most recently, it included taking campaign contributions from these very same evil, anti-Semitic organizations - until being caught with her hand in the extremist Islamic cookie jar. This is the very same Hillary Rodham- Clinton who now claims to be Israel's friend." SOURCE: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm You can see actual photos of arafat's uncle,Haj Mohammad Amin al- Husseini,the grand mufti of Jerusalem, and others : Kofi and Nasrallah, boss of Hezbollah AFAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH ISLAMIC NAZIS ARAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH FELLOW NAZIS ARAFAT'S UNCLE THE MUFTI WITH MOSLEM SS The Mufti and Hitler Himmler with a Moslem SS Division Joe Dioguardi Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat's Wife at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowTheEnemy/ http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowTheEnemy/photos Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat's Wife may also be seen at: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm arafat's uncle,Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husseini,the grand mufti of Jerusalem raised three Moslem nazi SS divisions for Hitler during World War Two. Two of those Moslem SS divisions were Bosnian, the third was Albanian. The Albanian Moslem SS Division was called the SS Division from which would spring the notorious so-called "KLA" Kosovo Liberation Army, a.k.a. UCK in Albanian. The children and grandchildren of the Albanian Moslem SS Division became the so-called "KLA". "HILLARY RUSHED TO SUPPORT PALESTINIAN STATE And Hillary Rodham-Clinton? Well, in May 1998, she told a youth conference on Middle East peace in Villars, Switzerland, that she supports the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state. Her spokesperson, Marsha Berry told reporters: ""These remarks are her own personal view." Then, in November 1999, while on a purported State visit to the Middle East, she publicly appeared with Yasser Arafat's wife Suha. With Hillary at her side, Suha Arafat made the deliberately false allegation that "Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children." Mrs. Arafat also accused Israel of contaminating much of the water sources used by Palestinians with "chemical materials" and poisoning Palestinian women and children with toxic gases. Instead of reacting with outrage, Hillary Clinton sat by silently - and gave her a hug and a kiss when she finished speaking. Later, many hours after the event, and only after a media furor put her on the spot for what many view as a bit more than a mere political "faux pas", Mrs. Clinton called on "all sides" to refrain from "inflammatory rhetoric and baseless accusations" - including Israel, whose leaders made no such accusations. Glossing over this remarkably repugnant affair, Mrs. Clinton has yet to specifically contradict and denounce the monstrous lies uttered by Yasser Arafat's wife in her presence." SOURCE: http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillarSy.htm the following item is excerpted from: More Than S-x: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed by Arkansas State Trooper NewsMax.com September 14, 1999 Washington - An Arkansas State Trooper who once guarded Bill Clinton has revealed startling new information about Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Trooper Larry Patterson, a recently retired 32-year veteran of the state police, had been the most senior member of the elite Governor's Security Detail during the period Bill Clinton served as Governor. During that time, Patterson became privy to Bill and Hillary Clinton's most closely guarded secrets. Patterson told his story exclusively to NewsMax.com and Internet Vortex. NewsMax.com has published More than S-x: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed -- a two-hour audio cassette tape of Christopher Ruddy's interview with Trooper Larry Patterson. In More than S-x Patterson makes bombshell revelations, some of which have never been disclosed before: Organized Crime. The press has ignored reporting of this critical issue, but Patterson says Clinton had a close relationship with the head of the Dixie Mafia--Arkansas' homegrown organized crime family that has grown in recent years through drug trafficking. Patterson said Clinton regularly received gifts from the reputed mob boss. Ethnic Slurs about Jews. Both Hillary and Bill Clinton frequently used slurs during heated arguments with each other, Patterson said. Among the epithets they frequently hurled at each other were anti-Semitic slurs such as `mother f---in' Jew' or `Jew bastard'. Patterson said such references were heard frequently during the years he served the Clintons. Patterson said Clinton loved telling ethnic jokes and frequently told jokes that were anti-Semitic. The use of the "N" word. Patterson said Bill Clinton would use the word "n----r" -- the "N" word -- when he was angry with African-American opponents. He recalls the use of the word in describing a black, Arkansas activist who was critical of Clinton. Patterson said Clinton also used the "N" word during the 1992 campaign Hitler and Mein Kampf. Bill Clinton, Patterson said, spoke admiringly of Hitler and was fascinated by his book Mein Kampf. source: http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/9/13/220611 Jerusalem, November 10, 1999 Fooling the Jews WOMEN IN GREEN, among whose members there are many voters from New York who have dual citizenship, will protest against the visit of Hillary Clinton. We will be outside the Tel Aviv Museum, Shaul HaMelech Boulevard and Weizman Street in Tel Aviv, at 19:15 to voice our opposition to this "new" and dubious friend of Israel. Hillary Clinton is one smart lady. She wants to be President. Therefore, she will say anything to any particular Group that will lend itself to obtaining that set objective. She strategically chose the upcoming Senatorial race in New York as the first stepping stone towards reaching her presidential goal. However, New York has an important Jewish vote and that is a hurdle that she must leap over and "handle". The difficulty for Hillary is that she has never been a friend of Israel. She has publicly come out for a Palestinian State, which as a sophisticated and smart lady she knows would threaten Israel's very existence. She very well knows that hatred of Jews and Israel even now is an essential part of Arafat's educational system; moreover, Arafat's hate propaganda in his Media includes praise of the bomb makers who specialize in blowing up Israel's buses. Yet she has never leveled one word of criticism against Arafat in that or any other regard, or for that matter against any Arab. Her Arab guest list at the White House has included American Arab leaders who are sympathetic to and support terrorist Hamas. She could find nothing about Israel to publicly admire throughout the many years that she has been in the White House. But to garner the Jewish vote in New York she has to appear to tone down her bias in favor of the Arabs, and make some Jewish "gestures". She now lets out of the family closet the inconsequential news that her grandmother's second husband was a Jew. And of course for these New York voters, she is making the proscribed visit to Israel. After all these years she suddenly awakened to recognize the status of Jerusalem; she recently told the Jews that Jerusalem is Israel's eternal capital; however, she is not in favor of moving the U.S. Embassy to that capital. In that she is consistent with her husband who broke his previous campaign promise to move it. Her track record insures that she too will not keep whatever promises she makes to the Jews in order to get into the Senate. If elected, she would be the most pro-Arab Senator New York has ever had. Unmasked, Hillary Clinton has proven herself again and again to have little sympathy and understanding for Israel and the Jewish People. Don't be fooled by the Jewish "appointees" of her husband. Albright, Berger and the like are Jews in name only, who lack loyalty to the Jewish People. Nor should you be "taken in" by her deceptive sweet talk. Hillary's visit to Israel is just part and parcel of her New York campaign. Ruth and Nadia Matar source: http://www.womeningreen.org/saynov99.htm BLACK LIBERATION ARMY Aliases: Afro-American Liberation Army Base of Operation: United States Founding Philosophy: The Black Liberation Army was a militant splinter group of the Black Panther Party. Breaking away from the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, the stated philosophy of the BLA was to "take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States." In the 1970s the BLA was responsible for numerous domestic criminal acts, including bank and armored car robberies. In one of their more famous exploits, members of the BLA freed fellow BLA member Joanne Chesimard from prison where she was serving a life sentence for the murder of a state trooper. Chesimard fled to Cuba, where she is still living, and the US government has offered a reward of $1 million dollars for her capture. Members of the BLA were also charged in various terrorist plots including a plan to firebomb department stores in New York. In 1981, four members of the BLA were convicted for various charges including murder and armed robbery in a failed heist of a Brinks armored car, which left one guard and two police officers dead. On March 25, 1984, a man claiming to be "Lieutenant Spartacus" of the "Black Liberation Army," hijacked a Piedmont airlines jet with 58 passengers on board. The plane flew to Cuba where "Lieutenant Spartacus" found asylum. SOURCE: http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3708 excerpted from: "Hillary Clinton and "The Third Way" How America's First Lady of the Left Has Bamboozled Liberals and Conservatives Alike By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | June 22, 2000 My subject is Hillary Clinton in her role as America's foremost leftist..... It is this same idea that is found in the Social Gospel which impressed the youthful Hillary Clinton at the United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. She later encountered the same idea in the New Left at Yale and in the Venceremos Brigade in Communist Cuba..."David Horowitz is the author of numerous books including an autobiography, Radical Son, which has been described as "the first great autobiography of his generation," and which chronicles his odyssey Union Leader Charged With Racketeering October 17, 2006 By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS A seven-term assemblyman and labor leader who was credited with revitalizing the nation's biggest municipal labor council was arrested on federal racketeering charges today and accused of stealing more than $2 million in union and public money. The indictment charges the union leader, Brian McLaughlin, with a pattern of thefts over the last decade, including siphoning $95,000 from bank accounts for a Little League for the children of union members; installing a relative to head a commission on the dignity of immigrants, then collecting the relative's salary; and using union members to walk his dog, hang his Christmas lights and renovate his $760,000 home on Long Island. Michael Garcia, the United States attorney for Manhattan, characterized the pattern of thefts as "stunning in its breadth and scope" at a news conference today. "This case lends a new meaning to the term, 'hand in the till,' " Mr. Garcia said. "It is a case about greed." Mr. McLaughlin faces up to 500 years in prison if convicted of 44 counts in the 180-page indictment, including fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, the use of phantom employees and receiving cash and other bribes from companies that employed union members. "His Midas touch turned everything into gold," said Andrew Arena, special agent in charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The indictment alleges that Mr. McLaughlin used members of his electrical union, while they were on the union clock, to perform personal tasks for him, like installing and removing appliances, painting, changing light bulbs, hanging picture frames, shoveling snow, hanging Christmas lights, fixing plumbing, removing garbage, changing locks and cleaning out a barn. The thefts were not limited to his position as labor council president, officials said. The indictment charges that, as founding member and district leader of the William Jefferson Clinton Democratic Club of Queens, a nonprofit club that raised money to support candidates for public office, Mr. McLaughlin misappropriated more than $19,000 for personal expenses, like the rent at his Albany home, and to install a wide-screen plasma television at the home of "a person with whom he maintained a personal relationship." He is also accused of using more than $330,000 from his political campaign committee to pay for personal expenses, including bills for his son's wedding, renovating his home in Nissequogue, N.Y., paying his country club initiation fee and house cleaning. Noting that the real work of Mr. McLaughlin's union, Division J of Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, was to install and maintain street lights and traffic signals in New York City, Rose Gill Hearn, commissioner of the city's Department of Investigation, which also participated in the investigation of the union leader, suggested that the public might now be able to look at street lights without cringing. "You can be assured," she said, that the people who are supposed to be installing street lights, are "no longer mucking stalls or shoveling snow on Mr. McLaughlin's property." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/nyregion/17cnd-labor.html? ei=5090&en=f9269b42edff987d&ex=1318737600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss &pagewanted=print The following material is excerpted from some remarks by the then President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton, which appeared under the headline: Remarks at a Reception for Hillary Clinton in Flushing, New York October 23, 2000 source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2889/is_43_36/ai_68215162/prin t "I want to thank Brian McLaughlin for making me feel welcome and being so kind to Hillary over these years and this last year of hard campaigning." "NOTE: The President spoke at 7:15 p.m. in the Electrical Industry Auditorium at the Union Hall. In his remarks, he referred to former Representative Thomas J. Manton, chair, and Michael H. Reich, executive secretary, Queens County Democratic Organization; Mr. Reich's daughter, Alisa, who sang the national anthem; Representative Crowley's wife, Kasey; New York City Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi; State Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin; former President Slobodan Milosevic of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro); Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Prime Minister John Major of the United Kingdom; and Nava Barak, wife of Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel." At the height of his power, Marat Balagula was a kingpin in a Brighton Beach Russian mob who traveled with a Paraguayan passport, traded in diamonds, bought an island off West Africa, owned a Long Island mansion decorated in pink marble and had a knack for making his enemies disappear. Marat Balagula was a member and alleged leader of an organization of criminals made up of Russian and other Eastern European immigrants based in Brooklyn , New York . During the mid-1980's Balagula controlled 100% of the bootleg gasoline which was distributed in New York City . Controlling terminals from Brooklyn to Westchester County in New York , his ring sold gasoline among various companies including bogus firms that reported having paid the excise taxes and then vanished before the Internal Revenue Service could follow the complicated and cumbersome paper trails. In June 1993, he and seven individuals were indicted in the largest excise tax evasion scheme in United States history. Balagula along with Joseph Macchia; Macchia's three sons, Joseph, Jr., Larry, and George; Victor Batuner; Michael Varzar; and John Barberio were charged in a conspiracy to evade approximately $85 million dollars in federal excise taxes. In the fall of 1994 Balagula and his co-defendants plead guilty and are currently awaiting sentence. This was not the first case to be brought against Balagula for excise tax evasion. In July 1992 Balagula, along with three other individuals, was convicted on one count of conspiracy to evade approximately $500,000 in federal excise taxes and one count of excise tax evasion. For this conviction, Balagula received a 10-year sentence. Fuel Tax Evasion Highlights, March 1995 Volume 4, Number 1 March 1995 IN THE NEWS Lawrence Iorizzo, key figure in the NY bootleg gasoline market in the 1980's who turned government informant and was subsequently booted out of the witness protection program and is now wanted by Texas officials, is interviewed. The New Yorker, Talk of the Town, 11/14/94 Marat Balagula pled guilty to conspiring to evade $85 million in federal gasoline taxes on nearly one billion gallons of fuel sold in the NY area between 1983-88. The surprise plea came Oct. 18, a month before he and 7 others were to begin trial. Balagula is already serving a 10-year sentence for similar bootlegging. On Oct. 27, Joseph A. Macchia and his sons Lawrence, George and Joseph L. pled guilty to their role in the scheme. On Nov. 4, John Barberio was the last to plead guilty. Michael Varzar had pled guilty earlier. An eighth defendant, Viktor Batuner, is a fugitive. Newsday, 10/24/94, 11/2/94; Dept. of Justice Press Release, 11/4/94 http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/hl95mar.htm Fuel Tax Evasion Highlights, March 1995 Volume 4, Number 1 March 1995 IN THE NEWS Lawrence Iorizzo, key figure in the NY bootleg gasoline market in the 1980's who turned government informant and was subsequently booted out of the witness protection program and is now wanted by Texas officials, is interviewed. The New Yorker, Talk of the Town, 11/14/94 Marat Balagula pled guilty to conspiring to evade $85 million in federal gasoline taxes on nearly one billion gallons of fuel sold in the NY area between 1983-88. The surprise plea came Oct. 18, a month before he and 7 others were to begin trial. Balagula is already serving a 10-year sentence for similar bootlegging. On Oct. 27, Joseph A. Macchia and his sons Lawrence, George and Joseph L. pled guilty to their role in the scheme. On Nov. 4, John Barberio was the last to plead guilty. Michael Varzar had pled guilty earlier. An eighth defendant, Viktor Batuner, is a fugitive. Newsday, 10/24/94, 11/2/94; Dept. of Justice Press Release, 11/4/94 Eugene Slusker pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Columbus , Ohio to a diesel conspiracy that resulted in a federal tax loss of over $88,000 and a loss of over $117,000 to Ohio during 6 months in 1990. Slusker, using the alias Semyan Altman and doing business as Accurate Tank Testing, Inc., used a false Form 637 to purchase over 587,00 gallons of untaxed diesel fuel which was then sold to numerous truck stops throughout Ohio, tax included. Co-defendant, Roman Kalika pleaded not guilty to federal tax evasion charges. The IRS Criminal Investigation Div. and the Ohio Dept. of Taxation investigated the case. Justice Dept. Press Release 9/30/94; Dayton Daily News 10/3/94; Columbus Dispatch, 12/24/94 The worldwide activities of Russian organized crime and its ability to bilk companies, governments and individuals out of billions of dollars through sophisticated fraud and theft schemes is described in two recent articles. Wall Street Journal, 12/22/94; Atlantic Monthly, 6/94 The Wisconsin Dept. of Justice has charged Patrick S. Gedig and Paul C. Kramer with misappropriating nearly $1 million in motor fuel taxes during 1990. At the time, Gedig was president of United Petroleum, Milwaukee , and Kramer ran Ohio Fuel and Supply, Big Bend . Wisconsin State Journal, 11/1/94 The work of Charles Hurchalla in helping to expose a massive fuel tax scam masterminded by the Russian mob and involving the La Cosa Nostra is described in a recent article. Philadelphia Magazine, 10/94 Court documents filed by federal authorities in NJ name John Gotti as an unindicted co-conspirator in organized crime efforts to dominate the bootleg motor fuel industry in the NY metropolitan area. The disclosure came on the eve of the trial of Anthony (Fat Tony) Morelli, allegedly a capo in the Gambino crime family, and Gregory Federico, owner of Capitol Fuel Service of Cranford and Igor (Little Igor) Roizman, a Russian emigre. To date, 20 persons have been prosecuted on charges growing out of the Operation Red Daisy investigation conducted jointly by the FBI, IRS, DOT Office of Inspector General, NJ Div. of Taxation and PA Dept. of Revenue. Newark Star Ledger, 12/5 and 12/16/94 United States Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAX NOVEMBER 4, 1994 (202) 616-2765 TDD (202) 514-1888 NEW YORK MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN TAX CASE WASHINGTON , D.C. - A former wholesale gasoline sales manager from New Rochelle , New York , pleaded guilty in U. S. District Court in Hauppauge , New York , for his role in a conspiracy to evade more than $85 million in federal gasoline excise taxes, the Department of Justice announced today. John Barberio, 68, the former manager for New York Fuel Terminal Corp., was the last of seven defendants to plead guilty to the tax evasion scheme. An eighth defendant, Viktor Batuner, is a fugitive. Barberio's plea follows the October 27, 1994, guilty pleas of former terminal operators Joseph A. Macchia, Lattingtown , N.Y. , and his three sons, Lawrence, George and Joseph L., for their role in the tax fraud scheme from 1983 through 1988. Joseph A. Macchia and two of his sons, Lawrence and George, also pleaded guilty to two counts of excise tax evasion. Michael Varzar pleaded guilty on May 24 of this year for his role in the conspiracy and to two counts of gasoline excise tax evasion. New York Fuel Terminal Corp. was registered with the Internal Revenue Service and was required to pay a tax on each gallon of gasoline it sold to an unregistered company. The Macchias, through New York Fuel, sold almost 1 billion gallons of gasoline to unregistered companies without paying the tax they owed. On October 13, Marat Balagula, pleaded guilty to five counts of the indictment charging him with conspiracy and excise tax evasion. Balagula, who controlled many of the unregistered companies to which New York Fuel sold gasoline, is currently serving a 10-year sentence following his 1992 prosecution by the Tax Division for his involvement in a separate gasoline excise tax evasion scheme for which Barberio also was convicted. Barberio was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Evidence presented at Balagula's 1992 sentencing in the earlier case implicated him as a member of a Russian organized crime group headed by Evsei Agron. According to testimony at the hearing, on the day following Agron's gangland-style murder, Balagula moved into Agron's office and took over operation of the organization. The sentencing court ruled that the probation department properly concluded that Balagula "was a member of an organization of criminals made up of Russians and other Eastern European immigrants based in Brooklyn ." All of the defendants will be sentenced by Judge Leonard D. Wexler at a later date. Each faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. Assistant Attorney General Loretta Argrett of the Tax Division said, "The Tax Division has a strong commitment to prosecute the criminal elements who would deprive the nation's treasury of millions of dollars in tax revenue. This is only another step in our ongoing efforts to eliminate motor fuels tax fraud and to prosecute those criminals, organized or otherwise, who would defraud the United States ." ### 94-644 http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/Pre_96/November94/644a.txt.html UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER THIS SUMMARY ORDER WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED IN THE FEDERAL REPORTER AND MAY NOT BE CITED AS PRECEDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO THIS OR ANY OTHER COURT, BUT MAY BE CALLED TO THE ATTENTION OF THIS OR ANY OTHER COURT IN A SUBSEQUENT STAGE OF THIS CASE, IN A RELATED CASE, OR IN ANY CASE FOR PURPOSES OF COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL OR RES JUDICATA. At a stated Term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the United States Courthouse, Foley Square, in the City and County of New York, on the 13th day of September, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six. PRESENT: HONORABLE JOSEPH M. McLAUGHLIN, HONORABLE DENNIS G. JACOBS, Circuit Judges , HONORABLE ROBERT J. KELLEHER, [ ] District Judge . UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee , - v. - No. 96-1018 JOSEPH MACCHIA, SR.; LAWRENCE MACCHIA; GEORGE MACCHIA; VIKTOR BATUNER; MICHAEL VARZAR; JOHN BARBERIO; JOSEPH L. MACCHIA, also known as Joseph Macchia, also known as Joey, Defendants , MARAT BALAGULA, Defendant-Appellant . FOR APPELLANT: John L. Pollok, Hoffman & Pollok , New York , NY. FOR APPELLEE: Robert E. Lindsay, Attorney, Tax Division, Department of Justice, Washington , DC . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Wexler, J. ). This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of record from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and was argued. ON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, it is hereby ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment of the district court be and it hereby is AFFIRMED. Marat Balagula was a primary player in various conspiracies to evade federal gasoline excise taxes. Balagula and others purchased or set up phony "middleman" companies to buy gasoline from one entity and sell it to another. Under the prevailing tax code -- which assessed gasoline excise taxes against certain selling companies -- the middleman company would become liable for an excise tax on the gasoline sold. Balagula and his cohorts would then cause the phony company to collapse, leaving the excise tax unpaid. Thus, the gasoline passed from the original seller to the eventual buyer without obligating either of those companies to pay the excise taxes. The government charged Balagula (under the "Tarricone Indictment") with one count of conspiring to evade the federal gasoline excise tax, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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