- In the often evil world of oil and natural gas, and other
energy, they became the seventh largest of the Fortune 500. What has happened
to put them as the largest of the No Fortune 100? How did they become,
so far, the biggest loser?
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- The real operators of Enron Corporation are, to some,
great sorcerers. They have waved their magic wand, and turned paper promises
into black gold and vice versa. Sort of latter day alchemists. Later in
this series we will explore the role of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.
Now just look at some of the other names.
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- A Director of Enron has been Wendy Gramm, wife of U.S.
Senator Phil Gramm [R., Texas]. A former Professor, supposedly adept in
economics and banking, Senator Gramm has been the Chairman of the Senate
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and member of the Budget
and the Finance Committees. He has blocked laws against money laundering.
Convenient to the Enron mess, he decided ahead of time not to run for re-election.
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- For some twelve years during the Reagan/Daddy Bush Administrations,
Wendy was Chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. As a
highly corrupt federal regulatory agency, CFTC wields great power and
influence over markets, often little understood by common Americans.
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- Spreading out in the 1980s worldwide was the Bank of
Credit and Commerce International, BCCI. Some called them, with their hundreds
of branches round the world, the Bank of Crooks and Criminals International.
They were actually a huge money laundry for political assassination and
dirty tricks funding, as well as espionage proprietaries, for the American
CIA, British MI-6, French CIA, and The Mossad of Israel.
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- BCCI had or were planning some five branches in the U.S.
For their U.S. agenda, they needed to put the arm on the U.S. government.
Elsewhere in the world, BCCI had already honed the real world specialty
of buying and bribing public officials.
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- BCCI as a foreign entity not only dealt in secret transactions
in banking but were a highly mostly covert player on the world markets,
particularly the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade,
and on markets such as LIFFE in London. Through six La Salle Street brokers,
BCCI bribed and blackmailed its way into the U.S. House of Representatives
and the U.S. Senate. Key law-makers were invited to come to Chicago, all
expenses paid, to supposedly give a speech for the CME, or "Merc"
as some call it, and the CBOT. While in the Windy City, the law-makers
were informed that their hosts, the market honchos, were opening "courtesy"
accounts for them. And, that they would be informed of the good results
that developed. In some instances, the so-called "courtesy" account
was not told to the Representatives and Senators, but was set up in their
name anyway as a blackmail device on the date of their Chicago visit.
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- Through a hocus-pocus series of transactions, the Chicago
accounts showed a supposed loss while the London acounts showed a huge
profit. In the lingo of the markets, it was called a "straddle".
The Senators and Congressmen themselves, or most often their known agents,
from time to time personally picked up the huge profits in London. On other
occasions, someone identifying themselves with credentials as their known
agents, likewise picked up the heavy profits from the "courtesy"
accounts, in the British money center. It was either a direct provable
bribery payment to the law-makers or verifiable record-kept blackmail.
Either way, twenty five per cent of both houses of the American legislature
were "hooked".
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- By the time BCCI supposedly collapsed in the summer of
1991, some five billion dollars had disappeared. It was used in great part
to buy, that is, to bribe, 28 U.S. Senators and 108 members of the U.S.
House of Representatives. The Bank of England, by a series of circumstances,
became the kingpin in supervising and overseeing the supposed demise of
BCCI. [BUT, see Foonote One, how BCCI rose from the ashes under another
name.]
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- Notice the strange happenings. For only thirty days,
the Bank of England had as an open record, the list of those bought and
bribed, whether directly or through the blackmail devices, of the legislative
branch of the U.S. Government. A major media correspondent got wind of
this and before secrecy was clamped on the records, got a copy of the entire
list of bribery/blackmail.
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- Part of one of the largest media operations worldwide,
he went to his media editor with the details. The editor was thunder-struck.
Here was documented proof that twenty five per cent of the House and Senate
were bribed. "We cannot publish the list and the details that go with
it", the journalist was told. The media mogul added the obvious, "It
would cause the scandal downfall of the American Government", as the
journalist later related the editor's statements to an independent-minded
confidant.
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- As a last resort, the journalist gave the list and the
corroborating details to our group. [This type of thing has happened again
and again during the forty years our group has operated to open up deeply
censored stories. I as head of the group have been jailed some eight times
for contempt of court, wheelchair and all, for refusing to divulge witnesses
and sources.]
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- Using the list and substantiating details, we began directly
confronting members of the House and Senate. We began receiving threats
of great harm to us after the time when we confronted Senator Phil Gramm,
who was on the list and we brought up about the apparent bribery cover
up of his wife Wendy, as head of the CFTC.
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- In going over the specifics, we discovered that BCCI
was a sizeable secret funder of Ted Turner, making possible his idea for
a television super-station via satellite from Atlanta, Georgia. And, that
this was done through part-owner of Turner's empire, the then cable monster,
TCI of Denver. In an interview with the former chief accountant of one
of the La Salle Street brokers arranging the bribery, we learned that TCI
also owned part of the brokers fronting for BCCI in Chicago.
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- We learned plenty in the process of exploring the details.
We found out, for example, that BCCI, through their Chicago branch, greatly
funded the television campaign commercials for the 1988 Presidential campaign
for Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis. To cut off money for the badly
needed television ads for Dukakis, his opponent, GOP Presidential candidate
George Herbert Walker Bush, at the time Vice President, arranged on a holiday,
Columbus Day, right before the Election, to mysteriously close up BCCI's
Chicago branch, source of the tv money for Dukakis, claiming "corruption"
but not disclosing details.
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- In putting the complex matter together, we found out
about the threat of an internatinal scandal. GNP Commodities, headquartered
in Chicago, wanted to merge with French entity, Bank Indo-Suez. The merger
was opposed by CFTC Chairperson, Wendy Gramm, and the head of the Federal
Reserve, Alan Greenspan. At a hearing in Chicago as to the merger, an attorney
for GNP was heard hollaring outside the CFTC office, that if Wendy Gramm
and the Fed do not get off GNP's back, there would be an "international
incident". GNP, then headed by the former chieftain of the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, was reportedly in a position to know about the BCCI
bribery of both houses of Congress covered up not only reportedly by Wendy
Gramm but by Alan Greenspan as well.
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- A watered down version of the GNP Commodities incident
was published in the Wall Street Journal in November, 1989.
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- From long past experiences, I knew only one publication
would run my exclusive story about the BCCI bribery of Congress. I turned
it over to the populist paper, Spotlight, headquartered in the nation's
Capitol. I gave them the Bank of England BCCI bribery list. In October,
1991, they ran my story minus the list which they had but the list nevertheless
began circulating elsewhere anyway.
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- Here are some of the names from the Bank of England's
reported BCCI bribery list, that included 108 members of the House and
28 U.S. Senators:
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- Congressman DAN ROSTENKOWSKI (D-Illinois) Two of his
daughters supposedly worked in the Chicago markets although apparently
not doing much actual work. Rosty as he was called for many years headed
the House tax-writing committee and put through a near-private law for
the markets as a tax-loophole as to "straddles". He has been
a major owner of Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago, a
reputed transit point for CIA dope money from Mena, Arkansas, headed for
laundering disguised as soybean and currency trading through the Chicago
markets. Rosty was later sent to federal prison for defrauding the private
bank of the House of Representatives.
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- Cong. MARTY RUSSO (D-Illinois)
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- Cong. THOMAS FOLEY (D-Washington)
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- Cong. GLENN ENGLISH (D-Oklahoma)
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- Cong. CARDISS COLLINS (D-Illinois) As to her, see our
website series on the "Secret History of Airplane Sabotage".
She reportedly went along with the cover up of the Watergate Plane Crash,
Chicago.
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- Cong. E (Kika) de la GARZA (D-Texas)
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- Cong. RICHARD GEPHARDT (D-Missouri) For 2004, is he planning
to run for President? What does HE know about the murder of Mel Carnahan
on the eve of the year 2000 Election debate? Carnahan had records that
would have scandalized Presidential Candidate George W. Bush at a presidential
candidate debate in St. Louis.
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- Cong. JAMES WRIGHT (D-Texas) He left Congress later in
another scandal.
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- Cong. DAN GLICKMAN (D-Kansas) In the Clinton administration
he became head of the Department of Agriculture. BCCI/Banca Nazionale del
Lavoro were implicated in a huge Atlanta scandal where billions of U.S.
dollars disguised as "Agriculture" loans, were used by Daddy
Bush to supply weapons to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. Glickman was
reportedly part of the coverup.
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- Cong. ROBERT MICHEL (R-Illinois) When faced with an apparent
Chicago U.S. Bankruptcy scandal also involving his son, he left Congress.
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- Cong. RICHARD DURBIN (D-Illinois)
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- U.S. SENATE
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- Senator THOMAS DASCHLE (D-South Dakota) Does HE plan
to run for President in 2004?
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- Sen. JAMES JEFFORDS (R-Vermont) In 2001, he changed from
Republican to Democrat, upsetting the GOP control of the U.S. Senate.
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- Sen. LLOYD BENTSEN (D-Texas) Big-time bank owner leading
up to Enron.
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- Sen. ALFONSE D'AMATO (R-New York) Law enforcement personnel
contended D'Amato was the mafia's man in the Senate.
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- Sen. JESSE HELMS (R-North Carolina) Records reportedly
seem to support the claim that Sen. Helms receives funding from international
terrorist groups.
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- Sen. RICHARD LUGAR (R-Indiana)
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- Sen. ROBERT BYRD (D-West Virginia) There is strong reason
to believe that he and some of his staff members know a lot about the murder
in 1991 of Journalist/Author Danny Casalaro in West Virginia, also about
the apparent frame-up of computer wizard Michael Riconosciuto.
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- Sen. DONALD RIEGLE (D-Michigan)
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- Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vermont) He has been the long-time
Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. See BCCI/BNL details at listing
of Cong. DAN GLICKMAN.
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- Sen. ALAN DIXON (D-Illinois) He previously had been Illinois
Secretary of State, issuing auto and drivers licenses. Some of his family
members allegedly ran stolen auto parts businesses, called "chop shops"
which were covered up by fake auto registrations and such. Dixon also arranged
for the mafia to slow down FBI investigations in that mafioso, through
Dixon, got untraceable auto tags.
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- Reputed experts on covering up high crimes have been
Federal Reserve Commissar Alan Greenspan (we call him REDSPAN) and former
CFTC Chairperson Wendy Gramm, a Director of Enron. Through complicated
dealings, were billions sucked out of Enron to try to prop up the failing
U.S. Stock Markets?
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- FOOTNOTE ONE - Bank of Credit and Commerce International,
BCCI, did NOT actually disappear despite monopoly press accounts stating
so. BCCI re-emerged as PINNACLE BANC GROUP, with their flagship the highly
corrupt, gangster-linked FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CICERO (Cicero being the
long-time mafia-enclave adjoining Chicago, known as Al Capone Land.) Lots
of details about this on our website in prior stories. For example, dominating
the bank in Cicero has been Bishop Paul Marcinkus, until 1991, head of
the Vatican Bank, recently identified as a major criminal money laundry
for mafia/CIA and others. To confuse matters, the bank in Cicero has changed
their name several times since 1991.]
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- More coming.
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