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As the political conventions dominate our consciousness, remember that a major international trafficking operation, like this one, kicks off vast amounts of fungible cash, day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year...
If there is an arena where the a battle is being waged for the "soul of America," as Joe Biden suggested last week... it is here.
The exclusive "Cocaine One" series of investigative reports by this reporter appearing on this website for the past two years made the news, finally... not in the U.S., but in Mexico City, where it was cited by a principal in the drug trafficking scandal in newspaper interviews to support his allegation of selective prosecution against the DEA.
Carlos Gutiérrez de Velasco is the paterfamilias of the influential Veracruz-based family which owned the Casa de Cambio Puebla currency exchange, accused of laundering enough drug money through U.S. banks to buy as many as 100 American planes for use in drug-running.
The Russian "businessman" to whom Donald
Trump sold his Palm Beach mansion for a purported $100 million was arrested in
Russia in April of 1997 and charged with masterminding the killing of a
business rival, in what law enforcement authorities called "a contract hit."
The
MadCowMorningNews has uncovered an April 13, 1997 report in the official Russian news agency TASS
announcing that Russian law enforcement authorities arrested Russian fertilizer
king DmitryRybolovlev and charged him with being
behind the murder of the head of another Russian chemical company, in what
authorities said was a war for control of Russia’s lucrative fertilizer
business.
“The suspected murderers and organizers of the crime, including
the head of the FD-Kredit Bank, Dmitry Rybolovlev, have been
arrested,” TASS reported.
Trump’s
announcement of his big sale Wednesday received wide play. It was trumpeted
everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to
Entertainment Tonight.
The Wall Street
Journal,
with perhaps unintended irony, called Rybolovlev, a 42-year-old Russian
billionaire who currently ranks #59 on the Forbes list of the world's
billionaires, “one of Russia's richest and most discreet
businessmen.”
None of
the stories mentioned Palm Beach's newest billionaire's mainline connection
to the Russian
Mob.
An
American turbo-prop airplane went down in Venezuela last month, the second such
incident in the past 45 days, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
After making an emergency landing at the International Airport José Tadeo
Monagas in Maturin, Venezuela, the pilot and co-pilot of the American-registered
twin-engine Piper Cheyenne (N395CA) bailed out of the plane, leaving it sitting
in the middle of a runway as they sprinted for the airport fence. Onboard were
28 suitcases stuffed with 700 kilos of cocaine, and 14 empty cans of fuel.
The busted drug flight
joined a second American plane, also suspected of drug trafficking, and
registered to a Houston firm widely thought to serve as a front to hide CIA
planes, which was involved in a fiery crash near Caracas on April 28 that made
international headlines.
One of the dead passengers
onboard was revealed to be Alfredo Anzola, a 34-year old software engineer for a
controversial Chavez-connected election company whose election code remains
embedded in thousands of electronic voting machines in the U.S.
The Guyanese pilot implicated by a former Customs agent as part of a ring of corrupt Customs officials being investigated by the Dept. of Homeland Security was in the news again recently as part of another scandal, this time in his native Guyana.
Michael Francis Brassington, whose name is a footnote in the 9/11 investigation, was named in a procurement scandal over the disputed purchase by the Guyana Defense Forces of two antique 30-year old helicopters from a 'dummy' company in Delaware that sounds suspiciously like a front for the CIA, the ironically-named "Global X Group".
While researching pilot Brassington's involvement in the Guyana scandal, we were astonished to discover that Brassington's father (also named Michael Brassington) has close business ties with one of the most notorious oligarchs in the Russian Mob, Oleg Deripaska, the "last man standing" in the brutal Aluminum Wars in Russia during the 1990's for control of that strategic resource.
This information is important to a full understanding of the 9/11 attack. Brassington's name surfaced in connection with 9/11 because he had been the co-pilot on the drug-running Lear jet (N351WB) owned by Wallace J. Hilliard (right). Hilliard alsoand not coincidentallyowned the Venice FL flight school where Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi were at the time learning to fly.
One week after the crash outside Caracas, Venezuela of a twin-engine Piper Navajo (N6463L), an air of intrigue surrounds almost everything about the flight, including the plane's ownership, passengers, and pilot.
Woven into one small story about a plane crash in Venezuela that killed seven people are visible threads from two perennial American cover-ups: one surrounding vote fraud, and one covering-up the CIA's role in drug trafficking.
For anyone interested in the news that gets left out of the newspaper, its' a Perfect Storm. The Mother of All Scandals.
The downed plane's relevance to the ongoing story of vote fraud in America involves the identity of it's passenger, Jose Alfredo Anzola, a 34-year old founder of Smartmatic, a Venezuela-based election company whose American subsidiary counted one in every three votes in the 2004 Presidential election, while engaged the whole time in heated controversy over allegations the firm counting America's votes had hidden ties toof all people Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
The connection between last week's plane crash and the ongoing saga of CIA Drug trafficking begins 43-year old Mario Donadi Gafaro, the veteran drug pilot at the controls of the twin engine plane.
The biggest fish busted so far
in the laundered-drug-money-for-American-planes scheme used by Mexico’s powerful
Sinaloa cartel to purchase 100 airplanes in the U.S. has cut a secret deal with
federal prosecutors in Miami, and agreed to testify against others involved, the
MadCowMorningNews has learned.
The news is one of a series of
recent developments in the scandal, which erupted in the wake of the massive
drug hauls seized on two drug planes busted in Mexico’s Yucatan just eighteen
months apart carrying, between them, more than ten tons of cocaine.
Also last week, a federal judge
in Mexico City ordered the extradition to the U.S. of Pedro Alatorre Damy,
identified by the DEA and the Attorney General of Mexico as the main money
launderer for Joaquin Guzman, “El Chapo,” leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
And in another development which
hits close to home (at least for this reporter) the MadCowMorningNews has been
contacted by attorneys for two figures in the case. Both are threatening
lawsuits.
An organized crime ring fronted by a former
Republican operative who claims he learned the 'art' of money laundering as part
of the Iran-Contra operation was behind a massive drug move two years ago this
week which ended with a DC9 airliner from St. Petersburg Fl busted in Mexico
carrying 5.5 tons of pure cocaine, the MadCowMorningNews has
learned.
The crime ring behind the drug move on the DC9 was led by self-described Iran
Contra insider Marc Harris, whose associates number at least three
convicted drug traffickers (Lawrence Boulanger,
Wallace Stull, and James Somerville)
of note.
Harris is a former
staffer for Senator Jesse Helms, and has ties
to the national Republican Party go back to at least 1988, when he was the
Florida manager for former US Army General, National Security Advisor and White
House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig’s presidential campaign.
As well,
many of Harris' biggest clients were
prominent Republican politicians, according
to
one newspaper in Panama.
The lavishly-furnished custom Boeing 727 airliner (727PX) which ferried Senator
John McCain on four occasions during his Presidential run in 2000 also flew
Saudi Royals out
of
the U.S. right after 9/11, carrying an entourage of Saudi Royals from Las Vegas
to London six days after the 9/11 attack in a controversial operation later
scrutinized by the 9/11 Commission.
With hundreds of air charter companies and
airliners to choose from, the Saudis chose a company that owns "Worship
Ministries" and Christian Network, Inc., turning to Paxson Communications, a
"Christian broadcaster" which owned the plane, to make its corporate jet
available to spirit the Saudi princes and their entourage out of the U.S. six
days after 9/11.
The Saudi Royal party made good their escape from Las Vegas on an airliner sporting a Christian symbol of peace, a dove, on it's tail, an intriguing detail and compelling human interest storyMuslims flying Air Jesusthat has to date been reported nowhere but in the MadCowMorningNews.
Four more American-registered drug planes have been seized from the 50-plane fleet of drug running aircraft amassed by Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Figures of interest in the transactions, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, include financial backers of two of this year's Republican candidates for President, as well as, unsurprisingly, an aviation company in St. Petersburg, FL. which can justifiably be called "one of the usual suspects."
Coincidentally or not, the American owners of the four planes (like the two busted earlier) were largely people and companies with 'special relationships' with U.S. political movers and shakers, including the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Yet, despite this inconvenient fact, the FBI persists in referring to the aircraft's American owners as "legitimate aircraft brokers" and "unwitting sellers".
Does Dept. of Homeland Security Threaten Homeland Security?
New revelations in the broadening scandal kicked off by two CIA and Dept of Homeland Security-linked airplanes busted in Mexico with multi-ton loads of cocaine point to a level of criminality and turpitude well beyond the corruption at U.S. Customs in South Florida to which officials have already admitted.
A central figure in the Customs corruption probe is Guyanese pilot Michael Francis Brassington, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, a name familiar to readers who have followed the unfolding and still largely untold story of the activities and associates of the terrorist hijackers in Florida...
Michael Brassington was the co-pilot on a drug running Lear jet (N351WB) caught by DEA agents at Orlando Executive Airport in July of 2000 carrying 43 pounds of heroin.
The Lear jet's owner, Wallace J Hilliard, also owned the Venice FL flight school where, at that very moment, the two terrorist pilots who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center Towers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, were receiving flight training.
Today's $64,000 Question:
In the current Customs scandal Brassington is under suspicion for trafficking drugs, passports, people, currency, and diamonds into the U.S. through two airports in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with the assistance of high-level officials in U.S. Customs and the FAA.
Two American-registered drug planes busted in Mexico carrying four and 5.5 tons of cocaine are just the "tip of the iceberg" in a blockbuster aviation deal which sent 50 American-registered aircraft to the Sinaloa Cartel, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
According to an indictment released over the holidays by Mexico's Atty. General, Pedro Alfonso Alatorre, already indicted as the cartel's chief financier, purchased the DC9 (N900SA) airliner, the Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA), and 48 other planes not yet identified for Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel with laundered drug money, using a company he controls which owns currency exchanges at major airports in Mexico.
News of a 50-plane fleet of drug smuggling aircraft being sold to a Mexican Cartel by mysteriously unnamed American owners confirms rumors of a mushrooming scandal, one which may eventually implicate top officials in the U.S., Mexico, and Colombia.
A few weeks ago ago we began collecting news stories and brief blurbs from drug stories that made the papers or the wires. As the stories piled up, the dawning realization of the immensity of the industry was a shock, even to someone who's been writing about it for years.
This has been a banner year for seizures. Four tons, six ton, even 23 tons of cocaine in one fell swoop. You even think: maybe the surge is working.
A pilot arrested while awaiting the ill-fated landing in Mexico of the DC9 airliner carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine 18 months ago committed suicide by hanging himself this week with his socks, in the maximum security Altiplano prison facility outside Mexico City.
The death of Marco Antonio Perez Gracia is just the latest to be blamed on the scandal surrounding the DC9 (N900SA) airliner, as well as a Gulfstream II (N987SA) business jet which crash-landed and broke into three pieces in September in Mexico, spilling 4 tons of cocaine across a muddy field 25 km outside Merida.
Adding to the intrigue, Narco News reported last week that Gregory D. Smith, one of two Fort Lauderdale FL charter pilots left holding the bag as the last registered owners of the Gulfstream II business jet (Cocaine Two) busted in Mexico with 4 tons of cocaine, worked for the CIA and DEA as a pilot during the late 1990's.
Two weeks after the MadCowMorningNews exclusively reported suspicious connections between the owners of the two American-registered planes busted with multi-ton loads of cocaine during the past 18 months on Mexicos Yucatan peninsula, the Mexican Attorney General confirmed that both planes were used by the same smuggling operation.
In coordinated raids Thursday on Casa de Cambio Puebla SA, a country-wide network of currency exchanges, many located at airports, squads of heavily-armed Mexican Federal Police took more than 70 people into custody, targeting a ring they said used laundered money to buy airplanes to smuggle drugs, Mexico's Attorney General's Office said in a news release.
Nabbed in the raid was Pedro Alfonso Alatorre Damy, identified by authorities as the major money launderer for Mexicos Pacific Cartel, sometimes called the Sinaloa Cartel, as well as the New Federation, run by fugitive Mexican kingpin Juan Shorty Guzman.
Both the DC9 airliner (N900SA) busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine 18 months ago and the Gulfstream II (N987SA) business jet which crash-landed with 4 tons of cocaine had been purchased by Alatorre with laundered drug money from his Cambio de Pueblo currency exchanges, said a statement Friday from Mexicos Attorney General Office.
A MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered links between the ownership of the drug-running Gulfstream (Cocaine Two) and the other American-registered plane busted carrying a multi-ton load of cocaine in Mexico recently, the DC9 (Cocaine One) airliner caught with 5.5 tons of cocaine in Mexico 18 months ago.
Recently-released FAA records from the Gulfstream II business jet that went down in Mexico a month ago with four tons of cocaine reveal that before it was "parked" in the name of a New York real estate developer with ties to the Russian Mob, the plane was owned by a secretive Midwestern media baron and Republican fund-raiser, who had a business partner who, incredibly, owned the other American drug plane, the DC9, recently busted in Mexico.
Adams was in business with Miami attorney Michael Farkas, who founded SkyWay Aircraft, which owned the DC9 busted in Mexico 18 months ago with 5.5 tons of cocaine aboard.
Moreover at the same time the Bush Ranger extraordinaire Stephen Adams owned the Gulfstream (N987SA) in 1999 and 2000, he was personally buying over $1 million of billboard ads for George W. Bush for his 2000 Presidential election bid.
A pilot accused of owning
the Gulfstream business jet (N987SA) which broke in two and crash-landed in the
Mexican Yucatan carrying nearly 4 tons of cocaine has denied being the true owner of the drug-running
airplane, the
MadCowMorningNews can report exclusively.
Greg Smith, one of two
pilots in Fort Lauderdale Florida who have been accused of owning the plane,
denies any connection with the plane.
“Who owned drug plane that
crashed in Mexico?” asked the headline of Jay Root and Kevin Hall’s September
27, 2007 story in the McClatchy Newspapers, the first U.S. report of the
incident.
The question has been met
with stony silence by U.S. authorities, and remains unanswered, marking the
second time in the past 18 months an American-registered aircraft carrying a
multi-ton load of cocaine has been interdicted in Mexico... with no subsequent
action taken by U.S. authorities against the American owners of the drug-running
aircraft.
Seventeen months after an American-registered DC9 airliner was busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, a major international scandal is brewing over a second drug trafficking incident in Mexico's Yucatan involving an American-registered jet owned by a dummy front company of the kind usually associated with the CIA.
A weekend visit to Donna Blue Aircraft Inc of Coconut Beach FL., the company which FAA records show owned the Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA) which crash-landed with 3.7 tons of cocaine aboard in Mexicos Yucatan two weeks ago, has revealed that the companys listed address is an empty office suite with a blank sign out front.
There was no sign of Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc., at the address listed at the Florida Dept. of Corporations, 4811 Lyons Technology Parkway #8 in Coconut Beach FL
However, there were, oddly enough, a half-dozen unmarked police cars parked directly in front of the empty suite.
The United States Government was aware that a terrorist attack on America was imminent, at least four hours and 37 minutes before the first plane hit the World Trade Center Towers.
A warning of a threat to the President was delivered to the Secret Service in Sarasota, Florida during the middle of the night before the 9/11 attack, followed several hours later by an attempt by four Arab men posing as journalists to gain access to President George W. Bush at the Colony Beach Resort on Longboat Key in Sarasota, for the purpose of ending his life.
Later, the Secret Service dismissed the warning as "just coincidental" to Sept 11, which seems odd, given the following report from the Sept 13, 2001 Newsweek: "On the night before the 9/11 attack," the newsmagazine reported, "A particularly-urgent warning may have been received which caused top Pentagon brass to cancel their scheduled flights on the morning of September 11th."
"Why that same information was not available to the 266 people who died aboard the four hijacked aircraft may become a hot topic on the Hill."
Those who control the present, control the past," George Orwell wrote.
It's déjà vu all over again. Its enough to give anyone old enough to remember Vietnam a nightmarish sense of having been right hereexactly herebefore.
The surge in Iraq is not what it was advertised to bea last gasp effort to clutch victory from the jaws of defeatbut a transparent ploy to subvert the will of the American people as expressed in the last election.
The real question that needs to be asked isn't why they do it... It's how.
Flatly contradicting the repeated assertions by the White House and FBI that the Bush administration played no role in the flights, an exclusive MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered numerous connections between the White House and the air charter companies involved in the evacuation of the members of the Saudi Royal family after the 9/11 attack.
Two of the six Saudi charter flights scrutinized by the 9/11 Commission were flown by air contractors involved in CIA renditions, while a third had close ties to imprisoned Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The owner of one of the air charter companies involved in the airlift of Saudi Royals and bin Laden family members out of the U.S. after the 9/11 attack has been identified in numerous published reports as a business partner and close associate of New England Mob Boss Raymond J. (Junior) Patriarca, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
Frank Zammiello's Northstar Aviation in Warrick R. I. flew four Saudis, including a Saudi Sheikh (name unfortunately redacted) on a flight which left Providence R.I. September 14, 2001 and flew to Paris.
eiks on a Plane: FBI Docs Expose Anatomy of a
Cover-Up
The MadCowMorningNews has obtained the first photo ever published (at right) of the never-before-seen Learjet that flew the so-called Saudi "phantom flight" from Tampa Florida... a flight FBI and Bush Administration officials for more than three years denied ever took place.
Last weeks newly-released FBI documents on flights out of the U.S. after the 9/11 attack by Saudi Princes and bin Laden family members generated headlines about the FBI's admission that Osama bin Laden may himself have chartered one of the planes.
Terror Flight
School Owner's New Partner:Drug Smuggler Caught in O.J. Simpson Sting
The owner of the flight school in Venice FL where the two hijackers who crashed airliners into the World Trade Center took flight lessons launched a new aviation company with a partner who was convicted in a 2002 drug sting in Miami whose target was O.J. Simpson, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
Former owner of Huffman Aviation Wallace J. Hilliard filed articles of incorporation for PRESTIGE AIRWAYS, LLC with the State of Florida on June 8th, 2006, government records reveal. In a mysterious move, six months later he surreptitiously removed his name from company
Mohamed Atta, Florida Entrepreneur
Terrorist Ringleader was President of Orlando Firm
Government records in Florida reveal that terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was the President of a company in Orlando, with a partner whose web of 'dummy' corporations appear characteristic of the type law enforcement officials say are used by terrorist financiers in illicit money laundering, the MadCowMorningNews
has learned.
Pirates
of the Caribbean
"Christian
Fundamentalists" and the CIA
A
mysterious missionary support organization flying weekly
"relief flights to Haiti from the Airport
in Venice, FL. may be providing "cover" for
CIA covert operations in the Caribbean, the MadCowMorningNews
has learned.
Run
by an ordained Southern Baptist minister, Agape
Flights is a fundamentalist Christian operation
which has been involved in some highly un-Christian
activities like flying shipments of food and religious
supplies on a regular basis to a man accused of
plotting a coup in Haiti when he was caught importing
into that troubled country an M-16, a Beretta, and a
camouflage uniform with the words "God's
Army" emblazoned across the chest;
The
Secret History of Jerry Falwell
Televangelist
Links to Terror Flight School in Florida
At
the same time the Rev. Jerry Falwell was accusing pagans,
abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, the ACLU and
People For the American Way of sharing responsibility
for the 9/11 attack the televangelist owed over one
million dollars in unpaid loans to the owner of the
terror flight school in Florida which trained Mohamed
Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, the MadCowMorningNews
has learned.
In
the days after terrorist hijackers murdered almost 3000
people, almost the entire American nation was numb and
speechless with shock and horror.
Dusty
& 'the boys' II -
Secrets of the Black Budget Scandal
The
company which owned the DC9 airliner caught carrying
5.5 tons of cocaine at an airport in Mexicos Yucatan
last year was also engaged in a massive "pump
and dump"stock fraud scheme which involved
a network of companies, including scandal-ridden San
Diego defense contractor Titan
Corp.
Dusty
& 'the boys' -
The CIA, the Narco-Republicans, & 5.5
tons of cocaine
The
first anniversary of the April 10 2006 seizure in Mexicos
Yucatan of a American-registered DC9 caught carrying
5.5 tons of cocaine passed virtually unnoticed last
week. It shouldnt have...
Porter
Goss resigned less than a month later, the same day
the FBI executed a search warrant at the house of the
No. 3 official in the Central Intelligence Agency, Kyle
Dusty Foggo, soon to go on trial for corruption
with accomplice Brent Wilkes.
The
Silencing of Carol Lam
Secret 'Hookergate' Indictment Led to Ouster
Several little-noticed recent developments
point towards major fireworks still to come in the current
series of Republican scandals....
Fired
San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam has disclosed the
existence of a still-secret and presumably-sealed indictment
of an as-yet unknown individual in the Randy Duke
Cunningham Hookergate Scandal.
Going
To Babylon By Cadillac Was
San Diego US Attorney fired for knowing too much?
The
Randy Cunningham "Hookergate" Scandal is not the first
prostitution scandal involving close relatives of indicted
defense contractor Brent Wilkes, The MadCowMorningNews
has learned.
But
what's lost in that gleeful name is that the massive
corruption exposed by last week’s indictment of
former CIA apparatchik Dusty Foggo and
defense-contractor-cum-bagman Brent Wilkes is the biggest
national scandal, in terms of dollars, in American history.
Even
as the New York Times reported that attention to November's
disputed Congressional election in Sarasota has faded,
Sarasota Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent announced
her intention this week to begin selling —presumably
"as is"— hundreds of Sarasota's touch-screen voting
machines proven defective by the November election,
where they malfunctioned so badly that frustrated poll
workers actually resorted to advising voters who were
unable to get their votes to register to try using their
knuckles.
Let
Them Eat Chad
Eyewitnesses to Sarasota Vote Fraud Speak
Out
It
was disturbing enough to see a massive undervote deprive
approximately 13,000 Americans of their right to vote
in the botched Congressional election in Sarasota FL.
An
analysis of early news accounts of the massive and unprecedented
"undervote" in Sarasota FL after the hotly-contested
Congressional race there indicates the major cause is
not the innocuous "poor ballot design" and "voter
disgust at negative campaigning" recently cited
by The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, but rather electronic
voting machine malfunction, or, in short, vote
fraud.
How
to Steal An American Election
Lesson One : Location,
location, location
Nowhere
in America is corruption as sunny, open and in your-face
brazen as it is in the state of Florida. The state that
couldn't count the votes in 2000 but had no trouble
training terrorists to fly) has been in the news almost
ever since.
CIBER
INC. CHAIRMAN DUMPED STOCK BEFORE ELECTION TESTING LAB
BARRED
The
Chairman of the laboratory barred last week from approving
any new electronic voting machines after federal investigators
discovered appallingly haphazard testing protocols at
the firm dumped 25,000 common shares of stock in the
company less than two weeks before the announcement,
netting himself almost $175,000, the MadCowMorningNews
has learned.