tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post5108240263463303857..comments2024-03-29T09:58:21.298-04:00Comments on VISUP: Goodfellas: The Hidden History of Resorts InternationalReclusehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510266038933358020noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-91412170316890949982018-10-01T14:43:30.161-04:002018-10-01T14:43:30.161-04:00Trump's connection with Epstein....sounds just...Trump's connection with Epstein....sounds just like a good guy doesn't he? Maybe Trump is a "good" pedophile.911 Researcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04888384001008444523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-8801590157057136002018-06-21T01:10:09.466-04:002018-06-21T01:10:09.466-04:00worth readingworth readingSHORT FUSE BLUEShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12406189515313879212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-64939839603959938902017-10-30T17:22:07.646-04:002017-10-30T17:22:07.646-04:00Now if you'd only look at the Clinton Cartel, ...Now if you'd only look at the Clinton Cartel, the Podesta Pedophile ring, and the Obama/Holder gunrunning a more unbiased picture might come into focus.<br /><br />The Trump faction is the closest thing to the "Good Guys" as we are likely to get unfortunately. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-42911053341603662622017-10-30T10:01:56.087-04:002017-10-30T10:01:56.087-04:00The Russian mafia long ago overtook the New York m...The Russian mafia long ago overtook the New York mafia. They're hungrier and more ruthless. Semion Mogilevich is one name that seems to be at <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate" rel="nofollow">the center</a> of everything -- including the Trump connections.Cory Panshinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04689225527768869110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-13264302955065973732017-10-30T05:44:50.690-04:002017-10-30T05:44:50.690-04:00Obviously, they're going for the Russian mafia...Obviously, they're going for the Russian mafia connections because they can't possibly touch the New York mafia. They're too powerful.<br />Photoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15219368106378553092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-42350358689919803732017-10-30T04:56:56.646-04:002017-10-30T04:56:56.646-04:00Just as you thought that man couldn't have mor...Just as you thought that man couldn't have more dirt on him...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02957730344128441993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-42662807602469928592017-10-29T22:07:36.952-04:002017-10-29T22:07:36.952-04:00Eddie Cellini is of more than passing interest, as...Eddie Cellini is of more than passing interest, as I found out some years ago when I was looking into Adam Kidan, who was Jack Abramoff's deeply mob-connected associate in the SunCruz floating casino business. According to Daniel Hopsicker, Kidan had been the <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2005/10/10/new-mob-links-in-abramoff-scandal-kidan-ties-to-sicilian-mafia/" rel="nofollow">co-owner</a> with Rosario Spadaro of a hotel-casino on St. Maarten. I found that Hopsicker had the name of the casino wrong -- it was actually the Maho Beach Resort & Casino -- but he seemed to have the facts right otherwise, so I started checking out Spadaro.<br /><br />That led me to some pages of "Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in The Bahamas" at Google Books, which stated, "It was a subsidiary operation of the well-known Concord hotel located at Kiamesha lake in New York's Catskill Mountains. In 1976, [Eddie] Cellini and Rosario Spadaro from Sicily, with many years experience in casino and resort development and management in Sicily, Nigeria, and Sint Maarten, bought out the Concord people. The original owners of the Concord and Resorts of the World were almost as deeply enmeshed in organized crime as Cellini himself. They had mob ties dating from the mid-1950s. ... It is probable that the Concord's ties to organized crime increased during the 1960s and 1970s as the Sint Maarten deal developed. ... Castle Bank and Resorts International had met prior to, and outside the beautiful byway of Sint Maarten. Certain individuals representative of the two groups had earlier operated together in The Bahamas."<br /><br />I dug out more on Eddie Cellini and Rosario Spadaro's long history of working together, but this is the gist of it -- that Jack Abramoff was only a few jumps removed from Cellini. And it ties in with Abramoff's own spooked-up background and his family's connections to Atlantic City and to a variety of other dubious figures (including Trump's original mentor, Roy Cohn, as I recall.) For this and other reasons, I'm fairly convinced that the Abramoff scandal wasn't really about ripping off Indian casinos for a few million here and there but about a much larger money-laundering operation with the casinos being used as fronts.<br /><br />And in checking my decade-old files just now, I found one other thing of interest. That was someone's <a href="http://carmeloruiz.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_archive.html" rel="nofollow">blog entry</a> from 2005 discussing the PR firms hired by the Bahamas when they were under pressure from the US concerning drug smuggling. The first of those was Gray & Co., the intensely spooked-up firm associated with Bill Casey's off-the-books operations in the 1980s (and also with Tongsun Park's blackmail operations.) But the second was Black, Manafort & Stone. Yeah, that Manafort and that Stone (who was formerly involved in Trump's own casino ventures as rivals to Abramoff.) And yes, indeed, Resorts Interational and Howard Hughes also come in just a few paragraphs further up -- but I need to read the whole thing, since I haven't looked at it in many years, and I don't know what surprises it may hold. <br />Cory Panshinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04689225527768869110noreply@blogger.com