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Subject: More CIA Drug Planes Seized; John McCain's Texas Campaign Manager
Implicated
our More American Drug Planes
Seized
Laundered drug money was wired from Mexico to
Commerce Bank in Miami, whose CEO is the Texas co-chair of John
McCain’s presidential election
campaign.
http://www.madcowprod.com/02072008.html
February 7, 2008
by
Daniel Hopsicker
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"
"This is Your GOP.
This is your GOP... on drugs."
The Republican connection begins with the statement
in court
filings that the money to purchase the planes was laundered
through a bank which is almost invariably described as “fast-growing” in
admiring business news articles.
The drug money was wired,
usually from Mexico, to an account at Commerce Bank in Miami,
whose Chairman, Dennis Nixon, is the South
Texas Co-chair of John McCain’s campaign.
Nixon was also a Bush Pioneer
and Ranger in George W. Bush’s two Presidential campaigns, raising
$300,000 in one night for Bush’s re-election bid in Texas border town
Laredo.
High-profile Texas businessman Dennis Nixon's
bank is even — in one of the sales—involved on both ends. Money was
wired from Mexico, first to an account at Commerce Bank in Miami, then on
to International Bank of Commerce (IBC) in Oklahoma to complete the
sale.
Dennis Nixon's International
Bancshares of San Antonio owns both banks.
"Abuse of power comes as
no surprise."
The second transaction with apparent Republican 'ramifications"
involves a Grumman Albatross (N7027Z) seaplane
apparently sold to the Sinaloa Cartel.
N7274Z, reported El Nuevo
Herald, had been "purchased, with
several twists between August to September 2006, from the HSBC bank
in Mexico by Jorge Barraza, a resident of Tamil Nadu, Jorge Medina
and Daniel Medina on behalf of Insured Aircraft Title Service in
Oklahoma."
El Nuevo Herald identifies
the plane with the “N” number N7027Z as a Beech King
Air. However, the grand jury indictment identifies the plane only by
its N number, N7027Z.
A check of FAA records revealed
that that “N” number was assigned to a Grumman Albatross seaplane.
An FAA spokesman told us, when we inquired, that that N number has
been used exclusively by the Grumman Albatross for the past 15 years.
Moreover a reliable source in
Fort Lauderdale stated to us recently that seaplanes have recently become
all the rage in drug trafficking circles.
A seaplane would seem an
excellent idea
The seaplane, or
"warbird," as aircraft broker sites call planes decommissioned
from the military, was owned by Jay Koven, whose
construction company built Rudy Giuliani’s Emergency Command Center in
Building 7 of the World Trade Center.
The decision to locate New York
City's Command Center high above the one site in NYC
which had already been attacked by foreign terrorists was
controversial... even before it had to be abandoned on September
11.
According to “The Real
Rudy,” a Giuliani expose in American Prospect magazine in
September 2006, Koven and his partner gave $4,000 to Giuliani at a party
given in 1998 at the behest of WTC lessor Larry Silverstein, at the Fifth
Avenue home of his p
