-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.madcowprod.com/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.madcowprod.com/">II</A> ---- order an advance copy of 'barry and the boys'" now! INTRODUCTION Part I Posted to the Internet December 13, 2000 (email the editor) FOLLOW THE CHAD The world might never have learned of Pasquale "Rocco" Ricci, except for Woody Jenkins, the unsuccessful Republican Senate candidate in Louisiana in 1996, who lost the contested 1996 US Senate race by a hairsbreadth margin to Democrat Mary Landrieu. Allegations of voting irregularities by Republican Jenkins led to a year-long investigation; and though Jenkins was eventually adjudged to have lost by 5,000 votes after a fight that reached US Senate chambers, the probe quickly came across evidence of massive bribery. This became the focus of the investigation that followed, leading to charges that Elections Commissioner Fowler had squandered $8.6 million in state money on worthless election equipment, and taken kickbacks from voting machine contractors working for Sequoia Pacific, all in a scheme engineered by that company's executives. Rocco Ricci, we learned, was a "long-time" associate of the Commissioner of Elections. He was even married, we were startled to learn, to a woman, Joy, who worked right in the Election Commissioner's Office! Though Fowler's conviction was relatively big news in the state's two major newspapers, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Baton Rouge Advocate, neither mentioned the name Sequoia Pacific, which must be, corporately, either very lucky or extraordinarily-well connected... Amazingly, they had been successful at keeping the company's name completely out of local newspaper and television coverage. That's clout. So, although both the Asst. DA and the defendants own signed admissions stated that the entire scheme was carried out on behalf of the Sequoia Pacific Corp., the firm garnered zero negative publicity. No 'bad pub' at all. This is truly remarkable, considering that Sequoia Pacific had just been exposed as being responsible for a scheme that suborned and throws into question Louisiana' s entire electoral process...for a decade. Sequoia Pacific�s Regional Manager, Phil Foster, fingered by both Fowler and Ricci as the prime mover in the scheme, remained un-indicted. Still, the investigation was ongoing, according to Asst. Dist. Atty. Sandra Rebes, who led the prosecution. One example she cited of Foster�s hands-on involvement was Foster's recruitment of his own brother-in-law, Donald Philpot of Birmingham, Alabama, to help launder the kickbacks. Almost twenty assorted vendors and corrupted elections officials have been convicted so far, including two Florida businessmen we immediately dubbed "The Sunshine Boys." Glenn Boord and Ralph Escudero owned a now-defunct voting-machine company, Uni-lect, associated with Sequoia Pacific. They pled guilty to conspiracy to compound a felony (public bribery). Many questions remain unanswered... Did service malfunctions of Sequoia Pacific's contribute to--or even cause-- Florida's Voting Snafu and the resultant electoral chaos? Did Pasquale "Rocco" Ricci, of Marlton, New Jersey, have himself a sweet little private deal in Louisiana? Or is there a larger (read Mob) presence involved? Could this be why Florida, alone among the 50 states, fouled-up so badly? (to be continued) ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
