>From the Rumor Mill News Forum http://www.rumormillnews.com "THE CONDIT SCANDAL" WHEN WILL THE MEDIA FOCUS ON TONY COEHLO? When Gary Condit Was Chosen By the California Democratic Party To Run For the Congressional Seat Vacated by Tony Coehlo Due to Scandal, TONY COEHLO BECAME GARY CONDIT'S WASHINGTON MENTOR! By Rayelan Allan, Publisher, Rumor Mill News I have known Tony Coehlo most of my life. I grew up in central California in a small farming community that is in the Congressional District served by Coehlo and Condit. I went to school with Tony Coehlo's nieces, one of whom was recently implicated in the Portuguese Scandal along with her infamous uncle. In 1989, when Democratic Speaker of the House, Jim Wright, was forced to resign in a ethics scandal, Coehlo was second in power in the position of Majority Whip. Coehlo was caught up in a personal financial scandal and was also forced out. I was living in Washington D.C. and New York City at the time this was going on. Shortly after Coehlo and Wright were forced out, I moved back to California and bought a house with my mother in my home town, which was right in the heart of Coehlo's Congressional District. After two more trips to Washington D.C., I was approached by the Condit Campaign and asked to join. I declined due to illness. One of my nieces took the job. As a result of her involvement, I was asked to host a small party for the Condit family. During that party, Condit himself asked me to join his campaign. He had heard from my niece that I was thinking about accepting a job on Capitol Hill and he put in a pitch to get me to go to work for him instead of Senator Claiborne Pell. One month later, I married Gunther Russbacher, a Naval officer I had first met in 1976, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Two days after Gunther and I married, he was arrested, by the FBI, in front of my entire family. We were all told that he was a con man on a crime spree, marrying and defrauding wealthy widows. Gunther was taken to the Stanislaus County Jail in Modesto, California. Gary Condit's brother is a sheriff in this County. I was not allowed to talk to him or see him until I had hand delivered a letter to the Sheriff's Office stating that I wanted to see and hear from him. Shortly after I delivered the letter, Gunther called. One of the first things he said was, "Tony Coehlo and Gary Condit are behind this." I was incredulous. How could Tony Coehlo and Gary Condit be behind his arrest? Over the next few weeks and months, the entire story came out. Gunther said Coehlo worked closely with the CIA in many of the Savings and Loan Scandals. He also worked closely with Michael Milken in the junk bond scandal of the 80's. Gunther said Coehlo skimmed a lot more money out of these scandals than has ever been revealed. Evidently the fact that I had recently been living in Washington, D.C., and had JUST moved back to Coehlo's district, made Coehlo believe that Gunther and I had come into the area to expose ALL of Coehlo's scandals and thereby derail any hope the Democrats had of hanging on to the Congressional seat. Tony Coehlo has a LONG history of unscrupulous activity. The following comments are not my own, they are taken from the various articles that follow: a.. Coelho was notorious for his ability to shake down any lobbyist with business before Congress. a.. Author Brooks Jackson wrote a whole book, called "Honest Graft", about Coelho's ability to rake in campaign cash, especially from shady S&L execs. a.. "Power, privilege and cutthroat politics-for Coelho, they're not a problem but a way of life." (Los Angeles Times, 8-16-94) a.. "As the House Democrats' campaign chief, Coelho subordinated ideas to attacks: `My job is to be the hit man.'" (Los Angeles Times, 8-16-94) a.. "Coelho had burnished his lifestyle considerably upon being elected to Congress, accepting approximately $80,000 per year in honoraria and speaking fees. Coelho used the money to make extensive renovations to his Alexandria home, which he proudly referred to as "the house honoraria built." "I'm earning more money than I ever dreamed of making," he gloated..." (New Republic, 12-25-94) a.. "Influence peddling, it's recalled, was the Coelho political specialty as he rose in Congress from a back-bencher to party whip..." (Scripps Howard News Service, 8-24-94) a.. "[Coelho] went so far as to sell access to the Democratic leadership of the House. He invented the Speaker's Club, which granted lobbyists and their clients the ability to meet socially with the speaker of the House and other top Democrats for $5,000 per year for individuals and $15,000 for PACS." (New Republic, 12-25-94) a.. "[Coelho] made a name for himself by perfecting a shake-down racket that enriched Democratic campaigns by threatening businesses. [Did Jesse Jackson study in the Coehlo School of Political Blackmail and Shakedown?] The Democrats are going to be in the majority for a long time, Mr. Coelho was fond of telling businesses and their political action committees. Get on board with the Democrats or suffer the consequences." (Washington Times, 12-22-94) a.. "As the House Democratic campaign chief in the 1980s, [Coelho] pioneered the political-donor shakedown. Businesses were told in effect that giving cash to House Democrats was an offer they couldn't refuse. In return they might get legislative protection, such as the costly free pass he gave to failing S&Ls." (Gigot, Wall Street Journal, 5-14-99) a.. In 1989, Coelho ardently defended a congressional aide who had brutally assaulted a woman with a hammer and knife, but served only 27 months in prison. "Rightly or wrongly," Coelho said, the aide "owed his debt to society, not to this young woman." (Los Angeles Times, 8-16-94) [RMNews: Did this give him the ability to advise Condit?] a.. Coelho at the 1988 Democratic convention: "When the titans of Wall Street were looting the small investors on Main Street, where was George Bush?" Coelho pledged that his party would fight "the corporate cannibals on Wall Street." After resigning from Congress, Coehlo became a New York investment banker. (Los Angeles Times, 8-16-94) a.. While head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Coehlo told a group of business people that they'd better take a major interest in contributing to Democrats "or we can take a very big interest in your business," a threat to use tax and regulatory power to extort money. a.. Coehlo left Congress just as investigators were closing in over questionable stock trades and for lying on his financial disclosure reports. a.. Later, in the private sector, Coehlo narrowly avoided prosecution for insider trader violations, then was allowed to defraud taxpayers and skip out on unpaid bills while heading a U.S. Trade Delegation in Spain. a.. Coehlo, a six-term congressman from California's Central Valley, resigned suddenly in 1989 after reports about his investments in a Beverly Hills S&L linked to junk bond king Michael Milken. Coehlo's resignation came shortly after Speaker Jim Wright resigned in disgrace over ethics problems. When Wright stepped down, Coehlo had been in the running to be majority leader. a.. In 1989, the L.A. Times reported that the Justice Department had initiated an investigation of favors Coehlo and some associates had given to Milken. The department never confirmed or denied the story. a.. In his 1988 book Honest Graft: Big Money and the American Political Process, Brooks Jackson tells how Coehlo solicited money from the Teamsters, and then sought to intervene with the Justice Department on behalf of union president Jackie Presser. a.. vice President Gore picked Coehlo to be his Campaign Chairman. Coehlo was seen as valuable to Gore because he can raise big bucks in California- a state he knows extremely well- where Gore draws much of his $8.8 million war chest. It is here, in an early primary next March, that the campaign may well be decided. a.. Coehlo was closely connected to policies that led to the Democratic Party's collapse in the late '80s, from subsidies for agribusiness moguls to all-out defense of entitlements. Together, Gore and Coehlo helped lead the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign down the tubes against Bush-Quayle in 1988. Tony Coehlo is a well connected insider with access to the Intelligence Community. If Gary Condit knew he was in trouble, who would he go to? Whose advice would he ask? Birds of a feather flock together. If Condit needed help covering up an affair, an illigitimate child, a murder, who better to turn to than a man who has had his fingers in all sorts of scandals? My question to the media is: When are you going to start investigating Tony Coehlo? a.. To read the supporting documents click here: a.. http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=10169 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This website is AMAZING! Check it out! Find out anything, about anyone, online, using a new software program called PC Spy 2001! 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