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July 18-20, 2008 -- Cheney continues to be embroiled in "Kazakhgate"
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July 18-20, 2008 -- Cheney continues to be embroiled in "Kazakhgate"
There is a major scandal still haunting Vice President Dick Cheney.
However, the mainstream media is studiously avoiding it, save for the
Sunday Times of London, which continues to delve into largely verboten
areas, a rare occurrence in corporate journalism that Sunday Times
owner, Rupert Murdoch, appears willing to support.
The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus wrote about the scandal in the
paper's July 16th Op-Ed page with the caveat that the scandal, one
amounting to bribery, is perfectly legal. Not so fast.
The scandal surrounds Republican fix-it man, fundraiser, and lobbyist
Stephen Payne of Houston, the owner of Worldwide Strategic Partners.
Payne was recently caught in a secret videotaped sting by the Sunday
Times. Payne offered one Eric Dos, a purported exiled political leader
from Kazakhstan, meetings with Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, or National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley for a payment of
$700,000. The George W. Bush Presidential Library would receive
$250,000 of the amount. In return, Payne would ensure that ousted
Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev's "sponsors" would receive personal
attention in his attempt to regain power in Kyrgyzstan with senior
Bush administration officials, including Cheney. Akayev lives in exile
and teaches mathematics at Moscow State University.
The only problem for Payne was that "Dos" was not an exiled Kazakh
politician an but a Sunday Times reporter. The smoking gun documents
revealed by the Sunday Times include a July 9, 2008, email from Dos to
Payne stating that "Money can be tomorrow . . . They [Akayev's
sponsors] can give the Bush donation in cash as I told them that the
Bush library still to be created. Do you want me to bring cash to
London to simplify things?" Payne wrote back the same day, "That's
Great news . . . cash is very hard to deal with in and can't be
easily brought to USA — a wire transfer for 700 to cover everything at
once is best way (but we can discuss options if it's a problem)."
Options in dealing in cash has never been a problem for the Houston
GOP cabal that surrounds the Bush family. They have, over the years,
enriched themselves with cash and gold from Saudi Arabia, the
Philippines, and other countries thanks to various off-shore
contrivances, including accounts the UBS bank in Switzerland, now the
subject of a major tax evasion investigation of wealthy Americans by
the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, and a U.S. Senate investigative
committee.
In an email reply, Dos refers to a Cheney trip to Kazakhstan in 2006:
"OK. I'm telling them that transfer can do as well. It did work when
you successfully brought VP Cheaney [sic] to Kazakhstan in 2006.
Correct me if I said wrong. The last time the Kazakh govt through KMG
or whatever entity transferred directly to Worldwide Strategic and
then some of it was transferred to Bush's people? Was it to Bush Sr
library or foundation? or did your company just pass it on to
Cheaney's people."
Perhaps smelling a rat in Dos' reference to a payment directly from
the Kazakh government of dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev or KMG, the
state-owned Kazakh oil company to Payne and possibly Bush and
"Cheaney's people," Payne responds to Dos by stating that "Cheney's
people" were not paid anything for his trip to Kazakhstan and that
"donations" to the George W. Bush Library are not tied to any
"specific request or Govt. action." Right, and a $700,000 payment to
Payne, with $250,000 of it going to the Bush Library is not a quid pro
quo?
Turning back the clock to Cheney's 2006 visit to Kazakhstan is trip
down corporate malfeasance memory lane. On Aug 26 2005, WMR reported:
More details concerning illegal Bush enterprises are coming out in the
trial of former lobbyist for the oil industry and the Kazakhstan
government, Jim Giffen, a New York investment banker. Giffen was
indicted for bribing Kazakhstan government leaders with some $84
million in return for lucrative oil drilling rights for Amoco, Mobil,
Phillips Petroleum, and Texaco in the years immediately following the
fall of the USSR and the independence of Kazakhstan under the rule of
Nursultan Nazarbayev, a former Soviet Communist Party leader. Giffen
also represented the interests of Chevron in the former USSR.
Kazakhstan's Tengiz oil fields rank among the world's largest reserves.
Giffen is accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,
which prohibits American businessmen from bribing foreign officials.
However, Giffen's attorneys are contending that their client's actions
and those of his bank, Mercator, were carried out with the knowledge
and encouragement of the CIA under then-director Robert Gates.
Following the pattern of Bush family oil and other enterprises around
the world, U.S. oil companies, through accounts allegedly set up by
Giffen and his associates, paid bribes into accounts of Nazarbayev,
his Oil Minister Nurlan Balgambayev, and other Kazakh officials.
Balgambayev's accounts were under the names Orchard Holdings of
Newton, Massachusetts; Giffen's under Condor Capital Management and
Denlay Associates of the British Virgin Islands; Samal Balgambayeva's
(Bagambayev's daughter) under the name Brisa, Inc.; a joint Giffen-
Balgambayev account under the name NTC International; Mobil's under
the name Alqi Holdings Ltd. of the British Virgin Islands;
Nazarbayev's under the name Orel Capital, owned by Semreck Foundation
of Liechtenstein, a Nazarbayev trust. Other secret accounts were
established in Bank Indosuez (now Credit Agricole Indosuez) and Credit
Suisse accounts in Switzerland and Bahamas. Hovelon Trading SA of the
British Virgin Islands was a controlling operation for Denlay
Associates. Other companies involved in the bribery scandal include
Vaeko Europe Ltd. and Nichem Energy Ltd., both owned by an American
citizen named Friedhelm Eronat, Berkut Holdings Ltd. and Balicar.
Giffen reportedly coordinated his Kazakh oil activities with Gates,
National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, and Secretary of State
James Baker.
U.S. intelligence insiders report that the Kazakh operations of the
George H. W. Bush administration were coordinated from Enron in
Houston, which hired some 300 ex-KGB agents after the fall of the
Soviet Union to help coordinate U.S. moves to control the energy
supplies of newly-independent republics like Kazakhstan. In addition,
Enron employed a number of associates of Robert Gates who retired from
or left the CIA to work on the oil and gas deals in the former Soviet
Union and other countries. Giffen was a top liaison to Kazakhstan,
having become a Kazakh passport-carrying government adviser to
Nazarbayev.
Because the Kazakh oil and gas fields were in poor condition and
needed refurbishment, Halliburton was later brought in by Enron and
the U.S. oil company consortium developing the Tengiz fields to help
in the effort. Halliburton's President and CEO at the time was Dick
Cheney. The billions of dollars needed to refurbish the Kazakh
production facilities were requested by George H. W. Bush from the
Saudis, whose former Oil Minister Sheik Zaki Yamani was an ardent
backer of the plan, which, from the Giffen trial, now appears to have
included bribes paid to Kazakh government leaders with the support and
acquiescence of Bush, Sr., Baker, and Gates.
The Washington Post Op-Ed page can insist that there was nothing
illegal about the Payne deal with Dos. However, it was violations of
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act with Kazakhstan that landed Giffen,
who was popularized as "Tim Blake Nelson" in the movie "Syriana," in
hot water with the Justice Department. Giffen was known as "Mr.
Kazakhstan" for his close ties to the Kazakh leadership, contacts that
were used by Bush 41 and 43, as well as Cheney. Payne was offering
access-for-money to the Bush administration every bit as much as Giffen.
The Marcus Op-Ed in the Post correctly points out that Denise Rich,
the ex-wife of fugitive Russian-Israeli mobster Marc Rich, ensured a
last-minute pardon by President Bill Clinton after she donated
$450,000 to the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Bribes from
foreign sources for presidential libraries is something that unites
the Bush and Clinton families.
It was thirty years ago that bribes from foreign officials was a major
crime. In 1978, an "Arab sheik" named "Kambir Abdul Rahman," President
of "Abdul Enterprises, Ltd." offered U.S. politicians money in return
for political asylum in the United States, lucrative investment
schemes, and laundering money from abroad in the United States.
However, there was no Arab sheik or company. The ruse was crafted by
the FBI with the help of a con-artist named Melvin Weinberg, a
swindler with ties to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a pro-Israeli
right-wing organization. Two New Jersey federal prosecutors objected
to the entrapment methods used by the obviously anti-Arab Weinberg but
they were overruled by Justice Department Organized Crime and
Racketeering chief David Margolis [who would later be appointed the
"firewall" between Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and CIA leak
special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald] and Philip Heymann, the Assistant
Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division.
After the FBI sting, known as "ABSCAM," the political careers of
Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ), Representatives John Jenrette (D-
SC), Richard Kelly (R-FL), Raymond Lederer (D-PA), Michael "Ozzie"
Myers (D-PA), Frank Thompson (D-NJ) were in tatters. In addition to
the ABSCAM Congressional Six, members of the Philadelphia City Council
and State Senator Angelo Errichetti (D-NJ) were all convicted of
bribery, Representative John Murtha (D-PA) was also a target of the
sting but he escaped indictment.
In hindsight, those entrapped in ABSCAM were no different from those
currently selling access to the White House in return for cash
payments to the Bush Library. If the ABSCAM defendants committed
crimes, so are those involved with various "Kazakhgate" outrages,
including Cheney, Bush 41, and Bush 43.
Related Articles:
* August 26, 2005 -- Bush oil scandals spread throughout Central
Asia.
Comments
Bill Bergman (La Grange Park, Illinois)
Speaking of cash ...
Since World War II, the five fastest growing months in the
currency component of M1 (U.S. currency -- Federal Reserve Notes --
circulating outside of banks) are
1) December 1999
2) January 1991
3) August 2001
4) January 2000
5) November 1980
Public data suggest the August 2001 surge was concentrated in
$100 bills.
A banking crisis was flowering in Argentina at the time, but
things probably get more complicated than that.
liberty antigone (?)
I guess of the mossad has photos of Cheney with little girls,
they can call the shots.
I guess if the MainStreamMedia owned by military providers, like
GE, Bechtel, LOCKHEED MARTIN, BOEING, etc., has the goods on Cheney,
no one in the USA will know about Cheney's criminal behavior,
including orchestrating September 11,2001 false flag attacks, secret
illegal Energy Meetings with DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES KennyBoy LAy
divving up Iraq, and Afganistan and the middleeast Oil and Gas
pipelines, and the secret shadow government.
Letmetalk (Fairfax, VA)
Also, oil man Ray Hunt got an illegal oil deal in Iraq last fall.
He had previously purchased land for the Bush Library and was a big
wig in the Republican money machine.
The oil deal violated Iraqi oil sharing laws which were supposed
to be benchmarks for the Iraq government as a condition for American
troop withdrawal. It seems like the Bush library is a money laundering
scheme for people who want special treatment from the administration.
Read more in the Mother Jones article here:
http://dystopianusa.blogspot.com/2007/09/meet-ray-hunt-shameless-war-profiteer.html
roadrunner (Mount Prospect, IL)
Great article. Where did the 300 ex-KGB guys go to after the
collapse of Enron?
Verda Ingle (Boone)
Does anyone else sense that Cheney is under enormous pressure
right now to pull off the Iran attack he promised to somebody?
Could that be why Murdoch's news outlet is reporting this
story?----to remind him that he'd better deliver, or else? Who does
Ruth Marcus really work for?
The war with Iran has been a go for more than a year now, but
things keep gumming it up---such as honest military officers and
intelligence agents who foil the plan. But somebody is applying the
"stick" to Cheney. I think he knows what it means. He's between a rock
and a hard place now---war crimes trials on one side, and the wrath of
the Rothschilds on the other.
Schadenfreude, anyone?
Verda Ingle (Boone)
Also note that of the congressmen entrapped in ABSCAM, almost all
were Democrats. Seems like a Rove/Atwater style way of changing the
balance of power in Congress during Carter years. (Or maybe we're to
suppose the Republicans in Congress in the late '70s were all honest?)
anti-neocon (anti-neolib)
A bunch of crooks run IsraelUSA. Thanks for the report. and
comments.
liberty antigone (?)
Verda Ingle (Boone) writes:
Does anyone else sense that Cheney is under enormous pressure
right now to pull off the Iran attack he promised to somebody?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
YES YES YES!!!!!!! he is being blackmailed and they are calling
in the cards, like the CIA does with other pederasts, who they set up
and then hold cards on until they are ready to call them.
liberty antigone (?)
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE ALL STEALING AMERICA BLIND,
sticking billions and billions in SWISS ACCOUNTS. That is why we have
wars that murder millions, to have money flowing they can steal, those
bloodsucking bastards.
Hedley Bowes (Seattle)
Ruslana Korshunova, Supermodel, Dies In Fall (PHOTOS)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/28/ruslana-korshunova-superm_n_109792.html
anti-neocon (anti-neolib)
For the first time, last night, members of a news team that went
into a poor neighborhood to film a fire (probably arson) were shot at
by someone, and one cameraman was shot in the back. The lawlessness of
our rulers, who make their own laws as they see fit, is definitely
filtering down, and anarchy is starting to really take hold in
neighborhoods near me.
liberty antigone (?)
roadrunner (Mount Prospect, IL)
Great article. Where did the 300 ex-KGB guys go to after the
collapse of Enron?
GOOD QUESTION. Mr. Madsen, Do you know anything?
liberty antigone (?)
"....After the FBI sting, known as "ABSCAM," the political
careers of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ), Representatives John
Jenrette (D-SC), Richard Kelly (R-FL), Raymond Lederer (D-PA), Michael
"Ozzie" Myers (D-PA), Frank Thompson (D-NJ) were in tatters. In
addition to the ABSCAM Congressional Six, members of the Philadelphia
City Council and State Senator Angelo Errichetti (D-NJ) were all
convicted of bribery, Representative John Murtha (D-PA) was also a
target of the sting but he escaped indictment.
In hindsight, those entrapped in ABSCAM were no different from
those currently selling access to the White House in return for cash
payments to the Bush Library. If the ABSCAM defendants committed
crimes, so are those involved with various "Kazakhgate" outrages,
including Cheney, Bush 41, and Bush 43...."
BUT THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN AMERICA, for we now have NON
ENFORCABLE LAWS ON CORPORATE CRIMES, while the real citizens are
watched by CORPORATIONS THAT WANT TO CONTROL THEM.
If you have non enforceable crimes of theft and murder by
Corporations like Enron, and the Mercenaries in Iraq and Iran, and the
OIL COMPANIES DICK CHENEY PROMISED OIL CONTRACTS IN IRAN AND IRAQ AND
AFGANISTAN BEFORE THE PNAC DID 9-11 with ISREALis help, then you
really are run by the mob.
THE MOB DID 9-11, but it was the Israelis-Russian mob, so nobody
can do anything about it, since they OWN CONGRESS and the JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT AND HOMELAND SECURITY, etc.
anti-neocon (anti-neolib)
And isn't it unreal how correct liberty is in her conclusion
above. I remember hearing her on one of Madsen's shows and how on top
of the topics he brought up she was. Other callers to the show
commented how impressed they were of her. Liberty, every hair on your
head is worth more than the ziocon nazi who Wayne allows to
continually spew his venom at this WMR comment section. I am sorry for
any even discomfort that by so allowing, Madsen is causing you. I
cannot tell you how privileged I feel I am to know you, even if only
by this comment section.
liberty antigone (?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpX5fUvPlg
maybe USRAELIS k. uses insurance company rules on the blog??? see
spoof video above.
Kait (Michigan)
What a bunch of sanctimonious malarkey!
You pretend to be a lover of democracy and all you do is decry
every human being that doesn't fit into your crazy bigoted sexist
ignorant views. You pay no heed to the presumption of innocence and
constantly promote dissonance and censorship.
You even bully the editor!
I feel blessed that such decaying lying hypocritical vile evil
hates me and thank God in heaven everyday I don't know you personally.
Antigone, where is my staple gun! :)
liberty antigone (?)
I am not sexist or bigoted. SO THAT MUST MEAN in e=mc2 that in
swiftboating that those that call me that are SEXIST and BIGOTED, to
cover their own shortcomings.
liberty antigone (?)
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE ALL STEALING AMERICA BLIND,
sticking billions and billions in SWISS ACCOUNTS. That is why we have
wars that murder millions, to have money flowing they can steal, those
bloodsucking bastards.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
Where did the 300 ex-KGB guys go to after the collapse of Enron?
GOOD QUESTION. Mr. Madsen, Do you know anything?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"....After the FBI sting, known as "ABSCAM," the political
careers of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ), Representatives John
Jenrette (D-SC), Richard Kelly (R-FL), Raymond Lederer (D-PA), Michael
"Ozzie" Myers (D-PA), Frank Thompson (D-NJ) were in tatters. In
addition to the ABSCAM Congressional Six, members of the Philadelphia
City Council and State Senator Angelo Errichetti (D-NJ) were all
convicted of bribery, Representative John Murtha (D-PA) was also a
target of the sting but he escaped indictment.
In hindsight, those entrapped in ABSCAM were no different from
those currently selling access to the White House in return for cash
payments to the Bush Library. If the ABSCAM defendants committed
crimes, so are those involved with various "Kazakhgate" outrages,
including Cheney, Bush 41, and Bush 43...."
BUT THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN AMERICA, for we now have NON
ENFORCABLE LAWS ON CORPORATE CRIMES, while the real citizens are
watched by CORPORATIONS THAT WANT TO CONTROL THEM.
If you have non enforceable crimes of theft and murder by
Corporations like Enron, and the Mercenaries in Iraq and Iran, and the
OIL COMPANIES DICK CHENEY PROMISED OIL CONTRACTS IN IRAN AND IRAQ AND
AFGANISTAN BEFORE THE PNAC DID 9-11 with ISREALis help, then you
really are run by the mob.
THE MOB DID 9-11, but it was the Israelis-Russian mob, so nobody
can do anything about it, since they OWN CONGRESS and the JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT AND HOMELAND SECURITY, etc. =
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