From: "Linda Minor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I just discovered some fascinating connections. Skolnick's expose of the Greenspan notes which mention transfers involving an investment bank called Pinnacle. One of its directors is Tony Coelho. Another is Titus Harris, Jr., who has long-time ties with Underwood Neuhaus--the investment bank onced owned by George Bush's banker, W.S. Farish III, now deceased. I have much more information on Underwood Neuhaus and the Farish family if anyone requests it. Coelho is doubly connected to this group through Pinnacle and through SCI, a company which has been in the news recently because of Bush (Texas guv) ties to Waldrip. http://www.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/funeral.html Austin � It�s enough to make customers of Houston-based Service Corp. International (SCI), the world�s largest funeral chain, roll over in their graves. In early 1998, Texas Funeral Service Commission (TFSC) began investigating complaints that SCI was entrusting stiffs to unlicensed embalming companies. Four months after an April 1998 raid of SCI properties for subpoenaed documents, a TFSC panel recommended a record $445,000 fine against SCI. The dispute is in mediation. ... Bush�s office intervened at least twice on SCI�s behalf. May said SCI CEO Robert Waltrip visited her agency in April 1998 and demanded that everyone involved in the SCI raid five days earlier be fired. Waltrip also said he was on his way to the Governor�s office. ++++ http://www.pinnacleglobalgroup.com/news/PR990224.html By Sherman H. Skolnick 10-16-98 Pinnacle�s new board of directors includes six former TEI directors and six designees of the financial services companies. Donald R. Campbell, Tony Coelho, W. Blair Waltrip, James H. Greer, T.G. Bogle, and T. Craig Benson joined the Pinnacle board from TEI. The other Pinnacle directors, Peter W. Badger, Sean Dobson, Robert E. Garrison II, Titus H. Harris, Jr., Stephen M. Reckling and Richard C. Webb, are all associated with one or more of the financial services companies. ++++ http://www.pinnacleglobalgroup.com/pages/investor/bios/TITUSHARRIS.htm Titus H. Harris, Jr. is the Chairman of the Board and a director of Pinnacle Global Group, Inc.. Mr. Harris co-founded Harris Webb & Garrison, Inc. in February 1994 and now serves as its Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Harris Webb & Garrison and Pinnacle Management & Trust Company. >From September 1991 to February 1994, he served as a Registered Representative at S.G. Cowen, Harris Webb & Garrison's correspondent broker. Before then, Mr. Harris served as Senior Vice President of Lovett Underwood Neuhaus & Webb (a division of Kemper Securities Group, Inc.), from January 1983 to August 1991, and as Regional Sales Manager for the Houston office of E.F. Hutton and Co., Inc. from January 1978 to December 1982. Mr. Harris has over 39 years experience in the securities industry. +++ http://www.sightings.com/political/carefulonclinton.htm Although pronounced as defunct, BCCI continues through its successor and alter-ego, Pinnacle Bank Group, headquartered in Chicago, at the First National Bank of Cicero (a Mafia enclave), and dominated by the former head of the Vatican Bank, Bishop Paul Marcinkus. BCCI hoped to spread out in the US by buying laws and lawmakers. BCCI's records. showing 108 members of the US House of Representatives and 28 US Senators as being receivers through a London unit of massive bribes, were actually an open record in the Bank of England for just 30 days. ++++ http://www.sightings.com/politics6/bcci.htm Pinnacle Banc Group was operated by shadowy types from Atlanta, with Georgia having been the hangout of BCCI top honchos. Pinnacle changed their name, to confuse everyone, to Old Kent Bank headquartered in Michigan. Reportedly still all the same gang of criminal enterprises. ++++ http://www.hoovers.com/co/capsule/8/0,2163,14318,00.html Old Kent Financial is the holding company for Old Kent Bank, which operates more than 250 branches in Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana. The bank offers individuals and businesses traditional deposit services, including checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Lending activities consist mostly of commercial loans (30% of the bank's portfolio), and also mortgage, commercial real estate, and consumer loans. Old Kent Mortgage Company has more than 150 offices throughout the US; it sells mortgages to secondary markets, retaining servicing. Other nonbank subsidiaries include insurance, brokerage, and leasing firms. Old Kent is expanding in the Chicago area; it bought Merchants Bancorp. ++++ http://hoovers.transium.com/hoovers.html?ticker=OK&id=14318&q=&qi=%2bkco%3a% 22Old%20Kent%20Financial%22&page=2&r=1.tbusref.R02409137&stag=%2da Wall Street Journal 03/22/99 Old Kent Financial Corp, with 235 banking offices, purchases Pinnacle Banc Group Inc, with 13 Chicago, IL, branches, for about $235 mil ++++ http://www.takeoverstockreport.com/spast.htm CFSB Bancorp, Inc. (CFSB) / Old Kent Financial Corporation (OK) [banking] ... First Evergreen Corporation (FIVR) / Old Kent Financial Corporation (OKEN) [banking] ... Merchants Bancorp, Inc. (MBIA) / Old Kent Financial Corporation (OK) [banking] ... Pinnacle Banc Group, Inc. (PINN) / Old Kent Financial Corporation (OK) [banking] +++++ http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89089/0000950129-99-001554.txt Since September 1997, Anthony L. Coelho has served as a consultant to Telecommunications, Inc. From July 1995 to November 1997 Mr. Coelho served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Coelho Associates, L.L.C. (investment consulting and brokerage firm) and served from October 1995 to September 1997 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ETC w/tci (training and communication firm). Prior thereto, from January 1990 to June 1995, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Wertheim Schroder Investment Services, Inc. (asset management firm) and from October 1989 to June 1995, Managing Director, Wertheim Schroder & Co., Inc. (investment banking firm). Mr. Coelho is a member of the Board of Directors of AutoLend Group, Inc., Cyberonics, Inc., ICF Kaiser International, Inc., International Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc., ITT Educational Services, Inc. and Pinnacle Global Group Inc. James H. Greer is a member of the Board of Directors of AmeriCredit Corp. and Pinnacle Global Group Inc. B. D. Hunter is a member of the Board of Directors of Cash America International, Inc. and Celebrity, Inc. Clifton H. Morris, Jr. is a member of the Board of Directors of Cash America International, Inc. W. Blair Waltrip is a member of the Board of Directors of Pinnacle Global Group Inc. Mr. W. Blair Waltrip is the son of Mr. R. L. Waltrip. Edward E. Williams is a member of the Board of Directors of Equus II Incorporated. Jack Finkelstein(1)(3)(4) .............. Personal and family trust investments 1965 71 James H. Greer(2) ...................... Chairman of the Board of Shelton W. Greer 1978 72 Co., Inc. (engineering, manufacturing, fabrication and installation of building specialty products) Clifton H. Morris, Jr.(1)(3) ........... Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive 1990 63 Officer of AmeriCredit Corp. (financing of automotive vehicles) W. Blair Waltrip(1)(4)(5)(6) ........... Executive Vice President of the Company 1986 44 DIRECTORS WHOSE TERMS EXPIRE AT THE 2000 ANNUAL MEETING: Anthony L. Coelho(1)................... Consultant 1991 56 A. J. Foyt, Jr ......................... President of A. J. Foyt Enterprises, Inc. 1974 64 (designer, manufacturer and exhibitor of high-speed engines and racing vehicles and marketer of automotive vehicles) E. H. Thornton, Jr.(1)(2)(3) ........... Attorney with Thornton & Burnett, Attorneys 1962 89 at Law R. L. Waltrip(1)(4)(5)(6) .............. Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive 1962 68 Officer and President of the Company Edward E. Williams(1)(3) (4)(6) ........ Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor and 1991 53 Director of the Entrepreneurship Program at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University DIRECTORS WHOSE TERMS EXPIRE AT THE 2001 ANNUAL MEETING: B. D. Hunter(1) ........................ Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive 1986 69 Officer of Huntco, Inc. (intermediate steel processor) John W. Mecom, Jr.(2) .................. Chairman of the Board of The John W. Mecom 1983 59 Co. (personal and family investments) +++++ John Mecom, Jr. is the son of the following prominent Houstonian: http://www.cynet.net/jfk/shack3g.htm >>Texan George Brown of Brown and Root was LBJ's chief financial sponsor. He also employed, 1958-1963, George DeMohrenschildt, Oswald's "closest friend" for the CIA in Dallas. Previously, DeMohrenschildt had worked for LBJ backer John Mecom. Oil barons Mecom, Murchison, Sid Richardson and H.L. Hunt were all described as his close friends, as well as then-oilman George Bush. These men met at the Dallas Petroleum Club and other private gathering spots. Among their associates were Harold Byrd (owner of the Texas School Book Depository), Dallas Mayor Cabell, Ted Dealey (publisher of the Dallas Morning News), and Abraham Zapruder, who filmed the assassination. << And just look who else Mecom has connections with. What a small world! http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.texasarchitect.org/newcal/warwick.h tml >>When it opened, the Warwick was operated as an apartment/hotel until Houston oilman John W. Mecom bought it in 1962 and expanded it in 1964. In 1987, Texas Commerce Bank foreclosed on the hotel property and repossessed it from John Mecom Jr. The bank subsequently resold it in 1988 for a reported $15 million to a group including Dutch industrialist Josep van den Nieuwenhuyzen. To help finance the restoration, van den Nieuwenhuyzen sold part interest in 1989 to Dallas-based Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. Last year, the Warwick was purchased by Olympus Real Estate Corp. of Dallas, which was formed in 1994 by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. << Remember Hicks, Muse from the Harper's article on Dubya? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PERFORM CPR ON YOUR APR! Get a NextCard Visa, in 30 seconds! 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