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Joseph P. Russoniello
Attorney - California, USA
J O S E P H R U S S O N I E L L O
In the 1980s, Joseph P. Russoniello was a U.S. Attorney in California.
Presumably, a U.S. Attorney is a tough prosecutor who represents the best
interests of the public; but Russoniello went soft when it came to a drug
case involving the CIA.
Between 1981 and 1984, the DEA had compiled sufficient evidence to
crack the biggest cocaine ring in California at that time. Police had nabbed
several "frogmen" swimming onto a beachhead carrying at least four-hundred
pounds of cocaine. Ultimately, 35 people were arrested, along with guns,
drugs, catalogs for automatic weapons and silencers, and $36,800 in cash.
Federal prosecutors declared that the money was evidence from the drug
operation, and would be used for the trial. While this appeared to be a
clean bust, the authorities were about to have the rug pulled out from under
them.
The ring1s alleged leader, Julio Zavala, claimed that the cash was not
drug money, but was money earmarked to purchase weapons for the CIA1s
illegal Contra war in Nicaragua. Zavala requested that the money seized by
the cops be returned to the Contras. According to Gary Webb of the San Jose
Mercury News, Russoniello decided not to keep the cash as evidence, and did
not want it forfeited to the government, which is the standard procedure in
drug cases. The drug money was then returned to the Contras. In a 1986
Senate hearing, Senator Arlen Spector and investigator Jack Blum openly
discussed Russoniello1s capitulation to Contra Drug-runners. Blum stated
that Russoniello had angrily shouted at investigators and Senator John
Kerry, who was chairing the committee investigating intelligence-community
links to the drug trade. Russoniello accused them of being "subversive for
wanting to go into it." Some may say that Russoniello (now an attorney for
companies that allegedly obtained government aircraft illegally) went from
prosecuting criminals to representing criminals. Others may say that from
the "frogmen" cocaine case to the current aircraft scandal, Joseph P.
Russoniello has always represented the best interests of the CIA.
San Jose Mercury New, July 24, 1988
CHILD ABUSE AT THE PRESIDIO
The Parents1 Agony, The Army1s Cover-up, The Prosecution1s Failure.
A Baptist minister named Gary Hambright, was indicted in September 1987
on charges that he committed "lewd and lascivious acts" with six boys and
four girls, ranging in age from three to seven years, during
September-October 1986. At the time of the alleged sex crimes, Hambright was
employed at a child care center on the U.S. Army base at the Presidio. At
the time of Hambright1s indictment, the San Francisco police charged that he
was involved in at least 58 separate incidents of child sexual abuse.
That day there was much backslapping at a press conference called by US
Attorney Joseph Russoniello to announce the charges. A press release said
the maximum penalty that might be imposed in this case is 96 years in prison
and a $3 million fine. Surrounded by Army brass from the Presidio and
several FBI agents, Russoniello said there would be no more arrests because
despite the children1s allegations, there were no other suspects. But even
Gary Hambright appeared to suggest that others had been involved. At a press
conference Oct. 2nd after he was arraigned, Hambright, reading from a
prepared statement, said he was innocent of all the charges and added, "I
cannot understand why these allegations and falsehoods have been, directed
solely at me."
THE FOLLOWING WILL EXPLAIN HAMBRIGHT1S STATEMENT
Larry and Michelle Adams - Thompson had noticed changes in their
daughter1s behavior after placing her in Gary Hambright1s class four or five
times in September and October of 1986. The girl, who turned 3 in October,
had begun having nightmares and would wet herself when frightened. Her
parents believed it was just "a bad stage" she was going through until they
heard about the Tobin boy (another one of Hambright1s victims) in January.
The girl was taken to a therapist at Letterman Army Medical Center in
February. In therapy, the girl talked about being sexually abused by
Hambright and by a man named "Mikey" and a woman named "Shamby" whose
identities were unknown. On Aug. 12, 1987, the Adam-Thompsons were shopping
at the PX at the Presidio. Suddenly the girl ran to Larry Adams-Thomson and
clutched his leg. He looked up and saw a man whom he knew as Lt. Col.
Michael Aquino.
"Yes, that1s Mikey," the 3-year-old told Adams-Thompson. After being
taken outside, the girl added, "he1s a bad man and I1m afraid." As they were
leaving the parking lot, the Adams-Thompsons saw Aquino1s wife, Lilith.
Larry asked the child if she knew the woman.
"Yes, that1s Shamby," the girl said.
The family went home and called the FBI.
When interviewed by authorities the next day, the girl identified Gary
Hambright from a photo lineup and said she had been driven to Mickey and
Shamby1s home by Hambright. There, she said, she was abused by Hambright,
Mickey and Shamby in a room with black walls. She said that she had been
photographed. She said Hambright and Mickey were dressed in women1s clothes
and Shamby was dressed in man1s clothes.
The investigators drove her to Leavenworth Street in San Francisco. The
girl was asked to identify any of the houses that she had been to before.
While walking past 2430 Leavenworth, the girl identified the house as the
one where she met "Mikey" and "Shamby." It was the Aquinos1 house.
A search warrant was served on the Aquino home on Aug. 14. In
attendance were agents from the FBI and the San Francisco Police. Because
the abuse allegedly occurred on city property, it was to be a city case.
Among the items seized were video tapes, cassette tapes, notebooks with
names and addresses, two photo albums, one paper plate and two plastic
gloves from the kitchen garbage, four plastic cases of negatives and 29
photos of costumes and masks. With his widow1s peak and arching eyebrows,
Lt. Col. Michael Aquino looks more like a pudgy Dracula than a high ranking
Army officer with top security clearance. He is the founder and high priest
of a satanic church, the Temple of Set. His wife, Lilith, a gaunt woman with
long, dark hair, is the priestess in the temple1s Order of the Vampire. The
couple refer to the search as a "raid" and have branded the investigation a
witch hunt.
According to an article in the Oct. 30,1987 San Francisco Examiner, one
of the victims had identified Aquino and his wife as participants in the
child rape. According to the victim, the Aquinos had filmed scenes of the
child being fondled by Hambright in a bathtub. The child1s description of
the house, which was also the headquarters of Aquino1s Satanic Tempe of Set,
was so detailed, that police were able to obtain a search warrant. During
the raid, they confiscated 38 videotapes, photo negatives, and other
evidence that the home has been the hub of a pedophile ring, operating in
and around U.S. military bases.
On April 19, 1988 the ten count indictment against Hambright was
dropped by U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello, on the grounds that, whole
there was clear evidence of child abuse (six of the children contacted the
venereal disease, (chiamydia), there was insufficient evidence to link
Hambright (or the Aquinos) to the crimes. Parents of several of the victims
charged that Russoniello1s actions proved that "the Federal system has
broken down in not being able to protect the rights of citizens age three to
eight."
Russoniello would later be implicated in efforts to cover up the links
between the Nicaraguan Contras and South American cocaine-trafficking
organizations, raising deeper questions about whether the decision not to
prosecute Hambright and Aquino had "national security implications."
On May 13, 1989, the San Jose Mercury reported that Aquino and his wife
had been recently questioned by Army investigators about charges of child
molestation by the couple in two northern California counties, Sonoma and
Medocino. A nine year-old girl in Santa Rosa, California, and an 11 year-old
boy in Fort Bragg, also in California, separately identified Aquino as the
rapist in a series of 1985 incidents, after they had seen him on television.
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