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CORSON, IRAN-CONTRA, SAVINGS AND LOAN, MAFIA, CIA Source: The Houston Chronicle Published: November 5, 1992 Author: JENNIFER LIEBRUM, LYNWOOD ABRAM, JERRY URBAN Posted on 02/04/2000 16:21:03 PST by Wallaby Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. S&L fraud suspect found dead; Suicide possible in Corson case JENNIFER LIEBRUM, LYNWOOD ABRAM, JERRY URBAN; Staff The Houston Chronicle; A; Pg. 35 November 5, 1992, Thursday, 2 STAR Edition Former Houston developer Robert Louis Corson, described as one of the Justice Department's top 10 targets for prosecution of suspected savings-and-loan fraud, was found dead in an El Paso motel room Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The people around him will fight to create that image that he was a beaten man," Craig said, "but I know there are a lot of people who wanted Robert L. Corson dead." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corson, 45, who apparently moved to a Phoenix suburb after being indicted here last year, was en route to Houston to face charges that include conspiracy, money laundering and misapplication of funds. His attorney, Jose Gonzalez-Falla, said Corson was depressed about returning for a Nov. 23 appearance with his mother, Billie Jean Garman, and business associate Billy W. Chester before U.S. District Judge David M. Hittner. Federal prosecutors have said they believe Corson's 1986 purchase of Vision Banc Savings Association of Kingsville triggered a series of illegal loans totaling more than $ 29 million. A 23-count indictment charged Corson, Garman and Chester with pocketing more than $ 8 million from those loans to pay off real estate deals and other debts, including Garman's gambling debts. At the time of the indictment, U.S.Attorney Ron Woods said the Vision Banc prosecution was ""one of the Top 10'' on the U.S. Justice Department's ""Top 100'' list of thrifts in which massive fraud was suspected of playing a major role in their collapse. If convicted on all counts, Corson faced up to 135 years in prison and $ 4.5 million in fines. A maid at the La Quinta in west El Paso found Corson unconscious in his room just after noon, El Paso Police Sgt. Jerry Ybarra said. His body was surrounded by several bottles emptied of undisclosed types of pills, police said. He was declared dead about an hour later at an El Paso hospital. No suicide note was found. Police would not say whether they suspect the apparent overdose was accidental or suicide. But Ybarra said foul play had been ruled out, and it appeared Corson was alone. Corson was last heard from about 8 p.m. Tuesday night when he called his son in Houston, Ybarra said. But a retired private investigator who has been doing research into Corson and his alleged exploits urged El Paso authorities not to rule out murder before declaring the death a suicide. ""He does not fit the profile of a person who commits suicide,'' former private eye John R.Craig said. ""This is a cold-blooded survivor. And what was he faced with? A few years in jail, some fines. He was young. ""The people around him will fight to create that image that he was a beaten man,'' Craig said, ""but I know there are a lot of people who wanted Robert L. Corson dead. '' Craig claimed Corson had turned government informant and was helping prosecutors explore other savings-and-loan debacles, which was leading to players in the Iran-Contra affair and narcotics traffickers. Corson was ""trying to work out a deal for himself,'' Craig said. ""You wouldn't believe who is on the list of people he could inform on. '' Corson's attorney said his client's despondency was compounded by publication of ""The Mafia, CIA & George Bush,'' a book by a former Houston Post reporter that associates him with the Central Intelligence Agency and indirectly with organized crime activity. But author Pete Brewton suggested that if publicity had driven Corson to take his own life, it was two years late, because his newspaper ran most of the same information two years before the book's publication. ""He didn't seem very despondent then,'' Brewton said. Corson had been out of jail on a $ 50,000 unsecured personal recognizance bond and living most recently in Paradise Valley, Ariz. His court-appointed attorney, Gonzalez-Falla, said he expected to meet with Corson on Friday for a pretrial conference in preparation for trial. Corson and Garman, who controlled Vision Banc's three-person loan committee, allegedly approved four loans in June 1986 totaling $ 20.4 million to ""straw borrowers'' -- loan customers who sign loan papers but have no intention of paying back the proceeds. About $ 15 million allegedly went to former Houston developer William Michael Adkinson and others who were accused of using a maze of corporations to fraudulently finance the purchase of a 21,000-acre undeveloped strip along the Florida Gulf Coast. A Florida indictment alleged that the defendants overstated purchase prices and fees on loan applications to Vision Banc and Hill Financial Services of Red Hill, Pa., secured title to the property without any liens and resold it to others, including the state of Florida, at inflated prices. A second deal allegedly involved a May 1986 loan for $ 5.9 million ostensibly for a 138-acre Fort Worth development called Southfield Joint Venture I.Almost $ 800,000 of that loan was allegedly siphoned off to Corson, Garman and Chester. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From the thread of * What Jean Lewis Knows Also see: * SIGNS POINT TO MOB INVOLVEMENT IN SAVINGS-AND-LOAN MESS * INTRODUCTION: The Mafia, CIA and George Bush 1 Posted on 02/04/2000 16:21:03 PST by Wallaby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ Reply | Private Reply | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Wallaby Could that be assisted suicide? ..... just wondering. 2 Posted on 02/04/2000 16:49:56 PST by Great Dane [ Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Wallaby THE REPUTED COCAINE BANK MONEY LAUNDRY WIZARD FOR GEORGE BUSH FAMILY ARRESTED IN CHICAGO by Sherman H. Skolnick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The reputed cocaine bank money laundry wizard for former President George Herbert Walker Bush and two of his sons has been arrested in Chicago. The matter is tied as well reportedly to corrupt top IRS Officials, Chicago Region Office fingered by our work. Giorgio Pelossi, a prominent Swiss accountant, was arrested January 20, 2000, at O'Hare International Airport, after officials of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, INS,found he was wanted on an international arrest warrant issued in Milan, Italy, about a year previous. Pelossi, 61, was somehow actually traveling under his own name. His name showed up on a passenger manifest in a routine check provided to officials of the INS.[Savvy sources, however, dispute that it was so "routine" but was rather a follow up of matters outlined in our TV documentary, 11/29/99.] In his appearance before a Federal Magistrate in Chicago, Pelossi agreed not to oppose being sent back to Italy by extradition. Pelossi signed papers in Chicago's Federal District Court waiving his right to a hearing in Chicago. Pelossi is reportedly the cocaine bank money laundry expert for the former president and two of his sons, Texas Governor George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Some claim that the matter also reportedly implicates the other son, Neil Bush, who escaped federal prison through a reputedly corrupt arrangement upon the downfall of Denver-based Silverado Savings & Loan Association, an apparent CIA proprietary operation of which Neil Bush was an official. Some contend Silverado, at the hands of Neil Bush, was likewise a money laundry for illicit funds including reportedly narcotics trafficking. For a year or more now, journalists and commentators in Spain have been writing and talking about the Elder Bush and two of his sons, George W. and Jeb, being reportedly implicated in billions of dollars of dope money laundered through banks in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. The cocaine banking cartel, for which Pelossi reportedly was the kingpin and brains, was centered in Milan and Barcelona. According to stories, some date-lined Rome, in December, 1995, by Reuters, United Press International, and other news and law enforcement personnel, Italian authorities contended they had proof leading them to assert that the Archbishop of Barcelona was implicated with the Vatican Bank and others in a vast money laundry ring reportedly involving, among others: [1] FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CICERO (a Chicago suburb, Al Capone Land, a long-known mafia enclave). Later it became the flagship of PINNACLE BANC GROUP. Still later, to confuse matters, the bank was called Old Kent Bank, a unit whose head office is Grand Rapids, Michigan. Pinnacle was the successor and alter ego to the mysterious, scandal-wrecked, BANK OF CREDIT AND COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL, which supposedly (although not actually) went under in 1991. BCCI was a reputed assassination and espionage funding apparatus for various intelligence agencies, including the American CIA, the French CIA, and Israel's The Mossad (The Institute). Bishop Paul Marcinkus, head of the VATICAN BANK until 1991, was also the dominant force controlling First National Bank of Cicero. Marcinkus was originally from Cicero and ran a church there. Marcinkus fled the Vatican, sheltering himself with his Vatican passport, when Italian authorities sought to grill him and possibly prosecute him for various criminal offenses he reportedly committed as Vatican Bank chief. He returned to the U.S. and lives in Sun City, Arizona. [2] Roger D'Onofrio, an American CIA official, with dual citizenship, U.S. and Italy, living near Naples, Italy. Italian authorities, in the wire service and other stories of December, 1995, described him as the CIA's secret paymaster in Italy, to fund political assassinations of those not liked by the American CIA, and to pay-off or destroy opposition parties in the Italian government. The Pelossi-Marcinkus-D'Onofrio ring reportedly, through Vatican Bank and other financial institutions, trafficked in smuggled gold, osmium nuclear bomb triggers, high quality counterfeit foreign currencies, and other illicit goods and services. With the corrupt connivance of top officials of the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Chicago Region office, Pelossi reportedly arranged the laundering of billions of dollars through concealed and dummy accounts, reportedly in the following banks, among others; and for and on behalf reportedly of George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, and the Elder Bush, their father: HARRIS BANK OF CHICAGO, and their Foreign Exchange section, called ForEx, a unit of BANK OF MONTREAL owned principally by the whiskey-soaked BRONFMAN FAMILY [SEAGRAMS booze, Cineplex Odeon movie theater chain, as well as numerous operations of records-entertainment in California]. The former major owner of Harris Bank, now also a major stockholder of Bank of Montreal, is U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R.,Ill.). Harris Bank/Bank of Montreal are interlocked with the worldwide Mexican bank cartel, Grupo Financiero Bancomer. In May, 1998, Bancomer pleaded guilty to U.S. federal criminal charges of vast dope money laundering. They tried to whitewash the matter with an explanation on their website: http://www.bancomer.com Bancomer has operated in the U.S. through branches in Los Angeles and New York. Their attempt to open a branch in Chicago was opposed by one or more City of Chicago Alderman who referred to the Bancomer criminal guilty plea. Yet, the Federal Reserve apparently is ready to let Bancomer operate throughout the U.S. in various units. Bancomer is not only reportedly implicated in the Russian embezzlement caper, where many billions of dollars disappeared or were laundered. They also are reportedly implicated in the ring of which Pelossi has been the brains and kingpin, for the Bush Family and others, Portugal, SPAIN, Italy, and elsewhere, including Morocco, and COLUMBIA. Harris Bank also has secret and dummy accounts of reputed terrorist OSAMA BIN LADEN. His concealed accounts are reportedly jointly with SHARON PERCY ROCKEFELLER, top official in Washington, D.C. of PBS, and her family. She is the wife of U.S. SENATOR JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER 4th (D., West Virginia). Her family reportedly are in the construction business with bin Laden. [President Clinton says he cannot "find" reputed terrorist bin Laden's accounts to freeze them. Really?] In October, 1998, we confronted top officials of Harris Bank in Chicago with their secret accounts of the mysterious 50 million dollars of federal agency funds originally parked with Household Bank which merged with Harris Bank. The funds, belonging to Joseph Andreuccetti, were secretly transferred without his permission to Little Rock, Arkansas, to try to cover up the embezzlement of Madison Guaranty S & L, for which Bill and Hillary Clinton are subject to federal criminal prosecution for stealing bank funds. REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK: The bank is a reputed money laundry for smuggled gold as used by the intelligence agencies, such as the American CIA. The principal owner of the Bank, Edmond J. Safra, was murdered in December, 1999, supposedly by the acts and doings of his purported male "nurse", an unstable former member reportedly of the Green Berets, apparently part of one of their "hit" teams. As to the murder of Safra, visit our website: http://www.skolnicksreport.com and see the story, "Murder in the Gold Market" as well as the update. The arrest of Giorgio Pelossi is apparently just another event related to our one-hour public access Cable TV Documentary cablecast within Chicago, to some 400,000 viewers, on November 29, 1999. Our program, called "Broadsides", showed pictures of an ocean-going boat, renamed "California Rose", a reputed traveling money laundry, plying between MEXICO, through the Caribbean, including stopping at the Dutch Island of St.Maartens, a dope laundry haven, and then on to Portugal and SPAIN. The boat, as we stated, is a reported gambling casino, apparently owned and operated by current, recently current, and former top U.S. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE officials, Chicago Region office. For some twenty years, they reportedly operated a dope traffic "immunity" zone in a western suburb of Chicago, four large buildings called Kingspoint Condominiums. The buildings, originally owned by Joseph Andreuccetti, were seized by the corrupt IRS officials, NOT for the public Treasury, BUT FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL INTEREST. Andreuccetti was kept in an apparent fraudulent INVOLUNTARY Bankruptcy, for almost 14 years, at the connivance of First National Bank of Cicero and the nephew and godson of Bishop Paul Marcinkus. Reportedly participating in all this was Congressman Henry Hyde [R.,Ill.] who lived near Kingspoint. For details, see the three part series "Corrupt IRS Officials Face Exposure in Dope Bust". Part 3 has pictures of the IRS boat. Visit our website: http://www.skolnicksreport.com Our sending six heavy volumes of corruption documents to the Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury apparently caused the dope bust situation in January, 2000, as well as the arrest of Pelossi. Pelossi is reportedly interwoven with the German political scandal that has tarred former Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his conservative political party, the Christian Democratic Union. Pelossi, according to published reports, has provided German prosecutors with information about alleged pay-offs to German political figures. [The Chicago Sun-Times on January 27, 2000, had a much-censored, watered down story about Pelossi leaving out many details that the presslords are well aware are involved about the Bush family and the corrupt IRS.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Since 1958, Mr.Skolnick has been a court reformer. Since 1963, founder/chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, disclosing certain instances of judicial and other bribery and political murders. Since 1991 a regular panelist, and since 1995, moderator/producer, of one-hour,weekly public access Cable TV Show, "Broadsides", Cablecast on Channel 21, 9 p.m. each Monday in Chicago. For a heavy packet of printed stories, send $5.00 [U.S. funds] and a stamped, self-addressed business sized envelope [4-1/4 x 9-1/2 #10 size] WITH THREE STAMPS ON IT, to Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, Sherman H. Skolnick, Chairman, 9800 South Oglesby Ave., Chicago IL 60617-4870. Office, 7 days, 8 a.m. to midnight, (773) 375-5741 [PLEASE, no "just routine calls]. Before sending FAX, call. 3 Posted on 02/05/2000 07:50:32 PST by B_Harcumn [ Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: B_Harcumn "On the west wall, hung among other pictures, an old engraving representing an open burial vault, in which, on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped about a fools cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar's scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters, 'We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, Wer Bettler Oder, Kaiser?' and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; 'Ob Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich.' Good work Thantos the German connection to the Bush family has been largely ignored! Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy 4 Posted on 02/05/2000 08:03:48 PST by B_Harcumn [ Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Great Dane Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Developer died of natural causes; Authorities first suspected suicide JERRY URBAN; Staff The Houston Chronicle; A; Pg. 14 January 5, 1993, Tuesday, 2 STAR Edition A Houston real estate developer, accused of being a major player in savings and loan fraud cases, died of natural causes and did not commit suicide as authorities had suspected, the El Paso County medical examiner's office has ruled. Robert Louis Corson died of cardiac arrest brought about by coronary atherosclerosis, according to an autopsy report by medical examiner Juan U.Contin. Corson, 45, was found dead in an El Paso motel Nov. 4. Suicide was suspected because an empty bottle of a prescription drug, Cephalexin, was found near his body. Cephalexin is an antibiotic used to treat urinary and respiratory infections. However, the autopsy report said Corson, who weighed about 325 pounds, had no significant amounts of Cephalexin in his system. Laboratory results were negative for other kinds of drugs. Corson was awaiting trial on fraud charges stemming from his 1986 purchase of Vision Banc Savings Association of Kingsville. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ At least one local publication reported Corson, former son-in-law of prominent Houston banker and developer Walter Mischer Sr., had agreed to cooperate with the government... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corson, his mother, Billie Jean Garman, and Corson business associate Billy Wayne Chester were originally indicted in Houston on charges of obtaining or profiting from more than $ 8 million in fraudulent loans used to pay off real estate deals and other debts. After Corson's body was discovered, his son told authorities his father had been despondent about the federal indictment and had talked about killing himself. At least one local publication reported Corson, former son-in-law of prominent Houston banker and developer Walter Mischer Sr., had agreed to cooperate with the government, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerald Doyle confirmed that Corson had rejected a 30-year plea bargain. Garman and Chester are to go on trial Jan. 19 before U.S. District Judge David Hittner. 5 Posted on 02/05/2000 09:47:23 PST by Wallaby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Wallaby Wonder if this kind of stuff will effect the Bush campaign, or has people already forgot the connection? 6 Posted on 02/05/2000 10:27:58 PST by Great Dane [ Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Great Dane I think that, in addition to some startling support for liberal ideas dressed up as GOP Crown Jewels of Compromise, you'll find that your average Bush supporter also has that signature "short-term only" memory capacity. 7 Posted on 02/07/2000 16:27:56 PST by Askel5 [ Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Askel5 Sounds like the majority doesn't give a hoot, there was a time when people attempted to educate themselves on the merits of each candidate......... doesn't seem to matter anymore. 8 Posted on 02/07/2000 18:15:16 PST by Great Dane [ Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Great Dane OWK It's doesn't make ANYONE very happy to pursue the truth, generally. 9 Posted on 02/07/2000 18:19:29 PST by Askel5 [ Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: aristeides,Great Dane,NDCORUP,Boyd,Uncle Bill,metalbird Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. SCOOP DU JOUR BETSY PARISH, OF THE HOUSTON POST STAFF Houston Post ; FINAL Section: Features Page: D1 WEDNESDAY March 4, 1992 Sources confirm Barbara and George Bush, along with Bushbuddy Jack Steel, were given a private tour Friday afternoon of Paula Mischer Watson's spec house in Stablewood. After making an appointment with that residential development's Martha Adger and Paula Arnold, the first couple arrived at the back entrance, stayed approximately 30 minutes and walked back to their adjacent Houstonian home . . . Asidem: Wanna ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Barbara and George Bush, along with Bushbuddy Jack Steel, were given a private tour Friday afternoon of Paula Mischer Watson's spec house in Stablewood. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wager whether wags will say since in the future there may be no room at that bankrupt inn, Stablewood sounds like the pre-ordained solution? Didn't think you would . . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. LINDSAY AIDED S&L PROBE FIGURE JUDGE WROTE LETTER BACKING ACQUISITION - RECEIVED FAVORS PETE BREWTON, OF THE HOUSTON POST STAFF Houston Post ; FINAL Section: LOCAL Page: A1 SUNDAY February 11, 1990 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A photocopy of the letter from Jon Lindsay to Robert L. Corson appears with this story. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harris County Judge Jon Lindsay received favors that included a $10,000 campaign contribution and a trip to Las Vegas from a Houston developer who is under investigation for his role in the demise of several federally insured financial institutions, The Houston Post has learned. Robert L. Corson, an associate of reputed organized crime figures and an alleged Central Intelligence Agency operative, used a letter of recommendation from Lindsay in the acquisition of a South Texas savings and loan that became insolvent four months after Corson bought it. Corson, who has been barred from owning or operating any federally insured financial institutions because of his role in the thrift's collapse, made his first campaign contribution to Lindsay in March 1985. It was $100. A month later, The Post has learned, Lindsay wrote a letter of recommendation that Corson submitted to state and federal regulators who would approve his purchase of Kleberg County Savings and Loan in Kingsville. The letter, dated April 24, 1985, and written on Harris County stationery, was addressed "to whom it may concern" and said: "Robert Corson is a person well known to me to be of the highest character." In the months that followed, The Post has learned: Corson gave Lindsay a $10,000 campaign contribution, equaling the largest single donation he has received during the past eight years. Corson chartered a business jet and invited Lindsay to accompany him to Las Vegas to witness prize fights. Corson spent $3,000 on a fund-raising reception at his home for Lindsay. Lindsay, when asked by The Post about his relationship with Corson, initially said he was not well-acquainted with the man who is identified in federal law enforcement records as a "known money launderer." "Where is he at?" Lindsay asked. "Is he in jail yet?" The Post has been unable to reach Corson, who is said to be staying in San Diego, Calif. Federal prosecutors say there are at least two investigations of alleged S&L fraud that focus on Corson. Lindsay, 54, has been county judge since 1975. A Republican, he headed George Bush's presidential campaign in Harris County in 1988. Asked by The Post if he had ever done any favors for Corson, Lindsay responded: "No. Hell no. We were just friends." Houston lawyer Rozanne McKinney, a member of the national governing board of the citizens lobbying group Common Cause, said Lindsay's relationship to Corson should be investigated by law enforcement authorities, "considering the savings and loan mess and how much money it has cost." < Last Sunday, The Post reported that Corson is the object of a federal probe in three states in connection with his role in the failure of Vision Banc Savings in Kingsville. Vision is one of 22 failed thrifts where The Post has found evidence of a possible link between the Central Intelligence Agency and organized crime. The evidence, from court documents and other sources, suggests that the CIA may have used part of the proceeds from S&L fraud to help pay for covert operations and other activities that Congress was unwilling to support publicly. One former CIA operative told The Post that Corson frequently transported large sums of cash from country to country for the agency. Corson purchased Kleberg County Savings and Loan for $6 million in March 1986 and changed the name to Vision Banc Savings. When Corson took over, the thrift had assets of $70 million. Four months later, it was insolvent, in part because of $20 million in loans that were made to help finance a questionable Florida land deal. In the 1986 transaction, $7 million was wired to a company tied to narcotics smugglers and drug money launderers in the Isle of Jersey, a tax haven in the English Channel. About $3 million and a part of the Florida tract were diverted back to Corson. As Corson was negotiating to buy Kleberg County Savings in 1985, he submitted Lindsay's letter of recommendation to the thrift's owners, and to state and federal regulators. Lindsay's letter was one of seven Corson submitted and was the only one from a public official. Five were written by bankers who had dealt with Corson, and another was from a corporation that had done business with him. Kingsville lawyer Nelson Sharpe, the principal owner of Kleberg County Savings before it was sold to Corson, died last year. Art Leiser, who was chief examiner for the Texas Savings and Loan Department at the time the thrift was being sold, said he believes Lindsay's letter helped to persuade the state Savings and Loan commissioner to approve the sale to Corson. Lindsay, in addition to recommending Corson as a man of high character, wrote: "I have been personally acquainted with him for many years and know he enjoys an excellent reputation as a good family man and businessman." The letter concluded: "Mr. Corson has my unreserved recommendation as a person who will be diligent in any endeavor he pursues." In 1977 divorce proceedings, Corson's first wife accused him of beating her and smoking marijuana in front of their children. His first wife was Paula Mischer, the daughter of Houston businessman and political power broker Walter M. Mischer Sr. Corson's present wife sued him for divorce in 1982, alleging that he beat her. She later dropped the suit. When asked by The Post if he recalled writing the letter, Lindsay said: "No, I don't. Did I? I don't recall doing it. It could have happened. I do a lot of things like that for people I know." When state regulators visited Vision Savings in 1986, Leiser said Corson mentioned Lindsay's name in an effort to intimidate him and his examiners. Lindsay, when told about Leiser's comments, said in reference to Corson: "I'm sorry I ever got to know that guy." Asked if he knew about allegations that Corson had used drugs, Lindsay replied, "No. Actually, I didn't know him that well. "I had dinner with him a couple of times, and he introduced me to friends," Lindsay said. "He may have been using me in that case. I didn't know he was using me to that extent." In January 1986, about eight months after Lindsay wrote the letter of recommendation, Corson donated $10,000 to Lindsay's re-election campaign. The donation equaled the largest individual contribution Lindsay has received during the past eight years, his campaign finance records show. Lindsay said he doesn't remember Corson's $10,000 contribution. He acknowledged it was a "rather large campaign contribution. But I think I've had other $10,000 contributions." Records show the only other other $10,000 contribution Lindsay has received in the last eight years came from Houston engineer James Dannenbaum and his wife. Dannenbaum has been a longtime contributor to Lindsay. Asked why Corson would contribute so much to his campaign, Lindsay said, "Well, I guess he was trying to butter me up, think that I would be able to help him in some way. I thought he was a safe individual for campaign purposes because I didn't have any business affiliations with him. He was not an engineer or a contractor or anything like that." Reminded that Corson was a real estate developer and as such would be affected by Commissioners Court actions, Lindsay replied, "Yeah, but we real ly don't help those developers directly that much. Not like an engineer." Real estate experts disputed Lindsay's interpretation, noting that Commissioners Court determines where many roads and flood control projects are built - two major items which can make or break a land development. "Commissioners Court and the county flood control district have been the key to whether certain developments were drained or had roads," said Jim Blackburn, a Houston environmental lawyer. "Everything Commissioners Court does affects developers, and developers are very much in close contact with Commissioners Court," said McKinney of Common Cause. Lindsay said he knew Corson mostly during the early 1980s, a period when Corson "was blowing and going." Campaign records indicate that Corson's first political contribution to Lindsay was for $100 in March 1985, about a month before Lindsay wrote the letter of recommendation. In September 1986, about two months before the election, Corson hosted a party at his home for Lindsay. Lindsay's campaign records show a contribution from Corson of $600 for a reception. But Corson spent more than $3,000 for the party, sources told The Post. It would be a violation of state election laws if Lindsay knew that Corson spent $3,000 and instead listed it as a $600 contribution on campaign financial reports. Lindsay said he would be surprised if Corson spent $3,000 for the party. He said the receipts Corson provided showed that the party cost $600. "It was not that big a reception," Lindsay said. "There were only about 25 people there." The Post learned that Corson's generosity was not limited to campaign contributions. In June 1986, Corson chartered a business jet and took Lindsay to Las Vegas for a boxing match. Corson charged the trip to his savings and loan. Asked if he ever went on any trips with Corson, Lindsay replied, "He was on one time that we went on. I forgot who the host was - some title company, probably doing business with him at one time. I don't remember where we went." Asked if it was Las Vegas, Lindsay said, "I don't think I've been to Vegas with him. I've been to Vegas a few times." Told that Corson had charged his S&L for the trip to Las Vegas to see the fights, Lindsay replied, "Well, I went with a, I went to that boxing match out there. I don't think it was with Corson. Well, maybe it was with Corson. Well, it could have been with Corson." Lindsay also acknowledged going on a hunting trip to Mexico with Corson. "Maybe we went duck hunting around here a time or two," Lindsay added. Tom Sturdivant, Corson's former chauffeur, told private investigator P.M. Clinton that Lindsay and Corson were involved in some business deals together through third parties. But Lindsay denied having any business dealings with Corson. "Absolutely not. I never did any business with Bob Corson," Lindsay said. Public documents show that Lindsay and Corson were involved in deals on adjacent pieces of property in west Harris County. This is the sequence of events: In June 1982, Corson's step-father deeded a 17.56-acre tract of land at Keith Harrow and Sommerall to Houston real estate investor Monzer Hourani. In May 1983, Hourani divided the property in two and deeded both tracts to Green Meadows Apartment Homes, a Texas general partnership which included a Hourani company. The same day, Green Meadows Apartment Homes deeded one of the two parcels to Green Meadows Apartment Homes No. 1 Ltd., a Texas limited partnership. In October 1983, Green Meadows Apartment Homes carved a 1.42-acre tract out of its parcel and sold it to Corson as a trustee. Sources close to Corson said he probably was acting as a trustee for himself, his mother, B.J. Garman, and one or two other close business associates. Corson built a strip shopping center on this tract. Less than one month after Corson bought this piece of land, Green Meadows Apartment Homes No. 1 Ltd., sold its tract to Green Meadows Apartments, Ltd., a limited partnership. Lindsay's investment in the partnership included $10,773 cash and promissory notes totaling $72,919. Lindsay said he had "no idea" that Corson had bought the land and built a strip shopping center on it. "I just bought a limited partnership," Lindsay said. "One of those regular things that went broke." 10 Posted on 02/07/2000 22:12:12 PST by Wallaby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Askel5 See * S&L PROBE HAS POSSIBLE CIA LINKS AUTHORITIES TARGET HOUSTON DEVELOPER 11 Posted on 02/07/2000 23:12:25 PST by Wallaby [ Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Wallaby I will ... and then I'll see to the dog ... best, Wallaby. 12 Posted on 02/07/2000 23:13:10 PST by Askel5 [ Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: B_Harcumn, Wallaby There's an article on Giorgio Pelossi on p. 30 of last week's "Der Spiegel," (Jan. 31 issue), entitled "Geld von 'Gold America'" ("Money from 'Gold America'"). I don't have time to translate it now, but it does confirm that Pelossi has provided information to German investigators about the present German party-fund scandal. 13 Posted on 02/08/2000 04:02:36 PST by aristeides ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | Top | Last ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Wallaby Bttt. 14 Posted on 02/14/2000 02:15:21 PST by Uncle Bill [ Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | Top | Last ] Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. 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