>evidence," Armstrong said. "All those amounts (in the affidavit) seem >exaggerated. I think these are just things they've concocted to discredit >him." > >'Disgruntled girlfriends' > >Armstrong said the confidential informants in the case appear to be former >girlfriends. > >"They've been concentrating on these former girlfriends for some time," he >said. "One of the agents asked if I had a phone number for one of them. But >I don't think they're going to be able to prove anything as a result of >hearsay from disgruntled girlfriends." > >The court documents do not reveal anything about the informants but do >provide details about how one of them opened an account on Duke's behalf to >keep some of his finances concealed. The documents also state that Duke >maintains more than 10 bank accounts, at least 30 credit card accounts and >post office boxes in Mandeville and Covington. > >In his affidavit, Cox said the informants portrayed a fund-raising routine >that operated like a mail fraud assembly line: > >First, Duke and his employees would send a mass mailing with a bogus pitch >for money, claiming he needed contributions to pay legal bills or for >"fighting his battles." Duke's employees "would laugh at the often >untruthful excuses Duke concocted in his mass mail-outs," Cox wrote. > >Then, "when the money would start coming into Duke' s post office box as a >result of the mass mailing, the checks would be deposited into Duke's bank >account and any letters accompanying the checks would generally be >discarded," Cox wrote. Names and mailing addresses from the checks, >however, would be dutifully entered into a computer at Duke's home to add >to Duke's mailing list. > >Cash not for personal use > >Cox also wrote that he interviewed a number of people who sent >contributions to Duke and found "they were unaware that Duke was not using >their money to work on the causes he described in his letters and had they >known this, they would not have sent him their money because they did not >intend their money to be used for Duke's personal entertainment and >benefit." > >But Armstrong said that all money contributed to Duke is used to operate >his organizations and mail his newsletters. This year, Duke formed a group >called the National Organization for European American Rights; he >previously operated the National Association for the Advancement of White >People. > >Duke, a one-time Klan leader and Nazi sympathizer, was a perennial fringe >political candidate until he won a seat in the state House of >Representatives in 1989. He ran unsuccessfully for the governor's office in >1991, generating national publicity when he gained a spot in a runoff >against Edwards. > >Federal scrutiny of Duke's finances began more than a year ago, when a >grand jury investigated Gov. Foster's $152,000 purchase of a mailing list >of Duke supporters. Though Duke was never charged in the case, Foster was >fined $20,000 by the state Board of Ethics for failing to report his >purchase of the Duke list. At the time, Duke admitted that he failed to pay >taxes on $128,000 from the sale but said he made the proper payments when >he filed amended tax returns. > >Copyright 2000, The Times-Picayune. All rights reserved. > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >AUTHOR LINKS BUSH FAMILY TO NAZIS >____________________________________________________________________ > >SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE >Headline News >Saturday, November 11, 2000 >http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115 >STAFF REPORT > >The president of the Florida Holocaust Museum said Saturday that George W. >Bush's grandfather derived a portion of his personal fortune through his >affiliation with a Nazi-controlled bank. > >John Loftus, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department's Nazi War >Crimes Unit, said his research found that Bush's grandfather, Prescott >Bush, was a principal in the Union Banking Corp. in Manhattan in the late >1930s and the 1940s. > >Leading Nazi industrialists secretly owned the bank at that time, Loftus >said, and were moving money into it through a second bank in Holland even >after the United States declared war on Germany. The bank was liquidated in >1951, Loftus said, and Bush's grandfather and great-grandfather received >$1.5 million from the bank as part of that dissolution. > >"That's where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third >Reich," Loftus said. > >Loftus made his remarks during a speech as part of the Sarasota Reading >Festival. The author of "Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis and the >Swiss Banks," Loftus documented the Swiss bank accounts that harbored funds >confiscated from Holocaust victims and the participation of Italian priests >in smuggling Nazi war criminals to safe haven in Canada, Central and South >America and the United States after the war. > >Although he said he had a file of paperwork linking the bank and Prescott >Bush to Nazi money, Loftus did not provide that documentation Saturday. > >Loftus pointed out that the Bush family would not be the only American >political dynasty to have ties to the "wrong side of World War II." The >Rockefellers had financial connections to Nazi Germany, he said. > >Loftus also reminded his audience that John F. Kennedy's father, an avowed >isolationist and former ambassador to Great Britain, profited during the >1930s and '40s from Nazi stocks that he owned. > >"No one today blames the Democrats because Jack Kennedy's father bought >Nazi stocks," Loftus said. Still, he said, it is important to understand >these historical connections for what they tell us about politics today. >The World War II experience points out how easy it was then -- and remains >today -- to hide money in multinational funds. > >That money flows into American politics today, he said, from "a series of >multinational corporations behaving like pirates. They don't care about >ideology; they care about money." > >Loftus' speech left many in tears. > >"I am absolutely shocked," said Nancy Krauss of Punta Gorda. "I wish this >would have come out before the election. My husband voted for Bush. I don't >think he would have voted for him if he would have known." > >Copyright 2000 Sarasota Herald-Tribune > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >Election commentary: >NO MATTER WHO WINS, THE PRESIDENT WILL BE A BASTARD >____________________________________________________________________ > >by Terry J. Allen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >- Friday, 17 November 2000 - > >The campaign was a minuet performed by robots; the post-election period is >a bacchanal. What a relief. It's just too bad one of these mediocre men has >to win. But the good news is that the victor will be perceived by much of >the population as illegitimate. And that is not only as it should be, but >how it would have been, even without the post-election crisis. > >Bush and Gore's campaigns were full of sound and lack of fury, signifying >nothing but focus group pandering and the power of cash; the process by >which they were chosen had little to do with the "will of the people"; and >the platforms on which they ran were as calculated and artificial as >plastic topiary. > >The system has long been in thrall to the big money that sponsors and >choreographs the electoral show. This time however, the process spun out of >control at a crucial moment. Suddenly millions at home, and abroad where >America has flogged its system as a flawless model, see that the way "the >world's greatest democracy" chooses leaders is slightly more democratic >than a dog fight. > >With all the rubbernecking magnetism of a 10-car pile up, "The Battle for >the White House," as MSNBC packages its coverage, is not only good dirty >fun, it is, actually, good for the country, especially compared with the >inevitable denouement: installing either of these corrupted ciphers in the >oval office. > >In fact, the longer the crisis continues, the better it is. That the US >electoral system is flawed and unfair should hardly be news, but suddenly >it is. Sounding sillier than a Dan Rather simile, the candidates and their >defense dogs have couched each self-serving maneuver as a commitment to >serve the "will of the public" and as a pledge to do what is "best for the >country." Is there anyone within retching distance of a TV who has failed >to notice that the good of the country meshes precisely with the strategic >needs of each candidate? > >To call them hypocrites does disservice to true hypocrites everywhere. At >least hypocrites have principles to betray. Bush and Gore are simply >self-serving opportunists. Bush instantly abandoned his keystone "trust in >the people" and switched his faith to machines and K-Street lawyers. His >argument about the accuracy of hand counting has more holes than a West >Palm Beach ballot. It also directly contradicts policies he implemented as >governor. Grabbing presidential trappings, even before the votes were >counted, he began compiling a transition team, meeting with advisers, >calling his wife "First Lady Bush." > >Gore, authentic as the Valium-calm he projects, veils his raw ambition with >the desire--discovered midway through the campaign--to "fight for the >people." Donning a Kennedyesque mantle, he frolicked gawkily at touch >football while his surrogates intoned against a "rush to judgement"--a >phrase laden with the seductive scent of JFK-done-wrong, spiced with the >provocative undertone of conspiracy. > >Meanwhile, dueling gurus of gravitas, including two second-rate >ex-secretaries of state, fertilize bouquets of network microphones with >talking points. > >The only thing missing from this farce is the vision of Dukakis, helmet >plopped on head, in the lead tank of what the Wall Street Journal toyed >with calling a coup. > >The spectacle is a political junkie's OJ trial, with the verdict hinging on >a mountain of law suits, a molehill of ballots, and a PR war based on who >can invoke, more piously and more often, "the good of the country." > >But buried in the post-vote wreckage lies a body of home truths: The >Electoral College is a fundamentally elitist institution, designed from the >get-go to deprive the rabble of direct control. Despite the tight races, we >learned in graphic (projected round-the-clock on our TV screens) detail >that every vote does not count, since every vote is not counted. Election >results are inaccurate, subject to bias, and amenable to fraud. The number >of people disenfranchised by spoiled, unclear, or unreadable ballots is new >only in its uncharacteristic newsworthiness. Courts and public oversight >bodies are often as partisan as the politicians to who they are beholden. >And the very importance placed this year on absentee ballots, including >those in the Armed Forces, illustrates how little importance was placed on >them in the past. Far more disturbing are reports that significant numbers >of people were disenfranchised because of race, arrest records and official >harassment. > >Throughout, the media chorus has been singing one-part harmony, from wrong >calls on election night, to the interchangeable parade of experts >describing the country as deeply divided, "deeply" being somehow equated >with "evenly." In fact, the majority of Americans were united throughout >the dreary election cycle by a lack of enthusiasm for either candidate. On >election day, the half of the population that chose not to vote expressed >its wishes at least as clearly as the half that did. > >When the results are finalized, the lesson the pundits and politicians will >inevitably and absurdly tout is that, despite the need for a few technical >fixes, the system worked. 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