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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am from Nebraska and in the 80 's to 90's there was a giant successful cover up in Omaha.
It was the Franklin Savings and loan cover up. I found a remake of the documentary that got squashed and not allowed to show back then.
I've been thinking about this for a while and I always compared this to Epstein/Trump. Now I realize it was in the same time line. Larry King could have been supplying young kids to E/T. Here is a link to the video.
progressoid
(52,787 posts)I'm from across the river. I remember hearing rumors about this when we moved to the area. But there were so many versions of it. It all seemed like conspiracies at the time.
Ironically, I first heard about it from a staunch right winger.
I have not seen this video before.
ultralite001
(2,408 posts)TIA...
1WorldHope
(1,901 posts)Lifeafter70
(801 posts)Nick Bryant on the Franklin Scandal. He states this operation was larger than epstein's
https://news.isst-d.org/an-interview-with-nick-bryant-part-i-the-franklin-scandal/
Found the second interview
https://news.isst-d.org/an-interview-with-nick-bryant-part-ii-the-epstein-affair/
1WorldHope
(1,901 posts)brakester
(555 posts)info that I'll bet isn't widely known. You've serve a great purpose in spreading this story. I wonder if other similar scandals will be uncovered as well.
It's a genuinely disgusting story with very sick power-hungry people.
Hopefully America will wake up and vote for better leaders and get over their worship of highly functioning sociopaths.
Think about it, as far as we know two presidents were/are pedophiles.
Shameful!
ms liberty
(11,059 posts)mjvpi
(1,897 posts)1WorldHope
(1,901 posts)Kid Berwyn
(23,599 posts)From One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb:
Who are these people? They are the group that is popularly called the Enterprise. They are in and outside [the] CIA. They are mostly Right Wing Republicans, but you will find a mix of Democrats, mercenaries, ex officio Mafia and opportunists within the group. They are CEOs, they are bankers, they are presidents, they own airlines, they own national television networks. They own six of the seven video documentary companies of Washington, DC and they do not give a damn about the law or the Constitution or the Congress or the Oversight committees except as something to be subverted and manipulated and lied to.
They abhor sunlight and love darkness. They deal in innuendo and character assassination, and planted stories, the incomplete thought and sentence. They burn and shred files if caught, they commit perjury, and when caught they have guaranteed sinecures with large US corporations.
If you let them, they will take over not only [the] CIA but the entire government and the world, cutting off dissent, free speech, a free media, and they will cut a deal with anyone, from [the] Mafia to Saddam Hussein, if it means more power and money. They stole $600 billion from the S&Ls and then diverted our attention to the Iraqis. They are ripping off America at a rate never before seen in history. They flooded our country with drugs from Central America during the 1980s, cut deals with Haro in Mexico, Noriega in Panama, and the Medillin and Cali cartels, and Castro, and recently the Red Mafia in the KGB.
They ruin their detractors and they fear the truth. If they can, they will blackmail you. Sex, drugs, deals, whatever it takes?
Former CIA officer and Iran-Contra whistleblower Bruce Hemmings, circa 1990
Source: https://archive.org/stream/one-nation-under-blackmail-vol-1-2-whitney-alyse-webb_202401/One%20Nation%20Under%20Blackmail--Vol%201%262%20-%20Whitney%20Alyse%20Webb_djvu.txt
UpInArms
(54,401 posts)I didnt read any of the comments before posting, as I had the thread open and had listened to the audio
Came back and posted that
then scrolled up and got confused, as my post title was above my post
wondered if I double posted
and found, once again, my friend, you are always tracking it
OhioBlue
(5,128 posts)FadedMullet
(779 posts).......about Saving and Loans, huh? Well we got a doozy for your damn committee to take a look at."
progressoid
(52,787 posts)
Warpy
(114,492 posts)It almost drove the stories about pedo priests off the front page in Boston. Almost.
The worst part is that I wasn't surprised by any of it, not the use of a highly respected, well funded charity as a piggy bank, not the systematic rape and torture of children in its care, not that the perpetrators were all such upstanding Republican businessmen. If there is any sort of a system that can be exploited, predators will find it and exploit it.
FakeNoose
(40,645 posts)UpInArms
(54,401 posts)Followed the link on Cohn was very interesting
https://cavdef.org/w/index.php?title=Roy_Cohn
Political connections
Republican Party
Roger Stone - among other things, helped him arrange for John B. Anderson to run third party in 1980
Paul Manafort
Ronald Reagan
Intelligence operatives
William Casey
Craig J. Spence
Corporate connections
Legal clients
Donald Trump
Mafia bosses
Anthony Salerno
Carmine Galante
John Gotti
Rupert Murdoch
Alan Dershowitz
Kid Berwyn
(23,599 posts)The following is not meant as pedantry

Sorry about the inconsiderate language in the photo, the point is adults enslaved children for evil. Epstein followed in the tradition of Roy Cohn, the Mafia and KGBCIAMI6WKWTF.
The Final Lesson Donald Trump Never Learned From Roy Cohn
The unrepentant political hitman who taught a younger Trump how to flout the rules didnt get away with it forever.
By MICHAEL KRUSE
Politico, September 19, 2019
One of Donald Trumps most important mentors, one of the most reviled men in American political history, is about to have another moment.
Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him as a snake, a scoundrel and a new strain of son of a bitch, is the subject of a new documentary out this week from producer and director Matt Tyrnauer. Its an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his savage, abrasive and amoral behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president. Trump, as has been well-established, learned so much from the truculent, unrepentant Cohn about how to get what he wants, and he pines for Cohn and his notorious capabilities still. Trump, after all, reportedly has said so himself, and its now the name of this film: Wheres My Roy Cohn?
What Cohn could, and did, get away with was the very engine of his existence. The infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy-chaired Senate subcommittee in the 1950s, Cohn was indicted four times from the mid-60s to the early 70sfor stock-swindling and obstructing justice and perjury and bribery and conspiracy and extortion and blackmail and filing false reports. And three times he was acquittedthe fourth ended in a mistrialgiving him a kind of sneering, sinister sheen of invulnerability. Cohn, Tyrnauers work reaffirms, took his sanction-skirting capers and twisted them into a sort of suit of armor.
Snip...
I decided long ago, Cohn once told Penthouse, to make my own rules.
He was acquitted in 64, and he was acquitted in 69, and he was acquitted in 71, all the while thumbing his nose at the feds, but Cohns screw-you stance was a lifelong philosophy, entitlement plus boldness.
He was an incredibly spoiled princeling of an only child, Cohn cousin David Lloyd Marcus told me. He always got his way, recalled his favorite aunt. As an adult, the resting expression on his face, which was marred by a scar that ran like a scrape down the middle of his nose, was a mixture of arrogant disdain and a whipped-dog look, people observed, caught somewhere between a pout and a challenging glare.
Continues...
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144
The same Roy Cohn who taught Donald Drumpf also schooled Roger Stone and Jeffrey Epstein...
... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epsteins conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, I cant believe what you say, because I see what you do.
One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauers documentary comes near the end, when its no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isnt a liar and a fraud, when its no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn has been extremely loyal and extremely honest. Were Cohns partieswas his protectionreally that good?...
Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/
Its conceivable Matt Gaetz got some learnin and now all his friends like Ka$h Patel, too.
Link to tweet
At the end of the investigations and the day, I hope America remembers Trump is owned by Putin.
When Dirty Russian-Connected Money Saved Trumps Ass and His Ensuing Business Disasters Helped Destroy the Global and American Economies
September 27, 2020
Brian E. Frydenborg
As Trumps taxes return to the news, here is the parallel context and setup where he went from failure on the verge of collapse to being propped up by money connected to Putins Russian government and the Russian mafia and then to failing repeatedly and spectacularly in those related business ventures, but in ways that allowed him to hide the dire straits of his finances and run as a successful billionaire for president in 2015-2016. And, oh, he managed to fail in these ventures in ways that helped to bring on the global financial crises and Americas Great Recession of 2008. As the house of cards image of Trump lied and cheated his way to building up comes tumbling down, a detailed look at that shady time when Trump was boosted by dirty Russian-connected money is essential.
Source: https://realcontextnews.com/when-dirty-russian-connected-money-saved-trumps-ass-and-his-ensuing-business-disasters-helped-destroy-the-global-and-american-economies/
Epstein, like the DC Madame, was ultimately operating for the Take the deliverables being incriminating materials like photos, videotapes and sound recordings. Pee tapes, for another example.
Link to tweet
Before he repped the Mob, Roy Cohn was a US Attorney and Senate staffer.

The Ghost of Roy Cohn
BY TERRY MELANSON · AUGUST 24, 2014
EXCERPT...
In an interview with former NYPD detective James Rothstein, this author discovered that such operations do exist and go far back into Americas secret history. Rothstein is no conspiracy theorist. He is a legend in American law enforcement and speaks from experience. Furthermore, he gave me two notable examples from his time as a detective. Rothstein had an opportunity to have a sit-down with infamous McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn. During this sit-down, Cohn admitted to Rothstein that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes (Rothstein, no pagination). Cohn told Rothstein that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time (no pagination).
Rothstein also had an opportunity to speak to infamous Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. During this conversation, Sturgis revealed one of the reasons for breaking into the Watergate. According to Sturgis, there was a Pedophile Book hidden away at the Democratic National Committee headquarters (no pagination). The book was supposed to have a list of pedophiles on the American political scene (no pagination). One can only imagine the power G. Gordon Liddy would have held over the government if he had such a book in his possession.
I asked Rothstein if Roy Cohn was a real anticommunist or just using the fear of communism to justify his sex ring. It seemed like a fair question. After all, Cohn had argued against homosexuals being schoolteachers when he himself was a homosexual. Perhaps Cohns hypocrisy extended to his anticommunism. Rothstein made it clear that Cohn was a genuine anticommunist (no pagination). Anticommunist sentiments aside, evidence suggests that the sex ring operation started by Cohn was used for more than fighting the threat of domestic communists. Fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil has claimed that sexual blackmailing operations directed by the CIA were intensive in Washington during the Watergate era (DeCamp 179). Terpil also asserts that his former partner, Ed Wilson, was coordinating one of these sexual blackmail operations (179). In a letter to author Jim Hougan, Terpil revealed Wilsons modus operandi:
Historically, one of Wilsons Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary . Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh . A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras . The technicians in charge of filming were TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office. (Qtd. in DeCamp 179)
According to John DeCamp, a former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam War hero, Wilsons operation was merely a continuation of the one set up by Cohn (179). When I asked James Rothstein if Palfreys outfit was a continuation of the sexual blackmail rings that began with Cohn, he answered in the affirmative (Rothstein, pagination). The NYPD veteran made it clear that Palfreys outfit could not exist in Washington unless it was a tool for the power elite and sinister factions of the intelligence community (no pagination). Somewhere in a Queens cemetery, the corpse of a high-powered attorney is smiling in his grave.
SOURCE:
https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2014/08/24/the-ghost-of-roy-cohn/
PS: Great thinks mind alike, my Friend!
UpInArms
(54,401 posts)DAVIES: So this lobbying firm that they form, Black, Manafort and Stone, what kind of clients did they have?
PEHME: They - Black, Manafort and Stone had among the largest corporations in the country, people like Rupert Murdoch. They also were particularly well-known as the so-called Torturers' Lobby because they were willing to take on clients like a slew of third-world dictators - Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, Jonas Savimbi in Angola, Mobutu Sese Seko in the Republic of the Congo.
And they felt perfectly at ease taking on these clients because these dictators were all ostensibly fighting Communists and in line with the Republican, Reagan agenda of the time. And Charlie Black says in our film that if you want to give criticism to Congress that funded these dictators and the wars that they were waging, that they will take that criticism at Black, Manafort and Stone. But they were really doing something that was viewed - they viewed as patriotic at the time. And they are unabashed in having worked for these people with absolutely horrible human rights records.