Mob cash flowed to top pols (ie Bush, Rudy)

[President Jesus]

In 1999, reputed mob associate Philip Castellano gave $2,000 to Rudy Giuliani's campaign for U.S. Senate. The then-mayor gave it back after the donation hit the press.

Most other pols weren't quite as shy about keeping Castellano's money, the Daily News has found.

For instance, in October 1999, two months after Giuliani returned the check, Castellano gave $1,000 to George Bush for President. There's no record that donation was returned.

In late 1999 and 2000, the New York Republican Federal Campaign Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee had no qualms about taking $2,100 of Castellano's money, records show.

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detailed links:
Philip Castellano federal political donation history
Frank DiTomasso federal political donation history
Peter DiTomasso federal political donation history

[KlatooBNikto]

1. Michael Corleone was right after all.There is indeed no difference

between our socalled legit parties and the Family, except perhaps in the level of hypocrisy found in our "Leaders".

[tridim]

4. Another difference is BushCo doesn't worry about hiding their crimes

Yet ~50 million Americans still happily voted for them.

Crime is easy when you're above the law, and unlike the mob they don't have to make payoffs to law enforcement.

[WI_DEM]

2. makes sense that organized crime would suppot the Bush crime family

[htuttle]

3. They've come to idolize him

Not one of them could ever dream of ripping off billions of dollars like his administration has.

[sce56]

5. The Bush Crime Family is the Legits of the Mafia they must have

Hooked up in WWII when the OSS used Mob influence to get a beachhead in Italy!

[Octafish]

10. That was a blip on the screen.

The Bush Organized Crime Family goes back waaaaay further. Read Kevin Phillips.' "American Dynasty" for details. But if you're interested in pre-World War II days, here's how Prescott Bush and his Wall Street buddies helped fund Hitler. Ol' Presser went on to become a Senator who helped shape the national security state we find ourselves in. Of course, he did use the Mafia, but the main players on the international power stage were ex-NAZIs. Prescott also is the Poppy of a president and Grand-Poppy of the current acting president . A most nasty bunch of archcriminals and traitors. As you noted, it's the worst of the Mafia, the Caligula branch.

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004
The Guardian

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

SNIP...

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html

Another excellent resource ...

CIA's Worst-Kept Secret

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/051601a.html

BTW: A hearty welcome to DU, sce56!

[mom cat]

6. Bush is scarier than the mob..Bush has nukes, n/t

[Megahurtz]

7. Bush is scarier than the Mob because he has unfettered power

and he seems to be exempt from any consequences.

[President Jesus]

8. 'unfettered' is a bit of an exageration (nt)

[Octafish]

9. BFEE's gotta make 'Collections'

It's a BIG crime family: Mafia, NAZIs, KKK, Wall Street, M-I Complex, Narcotraffickers, Oilsniffers & satanic perverts. They're all money-makers, too.