McCain’s “Friends”….

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 AM MST

But Greenbaum had problems. The following information was obtained by IRE from a confidential Phoenix Police Dept. report: “As Greenbaum grew bigger and stronger in Las Vegas, he began cheating his partners and was ordered to sell out or he would be carried out in a box. In early December, 1958, a meeting was held at the Grace Ranch of Peter Licavoli Sr. (Tucson). At this meeting were Joe Profaci, Joe Magliocco, Joseph Bonanno Sr., and Tony Accardo (all mob bosses)”…

Why Pussyfoot Around with the McCain Hagee Stuff?

by host

Sat Mar 01, 2008 at 02:16:45 PM PDT

I do not understand all of the comparatively tame BS, pretending to be “journalism”, such as whether McCain had an affair with a lobbyist or if he was born on US soil, or not…..that the media and the public is concerning itself with, when “the story” is the fact that McCain traded the navy for the money and Arizona connections of a mobbed up “king maker”, and the result is that McCain is the 7th wealthiest member of congress, and his wife chairs the board of what began as a “continuing criminal enterprise”.

Since the investigative reporting that gives us this information about where McCain’s initial post Navy employment, vast personal wealth ($50 to $100 million), and early congressional campaign financing all came from a 1976 investigative reporting effort by 36 “IREs” (Investigative Reporters and Editors) from news organizations from all over the US, in reaction to the assassination of a Phoenix investigative reporter, why isn’t the following info, the “real deal”, that the media uses to “deep 6″ McCain?

NY Times:

THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE ARIZONA TIES; A Beer Baron and a Powerful Publisher Put McCain on a Political Path

http://query.nytimes.com/…
By DOUGLAS FRANTZ
Published: February 21, 2000
When Senator John McCain of Arizona describes the people who shaped his life, he invariably dwells on the influence of his father and grandfather, both distinguished Navy admirals and larger-than-life figures. Less widely known are the roles played by two other powerful men in launching his political career.
Mr. McCain’s father-in-law, a wealthy beer baron named James W. Hensley, gave Mr. McCain his first job out of the Navy and helped bankroll his crucial first race for Congress in 1982, enabling Mr. McCain, a political newcomer, to outspend and defeat better-known opponents.
Even today, Mr. McCain’s position as one of the wealthiest members of Congress is derived from his wife’s share of her family’s Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship here and extensive real estate investments through the company, holdings worth more than $10 million…..

Photos of newspaper pages containing following article, available here:
http://www.absolutewrite.com/…

Albuquerque Journal March 26, 1977

…..Eugene V. Hensley and his brother James W. Hensley who purchased controlling stock of Riudoso Racing Assn in December 1952, once worked for and with Kemper Marley, Phoenix millionaire rancher and wholesale liquor dealer.

And When the Hensley brothers purchased control of the Lincoln County track, Phoenix gambler Clarence E. “Teak” Baldwin simultaneously bought one third of the race track stock– something the Hensleys denied in a State Racing Commission hearing in May, 1953.

Marley, 70 was named recently in a police affadavit as the man who requested the contract killings of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles, slain in a bomb attack last June and Arizona …..

….The IRE investigation showed the Hensleys were associates of Marley and Baldwin in the 1930s,1940s and early 1950s in Phoenix.
A search of commission records in Albuquerque by the Journal showed the racing body in the early1950s was aware of the associations and leary of Mr. Baldwin connected with the Hensleys in their purchase and operation of the track.

At a May 1953 commission hearing in Albuquerque records show the Hensley brothers readily told of their connections with the Arizona wholesale liquor business and Marley in the 1930s and 1940s and the federal convictions in 1948 for making false entires on government records
regarding ???? liquor sales.

However, the Henleys denied at the same hearing that Baldwin their old croney in Phoenix, had any stock interest in Ruidoso Downs.
But two years later, at another hearing records reflect Baldwin did have stock interest in the track. And the records show a federal lawsuit against Eugene Hensley in Albuquerque filed by trustees for Baldwin to recover 362 shares of Ruidoso Racing Assn stock was settled for $40,000 and the stock was released to the Hensleys. This was in November, 1955.

Efforts by the Journal to contact the Hensley brothers were unsuccessful. Eugene, who now lives in El Paso, and James, a resident of Phoenix, were reported in Mazatlan, Mexico.

At the May, 1953 hearing, records show that the late Tom Closson, as chairman of the commission, told the Hensleys, “The namr of Teak Baldwin keeps creeping up as we go along in what the commission conveyed to you. The commission would not have Baldwin connected in any way, shape or form down there at Riuduso Downs.”…..

….The 1953 State Police report in connection with it’s Arizona investigation of the Hensleys and Baldwin noted Marley “owned a wire service formerly operated in connection with bookmaking of the Al Capone gang.”

The same report listed Baldiwn as a “bookmaker for leading tracks” and said that Marley “is reputed to be the financial backer for bookies…”

The 1953 State Police report to the commission also included a transcript of a phone conversation between an officer in Sante Fe and a detective with the Phoenix Police Dpt. who said, “Our confidential files built upon Baldwin (and others) was loaned to some officials and never returned. We’ve never been able to locate them.”In November, 1966, Eugene Hensley was convicted of federal income tax evasion and failure to file income tax returns. Later, Eugene Hensley was barred from Ruidoso Downs by the Commission……

Link to photo of following article http://home.comcast.net/… (page 1)
Link to photo of following article http://home.comcast.net/… (page 2)

March 22, 1977
Phoenix Millionaire Linked to Bolles Slaying

….When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Marley organized the wholesale liquor business that eventually became the United Liquor Co., with branches all over Arizona.

There were hints honesty was not the watchword for Marley’s liquor business. In 1948, two employees were fined and sentenced to terms of imprisonment for making false reports to the government on distilled liquor sales. One of those employes had his jail sentence suspended. (McCain’s father in law, James W. Hensley was that employee….)

In 1953, Marley’s Phoenix and Tucson distributorships were accused of falsifying records to avoid paying liquor taxes, but were found innocent.

As Marley’s liquor business grew, he took part in other business ventures – a frozen food locker, a bottling plant, a sheep-raising business, and ranching operations. In 1946, according to police sources, Marley took up still another line of business, one that brought him into contact with organized crime.

In that year, he and several others, including Cosa Nostra mobster Peter Licavoli took over the racing wire service for bookies in Arizona, police said. The service was the original Transamerica Wire Service established by mobster Gus Greenbaum for the Al Capone mob prior to 1941.

At the time, Greenbaum was concentrating on establishing hotel-casinos for the mob in Las Vegas. Late in the 1940s, Marley and his associates were instructed by the Chicago Syndicate to move Greenbaum out of the Phoenix wire service, and they did so, police sources said.

But Greenbaum had problems. The following information was obtained by IRE from a confidential Phoenix Police Dept. report: “As Greenbaum grew bigger and stronger in Las Vegas, he began cheating his partners and was ordered to sell out or he would be carried out in a box. In early December, 1958, a meeting was held at the Grace Ranch of Peter Licavoli Sr. (Tucson). At this meeting were Joe Profaci, Joe Magliocco, Joseph Bonanno Sr., and Tony Accardo (all mob bosses)”…

The next day, on Dec. 3, 1958, Greenbaum and his wife were found dead in their Phoenix home with their throats slit. James (Jimmy) Aaron, a partner of Greenbaum who police said helped Marley run the wire service, shot himself a year later after leaving a note saying he feared he was going insane.

Others who managed the wire-service operation for Marley included confessed bookie Clarence E. (Mike) Newman, gambler Clarence E. (Teak) Baldwin, who was convicted of tax evasion in 1956, and Pete Abbey, police sources said.

Abbey, manager of the private, exclusive Cowman’s Club in east Phoenix, was indicted last October on 60 counts of sports bookmaking for an operation at the club that police said was raking in $300,000 a month in bets….

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