Clarification. Kosher Nostra article

WMR ran the article titled: "North Jersey: epicenter of "Kosher Nostra" and Mossad activity" on July 27, 2009. The following paragraph represents a correction [bold segment] to the original report about the disposition of the criminal case brought against Ted Maher, a former US Green Beret, in the 1999 death of banker Edmond Safra in Monaco:

"Another prominent Syrian Jew was Edmond Safra who founded Banco Safra in Brazil in 1955. The Beirut-based Safra family had long served as important bankers for the Ottoman Empire. Safra eventually became a billionaire banking and investment tycoon. Safra founded the Republic National Bank in New York in 1966. In 1999, Safra was killed in an arson attack on his Monte Carlo home. Safra's U.S.-born nurse, Ted Maher, a former U.S. Army Green Beret, was arrested and charged with starting the fire, convicted and released after serving a prison sentence. Safra's killer or killers still remain at large. Safra's security chief, Shmuile Cohen, had recruited a number of Israeli military special forces personnel to guard Safra, but Shmule and the guards were given the night off by Safra's wife. Before his death, Safra was negotiating the sale of Republic Bank to HSBC. Safra was also cooperating with the FBI in its probe of the use of U.S. banks by the Russian-Israeli mafia to launder billions of dollars. There is speculation that Safra was murdered by the Russian-Israeli mob to keep him from divulging more details of their operations to the FBI."

In our initial report, we indicated that Maher's conviction was later overturned. The Safra Foundation publicist correctly stated the following in an email (as far as only the Maher matter is concerned):

"The information about Mr. Safra’s nurse, Ted Maher, is misleading. In fact, Mr. Maher was arrested under suspicion of starting the fire in which Mr. Safra died and was convicted of the crime in 2002 by the Monaco court. Ted Maher’s conviction was not 'overturned'. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to a prison term, which was served. There has been no further court inquiry into this case, let alone an 'overturning” of it.'"

Our clarification and correction has been sent to the publicist for the Edmond J. Safra
Foundation in France.

However, WMR currently stands by the remainder of the information contained in the relevant paragraph and the following was sent to the Safra Foundation's publicist:

"However, there are enough media reports since the time of Mr. Safra's death to strongly indicate there is much more to the story than Maher's confession. For example, the following from the NY Daily News, Dec 4 02: 'The lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court by Torrente's children, Jason, 30, and Genevieve, 23, charges that Safra, 67, 'restrained' [Viviane] Torrente [their mother and Safra's nurse] and 'prevented her escape' from the bathroom where they suffocated.'

As for Maher being a sole perpetrator, that is not what the Monaco police reported to Mr. Safra's own security chief. From AFP on November 26, 2002: 'The security chief of billionaire banker Edmond Safra was handcuffed by police as he tried to get into the penthouse apartment where his boss was suffocating to death, a court trying Safra's American nurse on arson charges was told Tuesday. Samuel Cohen told the court in the exclusive Mediterranean principality of Monaco that he was called to Safra's building at 5.00 a.m. on December 3 1999, but when he demanded to be allowed to up the burning apartment to find a way in -- arguing that he alone knew the security arrangements -- he was stopped by police. 'They told me that there were assailants there. I kept insisting, and it went on for 30 minutes,' Cohensaid, before describing how when he finally made it to the fifth floor he was overpowered and handcuffed.' It is noteworthy that Cohen said the police said there 'were assailants [plural]' in Safra's Monaco apartment. That would indicate that if Maher was guilty as charged, he may have had at least one accomplice.

And AFP ran this on Dec, 4 1999: 'Safra normally surrounded himself with bodyguards in his heavily protected Monaco penthouse, but this was not the case on the night of the attack.' That conflicts with your statement: 'There were never any security guards of any kind guarding the apartment in Monaco - neither that night nor any other night.' Has AFP retracted?

It is well documented that Mr Safra was cooperating with the FBI in an investigation of Russian Jewish mafia involvement with his competitor, the Bank of New York (BONY). Feb 7 2000 Times of London: 'In the days after his death rumours abounded that his killers were the Russian mafia, incensed by Safra's co-operation with the FBI,which was investigating mafia money-laundering through Safra's New York-based Republic National Bank. . . Safra's fear was well-founded. He had, in effect, signed his own death warrant five years ago, when Republic National Bank first alerted the FBI to a Pounds 6 billion money-laundering racket: the Russian mafia was thought to have been transferring cash from offshore bank accounts into dollar accounts at Safra's bank. And when, last October, Safra froze the bank accounts of most of his Russian clients in preparation for selling his bank to HSBC, scores of Russians lost everything. One Russian businessman suspected of mafia links has told friends that Safra's actions cost him $ 30 million.'

Based on the other available information, I see no need to change any other part of the paragraph in question unless there is some further documentation that shows the Monaco police were incorrect in their initial assessment of the situation and that the FBI was not investigating Russian Jewish money laundering through Republic National Bank and related activity at BONY. You'll note that no where in the article is it stated that Mr Safra had 'dealings' with the Mafia and to the contrary it specifically states: 'Safra was also cooperating with the FBI in its probe of the use of U.S. banks by the Russian-Israeli mafia to launder billions of dollars.' The statement does not assert that Mr. Safra was any subject himself of an FBI investigation but was cooperating in an investigation of the use of banks by the Russian-Israeli mob for money laundering."

Just another assassination in Washington, DC

WMR has learned from an well-informed source that the late President of the small Pacific island nation of Nauru, Bernard Dowiyogo, who died on March 9, 2003, while visiting Washington, DC, was given a heart attack-inducing drug with the knowledge of his six-member U.S. Secret Service protective detail. The drug resulted in Dowiyogo, a six-term president of Nauru, dying of massive heart failure at George Washington Hospital in Washington, DC. Dowiyogo first became President of Nauru in 1976.

The information recently obtained by WMR confirms our first report on March 9, 2007, concerning Dowiyogo's suspicious death:

"Our sources in Asia report that Dowiyogo was placed under tremendous pressure by Bush administration officials. Dowiyogo had tried to kick out the Russian-Israeli Mafia from his country. The mobsters had used the nation's lax tax and banking laws to set up shop to launder ill-gotten gains from illegal activities, including drug and weapons smuggling, online gambling, online child pornography, and tax evasion. The Bush administration had been infiltrated by mobsters and their allies, including fugitive Marc Rich's attorney, Irving Lewis Libby, who became Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff."

Just a few weeks before his death while under the protection of the U.S. Secret Service, the agency was transferred from the Department of Treasury to the new Department of Homeland Security.

Dowiyogo, who was 57, was in Washington to discuss with Bush administration officials the closing down of the Russian-Israeli Mafia financial pipeline that ran through his small island nation. Dowiyogo signed a secret agreement concerning money laundering in Washington on February 27.

WMR's latest information is that Dowiyogo collapsed after having dinner. After the president collapsed, he was rushed to George Washington Hospital and died after 11 hours of heart surgery failed to revive him.

The Australian newspaper reported on March 11, 2003, that a long-time Melbourne friend of Dowiyogo, Helen Bogdan, said, "he [Dowiyogo] would never have gone to Washington if they thought this was going to happen." Dowiyogo reportedly had detailed knowledge of Russian Israeli mafia money and properties in Australia. In March 2001, the Russian Central Bank stated that US$70 billion had been laundered through 400 offshore banks registered in Nauru by the Russian-Israeli mafia.

U.S. State Department mouthpiece Richard Boucher was quick with a "deepest condolence" message: "The United States expresses its deepest condolences to the people of Nauru and to the family of Bernard Dowiyogo on the passing of the president of Nauru," Boucher said at the State Department, just a few blocks away from the hospital where Dowiyogo died.

Dowiyogo was considered one of the South Pacific's strongest opponents to U.S. Navy nuclear ship patrols in the region and French nuclear testing in French Polynesia. It was ironic that his body was flown on a U.S. Air Force plane from Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii to Nauru. It was also suspicious that Dowiyogo's funeral was postponed in Nauru because of unexplained "delays" encountered in getting the president's body back to Nauru from Washington.

Just a few weeks after Dowiyogo died, Dowiyogo's successor as President, Derog Gioura, 71, a Dowiyogo political ally, suffered a heart attack and was rushed to an Australian hospital from the 8-square mile island state. Later reports stated that Gioura suffered a stroke. A few weeks later, Gioura said he was surprised to learn that the Bush administration had claimed that six suspected "terrorists," including two members of "Al Qaeda" had been arrested in Southeast Asia carrying Nauruan passports.

Dowiyogo's wife, Christina, who was at his side when he died in Washington, was reported on March 20, 2008, to have "died overnight."

Related Articles:

• March 9-11, 2007 -- Individuals close to the government of the tiny Pacific island Republic of Nauru are taking another look at the mysterious death of its President

Russian-Israeli Mafia elements in Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority

WMR's European sources have provided some details of Israeli Foreign Minister's Avigdor Lieberman's organized crime-related activities. Lieberman's racist and organized crime links have a number of world leaders not anxious to be seen in public with him. In fact, after a recent meeting in Berlin between Lieberman and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German insisted that there would be no joint press conference held after their talks.

Although Lieberman's racist attitudes toward Arabs and Muslims in general are problematic for a number of government leaders, it is the fact that Lieberman, a former night club bouncer, is enmeshed in a number of criminal investigations that may end up in his conviction and imprisonment. WMR has learned from German sources that while Transport Minister in Ariel Sharon's government from 2001 to 2002, Lieberman controlled a Cyprus-based firm, Trasimeno Trading Ltd.," that funneled money from Austrian gambling tycoon Martin Schlaff, owner of a firm called Placzek, and Russian-Israeli mob kingpin Michael Chernoy to the coffers of Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, which represents the interests of Israel's Russian and Soviet expatriate community, a group that is highly-infused with criminal elements that help form the nexus for a global criminal enterprise.

The Israeli law enforcement investigation of Lieberman also involves a company controlled by his daughter, Michal Lieberman Galon, "M.L. 1 Ltd.," which is being investigated for laundering over US$3 million for her father's political party.

On January 12, 2006, WMR reported on the Schlaff connection to Ariel Sharon's Likud government:

"According to law enforcement sources, investigators are looking at Abramoff's possible connections to the defunct Oasis Casino in Jericho in the West Bank. The casino, which began operations in 1998, was partly-owned by CAP, a company registered in Liechtenstein in which the Palestinian Authority under Yasir Arafat was a 23 percent shareholder. Another owner was a Vienna, Austria-based casino company, Casinos Austria International, in which Martin Schlaff, a close friend of Sharon, was a major investor. Schlaff's brother, James, is also under investigation. Last week, Israeli police seized computers, cell phones, documents, and a PDA from the home of Schlaff's parents in Israel while he was visiting from Austria. Police also investigated money transfers to Gilad Sharon, Ariel Sharon's son, from South African businessman Cyril Kern and other transfers via BAWAG Bank in Austria. Sharon's other son, Omri, was also financially involved in the Oasis casino.

Although Netanyahu criticized the Oasis casino as providing funding for Palestinian terrorists, investigators are looking at Netanyahu's involvement in helping to steer $140,000 in tribal casino money away from Abramoff's Capitol Athletic Foundation (CAF) charity in Washington, DC to right-wing West Bank settlers in Beitar Illit on the West Bank so they could buy 'security equipment' and sniper lessons. Records indicate a flow of money from CAF to Kollel Ohel Tiferet, a virtually unknown group in Israel. Netanyahu, as Finance Minister in Sharon's former Likud government, would have been aware of money transfers from Abramoff to various Israeli interests, including the settlers and casino interests."

Schlaff is also said to have laundered money for the former security service, the "Stasi," of the ex-German Democratic Republic in eastern Germany. Schlaff also became a major shareholder in Austria's RHI AG, Austria's largest privately-owned industrial group.

WMR has also learned from German sources that the BAWAG Bank was also used to launder money that was involved in illegal nuclear proliferation involving a Liechtenstein-based firm, Galonia Etablissement." The "BAWAG affair" was exposed in 2006 and some US $90 million went missing. It is believed that some of the money ended up in Lieberman's party's coffers in Israel. The scandal and money laundering also places Israel's Foreign Minister in a smuggling network that was under active investigation by CIA counter-proliferation non-official cover agent Valerie Plame Wilson, exposed to the media by a neocon cabal that included I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and John Hannah, both Likud loyalists who served in Vice President Dick Cheney's office.

Schlaff reportedly wants to establish his own bank in Liechtenstein. Which brings up Schlaff's relationship with companies owned by the sons of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah movement has been accused of massive corruption by the Hamas opposition. Two companies owned by Abbas' sons were recently awarded a more than US$2 million contract by the CIA-linked U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for road construction in West Bank territory controlled by Abbas.

Yasser Abbas, a Canadian-Palestinian businessman, is the owner of Falcon Electro Mechnical Contracting Company, Falcon Trading Group, and Falcon Tobacco. The latter has a monopoly on the sale of American Lucky Strike and Kent cigarettes in the West Bank and Gaza. Falcon Electro Mechanical was one of the beneficiaries of the USAID construction contract. The other USAID contract recipient was Sky Advertising, headed by Tarek Abbas, the Palestinian leader's other son. Yassir Abbas also has his hands in the coffers of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), originally set up by wealthy Gulf Arabs to fund poor Palestinian farmers and shopkeepers. Instead, the fund, which is flush with some US$1.3 billion, is used to financially back large enterprises, including Wataniya Palestine, a Palestinian telecommunications company that is backed by U.S. and Gulf Arab investments.

With Sharon, Arafat, Abbas, and Sharon's two sons and Abbas's two sons all being part of a contrivance of fraud that is overseen by Israel's Russian- and Eastern European-born Mafia dons, it is easier to understand the outrage of Hamas in Palestine and Israel's shrinking left-wing parties of the nation's socialist-leaning Jewish and Arab population. As far as Israel's Haaretz is concerned, the burgeoning scandal among Israelis and Palestinians is the Russian-Israeli mob having "a finger in every pie."

As President Barack Obama meets this week with Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington, he should know that supporting the current so-called representatives of the Palestinian people, Fatah and the Palestine Authority in any U.S. "showdown" with Netanyahu's Likud coalition with the Russian-Israeli Mafia is a fool's errand.

Rapprochement between the Bush administration and North Korea, Sun Myung Moon's organization and the Falun Gong and the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan.

Chinese and Japanese intelligence are from cautious to suspicious about the diplomatic rapprochement between the Bush administration and North Korea. After years of acrimony between the Bush neo-cons and Pyongyang there are strong indications that Washington will soon normalize relations with the reclusive North Korean Communist government. It is no secret that the Bush administration and North Korean-born religious cult leader Sun Myung Moon have close ties. In fact, a number of Moon's Unification Church members hold high office in the Bush administration, incluidng the State Department. Moon has extensive financial interests in North Korea, including holdings in the hotel, automotive manufacturing, and shipping sectors. It is also unclear what role the new UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon (no relation to Sun Myung Moon, but non-committal about his non-denominational Korean Christian links in Korea) may have had in the Washington-Pyongyang rapprochement.

Beijing and Tokyo suspicious about Bush-North Korea rapprochement.

What has Beijing and Tokyo worried are the ties between Sun Myung Moon's organization and the Falun Gong movement in China and the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan. The Aum cult has attempted to acquire weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, from North Korea. In 1995, it launched a deadly sarin attack on Tokyo's subway system. There are also links between Aum and the Russian-Israeli mafia, especially relating to the smuggling of chemical and biological weapons, including VX and hydrogen cyanide. The Falun Gong is considered a major subversive organization by Beijing, which fears it has a number of adherents inside the Communist Party.Intelligence professionals in Asia figure that there is more to the story of the Washington-Pyongyang diplomatic dance. In 2002, George W. Bush referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as a "pygmy," a racial epithet usually applied to the Twa people of central Africa.


"IN TIMES OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT, TELLING THE TRUTH WILL BE A REVOLUTIONARY ACT." - George Orwell

“If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn’t we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?” - Eduardo Galeano

Corrupt Billionaire Republican Texan buy-up and re-colonizing of Antigua and Barbuda.

March 3-4, 2007 -- A Texas billionaire, who has given generously to Republicans and Democrats alike, is, according to our sources in the Caribbean twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, using his vast wealth to practically take over the independent nation. The individual in question is Sir R. Allen Stanford, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Houston-based Stanford Financial Group.

Stanford acquired over 120 acres of prime land from the previous Antigua and Barbuda government of Prime Minister Lester Bird. Since Bird's Antigua Labour Party government was ejected from office by the United Progressive Party of current Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, Stanford, who reportedly gave Bird a half million dollars in bribes, has been attacking Spencer, even his his home constituency. For an American citizen to inject himself into the affairs of a sovereign nation is a throwback to the banana and gunboat diplomacy of the United States in the 1920s and 30s.

Notably, under Bird, Antigua and Barbuda became a domain for Russian-Israeli mafia money laundering and dodgy Internet casino gambling.

Stanford has purchased all the land around V C Bird International Airport, including the airport parking lot, thus holding the government plan's to modernize and expand the airport hostage. The ownership of Stanford's airline company, Caribbean Star and Caribbean Sun Airlines, is evenly split between him and the cash-strapped Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT). It is expected that Stanford will soon try to buy the LIAT shares and become sole owner of the airline.

Stanford is also attempting to acquire the Crabbs Peninsular area for a gated community for the super rich. Initial membership in the community is reportedly $3 million with an annual membership fee of $1 million. The homes are only leased to tenants, not owned by them, according to our Antigua sources.

Stanford has also banned his employees from belonging to unions. He claims he pays them enough without the need for union membership. Antiguan and Barbudan commentators have said that Stanford expects the people of the islands to just sing their calypso songs and dance their jigs like good little blacks and leave the financial decisions to him and his business colleagues.

Billionaire Texan re-colonizing Antigua and Barbuda.

With such an anti-union, ultra-capitalist marauder staking ownership of an Afro-Caribbean independent nation, it is noteworthy to note the Democrats and Democratic organizations to which Stanford has contributed: the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee/non-Federal Unicorp Association, former Texas Rep. Martin Frost's Lone Star Fund PAC, Washington Sen. Patty Murray, Texas Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (shame on him -- his father, the late House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Gonzalez strongly criticized the covert off-shore financial activities of people like Stanford), New York House candidate Dan Maffei, former Texas Rep. Max Sandlin, Montana Sen. Max Baucus, Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell, Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, former Missouri Sen. Jean Carnahan, New York Sen. Charles Schumer, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, former Texas Rep. Martin Frost, and Texas House candidate Ken Bentsen.

When will these Democrats return these contributions and apologize to the people of Antigua and Barbuda? Democratic incumbents who received Stanford money should make amends and take action to restrict the unsavory actions of wealthy Americans in interference in the politics of other nations.

It is no surprise that someone like Stanford has donated generously to the GOP, a racist and anti-union party. Republicans who have benefited from Stanford's largesse include Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's KPAC, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, former Ohio Rep. Bob Ney (now in federal prison), National Republican Congressional Committee, and Tom Delay's Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC).


March 4, 2007 -- The U.S. ambassador who has permitted "Sir" R. Allen Stanford, a billionaire Texan, to run roughshod over the government and people of Antigua and Barbuda, as reported here yesterday, is Mary Ourisman, U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States, including Antigua and Barbuda. Like Stanford, Ourisman is a native Texan and friend of Laura Bush who has been a professional board member in Washington, DC -- Beltway "code" meaning that she has never actually worked for a living. As U.S. ambassador accredited to the Caribbean states, Ourisman is apparently more concerned with allowing billionaire friends of George Bush to buy up the islands under her diplomatic jurisdiction. Ourisman and her husband, Mandell ("Mandy') Ourisman, a multi-millionaire Maryland automobile dealer who has homes in Washington, Jamaica, and Palm Beach, have donated over $443,630 to GOP coffers. Mary Ourisman served as the development director of the Republican GOPAC political action committee.

We were informed by our sources in Antigua and Barbuda that the sole radio station there read on the air our March 3-4 report about Stanford. Hopefully, our own U.S. Senate and House will take notice of the Ourisman-Stanford Texas axis of business interests to conduct a full investigation of U.S. policies in the Eastern Caribbean.

U.S. ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda Mary Ourisman, a professional Washington, DC board member.

Ourisman's "foreign policy" credentials includes serving on the Board of Directors of Blair House (the president's Guest House across from the White House) and its Decorating Committee, the Board of Trustees of the Washington National Opera, National Board of Directors of the Smithsonian Institution (where she organized tours to China, Cambodia, Panama, and the Galapagos Islands), and Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center. She is a patron of the Prince of Wales Foundation, Venetian Heritage, the Preservation Society of Palm Beach, and the Four Arts Society of Palm Beach.


"IN TIMES OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT, TELLING THE TRUTH WILL BE A REVOLUTIONARY ACT." - George Orwell