Here it is, the documentation you've been waiting for --
John McCain's Top Ten Links To Organized Crime! Is he... married to the mob?!
We'll start with something recent, because McCain's got a long history with goodfellas.
- Just a few weeks ago, The New Republic recapped Cindy McCain's family history with the mob in "Made Man: How Cindy Hensley Made John McCain." A great read. Here's how it starts:
Organized crime was a relatively benign presence in Arizona in those days. Not just because Phoenix attracted such an enlightened breed of gangster, though that was part of it, but because there was more than enough action for every wise guy around. The state's commercial class had settled on a tentative understanding, according to local historian Dave Wagner: Crime bosses ran the gambling, prostitution, and liquor industries but freely interacted with more reputable merchants...
The article lays out in nice detail how Cindy's felon father was a "made man" himself. ;)
There's much more mob after the jump!
- Just a couple of years ago, John McCain's lobbyist/advisor Rick Davis set up a meeting between Babyface and a Russian mobster banned from the U.S.
Aide Helped Controversial Russian Meet McCain
Davis, Then a Lobbyist, Has Spurred Debate in Reform-Focused Campaign
A top political adviser in Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign helped arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S. government revoked his visa.
Rick Davis, who is now McCain's campaign manager, helped set up the encounter between McCain and Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska in Switzerland during an international economic conference. At the time, Davis was working for a lobbying firm and seeking to do business with the billionaire...
What's Babyface doing palling around with Oleg Deripaska?
- In a January 16, 1995 editorial, The Arizona Republic reported that Babyface McCain sent a happy birthday telegram to Joe "Bananas" Bonanno, "the boss of bosses," of the five New York Mafia families. (Article is available for fee only.)
- On a single day last year, five members of the Bonanno family gave over $2k apiece to John McCain:
BONANNO, JOHN P MR
DARIEN,CT 06820 WEINER MILLO AND MORGAN/ATTORNEY 3/31/07 $2,100 McCain, John (R)
BONANNO, LAUREN A MS
POINT LOOKOUT,NY 11569 RAINES INTL./RECRUITER 3/31/07 $2,100 McCain, John (R)
BONANNO, LISA MRS
POINT LOOKOUT,NY 11569 3/31/07 $2,100 McCain, John (R)
BONANNO, PATRICK MR
POINT LOOKOUT,NY 11569 STUDENT 3/31/07 $2,100 McCain, John (R)
BONANNO, THOMAS A MR
POINT LOOKOUT,NY 11569 SELF-EMPLOYED/AGENT 3/31/07 $2,100 McCain, John (R)
- Babyface is beholden to lots of unsavory folks in the liquor business, too.
Haunted by Spirits
John McCain derived his wealth from his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, whose father started his road to riches as a bootlegger. As a politician, the senator has remained beholden to the liquor industry and the family business
By John Dougherty, Amy Silverman
Published on February 17, 2000
Would United States Senator John McCain be a presidential contender if it weren't for his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, heiress to the Hensley liquor fortune?
It's doubtful...
- Just a couple of weeks ago, the NYTimes singled out Babyface's ties to the gambling "industry" for scrutiny:
For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling
By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: September 27, 2008
Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his entourage emerged with thousands of dollars in winnings.
A lifelong gambler, Mr. McCain takes risks, both on and off the craps table. He was throwing dice that night not long after his failed 2000 presidential bid, in which he was skewered by the Republican Party’s evangelical base, opponents of gambling. Mr. McCain was betting at a casino he oversaw as a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and he was doing so with the lobbyist who represents that casino, according to three associates of Mr. McCain.
The visit had been arranged by the lobbyist, Scott Reed...
- Like Al Capone, Babyface McCain may have an IRS problem -- over his gambling winnings:
McCain's Gambling Habits Could Become IRS Issue After CREW Complaint
John McCain should not be heading to any gambling establishments these days. It does not appear that October is going to be his lucky month. He has fallen way behind his opponent, Barack Obama, in the race for the White House, and indications are that he will not make up the ground necessary to win the election.
Whether he wins or loses, he could be facing potential danger from one or more of his gambling excursions of the past. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee.
At issue is whether McCain failed to report winnings from one of his gambling outings on his tax return forms. He has reported no winnings from 2000 through 2007 on his reports, which would amount to him breaking the law if he won money in casinos during that time...
- Even Sean Hannity's buddy Jerome "Obamanation" Corsi can't escape the obvious conclusion:
McCain fortune traced to organized crime
Mob figures later implicated in Arizona savings and loan scandal
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
John McCain's personal fortune traces back to organized crime in Arizona, through his father-in-law, according to a report published by a multi-news agency team called Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc.
IRE reporters Amy Silverman and John Doherty, writing in the Phoenix New Times, note that the father of McCain's wife, James Hensley, was convicted by a federal jury in U.S. District Court of Arizona in March 1948 on seven counts of filing false liquor records. Hensley also was charged with conspiracy to hide from federal authorities the names of persons involved in a liquor industry racket with two companies he managed, United Sales Company in Phoenix and United Distributors in Tucson.
The umbrella company, United Liquor, at that time held a monopoly in Arizona, organized and managed by Kemper Marley, who was accused of mob ties by a reporter who was murdered in 1977....
- Speaking of whack jobs like Corsi, Lyndon Larouch swears up and down that McCain-Feingold was all about making it easier for the mob to support John McCain. (I know, I know. Neither Corsi nor Larouch is at all credible, but I love linking to nut jobs.;)
- Here's the big one... the something unspoken that the NYTimes has hinted at, but that no one in the MSM will put directly into play:
NYT Links Cindy McCain And Don Bolles Murder
By kravitz - August 23, 2008, 6:18PM
This is the most specific I've seen the New York Times come to linking Cindy Hensley McCain and her father Jim Hensley to this horrific crime. Hensley, through his mob connections, has ties back to the death of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
In their piece on Cindy McCain's fortune, are three very important paragraphs...
"Back in Phoenix, he and his brother, Eugene, went into the liquor business with Kemper Marley, a businessman who had cornered much of the market in Arizona after Prohibition ended.
In March 1948, a federal jury convicted both Hensleys of concealing sales of black-market liquor. Jim Hensley’s six month sentence was suspended. A second indictment, in 1953 for falsifying records to evade taxes, was dismissed.
The Hensleys bought a New Mexico horse track in 1952. Eugene Hensley’s role at the track led to lawsuits, tax-evasion charges and prison. In 1969, he sold out to a mob-connected company with close ties to Mr. Marley, according to published reports. (The Phoenix police named Mr. Marley as the man they believed ordered the 1976 assassination of Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic. Mr. Marley, who died in 1990, was never charged.)"
So it may just be time to revisit this question....
Revisit this we should. I think the world needs to know all these things about Babyface McCain! Please use the links, and spread the word: McCain is palling around with the mob.