Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 72

("Quid coniuratio est?")

DENVER AIRPORT SCAM

[CN -- The following does not necessarily reflect the views of Conspiracy Nation. It merely reports what was said elsewhere.]

On or about October 6, 1994, Tom Valentine's guest on Radio Free America (shortwave, 5.065 MHz, 9 pm cst, mon-fri) was a man named Stew Webb. Mr. Webb has been looking into circumstances surrounding the construction of the Denver International Airport.

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VALENTINE

Well if I can recall, in the '60s, and even in the '70s, the greatest money launderer of all was Meyer Lansky.

WEBB

Meyer Lansky has direct ties with these people and ties in with 'em. They're... I mean, go down to... If you want to get the Meyer Lansky connection into these people and into Arizona, ask yourself the question: Why is it in the same residential area that Lansky was, and the Wrigley family? You've got Melman, you've got the Inslaw software Dr. Earl Brian, you've got Ronald Reagan, you've got Dino DiConcini (Dennis', the head of armed services [committee], brother), you've got General John Singlaub, who was running the drug operation in Arkansas for Bill Clinton. And there's several other players down there. I've forgot all the names of the people. But I mean, they're all interconnected...

VALENTINE

When you say, "down there", what are you talkin' about?

WEBB

Pardon me?

VALENTINE

Whereabouts are you talking about, "down there"?

WEBB

It's in Arizona. It's on Camelback Mountain.

VALENTINE

Oh! Like Scottsdale, and down in that way.

WEBB

It is down there. It's the most expensive real estate in Arizona. They've all got second homes down there.

And Carl Lender(sp?), who started Charles Keating's, down there, and the whole bit.

But here's, to give you a summary -- and I think it's important that we get this out, Tom. A summary of what they've done on the airport is basically this: They owned the land, then they perpetuated the fraud that shoved the appraisals of the land up five times, in a year, of what the actual value was. Then they turn around and create three political action committees to pump it down the American people's throat that they need a new airport: "It's gonna create 100,000 new jobs to Denver," and it didn't. Then they buy off government officials. And of course, they put the U.S. attorney in place and they had two federal judges bribed, paid off, and the whole bit. And I've got the guy that was launderin' their bribes! They laundered it through M&L Business Machines Company, that they tried to make it look like (the U.S. attorney did) as though it was a "check kiting scandal" when in fact it was money laundering!

VALENTINE

All right. We gotta take another break, so hang in there! Hold in there. The U.S. attorney ruled that it was "check kiting" when it was actually money laundering. We'll get back to that. My guest is Stew Webb. The subject matter: the Denver airport scam. I'm Tom Valentine, this is Radio Free America.

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All right, we are back. And we are talking about scandal and, I'm serious, about big, high scandal.

I want you to go ahead and finish where you were, and then I have another question for ya...

WEBB

Well basically, Mike Norton, the U.S. attorney who's no longer in office; Janet Reno fired all 92 of 'em across the nation. But he was, the cover-up part is in this whole thing. And that's the reason these men have never been prosecuted, because, you know, they had him directly in their pocket. He owns apartments with 'em. He took a bribe, and he laundered a $2.5 million bribe himself through M&L Business Machines Company. And the federal judge laundered money through there, [the judge] that was protecting Blinder Robinson, the company that was movin' the money overseas to John Dix's house. The whole bit. I mean, M&L is one of the key, instrumental companies, that was like Blinder Robinson, that was movin' money.

But the problem is, the guy got greedy and decided to rip the bad guys off for $150 million. And when he did, he threw it into bankruptcy court, thinkin' that, "Well. I throw it in there and all the records will be available and then they'll see it was money laundering and I'll be out of the country and everybody'll be in trouble and they'll be worryin' about protectin' their own little rear ends. And I won't have to worry about this thing. I'll be overseas, enjoyin' it."

Well, that didn't quite happen. Instead, Robert Joseph got "popped" [i.e., murdered] faster than what he thought was gonna happen.

But there were some interesting cover-ups in the M&L case. One of the things was, one of the vice-presidents who used to work for Leonard Melman's Flatiron Construction Company, by the name of Patrick Gibbons(sp?), now, or was then, an M&L officer. When the FBI, the "Federal Bureau of Idiots", in Denver, Colorado arrested him, he had 27 weapons -- 22 [with] no serial numbers, 7 fully automatic, 5 silencers, 20 kilos of cocaine, 200 pounds of marijuana, 160 vials of human growth steroids, 140 vials of animal growth steroids, 200 vials of anabolic steroids. He had 7 gym bags, each containing a crow bar, ski mask, and flashlight (which sounds like burglars' tools). He also had literature on laundering money to the Isle of Jersey...

VALENTINE

What'd this guy do for a living!?

WEBB

...income tax. He also had passports for sale, citizenship certificates for sale. And he even had letters from Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation bank examiners saying which banks would fail in the next 6 months! And do you know that Mike Norton never prosecuted him for that!? And two federal judges, magistrates, during his bond hearing asked the assistant U.S. attorney, Mike Barrett(sp?), he says, "Mr. Barrett. How come Mr. Gibbons is not being charged? And how come you're only asking for $100,000 signature bond!?" And he says, "In camera, judge. In camera." [CN -- Latin for "in chambers"(?)] In other words, "Let's go in and take care of you and bribe you, judge, and let's cover the thing up."

They let this guy out on $100,000 signature bond, and he had all those items on him when he was arrested, in his home.

VALENTINE

Just like General Noriega, see? They let guys like that go.

That's really interesting! Where is he now?

WEBB

Patrick Gibbons is sittin' in jail for, I think it was a year- and-a-half stint, for his fraud involving M&L Business Machines where they ripped off some legitimate investors for about $6 million...

VALENTINE

Well that was a year-and-a-half. Is he still in there?

WEBB

Yeah, a year-and-a-half. Now listen to the amount of... A man who's busted for cocaine, if they had one kilo on him today, they would get an automatic 10 years in jail on the minimum, mandatory sentence guidelines that George Bush created back in 1988. How come Mr. Patrick Gibbons has never even been charged for that? Another question will be, why did Janet Day(sp?) of the Denver Post cover it up when she was in the bond hearing, and the judge brought it out, part of the information about this!? And how come she never reported on it? Because of the cover-up of the news media in Denver, Colorado!

The whole thing stinks, Tom. And...

VALENTINE

[laughs] It sure does.

WEBB

...dealt with.

VALENTINE

I... You know, the guy's got silencers [laughs], cocaine. And what'd they charge him with? Bad checks?

WEBB

They charged him for "check kiting"; gave him a year-and-a-half when he had 200 pounds of marijuana and 20 kilos of cocaine and letters from FDIC bank examiners saying, "Go steal some more money before the bank collapses!" Come on.

VALENTINE

Only in America.

WEBB

Only in America!

[...to be continued...]

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