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In reply to the discussion: Someday it will be crystal clear to all just what a terrible president Ronald Reagan was- [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,863 posts)33. Pruneface, Friend of Fascists and Mafia alike.
EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how the MAFIA helped Ronald Reagan get to the White House. Shocking documentary reveals Mob connections that catapulted him to the presidency - and how a probe was thwarted at 'the highest levels'
President Reagan owed his acting and political career to Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, chief of entertainment behemoth MCA, who was in bed with the Mob
An investigation into the relationship between MCA and the Mafia was halted and Federal prosecutors believe it was one of the 'political favors' that can be traced back to Reagan's White House
'Ronald Reagan is a complete slave of MCA who would do their bidding on anything,' one secret Justice Department document revealed
According to the producer of the documentary, Wages of Spin II: Bring Down The Wall, one MCA executive had ties to Mob boss John Gotti
'Reagan's whole career in politics was subsidized by MCA,' he asserts, and helped him financially because for a long time he was living above his means
The Mob was probably working Nancy Reagan too, according to the producer. 'She was a driving force behind Reagan'
By JERRY OPPENHEIMER
Daily Mail, PUBLISHED: 13:22 EST, 21 May 2014 | UPDATED: 03:42 EST, 22 May 2014
A shocking new documentary screened exclusively by MailOnline exposes the chilling conncections between the Mafia, one of Hollywood's most powerful entertainment companies and its head honcho Lew Wasserman and President Ronald Reagan and his Justice Department.
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But there was a dark side to Wasserman - and to Reagan - all of which is revealed in a shocking new documentary, Wages of Spin II: Bring Down The Wall, that, according to the film's producer and those interviewed, links both of them in darkly shadowed ways to the Mafia, and the killing of a U.S. Department of Justice organized crime Strike Force investigation into Mob influence and infiltration at the highest levels of MCA.
SNIP...
Richard Stavin, a former veteran federal prosecutor who was assigned to the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles and was an integral member of the MCA-Mafia probe team, declared in the film for the first time:
'It's my belief that MCA and its' involvement with Mafia individuals, Mafia-dominated companies and our inability to pursue those was not happenstance. I believe it was an organized, orchestrated effort on the part of certain individuals within Washington, D.C. to keep a hands-off policy towards MCA.
'At the time, Ronald Reagan was the President of the United States and Edwin Meese was the Attorney General of the United States (Stavin's ultimate boss). A little known fact was MCA and Lew Wasserman supported Ronald Reagan when he wanted to become president of the Screen Actors Guild, which was the launch of Mr. Reagan's political career.
'I would like to think that the people in the highest levels of this government were not protective of MCA...But I'm not so sure about that.'
SNIP...
SAG's bylaws had always banned talent agencies like MCA from producing any form of entertainment, such as TV programs and movies. But during Reagan's fifth year as the guild's president a secret blanket waiver was negotiated with SAG, and it gave MCA and Wasserman the platinum opportunity to not only market talent as agents but also to move into TV and film making.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635094/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-MAFIA-helped-Ronald-Reagan-White-House-Shocking-documentary-reveals-Mob-connections-catapulted-presidency-probe-thwarted-highest-levels.html
A dull, but useful tool. A real wow.
President Reagan owed his acting and political career to Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, chief of entertainment behemoth MCA, who was in bed with the Mob
An investigation into the relationship between MCA and the Mafia was halted and Federal prosecutors believe it was one of the 'political favors' that can be traced back to Reagan's White House
'Ronald Reagan is a complete slave of MCA who would do their bidding on anything,' one secret Justice Department document revealed
According to the producer of the documentary, Wages of Spin II: Bring Down The Wall, one MCA executive had ties to Mob boss John Gotti
'Reagan's whole career in politics was subsidized by MCA,' he asserts, and helped him financially because for a long time he was living above his means
The Mob was probably working Nancy Reagan too, according to the producer. 'She was a driving force behind Reagan'
By JERRY OPPENHEIMER
Daily Mail, PUBLISHED: 13:22 EST, 21 May 2014 | UPDATED: 03:42 EST, 22 May 2014
A shocking new documentary screened exclusively by MailOnline exposes the chilling conncections between the Mafia, one of Hollywood's most powerful entertainment companies and its head honcho Lew Wasserman and President Ronald Reagan and his Justice Department.
SNIP...
But there was a dark side to Wasserman - and to Reagan - all of which is revealed in a shocking new documentary, Wages of Spin II: Bring Down The Wall, that, according to the film's producer and those interviewed, links both of them in darkly shadowed ways to the Mafia, and the killing of a U.S. Department of Justice organized crime Strike Force investigation into Mob influence and infiltration at the highest levels of MCA.
SNIP...
Richard Stavin, a former veteran federal prosecutor who was assigned to the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles and was an integral member of the MCA-Mafia probe team, declared in the film for the first time:
'It's my belief that MCA and its' involvement with Mafia individuals, Mafia-dominated companies and our inability to pursue those was not happenstance. I believe it was an organized, orchestrated effort on the part of certain individuals within Washington, D.C. to keep a hands-off policy towards MCA.
'At the time, Ronald Reagan was the President of the United States and Edwin Meese was the Attorney General of the United States (Stavin's ultimate boss). A little known fact was MCA and Lew Wasserman supported Ronald Reagan when he wanted to become president of the Screen Actors Guild, which was the launch of Mr. Reagan's political career.
'I would like to think that the people in the highest levels of this government were not protective of MCA...But I'm not so sure about that.'
SNIP...
SAG's bylaws had always banned talent agencies like MCA from producing any form of entertainment, such as TV programs and movies. But during Reagan's fifth year as the guild's president a secret blanket waiver was negotiated with SAG, and it gave MCA and Wasserman the platinum opportunity to not only market talent as agents but also to move into TV and film making.
CONTINUED...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635094/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-MAFIA-helped-Ronald-Reagan-White-House-Shocking-documentary-reveals-Mob-connections-catapulted-presidency-probe-thwarted-highest-levels.html
A dull, but useful tool. A real wow.
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Someday it will be crystal clear to all just what a terrible president Ronald Reagan was- [View all]
kpete
Dec 2019
OP
If we had stayed the course on renewable or no/low carbon energy how many billions of tons ...
Botany
Dec 2019
#30
Reagan was just a tool for the wealthy and the right* but he understood the importance of ...
Botany
Dec 2019
#154
One of the first deliberately evil acts of the conservative revolutionaries.
lagomorph777
Dec 2019
#28
We would be SO far ahead of where ANYONE is right now if we'd kept going on solar
oldsoftie
Dec 2019
#153
Far as I'm concerned anyone with an (R) by their name is scum, Reagan or no. nt
Doremus
Dec 2019
#99
For many of us, it was abundantly clear from the beginning just how awful Ronald Reagan was...
dlk
Dec 2019
#6
His damn funeral went on forever. I'm surprised the GOP did not mummify him and place him in
RKP5637
Dec 2019
#9
+1. Taxpayers spent $400 million to haul his carcass around and mourn his worthless legacy
dalton99a
Dec 2019
#12
It's no damn wonder there is not enough money left for the rest of the population. There is so
RKP5637
Dec 2019
#21
before regon was a terrible prez. he was a horrible gov. took the state 30 years to recover
AllaN01Bear
Dec 2019
#15
He was a union leader when it was to his advantage. It was a personal benefit thing.
SharonAnn
Dec 2019
#96
I think he was a do nothing speach-afying idiot. who was a figure head for the assholes
Javaman
Dec 2019
#41
I still have my Impeach Reagan button somewhere. Actors, and TV personalities, make
FailureToCommunicate
Dec 2019
#42
Let's not forget his disastrous foreign policies, especially in Central America
Bradshaw3
Dec 2019
#43
I've been thinking about GOP holding off release of hostages since the Ukrainian bribery story
IndyOp
Dec 2019
#49
As a young man I voted for Reagan. It took years of maturing and learning about politics to
Pepsidog
Dec 2019
#54
I believe he has been the most dangerous and destructive president in our history
Scalded Nun
Dec 2019
#60
I have always said that future generations will make pilgrimages to piss on his grave. n/t
spike jones
Dec 2019
#62
I have not seen this on this thread yet, but Reagan and his people also committed treason to win.
Caliman73
Dec 2019
#85
y'all ought to read or hear the Thom Hartmann rant on RR. How he can viewed as a
Doitnow
Dec 2019
#115
i was a kid & i knew it. i said his trickle down was bullshit. but they have been selling the same
pansypoo53219
Dec 2019
#123
Yes, the great wealth distributor ..... upward to his richest friends. Nt
Prof.Higgins
Dec 2019
#149
That bastard started us down the road toward Pox Noise. He screwed broadcasting.
calimary
Dec 2019
#151
I had assumed that Reagan would forever remain the worst president of my lifetime.
mwb970
Dec 2019
#152