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In reply to the discussion: FBI Entrapment Created 'Illusion' of Terrorist Plots: Report [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)59. Wealth and Crime often are co-dependent...
FBI Files Reveal Steinbrenner Was A Snitch
Told probers of unreported cash donations to pols
The Smoking Gun
DECEMBER 23--George Steinbrenner was a snitch.
That is the major revelation found in investigative files on the late New York Yankess owner that were released today by the FBI.
The 420 pages, made public in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, primarily cover the federal investigation that ended with Steinbrenners August 1974 felony conviction for making illegal contributions to Richard Nixons reelection campaign.
While Watergate Special Prosecution Force documents (previously published here) indicated that Steinbrenners lawyer dangled the businessmans cooperation as part of a possible plea deal, the FBI files disclose who The Boss subsequently fingered.
In a May 5, 1975 memo to FBI Director Clarence Kelley, a Department of Justice official reported that Steinbrenner had admitted making substantial cash contributions to a pair of Ohio congressmen during the 1970 and 1972 election cycles. The prosecutor noted that a review of disclosure reports files by the Republican representatives, Wiliam Minshall and Charles Mosher, indicates that no contributions were reported received from George M. Steinbrenner, III.
The cash contributions totaled about $15,000, with most of the money being delivered by a Steinbrenner intermediary to the Ohio district offices of Minshall and Mosher. However, Steinbrenner told investigators that he personally delivered approximately $1000 to a Minshall aide at a Cleveland restaurant.
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sports/fbi-files-reveal-steinbrenner-was-snitch
Told probers of unreported cash donations to pols
The Smoking Gun
DECEMBER 23--George Steinbrenner was a snitch.
That is the major revelation found in investigative files on the late New York Yankess owner that were released today by the FBI.
The 420 pages, made public in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, primarily cover the federal investigation that ended with Steinbrenners August 1974 felony conviction for making illegal contributions to Richard Nixons reelection campaign.
While Watergate Special Prosecution Force documents (previously published here) indicated that Steinbrenners lawyer dangled the businessmans cooperation as part of a possible plea deal, the FBI files disclose who The Boss subsequently fingered.
In a May 5, 1975 memo to FBI Director Clarence Kelley, a Department of Justice official reported that Steinbrenner had admitted making substantial cash contributions to a pair of Ohio congressmen during the 1970 and 1972 election cycles. The prosecutor noted that a review of disclosure reports files by the Republican representatives, Wiliam Minshall and Charles Mosher, indicates that no contributions were reported received from George M. Steinbrenner, III.
The cash contributions totaled about $15,000, with most of the money being delivered by a Steinbrenner intermediary to the Ohio district offices of Minshall and Mosher. However, Steinbrenner told investigators that he personally delivered approximately $1000 to a Minshall aide at a Cleveland restaurant.
CONTINUED...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sports/fbi-files-reveal-steinbrenner-was-snitch
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Mix in Secret Government and Spherical Snooping and its MONEY for those in the know.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#10
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
Octafish
Jul 2014
#13
Ironic. While very conservative, the FBI Agent Donald Adams was quite a compelling person.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#62
I'm more worried about the Feds arresting cancer grannies for growing pot
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#43
Like DCI William Colby said re Sam Giancana: ''We had nothing to do with that.''
Octafish
Jul 2014
#35
How else can the establishment (TPTB) justify its humongous anti-terraist budget and its
indepat
Jul 2014
#17
You mean the creep who WILLINGLY pressed a button convinced he was going to blow up a crowd
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#42
Mohamud: "I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured"
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#45
And apparently a jury of 12 people didn't agree with Glenn Greenwald, who is one.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#51
I wouldn't. But this guy did considerably more than that. And I have to believe you grasp that fact.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#53
Back in the 80s a major drug bust went haywire as it turned out ALL of the players were cops....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2014
#63
entrapment laws are a lot like vacation laws, maternity leave laws, sick pay laws
Adam051188
Aug 2014
#76