John McCain must explain his ties to felon Jim Hensley: John McCain’s Mob Connections
Raymond
John McCain must explain his ties to felon Jim Hensley
As conservative bloggers and mainstream media sources work overtime to
try and force Barack Obama to explain, reexplain, and then again
explain his relationship with former Weatherman Bill Ayers, John
McCain still has questions to answer about his own relationship with a
criminal.
The criminal in question is McCain's father-in-law, the late Jim
Hensley. At the time of his death in 2000, Hensley was one of the
richest men in Arizona and owner of one of the largest Anheuser-Bush
Distributorships in the nation.
Hensley and daughter Cindy are well-established as the sponsors of
McCain's political career and McCain has called Hensley a "role
model." Ayers once contributed $200 to Obama, and the two have have
worked together with a charity group and school reform group.
How else do Hensley and Ayers match up?
Jim Hensley vs. Bill Ayers
Felony Convictions: Hensley 1, Ayers 0.
Comment: In 1948, Hensley was given a six-month suspended sentence for
falsifying liquor records to conceal illegal distribution of whiskey
against post-war rationing regulations. Ayers has never been convicted
of a felony.
Connections with Organized Crime: Hensley 2. Ayers 0.
Comment: Hensley and his brother were the owners of Ruidoso Downs
racetrack, along with "silent partner" Clarence "Teak" Baldwin who had
been banned from any ownership role due to illegal bookmaking
activities. Long-time business associate Kemper Marley, Sr. was also
connected with organized crime.
Illegally Acquired Liquor Licenses: Hensley 1, Ayers 0.
Comments: Hensley acquired a liquor license in Arizona despite the
fact that he was not allowed to have one due to being a felon.
Killings Connected With: Hensley 21,000, Ayers 4.
Comment: While neither Hensley nor Ayers have personally murdered
anyone, both were heavily involved with organizations that caused the
deaths of others. For Ayers, that organization was the Weatherman. For
Hensley that organization was Anheuser-Busch. In 2007, Arizona
reported more than 700 alcohol-related deaths. Conservatively putting
the average number of alcohol-related deaths in Arizona at 400,
Hensley has been responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000
Arizonans. And while Budweiser cannot be blamed for each death, it is
clearly a gateway drug to harder types of alcohol, thus culpability is
Hensley's.
Divorces: Hensley 1, Ayers 0.
Comments: Like his son-in-law, Hensley divorced his first wife after
having an affair and remarrying. Ayers has been married to Bernardine
Dohrn for nearly 40 years.
Abandoned Children: Hensley 1, Ayers -1
Comments: Hensley abandoned his first child, Kathleen Portalski. Ayers
and Dohrn raised two of their own children and adopted a third.
As anyone can see from the plain facts, Jim Hensley was far more
dangerous man than Ayers has ever been, and profited wildly from his
illicit activities. It is time for John McCain to stand up and explain
his ties with the felon Jim Hensley.
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-mccain-must-explain-his-ties-to.html
Made Man: How the Hensley's made McCain // Current
http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0fd7470d-a41f-4d9e-9328-fd079b476a0a
McCain fortune traced to organized crime
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57354
The dangers of a McCain presidency
Is it possible that the American people will end up electing a
Republican who could prove to be an even more dangerous leader than
President Bush? In what obvious ways could Sen. John McCain be more
dangerous?
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/155788
Now It’s The Post Covering Up John McCain’s Mob Connections
IF YOU STILL DOUBT that the big media is determined to keep under
wraps the organized crime origins of the $200 million fortune of John
McCain and his wife Cindy, take note of how the prestigious
Washington
Post touched on the issue in its July 22 edition. Rather, instead,
note how the Post covered up the matter.
The Post reported: Cindy Lou Hensley grew up as an only child, and a
privileged one, in a large rancher in an upper-class section of
Phoenix. Her dad, Jim Hensley, founded what became a large Anheuser-
Busch distributorship, and her mom, Marguerite, was a proper belle
who
emphasized impeccable manners.
The Post also added, almost discretely, that Mrs. McCain’s wealth
“may” exceed $100 million (although most sources estimate it is worth
$200 million or more) and—for the record—that “she was the apple of
her father’s eye.”
The Post did not mention that Mrs. McCain’s father was a highly-
placed
fixture in the Arizona branch of the national organized crime
syndicate: He was the chief henchman of the late Kemper Marley,
Arizona point man for infamous mob chief Meyer Lansky and his
powerful
partners-in-crime, the super-rich Bronfman family of Montreal.
In that capacity—for 40 years until his death in 1990—Marley was
undisputed political boss of Arizona, acting as the behind-the-scenes
power over both the Republican and Democratic parties.
As such, his wealth and connections played the primary role in
advancing John McCain’s political career from the start.
Although some Democrats have muttered that Mrs. McCain’s business
interests could impact on her husband’s decision-making as president,
none has dared cross the line and make reference to the fact this
vast
wealth was spawned by what others have indelicately (although quite
correctly) called “the Jewish Mafia.”
Correspondents for American Free Press have repeatedly referenced the
McCain fortune’s ties to the Lansky-Bronfman syndicate going back to
2000 when McCain first ran for president. Most recently, in its July
14/21 issue AFP reported the story again. At that time, AFP pointed
out that in its June 30 edition, Newsweek (owned by the Washington
Post’s parent company) also suppressed McCain’s mob link.
Newsweek said Mrs. McCain’s family “was deeply rooted in Arizona,”
and
that her father “was one of the most prominent men in the state,” who
was “a World War II bombardier . . . shot down over the English
channel,”—in other words, a war hero like McCain.
Newsweek did not mention (or even hint of) the racketeering,
corruption and murder associated with Hensley and his patrons.
Newsweek said Hensley “borrowed $10,000 to start a liquor business”
which became one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributorships in
the
country and pointed out that the vast Hensley influence and fortune
“got [McCain] access to money and connections” after he divorced his
ailing first wife and married his then mistress, Cindy Hensley, and
settled in Arizona where he first ran for office in 1982. But there
was much more to the story.
Newsweek did not mention what AFP had reported and which is
republished here in order to keep this important story before the
American public:
To repeat: McCain’s father-in-law was the top lieutenant for Kemper
Marley, the Lansky syndicate’s chief Arizona operative who acted, in
turn, as the front man for the Bronfman family—key players in the
Lansky syndicate.
During Prohibition, the Canadian-based Bronfmans supplied—and thus
controlled—the “spigot” of liquor funneled to Lansky syndicate
functionaries in the United States, including Al Capone in Chicago.
After Prohibition, Lansky-Bronfman associates such as Marley got
control of a substantial portion of liquor (and beer) distribution
across the country. Marley’s longtime public relations man, Al
Lizanitz, revealed that it was the Bronfmans who set Marley up in the
alcohol business.
In 1948, 52 of Marley’s employees (including Jim Hensley, the manager
of Marley’s company) were prosecuted for federal liquor violations.
Hensley got a six month suspended sentence and his brother Eugene
went
to prison for a year.
In 1953 Hensley and (this time) Marley were prosecuted by federal
prosecutors for falsifying liquor records, but young attorney William
Rehnquist acted as their “mouthpiece” (as mob attorneys are known)
and
the two got off scot-free. Rehnquist later became chief justice of
the
Supreme Court and presided over the “fix” that made George W. Bush
president in a rightly disputed election.
Arizona insiders say Hensley “took the fall” for Marley in 1948 and
Marley paid back Hensley by setting him up in his own beer
distribution business.
Newsweek implied Hensley’s company was a “mom and pop” operation that
became a big success, but the real story goes to the heart of the
history of organized crime.
Hensley’s sponsor, Marley, was also a major player in gambling, a
prot
駩 of Lansky associate Gus Greenbaum who, in 1941, set up a national
wire for bookmakers. After Lansky ordered a hit on his own longtime
partner, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, who was stealing money from the
Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas—which was financed in part by loans from
an Arizona bank chaired by Marley—Greenbaum turned operations of the
wire over to Marley while Greenbaum took Siegel’s place in tending to
Lansky’s interests in Las Vegas.
In 1948 Greenbaum was murdered in a mob “hit” that set off a series
of
gang wars in Phoenix, but Marley survived and prospered as did Jim
Hensley, who sponsored McCain’s rise to power.
McCain’s father-in-law also dabbled in dog racing and expanded his
fortune by selling his track to an individual connected to the
Buffalo-
based Jacobs family, key Prohibition-era cogs in the Lansky network
as
distributors of Bronfman liquor.
Expanding over the years, buying up race tracks and developing food
and drink concessions at sports stadiums, Jacobs enterprises were
described as being “probably the biggest quasi-legitimate cover for
organized crime’s money-laundering in the United States.”
In 1976, Hensley’s mentor—Marley (at the height of his power)—was the
key suspect behind the contract murder of journalist Don Bolles who
was investigating the mob in Arizona, but Marley was never
prosecuted.
Since McCain’s career was sponsored by the Lansky-Bronfman syndicate,
it is no coincidence McCain recently traveled to London where Lord
Jacob Rothschild of the international banking empire raised money
among American expatriates on McCain’s behalf.
Rothschild has long been allied with the Bronfman family as major
patrons of Israel.
A journalist specializing in media critique, Michael Collins Piper is
the author of Final Judgment, the controversial “underground
bestseller” documenting the collaboration of Israeli intelligence in
the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is also the author of The
High Priests of War, The New Jerusalem, Dirty Secrets, The Judas
Goats: The Enemy Within and The Golem: Israel’s Nuclear Hell Bomb.
All
are available from AFP: 202-547-5585. He has lectured on these topics
in places as diverse as Malaysia, Japan, Iran, Canada, Russia and the
United Arab Emirates.
(Issue # 33, August 18, 2008)