Posted on 10/15/2004 7:38:17 AM PDT by No Surrender Monkey
A 22-foot sailboat that a teenage John F. Kennedy raced in regattas off Cape Cod was seized yesterday by federal agents who allege that its current owner bought and refurbished it with marijuana profits.
The Flash II -- a Star Class sloop that the late president owned for six years and sold in 1942, before shipping out to the Pacific during World War II -- was hauled away from its storage spot at the Marblehead Trading Co. in Marblehead by agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
"Crime doesn't pay," said US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan. "The seizure and forfeiture of assets allegedly gained from drug proceeds is critically important and sends a deterrent message to those who want to get involved in the illegal drug business."
If the government wins its forfeiture case, then it will probably sell the boat to the highest bidder, Sullivan said.
In 1998, the sloop drew an $800,000 offer during an auction of Kennedy memorabilia, but the owner turned it down, saying at the time that he hoped it would fetch up to $1.2 million.
In an affidavit released yesterday, the DEA asserted that Gregory "Ole" Anderson of Florida was the sole or primary owner of the Flash II and had bought and refurbished it with drug profits.
Anderson, who spent a year in an Arizona state prison for transporting marijuana, was contacted in February by a former drug-dealing associate who was secretly cooperating with the DEA and helped agents build a forfeiture case, according to the affidavit.
The drug dealer said that he gave Anderson between $12,000 and $15,000 toward refurbishing the boat and that Anderson used other money he obtained from transporting drugs.
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If that boat could talk. JFK's wild orgies, dope, booze, etc would be told in volumes.
BARF ALERT! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
Jeez Louise! Moby musta jumped onboard!
"Deep Boat"
The guy could be innocent. Maybe it's haunted by Teddy's father Joe and his ghost takes it on smuggling runs out of habit.
Don't get too excited. If JFK ws having sex on a Star boat, that's probably how ge got his bad back.
A Star boat has a cockpit smaller than one of Teddy's jowls. This is a racing boat, not a "pleasure craft" we're talking about here.
BTW, the source of the Forbes family fortune (of the other Mass. Senator) was opium smuggling.
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