The Geneva chief prosecutor said Safra was killed for cooperating with the FBI regarding the laundering of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia through Safra's Republic Bank.
Framed innocent American Ted Maher was interrogated three days in four-point restraint, deprived of sleep, his wife kidnapped by Monaco police, her passport stolen, their children threatened to extort a false confession.
Maher gave U.S. Consular official from Marseilles Patricia Feitz a slip of paper on which he'd written "Russian Italian" to thwart prison cameras and microphones.
Safra's penthouse "La Belle Epoque" at 17 Avenue d'Ostende in Monte Carlo housed a branch of his then-Republic, now HSBC Republic AND a branch of Banco del Gottardo the conduit by which Pavel Borodin was paid Kremlin kickbacks from Mebatex.
Denise Rich's father Emil Eisenberg a Holocaust refugee made certain she married Marc and bankrolled him. Is there more than a coincidence of surnames in Shaul Eisenberg a Holocaust refugee setting up the Israel-China arms trade in 1980, dying of a heart attack in Beijing in 1997?
Anne Williamson author of Contagion answered my lengthy query with an email in which she said she always knew Ted Maher was a scapegoat, that the laundering benefited the Clintons, Rubin, Summers, the Harvard Econ faculty and a half dozen bright and shining Russian reformers.
How much did Rich deal with Armand Hammer? Hammer's father Julius founded the CPUSA in 1919. Hammer was the paymaster to U.S. Communists for Lenin, Stalin and their successors. Hammer was the patron of the Senators Gore. Joseph Farah suggests that Al Gore's middle name is Armand--he was Gore's GODfather for Marx' sake!
Gore was given the 1995 CIA briefing report on Chernomyrdin's corruption and famously wrote on its cover, "Bullshit". Tim Russert confronted him with it on Meet the Press.
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