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ck4829

(35,069 posts)
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 07:48 PM Sep 2015

Forget his brother, did Jeb HIMSELF keep us safe?

Take Huffman Aviation; the school where 9/11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, learned how to fly.

That's bad enough, having the flight school in your state, but it stays pretty bad.

In January 2002, Huffman Aviation again made headlines when the local paper sent a reporter onto its property, who managed to casually move between airplane cockpits, fuel tanks and other "safety concerns" without anybody noticing or stopping him. In March, the school was cited for having left fueltrucks unlocked, with keys in the ignition, at the Venice Municipal Airport.

Dekkers was arrested in early March 2003 on charges filed January 17, charged with "fraud involving a security interest", and was allowed to meet a bail bond set at $1000. The issue dealt with a $200,000 loan that had not been repaid. On the eve of the trial, Dekkers sold all of Huffman's holdings minus 10 planes to Triple Diamond, to gather the money needed to repay his business partner. In December 2003, the charges against Dekkers were dropped, because Dekkers "never got any of the money and there wasn't anything he'd done to defraud anyone."

In October of 2012, Rudi Dekkers was again arrested for reaching out to an undercover narcotics officer who was gathering evidence against Mexican drug kingpin Arturo Astorquiza in Texas. According to a report by ABC News, "after Astorquiza was arrested, the documents say Dekkers reached out to the undercover officer and offered his services directly. Federal investigators then began tailing Dekkers and eventually arrested him in early December when it appeared he was about to make a drug run for another customer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_Aviation


Jeb Bush was governor of Florida until 2007, what did he do regarding this flight school and Rudi Dekkers?
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