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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:33 AM
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"Cha Ching" From ¢¢¢ to $$$:
How the Bush Crime Syndicate Funneled Foreign Cash Into the U.S. Political System
Florida Investigator Who Got Too Close to Florida "Coin Gate" Silenced by Jeb Bush's Gangsters
Wayne Madsen

FLORIDA PANHANDLE, June 10, 2005 --
Experienced federal investigators, acting independently, have discovered a
covert funding channel used by the 2000 and 2004
Bush-Cheney campaigns and the administrations of Jeb Bush in
Florida and Bob Taft in Ohio to illegally funnel foreign and
other questionable money into Republican coffers.

Ever since the brutal death of Florida Department of
Transportation (FDOT) investigator Ray Lemme in July 2003,
the focus of investigators in Florida and Georgia has been on
the political scandal Lemme was uncovering. After his official
investigation of contract fraud, money laundering, illegal
immigration, and election fraud was shut down on orders of
Jeb Bush, Lemme continued to investigate the use of FDOT to
launder cash for the Bush Brothers and their allies. Lemme's
focus was on the use of the Florida turnpike system to launder
cash for the Jeb and George W. Bush campaigns. It was an
investigation that would ultimately lead to Lemme's body being
discovered in a motel room bath tub in Valdosta, Georgia. A
two-state police cover up of Lemme's death, threats directed
at Florida and Georgia investigators, and a virtual media
blackout indicates that the GOP administrations of Jeb Bush
and Georgia's Sonny Perdue wanted the Lemme story to go
away -- and fast.

The reason for the cover-up of Lemme's reported "suicide" is
simple. Investigators have now discovered that foreign cash,
including Chinese, Saudi, and Nigerian money, was laundered
via the biggest state-run cash cow in Florida -- the Florida
Turnpike system. Because most of the transactions involving
Florida's toll roads involve cash and huge amounts of it, it was
easy for foreign and other questionable money to be laundered
via FDOT.

Lemme had reportedly become aware of the use of FDOT to
commit criminal acts. Valdosta, where Lemme went to meet a
still unknown source, is a key center for international organized
criminal activity, including illegal foreign worker smuggling,
involving close political allies of George W. and Jeb Bush.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/scoops/Lemme.htm

leads to Noe, Coingate...

dp
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:42 AM
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1. This is huge.....
dweller...thanks for this. It needs to be on the greatest page.

Geez, they didn't even try to make it look like a suicide for poor Lemme.

This could really blow a lotta stuff outta the water....more & more crap piling up against the BFEE. What more will it take?????????????
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 10:18 AM
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2. i hope Madsen can keep up the info
with Morgenthau's investigation.

dp
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 10:58 AM
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3. Wayne Madsen
:eyes:
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 11:24 AM
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4. i take it you'll vote it for the greatest page?
:eyes:


dp
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:26 PM
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5. We're starting to see the "over-all"
Just a few pieces remain until the puzzle is complete.

No more "conspiracy theory", this is a massive conspiracy, period.
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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:28 PM
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6. Gasp.
The enormity of the evil of the BFEE is almost enough to stop a human heart from beating. Seriously.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:37 PM
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7. Ugh - not Wayne again
If Madsen was a baseball player, he'd be in the pee wee league.

He swings at everything, and I don't think his team has won any games, let alone score a run.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:16 PM
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8. thanks for the kick! n/t
dp
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:35 PM
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9. never understood the madsen animosity -- this is incredible work
and doesn't surprise me one bit that there's a connection btwn Florida and Ohio in this fundraising mess.

thanks for the article, i had wondered where madsen was lately.
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:12 PM
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10. whatever happened to all the info that Madsen had about the 2004
election that was going to prove the election was fixed????? the story just died

there were many DU discussions about this info

this is why many see the name Madsen and are very cautious....he really got hopes up after the election, and then nothing......
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:12 PM
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11. whatever happened to all the info that Madsen had about the 2004
election that was going to prove the election was fixed????? the story just died

there were many DU discussions about this info

this is why many see the name Madsen and are very cautious....he really got hopes up after the election, and then nothing......
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Imajika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 06:45 PM
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12. Madsen...
...is even less believable than DEBKA.

Wayne is a crank extraordinaire, proving that one can be wrong over and over again and still find a gullible audience for their "investigative reports".

Imajika
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