Huffman Aviation Was 'Continuing Criminal Enterprise'

[Robbien]

Art Nadel, the recent owner of Huffman Aviation accused of running a Ponzi scheme which allegedly stole almost $400 million from investors, is the only person so far charged with a crime.

However if authorities persist in claiming that claim Nadel was a "lone-nut financial gunslinger" they will be ignoring the richly-documented history of criminal fraud involving the owners of Huffman Aviation that goes back for more than a decade.

At least four financial scams, each looting more than $100 million, have criminal roots in the fertile soil— the “Octo-Mom” fertile soil—of the Venice Municipal Airport.

Almost immediately after its purchase in the summer of 1999 by Wallace J. Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers, the aviation facility became the center of a series of financial scams that included Ponzi schemes, pension fraud, international stock swindles, and fraudulent bankruptcies which have altogether looted more than $1 billion from the American economy.

Huffman Aviation, the flight training facility which housed both of the terrorist pilots who crashed passenger jets into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, has been operating as a continuing criminal enterprise, as defined by the Federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act.

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http://www.madcowprod.com/07272009.htm

[leveymg]

1. It's called a lesser, included charge.

Quite often, when the underlying crimes are too big to fail -- too many gov't officials and really wealthy, powerful people -- this is all that anyone ever goes to jail for. Kinda like going after Scooter Libby for Plamegate, or Oliver North for Iran-Contra. But, going after the designated fall guys keeps the spot-light fixed on one little corner of the stage long enough to put the audience to sleep.

Move along. Nothing to see here, folks.

[TrogL]

2. I *thought* that sounded familiar

How wierdly coincidental that the pilots who attacked the World Trade Center were trained at the same facility which basically waged economic warfare against the US economy.

Geez, if I were a conspiracy theorist.....oh, right, I am.

[Robbien]

5. Does it not make one wonder?

These facts coming out now makes the story just an 'oh by the way this is what happened', a story to be sloughed off.

But hey, the pilots who flew into the twin towers trained at an agency which is a corrupt front!

Hey!

[vinylsolution]

3. Fraud, racketeering, drug running in South Florida?

Does anyone else here detect the smell of Jeb Bush?

[Demeter]

4. Like the Skunk Cabbage, only not as sweet.

[Aragorn]

6. Jeb?

Try again.