In the Dumps: Marvin Bush, the Mob, and the "Liberal" Media

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"If there was a story out there that involved the mafia, New York City garbage, the bribing of an entire rural county in Virginia, and the President's brother, do you think the mainstream media would invest a few bucks to look into it? Would the FBI prosecute it? What if most of the documentation of the criminal activity was public?"
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"Yet there it is, in plain sight. On December 14, 2001, Marvin Bush, through Winston Partners, bought a mob-connected company that had been illegally over-dumping up to 1,000 tons of garbage a day in Page County, Virginia. That same day, the County Board of Supervisors increased the tonnage that could be dumped by roughly 1,000--a move that violated the permit but was worth millions to the just purchased company. On July 16, 2002, in a closed meeting, the board expanded the dump's space threefold--another move worth more than $100 million to Bush's company. Eight days, later, Board Supervisor Allen Cubbage and his wife paid off two mortgages totaling $760,000 at the Wachovia Bank in Roanoke, Virginia, according to Citizens for Better Government, a Page County watchdog group."

"The company that Marvin Bush bought, Tellurian Inc. and later National Waste Services, was owned by Michael Perkins, who has admitted in a deposition that he was business partners in the garbage industry with Tommy Ronga and Emedio Fazzini; both men are listed by the President's Commission on Organized Crime as high-ranking members of La Cosa Nostra, or what Hollywood calls the mob."
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"On July 23, 2003, Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine stepped in and blew the whistle, saying that the dump was far exceeding its legitimate 250-ton limit. He is now running for governor on the Democratic ticket against Jerry Kilgore, attorney general at the time. In March of 2004 Kilgore pulled the permit and shut down the landfill, but not before National Waste Services filed for bankruptcy, leaving Page County with a $13 million tab. The settlement agreement filed in Richmond Circuit Court that left Page County with that bill was formally objected to by the U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT immediately after it was filed. Eight days later that objection was dropped. KILGORE HAS FILED NO CHARGES and apparently has pursued no indictments."

http://www.trueblueliberal.com/storiesDetail.php?id=33

Guess who was George Bush's Virgina Campaing Manager in 2004. That's right; it was Jerry Kilgore.

This story is also covered in the current issue of Rolling Stone. It piqued my interest in the story again.