Michele Bachmann's Aide Hides $10 Million Secret

[Octafish]

Seems Nixon wasn't the only crook.

Michele Bachmann's Aide Hides $10 Million Secret

By Robert Parry, Consortium News
Posted on July 10, 2011, Printed on July 13, 2011

Veteran political strategist Ed Rollins brought a burst of positive media coverage to Rep. Michele Bachmann when he signed on as campaign manager of her sometimes loopy presidential bid, but Rollins continues to hide a dark secret from one of his previous national campaigns.

For two decades, Rollins has withheld evidence about the identity of a top Filipino politician who admitted delivering an illegal $10 million cash payment to Ronald Reagan’s 1984 campaign from Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Rollins, who ran Reagan’s reelection campaign in 1984, mentioned the admission in his 1996 book, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, recounting how the Filipino casually asserted over drinks in 1991 that he had carried the money in a suitcase to a Republican lobbyist who was representing the Reagan campaign.

“I was the guy who gave the ten million from Marcos to your campaign,” the Filipino told Rollins. “I was the guy who made the arrangements and delivered the cash personally. … It was a personal gift from Marcos to Reagan.”

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http://www.alternet.org/story/151582/michele_bachmann%27s_aide_hides_%2410_million_secret

That's what journalism is all about. Too bad it's missing from most American's radar.

[MrScorpio]

1. I mistakenly unrecced this

Please, can I get a counter

[Octafish]

2. No problem, MrScorpio...

...The important thing is people get to know how the top levels of the GOP act -- a continuing criminal enterprise.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Okay

[Electric Monk]

4. Done.

[rhett o rick]

9. I rec'd twice to make up. jk nm

[gateley]

18. I rec early and often. nt

[MADem]

5. Reagan, of course, was a horrilble crook.

Iran-Contra, and all that...

[Octafish]

6. The guy did business with terrorists...

...and profited. Too bad all that is missing from Pruneface's crap hagiographies.

[NewJeffCT]

20. More members of his administration were indicted

than all other administrations of the 20th century combined.

[patrice]

7. Think for a minute about what that money would have done for Filipino children. nt

[Octafish]

8. True. Marcos was thinking about what it would do for his own 'outfit.'

From an excellent timeline:

The Marcos Plunder

THE FACTS, THE BACKGROUND AND PROCESS OF THE GREATEST LOOTING IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY: THE MARCOS PLUNDER
Treasure talk in the Philippines dates back to World War II.

a chronology by CHARLIE AVILA

EXCERPT...


1967
While Marcos was rather quick later in life to talk about his wealth as the result of treasure hunting, he was all the time loathe to talk about commissions and payoffs, confiscations and outright thievery. In the year 1967 Marcos received his first payoffs from the US=2 0government. After he committed troops to Vietnam, he began receiving quarterly checks of US$200,000.00 each, delivered by the US Embassy, as per a secret agreement “between officials of Department of State and President Marcos that the Philippine Government could conceal the receipt of these payments from the Philippine public in its national defense budget.”

July 07, 1967
Papers found in Malacañang showed Marcos opened his first bank account abroad on this day when he deposited US$215,000.00 in Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.

Not yet accustomed to hiding money, he used his own name.

The following year, 1968, he opened his first Swiss account.

March 21, 1968
The Manila Times headline was “CAMP MASSACRES BARED”, reporting the massacre of fourteen soldiers on Corregidor island, with another 40 missing, in a Marcos project code-named Jabida, whose aim was sabotage and insurgency in Sabah. The recruits were Filipino Muslims and the target was a Malaysian Muslim state. The recruits naturally rebelled and were therefore massacred. To Marcos, the natural resources of Sabah were the ult imate gold mine. He said as much so many times to mistress Dovie Beams. And he claimed to have the Special Power of Attorney on Sabah from the Sultanate of Jolo, traditional owners of what had now become a Malaysian state.

March 1968
Walter Fessler, an official of Credit Suisse Bank in Zurich, came to Manila. He was brought to Malacanang. Forms were filled out and signatures appended. On his signature verification form, Marcos wrote out “William Saunders (pseudonym),” an alias he had used in his WWII days, and underneath that name he wrote “Ferdinand Marcos (real name).” Imelda did the same, choosing Jane Ryan as her pseudonym. Four bank accounts were opened. Four checks, totalling US$950,000.00 were given for the deposit.

CONTINUED...

http://globalbalita.com/2009/the-marcos-plunder/

A swell guy. One of ours. Just returning a favor, having helped out the MIC when called.

[snot]

10. K&R'd.

[Initech]

11. But........ but......... it'll trickle down to the rest of us!

:puke:

[TrollBuster9090]

12. Now that's what I call CHOOTS-bah!

And what's with the Marcos picture!? We all know Ferdinand Marcos was a crook, but after he was double crossed by Reagan and the Republicans he refused to be seen with them anymore. He was a crook but at least he was a crook with brains and "criminal integrity."

[FreeBillClinton]

13. Too bad this guy isn't a democrat because I'd like to hear the whole story

Fox would hound him until he told or resigned in shame, if he was a democrat.

[JDPriestly]

14. K&R. The Missing Link has been found in the Philippines of all places.

Just watched the film (drama), the International, which was based on the BCCI affair.

Fascinating, fast-moving and well done.

[senseandsensibility]

15. K, R, and thanks for posting.

eom

[FreakinDJ]

16. Marcos ordered troops to use machine guns against protesters

in Cebu - very ugly

[WillyT]

17. K & R !!!

:kick:

[bertman]

19. Thanks, Octafish. Another excellent addition to your burgeoning file. REC. nt

[louslobbs]

21. Imelda Marcos simply cut her shoe budget that year by 25% it was worth it for her to look good in

the eyes of the Rayguns so that she could visit the Whitehouse whenever she was in the state buying more shoes to add to her collection of 3000 pairs. People starving all over the place and some lunatic has 3000 pairs of shoes. How do those types of people sleep at night?
Lou

[peacetalksforall]

22. What's the difference betwwen Marco giving it to Reagan and the Koch Brothersoch

giving to Bachmann or a variety of other significant money transactions?