Rove intimidating Republicans into silence

“French law enforcement authorities who are investigating a major international fraud scheme involving bribes paid to Nigerian officials by Halliburton’s Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary (while Dick Cheney was President and CEO) and its TSKJ business partners in return for a Nigerian liquefied natural gas contract, have confirmed that Five Star Trust, an off-shore entity with a presence in the Bahamas and the Isle of Man, and which is linked to the Bush family, is the subject of a major international criminal investigation.  The scandal, known as the Technip Affair in France, involves French, American, British, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese criminal investigations.  As reported by the editor after the 2004 election, Five Star Trust funds were moved illegally into the United States from Nigeria and other off-shore locations through the use of counterfeit “markers” used to secretly transfer large sums of money outside normal (and surveilled) banking networks like SWIFT.”

It was such a counterfeit marker, a money order from Canada’s Laurentian Bank, that was used to entice programmers to work on the 2004 election fraud.  Republican election fraud headquarters, according to GOP sources, was and remains centered in Enterprise, Alabama, the home of Fuller, a principal of Oceaneering, the very same firm that moved Marcos’ gold that would eventually end up in Five Star off-shore accounts.

And the intrigue does not end with Fuller and Bush.  In the late 1980s, Oceaneering needed to come up with some capital.  A New York financial investment manager named James Marquez steered investors into stocks of Oceaneering. He also pushed for Halliburton.  Marquez happened to be a money manager for the Soros Fund, of global financial predator George Soros.  Marquez and his partner Samuel Israel II would later establish the Bayou Management hedge fund. In December 2006, Marquez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud with Israel and was later sentenced to 51 months in prison.  In June of this year Israel faked his own suicide in New York but turned himself in to federal law enforcement last month.  Israel is serving a 20-year prison sentence for investment fraud.

Soros’ network of “progressive” journalists swooped in on Alabama to cover the Siegelman prosecution.  However, they practiced a vicious form of gatekeeping anytime the business activities of Fuller arose.  It now is apparent why there was an attempt to hold the line on investigating the Siegelman prosecution in Alabama.  A close look at Fuller and Oceaneering reveals the early investment of Soros money into Fuller’s company Oceaneering.  And for someone like Soros, who likens himself as a modern-day Robin Hood, doling out funds to progressive movements from Wall Street coffers, the reason for his “interest” in “progressive” journalism becomes readily apparent.  In reality, Soros is nothing more than a modern-day Howard Hughes, up to his eyeballs in dubious business deals with those he professes to loathe.

Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.

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