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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (69483)	2/15/2010 5:47:52 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The United States Government and Organized Crime Note from Ken: After World War II, the Justice Department, particularly the FBI, showed a particular disinterest in investigating organized crime and a heightened interest in the "dangers" of communist plots to take over the US from internal conspiracies. Interestingly, key players in this phenomena, J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan had numerous social connections with verified members of organized crime throughout their careers. With the exception of Ronald Reagan, all were heavy gamblers. Reagan's introduction to the organized crime and the illegal gambling industry came when he was a sports announcer for WHO in Des Moines, Iowa. Though not a gambler, he frequented Chicago-mob controlled Club Belvedere at a time when, according to a Chicago law enforcement official, Chicago underworld figures operating in Iowa "had a special interest in college athletes and sports writers." Club Belvedere hosted an illegal casino. Though the "fixing" of football games is somewhat rare (n the professional ranks at least), the mob's use of inside information from owners, players, and sports writers to establish point spreads for illegal bookmaking is extremely common. Reagan's association with organized crime continued in Hollywood where, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, he granted Chicago mob-founded and controlled MCA an extremely lucrative monopoly which made the company the only studio permitted to both represent talent and produce shows. (See the book "Dark Victory" by Dan Moldea.) According to David Burnham's history of corruption in the Justice Department "Above the Law", the Reagan adminstration was the most organized crime-friendly administration in the nation's history. brasscheck.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------