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Post by Admin Horan on Oct 16, 2020 6:55:13 GMT -6
Nice work. Very nice indeed.
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Post by Omega on Oct 22, 2020 14:17:15 GMT -6
After further research, here is my theory of what may have happened with the "Denaro" connections: 1) A Frank Denaro was working at Citibank in the 1970s in a high capacity. He may have, directly or indirectly and innocently, been involved or aware of something going on nefarious with Nugan Hand Bank and money laundering. Frank Denaro is NOT, repeat NOT , related to Carl Denaro in any capacity (or at least I couldn't find a connection) 2) Carl Denaro did have a stepfather. That stepfather's last name was obviously different than "Denaro". His stepfather did indeed work at Citibank. It is not known if he knew of or worked with Frank Denaro back in the day. Citibank was/is a huge employer in the NYC region with thousands of employees. The odds of a direct connection are slim. Going down the line of using Maury Terry's pseudonym approach, I will to refer to Carl's stepfather's nickname as "Russ" 3) Carl's real, biological father was not in the banking business. However, and ironically, in reality, he did share and use the same nickname as Carl's stepfather - "Russ" I think what may have happened here is a case of mistaken identity, as far as Carl Denaro is concerned. Whomever wanted to send a message to Frank Denaro at Citibank, got the family connection wrong. They may have been looking into Frank Denaro's kids and found out that a Carl Denaro has a father (really his stepfather) that works for Citibank, not realizing that Carl's stepfather's last name is NOT Denaro. To add to the confusion, when they were trying to track down the Denaro family they were looking for, both Carl's real father and stepfather used the same nickname of "Russ". They must have been like "This is got to be the right Denaro kid - his father works for Citibank and goes by the name "Russ"". WRONG! They didn't have Google and other resources back in 1976 that one has today! Just a theory to maybe clear up some of the confusion with the "Denaro" name and affiliations.
Who knows?
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Post by Admin Horan on Oct 22, 2020 14:39:32 GMT -6
Possible. There are a million Denaro's and Valenti's in New York. Plenty of them are mafia. Frank J Denaro had a niiiiiiice house in Bay Shore, a couple of miles from the Amityville Horror house (I need to do an episode on THAT murder.) Several Valenti's live in that area, too, and and there is at least one Denaro-Valenti marriage there.
Speaking of mistaken identity, remember, the shooter(s) may have been after Rosemary Keenan, and Carl was just unlucky. But that's a stretch.
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Post by Admin Horan on Oct 25, 2020 10:04:53 GMT -6
It's sad when Satanists schism. And then Ehrenwald had to go adding insult to injury:
Dr. Jan Ehrenwald, a psychiatrist who specializes in modern parapsychology, terms witchcraft a “Belief in having a supernatural power is part of a primitive mentality. I'm convinced it's a naive delusional system.”
Apparently, Buckland was powerless to concoct a working love potion. He was married at least three times that I know of.
Sooooooooo...it turns out that an over-active coven of "witches" (the first Gardnerian "Wiccan" coven in the US) was brewing (sorry) all kinds of trouble in and around Bay Shore in those days (ca 1962-1980s.) What a coincidence. That coven conjured up (I need help, I know) most of the founders of the other Gardnerian covens in the US. But Bay Shore was the center of gravity. And Frank J Denaro bought a house there. Hmmmmmm... And again, a LOT of Denaros and Valentis there. And suddenly, this mobster (DeFeo Sr's uncle Peter DeFeo was a bona fide caporegime in Costello's mob who helped Genovese otherthrow Costello) moves into the neighborhood and all hell breaks loose. Funny, that. FWIW, Ronald DeFeo Jr told police that his grandfather's car dealership was part of a mob solen car/auto parts/body disposal front operation. And here's something else that's interesting: Peter DeFeo came up through the mob-controlled N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters. Their members include carpenters, dock builders--and carpet/tile/floorcovering installers.
Speaking of witch covens in Bay Shore, there is a new series of "books" coming out at this very moment: The Bayshore Witch Legacy. I have no information.
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Post by james1983 on Oct 25, 2020 17:02:11 GMT -6
Professor. I've heard you mention the Reynolds family recently. Is Harmon G. Reynolds part of this family? I'm asking because I ran across the name in reference to him issuing life insurance to civil war soldiers who were Freemasons. These freemasonic insurance companies later evolved into the insurance companies we have today.
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Post by Jon on Oct 26, 2020 6:20:26 GMT -6
And here's something else that's interesting: Peter DeFeo came up through the mob-controlled N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters. Their members include carpenters, dock builders--and carpet/tile/floorcovering installers. Maybe there's a Yonkers link here? Richard Goldmintz, who was at least peripherally connected to the Westchester cult via his wife Esperanza, the sister of Peter Perez, owned Crown Carpet ("We install, we deliver") on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers.
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Post by Admin Horan on Oct 27, 2020 21:54:02 GMT -6
Aha! I was beating my brains out trying to remember who that was. Yeah. Why wouldn't there be a link? In fact, it explains it perfectly.
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Post by Jon on Oct 27, 2020 22:52:04 GMT -6
Aha! I was beating my brains out trying to remember who that was. Yeah. Why wouldn't there be a link? In fact, it explains it perfectly. Goldmintz also owned a venetian blind business that operated out of the same building. Interestingly, Kelly Morrissey (who disappeared in June 1984 from Lynbrook, NY, where two other girls were murdered shortly thereafter) worked at a venetian blind store. The larger cult case is bizarre enough for this to have been more than coincidence.
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Post by Admin Horan on Oct 28, 2020 9:00:39 GMT -6
The Garment Workers BUILT Co-Op City (and other apartment buildings.) And there are other financial connections between Co-Op City and buildings like the Pratt Institute. Rosemary LaBianca's dress shop was stocked with inventory from a factory owned by the Garment Workers Union. JSYK, that union was as (if not more) mob controlled than the Teamsters or the Longshoremen. How many SOS victims and other characters worked in the garment industry? Berko worked for a HVAC installer. That's Plumbers and Steamfitters. Hollyweird was and is unionized inside and out.
This week's podcast will take a closer look at mafia links to all these cases (and more.)
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Post by Omega on May 3, 2021 5:40:30 GMT -6
I guess we got it "straight from the horse's mouth" - Carl Denaro, in the flesh, said on Manny G.'s latest walking tour video of Carl's Flushing Queens site that he does NOT have (or had) a relative named "Frank Denaro"
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Post by mannygrossman on May 3, 2021 6:38:15 GMT -6
The Garment Workers BUILT Co-Op City (and other apartment buildings.) And there are other financial connections between Co-Op City and buildings like the Pratt Institute. Rosemary LaBianca's dress shop was stocked with inventory from a factory owned by the Garment Workers Union. JSYK, that union was as (if not more) mob controlled than the Teamsters or the Longshoremen. How many SOS victims and other characters worked in the garment industry? Berko worked for a HVAC installer. That's Plumbers and Steamfitters. Hollyweird was and is unionized inside and out. This week's podcast will take a closer look at mafia links to all these cases (and more.) I know the Amalgamated union in NYC built lots of apartments in NYC too. I lived in one for 12 years in the Bronx. It was called the Amalgamated Houses up near Van Cortlandt. It was started by a Sidney Hillman who was majorly tied to the mob.
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Post by Admin Horan on May 12, 2021 19:14:09 GMT -6
Manny, et al:
I deleted the posts about Carl Denaro's comments on Frank Denaro, Jr. I WILL address ALL the REAL facts very soon on the podcast. THEN we can go ahead and discuss it. But I'm not happy about him pulling the rug out from under me like that. I'm not blaming Manny. But I'm not happy with Carl jerking me around. And I accept NO excuses, for that kind of shit, not from witnesses, not from victims, not from nobody. But I will FIX the problem LIVE on the podcast. Soon enough.
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Post by marionumber1 on May 17, 2021 12:49:12 GMT -6
From p.831-832 of the 1999 edition of TUE:
The cult's heroin trafficking as described here is precisely reminiscent of the Nugan Hand operation that Professor Horan has talked about. But how, exactly, did "Vinny" have an accurate list of Hawaiian locations involved in this drug operation which "did not originate with Berkowitz"? If "Vinny" is a real individual, wouldn't this suggest that he was more than just some random guy in prison, but a member or associate of organized crime operations that ran parallel with what the Sam cult was up to? Who exactly might "[Name withheld]" be?
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Post by Admin Horan on May 20, 2021 8:28:23 GMT -6
Outstanding!
According to our sources, "another company in Hawaii" is mos def IBI--the company Berkowitz handled guard dogs for--and their partner, Neptune Worldwide Movers and Storage--the company Fred Cowan worked for. Both companies are also "customs brokers." That means, they SELF INSPECT. In fact, not only does customs not inspect their shipments, in those days at least, a customs broker "inspected" or otherwise vouched for shipments so Customs didn't have to. Amazon is basically a self-regulated customs broker.
The particular shipment of heroin in question was sent from Thailand inside the furniture packing crates of an international businessman who was moving from Thailand to Hawaii. The furniture shipment originated with Transpo, who stopped off in Australia, then proceeded to Honolulu. When the Transpo ship unloaded in Honolulu, one of furniture cases got "broken." While sitting in the self-inspected Neptune/IBI warehouse. Whilst in said self-inspected warehouse, the heroin was transferred to.....
According to our sources, some of it went inside crates of X-ray and/or other delicate hospital equipment being sent to the mainland for repairs. IBI has specialized in that kind of cargo for decades. Some of it ended up in crates being shipped "to the United Nations." Neptune has had an exclusive contract to move ALL UN personnel in and out of New York, in cooperation with IBI. (Since the 1970s, these companies have merged, blah blah blah. But in the 70s, they, along with Transpo, had various arrangements...) So, with all these international do-gooders fleeing Indochina like rats leaving a sinking ship, Neptune was BUSY moving them back to their home countries, to New York, whatever. New governments in that area were sending new diplomats to new posts at the UN. Etc. Any REALLY valuable cargo, like said businessman's enormous collection of jade sculptures, antique furniture, etc, were probably physically shipped by IBI. The CIA, to the extent that they pulled of Indochina, had all their stuffed shipped to wherever by Transpo, Neptune, and IBI.
And some of the heroin was supposedly shipped in containers of blood and blood products....from HAWAII? Well, ever since WWII, when the US needed every drop of blood it could get, and since blood needs to be as fresh as possible, Hawaii has been a MAJOR source of donated blood. WWII. Korea. Vietnam. Peacetime. MAJOR source. And with its strictly limited shelf life, that Hawaiian blood supply has required a HEFTY distribution infrastructure.
So, if some of the heroin, which left Thailand in 1975, was being shipped to New York by IBI and Neptune, that's the docks, warehouses, etc where both Berkowitz and Cowan worked. If some of it was shipped to hospitals and blood banks, that's the SPECIFIC job that John Arthur Getreu was doing at Stanford Memorial Hospital and Donna Lauria was doing at Empire State Ambulance (HQ at the hospital where her mother had some unspecified job in the administration.)
Donna Lauria's father was suspected of being under pressure from the mafia. Her "ex" boyfriend was named Vinny. And he was supposedly tied to the mafia. Was that why she dumped him? Is he Maury's "Vinny?"
I always wondered if Donna's mother was one of Maury's sources.
What about the "Hawaiian quarry?" Sounds like the kind of hole in the ground that the Newhall family (Chowchilla bus kidnapping, rich young Satanist punks, Dr Ohta, etc) owned. The quarry where "Satanic sacrifices" were taking place at the time fo the Arlis Perry murder belonged to or was affiliated with them, I think. I'll check on that some more. Scott Newhall, the editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, was, obviously, a Newhall. Reynolds Metals also does/did a lot digging in a lot of dirt all over the world.
Also, Hawaii, especially during Vietnam, was the BIGGEST and busiest US military hospital complex in the world. A LOT of our boys of interest were all patients there in 1966ish. "What are YOU going to do back in the World? As a former Green Beret?" "Well, it's either go to work at this new chain called Taco Bell, or go into smuggling. How about you?" "Smuggling. In fact, there are some people right here in this hospital..." Or something like that. Maybe.
All of the big "drug smuggling" stories we've heard on the news are the ones that got BUSTED. What happened to the 500 pounds of China White? It didn't go to Frank Lucas. Lucas had had his own hookup, Lu Chai Rubiwat (by way of Sgt Ike Atkinson,) until Lucas and Atkinson were busted. In January 1975. Right before this 500 pounds left the docks for Honolulu. Boy. You talk about a lucky break. You're sitting on this gigantic gold mine of heroin, with no one to buy it, and suddenly, your main competition is miraculously busted. And by "you," I mean two American generals who are CIA contractors, and by "your competition," I mean, a US Army sergeant. Talk about a universe of meaningless coincidences. Talk about a plate of shrimp.
And why haven't we heard of this ginormous shipment (the second biggest single shipment of refined heroin in history, so far was we know) until now? Simple. It never got busted.
Never got busted. No one turned rat. Not successfully, anyway. I wonder how "they" managed that?
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Post by Admin Horan on May 29, 2021 9:41:46 GMT -6
Okay, here's the scoop on Carl Denaro's parents: His biological father was Constantin "Gus" Denaro (he's even MORE interesting that Carl's stepfather Gus Jakobs.) His mother Catherine divorced Constantin and married Gustav John Jakobs in 1975. When Jakobs retired from Citibank, he apparently divorced Carl's mother, moved to Port Richey, FL, and married Kay Freeman in 2007. Kay Freeman owns her own business, supplying fairly low-tech parts to high-tech aerospace companies. She also owns one of those for-profit family "therapy" joints where they "specialize in abused and neglected children."
Carl Denaro's father is pretty farking interesting (I'm saving that for the podcast.) Carl's stepfather is really farking interesting. I'm suddenly very, very farking interested in Carl's MOTHER. How did a blue-collar ex-wife from upstate New York MEET a Sr VP of Citibank, let alone MARRY him? Judging by his other wives, she must have put quite a dowry on the table. I wonder what it was? Was she maybe Jakobs's SECRETARY? Some women use their young daughters as "bait" to catch men. Catherine had three. What else did she have that would catch the eye of a Citibank VP?
Also, it appears that Frank J Denaro JUNIOR, retired Senior VP of money markets at Citibank and later member of Citigroup board of directors, was MENTORED at Citi (the only job he ever had) by Carl's stepfather Gus Jakobs. Not the other way around. Frank Jr may have grown up on Staten Island. He graduated from CUNY Brooklyn with an AS in accounting in 1972. And went STRAIGHT to the top from there. Frank Jr's mother's name is ALSO [Julia] Catherine, but not the same Catherine as Carl's mother. He has a sister named Deborah, but not the same Deborah as Carl's sister.
About as clear as mud.
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