May 21 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker
The Guyanese pilot implicated by a former Customs agent as part of a ring of corrupt Customs officials being investigated by the Dept. of Homeland Security was in the news again recently as part of another scandal, this time in his native Guyana.
Michael Francis Brassington, whose name is a footnote in the 9/11 investigation, was named in a procurement scandal over the disputed purchase by the Guyana Defense Forces of two antique 30-year old helicopters from a 'dummy' company in Delaware that sounds suspiciously like a front for the CIA, the ironically-named “Global X Group.”
The company may have no visible corporate history and a suspiciously- improbable name, but today one thing "Global X Group" does have is a whole lot of Guyanese Government cash.
The citizenry of the tiny impoverished South American country of Guyana were up in arms over the scam, which fleeced them of $1.5 million, a sizable sum in a country with a deteriorated infrastructure, bad housing, poor sanitation... and an unfinished sports stadium with an unpaved parking lot in the capital of Georgetown, which one determined blogger is attempting to shame the Government into completing.
While researching pilot Brassington's involvement in the Guyana scandal, we were astonished to discover that Brassington’s father (also named Michael Brassington) has close business ties with one of the most notorious oligarchs in the Russian Mob, Oleg Deripaska, the “last man standing” in the brutal Aluminum Wars in Russia during the 1990’s for control of that strategic resource.
This information is important to a full understanding of the 9/11 attack. Brassington’s name surfaced in connection with 9/11 because he had been the co-pilot on the drug-running Lear jet (N351WB) owned by Wallace J. Hilliard (right). Hilliard also—and not coincidentally—owned the Venice FL flight school where Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi were at the time learning to fly.
Brassington, as it happens, is also one of two figures in the "100 Drug Plane-U.S. Customs Scandal" who have threatened to file lawsuits against the MadCowMorningNews for our coverage of the developing scandal.
Small world.
"Aluminum is a dangerous business"
Brassington's father was the head of Guyana's "state's privatization unit," and rejected bids by the local subsidiary of U.S. aluminum giant Reynolds Co. to buy out the state's interest in a joint bauxite venture in favor of selling out Guyana's state-owned bauxite company to Russian Aluminum (RusAl), controlled by Russian Mob Boss Oleg Deripaska.
"As Deripaska made his way up, 'protection' rackets run by organized crime groups were gradually taken over by law enforcement agencies," read a New York Times profile. "Aluminum is a very dangerous business in Russia."
"Deripaska sided with them as he strengthened his ties with the country's ruling elite, marrying Yeltsin's granddaughter Polina in 2001 and creating a powerful security service of his own."
Deripaska's marriage into the Yeltsin family cemented his leap. "By the time Oleg got married, he really was representing the family," one banker with knowledge of the matter told the Times. "It's a family partnership. You don't mess with ex-presidents or their families."
Facing criminal sentences, bosses of big Russian aluminum smelters opted to sell their stakes to Deripaska and his then partner, Roman Abramovich. By 2000, Deripaska controlled over 70 per cent of Russia's aluminum output.
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