McCain "pals" around with mobsters and porn film makers

http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/09/23/ayers-lets-look-at-the-marley-hensley-murder-of-don-bolles/

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.crime/browse_thread/thread/7fc1126c49d4af65

http://ktracy.com/?p=868


http://www.democrats.com/john-mcbooze-married-to-the-mob


Porn:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/phil-gramm-may-be-gone-bu_b_112781.html

http://justmoreofthesame.com/fact_check/38/fact-check-john-mccain-lobbyists

Ralph Reed
Jack Abramoff

Juan Carlos Benitez (McCain fundraiser w/ an Abramoff connection)
http://www.firedupamerica.com/juan
http://suzieqq.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/mccains-moneyraiser-juan-carlos-benitez-worked-for-mariana-islands/

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/07/jacks-black-corvette.php

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/220379.php

In that Newsweek piece, which details Rick Davis's continuing financial ties to mega-lobby firm Davis Manafort, Mike Isikoff reveals that in addition to paying Davis's salary directly to Davis Manafort, the McCain campaign has paid almost a million dollars to 3eDC, a web development company, part owned by Davis.

Now, digging around a little, I notice that 3eDC is pretty closely tied to Davis Manafort. Not only, as Newsweek notes, does the company share an address with Davis Manafort. Last year, US News got Davis to admit that the company has two owners -- Rick Davis and Paul Manafort.

And there's a bit more. According to a July 2007 article in the Wall Street Journal, 3eDC was a "start-up ... with one customer -- the campaign." The Journal further reported that within the campaign it was understood that 3eDC was essentially a pass-through, that it had a series of other 'partner firms' that did the actual work.

So to cycle back, how we got into all this was trying to figure out whether Rick Davis had really cut his ties with Davis Manafort. The question most people have been asking is whether Davis was still drawing a salary. What it seems like now, however, is that Davis has born poring tons of McCain campaign money back into Davis Manafort -- either by having his campaign salary paid to the firm or by having huge consulting accounts set up for paper companies owned by Davis and Manafort. In either case, the question seems no longer to be whether Davis still draws a salary from Davis Manafort but whether McCain-Palin 2008 and Davis Manafort are even distinct organizations
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Digging around McCain's FEC lists:

McCain's FEC disbursement list for April
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2008/M4/C00430470/B_PAYEE_C00430470.html

3EDC LLC 399,916.09

March:
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2008/M3/C00430470/B_PAYEE_C00430470.html

3EDC LLC 40,682.68


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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118515181783374359.html

to secede from the United States. Why in the world would she want to be president of a country she thinks Alaska should no longer be part of?

:headbang:
rocknation

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/berman_ames

John McCain celebrated his 70th birthday on the yacht of a mobster, Rafaello Follieri, who has pleaded guilty in a Manhattan district court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, eight counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. McCain supposedly has long-term ties to Follieri. Follieri supposedly has expertise in hiding assets offshore. I wonder if John and Cindy have used this particular type of expertise, as we know little about the extent of their fortune and Cindy won't make her tax returns public. It's interesting also to note that McCain went on the yacht while it was docked in Montenegro. Apparently, Follieri's yacht arrived there several days before McCain arrived in the country, and sailed away immediately after he boarded it. Why did he choose to board this yacht in a foreign country, where it would get less notice by the American press?