Newsweek Magazine Covers Up McCain's Mob Ties
One of the biggest stories of modern political history
consistently suppressed by controlled media
By Michael Collins Piper
Newsweek—one of the big three “news” magazines—has demonstrated beyond question that the American media is determined to cover up the organized crime origins of the fortune that set John McCain’s political career in motion and made him one of the richest men in Congress.
On June 30, Newsweek published a glowing cover story about McCain’s second (and current) wife, the former Cindy Hensley, featuring a glamorous cover photo of Mrs. McCain, followed by eight full pages of friendly reportage, including another glamour photo of the attractive woman draped across two pages. Mrs. McCain, so it seems, may be a candidate for sainthood.
Although Newsweek said Mrs. McCain’s family “is deeply rooted in Arizona,” and that her late father, Jim Hensley, “was one of the most prominent men in the state,” who was “a World War II bombardier . . . shot down over the English channel,”—in other words, a war hero just like McCain—Newsweek did not even hint of the racketeering and corruption (and murder) associated with Hensley and his patrons in his rise to power.
Newsweek said Hensley “borrowed $10,000 to start a liquor business” which became one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributorships in the country and pointed out that the vast Hensley influence and fortune (worth $200 million) “got [McCain] access to money and connections” after he divorced his ailing first wife and married his then-mistress, Cindy Hensley, and settled in Arizona where he first ran for office in 1982. What Newsweek chose not to mention is what AFP previously reported:
McCain’s father-in-law got his start as the top henchman for Kemper Marley, who, for 40 years until his death in 1990, was the undisputed political boss of Arizona, acting as the behind-the-scenes power over both the Republican and Democratic parties. But Marley was more than a politician. He was the Meyer Lansky crime syndicate’s chief Arizona operative, front man for the Bronfman family—key players in the Lansky syndicate.
During Prohibition, the Canadian-based Bronfman family supplied and thus controlled the “spigot” of liquor funneled to local Lansky syndicate functionaries in the United States, including Al Capone in Chicago.
After Prohibition, Lansky-Bronfman associates such as Marley got control of a substantial portion of liquor (and beer) distribution across the country. In fact, Marley’s longtime public relations man, Al Lizanitz, revealed it was the Bronfman family that set Marley up in the alcohol business.
However, in 1948, 52 of Marley’s employees (including Jim Hensley, the manager of Marley’s company) were prosecuted for federal liquor violations. Hensley got a six-month suspended sentence and his brother Eugene went to prison for a year.
In 1953, Hensley and (this time) Marley were prosecuted by federal prosecutors for falsifying liquor records. But a young attorney,William Rehnquist, acted as their “mouthpiece” (as mob attorneys are known) and the two got off scot-free. Rehnquist later became chief justice of the Supreme Court and presided over the “fix” that made George W. Bush president in a rightly disputed election.
The story in Arizona is that Hensley took the fall for Marley in 1948 and Marley paid back Hensley by setting him up in his own beer distribution business. Today, Newsweek implies Hensley’s company was a “mom and pop” operation that became a big success, but the real story goes to the heart of the history of organized crime.
Hensley’s sponsor, Marley, was also a major player in gambling, a protégé of Lansky lieutenant Gus Greenbaum who, in 1941, set up a national wire for bookmakers. After Lansky ordered a hit on his own longtime partner, “Bugsy” Siegel, who was stealing money from the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas—which was financed in part by loans from an Arizona bank chaired by Marley—Greenbaum turned day-to-day operations of the wire over to Marley while Greenbaum took Siegel’s place in tending to Lansky’s interests in Las Vegas.
In 1948 Greenbaum was murdered in a mob “hit” that set off a series of gang wars in Phoenix, but Marley survived and prospered as did his protégé, Jim Hensley, whose fortune sponsored McCain’s rise to power.
McCain’s father-in-law also dabbled in dog racing and expanded his fortune by selling his track to an individual connected to the Buffalo-based Jacobs family, key Prohibition-era cogs in the Lansky network as distributors for Bronfman liquor.
Expanding over the years, buying up racetracks and developing food and drink concessions at sports stadiums, Jacobs enterprises were described as “probably the biggest quasi-legitimate cover for organized crime’s money-laundering in the United States.”
In 1976, Hensley’s mentor—Marley (at the height of his power)—was the key suspect behind the contract murder of journalist Don Bolles who was investigating the mob in Arizona, but Marley was never prosecuted.
All of this is well known in Arizona, but Newsweek is working to keep the story contained.
In 2000, when McCain first ran for president, The Spotlight brought the facts to a national audience for the first time. AFP has since reported on this and many Internet outlets have picked the story up, but do not mention AFP as the source. McCain’s mob ties were also outlined in the book, The New Jerusalem (available from AFP for $20) which has had considerable distribution here and abroad.
Since McCain’s career was sponsored by the Lansky-Bronfman syndicate, it is no coincidence McCain recently traveled to London where Lord Jacob Rothschild of the international banking empire raised money among American expatriates on McCain’s behalf. Rothschild has long been allied with the Bronfman family as major patrons of Israel.
. . ..Michael Collins Piper can be heard every week day night live on the Internet at republicbroadcasting.org. He is the author of Final Judgment, the controversial “underground bestseller” documenting the collaboration of Israeli intelligence in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is also the author of The High Priests of War, The New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America , The Judas Goats: The Enemy Within, Dirty Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up in the 20th Century, and The GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb. These works can be found at America First Books and FIRST AMENDMENT BOOKS: 1-888-699-NEWS. He has lectured on suppressed topics in places as diverse as Malaysia, Japan, Canada, Russia and Abu Dhabi.
(Issue #28-29, July 14 and 21, 2008, AMERICAN FREE PRESS)
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"In
fact, as AFP pointed out in an in-depth article on Feb. 4, 2008, McCain
owes his entire career to the indirect sponsorship of the powerful
organized-crime-enriched family of-liquor billionaire Edgar Bronfman,
head of the World Jewish Congress. McCain’s chief backer in Arizona
politics, Kemper Marley, was a front man for the Bronfman family and
McCain’s own family beer distribution fortune came through this
connection.
In
addition, much of McCain’s own campaign money has come from a clique of
groups and individuals all of whom have close ties to the Israeli
lobby, including: organized crime-linked gambling interests in Las
Vegas, international bankers such as Goldman Sachs, and Hollywood
figures such as the late mob-linked LewWasserman.
McCain’s
father, the late Adm. John McCain, was a key player in the official
U.S. government cover-up of Israel’s murder of 34 American sailors
aboard the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967."
"In
fact, as AFP pointed out in an in-depth article on Feb. 4, 2008, McCain
owes his entire career to the indirect sponsorship of the powerful
organized-crime-enriched family of-liquor billionaire Edgar Bronfman,
head of the World Jewish Congress. McCain’s chief backer in Arizona
politics, Kemper Marley, was a front man for the Bronfman family and
McCain’s own family beer distribution fortune came through this
connection. In
addition, much of McCain’s own campaign money has come from a clique of
groups and individuals all of whom have close ties to the Israeli
lobby, including: organized crime-linked gambling interests in Las
Vegas, international bankers such as Goldman Sachs, and Hollywood
figures such as the late mob-linked LewWasserman. McCain’s
father, the late Adm. John McCain, was a key player in the official
U.S. government cover-up of Israel’s murder of 34 American sailors
aboard the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.""In
addition, McCain’s own backstage connections in his home state of
Arizona (See AFP, Feb 4, 2008: McCain's
Career Financed by Mob Money: Arizona politics greatly influenced by
former associates of Bronfman, Lansky) are equally intriguing and point even
further to the reasons why the Rothschilds are enamored with McCain.As
AFP pointed out, McCain’s late father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a top
figure in the organized crime power network surrounding one Kemper
Marley, who acted as the front man in Arizona for the Bronfman
family—key players in the Lansky crime syndicate, popularly though
inaccurately referred to as “the Mafia”—who used Marley to control both
major political parties in that state. The
Bronfman family has long been allied with the Rothschilds as among the
leading billionaire patrons of Israel and the global Zionist movement,
so much so that Edgar Bronfman, head of the dynasty, was, for many years
head of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), which is now lorded over by
his son Matthew, who is chairman of the WJC’s governing board. Eight
years ago, when McCain first ran for president, Edgar Bronfman was a
contributor to his campaign. And at the time McCain included among his
closest advisors the ubiquitous William Kristol of the stridently
pro-Israel neo-conservative journal, The Weekly Standard, whose
owner, media baron Rupert Murdoch, rose to wealth and power through the
sponsorship of the Rothschild and Bronfman families. Kristol
has attended the secretive Bilderberg meetings that are sponsored
jointly on an annual basis by the Rothschild family in partnership with
their American confreres in the Rockefeller family. So
the McCain-Bronfman-Rothschild connection is intimate on multiple
levels and explains much about McCain’s long-standing tendency to be an
almost feverish advocate for Israel’s interests."Newsweek Magazine Covers Up McCain's Mob Ties: One of the biggest stories of modern political history consistently suppressed by controlled media, By Michael Collins Piper, 2008
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"While flamboyant Italian-American Al Capone won all the headlines and
the media attention through his exploits in Chicago, his real sponsors,
New York-based Meyer Lansky (above left) and Lansky’s bootlegging
partner, Montreal-based Sam Bronfman (above right), were the real powers
behind the throne.Although Lansky and Bronfman are long dead, the
influence of their successors remains a major influence in organized
crime and world politics today. Bronfman’s son, Edgar (right), is
president of the World Jewish Congress. Below, January 1, 1931: Mobster Al
Capone looks over Uncle Sam’s $50,000 bail bond in the Federal Building
in Chicago." (Michael Collins Piper, for The Barnes Review, 2003)
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