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100, Ellen Himelfarb; Laura Janeshewski; Carolyn Pritchard; Cynthia Reynolds; Et al, Copyright UMI
Company 1999, 07/30/1999]
After that recognition though, comes the recognition of other relationships which help
explain how a ‘family’ like the Bronfman family might get involved in a business that
might have links to illegal gold laundering. First, the Bronfman family uses the legal
services of White & Case, who also represented the Marcos family, JP Morgan, and
Banker’s Trust. (Bankers Trust reportedly was in possession of illegal gold from Marcos
requiring laundering, and JP Morgan later – as shall soon be demonstrated –
surreptitiously invested in Barrick.)
The Bronfman’s also have reported connections to the Israeli Mafia and the Bush
administration through Arie Genger.
"Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "back channel" to the Bush Administration is Israeli-American
businessman Arie Genger. Genger has been used to send messages between U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell and Sharon. Genger met Sharon in 1981 when he was working for Sharon's good friend,
Meshulam Riklis, one of the top operators in the Israeli Mafia. Genger heads the privately held, New
York-based, Trans-Resources Inc, which owns Haifa Chemicals in Israel. He has numerous business
connections to top Z-lobby and other notorious types. He sits on the investment committee of The
Challenge Fund-Etgar LP which is chaired by Edgar Bronfman." [Sharon’s “Private Channel” to
Bush Administration is a Riklis Man, Ha'aretz, 12/30/2001]
The most telling report regarding the Bronfman’s proclivity for possibly turning a blind
eye to illegal money laundering is their involvement in Bank of Montreal, Harris
Bank and Household Bank. If the following report is true, recruiting the Bronfmans for
ownership of a gold laundering operation would have been ideal.
"In Chicago, is a branch of a huge Canadian octopus, the Bank of Montreal, owned by the …
Bronfman family. … Their branch in Chicago, Harris Bank, has for some time been THE heavy weight
in foreign currency trading, handling and exchanging most every type of money instrument. Several
years ago Harris Bank merged with a known reputed money laundry, Household Bank, with units of
Household International, headquartered in the Chicago-area. Household is the successor and alter ego
to Nugan Han Bank that operated in California, Australia, Manila, Saudi, London, and a few other
places. The General Counsel of Nugan Hand was William Colby, former Director of Central
Intelligence. Former Generals and Admirals, close to CIA, operated Nugan Hand's worldwide offices.
It was a CIA proprietary operation, transferring clandestine funds, for "national security", for Southeast
Asia secret operations, including assassinations, such as the Phoenix Program, murdering some 63,000
Viet Namese civilians who opposed the Saigon government. Also disguised as something else were the
skimming off of U.S. weapons shipped to Viet Nam, some 20 per cent of which were stolen upon
being off-loaded. Dope funds from the "Golden Triangle". Large U.S. military gambling pools. The
dark underside of the real financial world. Nugan Hand was "The House". Colby became the unlisted
general counsel of Household, Nugan Hand's alter ego. Amid a scandal starting with the assassination
of one of its founders in 1980, and the shredding of its financial records, Nugan Hand disappeared.
Rising from the espionage ashes, to continue the reputed money laundering, was Household, which
had previously been mostly a loan shark operation, Household Finance Corporation. At about the time
Harris Bank took over many of the units of Household Bank, 1996, the unlisted "general counsel" of
Household, William Colby, was assassinated, covered up, his friends say, as a supposed "boating
accident". Colby was about to make public statements about Nugan Hand, about Household, and a few
other entities which he began to realize were not really carrying out a "national security" purpose but
were a vast dirty money machine. Major owners of Harris Bank were the Peter Fitzgerald family of
Chicago. He was ahead by between 25 to 50 million dollars when Harris Bank became a unit of Bank
of Montreal.(His mandatory financial disclosure was reported in the Washington Post, 6/12/99, page
A-3). Fitzgerald also reportedly has a sizable interest in one or more Mexican Banks, reportedly major
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