Final_Judgment

[170] Final Judgment 231
As Scott has concluded (and rightly so): "The so-called Cosa Nostra has
been systematically misrepresented by law enforcement investigators and
prosecutors. For this active misrepresentation has deformed the two official
investigations into the Kennedy assassination itself, not in marginal ways, but
so as to conceal central truths about the assassination, truths that were
embarrassing to those conducting the investigation.
"In the end one comes to recognize that the history of organized crime
and the history of the investigation and prosecution of organized crime are
closely intertwined processes affecting one another. Processes, one must add,
which mutually affect the truth, but concealed, seats of political power in
this country. ” 458
"To sum up: official investigations of the Kennedy assassination have
failed, not because the case is inherently insoluble, but because both the
case and the investigations have been governed by deeper political processes,
which have not yet been discerned." 459
In short, Jack Ruby was not a "Mafia” hireling, but, instead, a key
point man in Dallas for the Meyer Lansky Crime Syndicate and, ultimately,
as Stephen Fox has said, "the smoking gun, the Rosetta stone, the trout in
the milk" in the JFK assassination conspiracy. The deeper political
processes of which Peter Dale Scott has noted "have not yet been discerned"
are now, however, in the pages of Final Judgment, being bared for the first
time.
RUBY'S ISRAELI CONNECTIONS
Now although Jack Ruby was long known to be proud of his Jewish
heritage, what is little known is that Ruby himself had an intimate
connection with an individual with deep ties to the world of intelligence and
to the pro-Israel lobby in the United States. This was Ruby's "longtime
associate and former lawyer, ” 460 Luis Kutner of Chicago, who had
represented Ruby when Ruby was called before the staff of the Kefauver
Senate Rackets Committee in 1950 to discuss underworld activities in his
former home base of Chicago. According to Kutner, Ruby's offer was
contingent upon the condition that the Kefauver Committee stay away from
investigating organized crime in Dallas where Ruby was by then ensconced.
Peter Dale Scott notes that "The performance of the Kefauver Committee
would seem to corroborate Kutner's claim, for the Committee did give
Dallas a clean bill of health." 461
Although a "mob lawyer,” it seems, Kutner did have additional
interesting connections. According to Scott, "Kutner, by his own account,
had known Ruby since 1936, when he had used Ruby to 'run errands' in his
unsuccessful 1936 congressional campaign. Later Kutner had inserted
himself into what can only be described as international intelligence
operations, ranging from Latin American coups to the defense of ousted
Congolese leader Moise Tshombe." 462
But Kutner was himself also active in efforts to advance the interests of
Israel. He was among a host of people who formed the Center for Global