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The_Jazz, John McCain was a 44 years old naval officer when he met James W. Hensley, and the stench of the following story was still playing out in the criminal trial for the murder of Don Bolles of a close associate of Kemper Marley, a man described as like an adopted son of Marley. That man was convicted twice of murdering Bolles and received a life sentence.
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azcentral.com | special report
Max Dunlap, who turned 76 last May, is still serving a life sentence for his role in the murder of Don Bolles. He insists to this day that he shouldn’t be ...
www.azcentral.com/specials/special01/
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McCain had to know of Hensley's background, but he resigned his Naval officer's commission, and took a job as Hensley's VP of PR. Hensley was McCain's initial campaign financier, and all of McCain's wealth today can be traced to Hensley. All of Hensley's wealth and connections can be traced to his organized crime activity with Marley and his associates. Hensley's brother and business partner, Eugene, served 3 federal prison sentences, from 1948 to 1969, and I read in a 60s Albuquerque Journal newspaper article that he owed the IRS $1 million in interest and penalties.
McCain made his decisions, reaped fantastic benefits, and I'm saying that all it would take is an informed electorate, exposed to the info that I, as a "hobbyist", bring to the table here, to react to McCain's bid for the presidency as if he were applying for a license to operate a horse racing track in any state, or a casino in Las Vegas. McCain's application would be rejected, due to unsavory ties to organized crime figures and his possession of and personal gain from mob activity proceeds.
<h3>But, we're not talking about a license from state regulators to manage a gambling venue, we're talking about McCain's suitability, given what all of this evidence indicates about his judgment and his ethics, to serve in the office of president of the United States.
Still waiting....where are all of the folks who have post unsupported Clinton or Kennedys BS, in the past?</h3>
In 1976, Arizona Republic newspaper investigative reporter Don Bolles was killed when his car was rigged with explosives and detonated via a remote device as he attempted to drive it out of a Phoenix parking lot. Bolles, as he lay dying after the blast, said:
In the aftermath of the murder of Don Bolles, 36 investigative reporters from newspapers across the country, descended on Phoenix and spent the next six months investigating the death of Bolles and Arizona official corruption and mob influence of business and government. The result was a 23 part expose, exceeding 80,000 words, called "The Arizona Project, that was published in newspapers nationwide. Here is one excerpt. Compare it to the second article, published in connection with this reporting. It details the organized crime associations and activities of John McCain's father in law, James W. Hensley. Hensley worked for Kemper Marley for at least 8 years, and was arrested twicwe, and convicted on federal liquor federal invoice fraud charges once, in 1948, receiving a suspended sentence.
The Hensleys, as the second article tells us, literally snuck into the horse race track business in New Mexico, with the former Capone bookie wire service operator of Kemper Marley, their undisclosed 1/3 race track partner, Clarence (Teak) Baldwin.
Today, McCain lives in Hensley's old residential complex in central Phoenix, and enjoys a net worth of $50 to $100 million of the now deceased Hensley's money. McCain's first post naval career job and his financing for his first politcal campaign, were given to him by James Hensley.
If you have anything as sensational as this to post about the Kennedy's or the Clintons, especially if it is this richly documented, please share it!
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Link to photo of this article <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~qvc/mob2.png">(page 1)</a>
Link to photo of this article <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~qvc/mob2.png">(page 2)</a>
From page 2:
March 22, 1977
Phoenix Millionaire Linked to Bolles Slaying
....When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Marley organized the wholesale liquor business that eventually became the United Liquor Co., with branches all over Arizona.
There were hints honesty was not the watchword for Marley's liquor business. In 1948, two employees were fined and sentenced to terms of imprisonment for making false reports to the government on distilled liquor sales. <h3>One of those employes had his jail sentence suspended.</h3> (McCain's father in law, James W. Hensley was that employee....)
In 1953, Marley's Phoenix and Tucson distributorships were accused of falsifying records to avoid paying liquor taxes, but were found innocent.
As Marley's liquor business grew, he took part in other business ventures - a frozen food locker, a bottling plant, a sheep-raising business, and ranching operations. In 1946, according to police sources, Marley took up still another line of business, one that brought him into contact with organized crime.
In that year, he and several others, including Cosa Nostra mobster Peter Licavoli took over the racing wire service for bookies in Arizona, police said. The service was the original Transamerica Wire Service established by mobster Gus Greenbaum for the Al Capone mob prior to 1941.
At the time, Greenbaum was concentrating on establishing hotel-casinos for the mob in Las Vegas. Late in the 1940s, Marley and his associates were instructed by the Chicago Syndicate to move Greenbaum out of the Phoenix wire service, and they did so, police sources said.
But Greenbaum had problems. The following information was obtained by IRE from a confidential Phoenix Police Dept. report: "As Greenbaum grew bigger and stronger in Las Vegas, he began cheating his partners and was ordered to sell out or he would be carried out in a box. In early December, 1958, a meeting was held at the Grace Ranch of Peter Licavoli Sr. (Tucson). At this meeting were Joe Profaci, Joe Magliocco, Joseph Bonanno Sr., and Tony Accardo (all mob bosses)"...
The next day, on Dec. 3, 1958, Greenbaum and his wife were found dead in their Phoenix home with their throats slit. James (Jimmy) Aaron, a partner of Greenbaum who police said helped Marley run the wire service, shot himself a year later after leaving a note saying he feared he was going insane.
Others who managed the wire-service operation for Marley included confessed bookie Clarence E. (Mike) Newman, gambler Clarence E. (Teak) Baldwin, who was convicted of tax evasion in 1956, and Pete Abbey, police sources said.
Abbey, manager of the private, exclusive Cowman's Club in east Phoenix, was indicted last October on 60 counts of sports bookmaking for an operation at the club that police said was raking in $300,000 a month in bets....
.....A California man won a large civil judgment against Baldwin and a Baldwin associate in 1952 after accusing them of drugging and defrauding them....
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...54C0A967948260
Cattleman and Reporters End Their Four-Year Libel Dispute
AP
Published: July 18, 1981
...Mr. Marley named the reporters' group, the individuals who worked on the project and newspapers that published the stories. <h3>Last February, after a five-month trial, a jury in Maricopa, Ariz., found that the reporters had not libeled Mr. Marley or invaded his privacy.</h3> But he was awarded $15,000 in punitive damages.The dismissal came after both sides agreed not to pursue the case through appeals. No money was exchanged....
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Compare the info above to this article in my post:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...29#post2405229
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Albuquerque Journal - March 26, 1977
Riudoso Race Track Owners Tied to Arizona Gambling
By Robert V. Beier
Former associated of Phoenix wheeler dealers and gambling interests once controlled Riudoso
Downs race track and whiile in New Mexico they apparently kept their business operations to
themselves.
Eugene V. Hensley and his brother James W. Hensley who purchased controlling stock of Riudoso
Racing Assn in December 1952, once worked for and with Kemper Marley, Phoenix millionaire
rancher and wholesale liquor dealer.
<h3>And When the Hensley brothers purchased control of the Lincoln County track, Phoenix gambler
Clarence E. "Teak" Baldwin simultaneously bought one third of the race track stock-- something
the Hensleys denied in a State Racing Commission hearing in May, 1953.</h3>
Marley, 70 was named recently in a police affadavit as the man who requested the contract
killings of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles, slain in a bomb attack last June and Arizona
Atty Gen Bruce Babbitt.
No attempt was made on Babbitt's (continued on A-16)
(Continued from A-1)
Ex-Owners Knew Arizona Gamblers
life. Marley has not been criminally charged.
An Investigative Reporters and Editors "IRE" report in it's Phoenix Project revealed Marley also
ran an organized crime ???? wire service for bookies that was managed at one time by Baldwin who
was convicted of income tax evasion in 1956.
The IRE investigation showed the Hensleys were associates of Marley and Baldwin in the 1930s,
1940s and early 1950s in Phoenix.
A search of commission records in Albuquerque by the Journal showed the racing body in the early
1950s was aware of the associations and leary of Mr. Baldwin connected with the Hensleys in
their purchase and operation of the track.
At a May 1953 commission hearing in Albuquerque records show the Hensley brothers readily told
of their connections with the Arizona wholesale liquor business and Marley in the 1930s and
1940s and the federal convictions in 1948 for making false entires on government records
regarding ???? liquor sales.
However, the Henleys denied at the same hearing that Baldwin their old croney in Phoenix, had
any stock interest in Ruidoso Downs.
But two years later, at another hearing records reflect Baldwin did have stock interest in the
track.
And the records show a federal lawsuit against Eugene Hensley in Albuquerque filed by trustees
for Baldwin to recover 362 shares of Ruidoso Racing Assn stock was settled for $40,000 and the stock was released to the Hensleys. This was in November, 1955.
Efforts by the Journal to contact the Hensley brothers were unsuccessful. Eugene, who now lives in El Paso, and James, a resident of Phoenix, were reported in Mazatlan, Mexico.
At the May, 1953 hearing, records show that the late Tom Closson, as chairman of the commission, told the Hensleys, "The namr of Teak Baldwin keeps creeping up as we go along in what the commission conveyed to you. The commission would not have Baldwin connected in any way, shape or form down there at Riuduso Downs."
The Hensleys, records show told the commissioner Baldwin had no money in the track, known as Hollywood Race Track prior to 1953.
It was brought out in the May 1953 hearing that Baldwin had been charged in Phoenix of doctoring drinks of patrons at his restaurant and then fleecing them in gambling games, according to IRE.
Baldwin later was acquitted of grand theft charges. Eugene Hensley revealed it was Baldwin who steered him to look at Ruidoso Downs which he and his brother purchased from the late OM "Hop" Lee Sr., a member of the commission and some Texas proncipals in December, 1952.
Eugene Hensley told the commission Baldwin was allowed to run the ???? men's kitchen at the track and had spent some of his own money for equipment.
In 1965, Baldwin also sued over a concession contract he allegedly had at the track. The suit in federal court in Albuquerue was dismissed.
As a result of reports concerning an alleged connection between the Hensleys and Baldwin, the commission in 1953 had the New Mexico State Police investigate the trio in Arizona.
The State Police investigation revealed Eugene Hensley had filed a suit against Baldwin in 1951 in an Arizona Court seeking $6,500 he allegedly had loaned to Baldwin. No disposition of the civil suit was mentioned in the records.
After his federal conviction and nine months in a Tucson federal prison camp Eugene Hensley told the commission he owned and operated a number of bars and cafes in Phoenix until ge purchased the Ruidoso Downs track.
James Hensley sold out his interest in the track in April, 1955. He was secretary-treasurer of the Ruidoso Racing Assn at the time and record do not reflect any further connection with the track.
Also testifying at the May 1953 hearing was RS "Stan" Snedigar, who was designated as secretary of racing at the track.
Formerly connected with Phoenix tracks as a racing official, Snedigar told the commission he was acquainted with the Hensleys and Baldwin in Arizona and detailed for the commission his knowledge of their business interests.
Snedigar later became a member of the Ruidoso Racing Assn board of directors and a minor stockholder in the track.
An IRE report lists RS Snedigar as a partner with Baldwin and others in three Phoenix restaurants and bars.
<h3>The 1953 State Police report in connection with it's Arizona investigation of the Hensleys and Baldwin noted Marley "owned a wire service formerly operated in connection with bookmaking of the Al Capone gang."
The same report listed Baldiwn as a "bookmaker for leading tracks" and said that Marley "is reputed to be the financial backer for bookies..."</h3>
The 1953 State Police report to the commission also included a transcript of a phone conversation between an officer in Sante Fe and a detective with the Phoenix Police Dpt. who said, "Our confidential files built upon Baldwin (and others) was loaned to some officials and never returned. We've never been able to locate them."
In November, 1966, Eugene Hensley was convicted of federal income tax evasion and failure to file income tax returns. Later, Eugene Hensley was barred from Ruidoso Downs by the Commission.
After unsuccessful appeals of the federal income tax comnvictions and the serving a sentence at ?? ????, Tex. federal reformatory, Eugene Hensley and his former wife, Martha Hensley, sold their controlling stock in the track in 1969.
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