- Additional information on the buying of vote riggers
with Saudi and former Enron funds has been obtained. The epicenter for
the vote rigging operation is Dallas, Texas, and the operation may involve
retired FBI agents who used a well-established "good ole boy"
network to arrange for access to polling precincts by electronic voting
machine technicians who took advantage of various November 2 security "lockdowns"
to illegally alter the tabulation of votes in favor of Bush. Some of the
retired agents may have used courtesy credentials issued upon retirement
to fool unsuspecting polling place workers.
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- The cost of the operation was estimated at $29 million
with the money sent via a circuitous network of offshore trust companies
and shell activities. This reporter has obtained a copy of a bank check
for $29,600,000 that was allegedly sent to cover the cost of the Texas-based
vote rigging operation. The check is dated October 22, 2004, and was made
payable to "Five Star Investment Ltd.," a trust said to have
long connections to Saudi-funded operations in Texas and around the world.
The payer is identified as "Equity Financial Trust," a Houston-based
"brass plate" and post office box entity tied to offshore Cook
Islands "folding tent" accounts used to hide away profits amassed
by the former Enron as well as Saudi financiers.
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- On October 6, 2004, some two weeks before Equity Financial
Trust transferred the money to Five Star Investment Ltd., the Office of
the Superintendent of Financial Institutions for Canada listed Equity Financial
Trust, along with Bankers Financial and Security Trust, Falcon Financial
and Trust, and Unity Virtual Trust Group as "unauthorized financial
institutions." In fact, the check for $29.6 million, which is marked
"Not to exceed fifty million dollars," is drawn on the Laurentian
Bank of Canada's Toronto branch. Its serial number is 317675450 3 and the
bank number is 23-97/1020. The bank instrument is issued by Integrated
Payment Systems, Inc. of Englewood, Colorado, and Bank One, NA, Denver,
Colorado.
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- It is noteworthy that a number of companies operated
by past Bush campaign contributor Pierre Falcone, under criminal investigation
in France for weapons smuggling in Angola, are called "Falcon."
Several non-governmental organizations, including Global Witness, have
tied Falcone to questionable Halliburton activities when Vice President
Dick Cheney headed the firm.
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- Some of the vote riggers who were guaranteed a minimum
payment for their services have started talking about the operation because
they did not receive the money they were promised.
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- This is a followup to Saudis, Enron money helped pay
for US rigged election.
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- - Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative
journalist, author and syndicated columnist who previously served in the
National Security Agency during the Reagan administration. He concentrates
on national security and intelligence issues.
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