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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 02
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE SOYBEAN CASES and JUDICIAL BRIBERY
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By Sherman H. Skolnick
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The Italian firm was getting a bigger and bigger presence in the
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soybean markets, such as on the Chicago Board of Trade. Fair and
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square, following the rules, they had cornered the market in 1989
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when there was a drought expected. There was a shortage of
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soybeans.
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Ferruzzi Finanziaria S.p.A., the agro-chemical holding firm, was
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run by what some called a wizard, Raul Gardini, who had married
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the daughter of the firm's founder, Serafino Ferruzzi. Their
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operation was called Central Soya Co., of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and
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Ferruzzi U.S.A., Inc., with principal offices in Louisiana.
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Those who understood business realized Ferruzzi was more actually
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owned and operated by the Vatican Bank; over the years by Vatican
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Bank Chief, Bishop Paul Marcinkus; and earlier by "St. Peter's
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Banker," Michele Sindona.
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Ferruzzi's main competitors were primarily Cargill, the
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secretive, privately owned firm, headquartered in Minnesota, and
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the highly political -- some say highly corrupt --
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Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., darling of the mass media. (Some
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have long grumbled that ADM's long-time chief, Dwayne Andreas,
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should have been fingered, with Nixon, in the Watergate Affair
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for corrupt practices and dirty tricks.)
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In view of the circumstances in 1989, Cargill and ADM had taken
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the wrong position in respect to soybeans. To fill orders, both
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domestic and for export, they would have to come to terms with
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Ferruzzi, and the Italian firm rightfully could and would push
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them into default and own them.
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To save themselves, Cargill and ADM reportedly had a malign
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influence on the Chicago Board of Trade. The chairman of that
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commodity exchange, by Emergency Resolution, July 11, 1989,
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changed the rules in the middle of the game. Ferruzzi was
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ordered to drop most of their position in soybeans.
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Ferruzzi brought a suit seeking injunction against the Chicago
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Board of Trade in Chicago's highly corrupt federal district
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court. (Ferruzzi Trading International, et al., vs. Board of
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Trade of Chicago, No. 89 C 5469). The case was assigned to
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Chicago U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel, a close crony of
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former Illinois Governor Jim Thompson. (In November, 1994, on
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our one-hour public access cable TV show, we demonstrated how Big
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Jim and his circle are kingpins in the "China White" high purity
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heroin smuggling into the U.S. through Chicago.)
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Judge Zagel was not about to let Ferruzzi default Cargill and ADM
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and end up owning their business. The judge with little fanfare
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denied the injunction. Ferruzzi was forced to dump their
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contracts and positions on soybeans. Thousands of innocent
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soybean farmers were ruined, some bankrupted.
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How did this happen? That at a time of soybean shortages, with
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not enough to meet domestic demand and for export, soybean prices
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collapsed instead of going up.
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In the U.S. District Court in Chicago was brought a purported
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class action by angry soybean farmers: American Agriculture
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Movement, Inc., et al., vs. Board of Trade of City of Chicago,
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case No. 89 C. 8467. It was assigned to Chicago Federal District
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Judge George M. Marovich, a long-time banker whose bank, South
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Holland Trust & Savings Bank (in a Chicago suburb), was a
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correspondent bank of Continental Bank of Chicago, mother ship of
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the commodity markets and the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Presidential campaigns are planned four or more years in advance.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton was linked to a group of bankers, lawyers,
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and others from Fayetteville, Arkansas and elsewhere in that
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state. The Chicago Board of Trade was part of a money laundering
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apparatus, washing illicit funds for the 1992 campaign of Bill
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Clinton -- such as washing dope money from the CIA's operation at
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the Mena, Arkansas airport.
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In previous articles, I told how I and an associate of mine,
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Joseph Andreuccetti, who helps with our cable TV show, are on
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's "enemies list," and are and have been
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targeted for a long list of dirty tricks, threats, and
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harassment, by the FBI, the IRS, and others. Our suit seeking
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damages against the First Lady and others acting with her is
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entitled Sherman H. Skolnick and Joseph Andreuccetti, plaintiffs,
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vs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al., defendants, No. 96 C 4373,
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in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, filed 7/18/96, and pending
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before the selfsame Judge George M. Marovich (a coincidence?).
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In court papers filed recently by us, are contained the following
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-- some excerpts:
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-- "that the financial interests of defendant Hillary
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Rodham Clinton, and her law partner, Vincent W. Foster,
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Jr., were interwoven with certain lawyers, bankers, and
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agents, representatives, and investigators, from
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Fayetteville, Arkansas and elsewhere."
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-- "On December 1, 1991, defendant [Hillary Rodham]
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Clinton, in conjunction with her business partner, Vincent
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W. Foster, Jr., by and through bankers, lawyers, and
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representatives, agents, and investigators, sought and
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obtained a meeting with plaintiff Skolnick. Said group
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being from Fayetteville, Arkansas and elsewhere in
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Arkansas, and other places... Skolnick was informed that
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said group had a financial interest in the billions of
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dollars of transactions in a class action in the federal
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courts in Chicago, entitled American Agriculture Movement,
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Inc., et al., plaintiffs vs. Board of Trade of the City of
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Chicago, et al., defendants. No. 89 C 8467, in the U.S.
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District Court... At a later date, Skolnick became aware
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that said transactions were part of a massive, illicit
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enterprise, laundering dope funds such as from Mena,
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Arkansas, to raise funds for the 1992 Presidential election
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of Bill Clinton, in which defendant Clinton played a key
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role, along with Vincent W. Foster, Jr., and defendant Amy
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Zisook, chief fund-raiser for the '92 campaign."
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-- "Skolnick was informed that the investigations of said
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group showed that the presiding judge in said litigation,
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U.S. District Judge George M. Marovich, was acting in a
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corrupt manner and under a malign influence, to favor the
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defendants therein, including the Chicago Board of Trade."
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-- "Said group acknowledged and confirmed to Skolnick that
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corrupt federal commodity regulators, such as the Commodity
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Futures Trading Commission, permitted and condoned this
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corruption including the Chicago Board of Trade and their
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officials being in a position to work a malign and corrupt
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influence on George M. Marovich as banker and judge. The
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following colloquy took place:
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Question by Skolnick: Do you wish to 'go public'
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with this, to finger Judge George M. Marovich, such
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as being guests on my show?
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Answer: Not just yet.
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Question by Skolnick: Or do you wish to strong-arm
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and blackmail Judge Marovich for your own financial
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advantage?
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(No answer was given.)"
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"By said acts and doings, by and through said group,
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defendant Clinton and Foster mis-used plaintiff Skolnick,
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an electronic journalist and court reformer; for defendant
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to blackmail Judge Marovich, to gain a financial advantage,
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and to cover up the defendant's massive illicit
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transactions through the Chicago markets and massive tax
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evasion; and for the purpose of defendant covering up the
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related matters of the 50 million dollar transfer referred
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to herein... Said group acknowledged and confirmed to
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Skolnick that Judge Marovich, individually and through
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persons financially associated with him and through banks
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acting in conjunction with him and them, speculates in the
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commodity markets in the selfsame commodities in said
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litigation."
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-- "That on January 16, 1993, certain persons sought, and
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obtained, a meeting with Skolnick and Andreuccetti. Said
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meeting included a director of the Chicago Board of Trade
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and principals of two trading member firms. They informed
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plaintiffs they were undecided whether they wanted to
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appear as guests on Skolnick's public access cable TV
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program, "Broadsides," in which Andreuccetti assists in the
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production and distribution. During the meeting, the
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following took place, with Skolnick asking the questions,
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Andreuccetti observing, and a director of the Chicago Board
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of Trade answering:
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Question: In the case against you, American
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Agriculture Movement, Inc. versus The Board of Trade
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of the City of Chicago, is it true Judge Marovich was
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somehow corrupted?
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Answer: Yes, it cost us 62 million dollars between
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the judge and those in the appeals court.
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Meaning to be understood by said director and was so
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understood by plaintiffs that it included Judge James B.
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Zagel and Joel M. Flaum among others... Thereupon, a
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trading firm member principal reached across the table and
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said to the director of the Chicago Board of Trade: You
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shouldn't be telling him (pointing to Skolnick). Whereupon
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the Chicago Board of Trade director answered:
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Answer: I am telling him (meaning Skolnick) because
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he probably already knows and it is bound to come out
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and we're all going to get blackened. You (referring
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to the principal of the trading firm member) know we
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had to do it.
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Further question by Skolnick: Are you confirming you
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paid off the judges, including Judge Marovich?
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Answer: Yes. (Meaning to be understood by said
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director and so understood by plaintiffs that the
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bribery included Judges Zagel, Flaum, Ripple, and
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Eschbach. At a later date, Skolnick found out that
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said group at said meeting used the happening of said
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meeting to blackmail a financial advantage of CFTC
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and Marovich.)"
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-- "Whereupon, in July, 1993, defendant Clinton, by and
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through directors and officials of the Chicago Mercantile
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Exchange sought, and obtained a series of meetings with
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Skolnick and Andreuccetti, as follows:
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On July 14, 1993, in the presence of those officials and
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directors, and an Exchange security official, Andreuccetti
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pushing Skolnick in his wheelchair, plaintiffs were
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escorted around the entire floor of the Chicago Mercantile
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Exchange, during a trading session. Skolnick was told that
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this was the first time a person in a wheelchair was on
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such a tour. Many of the Exchange's employees stopped
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their activities when Skolnick was rolled past, and asked
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Skolnick and Andreuccetti, 'Are you investigating us' and
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followed by 'We watch your show.' Skolnick simply smiled
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and responded, 'I am enjoying the tour.' Thereafter,
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Skolnick and Andreuccetti met with the directors and
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officials of the Exchange in a snack shop. Skolnick was
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told: There is no basis to you investigating and raising
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questions about the Merc and the First Lady and her
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associates (meaning Vincent W. Foster, Jr., the then newly
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appointed Clinton White House deputy counsel.) There is no
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basis to it. Everything's out in the open here. Skolnick,
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in the presence of Andreuccetti, simply smiled and
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responded, 'I am enjoying the tour.' Whereupon there
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followed a luncheon with the Merc's directors at a nearby
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restaurant. Substantially the same dialogue took place at
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said meeting also. Some six days later, Foster was found
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mysteriously dead, some say murdered."
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-- "that Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. Hogan, Jr.,
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was, in effect, the representative in the U.S. Attorney's
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office in Chicago of (1) the office of Catholic Archbishop
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of Chicago; (2) the Vatican Bank and Bishop Paul Marcinkus
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who was Vatican Bank chief up to November, 1991; (3) The
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Pope. Marcinkus' nephew/godson, Christian Henning, Jr., by
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falsely claiming to be Joseph Andreuccetti's business
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partner, caused Andreuccetti to be defrauded of many
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millions of dollars as hereinbefore stated... Yet, at a
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time of soybean shortage, because of this corruption,
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soybean prices went down when they should have gone up.
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The result of the corruption: thousands of soybean farmers
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were ruined, some bankrupted. Another result of the
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judicial corruption: Ferruzzi lost upwards of a billion
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dollars and the chief of their holding firm, Raul Cardini,
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who had married into the Ferruzzi family, and was
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considered a wizard, committed suicide, July 1993."
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-- "It was no mere coincidence -- for the related benefit
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of defendant Hillary Rodham Clinton, who along with her
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business partner Vincent W. Foster, Jr., had massive
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interests, the Clinton Justice Department torpedoed
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Ferruzzi's informal representative in the U.S., William R.
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Hogan, Jr., an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago. Hogan,
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the lead prosecutor in a group of cases against the El
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Rukns, a narco-terrorist street gang in Chicago, was
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accused by the Justice Department of alleged misconduct in
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the El Rukn cases in 1993 and put on administrative leave."
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"Hogan countered that the Justice Department knows full
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well, but takes no action, that six federal judges in
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Chicago are corrupt and take bribes, including Chief U.S.
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Bankruptcy Judge John D. Schwartz."
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NOTE SOME OF THE POINTS OF THE CORRUPTION IN THE SOYBEAN CASES
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AND RELATED MATTERS:
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1. Large sums of illicit monies, for Bill Clinton's 1992
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Presidential campaign, have been laundered through the Chicago
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Board of Trade.
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2. To cover up such matters, and massive illicit dealings of
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her business partner, Vincent W.
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Foster, Jr., the judge in the soybean cases is among several
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federal judges in Chicago, who were corrupted with bribes of some
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62 million dollars; as admitted by a director of the Chicago
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Board of Trade.
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3. Six days after the director and officials of the Chicago
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Mercantile Exchange tried to persuade me and an associate of mine
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to terminate our investigations of Hillary and Foster -- Foster
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is found dead, apparently murdered.
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4. In the same July, 1993, the head of Ferruzzi, Raul Gardini,
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is found dead -- is it possible, like Foster, Gardini's death was
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written off as a suicide when, in fact, it might have been
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murder?
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5. A group of bankers, lawyers, and others from Arkansas, tied
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to Hillary Rodham Clinton's financial interests, sets out to
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blackmail Judge George M. Marovich in the soybean cases, from the
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other side.
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6. A related matter is the secret transfer of 50 million dollars
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of federal funds parked with the Vatican-linked Household Bank
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and Household International; transferred to Little Rock, to
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attempt to cover up the embezzlement of 47 million dollars from
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Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, for which embezzlement Bill and
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Hillary Clinton are subject to federal criminal indictment.
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7. Nothing has been done to remedy innocent soybean farmers who
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were ruined, some bankrupted by this judicial corruption.
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8. Nothing is said in the monopoly press about the corruption of
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Cargill and ADM implicitly involved in the Chicago Board of Trade
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bribery of the federal judges in Chicago -- Ferruzzi was smashed,
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and Cargill and ADM escaped default and take-over of their
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companies by Ferruzzi.
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Quoted excerpts are from Case No. 96 C 4373 that has been pending
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before Chicago Federal District Judge George M. Marovich who is
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protecting defendant Hillary Rodham Clinton and others that are
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defendants in the case, including defendant Amy Zisook, chief
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fund-raiser for President Clinton's 1992 campaign, consultant to
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Hillary and Bill, and, according to the issues raised in the
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lawsuit, tied to fund-raising from criminal foreign interests as
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well as mafioso union bosses, and tied to Ron Brown, the late
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corrupt Secretary of Commerce and his crooked trade deals,
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national and international.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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