by Jeff Gates
Originally published: August 8, 2015
I am a constituent of Arizona Senator John McCain, a presidential contender in 2008. I reside in the congressional district where he ran for Congress four years before the expected 1986 retirement of Senator Barry Goldwater. McCain’s career was modeled after that well-known Republican maverick.
McCain describes himself as the leader of the party of Abraham Lincoln and maverick Ronald Reagan.
I knew Goldwater, albeit slightly. I served for seven years as counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, leaving in 1987, the same year he retired. McCain now holds Goldwater’s Senate seat. Though branded a “maverick,” that’s no more accuratethan the phony “hero” status in which McCain wraps himself along with the flag.
I met McCain in early June at a town hall meeting in Tempe, Arizona. He came to the Senate in 1987 just as I went into law practice with retiring Senators Russell Long of Louisiana, my boss, and Paul Laxalt of Nevada, who chaired Reagan’s presidential campaigns.
At the town hall meeting, I sat up front to ask “my” senator a question. That question was the result of seven years of full-time research by a constituent into the impact on national policy-making of transnational organized crime, particularly in Arizona.
That background is chronicled in Guilt by Association where, as I explained to McCain, I took three chapters to summarize his disturbing mob-related history.
In Arizona, his true history is seldom mentioned. Don Bolles was the last person to write about the criminal syndicate that recruited McCain to replace Goldwater. Bolles was rewarded with six sticks of dynamite under his car. He lost both legs and an arm.
Before his death 11 days later, he identified John Adamson as the man who placed the charge. Adamson, in turn, identified Kemper Marley, the statewide liquor magnate and employer of Gene Hensley, McCain’s father-in-law to be. Bolles alsoimplicated organized crime and Emprise, a New York sports franchise with which Hensley and his brother were associated through a racetrack they acquired in New Mexico.
By all credible accounts, this mob hit was ordered by Marley after Bolles’s story forced his resignation from the state racing commission. New Mexico state police chronicled the Marley connection. Since the founding of the national crimesyndicate in 1929, that service linked organized crime’s far-flung gambling operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
Its origins trace to Chicagoan Moses “Moe” Annenberg, the father of Walter Annenberg, Reagan’s “best friend for 50 years” according to Nancy Reagan.
The same Ashkenazi “Chicago Outfit” that produced the early career of “conservative” Reagan also produced “liberal” Barack Obama when he first gained political prominence as an activist with Chicago’s Annenberg Education Challenge.The grandfather and the great-grandfather of the top fundraiser for Obama were lawyers for the outfit.
In truth, Bolles barely scratched the surface. The same outfit that put McCain in office also brought to Washington (now former) Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, a former governor of Arizona and prior to that, the state’s attorney general.
Christian Zionist Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona teamed up with McCain and Jewish Zionist Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) to market the lies that took us to war in Iraq.
Thus the reason for asking McCain to explain to his constituents why he met abroad with Russian-Jewish oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who, by age 40, had amassed $40 billion in assets defrauded from the Russian people.
First McCain denied meeting him other than at an annual conference in Davos, Switzerland. When pressed, he conceded that he and Deripaska shared a private dinner with Lord Rothschild V. At the time, Deripaska was banned from the United States due to his ties to Russian organized crime.
McCain declined to explain why he met with this mobster. Deripaska married into the family of Russian President Boris Yeltsin to perpetrate a national-scale fraud. Until our subprime mega-fraud, the financial pillaging of Russia was the largest heist in history.
Realizing he had said too much by revealing the Rothschild dinner, McCain changed the subject.
What was my impression as a constituent? Though stunned at the palpable weakness of his character, it was oddly comforting to hear him concede his role as an evildoer.
