McCain fortune traced to organized crime

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | February 26, 2008 | Jerome R. Corsi

[Man50D]

John McCain's personal fortune traces back to organized crime in Arizona, through his father-in-law, according to a report published by a multi-news agency team called Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc.

IRE reporters Amy Silverman and John Doherty, writing in the Phoenix New Times, note that the father of McCain's wife, James Hensley, was convicted by a federal jury in U.S. District Court of Arizona in March 1948 on seven counts of filing false liquor records. Hensley also was charged with conspiracy to hide from federal authorities the names of persons involved in a liquor industry racket with two companies he managed, United Sales Company in Phoenix and United Distributors in Tucson.

The umbrella company, United Liquor, at that time held a monopoly in Arizona, organized and managed by Kemper Marley, who was accused of mob ties by a reporter who was murdered in 1977.

Silverman and Doherty report that by 1955, Hensley had launched a Budweiser distributorship in Phoenix, "a franchise reportedly bestowed upon him by Marley, who was never indicted in the 1948 liquor-law-violation case – or a subsequent one – despite his controlling role in the liquor distribution

According to Marley's longtime public relations man, Al Lizanetz, the Marley liquor empire was founded by the Bronfman family dynasty of Canada which operated Allied Finance Company, Northern Export Company and Distillers Corporation – the Seagrams, Ltd. empire.

[Tut]

Not quite as good of a story as old Joe Kennedy.

[metesky]

Long reach for a hit piece...

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

So essentially someone in McCain’s ancestry was an errand boy for one of Ted Kennedy’s ancestors?

Is this what we can expect from an ‘investigative reporter’ named Amy?

Philip Marlowe would have had a sarcastic quip about her pencil getting lost in the plush carpet of her condo, the pink bedroom she grew up in, her rich parents who sent her to journalism school, and that she ought to spend more time on the beat than putting on eyeliner in the rearview of her Volvo.

[Kakaze]

Long reach for a hit piece...

A long way from the fgeneral election, I'm sure as it approaches these people will spiral in closer to Mccain....it's going to be a long year and no matter who wins a damn long next 4 years.

[Vaquero]

yeah really, the Kennedy’s got their loot running rum during prohibition.....their money seems all squeaky clean now after all those years, so why not McCain’s inlaw’s money.....

[ICE-FLYER]

They dare to look at McCain...with his record of military service...and NOT LOOK AT TED KENNEDY???

[chilepepper]

Linked to Organized crime? Sounds like Harry S. Truman to me...

[Don W]

Even better as a stretch: it’s a relative of his WIFE that’s suspected of nefarious activity.

The RINO’s wife’s in law is fair game, but Teddy K’s FATHER is off limits.

[Tut]

There's nothing wrong with money. The article was thin to say the least. Damn near as thin as the New York Times article.

I read a short article here... Notice how they want it to sound like this was McCain himself doing all this. A little bit of a stretch.

That's the polite version. For fewer punches pulled, consult the Phoenix New Times, circa 2000:

James Hensley profited handsomely from his association with liquor magnate Kemper Marley, a man police suspect ordered the 1976 murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles, who had written about Marley's business and political dealings. The man convicted of placing a bomb beneath Bolles' car testified that Marley also wanted former Arizona governor and then-attorney general Bruce Babbitt murdered because Babbitt had filed an antitrust lawsuit against the liquor industry in 1975. (Marley, who died in 1990, was never charged in the Bolles case. Babbitt is now U.S. Secretary of the Interior.)

By 1955, James Hensley had launched a Budweiser distributorship in Phoenix, a franchise reportedly bestowed upon him by Marley, who was never indicted in the 1948 federal liquor-law-violation case -- or a subsequent one -- despite his controlling financial role in the liquor distribution businesses. [...]

Today, Phoenix-based Hensley & Company is the nation's fifth-largest beer wholesaler -- a privately held business that 80-year-old James Hensley still controls. He built the Budweiser distributorship into at least a $200 million-a-year business, with annual sales of more than 20 million cases of beer.

James Hensley owns nearly all of the voting stock, and most of the rest of the closely held securities are in trusts for his grandchildren or owned by his daughter, 45-year-old Cindy Hensley McCain -- wife of U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful John McCain. [...]

If people wants to smear a guy, they might as well smear a guy for what he does instead of hunting up in-laws. *laughing* But that IS funny to think about people having to take that route.

[AmericaUnited]

This is just so pathetic... Corsi should get a real job and stop trying to make a living off simple-minded dolts who lap up his dribble.

[NonValueAdded]

Liquor money a disqualifier? Bye bye, Teddie.

[Joe Boucher]

You mean Jor the smuggler of prohibition era booze?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Don’t forget the Chinese money.

[tlb]

So essentially McCain is tarred and feathered for something that happened in and before 1948 to a family he wasn’t related to ? Corsi is getting to be such a lameass.

[G Larry]

That inconvenient truth never seemed to hurt the Kennedy brothers.

[Tut]

Yea.... I mean Joe the bootlegger, the Nazi sympathizer the Joe who bought (and collected favors) John’s presidency Joe.

[Joe Boucher]

The same Joe whose kids became famous womanizers and killers.

[Tut]

*sigh* Sad but true.