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Navy Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda was found outside his Washington D.C.
home with a bullet wound in his chest. The death was immediately ruled a
suicide. It was believed he committed suicide because he was about to be
outed by Newsweek magazine for wearing valor medals he did not properly
earn. A June 1998 naval report proved this assumption to be false,
however. Adm. Boorda's boss John Dalton served in his post from 1993
until November 1998 (he announced his decision to leave in June). Prior
to joining the Pentagon, Dalton was employed by Stephens Incorporated.
Stephens Inc. became joint-owner of Little Rock's Worthen Bank with
Mochtar Riady's Lippo Group in 1984. Mochtar's son, James Riady, was
named the bank's director. Worthen loaned $3.5 million to the 1992
Clinton presidential campaign. Mochtar Riady was the biggest individual
donor in the 1992 White House run. Both the FBI and CIA have stated they
believe the Riadys to be agents of China. Stephens Inc. founder Jackson
Stephens is a close friend and financial supporter of former President
Bush.
Charles Wilbourne Miller 63, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the
head on November 17, 1998 in a shallow pit about 300 yards from his
ranch house near Little Rock. Police found a .410 gauge shotgun near
Miller's body and a Ruger .357-caliber revolver submerged in water.
Investigators concluded the Ruger was the weapon used by Miller to kill
himself. Yet, two rounds in the handgun's cylinder had been spent. He
had long served as executive vice president and member of the board of
directors for a company called Alltel and was deeply involved in his own
software engineering company until the day he died. Alltel is the
successor to Jackson Stephens' Systematics, the company that provided
the software for the White House's "Big Brother" data base system and
that was behind the administration's plan to develop the secret computer
"Clipper" chip to bug every phone, fax and email transmission in
America. (1)
WorldNetDaily 1/12/99 Joseph Farah ".Another very suspicious 'Arkancide'
An Arkansas medical examiner has once again concluded "suicide" in a
case where common sense might determine otherwise. On Nov. 17, Charles
Wilbourne Miller, 63, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in a
shallow pit about 300 yards from his ranch house near Little Rock.
Police found a .410 gauge shotgun near Miller's body and a Ruger
.357-caliber revolver submerged in water. Investigators concluded the
Ruger was the weapon used by Miller to kill himself. Yet, two rounds in
the handgun's cylinder had been spent. Only in Arkansas does a suicide
victim use two shots -- not to mention two weapons -- to kill himself.
Worse yet, Miller was no ordinary citizen of Arkansas. He had long
served as executive vice president and member of the board of directors
for a company called Alltel and was deeply involved in his own software
engineering company until the day he died. Alltel is the successor to
Jackson Stephens' Systematics, the company that provided the software
for the White House's "Big Brother" data base system and that was behind
the administration's plan to develop the secret computer "Clipper" chip
to bug every phone, fax and email transmission in America.."
STEPHENS Inc., WORTHEN, BCCI and other banking
Stephens told an interviewer... He'd seen nothing wrong with selling
BCCI an American bank-they even named it First American-but he and Riady
soon began planning an entirely new kind of Arkansas bank holding
company, for which they required the services of Giroir and expertise in
securities law
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. In his years as Rose's chief Giroir conspicuously chaired a group
drawn from the state's so-called Good Suit Club. The club successfully
lobbied the legislature to change the state usury law, which made owning
an Arkansas commercial bank a much more attractive proposition. It also
was active in convincing the state's lawmakers to revise the law
restricting the formation of bank holding companies, which enabled
Giroir, Riady and Stephens to make a substantial and potentially
lucrative investment…. " (3)
"On his own, Giroir had purchased control of four Arkansas banks. He
sold all four--including the second largest bank in the city of Pine
Bluff--to Worthen Banking Corporation, the new holding company Riady and
Stephens had been able to set up after state law, with Giroir's help,
had been made more congenial to such things. For his part in the deal,
Giroir was compensated with $53,760,294 in cash, stock and assumed debt.
He also became a major stockholder of Worthen (named after the venerable
and very large Little Rock bank that was the pride of the Stephens
commercial banking empire) and a powerful member of its board. He
received further income by renting property to the company, and he
pocketed an additional $2.1 million when he sold part of his
stockholdings to a company affiliated with Riady's son James (who was
also Worthen's co-president). More important, he managed to create a
whole new client for his firm; Rose became Worthen's principal outside
counsel" (3)
"These things are complicated, dull and dry, which is an excellent form
of concealment but consider the sequence of events. With the stroke of a
pen and without a visible second thought, then-governor Bill Clinton,
following his traumatic period as a voter- rejected civilian between
1980 and 1982, gave life to two pieces of legislation inspired by his
wife's boss-- revising the usury laws and permitting formation of new
banking holding companies. …Last and not incidentally, the governor, by
permitting the creation of the Worthen Bank Corporation, had arranged a
new payday for the Clinton family through the windfall in legal fees
provided to the Rose firm (Hillary Rodham Clinton, partner). When the
compensation of the firm's partners was computed, Rodham Clinton has
insisted, she specifically exempted herself from receiving a share of
Rose's business with the state. But although Worthen could not have been
brought to life without the help of her husband's government, it was not
a government agency. Rodham Clinton was therefore not excluded from a
partner's share of its fees…." (3)
"Mochtar Riady created Lippo Finance & Investment Inc., an SBA-backed
lending company in Little Rock with Vernon Weaver as chairman. Weaver is
now Clinton's U.S. representative to the European Union"(2)
"The Riadys owned First National Bank in Mena, a bank that was used by
drug smugglers to launder money." (2)
"The Los Angeles-based Lippo Bank has twice received cease- and-desist
orders from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for violations of
money-laundering statutes" (2)
"Moctar's son James Riady was the president of the bank [Worthen]. The
bank financed Bill Clintons election campaigns, and bailed out the 1992
Presidential campaign of Bill Clinton with a three million dollar loan
at a crucial juncture."(2)
"Worthen Bank invested in the Little Rock-based World Wide Travel that
handled Clinton campaign travel, and was selected to take over all White
House travel, a scheme that resulted in Travelgate." (2)
10/21/96 "Mack McLarty once worked at Worthen Bank, later worked for
Entergy Corp., and now works in the White House, where he has been chief
of staff. (2)
Joe Giroir, Hillary Clinton, and Vince Foster defended Stephens Inc. in
a case that stemmed from a failed takeover effort involving the BCCI (2)
The Arkansas bankers talked of exporting rice to Asia and predicted that
their two-billion-dollar bank would quickly grow to ten billion. Then
another disaster struck..As regulators caught on to the sophisticated
fraud, they discovered that -- lo and behold -- the same thing was
happening at Jack Stephens's Worthen Bank and Trust. A
government-securities trading company from Livingston, New Jersey,
called Bevill, Bresler & Schulman went bankrupt on Easter Sunday, a
month after the ESM collapse and the Home State crisis, leaving Worthen
with $52 million in uncollectible loans. (Remarkably, at one point
Bevill, Bresler and ESM had overlapping personnel.) Once again, however,
Jack Stephens persuaded the government that he was an innocent party.
Worthen collected $20 million in insurance on the loss, barely averting
insolvency. But the federal regulators went through its books with
heightened diligence. By the end of the summer, the comptroller of the
currency had cited Worthen Banking Corp. for making "excessive loans at
preferential terms" to companies controlled by the Stephens brothers and
Mochtar Riady. This practice, charged the comptroller, amounted to a
violation of federal law. DSL:BCCI
Lance and Stephens helped BCCI take over Financial General.
A Financial General lawsuit "Bert Lance, Bank of Credit & Commerce
International, Agha Hasan Abedi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens,
Stephens Inc., Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through 25.
"Systematics was represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and
Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock …" DSL:BCCI
"Worthen Banking Corp. was sold to Boatmen's Bancshares Inc. of St.
Louis in 1995 for $535 million. Members of the Stephens family owned 22
percent of Worthen at the time of the sale, and acquired shares in
Boatmen's. In addition, the investment bank Stephens Inc. retained the
right to handle the trades (and to collect commissions) for Worthen
Investments, which was folded into Boatman's Investment Services,
Boatman's securities subsidiary. (All other securities trades at
Boatman's Investment Services are handled by Pershing Inc. of New
Jersey.) (4)
10/10/96 "Currently, Boatman's Bancshares Inc. is being acquired for
around $9 billion by NationsBank Corp. of Charlotte, N.C. This merger
will make NationsBank the fourth largest U.S. banking franchise. The
investment bank Stephens Inc. was brought in to give a "fairness
opinion" on behalf of NationsBank Corp. shareholders, even though the
Stephens family, through their Boatmen's stock holdings, stand to make
more than $200 million on the acquisition. Also standing to gain on
stock holdings is Curt Bradbury, the chief operating officer at Stephens
Inc., and also the former chief executive of Worthen Bank. Stephens Inc.
represented NationsBank in the merger negotiations, while Goldman Sachs
represented Boatmen's. NationsBank has its own discount brokerage
service, NationsBank Discount Brokerage Inc., which clears its trades
through Stephens Inc. Stephens Inc. is trying to acquire all of
NationsBank's brokerage business after the merger of Boatmen's and
NationsBank is complete. If so, that would make Stephens Inc. the
largest clearing firm for banks in the U.S. (4)
Subsequently, NationsBank was acquired by BankAmerica [Alamo-Girl]
"It turns out that he [John Huang] maintained an office across the
street from his Commerce Department office. He used that office to send
and receive packages and faxes without the knowledge of his Commerce
employers…. That office was maintained by none other than the
Arkansas-based Stephens Inc., a partner of Lippo in the Arkansas
WorthenBank, where John Huang had once served as a vice president. The
secretary testifying about John Huang's clandestine visits to the office
was one Paula Green, a former aide to Rep. Beryl Anthony, the
brother-in-law of the late Vince Foster. Beryl Anthony, as a member of
the Washington law office of Winston Strawn, represented Stephens'
software company Systematics, which was also represented by Vince
Foster, Hillary Clinton and Joe Giroirin litigation with First American
Bank in Washington over an attempted takeover by BCCI. It was revealed
last week that none other than John Huang traveled to China to negotiate
on behalf of Lippo with the Chinese government over debts owed to
Chinese depositors by the failed BCCI…." (5)
One appointment in particular that should be setting off alarm bells
right now is that of White House aide Vanessa Weaver, nominated by the
White House for the five-member board of the Export-Import Bank. Ms.
Weaver's rushed confirmation hearing takes place this afternoon before
Senator Phil Gramm's Banking Committee. An article in yesterday's
Investor's Business Daily noted that before Ms. Weaver replaced fellow
Arkansan Patsy Thomasson as deputy personnel director at the White House
in 1997, she was a senior adviser on personnel. The Thompson hearings on
the 1996 campaign scandals established that in 1994 and 1995 she made at
least 23 White House calls to John Huang while he worked at a sensitive
Commerce Department job for 16 months. Incidentally, John Huang, long of
the Lippo Group, qualifies as another typically weird appointment.....
Mr. Huang has said he and Ms. Weaver are "good friends." That may stem
in part from his friendship with her father Vernon, who for 15 years was
head of the Washington office of the Arkansas-based Stephens Inc.
financial empire. The two men were sufficiently close that Mr. Huang
used a Stephens suite at the Willard Hotel as a "satellite office," even
though it was only 150 yards from the Commerce Department. Mr. Huang
would use the office to pick up overnight packages, make phone calls and
fax materials, often shortly after receiving classified briefings. Mr.
Weaver's secretary has testified before the Senate that her boss gave
her orders to conceal the arrangement with Mr. Huang. Mr. Weaver made at
least 27 calls to Mr. Huang during his stint at Commerce. An Arkansas
native, Mr. Weaver was later appointed by President Clinton as
ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. A congressman well versed
in the details of the Huang case told us the timing and pace of the
Weaver family's contacts with him were "highly suspicious" and may have
involved campaign fundraising.. . (39)
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American Spectator 2/96 James Ring Adams R Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "…..The
story starts not with the McDougals' Madison Guaranty, but with a
small-town bank in Stephens, Arkansas, in the southern tier of the
state. On April 3, 1985, the Stephens Security Bank lent $135,000 to
James and Susan McDougal for their Flowerwood Farms real estate
development in western PuIaski County, some too miles north. It's not
clear why this small bank made such a large commitment outside its
immediate lending area, but Stephens Security did have connections with
the Little Rock elite. Until 1984 more than 90 percent of its stock was
owned by First Arkansas Bankstock Corp., the predecessor to the Worthen
Banking Corporation. Some corporate matters for Stephens Security were
handled by C. Joseph Giroir, Jr, who as chairmam an of th e Rose Law
Firm hired Hillary Clinton in 1978. Stephens Security Bank president
Richard T. Smith, a former loan officer at Worthen, had his own history
of questionable political lending. In 1484 he a pproved $150,000 in
loans to the last minute congressional campaign of Little Rock Sheriff
Tommy Robinson, even though Robinson never filled out a loan applcation.
The Federal Election Commission investigated the loans but deadlocked on
wheth er to take action about them.
American Spectator 2/96 James Ring Adams R Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "…..The
Wall Street Journal reported in August 1994 that Denton was telling the
staff of the independent counsel that in 1986 he had seen her name,
signed "Hillary Rodham," on a loan of between $100,000 and $300,000, but
that the usual form for a guarantee was missing. At the time of the WSJ
article, Clinton lawyer David Kendall issued the memorable but partial
denial, "Any allegation that Mrs. Clinton guaranteed a loan in 1986 with
the signature 'Hillary Rodham has the unmistakable and clanging ring of
falsity." (The loan would have been signed in 1985, not 1986.) More
recently, however, Denton's memory has freshened, and he has reportedly
given an affidavit to Independent Counsel Kenneth Stan stating that he
was in the room when Hillary signed the loan. Curiously, nothing
resembling this note turned up in the thousands of documents produced
for the House Banking Committee, partly because Stephens Security fell
out of the purview of the investigations of Madison. But there is
another possible reason that this note has not surfaced. It would be one
of the most damaging bits of evidence yet to emerge against the first
family…… This whole sequence of loans, from Stephens Security to
Flowerwood Farms and the repayment from David Hale, caught the eye of
investigators as soon as the Madison Guaranty case was reopened in 1992.
It figured prominently in the first criminal referral from jean Lewis,
the RTC criminal investigator from Kansas City who bore the brunt of
keeping the Madison case alive. (This referral, number C0004 went to the
FBI and U.S. attorney in Little Rock on September 2, 1992, and promptly
disappeared into the Washington bureaucracy. ) Then-U.S. Attorney
Charles Banks recently told the Senate Whitewater Committee that he
rushed the referral out of his office without even reading its 300 a
ttached exhibits. He admitted that he shied away from the politically
charged case because, among other things, he was a candidate for a
federal judgeship….."
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Huang, 51, is a native of Taiwan who came to the United States in 1969
as a graduate student in business administration at the University of
Connecticut. Naturalized in 1976, he worked for several American banks
before joining the Lippo Group in 1985.... He worked for Lippo in Hong
Kong in 1985 as head of its World Banking Unit, a job which included
acting as Far Eastern representative for Little Rock's Worthen Bank and
director of international banking for the Hong Kong Chinese Bank Ltd.,
jointly owned by the Riadys and Jackson Stephens.
(snip)
SYSTEMATICS, Inc.
" Systematics was represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and
Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock …" [DSL:BCCI]
"…Systematics also came to be represented by Beryl Anthony, a partner at
the Washington law office of Winston and Strawn, former chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and husband of Vince
Foster's sister Sheila Foster Anthony. It was Sheila Anthony who, while
assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice
Department, effected a $286,000 transfer to Vince Foster from a
Democratic National Committee account held at Mellon Bank, just four
days before Vince Foster met his death. …." (4)
"….In the 1980's, the war on drugs was being feverishly pitched by the
Federal Government. It was during this time that a Senate subcommittee
recommended that the Treasury Department set up some means of monitoring
currency deposits, both foreign and domestic….The job for this massive
undertaking was given to the National Security Agency at their Ft. Mead
facility. This defense base houses intelligence gathering (Echelon) and
communications security….In an effort to monitor all banking
transactions the NSA tapped into Fedwire, CHIPS, and Swift. Most of
these banking transfers were encrypted. Even after breaking the code,
all that the NSA had left was two account numbers, the amount of the
transaction, and when it took place. It was soon realized that all this
information was worthless without knowing who owned the accounts…..the
NSA came to the conclusion that they themselves would become the
software supplier for the banking industry…It didn't take long for the
NSA to find a contractor for their bank software needs. None other than
Vince Foster would point the way to a small Little Rock, Arkansas bank
data processing company known as Systematics, Inc. Systematics was
founded in the late 1960's by Jackson Stephens. Vince Foster was one of
Jackson Stephens deal makers at the Rose Law firm…. According to
intelligence sources, Webster Hubbell also played a key role in over
seeing Systematics for the NSA. In the now declassified documents that
the Zone has seen, they confirm that both Hubbell and Foster had access
to NSA secrets….(26)
SYSTEMATICS, Inc.
" Systematics was represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and
Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock …" [DSL:BCCI]
"…Systematics also came to be represented by Beryl Anthony, a partner at
the Washington law office of Winston and Strawn, former chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and husband of Vince
Foster's sister Sheila Foster Anthony. It was Sheila Anthony who, while
assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice
Department, effected a $286,000 transfer to Vince Foster from a
Democratic National Committee account held at Mellon Bank, just four
days before Vince Foster met his death. …." (4)
"….In the 1980's, the war on drugs was being feverishly pitched by the
Federal Government. It was during this time that a Senate subcommittee
recommended that the Treasury Department set up some means of monitoring
currency deposits, both foreign and domestic….The job for this massive
undertaking was given to the National Security Agency at their Ft. Mead
facility. This defense base houses intelligence gathering (Echelon) and
communications security….In an effort to monitor all banking
transactions the NSA tapped into Fedwire, CHIPS, and Swift. Most of
these banking transfers were encrypted. Even after breaking the code,
all that the NSA had left was two account numbers, the amount of the
transaction, and when it took place. It was soon realized that all this
information was worthless without knowing who owned the accounts…..the
NSA came to the conclusion that they themselves would become the
software supplier for the banking industry…It didn't take long for the
NSA to find a contractor for their bank software needs. None other than
Vince Foster would point the way to a small Little Rock, Arkansas bank
data processing company known as Systematics, Inc. Systematics was
founded in the late 1960's by Jackson Stephens. Vince Foster was one of
Jackson Stephens deal makers at the Rose Law firm…. According to
intelligence sources, Webster Hubbell also played a key role in over
seeing Systematics for the NSA. In the now declassified documents that
the Zone has seen, they confirm that both Hubbell and Foster had access
to NSA secrets….(26)
"Systematics founder, Jackson Stephens, was also a partner of the Lippo
Group. Lippo is owned by Mochtar Riady who jointly purchased the Worthen
Bank in Little Rock along with Stephens. Mochtar's son, James Riady, ran
the bank with William Cravens serving as President. As we have reported
before in other articles, the Riady's are key figures in the Chinese
intelligence spy ring in the U.S. The Lippo Group is a joint venture of
China resources, a trading and holding company that serves as a front
for Chinese espionage operations. William Cravens became good friends of
Bill and Hillary Clinton during the 1980's. In the early 1990's, Craven
would leave his post at Worthen Bank and become a key figure at
Systematics. Craven would later use Hillary's Rose Law firm to develop
special legal contracts between the National Security Agency and
Systematics….(26)
"The technology behind the Clipper Chip is really quite simple. Vendors
of equipment that encrypts the communications will need to include the
chip in their products if they want to sell those products to any
Federal agency who adopt the new FIPS standard. Every chip will have a
back door technology allowing the Government or who ever, the ability to
decrypt the communications by using this back door. Each Clipper Chip
that is manufactured will have a unique identification code, along with
a pair of software decryption keys. The pair of decryption keys will be
given to the Federal Government. One key will be kept by the Treasury
Department and the other key will be kept by the Commerce Department.
Under the same laws that are presently used for legal wiretapping with a
Judicial warrant, a law enforcement or intelligence agency would be able
to obtain the authority to intercept the communications originating from
any Clipper equipped device. An agency would merely show proof of its
authority to the key holding agencies to receive both decryption keys.
According to former CIA Director John Deutch, the Department of Justice
proposed legislation that would outlaw the import and domestic
manufacture, sale, or distribution of encryption that did not have this
back door key recovery. The Department of Justice has set guidelines for
agencies engaged in authorized surveillance to obtain the keys….(26)
"The controversy and leaks surrounding the Clipper Chip project forced
the NSA to announce in June 1998, that is was scrapping the five year
old project. The National Security Agency released both the Key Exchange
algorithm and the Skipjack algorithm to computer security companies that
were interested in developing off-the-shelf products that would work
with existing federal communications systems. But the damage caused by
the project can not be underestimated. Indeed, China now has all the
latest encryption technology to unlock almost any communications device.
Top this with the crash of the 1996 Chinese rocket that was carrying
U.S. satellite technology, a missing encryption chip,
and you have disaster in the making….(26)
"In the early 1990's, Systematics, Inc was sold to Alltel Inc. Alltel
has customers in 44 countries around the world and provides information
processing management, outsourcing services and application software to
the mortgage, financial, healthcare and telecommunications industries.
They were were well entrenched in the Clippper Chip project from their
Systematics holdings. Charles Wilbourne Miller, 63, was Alltel's
executive Vice president and served on the board of directors. Miller
was also well established in his own security software company. On
November 17, 1998, Miller was found shot to death about 300 yards from
his Little Rock ranch. Law enforcement officials found a .410 gauge shot
gun near his body. They also found a .357 ruger revolver submerged in
water. Miller's death was ruled a suicide and that the ruger was the gun
that Miller used to kill himself. It was later determined however, that
two rounds in the gun cylinder had been spent. Apparently, only in
Arkansas can one kill himself using two bullets and two guns. (26)
How spooky does it get? An odd link to this story is that the NSA chose
Arkansas-based Systematics on Sept. 14, 1990, to construct the "Mission:
Impossible" room called the Secured Compartmentalized Information
Facility, or SCIF, in Fort Gillem, Ga., according to an unclassified NSA
memo. At that time Systematics was fun by Jackson Stephens who, along
with Mochtar Riady and James Riady controlled Lippo's Worthen bank,
which gave Clinton a multimillion-dollar loan to get through the 1992
presidential election. The same Lippo Group, which later dumped Worthen,
is linked to China Resources, a front for Chinese military-intelligence
operations, say U.S. defense intelligence sources. The concern of the
U.S. intelligence community is whether Chinese agents penetrated the
SCIF. An NSA staffer notes that the Chinese once managed to bug the
Russian Embassy in Beijing, and that if they built the SCIF "they could
do a lot of things there." That brings the story back to Huang, who
worked with the Riadys at Worthen Bank and appears to have formed
another intriguing friendship with PLA arms dealer and White House
coffee-klatsch guest Wang Jun. China's Far Eastern Economic Review
reported in April that Wang admitted to Beijing's political leaders that
he had paid Huang $30,000 for reasons unexplained. One Senate
investigator says this could be the "smoking gun" that ties Huang to the
PLA. (8)
Statement by Terri Swearingen in accepting the Goldman Prize for North
America on April 14, 1997. Terri was awarded the prize for her work in
fighting the building and operation of Von Roll's hazardous waste
incinerator, known as WTI, in East Liverpool, Ohio...... Among the many
distinctions afforded Arkansas billionaire tycoon Jackson Stephens is
the fact that his firm, Stephens Inc. marshaled the WTI hazardous waste
incinerator's march from conception to birth. In our opinion, it was the
power of his financial empire that moved a poorly designed monstrosity
on the Ohio River from the truly dumb idea that it was (and is) to its
current manifestation as an ugly and dangerous reality. In an attempt to
understand why the U.S. government, particularly U.S. EPA Region 5,
committed so many illegalities and allowed this incinerator to be built,
it helps to understand that Jackson Stephens always gets what he wants.
In fact, no matter what you think about him, it is hard to deny that he
seems to be everywhere, with his hands on everything. Stephens is the
chairman of Stephens Inc., the nation's largest investment bank off Wall
Street. Its home office is located in little ol' Little Rock, Arkansas.
He and his brother, Witt, built the Stephens Inc. empire out of a bible,
belt buckle and bond business. In 1994, Stephens Inc. was listed as one
of the biggest institutional shareholders in 30 large multinationals
including the Arkansas based firms Tyson Food (# 10), Wal-Mart (# 113)
and Alltel (# 12). Interestingly, it was Stephens who staked Sam Walton
when he started Wal-Mart in 1970, and financed Tyson's takeover of Holly
Farms in 1988. (Stephens, Tyson and Walton (1917-1992), all billionaires
from Arkansas.) Stephens sold a 275 phone exchange to Alltel when they
broke into the phone market, and guaranteed in 1990 that Alltel would
get Systematics by refusing to sell his 10% stake in Systematics to
anyone but Alltel. In many ways Arkansas is the house that Jack built.
Unfortunately, for the folks in East Liverpool, Ohio, and the Tri-State
area (WV, PA, OH) who were saddled with Von Roll's hazardous waste
incinerator, Arkansas was never big enough for Stephens...... (45)
"....An odd link to this story is that the NSA chose Arkansas-based
Systematics on Sept. 14, 1990, to construct the "Mission: Impossible"
room called the Secured Compartmentalized Information Facility, or SCIF,
in Fort Gillem, Ga., according to an unclassified NSA memo. At that time
Systematics was fun by Jackson Stephens who, along with Mochtar Riady
and James Riady controlled Lippo's Worthen bank, which gave Clinton a
multimillion-dollar loan to get through the 1992 presidential election.
The same Lippo Group, which later dumped Worthen, is linked to China
Resources, a front for Chinese military-intelligence operations, say
U.S. defense intelligence sources. The concern of the U.S. intelligence
community is whether Chinese agents penetrated the SCIF. An NSA staffer
notes that the Chinese once managed to bug the Russian Embassy in
Beijing, and that if they built the SCIF "they could do a lot of things
there."..." (46)
1991
With Jackson Stephens, Mochtar Riady buys BCCI's former Hong Kong
subsidiary from its liquidators (29).
China Resources Company Ltd begins buying stock in the Hong Kong Chinese
Bank at 15% below market value. Intelligence sources later report that
the firm is really a front for Chinese military intelligence.(29)
The Arkansas Industrial Development Commission set up deals to further
the Indonesian - Arkansas connection. The commission even arranged for
James Riady to talk with a New Jersey company about building a diaper
manufacturing plant in Jakarta, according to the Arkansas Democrat
Gazette. Deals were worked on for Wal-Mart, Tyson's Foods, and JB Hunt
and documents uncovered by the paper "make reference to Clinton's ideal
position as president . . . in helping to secure Arkansas-Indonesian
deals." Said a former US ambassador in Jakarta at the time, "There were
lots of people from Arkansas who came through Indonesia."…" (29)
World Net Daily 2/10/00 Joseph Farah "….You tell me if I'm just being
paranoid. An Arkansas company with ties to Mochtar Riady, the
billionaire Indonesian and Chinese intelligence agent, has amassed 135
million consumer telephone numbers -- including about 20 million
unlisted numbers -- to help identify and profile people who call
toll-free lines to shop or make an inquiry. The company is called Acxiom
Corp. of Conway, Ark. Formerly it was called Alltel, and before that
Systematics. You might remember hearing about Systematics. The company
was owned by Jackson Stephens, the billionaire Arkansas partner of Riady
and a strong financial backer of President Clinton. Hillary Clinton,
Webster Hubbell and Vincent Foster all worked on a secret National
Security Agency project for Systematics while at the Rose Law Firm……
Well, darn, if the Rose Law Firm connection doesn't still exist with the
company under a new name. The general counsel for Acxiom is Catherine L.
Hughes, 48, a former public defender and assistant state attorney
general who worked at Rose from 1983 through 1988. Hughes describes
herself as something of a civil libertarian, but her company is a
walking, talking, 3,000-man, privacy-invading monster if ever I have
seen one……"
World Net Daily 2/10/00 Joseph Farah "….Systematics is a name wrapped up
in so many Clinton scandals it would make your head spin. The company,
for instance, obtained clearance to accompany Ron Brown on foreign trade
trips. In 1996, according to records from the Federal Election
Commission, William Cravens, an old Clinton pal, contributed to both
Republican and Democrat campaigns. In late May 1996, Cravens wrote a
check to a Republican candidate for Congress using Alltel, the renamed
Systematics, as his employer. Three days later, Cravens, the former CEO
of Systematics, wrote a second check for a Democratic senatorial
candidate, this time listing his employer as "Entergy Corp." Have you
ever seen a company with so many aliases? …."
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1975 National Bank of Georgia president Bert Lance, whom former Georgia
Governor Jimmy Carter described as being like a brother and was Carter's
chosen but defeated successor, meets with Jackson Stephens, a Naval
Academy classmate of Carter. Stephens Inc. arranges public offering of
NBG stock. Stephens would later be described by the New York Post as the
man who was to "Clinton what Bert Lance was to candidate Jimmy Carter."
- The Progressive Review 10/11/00 Sam Smith
1976 Both Stephens and Lance help Carter in his race for the White
House. Carter uses the NBG corporate plane without disclosing it.
Campaign is later fined. Two Indonesian billionaires come to Arkansas.
Mochtar Riady and Liem Sioe Liong are close to Suharto. Riady is looking
for an American bank to buy. Riady's agent is Jackson Stephens. The
Progressive Review 10/11/00 Sam Smith
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1986 George W. Bush and partners receive more than $2 million of Harken
Energy stock in exchange for a failing oil well operation, which has
lost $400,000 in the prior six months. After Bush joins Harken, the
largest stock position and a seat on its board is acquired by Harvard
Management Company. The Harken board gives Bush $600,000 worth of the
company's publicly traded stock, plus a seat on the board plus a
consultancy that pays him up to $120,000 a year. When Harken runs short
of cash it hooks up with Jackson Stephens, who arranges a $25 million
stock purchase by Union Bank of Switzerland. Sheik Abdullah Bakhsh, who
joins the board as a part of the deal, is connected to BCCI. The
Progressive Review 10/11/00 Sam Smith
1988 Stephens' wife Mary Ann runs George Bush's campaign in Arkansas. He
is a member of Team 100 -- individuals who have given $100,000 to the
Republican party. A few days before the supposedly surprise arrest of
five BCCI officials, some of the world's most powerful drug dealers
quietly withdraw millions of dollars from the bank. Some government
investigators believe the dealers were tipped off by sources within the
Bush administration. The Progressive Review 10/11/00 Sam Smith
1991 Stephens Inc gives $100,000 to a Bush dinner committee. With
Stephens, Mochtar Riady buys BCCI's former Hong Kong subsidiary from its
liquidators. A former top aide to White House Chief of Staff John Sununu
goes to work for a prominent figure in the BCCI scandal less than a
month after leaving the Bush administration. Edward Rogers Jr. signs a
$600,000 contract to give legal advice to Sheik Kamal Adham, an ex-Saudi
intelligence officer who is being investigated for his role in BCCI's
takeover of First American Bankshares. The Miami acting US Attorney is
reportedly rebuffed by the Justice Department in his efforts to indict
BCCI and some of its principal officers on tax fraud charges. Justice
Department later denies this occurred. The Progressive Review 10/11/00
Sam Smith
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Financial General, a Washington D.C.based bank with headquarters a block
from the White House had been acquired in April 1977 by an investor
group lead by William Middendorf II, who was Secretary of the Navy under
Nixon and Ford. One member of the investor group was Jackson Stephens
(Little Rock, controlling interest in Worthen National Bank and Stephens
Inc, associated with Riadys and Clinton)
In November 1977, Stephens introduced BCCI-founder Abedi to Bert Lance,
Carter's Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Financial
General had sold to Lance controlling interest in the National Bank of
Georgia in 1975. Abedi introduced Lance to Ghaith Pharaon who proceeded
to acquire the stock of Lance's National Bank of Georgia, a deal
consummated on January 5, 1978, a day after Lance's $3.4 million loan
from the First National Bank of Chicago was repaid by BCCI London.
Lance and Stephens helped BCCI take over Financial General. A Financial
General lawsuit "Bert Lance, Bank of Credit & Commerce International,
Agha Hasan Abedi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens Inc.,
Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through 25." Systematics was
represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and Hillary Rodham Clinton
of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock.
The connection with Refco entangled the Clintons, however remotely, in
another segment of the web of influence-buying that was then being spun
across the world by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. By
itself, this tie might not amount to much, but it takes on added
interest from the complex relations between the Clintons and the
Stephens family of Little Rock, financiers and Arkansas king-makers with
their own BCCI entanglement. The role of Jackson Stephens as financial
backer of Governor Clinton has already been widely reported, as has his
service to the BCCI's penetration of the American financial market (see
TAS, November 1992). But almost nothing has been said about the equally
fascinating appearance of Refco in the affairs of the world's most
corrupt bank. Refco and Stephens also maintained business ties, but it's
an open question whether these involved the BCCI. It's also an open
question whether Bill Clinton's brush with this world is influencing the
federal government's efforts, or lack of effort, at getting to the
bottom of the BCCI scandal.
It can definitely be said, however, that Refco's international
operations have attracted the interest of the untanglers of BCCI's
affairs. BCCI is not only the world's largest single bank fraud, but
also the most ubiquitous. It was founded in the Persian Gulf in 1972 by
a Pakistani visionary named Agha Hasan Abedi, who inspired a cult-like
devotion from his officers, primarily Urdu-speaking Pakistanis; he also
steadfastly ignored economic reality, and wound up losing more than $10
billion. Increasingly desperate to cover his losses, he opened his doors
to the world's vast underground economy, and BCCI became the central
bank for terrorists, spies, arms dealers, and drug lords from Burma to
Colombia. At the same time, his agents tried to buy their way into every
political elite they encountered--including the Arkansas establishment
that was watching the rise of the Clintons. In November 1977, Abedi met
in Little Rock with Jimmy Carter's confidant Bert Lance and investment
banker Jackson Stephens, a power above and beyond Bill Clinton. Out of
this meeting came Abedi's celebrated takeover of an interstate banking
chain based in Washington, D.C., patriotically renamed First American
Bankshares and put in the hands of super-insider Clark Clifford.
Coincidentally or not, Dittmer and Refco picked up a new client in the
aftermath.
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