Reply #106: Hey seemslikeadream, you think this all goes back to the Riggs Bank?

[robertpaulsen]

Here's a good article I found:

Going to School on Doug Feith
A Pentagon neocon's money connection to—what else?—Bush, oil, and torture

Top Pentagon official and ardent neocon Doug Feith, boss of suspected spy for Israel Larry Franklin, has contended for years that the U.S. needed to expunge Saddam Hussein because the guy was a ruthless and horrible dictator.

But neither Feith nor the rest of the Bush regime and their financiers seem to have a problem with blood money from Teodoro Obiang, the brutal ruler of Equatorial Guinea. Obiang and his family ran millions of dollars they got from big oil companies through personal accounts in Bush sugar daddy Joe Allbritton's Riggs National Bank, and Obiang's brother—who is accused of torturing prisoners with stinging ants—was touted by a top bank official as a "valued customer." (See this previous Bush Beat item for details.)

Now it turns out that Allbritton, whose control of Riggs finally collapsed this summer after those revelations, has contributed large sums of money to a private school of which Doug Feith is a director and former president.

Allbritton pumped millions of dollars from his own holdings of bank stock and from George W. Bush's uncle Jonathan's investment-banking operation (which was part of the Riggs National Bank conglomeration) into the Allbritton Foundation, according to federal tax records pored over by the Voice. During 2000 and again in 2002, the records show, the foundation donated $25,000 to the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, the Rockville, Maryland, institution connected to Feith. The school is one of the most prominent private Jewish schools in the country. It's the only Jewish school listed as receiving money from the foundation.

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http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000248.php

Geez, how many scandals do you think are connected here?