From bigxc@prairienet.orgTue Mar  7 03:04:27 1995
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 01:15:47 CST
From: Brian Redman <bigxc@prairienet.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conspire@prairienet.org>
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4 Num. 24


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4  Num. 24
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the 
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However 
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
 
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put 
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up 
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
 
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 
9800 South Oglesby.
 
One of the great secrets of the highly corrupt mass media is the 
buying and selling of jobs, particularly in radio and TV. The way 
it works in the Chicago market is typical of the nation. There is 
a group of six celebrity lawyers here who work the racket. A 
would-be job holder has to agree to pay fifteen percent of the 
first year's salary of a three-year contract. Payment has to be 
made in front, in cash. Five percent goes to the union business 
agent, five percent to the celebrity lawyer, and five percent to 
the news director or radio and TV station manager.
 
One such job holder was somehow dismissed before the end of the 
first year. He talked off-the-record with a media critic and 
legal researcher. He told them that he cannot be fired! Because, 
after all -- he bought the job! And it belongs to him! He wanted 
an opinion as to whether he can sue for damages. He was upset 
when informed of the pertinent principle of law: you can't sue to 
get something that is against public policy. And buying and 
selling jobs is opposed by public policy. The same judge-made law 
applies to bank robbers: they cannot sue for police brutality 
that may result if they are caught on the way from a bank stick- 
up.
 
One such lawyer who reportedly knew a lot about all this was Saul 
Foos, one of the nation's top agents for broadcasting stars. He 
had a couple of interesting apparent sidelines. For instance, he 
was a director of a bank in the north suburb of Deerfield, same 
place Admiral Stansfield Turner is from. The Admiral was director 
of Central Intelligence in the Carter administration. Did Foos do 
a little money laundering through his bank? Some think so.
 
And Foos was charged with the federal crime of defrauding more 
than 100 investors of millions of dollars. Some were his 
broadcasting clients, promised the guarantee of no losses and up 
to forty percent returns in some of the scams, including for non- 
existent building deals, commodity trading, and such. Foos has 
also been pushed into bankruptcy court. Naturally, the bankruptcy 
trustee (for him) is William A. Brandt, jr., previously in charge 
of CIA proprietary companies worldwide. According to documents 
released to us under Freedom of Information, Brandt ran CIA's 
covert operations, terminating the front companies by phony 
bankruptcies when necessary.
 
Another lawyer in the position of understanding the buying and 
selling of jobs is Joel Weisman, also of Deerfield. He's also a 
celebrity lawyer, and, for many years, runs a local TV panel show 
whitewashing media lies. Through his law partners, Weisman has 
been a crony of crooked judges. Cynics claim Joel reportedly 
knows how to buy a broadcast job or "fix" a court case.
 
The celebrity lawyers also quietly settle sex cases. Former 
office workers of CBS's channel 2 here helped us expose an 
embezzlement racket. They are sorry they settled -- too cheap -- 
charges they made against their bosses at WBBM-TV, who apparently 
could not keep their hands to themselves! Working in bookkeeping, 
they document how, over a period of 20 years, channel 2 embezzled 
some $40 million belonging to the network. (We first exposed the 
embezzlement in 1983. The corrupt honchos at IRS, of course, are 
silent.)
 
Talking about jobs, up to about 1988 CBS News was the recipient 
of huge subsidies, from CIA, to finance money-losing foreign news 
bureaus in spy-world spots. CBS lost the covert funds and had to 
close overseas offices and lay off a lot of journalist-spies. The 
subsidy thereafter went to ABC News.
 
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most 
Monday evenings.
 
Play it again: "The Corrupt New York Federal Reserve". (312) 731- 
1505.
 
New message Wednesday; we change it several times a week.
 
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the 
Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the 
latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political 
assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.
 
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