Prosecutors at the Suitcase-Gate Trial revealed a shadowy Venezuelan elite of Ferrari-driving "socialists" who exploited connections to Hugo Chavez to rake in billions of dollars. But they also exposed some dark corners of America's own shadowy elite...
The MadCowMorningNews has learned exclusively that the owner of the luxury Citation X jet used to fly Guido Antonini Wilson and his cash-stuffed suitcase around South America is an American online gambling tycoon, and formerly one of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's biggest clients.
Living in exile in Gibraltar, secretive gambling mogul Ruth Parasol was the true owner of the plane which flew 'Guido the Bagman' and several suitcases stuffed with cash to Buenos Aires last August 4. The flight kicked off what became known as Suitcase-Gate.
Parasol was in the news during the recent Presidential campaign, when reporters learned that Hunter Biden, youngest son of Vice President-elect Joe Biden, had hired on to lobby Congress for her $8 billion empire of online gambling sites.
Lobbying documents on file with the Senate Public Records Office show that Biden intended to lobby on the "legality of internet gaming" and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Biden, the subject of an unflattering profile online with the headline Hunt Biden is an Evil Lobbyist resigned from the law firm with the account when his lobbying activities for Parasol came to light, announcing he would no longer be a lobbyist.
Guido's Luggage flies first class.
From the plane's literature: "The Citation X is the fastest business jet ever and quite efficient. Traveling at 510 knots, the Citation X can climb to 43,000 feet in under 30 minutes at its maximum takeoff weight, lifting you quickly to transcontinental and transatlantic altitudes.
The Citation X is certified to fly where fuel efficiency is optimized and airline traffic is non-existent."
The unanswered question is what ownership of the plane by a gambling and pornography tycoon (both of which, it must be said, are traditional Mob pursuits) means to our understanding of the mysterious Suitcase-Gate Scandal, especially given that, as we reported previously, the Citation jet was carrying the same registration, or "N" number, N5113S, as that of a plane flying for CIA contractor Air-Scan in Iraq.
Newspaper photos taken after the ill-fated suitcase flight show that the 'N' number on the tail was being used, and at the same time, by a Cessna 182 flying in Iraq, by Florida-based CIA air contractor Air-Scan Inc.
There was no explanation during the trial for the murky provenance of the jet, nor any mention that, according to FAA regulations, the charter flight was illegal.
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