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#20520232 at 2024-03-05 10:55:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25168: C'mon Ride The Slide! Super Tuesday Trump Train - MAGA NATION Edition
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How the Mafia Works
By: Ed Grabianowski & John Donovan | Updated: Jul 30, 2021
The Mafia, at its core, is about one thing: money.
Throughout its history, the Mafia has controlled everything from the street-corner drug trade to the highest levels of government. Its members operate outside the law, yet become accepted and sometimes feared parts of the neighborhoods and cities they inhabit. Glorified by movies and television, hounded by law enforcement, marked for death by their enemies, these mobsters live violent and often brief lives.
The Mafia is, in its own right, a family. To become a family member means to accept secret rituals, complicated rules and tangled webs of loyalty. Those who run afoul of the family risk being ostracized… and worse. Many mobsters who have turned against the Mafia have met an untimely, often gruesome death.
In this article, we'll find out how people get into the Mafia, what the Mafia does and what law enforcement agencies have done to stop them. We'll also learn about the important people and events that have shaped this not-so-secret society.
Today, the word "Mafia" is used to refer to almost any organized crime group, and in some cases is even used to describe groups completely unrelated to crime. In this article, we will focus on the traditional meaning of "Mafia:" organized criminal organizations of Italian and Sicilian heritage.
In organized crime there is a hierarchy, with higher-ranking members making decisions that trickle down to the other members of the family. The Mafia is not a single group or gang - it is made up of many families that have, at times, fought each other in bitter, bloody gang wars. At other times, they have cooperated in the interest of greater profits, sometimes even serving on a "Commission" that made major decisions affecting all the families (more on the Commission later). Most of the time, though, they simply agree to stay out of each other's way.
Mafia-dom is neither a political nor a religious affiliation. Because of their Italian roots, many Mafioso are Catholic, but part of the oath a mobster takes when he becomes a "made man," a member of a Mafia family, is that the Mafia comes before birth family and God.
The structure described below refers specifically to La Cosa Nostra. Other crime organizations have similar structures, but may differ in some ways.
Each Mafia gang is known as a family. The number of families can range from fewer than 10 to more than 100. Sometimes, the emergence of a new family must be approved by the heads of other families, while in some cases a group can splinter off from another family and consolidate its power, becoming recognized as a new family over time. Each family has separate business dealings, but the dealings of the families can intermingle depending on their proximity to one another and the commonality of their ventures.
The leader of each family is known as the boss, or don. All major decisions are made by the don, and money made by the family ultimately flows to him. The boss's authority is used to resolve disputes and keep everyone in line.
Just below the boss is the underboss. The underboss is the second in command, although the amount of power he wields varies. Some underbosses resolve disputes without involving the boss. Some are groomed to replace the boss if he is old or in danger of going to jail.
Beneath the underboss are the capos. The number of capos varies depending on the overall size of the family. A capo acts like a lieutenant, leading his own section of the family. He has specific activities that he operates. The capo's territory may be defined geographically (as in, "everything west of 14th Street belongs to Louie 'The Key' DiBartolo") or by the rackets he operates ("Alfonze 'Big Al' Maggioli is in charge of illegal gambling"). The key to being a successful capo is making money. The capo keeps some of the money his rackets earn and passes the rest up to the underboss and boss.
The dirty work is done by the soldiers. A soldier is the lowest rank among made men. Soldiers are part of the family, but they hold little power and make relatively little money. The number of soldiers under any given capo can vary tremendously.
In addition to soldiers, the Mafia uses associates. They're not actual members of the Mafia, but they work with Mafia soldiers and capos on various criminal enterprises. An associate can include anyone from a burglar or drug dealer to a lawyer, investment banker, police officer or politician.
#16210349 at 2022-05-04 21:30:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20505: Durham's Trapped Them All Edition
Ex-MIT business professor is found guilty in scheme to swindle $5M from his dead son's estate after staging his own shooting and claiming his child hired Russian hitmen to kill him
John Donovan Sr, 80, of Hamilton, Massachusetts was convicted on Tuesday
Jury in Salem county found him guilty of forging son's will and other documents
Donovan was previously convicted of staging his own shooting in 2007
He tried to frame another son, claiming he had hired Russian hitmen to kill him
A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who once staged his own shooting has been found guilty of forgery and other charges in a scheme to swindle $5 million from his dead son's estate.
John Donovan Sr, 80, of Hamilton, Massachusetts was convicted on Tuesday by a jury in Salem Superior Court after a monthlong trial and four hours of deliberations.
In a separate plot, Donovan was previously convicted of staging his own shooting in 2007 and falsely accusing one of his sons, a Goldman Sachs executive who later dated Trump administration official Hope Hicks, of hiring Russian hitmen to kill him.
Another of Donovan's sons, John Donovan Jr, died in April 2015 at age 43 after being diagnosed with cancer.
After his death, Donovan Sr forged 25 documents, including will codicils, deeds, land transfers, mortgages and releases of judgments against him at the county registry of deeds in December 2016, prosecutors said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10782811/John-Donovan-Ex-MIT-business-professor-guilty-forging-dead-sons-will.html
#9231839 at 2020-05-19 00:36:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11815: POTUS About To Break The MSM Over HQC Edition
SEC settles charges against three former KPMG auditors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday said it settled charges against three former KPMG LLP audit partners stemming from a cheating scandal at the firm.
The SEC said the three former KPMG employees violated auditor integrity rules, part of charges against KPMG for which the auditing firm paid a $50 million fine last year. Former KPMG auditors Timothy Daly, Michael Bellach, and John Donovan each engaged in misconduct in relation to exams that the firm used to test that auditors, the agency said in a statement.
In 2018, Bellach texted Daly images of questions and answers to a required training exam, the SEC said. According to the agency, Donovan also received answers to training exams from subordinates on several occasions and shared answers with others at times that year.
Lawyers for each of the individuals charged did not respond immediately to requests for comment. "These actions reflect our commitment to hold these gatekeepers responsible for breaches of their professional obligations," said Steven Peikin, co-director of the SEC's enforcement division.
In 2019, KPMG agreed to the penalty to settle allegations of employees' cheating as well as charges that former staffers used stolen information to alter some of the accounting firm's previous audit work. A KPMG spokesperson said in a statement on Monday: "We are a stronger firm as a result of the actions we are taking to strengthen our culture, governance and compliance program."
The former KPMG auditors did not admit or deny the findings, the SEC said. Daly, Bellach, and Donovan agreed to be suspended from appearing or practicing before the SEC as accountants, with the right to apply for reinstatement after three years, two years, and one year, respectively.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-kpmg/sec-settles-charges-against-three-former-kpmg-auditors-idUSKBN22U349
#8224215 at 2020-02-23 08:30:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10529: Patriots, Into the Fray! Edition
MI6 Officer List
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Jonathan Andrew Brewer: dob 1955; 86 Luanda, 91 Mexico, 98 Moscow, 02 London.
Richard Philip Bridge: 86 Warsaw, 88 Moscow; dob 1959.
Richard Philip Bridge: dob 1959; 86 Warsaw, 89 Moscow, 98 New Delhi, 04 Geneva (Cllr).*
Robert Edward Brinkley: dob 1954; 78 Geneva, 79 Moscow, 88 Bonn, 96 Moscow, 02 Kiev.*
Stuart Armitage Brooks: 72 Rio, 75 Lisbon, 79 Moscow, 87 Stockholm, 93 Moscow; dob 1948; OBE.
Christopher Parker Burrows: 82 East Berlin, 87 Bonn, 93 Athens; dob 1958.
George Benedict Joseph P Busby: 89 Bonn, 92 Belgrade; dob 1960; OBE.
George Benedict Joseph Pascal Busby: dob 1960; 89 Bonn, 92 Belgrade, 00 Vienna, 04 London.
Paul Brummel: dob 1965; 89 Islamabad, 95 Rome, 02 Ashgabat.*
Philippa Jane Carnall: dob 1957; 83 Beirut, 84 Damascus, 88 Hanoi, 91 Washington, 97 Cairo, 02 Islamabad (3 Sec).*
Peter Leslie Carter: dob 1956; 86 New Delhi, 94 Brussels, 01 Tel Aviv (Cllr, CG, DHM).*
David Ian Chambers: dob 1947; 94 Hong Kong, 03 Bangkok (Cllr).*
Geoff Chittenden.
Robert John Paul Church: 76 Bankok, 81 Berlin, 86 Nairobi, 89 Bangkok, 97 Nairobi; dob 1947.
Edward Clay: dob 1945; 70 Nairobi, 73 Sofia, 79 Budapest, 85 Nicosia, 93 Kampala, 94 Burundi, 99 Nicosia, 01 Nairobi.*
Timothy Clayden: 91 Warsaw, 95 Lagos; dob 1960; Wanker.
Martin Hugh Clements: 86 Tehran, 90 Vienna; dob 1961.
Martin Hugh Clements: dob 1961; 86 Tehran, 90 Vienna, 98 Bonn, 99 Berlin, 04 Kabul (Cllr).*
John Donovan Nelson Clibborn: 66 Nicosia, 72 Bonn, 72 Brussels, 88 Washington; dob 1941; CMG.
Peter Salmon Collecot: 80 Khartoum, 82 Canberra, 93 Jakarta; dob 1950.
Peter Salmon Collecott: dob 1950; 85 Khartoum, 82 Canberra, 89 Jakarta, 94 Bonn, 04 Brasilia.*
Nicholas Geoffrey Coombs: dob 1961; 87 Riyadh, 93 Amman, 00 Riyadh, 03 London.
Andrew George Tyndale Cooper: dob 1953; 84 Canberra, 88 Geneva, 95 Stockholm, 99 London.
John de Carteret Copleston: dob 1952; 75 Paris, 80 Islamabad, 87 Jakarta, 93 Lagos, 97 Canberra, 00 London.*
Andrew David Cordery: 75 Nairobi, 77 New York, 84 Lusaka, 88 Berlin, 95 Oslo; dob 1947.
Vernon Robert Court: dob 1958; 84 Bangkok, 90 Brussels, 93 Brussels, 01 Canberra (DHM).*
Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles: 80 Cairo, 87 Washington; dob 1955; CMG, LVO.
Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles: dob 1955; 80 Cairo, 87 Washington, 97 Paris, 01 Tel Aviv, 03 Riyadh.*
Anthony Evelyn Comrie Cowan: dob 1953; 78 Hong Kong, 80 Peking, 87 Brussels, 96 Hong Kong, 03 Hague (Cllr).*
Keith Craig: dob 1961.
Charles Graham Crawford: dob 1954; 81 Belgrade, 87 Cape Town, 93 Moscow, 96 Sarajevo, 01 Belgrade, 03 Warsaw. (* Warsaw, 05)
Michael James Crawford: dob 1954; 83 Cairo, 85 Sanaa, 86 Riyadh, 92 Warsaw, 99 Islamabad, 01 London.
Alexander John Peter Creswell: dob 1965; 95 Pretoria, 01 Kuwait (1 Sec).
John Martin Jamie Darke: 88 Cairo, 96 Dubai; dob 1953.
John Martin Jamie Darke: dob 1953; 88 Cairo, 96 Dubai, 03 Lisbon (Cllr).*
Nigel Kim Darroch: dob 1954; 80 Tokyo, 89 Rome, 97 Brussels, 03 London.
Michael Hayward Davenport: 89 Warsaw, 96 Moscow; dob 1961.
Michael Hayward Davenport: dob 1961; 90 Warsaw, 96 Moscow, 00 Warsaw, 04 Cairo (DHM).*
Peter Brian Davies: 83 Rome, 88 Peking, 96 Jakarta; dob 1954.
Elved Richard Malcolm Davies: dob 1951; 77 Jakarta, 84 Athens, 89 Nairobi, 91 Oslo, 00 Hong Kong, 04 London.
John Howard Davies: dob 1957; 83 Riyadh, 87 Damascus, 93 Riga, 99 Sofia, 03 London.
Peter Brian Davies: dob 1954; 80 Hong Kong, 83 Rome, 88 Peking, 96 Jakarta,03 Madrid (Cllr).*
John Paul Davison: dob 1950; 77 Abu Dhabi, 86 Dubai, 89 London.
Andrew John Dean: dob 1955; 84 Vienna, 90 Hanoi, 97 Sao Paolo, 00 Canberra (Cllr).*
Geoffrey Deane: dob 1950; 80 Nairobi, 88 East Berlin, 01 Munich (Consul).
Richard Billing Dearlove: 68 Nairobi, 73 Prague, 80 Paris, 87 Geneva, 91 Washington; dob 1945; OBE.
John Deerlove.
Hugh Stephen Murray Elliot: dob 1965; 91 Madrid, 99 Buenos Aires, 02 Paris (Cllr).*
Julian Ascott Evans: dob 1957; 82 Moscow, 85 Zurich, 91 New York, 02 Islamabad, 03 Ottawa (DHC).*
Stephen Nicholas Evans: dob 1950; 78 Hanoi, 83 Bangkok, 90 Ankara, 93 Islamabad, 96 Kabul, 02 Colombo.*
Keith Derek Evetts: 75 Warsaw, 77 Maputo, 83 New York, 86 Kingston, 88 Lisbon; dob 1948; OBE.
David William Fall: dob 1948; 76 Bangkok, 81 Pretoria, 90 Bangkok, 93 Canberra, 97 Hanoi, 03 Bangkok.*
Charles Blanford Farr: dob 1959; 87 Pretoria, 92 Amman, 95 London.
Michael Edward Joseph Feliks: 93 Peking; dob 1964; Dr.
Robert Dominic Russell Fenn: 85 Hague, 88 Lagos, 92 New York; dob 1962.
Robert Dominic Russell Fenn: dob 1962; 85 Hague, 88 Lagos, 92 New York, 97 Rome, 04 Nicosia (DHM).*
John Fisher: dob 1948; 76 Ankara, 82 Vienna, 93 Santiago, 99 Jakarta, 03 London.
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#6423104 at 2019-05-05 21:21:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8213: Anons Pwn The Dems - SC Justice Poll Deleted Edition
By John Donovan
In 1996, Shell used the sinister specialist services of what could be described as an in-house spying resource set up by former MI6 officers, Hakluyt & Company Limited with titled Shell directors acting as the ultimate spymasters.
At that time, Sir William Purves was Chairman of Hakluyt & Company Limited and Sir Peter Holmes, a former Chairman of Shell, was President of the Hakluyt Foundation. Both were also major shareholders in the corporate spy outfit, while also being Shell directors.
Hakluyt was allegedly set up to carry out "deniable" corporate espionage operations.
A German-born secret service agent Manfred Schlickenrieder working undercover for Hakluyt was sent to Nigeria on a mission relating to allegations of environmental damage caused by Shell's oil drilling in Ogoniland.
Extracts from a related front-page article published by The Sunday Times in 2001 under the headline MI6 'Firm' Spied on Green Groups:
Schlickenrieder sometimes posed as a left-wing sympathizer and documentary filmmaker.
He also tried to dupe Anita Roddick's Body Shop group to pass on information about its opposition to Shell drilling for oil in a Nigerian tribal land.
His company was a one-man band with a video camera making rarely seen documentaries.
He made a film on Shell in Nigeria called Business as Usual: the Arrogance of Power, during which he interviewed friends of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nobel prize nominee, who was hanged by the military regime in 1995 after leading a campaign against oil exploration. Schlickenrieder sent a letter to a Body Shop executive saying he had been researching the activities of Shell in Nigeria...
Fouad Hamdan, communications director of Greenpeace Germany, said: "The bastard was good, I have to admit. "He got information about our planned Atlantic Frontier campaign..." He added: "Manfred filmed and interviewed all the time..."
https://royaldutchshellplc.com/category/ian-mccredie/
#6408689 at 2019-05-04 03:19:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8195: James Woods and Freedom Of Speech US Twitter Trending Edition
By John Donovan
In 1996, Shell used the sinister specialist services of what could be described as an in-house spying resource set up by former MI6 officers, Hakluyt & Company Limited with titled Shell directors acting as the ultimate spymasters.
At that time, Sir William Purves was Chairman of Hakluyt & Company Limited and Sir Peter Holmes, a former Chairman of Shell, was President of the Hakluyt Foundation. Both were also major shareholders in the corporate spy outfit, while also being Shell directors.
Hakluyt was allegedly set up to carry out "deniable" corporate espionage operations.
A German-born undercover agent Manfred Schlickenrieder working undercover for Hakluyt was sent to Nigeria on a mission relating to allegations of environmental damage caused by Shell's oil drilling in Ogoniland.
Extract from a related front-page article published by The Sunday Times in 2001 under the headline MI6 'Firm' Spied on Green Groups
He made a film on Shell in Nigeria called Business as Usual: the Arrogance of Power, during which he interviewed friends of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nobel prize nominee, who was hanged by the military regime in 1995 after leading a campaign against oil exploration. Schlickenrieder sent a letter to a Body Shop executive saying he had been researching the activities of Shell in Nigeria...
The Sunday Times article is short on dates and information about what Shell's undercover agent was up to in Nigeria, but it was at a time when litigation was being contemplated against Shell by relatives of Ken Saro Wiwi and Ogoni Nine widows.
Perhaps information about the purpose and timing of his spying mission in Nigeria will be contained in the confidential Shell internal documents the Dutch Court has ordered to be handed over to Esther Kiobel and her co-plaintiffs. Sight of his briefing by Shell/Hakluyt could be very revealing.
Part of the Kiobel & Co Dutch case against Shell relates to alleged Shell bribing of witnesses in the Ogoni Nine trial, which ended with the hanging of all nine individuals, including Ken Saro-Wiwi and the beloved husband of Esther Kiobel, Dr Barinem Kiobel.
Salient extracts from the Wikipedia article "Ogoni Nine"
The executions provoked international condemnation and led to the increasing treatment of Nigeria as a pariah state...
At least two witnesses who testified that Saro-Wiwa was involved in the murders of the Ogoni elders later recanted, stating that they had been bribed with money and offers of jobs with Shell to give false testimony - in the presence of Shell's lawyer.
Shell's close association with former MI6 people has continued through the years.
I am in possession of irrefutable evidence that an ex MI6 man Ian Forbes McCredie, hired by Shell to be head of Shell Global Security, was also part of Hakluyt & Company.
https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2019/05/03/chilling-similarities-between-the-opl-245-and-ogoni-9-litigation/
#5971225 at 2019-03-30 01:26:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7637: Ask The Right Questions Edition
https://www.theblaze.com/news/former-sen-jeff-flake-says-it-would-be-good-for-the-gop-if-a-democrat-beats-pres-trump-in-2020
He really, really can't stand Pres. Trump.
The remarks came during a debate titled "The Republican Party Should Not Re-Nominate Trump." ABC News correspondent John Donovan asked Flake if he would be "willing to lose a cycle for the Republican Party because of the principles you're arguing."
"Oh, yes," Flake said. "Yes. You sacrifice a generation. You think, 'Man, we might get some policy goals in the next year or two'-look at the long term. Look at the long term, at what you're doing for the party, because people don't want to be associated with it."
To make sure he was clear on Flake's point, Donovan asked, "So, to boil it down, it's better for a Democrat to win in 2020 if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, than for Donald Trump to win?"
"Yes," Flake said."
#4438111 at 2018-12-23 15:20:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5658: There's No Business Like Shoah Business
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Thanks John Donovan!
#411611 at 2018-02-17 21:25:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #506: Hoping The New Baker Doesnt Screw This Up Edition
Shell Oil. Queen Beatrix of Netherlands. Bilderberg.
http:// royaldutchshellplc.com/tag/queen-beatrix-of-the-netherlands/
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates
Apr 30th, 2013 by John Donovan. Comments are off for this post
I last wrote to you on 1st March 1999. I did so in the knowledge that your esteemed family is one of the largest single shareholders in Shell. I warned you about what I described as "a culture of deception and cover-up deeply ingrained at the highest levels of Shell".
FINANCIAL TIMES
By Matt Steinglass in Amsterdam: 30 April 2013
Joanna and the other demonstrator, Hans Maessen of the Dutch Republican Association, were arrested by agents several minutes later after she tried to hoist an expletive-laden sign attacking the royal family for their holdings in Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil company.
FULL FT ARTICLE
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER WE SENT TO QUEEN BEATRIX ON 21 APRIL 2004 ABOUT THE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL RESERVES FRAUD
21 April 2004
HM QUEEN BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS ?Huis ten Bosch Palace?The Hague
Your Gracious Majesty
THE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP
I last wrote to you on 1st March 1999. I did so in the knowledge that your esteemed family is one of the largest single shareholders in Shell. I warned you about what I described as "a culture of deception and cover-up deeply ingrained at the highest levels of Shell".
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Bilderberg, Shadow Super-government: ROYAL DUTCH SHELL CONNECTIONS
Jun 5th, 2008 by John Donovan. Comments are off for this post
Royal Dutch Shell Plc board members Jeroen van der Veer and Jorma Ollila, and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands - a long term major shareholder in Royal Dutch Shell - are all members of this sinister super secret group and all three have attended the infamous secret meetings.
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ROYAL DUTCH SHELL'S TARNISHED ROYAL PREFIX
Aug 22nd, 2005 by John Donovan. Comments are off for this post
ShellNews.net: ROYAL DUTCH SHELL'S TARNISHED ROYAL PREFIX
Monday 22 August 2005: 09.15 EDT
By Alfred Donovan
My son John recently received his first letter from Royal Dutch Shell Plc. It proudly displays the royal crown of the Dutch royal family. The oil giant bears the Royal prefix because Royal Dutch has enjoyed a strong link with the Dutch royal family for over a hundred years.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands granted a royal charter to a small oil exploration company founded in 1890 by Jean Kessler, along with Henri Deterding and Hugo Loudon, which evolved into the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company. Queen Wilhelmina was a very shrewd investor and became the wealthiest woman in the world. At one time, the Dutch royals apparently owned as much as 25% of the oil company.
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The passing of national champions
Jun 29th, 2005 by John Donovan. Comments are off for this post
Financial Times: The passing of national champions
"Senior figures from the company even had to approach Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, to gain her royal assent for the move. It is believed to be the first time the Dutch royal monicker has been applied to a UK-listed company."
Wednesday 29 June 2005
By Thomas Catan, James Boxell and Ian Bickerton
In a historic vote on Tuesday, Royal Dutch/Shell shareholders bade farewell to a century of history, approving a plan to scrap the UK and Dutch parents of the group in favour of a single, unified company.
The vote had been locked-up with the aid of large investors ahead of Tuesday's annual general meetings in London and Scheveningen. But the vote did not proceed before a handful of elderly investors in both meetings raised their objections to the passing of what they see as their national champions.
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