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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 89


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 89
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[CN -- The following does not necessarily reflect the views of 
Conspiracy Nation. It merely reports what was said elsewhere.]
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK INTERVIEW -- THE JOLIET CONNECTION
 
Sherman Skolnick was interviewed on *Radio Free America* 
(Shortwave, 5.065 MHz, mon-fri, 9 pm cst) on October 20, 1994. 
Mr. Skolnick is a veteran investigative reporter from Chicago and 
founder of the "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts" in 
that city. Following is my transcription of that interview. 
Host/Interviewer is Tom Valentine.
 
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[...continued...]
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK [continues]:
Now U.S. attorney Valukis, who was a close crony of Teezak and 
Bush and others, did not investigate the obstruction of justice. 
And that building was burned down to obstruct the grand jury's 
subpoena.
 
Six years went by, and the Treasury unit continued their 
investigation. Now they [*not* Treasury unit] needed a fall guy 
to try to cover the matter up. So in 1993, suddenly, Robert 
Teezak, the crony of all these people, the congressmen and all 
that, who -- and by the way: Teezak used to fly his airplane to 
Hong Kong, supposedly to arrange shipments of the manufacture of 
his games. You know, the International Games, Incorporated.
 
 
TOM VALENTINE:
Um-hmm [understands]. All right. That makes sense.
 
 
SKOLNICK:
...1993, Teezak suddenly pleads guilty to burning the building 
down. O.K.? No trial, no formality. And a federal judge here in 
Chicago covered up the matter, and they sent, without much 
ceremony and without hardly any mention in the paper, they sent 
Teezak away to jail without inquiring into the overall matter of 
"China White" and the building.
 
Now the apparatus that was used is rather complicated. They used 
apparatuses, as I said earlier, similar to what was used in 
Arkansas to wash the dope money. They used local "development" 
councils. They used bonds that were issued. They used... Here 
they used three training institutes, supposedly to re-train 
people for work, but the fraudulent payroll records ('cause they 
didn't really have all those people working) were in the PIC 
[Private Industry Council] Building, the...
 
 
VALENTINE:
...the building that burned down.
 
 
SKOLNICK:
Right.
 
 
VALENTINE:
O.K. Hold on. My guest is Sherman Skolnick. We're getting this 
story -- he put this together out of absolute records from the 
U.S. Treasury Department investigation. And it's all factual. And 
once again, we can see our government in action!
 
I'm Tom Valentine, this is *Radio Free America*.
 
[...commercial break...]
 
We are back, live, and I am just "all ears", listening to Sherman 
Skolnick of the Committee to Clean Up the Courts, talking about 
this behavior of the people near Joliet, Illinois -- just south 
of Chicago. They've got a big state pen there, a very famous 
prison, in Joliet. And, go ahead, Sherman.
 
 
SKOLNICK:
The attorney for PIC, the Private Industry Council (it's a 
misleading name, because they were actually a repository of 
federal loan records) -- the attorney for that, who we feel 
covered it up, was Edward Masters, who today is the chief judge 
of the Will County Circuit Court [CN -- Will County is adjacent 
to Cook County; Chicago is in Cook County and Joliet is in Will 
County]. And law enforcement people have told us that he is 
involved with this "China White" dope rackets. O.K., now...
 
 
VALENTINE:
That's nice. He's now a judge.
 
 
SKOLNICK:
*Chief* judge!
 
 
VALENTINE:
That's good cover, yeah. Chief judge, O.K.
 
Whatever happened to Dan Webb, though? Robert Teezak... You said 
that Dan Webb not only was a U.S. attorney, but he represented 
somebody privately?
 
 
SKOLNICK:
Yeah, Teezak!
 
 
VALENTINE:
Huh!
 
 
SKOLNICK:
The one that burned the building down.
 
O.K. Now, according to a headline story, December 5th, 1987, in 
the [Chicago] *Tribune*, it says here that the fire (with a 
picture of the building) was investigated by the federal Bureau 
of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and that they suspected arson. 
But they didn't proceed on the thing! And six years later, 
because of all these other things, Teezak, a close buddy of Bush 
and all these people that are involved in these dope shipments -- 
he [Teezak] suddenly confesses that *he* burned it down, and away 
to jail he goes to cover up the thing.
 
 
VALENTINE:
Yeah! He's gotta go play golf at one of those country club 
prisons, and he takes the fall.
 
 
SKOLNICK:
O.K. Now, as to how the money was "washed": it was a complicated 
thing, and I will do my best to try to make it simplified.
 
Some of the money was "washed" disguised as auto loan paper, 
which went to support a company that has become one of the major 
credit card and bank operations in the United States. And that's 
Household International. And their units are Household Bank. And 
they reportedly were the beneficiary of this dope money that, 
that is, the *proceeds* of the dope money -- the dope that was 
coming in turned into cash, $100 bills...
 
 
VALENTINE:
Um-hmm [understands].
 
 
SKOLNICK:
...and ended up, reportedly, with them.
 
 
VALENTINE:
And if Household [International] comes screaming because you're 
saying this publicly on the radio, you'll lay the paperwork that 
the people have received from the Treasury [Department unit] on 
them.
 
 
SKOLNICK:
Right. No I've confronted them in court already. I've... This 
radio program I'm doing with you is the first public program. In 
a few days, we're gonna do our popular cable TV show; we're gonna 
do a 1-hour show about this and we're gonna show some of the 
documents.
 
 
VALENTINE:
What channel is that on, in Chicago?
 
 
SKOLNICK:
It's channel 21, cable, in Chicago. Chicago Cable and Prime 
Cable.
 
 
VALENTINE:
All right.
 
 
SKOLNICK:
And on Monday nights we outpoll, by the way, three commercial 
stations here. Because we have about half-a-million viewers.
 
But the point of the matter is, we know how the apparatus worked. 
It worked through Household International. It worked through 
loaning SBA money, Small Business Administration money -- and the 
records were in the PIC Building -- to companies that were not 
creditworthy; that is, they were scams! They quickly thereafter 
went into bankruptcy. And there was a cover-up through the help 
of a federal bankruptcy judge from Chicago who was sent twice a 
month to Joliet to sit in their small federal building to hear 
these cases. The judge's wife was an assistant U.S. attorney 
under Webb, in charge of SBA loans. You understand how this was 
all...
 
 
VALENTINE:
Yeah! There's a lot of nepotism in this corruption at the top!
 
 
SKOLNICK:
Now wait a minute. The U.S. bankruptcy trustee for the Joliet 
district is John E. Gearham. He is a close crony of first lady 
Hillary Rodham Clinton. In January of this year, in the presence 
of a witness, I obtained the confession of Mr. Gearham. He 
contends that he is going to be the fall guy in a series of 
tremendous scandals also involving Madison Guaranty S&L, the...
 
 
VALENTINE:
All right, hold it there! Sherman Skolnick, my guest. You're on 
the edge of your seats, as I am. We'll be back. I'm Tom 
Valentine, this is *Radio Free America*.
 
[...commercial break...]
 
O.K. We are back, live, Sherman Skolnick is my guest. And we're 
talking about a scam, a drug/money-laundering scam involving 
officials: local, state, and even federal officials. Go ahead, 
Sherman.
 
 
SKOLNICK:
Let me explain to those who may not know. "China White" is the 
name for a superior narcotic, a high-purity opium, that makes, 
that is used to make a type of heroin that they can use without a 
needle. And it is coming to be a desirable by...
 
 
VALENTINE:
Yeah, you can even snort it! Like cocaine, huh?
 
 
SKOLNICK:
Exactly. Now, the point is, I was describing, first of all, why 
the espionage agencies supposedly had a rationale to close down 
the Treasury [Department unit] investigation: because the traffic 
was being facilitated by members, high-level members, of the 
Chinese secret police that are in this country disguised as 
scientists and lab technicians.
 
The apparatus that was used, to "wash" the tremendous sums of 
money, were local development authorities, fake real estate 
companies, fraudulent auto loan paper... also, three institutes 
that supposedly were training minority and other persons for 
other types of work. Also they were disguised as Small Business 
Administration loans, Housing and Urban Development-supported 
loans, subsidies from the U.S. Labor Department -- those records 
were in the PIC Building when it was burned down.
 
Now as I said, Anton R. Valukis, the U.S. attorney at the time 
and a close crony of Bush and the people that were involved here, 
did not proceed to investigate that obstruction of justice; that 
is, the obstructing of the grand jury subpoena directed against 
the records in that building! Nor did he make any effort to 
reconstruct the records through duplicates that were available 
through the various banks that were "washing" the dope money.
 
                   [...to be continued...]
 
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