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Art Nadel guilty; New hedge fund owner takes over Huffman Aviation
In a surprise court appearance last Wednesday hedge fund owner Art Nadel pled guilty in a New York Federal court. It was a bitter disappointment to swindled investors, as well as to interested onlookers anxious for a trial, to get a glimpse of not only how he did it, but who he did it with. Nadel’s guilty plea may have removed…
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Meet the New Boss: (Same as the Old Boss)
Will secret deal bring old management back to Venice Airport FBO? What aren't they telling us about the new owners of Huffman Aviation–aka the Venice Jet Center– at the Venice Municipal Airport? The hand-picked new ownership of the FBO (Fixed Base of Operations) at the Venice Municipal Airport has links to private military contractors in…
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9/11 Drug Pilot Linked to Operation Blue Lightning
Elements of the U.S. Government took a surprisingly keen interest in controversial Guyanese drug pilot Michael Brassington during 2003 and 2004, when, according to interviews with former Customs Agents, Brassington was involved in—or the subject of—a secretive Miami-based U.S. Government operation. “Whenever Brassington entered the U.S. a special team from Miami was supposed to come…
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Pilot for 9/11 flight school considered “grave threat to national security”
A U.S. Customs Agent on duty when controversial drug pilot and “soldier of fortune” Michael Brassington attempted to re-enter the US through Fort Lauderdale International Airport in April of 2004 was instructed by a Supervisor at Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) to treat Brassington—a long-time employee and business associate of Wallace J. Hilliard, owner of the flight…
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Did Wally Hilliard Run ‘Ghost Airline’ for CIA?
At the same time Wallace J. Hilliard’s Huffman Aviation was teaching a still-unidentified number of suspected terrorists, including many, like Souheil Seddik, who remain unknown to the general public, he was also assembling a fleet of twin-engine turboprop Jetstream airliners for the launch of his new start-up airline Florida Air. “Dekkers, along with partner Wally Hilliard, operates…
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The Man Who Paid the Men Who Stare at Goats
The man who owned the flight school that taught Mohamed Atta to fly got rich selling his insurance company, we have learned, to the man who PAID “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” Wally Hilliard’s links to American intelligence go back (at least) to November of 1981, when his insurance company, Wisconsin Employer’s Group, was bought…
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The “Deep History” of the Venice Municipal Airport
Eight years after terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta practiced ‘touch & go’s’ off the runway at the Venice Municipal Airport, the men he did business with there have not been called to account for running a continuing criminal enterprise at the same time their two flight schools, in Naples and Venice FL, were being used to…