Author: Daniel Hopsicker

  • Casino Jack & The Murder of Gus Boulis

     Over nine months ago a story in the The MadCowMorningNews revealed that disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s biggest legal worries concerned neither the fraudulent takeover of the SunCruz gambling ships, nor the Indian casino lollapalooza in which "Casino Jack" skimmed tens of millions of dollars off the take from casinos on Indian reservations across the…

  • The Secret History of Mohamed Atta

     The MadCowMorningNews today released an exclusive 19-minute video interview (video box below) refuting sworn testimony given by a Pentagon official last week at the Able Danger hearing, who said the U.S. had not identified Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11. The Pentagon’s state-of-the-art data mining capabilities, testified Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Cambone, have determined there…

  • German Pilot Linked to Atta Deposed in Naples, FL.

    Next week the MadCowMorningNews will succeed in doing something neither the Congressional Intelligence Committee’s nor the 9.11 Commission’s investigation ever did: depose under oath an associate of Mohamed Atta’s in Florida. This opportunity doesn’t come without a price, however…It comes with yet another lawsuit. Which is fine…we don't shrink from telling the truth. (You may…

  • JACK ABRAMOFF & THE REPUBLICAN BLACK HAND

     When Jack Abramoff showed up looking like an old-time Mafia don complete with black fedora and matching trench coat last month, to plead guilty to felony fraud charges in a Federal Court in Washington D.C., puzzled observers were asking: what could he possibly have been thinking? But the beleaguered Republican lobbyist may have been making…

  • Abramoff and Kidan Implicated in Gangland Style Slaying

    On Feb. 6,2001 Gus Boulis left his office in Fort Lauderdale about 9:30 p.m. and took a shortcut on his way home to Hollywood, FL. A car stopped in front of him, and then a black Ford Mustang with temporary tags pulled up next to Boulis, and someone in the car shot him at least…

  • THE BIG FIX 2006: Is Abramoff Getting Away with Murder?

     “Now is the winter of our discontent…” Tom DeLay's on trial, Randy Cunningham's going to jail, the Republican Party is mired in corruption and cronyism, Sun Cruz Casino “Mob Boy” Adam Kidan's already cut a deal, and Jack Abramoff’s plea agreement with federal prosecutors is expected to result in the biggest Congressional housecleaning in decades……

  • WILKES FOUNDATION SUSPENDED IN CALIFORNIA

    The Wilkes Foundation, a charity run by embattled San Diego lobbyist and defense contractor Brent Wilkes, was suspended last month by the California Secretary of State for failure to submit financial statements, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.  The suspension of the Wilkes Foundation appears to have been anything but routine. A spokesman in the California Secretary of State’s Office…

  • Cunningham Scandal Figure Linked to Iran Contra Cocaine Trafficking

    San Diego businessman Brent Wilkes, a key figure in the Randy “Duke” Cunningham bribery scandal—as well as the Justice Department investigation of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff—worked in Honduras during the 1980’s for a company accused by federal prosecutors of deep involvement in cocaine trafficking.   Over the weekend the San Diego Union-Tribune, Cunningham’s hometown paper,…

  • Cunningham Stripped $700 Million from U.S. Defense

    The MadCowMorningNews has learned that California Republican Congressman Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham steered $500 million in defense contracts in less than a decade, according to the company’s own website, to a start-up San Diego software firm which—and here’s the beauty part—doubled as a lobbying firm. The lobbying firm then gratefully kicked back—at a bare minimum—hundreds of…