Category: News

  • Charter Company Ran Second Jet Off Runway

    Less than a year before the Teterboro crash of a Challenger corporate jet that ran off a runway and hurtled into traffic on a busy 6-lane highway on Feb 2 2005,  the company responsible for that crash, Platinum Jet Management of Fort Lauderdale,  ran a private jet off a runway at Peachtree-DeKalb Airport in Atlanta.…

  • Arrested Pilot Flew Private Jets Owned by Clinton White House Official

    Michael Francis Brassington, the pilot arrested two weeks ago on felony charges in the February 2005 crash of a Challenger business jet at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, flew illegal charter flights for corrupt Premier Michael Misick of the Turks & Caicos Islands on Gulfstream jets owned by a former White House aide to President Bill…

  • Pilot Arrested in New Jersey Charter Crash Key Figure in Caribbean Corruption Probe

    Four years after the  spectacular crash of a business jet at Teterboro Airport across the Hudson River from New York City  injured 20 people and left one man with permanent brain damage,  a corruption probe in the Turks & Caicos Islands heard testimony that pilot arrested last week on felony charges in the New Jersey…

  • 9/11 Heroin Pilot Indicted in New Jersey

    35-year old Guyanese pilot Michael Francis Brassington was indicted in New Jersey federal court this week, as the result of an investigation into the spectacular crash of a  airplane outside New York City in February of 2005, which injured 20 people and provoked widespread outrage in New York.  Brassington, the principal owner of defunct air charter company…

  • Carlos Slim & the ‘Narco-Politicos’

    Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire whose $250 million cash infusion bailed the New York Times out of a tight cash crunch last week, has long-standing business ties with wealthy Mexican businessmen suspected of involvement in Mexico's so-called “Cartel of the Southeast,” the drug trafficking organization (DTO) based in Cancun which came to light two years…

  • Deep Suitcase: “A portable rectangular problem”

    Two of the four prominent Chavezistas charged with illegally acting on Hugo Chavez’s behalf in the recently-concluded Suitcase-Gate Trial in Miami were inside players in a previous Venezuelan scandal that took place well before Chavez ever took office, the  MadCowMorningNews has learned. The Suitcase-Gate Trial was supposed to spotlight a criminal Venezuelan elite of Castro-loving…

  • Suitcase-Gate Decoded: A Bad Day in Buenos Aires

    At least two of the four defendants convicted of working as illegal foreign agents in Florida for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the Suitcase-Gate Scandal had ties to an international criminal organization which was operating successfully in Venezuela, and with seeming official impunity, long before Chavez himself came to power, The MadCowMorningNews has learned. Both…

  • SUITCASE-GATE, CIA DRUG PLANE SCANDALS MEET IN MIAMI

    The luxury business jet carrying a suitcase filled with $800,000 in bribes whose discovery last August kicked off the Suitcase-Gate Scandal had the same American registration, or" N" number, as that of a plane flying for a CIA contractor in Iraq, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. The so-called Suitcase-Gate Scandal is playing out in a trial…

  • EU Officials: CIA Plane Used in Renditions Caught with 4 Tons of Cocaine

    How did 100 drug planes escape U.S. scrutiny? The CIA Drug Plane Scandal grew exponentially last week when European Union officials broke an official 40-year-long silence on the previously-taboo subject of the CIA’s worldwide involvement in drug trafficking. Last week Mexico City newspaper El Universal reported that The European Organization for the Safety of Air…