Category: News

  • 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…

  • BushFellas – Casino Jack and the Republican Thuggees

    As three men—Anthony ‘Big Tony’ Moscatiello, Anthony ‘Little Tony’ Ferrari, and James ‘Pudgy Fiorillo— pled not guilty in court this week, the MadCowMorningNews has discovered new details in the investigation into the 4-year old slaying of SunCruz casino ship owner Gus Boulis. A company which received over $100,000 in suspicious payments before the murder from…

  • TOP TEN THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT JACK ABRAMOFF

    The MadCowMorningNews has learned that the same so-called "war cabal" being accused of selling a "bill of goods" to justify the war in Iraq also led earlier efforts to convince the American people of the necessity of going to war, in support of the Contras in the mid-1980's, and before the Gulf War under the…

  • New Mob Links in Abramoff Scandal: Kidan Ties to Sicilian Mafia

    Last week's indictment of three men with Mob ties in the gangland-style murder of gambling ship magnate Gus Boulis during Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff's take-over of the gambling cruise ship line revealed deep Mob connections at the highest levels of the Republican Party. Now The MadCowMorningNews has learned exclusively of more Mob ties to the…

  • Hammer to the Slammer

    The investigation into the 4-year old murder of Sun Cruz Casino boat founder Konstantinos ‘Gus’ Boulis in Fort Lauderdale has begun to reveal hidden connections between Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s gargantuan fund-raising machine, essential to victory in the past two Presidential elections, and a cast of underworld characters not previously thought of as exemplifying what…

  • Was Pentagon Tracking Atta Days Before 9.11 Attack?

    Mohamed Atta may have been under U.S. military surveillance until just days before the 9.11 attack, long after the Tampa-based Able Danger military intelligence operation currently under scrutiny was disbanded, in early 2001. On August 6, 2001, the same day Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi returned to Venice after renting a car at Warrick's RentaCar in…