Sinclair is more than broadcasting

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Sinclair is more than broadcasting Sinclair's connections

explains the Kerry hit piece it wanted to broadcast

 

 

Sinclair is more than broadcasting

Sinclair's connections explains the Kerry hit piece it wanted to broadcast

 

By Karl W. B. Schwarz

Online Journal Contributing Writer

 

 

October 20, 2004—Many Americans do not know that before his days of

crime at Enron, Andy Fastow was intimately involved in another

" American Energy and Finance Scam " named Penn Central and that sleazy

deal wound up toppling Continental Illinois Bank at a taxpayer costs

of billions.

 

Andy Fastow was an employee at Continental Illinois Bank and learned

his " Special Purpose Entity (SPE) " skills from Michael Milken and

others and was hired by Enron because he did so well at hiding stuff

at Continental Illinois. In short, he was a trained and " uncaught "

criminal already that was recruited to Enron to do the same.

 

Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw (Richard Ben Veniste's law firm and him on the

9-11 Commission) prides itself in offshore SPEs to circumvent US law

(ask Cheney), hide assets, offshore games, SPEs, etc., and was the

major law firm representing Enron. Probably are still representing

Cayman Islands based Prisma Energy International. Many of those Fastow

SPEs were Cayman Islands entities.

 

Most Americans do not know that Continental Illinois was based in

Chicago, and so are the law firms of Mayer Brown, Rowe & Maw (Richard

Ben Veniste, 9-11 Commission) and Winston Strawn (former Illinois

Republican Governor James Thompson, also 9-11 Commission member).

 

If you look under Prisma Energy International— " Corporate

Governance " —there are many former Enron International and Halliburton

people involved in the post-bankruptcy Enron. This is an excellent

example of the " hired help " stealing the company from its owners

(shareholders and vested employees).

 

The reason that I point this out is that I learned many years ago to

dig deeper than one inch to effect " due diligence " and know the facts.

 

We have a situation where Sinclair Broadcasting had made it clear they

intended to run a very negative film documentary about John Kerry,

titled Stolen Honor. Now, that could be partisanship, or maybe there

is a " highly-motivated party " here in Sinclair as to why they are

taking such actions. They have come before this nation without clean

hands and I will show you why that is so.

 

Dig deep folks and always–follow the money.

 

" FOLSOM, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ & #65431;Jadoo Power Systems, Inc

(Jadoo), a leading provider of portable power products, was awarded a

contract to develop power systems for the US Special Operations

Command (SOCOM). The program's goal is to reduce the weight of energy

storage carried in the field by the Special Forces . . . "

 

While the award of a government contract is not always newsworthy, a

closer look reveals this:

 

" Jadoo Power Systems, Inc. (Jadoo) is a market-focused company that

has developed next-generation portable energy storage and power

generation products. Jadoo is a privately-held company with individual

and organizational investors. "

 

The two investors listed are:

 

1. Sinclair Ventures: a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast

Group, Inc. and

 

2. Contango Capital Management: formed to bring capital to innovative

entrepreneurs who are working hard to answer the energy challenges

facing our world today and in the near future.

 

We know who Sinclair is (Stolen Honor), but check out where some Enron

and Harvard Business School people now work: Contango Capital

Partners—look at John Berger's " resume "

 

John Berger

Managing Partner

Contango Capital Partners

 

 

Mr. Berger is a founding partner of the General Partner and its

Managing Partner. Mr. Berger has over eight years of experience in the

energy industry, during which he managed energy trading books for

Enron Corporation and initiated development of the new Enron Premium

Power Division. As a Manager, he made the previously unprofitable

southeast short term trading operation for the Enron East Power

Trading Division profitable by approximately $30 million over a two

year period. Under his management, the southeast short term trading

operation successfully administered the largest long-term customer

deal in the industry, and increased the average daily volume in the

southeast trading hub by ten times the former volume. Mr. Berger also

managed the Enron Hourly Trading Desk, and operated a utility system

in the southeastern United States. At Enron Energy Services he led and

developed Enron's corporate strategy for new energy technologies and

energy reliability financial products. In addition, Mr. Berger

spearheaded development, investment, and partnership opportunities in

fuel cell technologies.

 

Hmm, what a catchy name for a venture capital fund, " Con-tango. "

 

That Berger division of Enron is the exact one that was plundering the

State of California. Both Enron and El Paso executives have pleaded

guilty to criminal charges and Mr. Berger gets to go out and do more

deals. Criminal charges are also pending against Dynegy in California too.

 

Guess what, Enron, Dynegy, and El Paso are all involved in Pakistan

and the Caspian Basin and would all benefit from the forced removal of

the Taliban and Bridas Corporation.

 

Of course, he worked under Thomas White, vice chairman of that Enron

division that was promoted by Bush to Secretary of the Army during the

period of time that BUSH & Co were planning and practicing the assault

on Afghanistan and BRIDAS CORPORATION and take over that Afghanistan

pipeline.

 

Criminal charges were pending, and now confirmed with an Enron

executive pleading guilty in California and an El Paso executive, too.

 

What an easy way to co-opt someone into doing evil. Criminal charges-

that up and vanish against all but an unlucky fall guy.

 

Go an inch deeper. Who was representing Governor Gray Davis while all

of this was under investigation and 21 US energy companies were caught

red-handed fleecing $5.5 to $7.5 billion from California electricity

customers?

 

From Chapter 13 of One-Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas, a Conservative

Republican Speaks Out:

 

Footnote 689:

www.sacbee.com/static/archive/news/special/power/080401data.htm l

Meanwhile, Joseph Fichera and Michael Hoffman, two Davis

administration advisers who had been criticized for failing to

disclose energy-related stock holdings, sent letters to Davis on

Friday saying they owned no stock in firms involved in providing power

to the state.

 

Footnote 693: Special Consultants to Gov.; Name Agreement Date Service

Term Date SEI Signed Notes Richard Ferreira 1/30/01 1/31/01 to

12/31/02 7/10/01 A-1 assets listed; $2k-$10k Calpine acquired 8/17/00;

address redacted

 

Joseph Fichera - Saber Partners 3/1/01 3/1/01 to 6/30/01 exemption 1

negotiated transmission line deal; commission contract

** Kevin Stacey (director)

** William Moore (director)

** Paul Sutherland (director)

** Alan Blinder (advisory board chair)

Michael Hoffman - Blackstone Group 3/1/01 3/1/01 to 6/30/01 exemption

1 negotiated transmission line deal; commission contract

** Peter Peterson (chairman)

** Stephen Schwarzman (pres & ceo)

** Michael Puglisi (cfo)

** 15 staff working on the deal

 

Of course, Mr. Schwartzman is a Skull & Bonesman, a year behind George

W. Bush, and a Bush Pioneer.

 

Talk about letting the fox watch the henhouse. Criminal conduct in

California by the division of Enron that did it, and take one of the

executives (Berger) and have him advising the prosecution (Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission—FERC) as to what steps to take.

 

John Berger

Managing Partner

Contango Capital Partners

 

During 2002 and 2003, Mr. Berger served as an advisor to the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission where he drafted governance guidelines

for the Regional Transmission Organizations and served as an advisor

to the drafters of the Standard Market Design regulatory document that

is currently before the United States Congress. He also advised the

Commission on distributed generation, demand response, information

gathering and application issues, investigations, and trade

clearing/credit issues in the North American energy markets. Mr.

Berger graduated cum laude from Texas A & M University with a B.S. in

Civil Engineering. In 2003, he earned an MBA from Harvard Business

School where he founded and organized the first annual Harvard

Business School Energy Symposium and was a finalist in the 2003 HBS

Business Plan Contest.

 

Oh yeah, and he is a good Texas A & M Aggie, too, which is the location

of that George H. W. Bush Presidential Library that is off-limits so

Americans can't know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the

truth about Bush sleaze.

 

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/102004Schwarz/102004schwarz.html