Call it The Enterprise.  The "Company."  

The Iran-Contra rackets. Or  The Octopus...

A shady Mexican businessman implicated in the failure of a bank in Florida involved in  money laundering, arms trading  and drug smuggling co-owned an aviation business at the Venice Airport with a pilot who flew weapons to the contras in Honduras for Oliver North, and a pastor at Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church.

Maximo Haddad is a Mexican construction tycoon, a citizen of Panama, lives in a $5 million mansion in Palm Beach, and served as Panama's Honorary Consul in Tampa.

When Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) searched Haddad's private jet in 2004, they discovered such an embarrassingly large pile of cash and bearer bonds that The State Department requested that Panama ask him to resign his position.

Maximo Haddad was asked to turn in his diplomatic pouch,  a harsh sanction indeed.

Read on:

http://www.madcowprod.com/02182011.htm 

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