GE. Death Valley Host In Bed With Mafia

[FredLeonard]

Sinatra wasn't the only one. Or RKO mogul Joe Kennedy.

EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how the MAFIA helped Ronald Reagan get to the White House. Shocking documentary reveals Mob connections that catapulted him to the presidency - and how a probe was thwarted at 'the highest levels'

* President Reagan owed his acting and political career to Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, chief of entertainment behemoth MCA, who was in bed with the Mob
* An investigation into the relationship between MCA and the Mafia was halted and Federal prosecutors believe it was one of the 'political favors' that can be traced back to Reagan's White House
* 'Ronald Reagan is a complete slave of MCA who would do their bidding on anything,' one secret Justice Department document revealed
* According to the producer of the documentary, Wages of Spin II: Bring Down The Wall, one MCA executive had ties to Mob boss John Gotti
* 'Reagan's whole career in politics was subsidized by MCA,' he asserts, and helped him financially because for a long time he was living above his means
* The Mob was probably working Nancy Reagan too, according to the producer. 'She was a driving force behind Reagan'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...be-thwarted-highest-levels.html#ixzz32QvgJcMb

 

[LKellerIII]

I'm no particular fan of Reagan - never voted for him, and I haven't read the expose, but it's a leap to say that because Reagan worked under Wasserman, that he was somehow indebted to the mob. Wasserman was a huge media mogul of his time, and shepherded the careers of Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Jimmy Stewart, among others, and gave a start to more recent filmakers like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. That doesn't mean that all these people were mob associates.

 

[Ultimajock]

...actually, the old Yipster Times underground newspaper had this as early as '78 or '79...