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NYT Links Cindy McCain And Don Bolles Murder
This is the most specific I've seen the New York Times come to linking Cindy Hensley McCain and her father Jim Hensley to this horrific crime. Hensley, through his mob connections, has ties back to the death of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
In their piece on Cindy McCain's fortune, are three very important paragraphs...
"Back in Phoenix, he and his brother, Eugene, went into the liquor business with Kemper Marley, a businessman who had cornered much of the market in Arizona after Prohibition ended.
In March 1948, a federal jury convicted both Hensleys of concealing sales of black-market liquor. Jim Hensley’s six month sentence was suspended. A second indictment, in 1953 for falsifying records to evade taxes, was dismissed.
The Hensleys bought a New Mexico horse track in 1952. Eugene Hensley’s role at the track led to lawsuits, tax-evasion charges and prison. In 1969, he sold out to a mob-connected company with close ties to Mr. Marley, according to published reports. (The Phoenix police named Mr. Marley as the man they believed ordered the 1976 assassination of Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic. Mr. Marley, who died in 1990, was never charged.)"
So it may just be time to revisit this question.
McCain also lied at Saddleback when he said Cindy every met Mother Theresa.
"The latest embellishments come from the McCain camp. Cindy McCain has repeatedly referred to herself as an “only child.” This week came news that she actually has two half sisters, although apparently she had very little contact with them...Mother Teresa was not at the orphanage when Cindy decided to bring the two girls home." The article does not clear up this fact.
McCain is hoping his supporters stay dumb, and don't have the time, will or knowledge to discover who he really is.
With the Biden attack ad, and the fact he is so quick to go negative, today he showed yet again he has no new ideas or reasons to be our president.
Well, the only way to deal with the junkyard bully is to kick his etc.
For McCains, a Public Path but Private Wealth
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/us/politics/23mccain.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
Matt Welch
http://www.mattwelch.com/archives/2007/12/23-week/
Haunted By Spirits
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-02-17/news/haunted-by-spirits/full
Don Bolles Dies; Maimed Reporter
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40717F83C5A167493C6A8178DD85F428785F9&scp=3&sq=Don%20Bolles&st=cse
A Reporter's Death Puts a State on Trial
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40614F93B5A12728DDDAB0894DB405B8084F1D3&scp=6&sq=Don%20Bolles&st=cse
The anatomy of a reporter's murder; The investigators
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10913FA3D5815768FDDA90A94DA405B878BF1D3&scp=10&sq=Don%20Bolles&st=cse
Putting Heat on the Sunbelt Mafia
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914845-3,00.html
"As law-abiding citizens have flocked to the good life of the fabled Sunbelt, so too have mobsters. Mingling with the native criminals, they have combined the worst of both worlds: Joey Gallo in a Stetson. The rackets are flourishing, most visibly land fraud. Says Arizona's assertive attorney general, Bruce Babbitt: "We've been entranced by our own rhetoric about everyone's right to do his own thing. This is the last stronghold of totally free enterprise, good, bad or indifferent."
John McCain, Warts And All. A Look At The Candidate's Mob Ties
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_WARTS%20AND%20ALL.htm
John McCain - Married To The Mob
http://www.democrats.com/john-mccain-married-to-the-mob
From - The Arizona Republic.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0516ruelas16.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter6.html
Sen. McCain Wants To Be President
http://www.usvetdsp.com/story22.htm
Brother: Wives handle McCain finances
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12730.html
"John McCain’s wife Cindy McCain takes the lead when it comes to the couples’ finances, confirmed Joe McCain, John's brother."








Comments (14)
Correction of first sentence...
This is the most specific I've seen the New York Times come to linking Cindy Hensley McCain's father Jim Hensley to this horrific crime.
Fixes the sentence. Not the family history.
August 23, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rec'd. I'd like the MSM for once to have some brass and investigate these seriously.
August 24, 2008 9:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's becoming clearer and clearer:
- John Sydney McCain III has NOT been vetted
- We don't really know much about him personally
August 24, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Why isn't this not mentioned in answer to their Rezko, Rezko, Rezko screams?
August 24, 2008 11:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
No the answer to that one is Keating Five.
August 24, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
As John McCain screams Rezko, Rezko, the MSM is completely ignoring McCain's illegal/corrupt Arizona land deal with (SunCor Development) Steven Betts.
August 24, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry, the pampered empty headed rich girl as evil genius behind the scenes conniver?
Doesn’t work for me. Sounds more like Hillary! Ha, ha, just kidding. LOL
August 24, 2008 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would have added pill-popping, but she's "recovering!"
August 24, 2008 1:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, it is interesting, as I listen to Tucker Bounds cry Rezko, a convicted felon! on MSNBC, that Keating, Jim Hensley, Kemper Marley, Meyer Lansky, Viktor Yanukovich (via Rick Davis) don't come up. I mean, criminals?
August 24, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
methinks you forget Vicki Isenman, unless that was intentional.
August 24, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nope, not intentional, and if anybody else has more to add, please do. Is there a comprehensive list? (Or is the list infinite?)
August 24, 2008 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I remember the Don Bolles murder. I was in Phoenix (Tempe) at the time but I had completely forgotten about any possible ties to Hensley. The Bonanno crime family was notorious throughout Arizona back then. Interesting to see all these threads woven together after all this time.
August 24, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's funny, in that "Married to the Mob" article, the sleazeball Corsi's name comes up. We should ask McCain if he has a "sense of humor" about the allegations.
August 24, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
There are some fun\interesting articles at the Phoenix New Times web site, all listed under "Vintage McCain".
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/mccain
August 24, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
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