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NYT Links Cindy McCain And Don Bolles Murder

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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)

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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.

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Rec'd. I'd like the MSM for once to have some brass and investigate these seriously.

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It's becoming clearer and clearer:

- John Sydney McCain III has NOT been vetted

- We don't really know much about him personally

Why isn't this not mentioned in answer to their Rezko, Rezko, Rezko screams?

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No the answer to that one is Keating Five.

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As John McCain screams Rezko, Rezko, the MSM is completely ignoring McCain's illegal/corrupt Arizona land deal with (SunCor Development) Steven Betts.

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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

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I would have added pill-popping, but she's "recovering!"

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?

methinks you forget Vicki Isenman, unless that was intentional.

Nope, not intentional, and if anybody else has more to add, please do. Is there a comprehensive list? (Or is the list infinite?)

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.

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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.

Arizona in the 1970s drew a "who's who" of organized crime figures seeking to retire in the sun, including Rochester, N.Y., mob boss Joe Bonanno, who spent his last days along the Lake Havasu shores and in a quiet home in Tucson.

In 1977, after Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was killed when his car was blown up by the mob in a parking lot, a team of 36 journalists from 27 news organizations, known as IRE, published an 80,000 word 23-part series on organized crime in Arizona.

Dan Nowicki and Bill Muller, reporting in the Arizona Republic March 1, 2007, documented that in 1953, Hensley was again charged with falsifying records at Marley's liquor firms.

Hensley was found not guilty after being defended by William Rehnquist, the future chief justice of the Supreme Court, Nowicki and Muller wrote.

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There are some fun\interesting articles at the Phoenix New Times web site, all listed under "Vintage McCain".

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/mccain

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