Robert Parry: Kerry's Attacker (Carlton Sherwood) Protected Moon

[blm]

By Robert Parry
October 15, 2004

Carlton Sherwood, who has produced an anti-John Kerry video that will be aired across the United States before the Nov. 2 elections, wrote a book in the 1980s denouncing federal investigators who tried to crack down on Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s illicit financial operations.

In retrospect, Sherwood’s book, Inquisition: The Prosecution and Persecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon , appears to have been part of a right-wing counter-offensive aimed at discouraging scrutiny of Moon and his mysterious money flows. The strategy largely succeeded, enabling Moon to continue funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into the U.S. political process, most notably to publish the ultra-conservative Washington Times but also to make payments to prominent politicians, including former President George H.W. Bush.

New evidence also makes clear that Moon resumed his practice of laundering money into the United States after serving a 13-month prison sentence for a 1982 conviction for tax law violations. Former Moon associates, including his ex-daughter-in-law, have disclosed that Moon’s organization smuggled cash across U.S. borders, but those admissions have not led to renewed federal investigations.

Indeed, the pummeling of federal investigators who examined Moon’s financial schemes in the 1970s and early 1980s – and Moon’s enormous clout among conservatives in Washington – have made the South Korean theocrat something of a political untouchable. The congressional investigators, who first uncovered Moon’s financial irregularities, and the federal prosecutor, who narrowed that evidence into a successful prosecution for tax evasion, were made into cautionary tales for others thinking about challenging Moon.

>>>>>>>>>>

But Sherwood’s longstanding ties to Moon’s organization raise other troubling questions: Do inside-the-Beltway conservatives have a financial incentive to make sure a Moon-friendly politician like Bush stays in charge of the Executive Branch? Would a Kerry victory potentially mean more trouble for Moon getting his mysterious money into the United States? 


http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/101504.html

[seventhson]

1. Thanks for posting this - Parry has a new book out too

and boy did you see the swift liars get blown outta the water last night on nightline?

WHOOO!

It was very awesome.


Parry's book and work (and tons of stuff on Moon) can be found here:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/

BTW, BLM, bygones (at least until after the election)

[blm]

3. No sweat, seventh...I always believed you came from an earnest viewpoint

even though I knew it was inaccurate.

I never took it personally.

[UTUSN]

2. These Networks of Jerks Never Stop Intermingling n/t

[blm]

4. Worse than jerks, they are Fascists and Murderers.

.