The Mormon Mafia
The Mormon Mafia
Money laundering in Las Vegas and human, drugs, and arms trafficking in Mexico. The PayPal Mafia (Elon Musk & Peter Thiel), Sinaloa Cartel, and Jan 6th's ties to the Mormons are also explored.
Mormons in Las Vegas
Edward Parry Thomas (June 29, 1921 – August 26, 2016) was an American banker who helped finance the development of the casino industry of Las Vegas, Nevada. Along with his business partner, Jerome D. Mack, he is credited with building Las Vegas into what it is today.[1]
Early life
Thomas was born on June 29, 1921, in Ogden, Utah.[2] He was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).[2] His father was a plumbing contractor who later became a banker.[2] During World War II, he served in the United States Army as an intelligence operative.[2][3]
Banking career
Thomas started his career at the Continental Bank & Trust Co. of Salt Lake City.[2] It was owned by Walter E. Cosgriff, who also owned a stake in the Bank of Las Vegas, whose Chairman was Nate Mack.[2] The Bank of Las Vegas was the first bank to lend money to casinos in Las Vegas.[4] Its first loan was to Milton Prell, who used it to build the Sahara casino.[3][4]
Later, Jerome D. Mack replaced his father as Chairman.[5] Meanwhile, in 1961, shortly after Cosgriff's death, Thomas became its President.[2][3] He facilitated loans from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund to Las Vegas casinos.[2] In 1968 the bank merged with Valley Bank of Reno and changed its name to the Valley Bank of Nevada.[2] Thomas and Mack also invested in real estate in the Las Vegas area, with Thomas acting as a buyer for Howard Hughes.[2] Later, they also lent money to Steve Wynn.[6] The bank was eventually acquired by Bank of America for about $380.5 million in 1992.[3][4]
Adelson, Wynn flourished in Macau, but their rivalry foundered (igamingbusiness.com)
The Mormon Council of Fifty: What Joseph Smith’s Secret Records Reveal | Religion & Politics (religionandpolitics.org)
This “kingdom,” colloquially referred to as the “Council of Fifty,” was an organization founded only a few months before Smith’s death. It was designed to be a theocratic government-in-embryo—a “literal kingdom of God,” in Smith’s own words, that would govern the world based on divine dictates and prophetic authority. While an early goal was to orchestrate Smith’s election to the American presidency as a last-ditch effort to save the country, the prophet’s death cut the final strings that attached the Mormon people to any form of political allegiance. The American government had failed them, and so it was time to cast sovereignty to a more righteous and virtuous body. Participants in the council spoke openly of their nation’s demise, plotted ways to escape the United States’ borders, and envisioned a post-American future. It was obvious why Smith desired to keep the record secret.
The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000: Denton, Sally: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive
Mormons & Jan 6th
John Earle Sullivan - Wikipedia
At the Capitol, we saw the best and the worst of US Mormonism (religionnews.com)
The man who “hopped down” into the Senate chambers during Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol has been identified as Josiah Colt, a former missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to East Idaho News.
‘Captain Moroni’ capitol insurrection participant arrested by FBI – Deseret News
The FBI took Nathan Wayne Entrekin, 48, of Cottonwood, Arizona, into custody Thursday, a day after court documents show a federal judge issued an arrest warrant for him on two misdemeanor charges:
Knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.
Violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Entrekin stood out in national TV coverage of the mob because he wore a gladiator costume and represented himself as Captain Moroni, according to a 27-page affidavit by an FBI agent. The Book of Mormon describes Captain Moroni raising armies to fight tyrants about 72 B.C.
Mormon Nazis: New book uncovers LDS support for the Third Reich (religionnews.com)
Mexican slaughter victims were from NXIVM recruiting ground (timesunion.com)
ALBANY – The nine U.S. citizens slaughtered in an ambush Monday were from a Mormon community in northern Mexico where NXIVM recruited teenagers for a "girls school" to live in the Capital Region under the care of a high-ranking "slave" for Keith Raniere.
The Mormon community’s ties to the disgraced NXIVM leader's cult-like organization were revealed in May during the testimony of NXIVM defector Mark Vicente, a filmmaker based in Los Angeles who once lived in Knox Woods, the same Halfmoon townhouse complex as Raniere.
The nine women and children killed -- including eight-month-old twins -- were traveling in a mountainous area where the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel has been waging a turf war. The victims were related to the extended LeBaron family community in the state of Chihuahua.
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The PayPal Mafia & The Mormons
Are Musk Lieutenants David Sacks and Jason Calacanis Actually In "The Mob"? (Chuckstack.com) JAN 11, 2023
Is the PayPal mafia actually a mafia?
I’ve elsewhere argued that David Sacks deserves more attention than he has gotten as the real don of the PayPal mafia and in this piece, I’ll examine his and Jason Calacanis’s considerable ties to organized crime.
These ties are timely, especially given Musk’s own ties to organized crime and given the advice that both Calacanis and Sacks give Musk and indeed the wider tech community.
Elon Musk's Mob (and Effective Altruism) Ties and Globalization's Failures (Chuckstack.com)
Jeff Giesea - Wikipedia
Jeff Giesea is an American entrepreneur, communications specialist, and national security writer who is a business affiliate of several of Peter Thiel's companies and venture capital groups…
Family
Giesea's mother is Mexican-American living in Mexico.[1]
Gen X Man's conflicted call to greatness - Jeff Giesea (substack.com)
No one personifies the best and worst of our generation more than Elon Musk: Inventive as hell yet politically and geopolitically naive. Brilliant and visionary yet depressed and on ketamine. The richest man in the world yet still complaining about “elites.” Elon is our Bruce Wayne, our Dark Night.
Latest from Mormon Land: Elon Musk’s wingman is LDS; Dallin Oaks says to avoid extremism (sltrib.com) May 19, 2022
Latest from Mormon Land: Elon Musk’s wingman is LDS
(Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File) Elon Musk, shown in this 2020 photo, employs a practicing Latter-day Saint as his chief money manager.
A Latter-day Saint at Elon Musk’s side
From the files of “Did You Know?” comes this morsel: Elon Musk’s main moneyman is a Latter-day Saint.
Yes, the SpaceX and Tesla tycoon, whose on-again-off-again Twitter takeover has been capturing headlines, employs a former missionary and Brigham Young University graduate to help handle his finances, according to the Insider business news website.
Jared Birchall, a former Morgan Stanley banker who runs Musk’s Excession family office, grew up in Modesto, Calif., as one of 11 children, the website reports. Known as a family man, Birchall now has five children of his own and stood out at one point for bringing his young son to the office.
Jared Birchall - Wikipedia
Elon Musk’s Right-Hand Man Is Quietly Tending the World’s Biggest Fortune (bloomberglinea.com) May 06, 2022
LDS Church bets big on GameStop, scores 900% stock gain (sltrib.com) May 20, 2021
Tesla allegedly covered up drug trafficking and spied on employees at the Gigafactory, whistleblower says - The Verge
A former member of Tesla’s in-house security team has told the Securities and Exchange Commission that the company silenced internal investigations into alleged criminal activity at the Gigafactory in Nevada, according to a summary of his formal complaint. Those investigations focused on claims of massive theft and “substantial drug trafficking.” The complaint also includes allegations that Tesla spied on employees’ electronic devices…
Karl Hansen, the former employee, claims that Tesla was told in May by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Storey County Sheriff’s Office Task Force that “a Tesla employee may be a participant in a narcotics trafficking ring involving the sale of significant quantities of cocaine and possibly crystal methamphetamine at the Gigafactory on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel from Sonora Mexico…”
The DEA allegedly told Tesla employees were selling “significant quantities of cocaine”
Hansen says that by June he had “corroborated connections between a certain Tesla employee at the time and various alleged members of the Mexican drug cartel identified in the DEA report,” and that he “urged Tesla to disclose his findings to law enforcement and to the DEA task force.” But Hansen says the company “refused,” and he was informed that Tesla planned to use “outside vendors” to follow up on the claims. Hansen believes Tesla never followed up, according to the summary. (The summary originally stated that “several” employees may be involved, but Hansen’s lawyer now says there was only one particular Tesla employee in question…
Tesla also allegedly engaged in unauthorized surveillance of its employees, according to the summary of Hansen’s complaint published today by Meissner. Hansen claims that Tesla installed “specialized router equipment within its Nevada Gigafactory designed to capture employee cell phone communications and/or retrieve employee cell phone data” after Tripp was fired. Hansen and Meissner also claim that Tripp was surveilled by Tesla even after the former employee was fired.
Mormon colonies in Mexico - Wikipedia
List of fundamentalist Mormon colonies
Colonia Los Molinos, Baja California
Colonia Industrial de la Nueva Jerusalén, Ozumba México
La Mora. Bavispe, Sonora
Chulavista, Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo has become crucial territory for international crime (mexiconewsdaily.com) January 31, 2022
The presence of criminal groups from Israel, Romania, Russia, China, Italy, Guatemala, Colombia and Venezuela has been documented in Quintana Roo, the newspaper said.
Among the Russian groups are the Saint Petersburg-based Tambov Gang and the Moscow-based Solntsevskaya gang. A Romanian mafia led by a man known as “The Shark” allegedly skimmed bank cards in Quintana Roo and other states as part of a scheme that facilitated the theft of millions of dollars.
Mexico’s most powerful cartels, including the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel, as well as smaller local gangs, also operate in the state, which for decades has been used as an intermediate destination for cocaine headed to the United States from South America…
In addition to the drug trade, foreign criminals that operate in the state are involved in crimes such as money laundering, arms trafficking, child pornography, extortion, currency forgery, bank card cloning and kidnapping, according to reports by Milenio and Reforma.