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Post by A Guest on Oct 19, 2023 15:15:44 GMT -5
Anna worked as a maid? That's very helpful (assuming, of course, we believe her story.) Yes, she did. Anna worked as a domestic in Europe. After coming to American in January 1924, she was soon employed as a domestic here also. From a NJSP investigative report dated November 12, 1934, this job was verified:
"Proceeded to the Franklin Towers on West 86th Street and interviewed Mrs. Rosetta Rosenbaum. She stated that she had formerly lived at 316 West 79th Street and that she had employed an Anna Schoeffler as a general maid, she was employed by Mrs. Rosenbaum for nearly two years, from the first part of 1924 until the time of her marriage in October, 1925. Mrs. Rosenbaum believes that she employed her through the United Employment Agency at 165 East 72nd Street and paid her $55 per month, including room and board."
Because, if she didn't know anything about money laundering, and he didn't know anything about money laundering, then who "mentored" them in how to launder money? I highly doubt that Anna knew anything about money laundering whatsoever. Do you have any information to back up that Anna did? If you are looking for a "mentor" for laundering Lindbergh ransom money, you might want to look into Isidor Fisch, Hauptmann's business partner, as possibly being that person.
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Post by thestonesunturned on Oct 21, 2023 15:35:57 GMT -5
Thanks! But, it looks like Hauptmann got into the money laundering business after he met Anna. I'm not saying he was Jeffrey Epstein. I'm saying, he appears to have been one of many, many minions employed by people like Epstein. Stooges. Dummies. Fronts. Hauptmann had a couple of rental properties (and he and Anna took in lodgers at their home,) did a bit of loansharking, and was a stooge engaged in buying and selling securities (before all those New Deal regulations came into being.) You know. A young Jafsie in training, as it were. It seeeems as though he met Fisch much later, although he may have known Fisch-y (get it?) associates of Fisch's associates for some time.
1. Hauptmann had NO arrest record in America, right? And he was on NOBODY'S radar as a possible LK "suspect" until that gold cert turned up with his license plate number on it. Right?
2. SOME of the gold certs turned up in his garage. But, the stock brokers where he had known accounts all swore on a stack of Federal Reserve notes that NONE of the money he paid them was part of the ransom. That means one of two and only two possible things--A. they were lying, because they were routinely laundering all kinds of dirty money (by far the most realistic explanation, be-LIEVE me) or, B. Hauptmann had already laundered those parts of the ransom through somebody else.
The funny thing is, even though FDR hadn't even been elected yet, the feds "knew that gold certs would soon be taken out of circulation..." HOW? Okay, maybe hi-level insiders knew that there was a plan for some time. Fine. Then, they must have also known the other half of the plan--to devalue the dollar from 1/20 of an ounce of gold, to 1/35 of an ounce. That is, gold would be pegged at $35/oz, instead of $20.00. Funny, because, anyone who "knew" that information IN ADVANCE could rrrrrrrrreeeallly clean up--IF they had the kinds of connections that could still cash in old gold or gold certs at the new rate of $35/oz. (Not necessarily in American banks--US gold certs were still used as capital in China/Asia for a long time...) If such plans were, indeed, in the air to the extent that someone would use it as a reason for paying the Lindbergh ransom in gold certs, then presumably...
What does that have to do with ol' Bruno? Well, if someone--and they were LEGION--were raising funds for pro-Nazi 5th columnists like the Bund, they're not going to take their ill-gotten gold certs to a Chinese money laundry. They're going to take them to a German whom they know they can blackmail--you know, like a fugitive from German justice working as a carpenter in the Bronx, USA. And just because Anna worked as a maid for people who could afford to hire a maid, doesn't mean she didn't make some friends whilst (snicker) she was living in Zurich.
A few coincidences: Lindy's lawyer, Henry Skillman Breckinridge, was one of THOSE Breckinridges of Ye Olde Confederacy. More to the point, the Knights of the Golden Circle and other Jacobite-ish insurgents (Google William Walker.) So, what? One of the KGC plots was to kidnap prez-elect Abe Lincoln and replace him with Buchanan's Vice-President, John C Breckinridge, in a sort of coup d'etat. So, what? Well, groups like the Bund tried to cozy up to groups like the KKK (who, bizarrely enough, considered the Bund to be Un-American) and even cooked up their own New Jersey chapter of the KKK. So, what? Well, there is just no way they didn't at least APPROACH Henry Skillman Breckinridge with a truckload of flattering offers. That doesn't prove he listened. But, a LOT of right-wingers were loudly talking about Lindy himself running against FDR in 1936 or 1940. Needless to say, Lindy (raised to be a right-wing, white nationalist Republican by his right-wing, white nationalist, pro-German Congressman father) relished the idea of getting rid of FDR.
In other words, there is NO WAY that "none" of these people ever approached Lindy and/or Breckinridge with veeeeerrrrryyy flattering, veeerrryyy tempting offers of "support." And remember, the NSDAP, as early as 1921, have begun to seriously organize themselves as a shadow government preparing for a putsch. They were already busy re-constituting the old Etappendienst network in America before Admiral Canaris took over their efforts as official head of Intelligence in 1927. They placed a LOT of German immigrants in America in the 1920s. Was Hauptmann one of them? The network of Germans helping German illegal immigrants enter America helped Hauptmann. Some of them were later convicted in connection with the Duchesne Spy Ring. And there are plenty of reasons for thinking that John Hughes Curtis ("the other Jafsie") and his family were part of the Etappendienst. And there WAS a Depression on...
So, what? There is now very little room for doubt that Lindy was spying for the Nazis. The US seems to have thought he was spying for them, but I'm sure his handlers were aware that he was, at best, a double agent. I'm sure the Nazis had their fingers crossed that he COULD get elected President. The way they tried to get the Duke of Windsor crowned King of England. Hermann Goering (you know Hitler actually DID very little, right?) was very active in this work--even more active than Hess. And it was Goering who pinned that medal on Lindy, and gave Lindy that Luftwaffe officer's uniform...
So, does that prove Lindy or Breckinridge knew Hauptmann personally? No. That would be stupid. But, it might explain how Hauptmann, specifically, came to be chosen as the patsy. By Lindy? No. By Breckinridge? No. By Gaston Bullock Means.
Gaston Bullock Means had been a paid operative of German intelligence since long before WWI. You think he just "stopped?" Gaston Bullock Means knew aaaaalllll about laundering German money used to pay spies, saboteurs, and such through money-changers like, oh, say, Isidor Fisch. Gaston Bullock Means had YEARS of experience framing people for HIGH-profile, media-circus crimes. Gaston Bullock Means knew where aaaaalllllll the dirty laundry in the Republican Party was buried--including the fact that Congressman Lindbergh was illegitimate. That doesn't mean much now, but back then, so far as politics and business were concerned, that would be not only sudden death for the Congressman, but for his celebrity son, too.
Now, what were we talking about? Oh. Yeah. Anna Schoeffler. When she was working as a maid in Zurich, did she open a bank account? You know--a Swiss bank account? Did she close it, when she left for America? Or did she leave it open...
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Post by thestonesunturned on Oct 21, 2023 18:24:50 GMT -5
Oaky. I'm convinced. I bought Michael's books.
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Post by A Guest on Oct 21, 2023 20:36:55 GMT -5
Now, what were we talking about? Oh. Yeah. Anna Schoeffler. When she was working as a maid in Zurich, did she open a bank account? You know--a Swiss bank account? Did she close it, when she left for America? Or did she leave it open... Anna and the money she earned in Zurich as she explains it: "I was approaching the new country almost penniless and was actually in debt for the money my cousin advanced to pay for my ticket. All the years I had worked and especially the time I had worked in Switzerland, I had made good money. I had, however, sent the money home to my parents with instructions for them to put the money in the bank for me so I would have something for myself when I had to go out into the world for myself. When it came time for me to come to America, there was not a single dollar of my money left. The inflation of German currency had wiped out my savings and I had to start penniless."Anna did sail to America from Germany. She explains: "I also had in America, a cousin, Mrs. Feyermouth who is the child of my mother's sister and my first cousin. In the late fall or early winter of 1923 this cousin sent me transportation to come to America. I spent some time preparing my papers for my departure for America and was aided by the German Consul at Zurich. He was very helpful to me and very kind. At this time I left Zurich to return to my native home to spend some time with my parents before I embarked for America. I did not know whether I would ever again see my parents or ever return to Germany and wanted to visit with them before I left. I stayed with my parents for a week or two and then left for the Port of Hamburg."
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Post by A Guest on Oct 21, 2023 20:38:52 GMT -5
Oaky. I'm convinced. I bought Michael's books. You made an excellent investment!
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Post by thestonesunturned on Oct 22, 2023 12:02:48 GMT -5
Assuming, of course, the wife of a money laundering convicted fugitive from justice would tell the truth. (although, it would make her susceptible to "persuasion" by Abwehr agents...)
And yes, the book(s) is OUT-MOTHER-FUGGING-STANDING. Anyone with the slightest interest in this "case" MUST read Michael's books. I scored all three on Kindle for $25 bundle. He does NOT (from what I've read so far) pimp any particular "theory." He just presents and collates an exhaustive run-down of all the known reports, facts, etc. It's not his fault if the facts prove Lindbergh was a liar and the whole "kidnapping" was a massive hoax. (Recently declassified FBI files show that the Abwehr considered The Colonel to be their most valuable agent in America. The name is redacted, but the source described can only be the Colonel.)
I'll be relentlessly plagiarizing these books on my podcast :-)
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