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The shutdown of Omaha, Nebraskas Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in November 1988, sent shock waves all the way to Washington, D.C. $40 million was missing. The credit unions manager: Republican Party activist Lawrence E. Larry King, Jr., behind whose rise to fame and riches stood powerful figures in Nebraska politics and business, and in the nations capital.In the face of opposition from local and state law enforcement, from the FBI, and from the powerful Omaha WorldHerald newspaper, a special Franklin committee of the Nebraska Legislature launched its own probe. What looked like a financial swindle, soon exploded into a hideous tale of drugs, IranContra moneylaundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, and ritual murder.Nineteen months later, the legislative committees chief investigator died suddenly, and violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case.Author John DeCamp knows the Franklin scandal from the inside. In 1990, his DeCamp memo first publicly named the alleged highranking abusers. Today, he is attorney for two of the abuse victims.Using documentation never before made public, DeCamp lays bare not only the crimes, but the coverup a textbook case of how dangerous the corruption of institutions of government, and the press, can be. In its sweep and in what it portends for the nation, the Franklin coverup followed the ugly precedent of the Warren Commission.
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The shutdown of Omaha, Nebraskas Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in November 1988, sent shock waves all the way to Washington, D.C. $40 million was missing. The credit unions manager: Republican Party activist Lawrence E. Larry King, Jr., behind whose rise to fame and riches stood powerful figures in Nebraska politics and business, and in the nations capital.In the face of opposition from local and state law enforcement, from the FBI, and from the powerful Omaha WorldHerald newspaper, a special Franklin committee of the Nebraska Legislature launched its own probe. What looked like a financial swindle, soon exploded into a hideous tale of drugs, IranContra moneylaundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, and ritual murder.Nineteen months later, the legislative committees chief investigator died suddenly, and violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case.Author John DeCamp knows the Franklin scandal from the inside. In 1990, his DeCamp memo first publicly named the alleged highranking abusers. Today, he is attorney for two of the abuse victims.Using documentation never before made public, DeCamp lays bare not only the crimes, but the coverup a textbook case of how dangerous the corruption of institutions of government, and the press, can be. In its sweep and in what it portends for the nation, the Franklin coverup followed the ugly precedent of the Warren Commission.
