Commander Randy Crone Arrested

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Heard KR is astatic about this.

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Mikey made it this far without a scratch. He made a deal with Charlie and he will do the same with Crone.

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Retired LCSO commander enters not guilty plea in wages fraud case

MICHAEL BRAUN , MBRAUN@NEWS-PRESS.COM 11:45 a.m. ET Jan. 5, 2017

Randy Crone, a retired Lee County Sheriff's Office commander facing charges of fraud and grand theft, has entered a not guilty plea, waived arraignment and is requesting a jury trial in his case.

Crone was arrested following an investigation sparked by a July 2016 anonymous letter describing the discrepancies in his work hours. He turned himself into the Lee County Jail on Dec. 28.

$62,000 fraud claimed against retired Lee sheriff's officer
Evidence of fraud against Crone spans almost five years and totals more than $62,000, according to a warrant against him.

Attorney Peter Ringsmuth of Ringsmuth, Day & O'Halloran in Fort Myers, who entered the plea, waiver and trial request on Wednesday, is representing Crone.

The former LCSO officer was originally scheduled for arraignment in front of Judge J. Frank Porter at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 9, Monday.

A 13-page affidavit outlined what was termed as a "scheme to defraud" by Crone that started in January 2012 and ran until his retirement in 2016. Crone had worked for the Lee sheriff’s office from September 1991 until his retirement on July 5, 2016.

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Sept. 13, 2004 (EIRNS)—The Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee released the following question, on the eve of hearings scheduled on the nomination of Florida Congressman Porter Goss as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
During the early 1980s, a Federal task force from the Tampa-based U.S. Attorney's office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Customs, and the Internal Revenue Service investigated leading personnel of the Lee County, Florida Sheriff's Department. Undersheriff David Wilson was among the top officials of the approximately 1,000-member sheriff's department who were being reportedly probed by the task force and a grand jury, on charges of international narcotics trafficking and related financial and other crimes. Cocaine planes were landing in Lee County, while sheriff's deputies were reportedly being deployed away from the landing sites.
This was the take-off time for the crimes of "Iran-Contra"—the audacious cocaine-running, gun-running, money-laundering geopolitical enterprise led by then-Vice President George H.W. Bush and identified with Oliver North.
According to many reliable accounts, the Lee County investigation was squelched. U.S. Attorney Robert W. Merkle reportedly said that people from the "intelligence industry" were putting obstacles in the way of the probe. Law enforcement personnel were fired and moved out of the way. Over years, legal attacks and other forms of extreme pressure hit the Fort Myers News Press and other local news agencies, countering the exposure and potential prosecutions. Local reporters still express outright fear of discussing the matter. Law enforcement and other local public officials were repeatedly warned, you must stay away from this matter, this is off-limits.
Even now, over 20 years after this explosive case went off the tracks, veteran law enforcement officials, on both the Federal and local levels, still speak of being baffled, and express their shock and bitterness about this miscarriage of justice, under the pressure of higher-ups. They emphasize that the evidence of the cocaine and marijuana shipments, of their protection and supervision by Sheriff's Department personnel, was known to them directly, and was known to sheriff's deputies who complained.
Who aborted the case? What was "the intelligence industry" in that area, in that Iran-Contra era? Ask Porter Goss.
Porter Goss came to live in Lee County in 1971 after officially retiring from the Central Intelligence Agency. Several sites in the county, on nearby islands, and in the swamps to the east of Fort Meyers, had been reportedly used for training CIA people involved in the anti-Castro Cuban adventures during the 1960s.
From the 1960s into the 1970s, Porter Goss and several other CIA veterans reportedly acquired, for their own use and profit, some of the Agency's Florida land bases and nearby areas. Backed by two of his old CIA colleagues, Goss became the political manager (and the Mayor, etc.) of Sanibel Island, in Lee County. CIA operatives Al Johns and Wilbur "Bud" Cole emerged as owners of the Punta Gorda Isles development in neighboring Charlotte County. Other operatives from CIA, from the Defense Intelligence Agency and other intelligence sections, figured as among the new "land barons" in the area.
In 1982, at the height of the Federal probe into the Sheriff's Department personnel, then-Gov. Bob Graham appointed Goss a Commissioner of Lee County.
Goss was the wealthy, socially-connected leader among those intelligence community barons then occupying the islands and swamps — the "intelligence industry" in that time and place. He must be asked, who squelched the investigation of these crimes?

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One of our commanders was arrested and fired for 10 years but he a friends with Mikey and get his job back. Stuck in Narcotics so the press could not find him and now a commander. How many deputies were arrested under mike scott please submit there names for a book being written.

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Wow it amazing how corrupt

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Do warrant requests count?

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REST...

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International political operative Louis St. Laurent II (on left), attorney for Undersheriff Col. David Wilson (on right). Wilson was the target of Federal drug probers in Porter Goss’s district.
‘Buddy’CarterofFortMyersandKeyLargo.Carter,57,was Twelve days after Carter’s dope plane landed at Corkscrew, Undersheriff Wilson signed a bill of sale, selling anconvicted . . . in connection with $240,000 worth of marijuanaflownintosoutheastLeeCounty.” airplane he co-owned with Danny Moss, to “Paradise Aviation-MarineInc.,”afrontrunbysmugglerBuddyCarterandThepa persaidthattheinvestigationaroseoutof “atleast twofederaldrugcasesduringthepastthreeyears.”Onecon- hisfamily.TheNews-Pressstated:“Noonesignedthebillof sale on behalf of Paradise Aviation. . . . Florida corporatevictedcocainedealer,DavidPattison,testi fiedtoagrandjury that he “based his drug operation in Fort Myers because he records show Paradise Aviation wasn’t a registered corporationinFlorida untilOctober,1981. . .three monthsafterthehad been told three top-ranking of ficials of the sheriff’s departmentwereinvolvedinsmuggling.” companyboughtWilson’splane.. . .” ThisreportwasthesubjectofthedefamationsuitbroughtT he other case was describedby the News-Press: On the night of July 9, 1981, an “unlighted airplane with a false byWilsonagainsttheNews-Press. Two deputies testified that they saw Wilson at the sceneidenti ficationnumberonitstailandnoidentifyingelectr onic signalswaspickeduponradar. . .byU.S.Customsofficials. of the Corkscrew landing, although he claimed he was not there. Deputiestestified thatorders, on falsepretenses, came. . . Customs interdiction aircraft . . . followed the unlighted planetoanunlightedrunwayoffCorkscrewRoadnearwhere throughtheSheriff’sDepartmentdispatcherthatnight,o rderingdeputiesawayfromthescenebeforethemarijuanaw aslo-[Danny] Moss manages the 6 L ’s Ranch. The unidentified plane landed first. As the Customs plane attempted to land cated. Driven by Tampa-based U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle,behind it, a horse trailer was drawn across the runway by Carter’s wife, Joy, and the Customs pilot was forced to veer grandjuriescontinuedpursuingColonelWilson,formerpa rttimedeputyDannyMoss,andothers.awayquicklytoavoid acollision. ” Customs got a helicopter in soon afterwards, but mean- The News-Press reported that an Arcadia, Florida contractor “has testified that a former Lee County Sheriff’s De-while “800poundsofmarijuanawereunloadedfromtheplane and hidden in a nearby wooded area by Carter, his brother- partmentspecial deputyonceoffered policeprotection anda rural airstrip to land a plane load of marijuana for a price ofin-law[andanotherman].. . . ”CarterproceededtotheCorkscrew Country Store, which Carter co-owned with Danny $20,000. The contractor . . . said the offer was made in 1979 byDannyMoss.. . .MosstoldtheNews-Pressthisweek[theMoss ’s wife, Debra, to phone for a getaway car. But Buddy Carter, Joy Carter, and their two accomplices were at length contractor’s]statementistrue.. . .Mosssaidhewastryingto ‘setup’ thesmugglersby offeringthemthelanding stripandconvictedofsmuggling,ina1983trial. TheNews-Pressreportedasfollows: protection. Moss said he planned to arrest them when they
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landed the drugs. ‘The only thing I connived at was, I was landing at Corkscrew. Colonel Wilson evidently made no calls that day to either Buddy Carter’s business or home ontrying to figure out a way where I could keep the money and put them in jail,’ Moss said. . . . In thesworn statement, [the theisland,KeyLargo. “The only calls to the Keys reflected in the telephonecontractor]saidtheairstripMosswasofferingthesmugglers . . .wasinCorkscrew,”nearthesiteoftheCarter-Moss1981 records are one to the business and one to the home of Louis St. Laurent, who is a personal friend of Wilson’s and formerdopelandingthatledtoCarter ’sconviction. The News-Press reported on March 1, 1984, that Sheriff chief assistant prosecutor for State Attorney Joseph D’Alessandro.Wanicka had met the previous week in Washington, D.C., withrepresentativesoftheDepartmentofJustice,demand ing “St. Laurent, who runs an investment firm in the Keys, saidhewassubpoenaedbythegrandjuryandaskedaboutthet hat the Federal investigation of Colonel Wilson and other Sheriff’spersonnelbequashed. calls to him. St. Laurent said he and Wilson were planning a fishing trip in the Keys the following weekend and that heOn July 11, 1984, “Debra Moss, a key figure in a federal investigation of possible corruption and drug smuggling believesthecallswerefromWilsonmakingarrangementsfo r thetrip.”TheNews-Presshadearlierreported(Dec.11,1983)withintheLeeCo untySheriff ’sDepartment,wasindicted. . . on two counts of lying to federal juries and two counts of that:“Afewdayslater[aftertheCorkscrewincident]Wilson flew to Key Largo. He says he went there to visit a friend,obstructionofjustice.[She]isthewifeofformerspecialdeputyDannyMoss.. . .[whowith]Col.DavidWilsonandother LouisSt.Laurent,whoformerlywaschiefassistantprosec utor for State

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. StateAttorneyJoeD’Alessandro,forwhomhewasthe1978 campaign manager. St. Laurent was a campaign leader inRobert Merkle died in 2003. The records of the grand juriesaresecret.Tiredoflitigation,fearfulcurrentem ployees 1992 for Lee County Sheriff John McDougall. McDougall hadreplacedthedisgracedSheriffWanicka,butUndersher iffof the News-Press “will not touch” this story, and will not cooperateinretrievingtheirownarticles. Wilsonstayedon,inpower. St. Laurent told EIR that during the battles against theItiswellknownthatwithintheFederalgovernment,dur ing the 1981-89 Reagan Administration, factions opposed drug prosecutors, he felt safe from anyone in Washington, because“peoplefromCanadawerebackingme.”eachotheron vitalpolicyissues,andtheBush/North/Contras faction was deeply involved in domestic law enforcement His grandfather, the first Louis St. Laurent, after serving as Canadian Prime Minister (1948-57), was chairman of thematters —aswillbeseenbelow. A key to the successful quashing of this probe, however, internationalcigarettefirmRothmansduringthe1960s.Th is Laurentfamilyenterprise,Rothmans,wasapersonalfinanc ialmay be found in a close review of the career of one unusual localofficial,LouisSt.LaurentII—oneofthehandfulofto p and political project of South Africa’s Anton Rupert, a founder with Netherlands’ Prince Bernhard of the “1001power brokers alongside Porter Goss throughout the entire war between the drug investigators and the Sheriff’s De- Club,” and other of the most extreme “Black Oligarchy” intrigues against national sovereignty in Africa and Ibero-partment. TheNews-Pressreported(ca.Spring1984)thatthepaper America. Rupert brought into the Rothmans directorate Henry N.L. Keswick, former chairman of Hong Kong andhad obtained the Sheriff ’s Department’s telephone toll records for July 10, 1981, the day after the Carter/Moss dope ShanghaiBankingCorp.andarguablytheworldheadofDope
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Porter Goss then followed his brother-in-law du Pont, the chief financierbehindNewtGingrich’srightist“revolution,”w hichoverturnedthe Republicans’ moderate Eisenhower wing. Goss thus became a Congressional activist for the Gingrichism whichhasputthroughcrushingausterity against the lower 80% of income brackets, on behalf of the desperately insolvent big bankers—and the Bush machine, with its sordid Florida base. When Goss arrived in Lee County in the early 1970s, he was so plugged in as to hold stock in Dresser Industries—the personal fiefdom of Harriman’s Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current President—before **** CheneybroughtitintoHalliburton.
Lehder,Bush,andFlorida Porter Goss (left) with Vice President **** Cheney, who was responsible for ramming his U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle, nomination as CIA director through the Senate. Goss should be asked bluntly: “Porter, blocked in Lee County, went on to what squelched the dope probe in Lee County?” prosecute Carlos Lehder—the Hitlerloving mass killer and master of Colombia’s Medellı ´n dope cartel, who had gotten out of jail in Miami in 1978. By the mid-1980s,Incorporated, and others in the circles of the highest British banking supporters of the shift of the world economy into Lehder was flooding Florida with cocaine that he viewed as an“atomicweapon”againsttheU.S.A.MerklenailedLehder ,dopeandoutofproductivelife. This is the family background of Col. David Wilson’s but Lehder was released from prison early, in exchange for testifying against Manuel Noriega, a deal arranged behindprotector,LouisSt.LaurentII,aCanadiancitizen until1965, a man with good enough connections to possess transcripts the back of Merkle, who had also prosecuted Noriega. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,May 26-31, 1996, reportedthat be-of the entire secret grand jury proceedings from the 1980s LeeCountydopewar. ginningin1987:“Lehdergotspecialhandlingfromthestar t. Instead of being held in Florida where he would be tried, Lehderwashousedinatwo-cellunitattheU.S.PenitentiaryEnterPorterGoss Let us now place the new CIA director, Porter Goss, in inMarion,Ill.,andgivenatelephone.Therehemadecontac t with aides to Vice President George Bush, who had run thethesame financial-politicaluniverse. The Washington Post reported on May 18, 2002, that CentralIntelligenceAgencyduringtheearlyyearsofthec artel. Over the next 18 months, senior officials from the FBI,Goss,asSanibelmayor,attendedameetingwithmayors from nearby Naples, Fort Myers, and Cape Coral, and also with CIA, and other investigatory agencies interviewed Lehder. Merkle,themanwhoprosecutedLehder,knewnoneofthis.”r eporters; Goss acknowledged that all those mayors and all butoneofthereporterswereCIAmen. The elder Bush had inserted himself in the Florida dope crisis in the early 1980s, and had gotten directly involved inBut it is his high social connections that put Goss above thoseotherlocals. the probe in Porter Goss’s county. As the Fort Myers NewsPress reported, June 12, 1984: “Robin Cushing, head of theGoss ’sfamilywastheprincipalowneroftheScovillManufactur ingCompanyofWaterbury,Connecticut,fromthelate FortMyersofficeoftheU.S.DrugEnforcementAdministrati on, said . . . the investigation of sheriff’s deputies is being19thCentury.TheGossesusedScovilltogetintotheL ondonWallStreetfinanciers’circuit,andtointermarrywi ththefam- pursued by a U.S. attorney’s task force with the assistance of Vice President George Bush’s Task Force on Drugs inily of J.P. Morgan. Throughout the dope battle of the 1980s, PorterGosswasadirectoroftheMellonFamily’sPNCbank SouthFlorida.” Today, the new Bush CIA Director, Porter Goss, shouldofFlorida,whiletheMellons financedthe“ConservativeRevolution.” Porter’s brother married the sister of Pierre “Pete” be asked bluntly, what squelched the dope probe in your hometerritory?duPontIV,Delaware ’spoliticalleader.
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