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William Hodgman (prosecutor) - Wikipedia

Hodgman was the lead attorney in the prosecution of Charles Keating, who was convicted for fraud. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H…

After law school graduation, Keating did spot legal work for the FBI, then joined a law firm doing corporate law.

In 1952, along with his brother, William, and a mutual friend from law school, Charles Keating became a founding partner of the Cincinnati law firm Keating,

Muething & Keating. Beginning in the late 1950s they took on Carl Lindner Jr. as a client.

Lindner was rapidly accumulating ice cream stores, supermarkets, real estate, and savings and loans, and soon essentially became Keating's sole client. In 1956, he filed requests for

Q clearances on behalf of a small company of former Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory scientists with an office in Newtown, Ohio; unknown to Keating, the FBI suspected the application was fraudulent and launched an investigation of him, but no charges were made.

Eli Black came in

1968 and was made United Fruit chairman, president, and CEO. In 1970, the company merged with AMK Corporation and changed its name to United Brands Company.

After the suicide of Black in 1975, the company was acquired by Seymour Milstein and Paul Milstein.

Constance J. Milstein

is an attorney and co-founder of Ogden CAP Properties, LLC, a premier real estate, hotel and property development and management firm.

Milstein co-founded the Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI), a non-profit organization that works with the United Nations and public-private

partnerships to implement large-scale humanitarian projects in developing countries. During her tenure with HDI, she pioneered programs to foster Congressional relationships with senior level UN Representatives and Ambassadors - with an emphasis on bringing women leaders to the

table - in order to create greater dialogue and understanding of how to work together to address major global issues.

In 1984, Cincinnati investor Carl Lindner, Jr. became the controlling investor in United Brands.

Although Lindner was a devout Baptist, he was considered as

one of the largest non-Jewish donors to the organized Jewish community in the United States. In 1978, he was named the Man of the Year by the United Jewish Appeal, and was later named a recipient of the Tree of Life Award for the Jewish National Fund, and was recognized as the

largest non-Jewish purchaser of Israel Bonds. Lindner, who said an early loan from Isaac Wolfson inspired him to never forget his gratitude to the Jewish people.

Lindner became closely associated with Michael Milken and the others in the junk bond field to the extent that his

financial institutions invested in the junk bonds of the others.

The SEC inquiries never got beyond the investigation phase until 1986, when arbitrageur Ivan Boesky pleaded guilty to securities fraud as part of a larger insider trading investigation. As part of his plea,

Boesky implicated Milken in several illegal transactions, including insider trading, stock manipulation, fraud and stock parking (buying stocks for the benefit of another). This led to an SEC probe of Drexel, as well as a separate criminal probe by Rudy Giuliani, then

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Although both investigations were almost entirely focused on Milken's department, Milken refused to talk with Drexel (which launched its own internal investigation) except through his lawyers.

In 1966, Ivan Boesky and

his wife relocated to New York where he worked for several stock brokerage companies, including L.F. Rothschild and Edwards & Hanly. In 1975, he initiated his own stock brokerage company, Ivan F. Boesky & Company.

L.F. Rothschild & Co. was founded in 1899 by Louis F. Rothschild

(1869–1957).

Rothschild was married to Cora Guggenheim (1873-1956) on January 3, 1899, daughter of Meyer Guggenheim, patriarch of the Guggenheim family.

In 1891, Meyer, consolidated about a dozen of the family’s mining operations into the Colorado Smelting and Refining

Company. The Guggenheim family then entered a lengthy struggle with the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO), backed by the Rockefeller family.

ASARCO was founded in 1888 as the American Smelting and Refining Company by Henry H. Rogers, William Rockefeller,

Adolph Lewisohn, Robert S. Towne, Anton Eilers, and Leonard Lewisohn.

On January 11, 1916, sixteen ASARCO employees were killed and mutilated by Pancho Villa's men near the town of Santa Isabel, Chihuahua. It was one of the incidents that sparked the Mexican Expedition, a

United States Army attempt to capture or kill Villa.

The 1st Aero Squadron, included in the expedition for liaison duties and aerial reconnaissance on the orders of United States Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, departed San Antonio, Texas, on March 13 by rail with eight

Curtiss JN3 airplanes and flew the first aerial reconnaissance of the area from Columbus on March 16, the day after it arrived.

Newton Baker presided over the U.S. military's participation in World War I. He selected General John J. Pershing to command the American

Expeditionary Forces, which he insisted act as an independent unit. He left office in 1921 and returned to BakerHostetler, the legal practice he co-founded.

The Georgetown mansion Baker occupied while Secretary of War, now known as Newton D. Baker House.

After the assassination

of president John F. Kennedy in 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy purchased the house and lived here for about a year.

In 1965, Michael Whitney Straight purchased the home for $200,000, from Kennedy when she moved to New York City. While living in the home, Straight married his second

wife, Nina G. Auchincloss Steers in 1974. Nina was the daughter of Nina Gore and Hugh D. Auchincloss. She was the half-sister of writer Gore Vidal and coincidentally, a stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

While a student at Trinity College, Cambridge in the mid-1930s,

Straight became a Communist Party member and a part of an intellectual secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles. Straight worked for the Soviet Union as part of a spy ring whose members included Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and KGB recruiter Anthony Blunt.

Victor Rothschild joined the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society, which at that time was predominantly Marxist, though he stated himself that he "was mildly left-wing but never a Marxist". He became friends with Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby; members of the

Cambridge Spy Ring.

William King Harvey's CIA career began with his founding of Staff D, the electronic surveillance branch of the Clandestine Service Division. In 1951 Harvey's investigation of the career history of Kim Philby, noting suspicious coincidences that suggested he

had long been a Soviet agent, saw the CIA demand that Philby be kept out of his position as MI6 liaison; Philby was fired. Six months earlier, Harvey had got into a fight with Guy Burgess at a party after Burgess had drunkenly drawn a lewd cartoon of Harvey's wifes pussy and ate

her sandwich.

From 1952 to 1960, Harvey was posted to West Berlin as chief of base, where he led the operation that built a tunnel to the Soviet sector to spy on their communication channels. This operation was called PBJOINTLY.

On April 23, 1953, while still an active air

force officer, Charles Cabell was appointed Deputy Director of the CIA under Allen Dulles. In 1956, along with the CIA's Richard Bissell, he flew to Bonn, to brief the West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, on the ultra-secret Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Cabell personally

negotiated with Chancellor Adenauer for permission to station the U-2 in Wiesbaden and from there to fly over the Soviet Union illegally. It was the U-2 program that allowed CIA chief Allen Dulles to sabotage the peace summit between Khrushchev and Eisenhower.

Melissa Hodgman Named Acting Director of Division of Enforcement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2021-15
Washington D.C., Jan. 22, 2021 —
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced Melissa R. Hodgman, currently an Associate Director in the Commission's Division of Enforcement,

has been named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement.

Ms. Hodgman has been Associate Director in the Home Office since October 2016.

The notable cases to which Ms. Hodgman has contributed include:
•Successful litigation against two Ukraine-based traders,

Nathan Fayyek and Sergey Pustelnik.

•Enforcement actions against several individuals and entities responsible for the Fyre Festival including Fyre Festival CEO William Z. (Billy) McFarland, who admitted to his role in a fraudulent scheme that raised more than $27 million from

over 100 investors.

Ms. Hodgman earned her Master of Laws with distinction in securities and financial regulation in 2007 from Georgetown University Law Center, her law degree with high honors from Georgetown University Law Center in 1994, and her Bachelor of Science degree from

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1990. Before joining the SEC staff, she worked as an associate at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Washington, D.C.

Peter Paul Strzok II was born near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to Peter Paul Strzok and Virginia Sue Harris.

The family later moved to Upper Volta, where the elder Strzok took an assignment with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) after retiring from military service.

CRS's executive director during this period (1947–1976) was Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom.

During his tenure at CRS, Swanstrom’s offices at the Empire State Building were among those destroyed when a B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashed into the building. He was not there when

the incident happened, but his secretary was among those killed.

After a B-25 crashed into the north face of the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on a foggy Saturday the 28th of July in 1945, Armand Hammer purchased the damaged 78th floor, refurbished it, and made it the

headquarters of his United Distillers of America. His oil investments were later parlayed into control of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) which he obtained in 1956. Through his Occidental Petroleum and its stakes in Libya, Hammer was pivotal in breaking the tight grip that the major

United States domestic producers had on the price of oil, and instead gave OPEC control over oil prices.

Despite the damage and deaths, the building was open for business on many floors on the next Monday morning, less than 48 hours later. The crash spurred the passage of the

long-pending Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946, as well as the insertion of retroactive provisions into the law, allowing people to sue the government for the accident.

The Supreme Court of the United States has limited the application of the FTCA in cases involving the military.

This is the Feres doctrine.

Millbrook v. United States, 569 U.S. 50 (2013), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that holds that the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) waives the sovereign immunity of the United States for certain intentional torts committed by

law enforcement officers. The unanimous opinion, delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas, holds that law enforcement "employment" duties are not limited to searches, seizures of evidence, or arrests, and, as such, the petitioner can sue.

Millbrook is the site of the

Hitchcock Estate, which Timothy Leary made a nexus of the psychedelic movement in the 1960s and where he conducted research and wrote The Psychedelic Experience.

The 2,300-acre estate was purchased in stages by assembling five farms, beginning in 1889, by German-born acetylene

gas mogul Charles F. Dieterich (1836–1927), a founder of Union Carbide.

Ownership of the estate passed from Dieterich's heirs to oilman Walter C. Teagle and then to the Hitchcock family

On 28 April 1920, the Bolsheviks seized power in Baku after the Red Army invasion of

Azerbaijan and Branobel's oil business in Azerbaijan was nationalized. In May 1920, the Nobel family sold almost half the Branobel's shares in its possession to Standard Oil of New Jersey. At the time it was considered uncertain whether the Bolshevik regime would last and the

negotiation led by Gustaf Nobel, on one side, and Walter C. Teagle, on the other, proved to be a profitable masterstroke for the Nobel family.

Teagle has been accused of contributing to Nazi Germany during World War II through his involvement with German chemical company

IG Farben. As a director of IG Farben's American subsidiary, he allied Standard Oil with the German company and conducted research jointly. Standard Oil supplied information to IG Farben on how to manufacture tetraethyl lead and synthetic rubber, both critical resources to the

war effort.

In 1934, Fred Koch had partnered with William Rhodes Davis to build the Hamburg Oil Refinery, the third-largest oil refinery serving the Third Reich, a project which was personally approved by Adolf Hitler; contemporary critics claim this showed a direct tie between

fascism and the modern conservative movement, notwithstanding Koch's much greater involvement in the Soviet Union.

William Stamps Farish II had been a principal in a partnership between a Standard Oil of New Jersey/General Motors owned company, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, and

the German company I.G. Farben. This jointly owned venture, Ethyl GmbH, was involved with the creation of the Auschwitz labor camp on June 14, 1940, to produce artificial rubber from coal and they also built then operated tetraethyllead plants in Germany.

On June 1, 1911, Farish

married Libbie Randon Rice in Houston. Libbie was a cousin of the first wife of Jefferson Davis, Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of President Zachary Taylor, and a granddaughter of Walter Browne Botts, a founder of the international law firm of Baker-Botts.

The firm was originally

founded as Gray and Botts in 1865 by Peter W. Gray and Walter Browne Botts.
In 1872, James Addison Baker joined the firm, and the name was changed to Gray, Botts & Baker.

James Addison Baker, III, former Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration and

United States Secretary of State (a.k.a. James Baker), joined the firm as a senior partner in 1993 after leaving public service. He maintained two offices in Washington, being also affiliated as a partner at the Carlyle Group.