US district court records in Texas revealed Bush White House campaign insider Josh Crescenzi was not only involved in the $46 million Pemex Zetas petro theft operation–he flat out admitted to knowing the condensate he was moving into the Texas oil market had been stolen, according to the convicted buyer in the scheme, Donald Schroeder [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 15, 2009
Pemex Zetas Scandal-Bush Insider’s Boss Arrested
On Friday Kamal Abdallah, chairman of Universal Property Development and Acquisition (UPDA), stood in a San Antonio federal courtroom facing charges on a stock scam involving two of his companies–including Continental Fuels, currently under investigation in the Pemex Zetas scandal, where former Bush campaign insider Josh Crescenzi serves as vice President.
See Guillermo Contreras’ story from last [...]
August 14, 2009
NarcoGuerra Mission Creep
Reporting yesterday on expanding–and long term– US military presence in Colombia, Center for International Policy’s John Lindsay-Poland observes:
In fact, the facilities under negotiation appear to be aimed at replacing the former School of the Americas and other U.S. military training sites for Latin American armies. In a July 28 written response to Colombian senators, Interior [...]
August 13, 2009
Bush Campaign Insider Surfaces in Zetas Pemex Scandal
The federal probe into the Pemex Zetas petro theft operation has coughed up the name of one of Karl Rove’s White House Advance team–Josh Crescenzi, Vice President of Operations at Houston-based Continental Fuels Inc.
Before landing at Continental, Crescenzi was Vice President at Worldwide Strategy Energy, headed by fellow Rove campaign operator and former Homeland Security advisor to the Bush White [...]
August 10, 2009
Zetas to Houston– It Ain’t Coke, It’s OIL
The gringo shoe dropped this afternoon in the Zetas Pemex petro scandal–US Department of Justice announced their first conviction of an American oil executive involved in the three-year “milking” of Pemex pipelines by Los Zetas in cooperation with Pemex managers and security personnel.
Donald Schroeder, president of Houston-based Trammo Petroleum, is scheduled to be sentenced in [...]
August 7, 2009
How Los Zetas Milked Pemex
US media is paying zero attention to this major story. Perhaps because it’s not as luridly eyecatching as bad drugs, big guns and severed heads.
Regardless, the Pemex scandal coupled with the one at Procampo is bleeding the Calderon administration of what little life force remains in its veins after a failed three-year war against the [...]
August 3, 2009
Zetas Pemex Scandal–Career Opportunities
Between July and mid-September 2007, Pemex pipelines in Veracruz were struck by a series of bombings that were first attributed to Ejército Popular Revolucionario–the EPR (Popular Revolutionary Army)– a Marxist-labled guerrilla faction that rose up during the 90s in the state of Guerrero. EPR was the real deal, gaining notoriety by [...]
