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Post by Ed Jagacki on Aug 29, 2014 20:56:30 GMT -5
Just a quick note to say to those who've cared enough to bless my mission: you are abundantly welcome, and thank you. While this process has continued on far, far, far too long, and way beyond my wildest imagination, there are reasons for it which will become known after your payment is received. To the naysayers, and to those who are on the verge of losing hope, and even to those who have given up long ago, I say to keep your eyes fully open for the next 10 to 15 days. More I cannot say at this time. millionaires.proboards.com/post/743953
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Post by imSINGLEruRICH on Aug 30, 2014 7:43:57 GMT -5
I have always prayed for and given thanks for anyone who truly has/had the best interest, of ALL CMKX shareholders, at heart. I believe AL Hodges to be one of a few, in this group. It will be a very interesting revelation to see who is proven to be worthy, of those prayers, when or if the end is ever unveiled.
Hopefully, my negative thoughts on certain "players" will be proven wrong. Just as hopefully, that their seemingly unethical,fraudulent & unscrupulous actions will prove to have been done for a completely honorable reason. Time will tell. Thanks AH for the much needed encouraging message. Thanks for your attempt to bring justice for ALL shareholders. Hopefully, this time... the dates stated will come to fruition. The loyal shareholders deserve to be able to read "The Final Chapter" of this long drawn out "saga".
KUDOS... SINGLE
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Post by JoeRockss on Aug 30, 2014 8:04:40 GMT -5
ChuckWheat Diamond Finder
There are more important things in life than mere money...family and God above all.
Sep 9, 2012 at 12:28pm seagull and rain like this. QuotePost by ChuckWheat on Sep 9, 2012 at 12:28pm Sometimes in this midst of our day-to-day worries we forget some of the things that already exist, things that bring us reasonable hope for good outcomes in our CMKX lives.
Whether you know him as Robert Aime Maheu, "Iron Bob" Maheu, CMKX Director Maheu, or simply as "IBM"...he was a man who got things done, and shaped the future of many familiar events and circumstances in our lives.
Here's what some had to say about him upon his passing in 2008:
ROBERT MAHEU: 1917-2008: His was the influence that backed Hughes’ cash Former spy brokered big deals that led to mob’s exit
By Ed Koch Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008 | 2 a.m.
On his deathbed, Robert Maheu reminisced with his longtime friend Gordie Margulis about several moments in his life, but perhaps none as poignant as what happened on April 16, 1961, the night before the doomed invasion of Cuba.
“He didn’t mention it by name — the Bay of Pigs — but he said he went home that night and told his wife, Eve, to go to bed and then he put on some classical music,” Margulis said.
“Bob sat in his chair all that night and through the next day and did not move or say a word. He was despondent because he knew the United States was not going to back the invasion he helped put together. He knew those men were going to die and he couldn’t do anything about it.”
Margulis said his friend of 40-plus years was an honorable man who put love of family and friends and patriotism above all else.
“He was a giant, this guy — a giant with a heart,” Margulis said.
Margulis was at Maheu’s bedside when Maheu, best-known as the alter-ego of billionaire businessman Howard Hughes, died of congestive heart failure Monday night at Kindred Hospital on Flamingo Road at age 90. “Everything he did he did with enthusiasm and loyalty.”
Services for Robert Amie Maheu, a Las Vegas resident and businessman for 42 years, will be at noon Saturday at St. Viator Catholic Church, 4150 S. Eastern Ave.
In the late 1960s, Maheu helped the reclusive Hughes acquire Las Vegas Strip hotel-casinos, which began to rid the town of its mob influence and usher in the corporate age of gaming in Southern Nevada.
Maheu also was every bit the quintessential American spy — our version of the mythical British superspy James Bond.
Maheu infiltrated the German lines during World War II, providing misleading information to Adolf Hitler; spied on Hughes’ starlet girlfriends, and worked with the CIA and the Mafia to try to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
The mark Maheu left on Las Vegas is indelible.
“Bob Maheu had as much to do with the transformation of Las Vegas as practically any other person who called Las Vegas home,” said Brian Greenspun, president and editor of the Las Vegas Sun.
“When he came here in 1966, Bob spearheaded Howard Hughes’ efforts to buy up a number of mobbed-up hotels on the Strip. Only men with Mr. Hughes’ money and vision and Bob Maheu’s tenacity could have succeeded in ridding Las Vegas of mob influence.”
That, Greenspun said, led to corporate expansion of the Las Vegas Strip, fueled by Wall Street and legitimate banks around the world.
“Without Bob Maheu, Las Vegas would be a very different and a far less successful place today,” Greenspun said.
Margulis, 76, Hughes’ longtime bodyguard, recalled that Maheu and Hughes, who never met face to face, would talk for hours on the phone.
“The others in the room got so jealous because Bob was Howard’s eyes and ears,” Margulis recalled.
“They tried to gain Howard’s favor and pitched their ideas to him, like banning smoking and the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Howard’s casinos. Howard got on the phone with Bob and said, ‘You’re not going to believe what they asked me to do now.’ ”
Maheu then had to spend hours on Hughes’ behalf arguing with the caregivers as to why outlawing smoking and drinking in Las Vegas casinos was not a good business move, Margulis said.
Maheu, also on Hughes’ behalf, delivered large sums of cash to high-ranking politicians to secure favors. Hughes’ memos to Maheu about one cash gift from Hughes to President Richard M. Nixon and the subsequent break-in of Sun Publisher Hank Greenspun’s office to try to steal those documents became part of the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon’s political demise.
Peter Maheu, the eldest of Maheu’s four children and a private investigator in Las Vegas, said Tuesday, “My father was a pioneer in so much history, not just in Las Vegas but around the world — and he was proud of that.”
Peter Maheu recalled his father’s work in sabotaging the deal that had given billionaire shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis a monopoly on shipping Saudi Arabian oil.
“If you think paying $3 or $4 a gallon for gasoline today is bad, you can imagine what we would be paying if my father did not play a major role in scuttling that deal,” Peter Maheu said.
By one report, Robert Maheu was even given a license to — if necessary — assassinate Onassis.
After one meeting with Maheu, then-Vice President Nixon shook Maheu’s hand and, according to the 1986 Onassis biography “Nemesis” by Peter Evans, said: “And just remember, if it turns out we have to kill the bastard don’t do it on American soil.”
Bill Maheu, Robert’s youngest son, said his father was a man of “strong values and ethics who always acted in a manner he felt was in the best interest of his country.” Still, he believes Robert Maheu would want to be remembered for something much more basic than that.
“My father’s legacy is his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” said Bill Maheu, a retired police officer who lives in San Diego. “The historians will write the rest.”
Maheu was born in Waterville, Maine, on Oct. 30, 1917, and graduated from Holy Cross in 1940.
While studying law at Georgetown in 1941, he was hired by the FBI as a counterintelligence officer. He posed as a Canadian businessman and Nazi sympathizer to gather valuable information on the Germans.
One of his missions was to feed false information to two German spies who reported directly to Hitler. Maheu later was involved in the arrest of the two men whose confidence he had gained.
After the war, Maheu established his own investigative agency whose clients included the Central Intelligence Agency.
Maheu’s work for the CIA primarily was covert operations in which the agency could not be officially involved. They included the proposed assassination of Cuban dictator Castro and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
In 1960, the CIA directed Maheu to conspire with the Mafia to kill Castro, who had angered the mob by shutting down its casinos after coming to power.
Maheu contacted longtime Las Vegas Mafia henchman Johnny Rosselli to set up a meeting with mob bosses Santo Trafficante and Sam “Momo” Giancana to discuss how to pull off a gangland-style killing. Maheu told the gangsters the CIA was willing to pay $150,000 to have Castro killed.
But the CIA eventually shelved its assassination plan and Rosselli was killed to cover the conspirators’ tracks.
In testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1975, Maheu defended his role in the assassination scheme as an act of patriotism, saying he felt the United States “was involved in a just war.”
In his 1993 book, “Next to Hughes,” Maheu wrote of that part of his life:
“Though I’m no saint, I am a religious man, and I knew that the CIA was talking about murder. They (CIA bosses) used the analogy of World War II: If we had known the exact bunker that Hitler was in during the war, we wouldn’t have hesitated to kill the bastard ...
“But in my mind, justified or not, I would still have blood on my hands ... If anything went wrong, I was the fall guy, caught between protecting the government and protecting the mob, two armed camps that could crush me like a bug.”
Maheu’s spy work brought him in phone contact with Hughes in 1955. Hughes was fascinated by undercover operations and hired Maheu to do counterintelligence work.
Hughes, a renowned playboy and filmmaker who discovered movie goddesses Jane Russell and Jean Harlow and married actresses Jean Peters and Terry Moore, also paid Maheu to spy on Hollywood beauties Hughes had designs on as well as on business rivals.
Hughes wasn’t Maheu’s only jealous client. Mobster Giancana hired Maheu to wiretap the room of Giancana’s girlfriend Phyllis McGuire, lead singer of the McGuire Sisters and a longtime Las Vegan.
In the 1995 film “Sugartime,” about the McGuire-Giancana relationship, Maheu was portrayed by actor Bill Cross.
Hughes stayed at the Desert Inn when he came to Las Vegas in 1966 and had Maheu buy it for him when the owners threatened to evict him after he turned a 10-day stay in their best suites into three months.
The purchase helped reduce Hughes’ tax burden from interest income generated by selling his stock in Trans World Airlines for $546.5 million.
Hughes then ordered Maheu to find him more hotel-casinos to buy to further shelter his windfall. Soon after, Maheu bought for Hughes the Sands, the Castaways, the Frontier, the Silver Slipper and the Landmark.
When Hughes and Maheu were finished buying, Hughes’ Nevada empire was valued at $300 million and included nearly every vacant lot along the Las Vegas Strip and 25,000 acres of prime real estate where the Hughes-built Summerlin master-planned community is now.
In 1969 and 1970, years when Hughes was seeking federal approval for airline acquisitions, Maheu delivered two bundles of $50,000 each in cash to Charles G. “Bebe” Rebozo, a Nixon confidante, as a supposed campaign contribution.
Nixon was paranoid about being linked to any gift from Hughes because in 1956, Hughes made a controversial $205,000 loan to Nixon’s brother Donald. Details of the loan were leaked during the 1960 presidential campaign and Nixon believed it cost him the election to John F. Kennedy.
Watergate burglars attempted to break into Greenspun’s safe at the Sun offices to get the Maheu-Hughes memos about that gift. They damaged the safe’s door but never broke it open.
Nixon also was concerned that Maheu had told one of his former employees, then-Democratic National Committee Chairman Larry O’Brien, about the cash donations from Hughes. O’Brien’s Watergate office was broken into, but the burglars were caught.
Maheu’s other business dealings included lobbying on behalf of Hughes to conserve Southern Nevada’s precious water resources and stop nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site.
Twice Hughes sent Maheu to Washington with briefcases containing $1 million in cash to secure promises from President Lyndon B. Johnson and Nixon to end nuclear testing in Southern Nevada.
But as Hughes became a bedraggled hermit, a rift developed between Maheu and Hughes’ caregivers, who answered to Hughes Corp. executive Bill Gay, with whom Maheu did not always see eye to eye.
(Hughes’ caregivers and aides were nicknamed the “Mormon Mafia” because the majority were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)
Maheu was fired by Hughes Corp. in 1970 and started his own consulting business, Robert A. Maheu and Associates.
In November 1970, Hughes was taken in a van by his caregivers from the Desert Inn to Nellis Air Force Base, where they boarded a jet for the Bahamas. Hughes never returned to Las Vegas.
After Hughes left town, many of Hughes’ memos to Maheu wound up on the front page of the Sun, accompanied by definitive stories about the reclusive billionaire and his mysterious ways.
“In Bob’s darkest days following the Hughes shake-up he had one true friend — that was my father, Hank Greenspun,” Brian Greenspun said. “And Bob returned that friendship to my family for the rest of his life.”
Hughes died April 5, 1976, aboard a plane from Mexico to his hometown of Houston at age 70. Though the official cause was kidney failure, Maheu maintained till the end that Hughes died of neglect.
“My heart still bleeds for what happened to Howard Hughes,” Maheu said in 2004. “I often said after I got off the phone with him that I just finished talking to the poorest man in the world. He was so unhappy.”
Maheu’s remains will be cremated and his ashes will be interred alongside those of his wife, Eve, at the family plot in Waterville.
Other Maheu survivors include his son Robert Maheu of Newport Beach, Calif.; daughters-in-law Rosemary Maheu of Las Vegas and Jane Maheu of San Diego; 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his daughter Christine.
---------- Other tributes in the article include:
Former Gov. and Sen. Paul Laxalt: “I don’t know of anybody who has contributed more to Nevada than Bob Maheu. He was one of the most gracious men I’ve known. He reminded me of Ron Reagan.”
Former Gov. and Sen. Richard Bryan: “There was a kind of commanding presence about Bob Maheu. He was very charming, elegant and very sophisticated. There was never any doubt that when you were talking to Bob Maheu, you were talking to a man with a commanding presence, substance and style. He carried himself with a sense of authority, but not arrogance.”
Former Gov. Bob List: “He was a big part of our history in this state in the last 50 years. He was a central figure in the development of Las Vegas (and) charming, a great raconteur who had a great amount of history in his head. In some ways he was as mysterious as Mr. Hughes himself. He loved his role and played it well.” ------------------ Source: See Las Vegas Sun article here
ChuckWheat Diamond Finder
There are more important things in life than mere money...family and God above all.
Long before Bob Hollenegg contemplated becoming a plaintiff on the Bivens case, he wrote this post about Mr Maheu. The information can be verified in the former press releases located here.
By: bhollenegg 08 Oct 2006, 06:56 AM EDT Msg. 8347 of 8349 Jump to msg. # Statements made by Robert Maheu while serving as co-Chairman on CMKM Diamonds Board of Directors.
"Solving problems has been my occupation for many years,"
"Tough assignments are not solved by wishful thinking, but rather by tough action." A new team of securities attorneys has been instructed that their prime assignment is to correct any deficiencies of the past and to cooperate fully with regulatory bodies both in Canada and the United States to minimize the possibility of such deficiencies in the future.”
"When I joined the board one of my prime assignments was to improve corporate compliance. A prime component was to reinstate reporting status, which was efficiently and expeditiously handled by the Stoecklein Law Group,"
"We are extremely appreciative of Stoecklein Law Group's immediate attention to our needs. I have worked with them in the past and they have always exceeded my expectations,".
"Like the SEC, protecting our investors is a primary concern. We have been aggressively gathering the essential information needed to comply with our public disclosure obligations and anticipate working with the SEC to ensure our compliance with all federal regulations,"
"We are not letting these regulatory matters impede our primary focus of creating stockholder value through the mining and development of our mineral assets,"
"I am fully committed to protecting the interests of bona fide CMKM stockholders, including if necessary, bringing appropriate federal or state court actions to ensure the appropriate distribution of the Entourage shares is made.”
“When I initially took on the assignment of assisting CMKM with its compliance needs, of primary concern was doing the right thing for the stockholders.” “
“We faced a tremendous number of hurdles, including the trading halt, administrative hearing and let down of numerous professionals. However, with the continued commitment of Urban Casavant and diligent professionalism of Stoecklein Law Group, we are trying to overcome the obstacles of the past and look forward into the future towards distributing value to CMKM's bona fide stockholders.”
"This is a time for the CMKM stockholders to look forward towards the future and forget the past. Working as a united front will allow us to extract all available sources of value for distribution."
The right man, at the right time, for the right reason, protecting the rights of bona fide stockholders….The Right Honorable Mr. Robert Maheu.
And now we will know the rest of the story…
Good Day.. BHollenegg
alch11 Diamond Finder
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
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Sep 9, 2012 at 1:43pm QuotePost by alch11 on Sep 9, 2012 at 1:43pm Excellent! Thank you.
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Post by hurricane on Sept 1, 2014 23:45:13 GMT -5
What will history say about Al Hodges?
Currently history shows his past prognostications have not come true in regards to outcomes DIRECTLY related to CMKX. Why would this time be any different?
What is the next thing CMKX will be tied to? Currently we are no longer tied to an RV?... Now it's BRICS? Just asking as I lost count somewhere between derivatives and NESARA.
A persons legacy lasts longer then their dollars....
Hurricane
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Post by John Winston Lennon O'Boogie on Sept 2, 2014 11:56:19 GMT -5
I just hope if nothing happens in 10 to 15 that Hodges don't leave us hanging here waiting another 6 months..
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Post by tnc6362 on Sept 2, 2014 12:50:34 GMT -5
I just hope if nothing happens in 10 to 15 that Hodges don't leave us hanging here waiting another 6 months.. Hey Boogie you know the next big thing will be Halloween and then Turkey day.If I was a betting man I,d say we are the turkey. T.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 2:29:12 GMT -5
Thank You Al! You are a great man! The times they are a changing and Rocktober is in the air. Of course, the certless board can ponder this behind closed doors.
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Post by vulcanized crawler on Sept 3, 2014 6:17:06 GMT -5
glad to hear from al. i await good news with great anticipation. i sent him a note of thanks for staying the course. HAIL VICTORY. PARA LA VICTORIA.
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Post by axis on Sept 3, 2014 7:06:12 GMT -5
glad to hear from al. i await good news with great anticipation. i sent him a note of thanks for staying the course. HAIL VICTORY. PARA LA VICTORIA. we all hope
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Post by John Winston Lennon O'Boogie on Sept 3, 2014 7:40:26 GMT -5
I do know some Members talk to Al. Maybe someone can just ask him what are we looking for..? News, Mail, Up-Date, Dinar RV site, Landa site.. All the above. Would be nice to know where to keep our eyes the next 10 days.. TIA
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Post by JoeRockss on Sept 3, 2014 9:37:08 GMT -5
I do know some Members talk to Al. Maybe someone can just ask him what are we looking for..? News, Mail, Up-Date, Dinar RV site, Landa site.. All the above. Would be nice to know where to keep our eyes the next 10 days.. TIA I'll give it a try and submit your question in a text. He most likely won't respond, beings he hasn't responded to a text from me in months.
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Post by John Winston Lennon O'Boogie on Sept 3, 2014 9:41:22 GMT -5
I do know some Members talk to Al. Maybe someone can just ask him what are we looking for..? News, Mail, Up-Date, Dinar RV site, Landa site.. All the above. Would be nice to know where to keep our eyes the next 10 days.. TIA I'll give it a try and submit your question in a text. He most likely won't respond, beings he hasn't responded to a text from me in months. It's worth a try.. He may still be in a good mood.. LOL
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Post by skoondog on Sept 3, 2014 9:41:31 GMT -5
Well Al Hodges birthday is the 5 Sept 2014. Maybe send him some early Birthday wishes early. Maybe his heart will turn soft.. lol
skoondog
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Post by John Winston Lennon O'Boogie on Sept 3, 2014 9:46:57 GMT -5
Well Al Hodges birthday is the 5 Sept 2014. Maybe send him some early Birthday wishes early. Maybe his heart will turn soft.. lol skoondog Single is in charge of the B-Day cake.. She knows how to post a real nice one..
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