Reply #4: Their usefulness to Greed may've been identified early on by Mr. Murray Chotiner... [View All]

[Octafish]

I know this source has a lot of "I" to his story, but this history has been the subject of much revision, cover-up and revulsion:

The Greg Topper Story

EXCERPT...

After working for near-slave-volunteer wages at this for three years, in 1974, I returned to politics. I was born into it. My mom was recruited by Ike to pick him a V.P. mate for the ticket in 1952. He didn't like Nixon but my mom convinced Ike that if he wanted to win, Nixon would push the ticket over to a win. Mom then went on to follow Bob Finch as Executive Director of Republican Associates in Los Angeles. After that, she went on, at just 34 years old, to build a 400 acre beachfront hotel in Montego Bay, Jamaica. What a gal.

I had previously worked a 1962 Republican U.S. Senate campaign for Lloyd Wright..... run by old shenanigan-prone Murray Chotiner; ......Chotiner even worked for President Hoover in 1932. But I gotta tell you as a teenager working with these guys, I learned so much. So much. I was in the thick of it. Out-of-work actors like Ronald "Dutch" Reagan and Fred MacMurray would come in and hang out with Chotiner in the campaign office on Wilshire, then they'd go over and drink and listen to Red Nichols & His Five Pennies at The Zebra Room in the Sheraton Townhouse. Ah, the memories !!

My two-sense:

Murray Chotiner bio at Spartacus.Schoolnet does not mention Reagan, but they obviously ran in the same California mobbed-up circles.

Don Fulsom does a bang-up job on Nixon and the mob: Richard Nixon’s Secret Ties to the Mafia

Dan Moldea does a bang-up job on Reagan and the mob: The Corruption of Ronald Reagan