Mossad, Henry Crown and The Franklin Scandal

I few years ago I read a book by Nick Bryant titled “The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal”. A black Republican politician named Lawerence E. “Larry” King Jr. was caught running an Epstein-like child sex abuse ring designed to get compromising material on US congressmen and other powerful men. Larry E. King Jr. was the only ringleader to do any jail time and he has been released.

Larry E. King Jr. pictured with Ronald Regan’s daughter, Maureen.

The story is beyond horrific, it’s nightmare level stuff. Nick Bryant continues to expose aspects of it on his podcast and Youtube channel, so you can find more details there. I was drawn to the Franklin Scandal because key aspects of the story touch on Lincoln Men financial assets, specifically the “Franklin Community Federal Credit Union” which gave the scandal its name. Larry E. King Jr. used the credit union as a cover for his abuse ring. King Jr. was handed control of the firm after his father, Lawrence “Poncho” King, declined the position and suggested his son run it instead. Poncho King was a forty-year functionary of Swift & Co.’s Employee Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska.

Poncho King was a man of humble station. He had no other high-level contacts (that I could find) beyond those at Swift & Co. Therefore, either Swift controlled FCFCU or whomever did was very close to Swift & Co. management in Omaha. Identifying Swifts’ 1970-era ownership is the best lead for understanding how the Franklin Scandal happened.

I can tell you now that a Chicago “businessman” named Col. Henry Crown owned the largest known single stake in Swift & Co. when Poncho King tapped his son for FCFCU. The other largest stake was controlled by an investment fund that Hayden, Stone & Co.’s president would run in two years’ time.

Chicago Tribune, April 7, 1946. Gladys was not Crown’s first wife; his previous wife had passed three years prior.

The Reporter Dispatch, June 15 1968. Central Securites is a NYSE traded investment fund (CET). For the last forty years it was headed by Wilmot H. Kidd III, who helped CET to outperform Berkshire Hathaway consistently from 1973 to 2021. According to Prabook, Wilmot H. Kidd III is a Boston native who served as president of Hayden, Stone Incorporated until 1973. In 1970 the original Hayden, Stone & Co. was purchased by a Jewish Wall Street firm, Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt, which was derogatorily nicknamed “Corned Beef With Lettuce”. The purchaser changed its name to “Hayden, Stone Incorporated” after the acquisition and Kidd was soon named president. The conglomerate firm did not thrive and Kidd went to CET in 1973.

Wilmot Higgins Kidd III

San Fransisco Chronicle, September 17, 1970 page 32. Press reports show Kidd was vice president of this new combined firm by 1972.

Does Crown’s 5% share represent a controlling share? It’s hard to say without seeing the company’s finances. However, Swift & Co. was a privately held company and one held by men with outstanding political agency. That a Galician Gang hood was allowed to (publicly) buy 5% is a strong signal about the allies of whomever controlled the lion’s share. This is how high finance works.

When Col. Crown died in 1990, the State of Israel paid this tribute to him:

Chicago Tribune, August 16, 1990.

Henry Crown was part of the “Galician Gang” Jewish mafia in Chicago, of which I wrote about before with regard to CIA head William Colby and the Chess Brothers. The Galician Gang got its start in Chicago running brothels under Bertha Palmer’s Kentucky Colony. By the 1920s, this gang was looting military installments and selling German drugs with the help of crooked US Army brass. Crown hit the jackpot by scoring a role as “procurement officer” to the War Department during WWII— he could sell Uncle Sam his own “Material Services Corporation” building materials. The contacts he built from this venture allowed him to take over General Dynamics after a bloody battle with its board— General Dynamics was America’s submarine supplier. Who were these contacts? The Eisenhower Foundation identifies Henry Crown as one of “Ike’s Soldiers”.

If you have heard of Crown, it’s probably to do with the “TFX Scandal”— that is, a scandal about a new TFX fighter jet that was slated for production by President Eisenhower, but these plans were dropped as a result of Navy/Air Force infighting. Crown’s General Dynamics eventually got the contract to build this TFX (F-111) when the Kennedy Administration (Robert McNamara) resuscitated Ike’s dream plane. The Pentagon wanted Boeing to build it, but McNamara overode the Pentagon in favor of the Chicago Outfit. The Crowns were large donors to the Kennedy Family political machine; once Kennedy was shot Lyndon B. Johnson made sure Crown still got the F-111 contract.

Crown’s involvement with General Dynamics and its aeronautics efforts lead to illegal arms shipments to Israel and spin-off projects, like this “Spacex” (Elon Musk) exhibit at the “Henry Crown Space Center” inside the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

While Crown’s investments in the military-industrial complex were profitable, so was his work with Meyer Lansky and Lansky’s casino-hotel partner, Conrad Hilton.

Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1947. By 1950 Conrad Hilton was a partner of Meyer Lansky in developing Cuba’s shady gambling business. Here Hilton, the great grandfather of “it girl” Paris Hilton, hands a large check to another Lansky associate.

According to the Eisenhower Foundation:

When Conrad Hilton came to Chicago looking for hotel properties, he came to Henry Crown for financial backing because of his reputation as an honest arbitrator. Their first meeting led to a partnership in the Stevens Hotel (now Chicago Hilton and Towers) and the Palmer House. As a member of Hilton’s board, Henry Crown helped him organize and finance the Hilton Corporation’s network of national and international hotels, which included the Waldorf Astoria in New York and the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, which Henry bought and then leased back to Hilton. 'Henry’s influence on Hilton was great,' said Milt Falkoff, a colleague of the Colonel’s. 'Hilton regularly called to talk deals with him, and he respected Henry’s judgment.' 

Hilton went on to develop corrupt casino/hotel enterprises under Meyer Lansky’s wing in Cuba.

Paris Hilton lifts up her skirt at the “Havana Hilton” her great-grandfather built with Meyer Lansky.

We have now entered the territory of state-sponsored organized crime, readers. Mossad, the CIA and the Galician Gang are hopelessly interconnected, to the point where I believe the CIA is not capable of preforming its “mission and vision”. If you think I’m overreacting, ask yourself how Jeffery Epstein operated for so long. Here’s how this unfortunate situation came about:

In the 1950s CIA counterintelligence and Israeli desk head James Jesus Angleton, who was recruited by a shady Chicago FBI agent, used the Jewish Mafia (“Galician Gang”/ “Supermob”) both in the United States and in Italy to build his counterintelligence and intelligence informant networks. These same “underground” Italian Jews went on to form Israel’s intelligence agency “Mossad”. US mobsters like Meyer Lansky were both the CIA/OSS’s main underworld contacts and vigorous supporters of Israel. With an intelligence pedigree like that, it’s no wonder that the CIA has identity problems. Under neoconservative stewardship, or that of Avril Haines, the situation did not improve.

This long-standing CIA/Mossad connection is probably why retired CIA head William Colby interfered with Nebraska senator Loran Schmit’s investigation into the Franklin Scandal and why Colby was so unhelpful investigating the suspicious death of Schmit’s lead investigator Gary Caradori. (It’s probably also why Jeffery Epstein operated for so long.)

It’s likely that I’ll have to write more about Henry Crown in the future, but now I want to look at Poncho King, the pedophile Larry E. King Jr’s father.

Poncho King himself had an interesting heritage. According to US Census records we know very little about him: he only appears in one Ancestry.com record, which is the 1950 US census for Omaha, Nebraska. This census agrees with the family information Nick Bryant provided. There were no records for Lawrence King or his wife Vineta Swancey beyond this when I checked in 2023. In fact, there was almost no information on “Vineta Swancey” at all. For Poncho to have been a forty-year veteran of Swift & Co. in Omaha by 1970 he should have been in the 1940 census and possibly even the 1930 census. As far as the other usual items: birth records, death records, the marriage record… nothing. Bear in mind, these are supposed to be settled adults with children and steady employment. Ancestry.com is an outgrowth of the Mormon church.

So here’s what we iron-clad know via the 1950 US Census page with Poncho’s entry:

1950

There are surprisingly few men named “Lawrence King” in the Omaha area during this time frame. There was one “Lawrence King” in Omaha’s 1940 census who was 25 years older than Poncho and who originally hailed from Texas. I will henceforth call this older man “Larry King 1897”. Larry King 1897 was also a meatpacker, and according to Ancestry.com he was married to one “Arlene Partridge”. Arlene and Larry King 1898’s son was named “Lawrence King Jr.” and was the same age as Lawrence “Poncho” King: they were both born in 1922. Could it be that pedophile Larry E. King Jr is really Larry E. King III? That would make Larry King 1897 grandfather to the pedophile. Please see the 1940 census below.

1940

Unfortunately these census records don’t come with matching genetic data so there is the possibility that Larry King 1897 is not related to Poncho. However the timing, geography, occupation and regional unpopularity of the name make a family relationship more likely.

There is an additional piece of evidence in favor of their kinship. The 1930 Milwaukee, WI census contains a 32 year old meat-packer named Lawrence King from Texas who was married to one “Arlene” and together they had an eight year old son “Lawrence”. Poncho would have been eight in 1930, too. This 32-year old Lawrence King in Milwaukee claims Mexican ancestry. A “poncho” is a Mexican-style blanket-coat, while Milwaukee was the headquarters of Swift & Co.

1930 Milwaukee, WI Census

Reaching farther back in time becomes difficult now, but we are helped by the fact that in 1920 a Texas man with Mexican ancestry, born around 1897 and named “Lawrence King” who works in the meatpacking business was somewhat remarkable. Exactly such a man appears in the 1920 Omaha, NE census as a 23 year old “roomer” in the home of another meat-packer. A “roomer” is someone who rents a room, which is something that a young, out-of-town job seeker might do.

1920 Omaha, Nebraska. It’s unclear where “Lawrence King” claims he is from, most likely “Texas”, but his claimed Mexican parentage is clear.

Could this 23 year old Lawrence King have been caught in a 1910 Texas Census survey, when he would have been 12/13 years old? The only Texas-domiciled “Lawrence King” of the right age who I could locate was the son of a schoolteacher, John R. King of Austin City, TX. John R. King’s family appears regularly in both the 1900 and 1910 Austin City, TX censuses. John R. King was not Mexican, he was born in Texas, his dad and mom were from Alabama and Illinois respectively. His wife Mattie was born in Georgia, but her parents both came from South Carolina.

1910 Austin City, TX Census

1900 Austin City, TX Census

However, John R. King’s 23 year old son Lawrence appears in the 1920 Austin City, TX census. Therefore, we have a 23 year old Mexican meat-packer Lawrence in the 1920 Omaha census and a 22 year old unemployed Lawrence in the 1920 Austin City census. These two censuses were done within two weeks of each other. These two Lawrences could be different people, or “Mexican” Larry could have responded to census-takers before his parents back in Austin City knew his permanent employment plans…

Austin City, TX 1920 Census

…or 22/23 year old Larry King may have abruptly left Austin City under a cloud and lied about his Mexican ancestry to throw authorities off his scent. Such lies to census takers were a favorite trick of Monroe, WI’s William Wesley Young who regularly lied about the origin of his parents after he began working for British Intelligence. Lying to census takers is something that criminal network members might have incentive to do.

Geneology of this nature is prone to error and the legitimacy of Larry King 1897’s Mexican ancestry rests on shaky ground, but I think it quite possible that Larry King 1897 was pedophile Larry King’s grandpa. If true, this is a terrifying discovery because Larry King 1897 married into the Partridge family who operated a home for troubled black boys in Omaha in the 1930s— the same time period that the disjointed claim of “Mexican” ancestry enters the census data. Arlene Partridge King’s brother Gaines Partridge (1900-1964) set up the “Oak View Home for Negro Boys” or what the Douglas County Historical Society ominously calls “Omaha’s Other Boys’ Town”.

Gaines Partridge 1900-1964

Anna and Gaines Partridge were never charged with abusing boys. However, much like the Guggenheims, they collected children far beyond what their resources could support. The Partridges got a hold of these boys (as young as six years old) “either because they ran away from home or were kicked out, or in other ways had become orphaned”. The farm where the children were housed was “rundown”, the children were expected to make repairs, and then the Gaines rented the property out to tenant farmers. Gaines and his wife Anna fostered at least 12 troubled boys at any given time, sometimes as many as 20. With such little supervision many of these kids ended up committing crimes and being institutionalized at the Kearney Industrial School:

However, their crimes and misdemeanors were numerous, and several were on their way to the court-appointed Kearney Industrial School. The Oak View Home provided a respite along that pathway for some of North Omaha’s most desperate young men, and apparently succeeded.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that abused children are more likely to act out.

Gaines Partridge was a brother of Pitmon Foxall, one of the first African American policemen in the Omaha Police Department. This police connection may be innocuous, however, when organized crime targets a community gang-members usually try to get hired to the police force as a first order of business. Despite the Partridges’ obvious inadequacy, the State of Nebraska gave them money to run their farm and the family worked with the notorious Omaha World-Herald, Peter Citron’s employer and a key institution in the Franklin Scandal, to gin up funding for their fostering enterprise. When Anna Partridge’s sorority Zeta Phi Beta wanted to honor her, a probation officer from the local Juvenile Court, Lawrence Krell, was there to sing her praises. Joe Louis, the mob-backed prize fighter also promoted the “Oakview Home”.

North Omaha History: “World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Lewis (1914-1981) visited the Oak View Home in 1954. He toured the farm, taught the boys some boxing tips and was treated to a big farm meal.”

Joe Louis was managed by a black Detroit gangster from an affluent family, John Walter Roxborough, who like Mushmouth Johnson of Chicago, ran gambling enterprises with his Chicago Outfit laywer/business partner Julian Black. Together, Roxborough and Black convinced Louis to sign over half his earnings to the duo, justifying this arrangement using “Black Power” arguments. Black and Roxborough then looked to the Galician Gang for a deal. The Jewish Mafia were into professional boxing and sports gambling since the 1830s in London, (see David Belasco) and Roxborough needed to partner with Mike Jacobs to allow Louis access into the Jewish boxing promotion circuit and ‘big money’. Long story short, the Oak View boys were vulnerable to Chicago Mob exploitation. Perhaps Larry E. King Jr.’s crimes had deep roots.

I was able to find the identity of one of Poncho’s co-workers at the Swift & Co. Employee Credit Union at the time Poncho was offered FCFCU:

Bellevue Guide, April 22, 1970.

Sarpy County Gazette, March 28 1961.

Art Mahar has quite a story. He and his wife moved to Omaha area (Bellevue suburb) in the late 1940s and became involved in many civic activities. From 1954 Art served on the school board and eventually became its president, holding that post for nearly a decade. It seems the Mahars just couldn’t get enough of kids, as Art also ran a “Junior Gun Club” for boys ages 9-10 in a neighbor’s basement and Art’s wife organized the Camp Fire Girls.

Bellevue Press, April 30 1954.

Art Mahar had a sense of humor, too. He was the type of guy who would get in drag and preform in a chorus line in support of noble causes. Hey, it’s Halloween!

Bellevue Press, October 29, 1954.

But Art Mahar’s true love was the organ harvesting bank he ran on behalf of the Omaha area Lion’s Club. Eyes are the type of organ you can donate, and they are often in short supply. For instance, a blue-eyed British tourist recently found that out the hard way after she walked into to a Mexican hospital for diabetes-related care. Israel is, unfortunately, a hot spot for the international organ trade. The situation is so bad that it is often compared to a “blood libel”. Certainly men like Henry Crown and Conrad Hilton were interested in funding hospitals where all kinds of organ transplants take place.

Bellevue Press, December 26, 1958.

Bellevue Press, September 18, 1959

At this point I really don’t know what to say, other than Poncho had weird colleagues at Swift & Co. too. Readers should know that the official “Wikipedia” take on the Franklin Scandal was that it was an elaborate hoax, apart from those crimes for which King Jr. did some jail. Larry E. King Jr. was exposed shortly before Jeffery Epstein and Les Wexner’s private Israel lobby “MEGA Group” got going. I dunno… perhaps there was a power vacuum?