From CAVDEF

The Franklin child sex ring was a politically-connected child prostitution ring in Omaha NE during the 1980s. Children from all over Omaha, including the Boys Town orphanage and Nebraska foster care system, were kidnapped to be abused at sex parties. Republican powerbroker Lawrence E. King operated the ring and hosted these sex parties, which were attended by political and business elites in Omaha. He also flew these children around the country, particularly to Washington DC, to be abused by other rich and powerful men. The main purpose of King's pedophile ring was blackmailing politicians, government officials, businessmen, and media figures with proof of them having sexually abused children. King carried out this blackmail operation on behalf of the CIA, in partnership with Republican lobbyist and CIA asset Craig J. Spence, whose DC home he would often fly children to.

Background

Larry King's rise

Main article: Lawrence E. King

Commonwealth Savings

[In the 1980s, under the governorship of Bob Kerrey, Commonwealth Savings collapsed. Kerrey and his backers appear to have deliberately caused the collapse of Commonwealth in order to plunder it, turning a profit in the wake of the fallout. Many of the same officials who covered up the corruption involving Commonwealth later had a role in investigating and prosecuting Franklin, which they also covered up. John Gottschalk, an Omaha World-Herald figure who otherwise has no discernible link to Franklin, is connected to Kerrey through financial ties, and DeCamp even stated that Gottschalk was one of the people who controlled Kerrey.]

Death of Charlie Rogers

Victims

Eulice Washington

Shawneta Moore

Alisha Owen

Main article: Alisha Owen

Troy Boner

Danny King

Paul Bonacci

Main article: Paul Bonacci

[...]

Reinforcing Bonacci's credibility is the fact that he revealed his abuse to his high school counselors back in 1986, years before the Franklin case had broken. Bonacci's attorney Henry Rosenthal testified about this to the Franklin Committee on June 21, 1990, saying that he had spoken to officials at the school and they confirmed Bonacci's disclosures, including his mention of prominent people in Omaha.[1] When interviewed by the Omaha World-Herald in 1991, Bonacci's counselors purportedly denied that he had ever told them about being abused.[2] But in the course of Bonacci's lawsuit against the Omaha Public School District (OPSD), the counselors admitted that they were told about the abuse by Bonacci. They filed affidavits which did not deny that Bonacci told them about the abuse, but rather claimed that they "fulfilled their statutory duty to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement officers". In other words, the OPSD argued it was not liable because Bonacci's claims of abuse were reported to the police as legally required, a tacit confirmation that Bonacci had indeed made those disclosures.[3]

[Bonacci's diaries were stored at his grandmother's apartment while he was in prison, indicating he did not have access to them][4] [A forensic ink analysis conducted on January 14, 1991 revealed that all entries in the diary were either inconclusive or written no later than 1.5 years prior to the test, and for most of the entries the ink matched the entry's written date][5]

Tony Harris

Nikolai Cayman

Rue Fox

Other possible names

These come from Gary Caradori's leads list:

Brant Clark: Boys Town student who worked for Larry King, was identified by Eulice Washington as being at a Chicago party, and denied the allegations before the grand jury but claimed he had seen Eulice with the Webbs in New York

Wally McGinnis (Wally Webb): Foster child of Barbara and Jarrett Webb who might have been flown to Washington DC

Tina Bufford: Uta Halee resident who might have been a sexual abuse and Satanic cult victim

Angie Chandler: Uta Halee resident who might have been a sexual abuse and Satanic cult victim

Susan Loder: Uta Halee resident who might have been a Satanic cult victim

Nikki Sowell: Uta Halee resident who might have been a sexual abuse and Satanic cult victim

Burt Salman: Listed on Larry King's flight manifests for YNR Aviation

Amy Noble: Sexual abuse victim and former prostitute who was interviewed on audiotape by Caracorp

Abusers

Omaha

Washington DC

San Francisco

Michael Aquino: Lieutenant colonel in the US Army

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Los Angeles

Ron Gilbert: Prominent Hollywood producer (this person?)

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West Des Moines

Orval Cooney?: West Des Moines police chief

Leonard John Gosch?: Father of Johnny Gosch

Organization

Ringleaders

Military/intelligence personnel:

Though uncorroborated, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) was accused by Paul Bonacci of being on the same level as Aquino and Plemmons.

Political operatives:

Lawrence E. King: Lead pimp in Omaha, CIA asset Rusty Nelson: The photographer for Larry King

Craig J. Spence: Lead pimp in Washington DC, CIA asset

Organized crime figures:

Bill Baker: A restaurant owner associated with Larry King who dealt in drugs and child pornography

Joe Malec: Owner of Peony Park, where some of the abuse took place

Willy Theisen: Owner of Godfather's Pizza, implicated by some victims as supplying cocaine for King's parties

Human traffickers:

Sam Soda: Spotter of children to abduct, known to be active in Des Moines IA and also identified in Omaha NE and Minnesota

Charlie Kerr: Operator of a safehouse outside of Sioux City IA for storing kidnapped children

"Emilio" and "Tony": Abducted children to sell them at auctions and safehouses

Charter flights

The following charter flight services are known to have been used by Lawrence E. King:

Executive Jet Aviation - Columbus OH

??? (the pilot admitted that minors accompanied King) - ???

Sky Harbor Air Service (a former employee said that King often traveled with well-groomed young men) - Omaha NE

YNR Aviation (had itineraries with victims' names) - Sioux City IA

KAM Airlines - ???

Many of King's flight receipts for Executive Jet Aviation have been posted online by Nick Bryant, and reveal where he was traveling:

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Land transport

Before reaching the airport and after landing, King often used transportation services like limos:

Old Market Limousine Service - phone 402-346-5512, contact named "Gail"

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Hotels

Here are some of the hotels which King is known to have stayed at:

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Related networks

Investigation

Early allegations

Media response

Police investigation

Franklin Committee

Gary Caradori

Main article: Gary Caradori

DC call boy ring

Main article: Washington DC call boy ring

Trials

State grand jury

Main article: Franklin state grand jury

Federal grand jury

Alisha Owen perjury trial

Main article: State v. Owen

Subsequent investigations

NLC and Ted Gunderson

[Led by Lincoln NE potato chip mogul Ed Weaver; former FBI supervisor turned private investigator Ted Gunderson was hired to assist with the investigation]

John DeCamp

Main article: John DeCamp

[6]

Noreen Gosch

Main article: Johnny Gosch abduction

Conspiracy of Silence

[7]

Nick Bryant

[8]

Suspicious deaths

DeCamp names

John DeCamp has identified 15 deaths ostensibly connected to the Franklin scandal that he labels as suspicious. For most of the people listed, very little is known about the circumstances of their death or their connection to Franklin. As such, it is not possible to draw any definitive conclusions, but for the purposes of completeness, the so-called mysterious deaths are listed here. Some of the spellings of names in DeCamp's book are wrong and have thus been corrected.

Investigators:

Gary Caradori: Lead investigator for the Franklin Committee; died in a plane crash with his son A.J. on 1990/07/11 as he was bringing back evidence from Chicago

Bill Skaleske (misspelled Bill Skoleski): Omaha police officer said to be a longtime acquaintance of Kirstin Hallberg whom she told about the Webb children and Larry King[9], and who was alleged to have been keeping a file on King; died of a heart attack on 1987/08/17

Victim advocates:

Mike Lewis: Former caregiver for Shawneta Moore at Richard Young Hospital, who was terminated after he housed her at his residence for several days; died of a "severe diabetic reaction" at age 32

Kathleen Sorensen (misspelled Kathleen Sorenson): Foster parent of the Washington girls and other abused children; died in a car crash on 1989/10/04

Relatives of victims:

Shawn Boner: Brother of Troy Boner; died from a gunshot wound on 1991/01/14 while allegedly playing Russian Roulette in a Capehart military housing apartment near Offutt Air Force Base

Aaron Owen: Brother of Alisha Owen; found hanged in his prison cell on 1990/11/09 shortly before Alisha appeared in court

King associates:

Charlie Rogers: Employee and purported lover of King; expressed fear for his life shortly before he allegedly killed himself in 1986

Dan Ryan: Creighton student and purported associate of King [10] ; was found dead of asphyxiation in a car on 1988/12/07 after disappearing 10 days earlier

; was found dead of asphyxiation in a car on 1988/12/07 after disappearing 10 days earlier Curtis Tucker: Former Boys Town worker and purported lover of King[11]; died when he fell out of the window of the Holiday Inn in Omaha on 1985/12/25

Perpetrators:

Clare Howard: Secretary of Alan Baer who was said (by Troy Boner) to have arranged his child sexual encounters; died in her sleep on 1991/01/20

Bill Baker: Knew King and dealt with drugs and pornography; was shot to death on on 1988/12/21, once in the head and once in the body, while sitting in his office

Joe Malec (misspelled Joe Malek): Ran Peony Park where pedophilic events took place; died on 1990/11/14 from a gunshot which was ruled a suicide

Harmon Tucker: Alleged perpetrator who was a Council Bluffs school administrator; was kidnapped and found on 1988/11/01 shot in the head near Valdosta GA

Other people

Young boy incarcerated at Lincoln Correctional Center who was found hung and had buried videotapes (mentioned by Karla Hall; confided in an assistant chaplain at the prison named Rose that he was receiving threats and she should dig up the tapes if anything happened to him)

Greg Hall: Unofficial nephew of Karla Hall who was about to enter the Franklin investigation with the help of Roy Stephens, and was found dead in the basement of podiatrist Dr. Klawitter's building

Relative of Bonacci who owned a North Omaha airport (mentioned by Karla Hall; dated a woman named Gayle Bailey)

Troy Boner: Victim and witness who was repeatedly forced into recanting by the FBI and then un-recanted

Hunter Thompson?: Implicated as a snuff film maker (though it is unclear whether the producer in Bonacci's story was really him) and found dead of an alleged suicide in early 2005 as the Franklin story was surging back into the news

Michael Connell?: Allegedly enlisted by Karl Rove to scrub information on Lawrence E. King from the Internet, and later died in a suspicious plane crash, though this was more probably linked to the election fraud court case he was considering testifying in

Political connections

Iran-Contra

Main article: Iran-Contra

[12]

In his testimony at Paul Bonacci's 1999 civil damages hearing, Rusty Nelson recalled a specific instance of Larry King providing funds for Iran-Contra. While he and King were staying at a hotel in Minneapolis, a man addressed only as "Colonel" came to their room to meet with King, who gave him a briefcase full of bearer bonds. Nelson believed that this was an instance of King financing "the Contra ordeal".[13] In a later interview with Jeffrey Steinberg of EIR, Nelson positively identified the "Colonel" as Army intelligence officer Lt. Col. Michael Aquino.[14] He reiterated the identification of Aquino in an email message he sent out in 2000.

Sexual blackmail

Mind control

Main article: Mind control programs

Corporate connections

Omaha business community

S&L institutions

Main article: Savings and loan crisis

See also

References

Books

Documentaries

Supporting materials

All of the material here is meant to serve as documentation supporting claims in Nick Bryant's book. In the references, Bryant's book is what gets cited, but the links down here help to demonstrate that the contents in his book are indeed accurate.

Commonwealth Savings

Omaha business community

Brandeis family

Ronald Roskens

NAMBLA connection

Franklin Files archives

Disinformation efforts