Replies to post #282359 on CMKM Diamonds Inc. (fka CMKX)

[jimmym4]

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.”

[IQ1]

Maheu had battled cancer and heart problems.

Mr. Maheu wrote in his 1992 autobiography, "Next to Hughes." "If he wanted something negotiated, I did the bargaining. If he had to be somewhere, I appeared in his place. I was his eyes, his ears, and his mouthpiece."

"Most people, I have observed, spend 90 percent of their time scribbling notes and keeping records to justify their existence," he said in 1974. "I prefer to use that time getting things done."

Mr. Maheu earned $520,000 a year and was living in one of the largest houses in Las Vegas and that was way back in the 70's.

So he had money and power, what was he trying to get done and why was he really involed with a pinky like CMKX ?

I'm betting CMKX was used by the FBI to try to get to the bottom of the corruption within the stock markets.
I'm also certain that there will be people that will be offered a free pass(no jail) if they aid in the prosecution of the bigger fish.
Once you become an FBI agent you never leave.
The FBI is going after some big FISH and CMKX was a perfect way to trap the greedy buggers!!!

Even great empires have fallen in the past due to greed, and some belief that they are untouchable, but now that the FBI has a target it will be interesting how things will turn out:)

Its like joining the mob, the only way you leave is in a box.