Gene
Tatum GABRIEL TABOADA
Breaking
News January 21, 1997
GABRIEL TABOADA
January 21, 1997
By Gene "Chip" Tatum
I
recently received a letter from an old business associate" who is currently
serving a lengthy federal prison sentence. This old "associate"
relayed his situation in detail, hoping that I may have a solution. known as an alternative planner during my years with
"The Company" and other intelligence organizations, Gabriel was sure
that I could offer an alternative which he and his attorney had not yet
considered.
I was aware
that Gabriel had been captured in Switzerland and extradited to the United
States to be tried on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. Gabriel
Taboada, ( see attachment 1)
facing life in prison, agreed to testify against General Manuel
"Tony" Noriega. What I didn’t know was Gabriel Taboada
would also be used in numerous other federal prosecutions to include the trial
of "La Kika" Mosquera,
the airline bombing case which Janet Reno has recently lauded as a masterpiece
in investigative and prosecutorial professionalism and named herself as the
architect of the case.
For his
cooperation in the Noriega case, Gabriel told me that he was offered a sentence
reduction to five years imprisonment, entry into the federal witness protection
program, and designation to a federal prison camp rather than a prison with
"walls, gun towers, and razor wire." As sated
by Gabriel, it was important to receive a new identity and be put in a camp due
to the repercussions from the international drug community for "snitching
and lying." He went on to explain that most convicted drug dealers were
placed in federal prisons, and the cartels had placed a $5 million dollar contract
on him. This could easily be done in a prison full of convicted cartel members.
Apparently
the U.S. Department of Justice allows two types of sentence reductions: The
"5K1" reduction allows for a sentence reduction of a convict for
providing assistance in his case or a related case. The second form of sentence
reduction comes as a result of testifying or assisting federal authorities in a
case not related to the case for which the convict was imprisoned
. This is a called a "Rule 35" sentence reduction.
After
arriving in Miami from Switzerland, Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSA) Guy Lewis
and Pat Sullivan met with Gabriel Taboada and his
attorney, F. Lee Bailey. It was in these series of meetings that Taboada agreed to testify against "Tony" Noriega
in exchange for a sentence reduction from possible life to five years.
In
preparation for trial, Taboada met with AUSA Lewis
and Sullivan for hours at a time. It was Taboada’s
understanding that when one testifies in the U.S. Federal Court, you are
obligated to tell the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth." But , it was the threat of the AUSA Lewis and Sullivan, after
hearing the truth about Noriega’s involvement with
the cartels, that if Taboada tells what really
happened, he won’t see the outside of federal prison for the rest of this life.
With that, the training began. As Gabriel writes in his letter to Senator John
Kerry (attachment 2) he "danced to their [the AUSA’S] tune" and held
his testimony to what the U.S. Attorney’s office wanted rather than telling the
whole truth (see attachment 2, page 2, section 3
In defense
of the U.S. Attorney’s office, I will state the following. Federal criminal
code defines the overt acts which must be committed in order to find a
defendant guilty. In most cases, it is very difficult to receive testimony from
witnesses which is adequate to fulfill this requirement. So, the U.S.
Attorney’s office always coaches their key witnesses in how to present their
testimony. . Unfortunately, many AUSA’s see their position as ensuring
defendants are prosecuted and imprisoned rather than seeing that justice
prevails. Gabriel, driven by the threat of a life of imprisonment, performed so
well that AUSA’s Lewis and Sullivan realized that they were now in possession
of a "Golden Goose" (see attachment 3).
Following
the conviction of Noriega, and elated over the performance of Taboada, AUSA’s Sullivan and Lewis decided that to let Taboada out of their control would not be prudent. So, at
this point, the U.S. Attorney’s office sought a 21 year sentence on Gabriel Taboada. Following the U.S. Attorney’s recommendation,
Gabriel Taboada was sentenced by a federal judge to
21 years in federal prison. Due to the length of imprisonment, he was not
eligible for a prison camp as promised by the U.S. Attorney’s office. Instead
of giving Taboada a new name to conceal his identity
from Colombians serving in federal prison, the U.S. Judge ordered Taboada to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
with no further instructions.
Placed in a
life-threatening situation, with the only hope of protection cooperating with
the U.S. Attorney’s office in Miami, Gabriel Taboada
found it necessary to begin working for the government. From 1991 through 1993
Gabriel Taboada was key in
the prosecution of six federal trials. In all of his testimonies, he performed
exceptionally, "dancing to the tune" of the U.S. Attorney’s office.
The truth be damned- he had to get out of that prison!
In May of
1993, Gabriel Taboada was transported in handcuffs,
ankle cuffs, and chains, to the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Charleston, South
Carolina. It was here, almost three years later, that Gabriel’s sentence was
reduced. But, instead of a reduction to the original five years promised in
1990, Gabriel Taboada was resentenced from 21 years
imprisonment to twelve years. Again, after lying in numerous federal trials as
instructed by the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office, the U.S. government again broke
their promise to Taboada (attachment 2, page 2, section 2). Not only did they renege on the maximum sentence
of five years, but Taboada still didn’t qualify for a
federal camp under the Federal Bureau of Prison guidelines, and there was no
witness protection order given by the judge, so the pressure was still on the
government’s "Golden Goose." They [the U.S. Attorney] had a
"golden egg" in mind and needed Taboada’s
skills in witness tampering to get the conviction they [the government] were
looking for.
In the
international drug community, the name Gabriel Taboada
was deadly. As the result of numerous trials and precise testimony by Taboada, narco-traffickers
received sentences totaling over a thousand years. A plea negotiation was often
the only viable option of the U.S. Attorney’s office intended to use Gabriel Taboada as their witness, and defense attorney’s
knew it. Taboada was so "trainable" in
facts and elements of the crimes, that his name was commonplace in the
Washington DC "main justice" offices (attachment 4, page 1, section 1).
So, when a
trial as important to the integrity of the FBI And
U.S. Attorney’s office as the bombing of a n airliner purportedly by bad guy Dandeny Munos "La Kika" Mosquera materialized,
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and U.S. Attorney David Troyer turned to
Gabriel Taboada, the U.S. Department of Justice’s
"Golden Goose" to lay the "golden egg." It was Taboada’s duty to recruit and advise prospective witnesses
for the case. As Gabriel arranged the witnesses from various prisons he was
adamant in explaining the need to testify as they are told and not to vary from
the facts as explained to them by Troyer. The "golden egg" was laid
and La Kika was convicted. Now Gabriel Taboada ,
feeling as if he were a true government witness, informant, and American
citizen had finally positioned himself to leave federal prison (attachment 5).
A subpoena
arrived from the office of Senator John Kerry requiring Taboada
to testify before Kerry’s committee concerning international DEA corruption. It
was Taboada’s belief that he was called by Senator
Kerry to provide the truth, so he told the truth. This is the first time that
he was able to be truthful since becoming involved with the U.S. Department of
Justice in 1990 (attachment 2, page 4, section 5).
AUSA Guy
Lewis accompanied Gabriel Taboada to the
congressional hearing to ensure that Taboada did not
answer any questions pertaining to the Noriega case or the Habibe
case (Haiti). But Taboada, feeling as though he was a
partner and team member of the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office, decided to answer
the questions asked concerning the Noriega and Habibe
cases (attachment 6, page 2, paragraph 5).
It was this
testimony that U.S. Attorneys Troyer and Lewis would use to leverage Gabriel
into further work. Tired of lying, Taboada refused to
cooperate any further with the U.S. Attorney’s office (attachment 7).
Gabriel and
his attorney petitioned the court to further reduce his sentence in 1995, but
Judge Sol Blatt, U.S. District Judge in South
Carolina did not reduce his sentence.
Gabriel
stated that the U.S. Attorney’s office is trying to keep the pressure on so
that Gabriel will testify in an upcoming murder trial of Willie Falcon. This
case involves corruption of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in a conspiracy to
murder a federal witness currently housed in the Miami detention center. But,
Gabriel’s answer to AUSA Pat Sullivan who wants Gabriel to fabricate testimony
against Falcon is to the point, "Don’t hold your breath...try keeping your
promises, Mr. Sullivan...I have been used and abused and you expect me to pony-up
a bunch of new assistance!" (see attachment 8).
As I study
the events which Gabriel has laid out since his contact with the U.S. De[Department of Justice in 1990, I find several disturbing
points, as would most of you. But getting beyond the fact that Gabriel Taboada has struggled with the Department of Justice for
the last six years in an attempt to get a debt paid, we must also be concerned
about that congressional testimony given before Senator Kerry. Is there
testimony hidden in the various committee’s records
which bring us closer to the truth about the attack by U.S. forces against a
sovereign nation purportedly for the sole purpose of extraditing a drug
trafficker? And if so, is justice being served by keeping this information from
the public? And if congress has found it necessary to conceal the information
provided by Taboada, how many others testified
concerning government corruption only to end up with a sealed record? Perhaps
that’s what happened when Ricardo Duran Sarmiento (drug pilot) testified to
congress concerning the CIA’s involvement in drug trafficking and has now
mysteriously disappeared from his cell in Jesup
Federal Prison.
In all
honesty, I am stumped on an alternative solution for Gabriel Taboada. The U.S. government holds all the cards. There is
no resolution for the common man. So I present Gabriel Taboada’s
circumstances to the millions of readers on the Internet. Perhaps there is an
attorney out there that sees a way past the U.S. Department of Justice wall that has been built around a government witness, or are
its strings attached to the government witness which controls him/her for the
duration of their life? Or perhaps there is an alternative planner out there
that sees a way to crack that wall so that the government’s "Golden Goose"
can quit laying eggs. If not, perhaps there’s a member of the clergy out there
that can say a prayer for those of us who life in the good "ol’ USA, living in a country controlled by a gang of
terrorists wearing ties and carrying the identification of the U.S. Department
of Justice or member of congress.
It’s not
what we had in mind when our forefathers drafted the Constitution, or our
Declaration of Independence. I’ll bet it’s not what the American population has
in mind today, either.
I was taught
as a child that it is never too late to correct a wrong. So come on American,
give us an answer. Do we simply throw out our Bill of Rights and allow officers
of the Justice Department and congress to blatantly violate the law in order to
convict criminals? If that’s the case then lets just save ourselves a lot of tax moneys and do
away with the $30,000 a day U.S. criminal trials and shoot those who are
suspected of crimes against the United States.
Is there an
answer? Hope so.
Gene
"Chip" Tatum
blackops@sundial.sundial.net>
P.O. Box 8955082 Leesburg, FL 34789
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Gene
Tatum was a personal friend of mine
he and I did many radio
show together in 1996-1997 as co-guests.
Bush Shadow Government Player CIA-NSA Gene Chip Tatum and the Denver Connections Stew Webb’s ex-in-law Leonard Millman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs2byHPFkhM&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/stewwebb1
Gary
Webb's serious of articles the Dark Alliance in the San Jose Mercury Press was a result of Gene
Tatum’s exposure
of George H. W. Bush' CIA Narcotics Smuggling.
I,
Stew Webb released the Short Version below of the Cutolo
Affidavit in 1993 after being given both the 90 page long version and the short
version in August 1993 by my Friend Bill McCoy DOD-CIA-Private Investigator
(Murdered in 1997)
The
reason the Long Version has not been released is to protect those named in it who are still alive.
http://www.stewwebb.com/Cutolo_Affidavit_1993.htm
Stew Webb Video 1993 Corruption in High Place
describing the Cutolo Affidavit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYFLptTkNAY
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Note
Dois Gene Tatum
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