#Nebraska
5 entries tagged Nebraska.
People (4)
- Gary Caradori Gary Caradori was a private investigator hired by the Nebraska Legislature's Franklin Committee to investigate Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations who died July 11, 1990 when his aircraft broke apart over Lee County, Illinois, shortly after collecting what he described as significant new evidence.
- John DeCamp John W. DeCamp (1941-2017) was a Nebraska state senator and attorney who published 'The Franklin Cover-Up' (1992) arguing the Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations were genuine and suppressed, drawing on his close personal relationship with former CIA Director William Colby who had been his superior in Vietnam.
- Lawrence King Jr. Lawrence King Jr. was the operator of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha whose 1988 collapse revealed $39.4 million in embezzlement and triggered abuse allegations linking King's Republican Party connections to a Washington D.C. child prostitution ring.
- Paul Bonacci Paul Bonacci was the principal claimant in the Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations, alleging Lawrence King Jr. transported him to Washington D.C. for abuse at Craig Spence-arranged parties from approximately 1981, and won a 1999 federal civil default judgment of $1 million against King.
Events (1)
- Franklin Credit Union Scandal The Franklin Credit Union Scandal began with the November 1988 collapse of Lawrence King Jr.'s Omaha credit union with $39.4 million missing, accompanied by allegations of a child prostitution network with Washington D.C. connections; fraud charges resulted in conviction while abuse allegations were found unsubstantiated by two 1990 grand juries.