Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and the Heart of East Coast Pizzagate - Trafficking, PA State Corruption, Jerry Sandusky, and Ed Savitz. (pizzagate)

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First, from the US Office of National Drug Control Policy, a 2001 posting detailing the 1995 designation of the Port of Philadelphia/Camden as a "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area": https://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/enforce/hidta2001/phil-fs.html - [archived here]

Philadelphia remains a center of activity for the importation, wholesale distribution, and street level sales of illegal drugs on the East Coast. Camden, New Jersey, separated from Philadelphia by the Delaware River, is a focal point for drug trafficking from Philadelphia and the New York area. The location of Philadelphia and Camden on the eastern seaboard, particularly their proximity to New York, places the city on one of the busiest illegal drug transit routes. Major interstate rail and highway systems; a major international airport, one of the fastest growing in the world; and key shipping terminals on the 100 miles of waterfront along the Delaware River facilitate drug trafficking into and through the region. The Port of Philadelphia/Camden is a major international seaport and the second largest seaport in the nation. Multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine are trafficked through this port. Major New York drug trafficking organizations use Philadelphia as a transshipment point for their drugs, drug-proceeds, and illegal guns. New York gangs have expanded their territory to the outskirts of the area.

It stands to reason that if the second largest seaport in the nation is a major hub for weapon and drug trafficking [as identified by the FBI, DEA, ATF, INS, IRS, US Customs, and others], it's plausible that human trafficking is also happening here. From 1991 to 2000, Ed Rendell was the mayor of Philadelphia. From 1999 to 2001, Rendell was the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In 2003 he was elected as Governor of Pennsylvania, a position he held until 2011. In the presidential primaries of both 2008 and 2016, Rendell was a hugely loyal and vocal surrogate for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Second, news from May 2016 that rocked the "good ol' boys" entrenched establishment political/business network across Pennsylvania--Ed Rendell's former Chief of Staff (during both his mayoral and his gubernatorial terms) John Estey admits to having gotten caught in a 2011 pay-to-play corruption sting accepting personal and political bribes from a (sham) corporation set up by the FBI: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160511_Estey_to_plead_guilty_in_pay-to-play_sting.html - [archived here]

The Inquirer has reported that Estey, 53, has been secretly cooperating with federal authorities, possibly for years, and wore a digital recording device to surreptitiously record his conversations for the agents as he traveled in the state's political, legal, and business circles. Sources familiar with the matter have suggested that the investigation, which federal authorities have said involves "lobbying in the Pennsylvania General Assembly," has the potential to lead to more arrests.

[. . .] According to the court filings, the FBI set up its phony business in 2009 to "investigate allegations of public corruption in Pennsylvania."

[. . .] Estey also has served as chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority, the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, and the Independence Visitor Center. Until recently, Estey was a top official at the Hershey Trust Co., which fired him after federal authorities announced the charges.

So here we have, just earlier this year, former Governor Ed Rendell's right-hand man for DECADES being convicted of pay-to-play corruption in an FBI sting that happened five years ago, right at the twilight of Rendell's time as governor. He's been wearing a wire since and talking to tons of PA elite, and the FBI has the dirt that he's gathered. Further, this now-demonstrably corrupt political operator was formerly the Chairman of both the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and the Delaware River Port Authority.

Third, in a widely publicized 2011 case unveiling the decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by Penn State official Jerry Sandusky, the public learned that Sandusky had groomed and sexually abused dozens of at-risk boys from his "The Second Mile" nonprofit under the willful cover-up by Penn State head coach Joe Paterno. [[As an aside, I was just reading the Sandusky and Second Mile Wikipedia articles. Both articles source a since-deleted ABC News article that details George H.W. Bush having praised the charity in a 1990 letter as a "shining example" of charity work and one of that president's much-promoted "Thousand points of light" encouragements to volunteer community organizations. I finally found a 2011 archive of the sourced ABC News article [archived here]]]

Though the 2011 charges against Sandusky had followed two years of Grand Jury investigation into the allegations, this was not the first time Sandusky's activities had been investigated in Centre County, PA. In 2005, then-Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar--a well-respected man months away from retirement who had a strong history of doggedly prosecuting violent crimes using circumstantial evidence archived here--vanished. From page 2 of the deleted ABC News article:

First, from the US Office of National Drug Control Policy, a 2001 posting detailing the 1995 designation of the Port of Philadelphia/Camden as a "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area": https://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/enforce/hidta2001/phil-fs.html - [archived here]

Philadelphia remains a center of activity for the importation, wholesale distribution, and street level sales of illegal drugs on the East Coast. Camden, New Jersey, separated from Philadelphia by the Delaware River, is a focal point for drug trafficking from Philadelphia and the New York area. The location of Philadelphia and Camden on the eastern seaboard, particularly their proximity to New York, places the city on one of the busiest illegal drug transit routes. Major interstate rail and highway systems; a major international airport, one of the fastest growing in the world; and key shipping terminals on the 100 miles of waterfront along the Delaware River facilitate drug trafficking into and through the region. The Port of Philadelphia/Camden is a major international seaport and the second largest seaport in the nation. Multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine are trafficked through this port. Major New York drug trafficking organizations use Philadelphia as a transshipment point for their drugs, drug-proceeds, and illegal guns. New York gangs have expanded their territory to the outskirts of the area.

It stands to reason that if the second largest seaport in the nation is a major hub for weapon and drug trafficking [as identified by the FBI, DEA, ATF, INS, IRS, US Customs, and others], it's plausible that human trafficking is also happening here. From 1991 to 2000, Ed Rendell was the mayor of Philadelphia. From 1999 to 2001, Rendell was the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In 2003 he was elected as Governor of Pennsylvania, a position he held until 2011. In the presidential primaries of both 2008 and 2016, Rendell was a hugely loyal and vocal surrogate for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Second, news from May 2016 that rocked the "good ol' boys" entrenched establishment political/business network across Pennsylvania--Ed Rendell's former Chief of Staff (during both his mayoral and his gubernatorial terms) John Estey admits to having gotten caught in a 2011 pay-to-play corruption sting accepting personal and political bribes from a (sham) corporation set up by the FBI: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160511_Estey_to_plead_guilty_in_pay-to-play_sting.html - [archived here]

The Inquirer has reported that Estey, 53, has been secretly cooperating with federal authorities, possibly for years, and wore a digital recording device to surreptitiously record his conversations for the agents as he traveled in the state's political, legal, and business circles. Sources familiar with the matter have suggested that the investigation, which federal authorities have said involves "lobbying in the Pennsylvania General Assembly," has the potential to lead to more arrests.

[. . .] According to the court filings, the FBI set up its phony business in 2009 to "investigate allegations of public corruption in Pennsylvania."

[. . .] Estey also has served as chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority, the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, and the Independence Visitor Center. Until recently, Estey was a top official at the Hershey Trust Co., which fired him after federal authorities announced the charges.

So here we have, just earlier this year, former Governor Ed Rendell's right-hand man for DECADES being convicted of pay-to-play corruption in an FBI sting that happened five years ago, right at the twilight of Rendell's time as governor. He's been wearing a wire since and talking to tons of PA elite, and the FBI has the dirt that he's gathered. Further, this now-demonstrably corrupt political operator was formerly the Chairman of both the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and the Delaware River Port Authority.

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afterbernerthrowaway ago

Fourth, back to Ed Rendell and further down this rabbit hole: a January 2016 alternative media article entitled "Is Pennsylvania the Center of the Pedophile Mafia?" (Intrepid Report - [archived here].

PA Attorney General (recently impeached) Kathleen Kane, pushed out of office by both Republican and Democratic lawmakers implicated in "Porngate," a PA scandal in which dozens of state government officials were found (by Kane) to have exchanged lewd emails and files on their government computers/email accounts, some allegedly "highly suggestive of pedophile content." Kane then began publicizing the emails, against the law, to share with the public the disturbing nature of the content. From the article:

It was Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman who brought criminal charges against Kane in an attempt to have her removed from office.

[. . .] Risa Ferman appears to have “advocacy washed” her resume by championing the battle against the exploitation of children on the Internet. Ironically, Ferman sought to prosecute Kane for trying to rid the state government of officials who trafficked in sexually-explicit images of children while they also blocked an aggressive investigation of Sandusky and his wider pedophile network. Ferman is adept at receiving awards for her alleged work against child abuse but Kane has actually sought to get to the root of the problem in Pennsylvania: Ferman’s pals among the wealthy elite in the state who abet or participate in child molestation. Ferman is also a blogger for the George Soros-influenced Huffington Post.

One such member of the Philly elite who was convicted of child abuse was “Uncle Eddie” Savitz, who was also known as “Big Eddie,” “Fat Eddie,” and “Dr. Feel Good.” Savitz was vice president and actuary of the Savitz Organization, a major Philadelphia insurance brokerage company where Savitz’s brother, Samuel, served as president.

Savitz, the son of a Philadelphia arcade owner (where else to prey on kids?), lived in the luxurious Wanamaker House on Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square where he became known as the “go to guy” for young teenage boys eager to receive quick cash or concert and sporting event tickets. The young boys merely exchanged their soiled underwear or such acts as oral/anal sex, vomiting or defecating into Uncle Eddie’s mouth, engaging in penis “sword fights” with Savitz, or urinating on Savitz. Savitz stored the feces of the underage males in pizza boxes in his apartment. Although Savitz was a grotesque pervert, his first arrest in 1978 for indecent assault was suspended in lieu of a rehabilitation program. His criminal record was then expunged. The District Attorney of Philadelphia who cut the sweetheart deal for Savitz was Ed Rendell, the future mayor of Philadelphia[. . .]. In 1990, Savitz again eluded justice when he was found not guilty of purchasing a boy’s soiled underpants.

Not until 1992 was Savitz arrested in a sting operation after a court-ordered camera and wiretap was installed in his Rittenhouse Square home. When Savitz offered to pay two 15-year old boys for oral sex, detectives broke in and arrested Savitz. The police discovered 5,000 pornographic photos of young boys and 312 bags of boys’ soiled underpants. Savitz was also found to be HIV-positive. Common Pleas Judge Howland Abramson cut Savitz’s bail from $20 million to a more affordable $4 million.

Unbelievably, after slashing Savitz’s bail, Abramson said from the bench that he feared that Savitz would not only flee Philadelphia if he came up with the $4 million but would engage in the very same sordid activity. Had Savitz come up with the bail money, Abramson ruled that he would have had to check himself into the locked unit of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital in West Philadelphia and submit to electronic monitoring. The deal is similar to that given to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in West Palm Beach, Florida, where his prison sentence consisted of mere night time stays at a country club jail with the right to travel out of state. It was clear that in Pennsylvania someone was pulling Abramson’s judicial robe but in pedophile-friendly Pennsylvania, this should have come as no shock. Ed Rendell, the D.A. who cut the sweetheart deal with Savitz when he was first arrested and who, like Savitz, was also known as “Fast Eddie,” was sworn in as mayor of Philadelphia a few months before Savitz’s third arrest in March 1992.

And:

Sources in Philadelphia believe that Savitz’s operations were connected to those of Sandusky at Penn State and that both commercially trafficked in the type of pedophile filth found in Savitz’s home in Philadelphia. Greg Bucceroni, a former child prostitute and Savitz victim claimed that in 1979 and 1980 Savitz brought him to a fundraiser for Sandusky’s Second Mile Foundation near Harrisburg. Richard Thornburgh, a future U.S. attorney general, was governor at the time.

Pennsylvania’s pederast elite has, according to WMR’s sources, run rampant in state government at least since the governorship of Milton Shapp in the 1970s and continuing to the present governor, Democrat Tom Wolf. Other governors who tolerated pederasty in state government included Republican Richard Thornburgh, Tom Ridge, and Mark Schweiker, Democrats Bob Casey, Sr. and Ed Rendell, and Wolf’s predecessor, Republican Tom Corbett. Corbett also failed to carry out an adequate investigation of Sandusky and his non-profit foundation, the Second Mile Foundation, which was accused of pimping out young boys in return for donations, while serving as the commonwealth’s attorney general.

Former PA governors Ed Rendell (D) and Tom Corbett (R) both provided cover for Sandusky and The Second Mile. Ed Rendell had a long, mutually beneficial relationship with convicted child abuser Ed Savitz. An attorney general who entered office as a rising star of the Democratic Party determined to wipe out state corruption was recently brought down by the corrupt PA elite she took aim at.

Further, victim crime advocate and activist Greg Bucceroni has spoken out [archive here] over the past five years about having been sexually abused and/or exploited by Ed Savitz during the 1970s and 80s, when Bucceroni was a troubled youth who was taken under the wing of Savitz. From the article:

"This is a complicated onion with many layers," Bucceroni, 48, explained by phone Tuesday from a Los Angeles hotel room, saying he was gazing up at the Hollywood sign on Mount Lee. "But the truth is never easy."

[. . .] He now claims to be at the center of a conspiracy and "political coverup" involving Sandusky, the Second Mile, Philly police brass, murdered cop Daniel Faulkner, the state Attorney General's Office, Ed Rendell, the Union League, the Mafia, Savitz, Abraham, a deceased Brooklyn high school football coach, former Penn professor Scott Ward and former Daily News sports columnist Bill Conlin.

[. . .] Bucceroni, whose father was a Philly cop, has been quoted in dozens of local news stories over the years.

But, until recently, he never spoke of being part of a "tri-state pedophile ring" between 1977 and 1980. He now says that Savitz took him to have sex with Sandusky at Second Mile events but that "due to time constraints" Sandusky was not able to have sex with him. So Phil Foglietta, the late coach at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, paid $200 to have sex with him in Philadelphia.

And:

Bucceroni claims that Sandusky, Savitz and others would swap photos of naked children "like baseball cards." He also claims that Ward, the former Wharton professor now in prison for transporting child pornography, raped him twice in 1978.

Conlin retired last year amid allegations that he molested four children in the 1970s. His attorney, George Bochetto, did not return a message seeking comment on Bucceroni's claims. Conlin has never been charged with a crime.

[. . .] Bucceroni says he told Rendell about Savitz's abuse when Rendell was D.A. in the late '70s or early '80s. Rendell said Bucceroni is lying.

"That guy is completely crazy. I don't know anything about what he's talking about, and none of it's true," Rendell said. "The guy is just crackers."

Bucceroni says that he contacted senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph McGettigan, who prosecuted the Sandusky case, in July and that McGettigan was "rude and obnoxious" and tried to talk him into giving false testimony.

"That's an absolute lie," McGettigan said. He said he doesn't know Bucceroni and doesn't recall ever speaking with him.

BerksResident ago

Excellent research. Near impossible to get justice when so many others involved. Kathlene Kane did the right think by makings details public. Anyone out there who has details should just come forward in public (if safe to do do) then hope there is a public movement (like in S.Korea) to get the perpetrators removed.

In the UK the politicians/royals have been getting away with it for decades by getting the right coroners/police chiefs/judges in place. The amount of evidence that goes missing and inept heads of enquiries is staggering. Victims and the decent police/social workers that want to help them are strung along for decades by the system.

Message is go public, name names... then the perps have to prove your lying or they will ignore you. David Icke, Brice Taylor, Cathy O'Brien never been sued.