Why do we never hear his name in connection with anything to do with the Franklin Scandal. Do you find this totally weird? Even discussions here, 4Chan, Twitter etc. Never seen his name once remotely mentioned.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
Buffet is discussed in the book "The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska" by John DeCamp. His maneuvers with regard to Boys Town's questionable financing come across as cunning preemptive positioning of himself as the squeaky-clean good guy looking to root out corruption.
"In 1972, Warren Buffett executed a maneuver around Boys Town, which is not fully understood to this day. His own Sun newspaper ran a series of articles, that targeted Boys Town for having too large an endowment. The Sun wrote, "members of the board of directors of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home generally seem little concerned that the institution has amassed a net worth of more than $200 million while going to the public twice a year with a plea of poverty." Of the cited $200 million, $175 million was the "liquid endowment."
Editor and Publisher magazine reported on March 30, 1985, "The Sun papers in 1973 became the first weeklies to win the Pulitzer Prize for an expose of Boys Town. The story idea originated with Buffett, who also participated in its development and wrote a section of it."
The articles prompted a major shake-up and purge of personnel at Boys Town. Buffett is believed to play some significant role with the orphanage today, perhaps in his specialty-investment advice. An inquiry with Boys Town was referred to the in-house attorney for the orphanage, who, in answer to the simple question, "What is Mr. Buffett's precise role with Boys Town?" spent 25 minutes in two phone calls, not quite denying, but also carefully never confirming, that Buffett had a role with the facility. At any rate, Buffett has not complained lately about the size of Boys Town's endowment, although it is much larger now than it was in 1973."
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millennial_vulcan ago
Does anyone ever wonder about the ties that the world's second richest man and famous OMAHA resident Mr B*ffet, has to all this?
Oh_Well_ian ago
I do... Buffet owned 2 of the 3 papers in Omaha and used them to destroy the victims' reputations, support the criminals, and control the narrative.
millennial_vulcan ago
Why do we never hear his name in connection with anything to do with the Franklin Scandal. Do you find this totally weird? Even discussions here, 4Chan, Twitter etc. Never seen his name once remotely mentioned. Things that make you go hmmmm.
Factfinder2 ago
Buffet is discussed in the book "The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska" by John DeCamp. His maneuvers with regard to Boys Town's questionable financing come across as cunning preemptive positioning of himself as the squeaky-clean good guy looking to root out corruption.
Here's the text of the book (search "Buffet"): https://archive.org/stream/TheFranklinCover-upByFormerGreenBeretJohnDecamp/the_Frankklin_cover-up_-_ebook_djvu.txt (archive: http://archive.is/SQ6Iv )
From the book:
"In 1972, Warren Buffett executed a maneuver around Boys Town, which is not fully understood to this day. His own Sun newspaper ran a series of articles, that targeted Boys Town for having too large an endowment. The Sun wrote, "members of the board of directors of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home generally seem little concerned that the institution has amassed a net worth of more than $200 million while going to the public twice a year with a plea of poverty." Of the cited $200 million, $175 million was the "liquid endowment."
Editor and Publisher magazine reported on March 30, 1985, "The Sun papers in 1973 became the first weeklies to win the Pulitzer Prize for an expose of Boys Town. The story idea originated with Buffett, who also participated in its development and wrote a section of it."
The articles prompted a major shake-up and purge of personnel at Boys Town. Buffett is believed to play some significant role with the orphanage today, perhaps in his specialty-investment advice. An inquiry with Boys Town was referred to the in-house attorney for the orphanage, who, in answer to the simple question, "What is Mr. Buffett's precise role with Boys Town?" spent 25 minutes in two phone calls, not quite denying, but also carefully never confirming, that Buffett had a role with the facility. At any rate, Buffett has not complained lately about the size of Boys Town's endowment, although it is much larger now than it was in 1973."