"Cuban born Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul Jr., José "Pepe" Fanjul, Alexander Fanjul, and Andres Fanjul — are owners of Fanjul Corp., a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanjul_brothers
These brothers are serious behind-the-scenes players in the US political world. These are the people who operate at a deeper level than the politicians and entertainment types that are easier to investigate.
They're the "men-behind-the-curtain" who "pay to play" with bribery fronts like the Clinton Foundation, get rewards from congressmen they have in their pockets (like government sugar subsidies,) and are involved in some seriously nasty stuff.
Note that at the deeper levels, people don't care about false choices like left/right, Republican/Democrat, liberal/conservative. Those labels exist as distractions for the "little people" to box-in their thinking and prevent them from looking into what is really going on.
These guys cover their bets by making campaign donations to both parties: Alfonso Fanjul donates heavily to the Democrats (and has made huge contributions to the Clinton Foundation,) and he even managed Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in the state of Florida in 1992. Another one of the brothers donates heavily to the Republicans and has worked on their campaigns.
Here are some interesting quotes:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2001/02/floridas-fanjuls-200102
"The Fanjuls are formidable adversaries. They control about 40 percent of Florida’s sugar crop, and last year they made contributions to 31 political candidates, giving more than any other sugar power. They deeply resent their nickname: the first family of corporate welfare. Little known to the American public, Pepe and Alfy Fanjul operate within the hidden world of implicit linkage, the grand club of the country’s power brokers, who routinely trade favors like baseball cards."
"The President (Clinton) told her he no longer felt right about their intimate relationship, and had to put a stop to it.… At one point during their conversation the President had a call from a sugar grower in Florida whose name, according to Ms. Lewinsky, was something like “Fanuli.. . . The most telling thing about Alfy Fanjul is that he can get the president of the United States on the telephone in the middle of a blow job. That tells you all you need to know about their influence"
These guys are so well known for their corruption, that they inspired a book in 1993: Striptease by famous Florida author Carl Hiaasen.
What is notable, though, is their involvement with the Clinton Foundation and their huge farmland and resort interests in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti. When these guys say "Jump" to Dominican politicians or law enforcement, those guys say "How High?"
Also: both airports in the Dominican Republic are privately owned, one by the Fanjul brothers, and the Clintons are personal friends of both sets of owners:
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2036107
Is this starting to sound like an ideal setup for getting trafficked kids out of Haiti (just like Laura Silsby and Dominican lawyer Jorge Puello were trying to do) and on to planes headed for the US? In fact, why do the traffickers try to get the children into the Dominican Republic instead of flying them out of Haiti's airport?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9CIRpRRRrQ
This is as far as I've been able to get with these guys this far. But I think they need further looking into. Does anyone have more on their activities w.r.t. child trafficking?
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vivalad ago
Fanjul sure is close in spelling and pronunciation to 'fangul', italian slang for go fuck yourself. such a perfect name for bad guys it seems fake.