Description: The shut-down of Omaha, Nebraska's Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in November 1988, sent shock waves all the way to Washington, D.C. $40 million was missing. The credit union's Republican Party activist Lawrence E. "Larry" King, Jr., behind whose rise to fame and riches stood powerful figures in Nebraska politics and business, and in the nation's capital. In the face of opposition from local and state law enforcement, from the FBI, and from the powerful Omaha World-Herald newspaper, a special Franklin committee of the Nebraska Legislature launched its own probe. What looked like a financial swindle, soon exploded into a hideous tale of drugs, Iran-Contra money-laundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, and ritual murder. Nineteen months later, the legislative committee's chief investigator died—suddenly, and violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case. Author John DeCamp knows the Franklin scandal from the inside. In 1990, his "DeCamp memo" first publicly named the alleged high-ranking abusers. Today, he is attorney for two of the abuse victims. Using documentation never before made public, DeCamp lays bare not only the crimes, but the cover-up—a textbook case of how dangerous the corruption of institutions of government, and the press, can be. In its sweep and in what it portends for the nation, the Franklin cover-up followed the ugly precedent of the Warren Commission.
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Item Height: 9 in
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Illustrated
Original Language: English
Item Length: 6 in
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 1 in
Publisher: A&W T, Incorporated
Book Title: Franklin Cover-Up : Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska
Publication Year: 1992
Topic: Demonology & Satanism, Murder / General, Abuse / Child Abuse, General, Industries / Financial Services
Number of Pages: 324 Pages
Language: English
Genre: Family & Relationships, Religion, True Crime, Business & Economics
Author: John W. Decamp
Format: Trade Paperback