This book started as the story of a city councilwoman’s fight against public corruption. It would have been completed a few years ago, but for one thing. On April 8, 2006, the public corruption killed a woman. More...
Cowles media dynasty called hub of
organized crime by two former lawmen
Woman died, public threatened because of government collusion with powerful family, they say
By Larry Shook
SPOKANE, WASH. — The former sheriff credited with solving America’s oldest open murder case is accusing one of America’s oldest publishing dynasties of organized crime that reaches to the highest levels of the federal government, including the U.S. Dept. of Justice, the FBI, the IRS and the SEC. The corruption, he says, has already caused one woman’s death and could lead to large numbers of other deaths.
Based on an extensive “chain of evidence” that he has compiled over the last eighteen months, and a new “smoking gun” document that he obtained only last week, Tony Bamonte yesterday called upon the Washington State attorney general and the Spokane County commissioners to take aggressive action.
Bamonte asked the public officials to immediately close a central downtown parking garage here where a woman died three years ago when a wall failed. The facility is part of the trouble-plagued River Park Square shopping mall...
