Bruce Babbitt
 Bruce Babbitt    ( lawyer, politician) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | June 27, 1938 Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S. | |||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | • University of Notre Dame • Newcastle University • Harvard University | |||||||||||
| Member of | Marshall Scholarship Program, Marshall Scholarship Program/1960, Trilateral Commission | |||||||||||
| Interests | Don Bolles | |||||||||||
| Party | Democrat | |||||||||||
Governor of Arizona selected to become United States secretary of the interior from 1993 to 2001, under President Bill Clinton. Owed big gambling debts to the mafia.
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Bruce Edward Babbitt is an American attorney and politician who was selected to become United States secretary of the interior from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously was governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 Democratic primaries.
Activities
In heavy gambling debt to the Las Vegas mafia? Very possibly.[1]
The journalist Don Deveraux suggested that "Could that explain Babbitt's unexpected decision as AzAG in February 1976 not to kick a mobbed-up Emprise Corp. out of the state's dog racing business despite a recent federal felony conviction of Emprise for conspiring to hide Mafia financial interests in a Las Vegas casino? Could that also be why Babbitt, as AzAG following the June 1976 car bombing of Don Bolles, quickly opted to pursue what looks to have been a misdirection of the murder case, moving it completely away from Bolles' own dying attribution of the attack on him to "Emprise, the Mafia," the very nexus of Arizona's Emprise/ Funk dog tracks and the mob?"[1]
He was governor during the 1980s, when airports in Arizona was used by the CIA for drug smuggling.[2]
Later career
"Before leaving the Department of Interior, Babbitt promised that he wouldn't cash in on his years of government service by becoming a high-priced DC lawyer. Then he promptly took a job with Latham and Watkins, a big Washington law firm whose clients include some of the roughest environmental pillagers in the business."[3]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Description |
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| Bill Clinton/Presidency | 20 January 1993 | 20 January 2001 | The Bill Clinton administration |
References
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20250904072846/https://dondevereux.com/2019/02/14/bruce-babbitt-questions-needing-answers/
- ↑ https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00058.htm
- ↑ https://www.counterpunch.org/2001/07/30/bruce-babbitt-man-without-shame/
