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Conspiracy Of Silence - Banned Documentary Exposing Elite Pedophilia (2013)

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	The End of the World
	The End
	of the World The End of the World
	The End of the World The End of the World The End of the World The End of the World But financial crime is only half the story.
	This is the true story of Lawrence King.
	It is the story of an evil at the heart of America, of a cover-up at the highest level.
	One man is attempting to uncover the full story.
	John DeCamp is among the most highly decorated Vietnam veterans.
	A former Republican state senator in Lincoln, Nebraska, he is now a lawyer fighting the legacy of Lawrence King's evil network.
	It's a web of intrigue that starts in our Holy of Holies, Boys Town, Nebraska, one of the most respected institutions in the United States.
	Spreads out like a spider web to Washington, D.C. Right up to the steps of the nation's capital, the steps of the White House.
	Involves some of the most respected and powerful and richest businessmen in this United States of America.
	And the centerpiece of the entire web is the use of children for sex and drug dealing and drug couriers, the compromising of politicians.
	The compromising of businessmen, but worst of all, the corruption of key institutions of government that have the duty and responsibility to make sure these things never happen.
	World-famed Boys Town is in the news again.
	Made famous by an Oscar-winning film, Boys Town, Nebraska is America's favorite children's charity.
	It was founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan.
	Boys Town is a neglected, unwanted, and unloved boy who has become a serious problem in our society.
	Boys Town was started to be a home for orphans.
	That was after World War I. And since then society has changed and the problems of boys have changed.
	And so now it's a question of Taking care of homeless, abandoned, neglected, abused boys, and now girls also.
	With cash reserves of $500 million, Boys Town is the richest square mile in the world.
	It has been granted the privileges of an incorporated town, a Catholic diocese, and a school district for 500 boys and girls.
	One-third of its annual income is raised from public donations, solicited by begging letters and promotional videos.
	I'm Father Val Peter, the caretaker of Father Flanagan Stream, and the executive director of Boys Town.
	Does Boys Town really exist, people ask me?
	You bet it does.
	Located in the heartland of America, Boys Town youth have come from many backgrounds and locales.
	As they graduate, They shall seek new adventures and head for different places.
	But always, they shall carry with them the spirit of Boys Town.
	If you'd like to help Boys Town, send your tax-deductible gift to Father Val Peter, Boys Town, Nebraska, 68010. Boys Town, for me, was the first thing I ever heard of when you think of institutions that you respect.
	Believe it or not, I was there for a while when I was a young boy.
	Probably worldwide, there's no institution other than Boys Town that has done so much good for so many children over such a long period of time so successfully.
	When an institution like that gets contaminated for purposes of abusing children instead of protecting children, then you better, if you've got any decency at all, do something about it or at least get it cleared up.
	John DeCamp lays the blame for the contamination of Boys Town on the one-time leader of the National Black Republican Council, Larry King.
	Larry King was the fastest rising black star in the entire Republican Party of the United States during all of the 1980s.
	And he was also one of the most evil individuals in this country in terms of being a dealer of children, in terms of being a thief.
	40 million that they documented he stole, and in terms of using and compromising and corrupting one after another politicians.
	The base for his network was a small people's bank in Omaha, Nebraska, the Franklin Federal Credit Union.
	Larry King was its general manager.
	Thank you.
	This is especially an exciting day for me.
	Mr. King was a very charismatic person.
	When he came to the credit union, he was brought in because the credit union was actually failing.
	He did everything to build the credit union.
	King courted the leaders of Omaha's wealthy business district.
	Banks, industry and charities placed millions of dollars in King's hands.
	From 1979, Larry King developed close commercial ties to Boys Town, and Boys Town youngsters were sent to work for his companies.
	Boys Town had quite a few accounts at Franklin Credit Union.
	Those were considered very valuable accounts.
	They were handled exclusively by the bookkeeping department.
	But on the average of once a month or...
	Once every two months, we always seem to incorporate a person from Boys Town.
	King used Boys Town as a source of young boys for his business and for sex and drug orgies.
	Paul Bernathe was a victim of King's abuse.
	He was also sent by King to lure Boys Town youngsters off campus.
	We used to just drive around and go up to a home that someone used to do some of the scavenger hounds of picking up some of the kids.
	You know, just kind of win their confidence, become friends with them for a while.
	Start inviting them to the parties.
	The kids were ten years old or older.
	In 1986, King's plundering of Boys Town was reported by staff to the chief executive, Father Valpeter.
	Yeah.
	Subsequent testimony proves that he carried out his own investigation.
	But that King's victims refused to talk.
	Nebraska has a very clear statute that child abuse allegations should be reported to authorities.
	They shouldn't be reported to the principal of the school, director of a facility.
	They should be reported directly to either Child Protective Services or law enforcement.
	An internal investigation at Boys Town would have no status.
	I mean, in other words, that evidence collected may be something that could augment, but it certainly could not take the place of.
	An investigation, a criminal investigation.
	Could you understand why a very detailed report from a social worker employed at Boys Town, identifying children and identifying their alleged abusers, never saw the light of day?
	Nothing happened with that?
	No, I couldn't understand that, because as I know that had been...
	I wouldn't put up with that.
	But, uh...
	Is that...
	Something like that happened?
	I don't know.
	Well, in retrospect, I, uh...
	I regret having any association with Larry King.
	Had I known it at the time, it would never have happened.
	Despite the investigation, Larry King remained free to feed his pedophilic parties with child victims.
	But in 1988, a routine review brought the Boys Town cases to the attention of Nebraska's State Foster Care Review Board.
	In the information presented to the Foster Care Review Board, either via the telephone reports, the personal reports, or the reports we reviewed, Larry King's name was consistently present as someone that the youth were making allegations against.
	I mean, I turned that information over to authorities, and nothing happened.
	I would say we handed over at least a foot high amount of material.
	Generally speaking, the allegations were ignored.
	Omaha police now accept that Larry King may have been abusing children.
	Good morning, Roberta.
	Good morning, King.
	But its most senior detective claims he never received any evidence.
	It is certainly possible that Mr. King was involved in illegal acts with children.
	If there was sufficient evidence of those types of allegations, he would have been prosecuted by the county attorney's office.
	For me, it was very clear.
	That the case was not investigated and not pursued because of the alleged perpetrators.
	Those perpetrators named by the children formed a ring of rich and powerful pedophiles in Omaha.
	Men from industry, politics, the media, even the police.
	Besides Larry King, ringleaders were department store billionaire Alan Baer, And the celebrity columnist of the Omaha World Herald newspaper, Peter Citron.
	With the judicial system apparently paralyzed, Larry King's political and business empire grew.
	He courted the Republican Party nationally and plundered Franklin's accounts to finance a luxury lifestyle of limousines, private planes and palatial homes.
	Three in Omaha...
	And one in Washington, D.C. Franklin's records show he spent $10 million on jewelry, flowers, and private planes.
	And his lavish spending brought him a charmed life.
	Larry King was constantly heralded, cheered, applauded in the news media as the great businessman that's helping the poor people, the black community of Omaha.
	But King's extravagance attracted the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.
	As a result, on April 11, 1988, the Franklin Credit Union was raided and closed by the FBI. King was arrested, and a federal investigation showed he'd stolen $40 million from Franklin.
	But the FBI's inquiries were secret, and evidence of King's sex ring was quickly covered up.
	In November 1988, Nebraska's state government set up a parallel investigation into the Franklin financial collapse.
	A legislative committee was formed.
	Its chairman was the Republican head of Nebraska's banking committee, corn farmer and state senator Lauren Schmidt.
	But the money trail led quickly to the original allegations of child abuse.
	And almost immediately...
	Anonymous threats began.
	I received a phone call on the floor of the legislature.
	The caller did not identify himself, but he said, Lauren, you do not want to have an investigation of the Franklin Federal Credit Union.
	And I asked who I was speaking to, and they said, that doesn't matter, but you shouldn't have that investigation.
	And I said, well, why not?
	He said, it will reach to the highest levels of the Republican Party.
	And we're both good repellents.
	The night before we testified, before the legislative committee, I did receive a phone call at home that said if you speak, you won't live to regret it.
	Undeterred, Schmitt's committee hired professional investigators Karen Ormiston and Gary Caridori.
	When we hired Mr. Caridori, I was very specific to him.
	I said, we do not want you to bring to the committee rumors, innuendos.
	Nothing that cannot be backed up with facts.
	I said, "Bring to the committee that which we can take to a prosecutor." On the streets of Omaha, Gary Caridori and Karen Ormiston found new victims of King's paedophile network.
	every new youngster told the same stories as those from Boys Town covered up three years earlier I'm they were telling us about prominent people in Omaha and elsewhere that were abusing children at time at parties the promises was the names
	that originally came up were of concern to me because I knew many of those individuals and I very frankly was shocked to have those names show up on the list.
	Ormiston and Caridori recorded their new witnesses on videotape.
	A victim of abuse since he was eight, Paul Bernassi was present at many of Larry King's sex parties.
	"There were some of the people that would come to these parties, and I would say, 'Takes the culture of boys and wives, and serious, and those who liked doing it about that, like that people." Media personality Peter Citron procured some of his victims from Boys Town.
	The kids he liked were mainly around the age of probably about 8 and 13. He was mainly fondly in oral sex with him.
	He did have some anal sex, but he usually did that with the older kids.
	But Citron's abuse of Paul Bonassi involved ever more sadistic parties.
	You need another guy to tag me up on you.
	You okay?
	Yeah.
	It's time to be up and have somebody to perform sex on your own.
	Tell me to make a friend of mine and see what it's.
	Okay.
	Just take a deep breath out.
	Thank you.
	Remember you were tied up for...
	Was there anybody else present other than you, Peter Simpson, and Danny King?
	Yes.
	Who was that?
	There's Alan Bear's intense, Mary Keith, Bon Marino, and also Troy Bonner.
	Troy Bonner was to tie you up.
	I was there.
	Troy Bonner was 17 when he was introduced to the paedophile parties by Alan Bear.
	He lifted me up, kind of moved me over to bed, said let's get on the bed, and put his head down, started performing oral sex on me while his penis was at my end.
	Thank you.
	Alan Bear was a sick fuck.
	Didn't care, you know, wanted sex, nasty, you know, I don't even know if you can call it sex, you know, and take it any way he can get it, pay for it, he'd like to, but if he had to take it...
	buy four as he would Larry King was the same kind of sick fuck Alan Bear was except Larry King was more violent more sure of himself I mean, I would, you know, see him fuck a ten-year-old boy in the ass, you know, until he bled and, you know, just go out and stop and, you know, push him down, you know, and then go out and...
	You know, meet with decent people.
	King would also provide underage girls for abuse.
	Alicia Rowan was 15 when she attended her first party.
	I met some guys there that were from Boisville.
	And it was at that party that I met Larry King.
	At the time that I met Larry King, I did not know if he was Larry King.
	I had met him.
	It was the first time I'd ever met him.
	Alan Bear and Larry King frequently hosted the child sex parties in penthouse apartments at the Twin Towers luxury block.
	What do you mean?
	Sometimes there'd be a guy straddling over my face.
	Okay.
	Most of the time.
	Mary King took pictures quite a bit during that time.
	Are most difficult?
	I don't know.
	Okay.
	And I think I couldn't say no.
	Okay.
	But I don't know.
	Okay.
	Alicia, you're a victim.
	And at a young age...
	Let's go off camera for a minute.
	We were appalled.
	Appalled.
	It was...
	It was incredible.
	It's incredible what these tests went through, I think.
	I was shocked when I walked in.
	There was a kid on the city back.
	Fifteen years old, out in the middle of the room, one guy was standing in front of him.
	He was bent over, and the other guy was like reaching under him, playing with his knickers, while a guy whom Jeff told me was a police officer, shoving beads up his rectum.
	The police officer was shoving beads up his rectum?
	Yes.
	Everything, I mean, from just, you know, touching to, you know...
	Fruit, squash, you know, huge squash, you know, that big around, you know, stuck into you, into your ass, you know.
	Heat, heat things, hot things, you know, poked at you and stuck in you, you know.
	I got those scars on my arm one night at a party where Larry King was, and he had brought somebody, I don't clearly remember who it was, you know, wanted to see how...
	Stronger men were or something, you know, and have us push our arms together.
	And you push your arms together.
	Danny has, King has these same scarves.
	And you push them tight together.
	And you light cigarettes.
	And as soon as you get burning, you just drop them down between your arms and, you know, let it burn.
	You know, and they made us stand there naked and touch each other, like, holding our arms together and burn cigarettes.
	You know, it's on film someplace.
	I mean, they filmed it burning, you know.
	And those of us that...
	Didn't like to be involved and didn't want to be involved, they're threatened.
	Okay.
	And who would do these threatening remarks?
	Larry King.
	Did Larry King personally do?
	I think he did.
	And when they threatened, you know, that I can go find somebody that will kill you and it will kill your family.
	He didn't kill anybody.
	Larry King was also here.
	He came in and we drank and did cocaine.
	I didn't do much.
	He turned me on to what Larry King did.
	He didn't like me because I would get high on drugs and I would question him about how can you do that.
	I mean, once I asked him, he wanted me to shit on him and urinate on him.
	And I did, gladly.
	You know, I mean, I even said to him, you know, you stupid fucker.
	You know, I mean, I just sit here paying me money.
	How can you get into that, you know?
	And I got, you know, beat up by it.
	I came home here a lot of times, beat the shit from, you know, misspeaking my tongue, so to speak, and, you know, just telling them how I felt sometimes.
	Drugs are a strong part of how they got control of some of the kids, because that's what some of the kids were there to get.
	They would do the sexual acts and then be provided with cocaine or whatever type of drug they wanted.
	Heroin, you know, I don't know, but that was my drug of choice.
	Until this day, I remain an addict.
	Larry King was, I would say, the center of transporting the children around the country.
	The airplanes were usually in his name, at least in his name.
	they were paid for by Larrakeen.
	We met them in Pasadena.
	Met who in Pasadena?
	We met Larrakeen with there.
	There was three boys that I had seen at one of the receptions at the French Cafe were there.
	And I was positive they were both 10 boys.
	I was positive.
	You mean graduates of Boys Town or a present?
	I think they were present because they were young.
	Well, how would they get away for a long time?
	I have no idea.
	Okay.
	Boys Town came up frequently during the investigation, but we found it very difficult to get information about Boys Town.
	I was not able to find any information on my visit there, and Shakira Dori could not get information either.
	Four years on, Boys Town remains unwilling to discuss its involvement with Larry King.
	Thank you.
	We asked for an interview with Chief Executive Father Valpeter, but Boystown's Public Affairs Officer refused.
	I would have to give you a flat no.
	I'm just going to tell you at this point that we will not participate with you.
	We have no interest in talking to you folks.
	It's something that we don't even care to delve into.
	No.
	Hi.
	Hi, is Father Valpita available, please?
	Thank you very much.
	We're here because we have to give Father Valpeter and Boys Town every opportunity to talk to us about the very serious allegations.
	Why is it that Boys Town is unwilling to discuss your relationship with Larry King?
	We don't have a relationship with him.
	I'm afraid papers that we possess show that Boys Town had a relationship with Larry King.
	I just suggest you be very careful about what you report, excuse me.
	Unless you leave.
	By the spring of 1989, so serious were the child abuse allegations before the Franklin Committee that its chairman, Lauren Schmidt, sought the advice of his lawyer, John DeCamp.
	He told Schmidt to turn over all the evidence to the FBI. Immediately, the videotaped testimony was leaked to a hostile media.
	The media immediately started discrediting the witnesses.
	They were, um, the witnesses came across in the media, in the Omaha World Herald, especially, as the criminals.
	The last three victim witnesses were demolished by the press, particularly the Omaha World Herald.
	The paper never looked for information that would support any of the allegations.
	The whole purpose of the stories was to destroy any credibility that these youth may have.
	I've heard the people say that Gary Caridori coached me and that he told me what to say, but the fact was I didn't meet Gary Caridori until way after I'd already talked to the Omaha police about the abuse and had named all the same people.
	And they didn't ask me very much about Larry King or even Alan Bear at all.
	They treated the allegations that I made about the people who abused me almost like a joke.
	The information did not come our way.
	It was given, as I said, to the FBI and Nebraska State Patrol.
	They conducted their own investigations of the information.
	The stories were of such significance.
	That the investigators first wanted to prove the accuracy of the stories.
	As they said about the investigation of the three, initially three and then a fourth person were telling the stories, as the investigation developed, it became obvious to the investigators that the information was not accurate, that in fact it was an entire conspiracy of allegations, none of which had any truth to them.
	I was very disappointed with the way the FBI and law enforcement treated the victims.
	Turned them into the offenders, so to speak.
	And instead of taking the evidence that was delivered to them by the victims and interrogating the persons whom the victims identified, they seemed to bear down and try to get the victims to change their story.
	Troy Bonner was brought in for questioning by the FBI. The FBI's attitude was, you know, just, no, these kind of things don't happen.
	From the first interview, when I went, you know, and realized they don't believe a fucking thing I'm saying, you know, I mean, they were just appalled, but I realized what that look in their eye was back then.
	It was fear.
	It was fear of, you know, I mean, I had witnessed, you know, firsthand things that would, you know, destroy this city.
	You know, people, a position, you know what I mean?
	It's not going to be believed, believed, they said.
	It will not be believed.
	You will be found guilty of perjury.
	I mean, they weren't telling me maybe.
	You know, they were saying, uh-uh, there's no way.
	You go on with the story, you're going to jail.
	I mean, that was said to me direct.
	Just out of fear, I came to recant the story out of fear.
	Troy Bonner agreed to recant his videotaped testimony and state instead that his evidence had been invented.
	Next, the FBI used Troy in an attempt to trap Alicia Owen into recanting her evidence about Larry King's ring of powerful pedophiles.
	The phone call, recorded by the FBI on March the 9th, 1990, proves conclusive evidence for John DeCamp.
	This is Special Agent Michael F. Mott.
	The following will be a consensually recorded telephone call between Troy Bonner and Alicia Owen.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hey, what's going on?
	I'd like to ask you that.
	Nah, talk to me.
	No, you talk to me.
	I don't understand what you're lying.
	Why are you lying?
	What are you talking about?
	That's what I meant to be.
	You're calling me why I'm lying?
	Yeah.
	You can talk to this whole thing at least, yeah?
	You're full of shit.
	You can tell me what's going on.
	You're full of shit.
	Hey, look.
	I have nobody listening to me.
	I'm listening to you and I'm hoping you...
	Give me some fucking answers.
	I'm not trying to play a game.
	You're being stupid, Alicia.
	I'm not going to go to jail for you.
	And that's what's going to happen.
	No, I'm in jail for lying.
	What have you lied about?
	I haven't lied.
	Okay, but why are you...
	Listen, shut up.
	Listen to me.
	You're not out here being talked to them every day.
	The pressure's kind of hard.
	You literally have to have bricks for brains to take on the FBI in this country.
	And that's exactly what you have to do to do this properly.
	They now, in my opinion, in my investigation, are the architects of the cover-up.
	We asked the FBI for an interview about its investigation of the Franklin scandal.
	It would be inappropriate for us to comment.
	We've worked this with the Omaha Police Department.
	We just don't feel it would be appropriate for us to make comments.
	As Gary Caridori and Karen Ormiston sought out new witnesses on the streets of Omaha, they found themselves under constant threat.
	Gary was threatened several times.
	His vehicles were tampered with.
	I would think whoever tampered with, it was a scare tactic because it was so obvious that they were being tampered with.
	Gary got, he was, there was one piece of evidence I know he got that he was, that he even said he got one step ahead of him this time.
	He told us about this book.
	It was like addresses, telephone numbers, names.
	He said if they knew you had it, they'd kill him.
	On July 11, 1990, Gary Caridori and his eight-year-old son, A.J., were flying home from Chicago.
	They had watched the All-Stars baseball game, and Caridori had been pursuing new leads.
	investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board are in Harold Cameron's cornfield trying to determine what caused this private plane to crash killing its two occupants the bodies of Gary Caridori and eight-year-old AJ were found in the wreckage National Transportation Safety Board investigators say wreckage from the crash is apparently strewn over a three-quarter to one-mile long stretch in this field.
	The fact that the wreckage is scattered over a large area certainly demonstrates that it did break up in flight.
	The exact mechanism of breakup yet is still unknown.
	The federal investigation was never able to discover.
	What tore the plane apart?
	There are things missing from the plane.
	His briefcase is missing.
	Again, we'll never know what all was missing because I don't know what he had with him.
	I don't know what he did in Chicago.
	He may have had information he was coming back with.
	Within 24 hours of the tragedy, FBI agents impounded all records of the investigation.
	Gary's widow Sandy is still unable to come to terms with her loss. .
	As a mother, I don't want to ever think that somebody murdered my child, let alone my husband.
	But I think if you'd ever talk to any parent, be it mother or father, who's ever lost a child, I mean, the worst thing that you can think of is that somebody would want to murder a child.
	I really feel that somebody killed my brother.
	And inside me, I know that somebody killed my brother.
	If somebody could help us out somewhere, somebody knows something.
	and may God help those who did that to him and his family.
	Gary Caridori's death pricked Troy Bonner's conscience.
	He promised Sandy that he would recount his recantation and tell the truth.
	I set the record straight.
	I was going to do it and would.
	The truth would come out and somebody would be held accountable for his death.
	And then at the funeral I had seen FBI guys and they looked at me.
	You know, I was supposed to meet Senator Lovett and Schmidt for lunch after the funeral.
	And, you know, that's when I decided, I told my mom, you know, we're not going to do the lunch.
	We're going to hightail it out of Lincoln now.
	The effect of Gary's crash on the investigation, I think, in effect, put an end to anybody else coming forward with sensitive information like this.
	That's when I was finished, because I figured out if they murdered Gary and his son, there was nothing that would stop him.
	There was no piece of paper, there was nothing we could come up with that was going to get anything done.
	Under pressure from the FBI, Troy Bonner agreed to tell a Douglas County grand jury investigating Larry King that he and Alicia Rowan had concocted the entire child abuse story on payment of a $500 bond.
	Troy Bonner was to be the star witness against Alicia Rowan.
	But he grew uneasy about maintaining what he claims were the lies fed to him by the FBI. But when his brother Sean died in an inexplicable gun accident, Troy and his family were convinced they'd been sent a warning message.
	You know, and they killed him just flat out, right?
	Somehow, professionally, made something happen, you know, to shut me up.
	The purpose of Sean's death?
	To instill fear.
	And it worked.
	Do I feel guilty about my brother?
	Yes, I do.
	That's where all this is coming from.
	That's where the energy is coming from, that I'm getting to do this.
	It's for him, because...
	I mean, it should have been me there instead of him.
	Really.
	I mean, I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad, but I mean, he...
	He was brilliant and, you know, innocent.
	You know, it should have been me.
	I mean, he had so much to give.
	I had taken so much.
	You know, it should have been the other way around.
	I can explain to you what it feels like to lose a child.
	But when you see the pain your kids have because of that, it's much worse.
	I can't do anything for him.
	I can't take that pain away from him.
	Lauren Schmidt's legislative committee issued a report denouncing the grand jury.
	Two months later, it was disbanded, leaving Schmidt a broken man.
	The message was not lost on most politicians in Nebraska.
	I think the message that was delivered was, if any, legislative committee.
	Never tries to conduct a thorough investigation again.
	the same thing will happen.
	It has shaken my faith in the institutions of government It used to be a firm leader that the system would work.
	And that...
	People who did things wrong would be punished.
	And we discovered victims who claimed to have been abused and who the grand jury acknowledged had been abused.
	But they did not try to find out who had abused those individuals.
	Instead, they convicted Alicia Owen of perjury.
	Undefensible from my point of view.
	In July 1991, Alicia Rowan was convicted of perjury.
	Her sentence was between 9 and 25 years.
	I can't find a case in the history of this country where some kid got sentenced to 25 or 30 years in prison for something like this.
	If you were going to pick a, what I call a tell sign, something that says something specie about the whole thing, it was in the sentencing itself.
	For some reason they had to send a signal to every kid who was a potential witness.
	My opinion again.
	A signal so loud and clear, if you dare to come forward, if you dare to talk, watch what happens.
	Three months later, Larry King was jailed for the $40 million fraud.
	He was given a 15-year sentence, 10 years less than Alicia Rowan.
	John DeCamp is now the only man fighting to help Larry King's victims.
	He's become the lawyer for Paul Bernassi and Alicia Rowan.
	I live in Nebraska.
	Hell, I was born here, raised here.
	I have four kids growing up here.
	Like it or not, it's my heritage, you know?
	Well, if it's a dirty cesspool that I've got to live in or look back on that I left, that ain't good.
	The real cost, if I were going to say to my family, has been the fear and intimidation that's put in some of the kids.
	A couple of the kids are really, really frightened and really had some sleeping problems over here, this or that.
	So that's been the real concern I've had.
	In the face of mysterious threats, John has turned for advice to his friend and one-time boss, former head of the CIA, Bill Colby.
	Bill Colby told me better than anything.
	The one thing that the bad people can't afford is publicity.
	And knocking you off right now or doing something obvious to one of your kids would bring them more trouble than it's worth.
	I said, you have to consider the possibility of some danger to not only your reputation, but to your person.
	I mean, there are...
	people do react rather violently to some kinds of charges, or particularly if they're true, there's more apt to be a negative reaction than if they're false.
	If they're false charges, then they can be reacted to in a normal way, by a libel suit or whatever.
	But if there's truth in it, there can be a danger in that situation.
	We've seen that happen in other cases.
	John DeCamp has arranged to meet Troy Bonner, the young man he sees as the key to the cover-up.
	He's in great danger.
	The reason is he carries the secret, so to speak.
	He served his purpose for the FBI and others by committing the lies that put the seal on the cover-up.
	His greatest safety probably lies in doing exactly what he knows he should do, that is, exposing the whole thing, taking one final last chance and telling the truth.
	My fears are that, you know, I'm not going to be believed again.
	It's just, you know, going to be a whole other kind of exploitation like it was last time.
	You know, I'm afraid that that's going to happen or, you know, I might end up dead.
	Our loved one might end up dead again.
	I want this to go forward and have something done so that all those other kids who are a lot worse, more worse things have happened to them can come forward and see that action can be taken.
	Because there are a lot of other kids out there that, you know, things happened to them that, you know, a lot worse than happened to me.
	You have to, if you want to protect yourself and your life and your family's life, both now and particularly in the future, is to use the institutions of government that have been set up to protect you and make them work.
	That means...
	You go into federal court, you go after the people that have done this cover-up, and you expose it so there's no longer any percentage on their part in eliminating you because the secret's out.
	That's why we're here today, to let it out.
	I have no doubt that he's now telling the truth, number one, and number two, that he originally told the truth.
	Potentially...
	They could decide to charge him with perjury because now he is telling that they forced me to lie.
	I did lie at Alicia's trial.
	I did lie before the grand jury.
	I did it because the authorities were forcing me to do it and I was scared for my family.
	My brother had been killed when I tried to back out the one time.
	Potentially, they could charge him with perjury this time.
	Alicia Rowan is out of prison and on bail while the camp appeals against her perjury conviction.
	As he prepares for a court hearing, new evidence of the cover-up emerges.
	And once again, it involves Troy Bonner's evidence.
	The tapes that were shown to the grand jury had been edited.
	Everything that matched Troy's statement that matched mine was edited out.
	And I think maybe one of the things we want to do is show the judge specifically how, where these, you know, little five-minute segments of, look, this tape says this, and then show him.
	It isn't in this tape, and this is the tape the grand jury saw.
	I'm going to attempt to get these tapes, and we'll see what happens next.
	But to obtain the evidence, DeCamp must approach some of the very officials he believes were involved in the cover-up, the county attorney's office which ran the grand jury.
	In the good old Alicia Olin case, 127-194, I'm trying to get the evidence, the tapes and the transcripts of Troy and Danny, Troy Boenig.
	That might be kind of scary.
	Who made that up here once?
	Yeah.
	I think there's two tapes.
	There should be, as I understand, and the transcript of them.
	But if I can get him, I can start reviewing and figure out maybe a little bit on what's happening on some things.
	Except for the county attorneys, they have all the bills up there.
	Let me guess, Robert Siegler has them.
	Robert Siegler is the prosecuting attorney fighting to send Alicia Rowan back to prison.
	After lengthy negotiations, the camp emerges with the tapes the grand jury never saw.
	I went with $4,000, about $4,000.
	Okay, and what airline?
	I see a lot of Americans.
	Okay, and did you go direct?
	No, I agree with you.
	No, it was a stopover from Dallas, Fort Worth.
	So you went from where to where to where?
	I went from Omaha to Dallas, Fort Worth, like an hour, and then a big, big plane from Dallas to Los Angeles.
	All right, did anybody go with you?
	Alicia Irwin.
	If this indeed were left out, Of the grand jury proceedings.
	Then I am totally shocked and angry beyond words.
	Here it is, so to speak, the smoking gun that they could go out and verify.
	The corroboration.
	In other words, the linkage to King that was denied.
	Cover up.
	Organized, planned, deliberate cover up.
	The courthouse, Wahoo, Nebraska.
	The hearings begin.
	Alicia Owen is ready to testify.
	Bye.
	Thank you.
	so too is Paul Bonassi but there is no sign of Troy Bonner DeCamp discovers that Robert Siegler has sent the young man a threatening subpoena fearing arrest for perjury
	Troy has gone into hiding Trans up here.
	I'm trying to work.
	Yeah, he's okay.
	I'm just not going to have any testimony for after a few days.
	Okay, I'm trying to find out for more solution.
	No.
	In court, DeCamp successfully pleads for another adjournment.
	The county attorney's office begins to search for Troy Bonner, but Robert Siegler won't say why.
	I ask you whether you're about to charge Troy Bonner with perjury.
	Oh, no.
	Why isn't I no comment, Mr. Siegler?
	You're a public official, aren't you?
	Mr. Siegler, is it true you are about to charge Troy Bonner with perjury?
	No, no.
	Mr. Siegler, if you do not charge Troy Bonner with perjury, does that mean you accept what he's saying is true?
	No, no.
	Why not try to have Troy Bonner summoned to this hearing, Mr. Siegler?
	No, no.
	Why no comment, Mr. Siegler?
	No comment.
	Every victim witness who stepped forward in any way or even was a potential witness that somebody heard about, has either been killed, put in jail under some theory or other, terrified or run put in jail under some theory or other, terrified or run out of the discredited.
	Every perpetrator, every perpetrator, even the convicted ones, have been treated as conquering heroes.
	Obviously, the FBI was protecting something a lot more significant than a bunch of old pedophiles.
	Having improper relations with little boys.
	They were protecting something a lot more significant than a bunch of drug peddlers.
	They were protecting, in my opinion, they were protecting some very prominent politicians, some very powerful and wealthy individuals associated with those politicians and the political system, up to and including the highest political people in this up to and including the highest political people in this entire country.
	In search of answers, In search of answers, John DeCamp goes to Washington to investigate Larry King's powerful connections in the nation's capital.
	Paul Bernassi has come to.
	Larry King threw child sex parties at his $5,000 a month Washington house.
	Paul Bernatty was one of the victims.
	Larry King's house down in Washington DC was a nice house.
	It was on what they, I guess, believe it was Embassy Row because that's what they kept talking about.
	There were a lot of flags from different countries when you drove around in the area.
	So tell me, Paul, how often did you come here?
	I was about 14, about 1981, and at first it was about three or four times the first year.
	After that, it was about once a month after 81. And who brought you here?
	Larry King brought me here.
	And this is the actual house for you?
	Yes.
	And what?
	You were used for sex there?
	Yes.
	Some of the parties, when they started off, were straight, political-type parties with no sex.
	And then when some of the men had left, some of the politicians had left, the ones that had planned, they had planned on engaging in some type of sexual activity, that would come after the party.
	Some of the kids would be held downstairs in some of the rooms where if they acted up or if they started freaking out because of the drugs that they were on, they'd put them in a room that they couldn't get out of and they'd lock them in.
	Were there drugs at these parties?
	Yes.
	What kind of drugs?
	You're telling me those things were at these parties where you had Larry King and prominent politicians?
	Yes.
	Were they readily available to anybody at the party?
	They...
	At the after parties, they were ready to label for anybody.
	Beforehand, they did it more upstairs than they did anywhere else, and it was kind of in the back rooms.
	Were any attempts ever made that you know of to expose this situation?
	As far as I know, nothing's ever been done, and most of the people that were in there had already been, I guess, compromised.
	King's partner in sex crime was powerful Washington lobbyist Craig Spence.
	He took youngsters like Banassi on midnight tours of the White House.
	So you were in the White House then?
	Yes.
	And how did you gain access?
	Well, I came down with Larry King, but Craig Spence was the one that arranged the trip for us.
	And it was kind of a gift for our services that we were doing.
	How many times were you on this kind of a trip?
	I came to it on two times.
	Two times?
	And were you used for sex on those occasions?
	None until after we left.
	After you left the White House?
	Yeah.
	What time of night?
	It was usually around midnight.
	To me, it was just kind of weird being in the White House at that time of the night, getting to go into places that...
	The guy was telling us that nobody gets to go to.
	I mean, I seen rooms in there that I'd never even heard about.
	Craig Spence and Larry King had a couple of groups.
	One was called Bodies by God, and they had the Cowboys, and there was another group that was started by Larry King, which was called the Golden Boys, which was kids that were usually under the age of approximately ten.
	On the trail of Craig Spence, DeCamp finds the investigative reporter who exposed Spence's cowboy network, Paul Rodriguez of the Washington Times.
	We had uncovered a series of allegations from some miners that led me to a cowboy operation here in Washington.
	It sure fits with, you know, this boy Paul Bonacci.
	He tells the tale of being brought to the White House on occasion, kind of as a reward for the kid.
	Craig Spencer said he committed suicide.
	He had advanced stages of AIDS. He was an AIDS carrier and he killed himself.
	This is the thing that always bothered me.
	They claimed it was the largest male prostitution ring in the city that they ever had uncovered.
	It was a million dollars a year minimum.
	And yet they only prosecuted the operator, Henry Vinson, and three of his lieutenants, as it were.
	They never went after any of the jobs or the clients.
	This operation...
	Which was, again, quite large.
	Claimed to have clients that ran from the White House to the Capitol Hill, to the State House, to the churches, within the media.
	That's precisely what Paul describes as the people he was doing.
	And a lot of the stuff led there, but we couldn't quite nail it at all cases because, again, to accuse someone of high stature, you've got to be very careful.
	I understand.
	We were able to do it.
	The mother looked, was divided as credit card receipts and canceled checks, and then lists of the clients.
	The prosecutors knew all this stuff.
	There was approximately 20,000 documents that they had.
	They sealed the entire record when they found out I was accessing them.
	They required consent agreements from all the lawyers, all the clients, all the relatives of all the clients, all the hookers, including the clients themselves.
	Which means you can never gain access.
	they sealed them by court order.
	And we've attempted on several occasions to unseal that, and we've been told it'll be a cold day in hell before those records ever get unsealed.
	And it makes me wonder what's in those records.
	The Attorney General is now involved.
	Bill Colby has passed a camp's evidence to a senior lawyer in the Justice Department.
	He did say that the Attorney General's office would be very sensitive to any charges of abuse of children.
	That this was a matter of considerable priority to the department, that this sort of thing not take place, and that they would assign an officer to look into the case.
	For John DeCamp, the story of Larry King's corrupt empire holds a dire warning for America.
	If you can control about three or four key elements, you can totally own a state, you can make right, wrong, you can make truth, falsehood, falsehood, truth.
	If you control the media...
	If you control the Justice Department, if you control the police, you own the system.
	It's beyond belief that arguably the most powerful person in the world, the President of the United States, in the form of Richard Nixon, could not prevent the investigation of Watergate, or that President Reagan could not prevent the investigation of Iran-Contra, and yet somehow...
	This group of unnamed, unknown, anonymous individuals in Omaha, Nebraska have such power they can control and protect all of these people from being investigated.
	Those allegations are ridiculous.
	Well, first of all, Nixon did cover up Watergate, number one.
	Bush did cover up Iran-Contra, at least officially.
	And Omaha has successfully covered up this situation.
	In each case, it was the press that exposed the problem.
	It wasn't institutions of government.
	They had been corrupted.
	They had been compromised.
	They were the ones doing the cover-up.
	The Justice Department acting through FBI and the US Attorney's Office in Omaha emerges from the record.
	of the Franklin investigation, not so much as a party to the cover-up, but as its coordinator.
	Rigging grand juries, harassment of witnesses, incitement to perjury, and tampering with evidence, federal personnel were seen to apply all those techniques in the Franklin case.
	The Greatest Man
	The Greatest Man
	The Greatest Man
	The Greatest Man
	The Greatest Man A Republican from the Midwest, Lawrence E. King, is serving a 15-year prison sentence for a multi-million dollar fraud.
	The Greatest Man But financial crime is only half the story.
	This is the true story of Lawrence King.
	It is the story of an evil at the heart of America, of a cover-up at the highest level.
	One man is attempting to uncover the full story.
	John DeCamp is among the most highly decorated Vietnam veterans.
	A former Republican state senator in Lincoln, Nebraska, he is now a lawyer fighting the legacy of Lawrence King's evil network.
	It's a web of intrigue that starts in our holy of holies, Boys Town, Nebraska, one of the most respected institutions in the United States.
	Spreads out like a spider web to Washington, D.C. Right up to the steps of the nation's capital, the steps of the White House.
	Involves some of the most respected and powerful and richest businessmen in this United States of America.
	And the centerpiece of the entire web is the use of children for sex and drug dealing and drug couriers, the compromising of politicians.
	The compromising of businessmen, but worst of all, the corruption of key institutions of government that have the duty and responsibility to make sure these things never happen.
	World-famed Boys Town is in the news again.
	Made famous by an Oscar-winning film, Boys Town Nebraska is America's favorite children's charity.
	It was founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan.
	The greatest spectacle in our social life is a neglected, unwanted and unloved boy who has become a serious problem in our society.
	Boys Town was started to be a home for orphans.
	That was after World War I. And since then, society has changed and the problems of the boys have changed.
	And so now, it's a question of Taking care of homeless, abandoned, neglected, abused boys and now girls also.
	With cash reserves of $500 million, Boys Town is the richest square mile in the world.
	It has been granted the privileges of an incorporated town, a Catholic diocese and a school district for 500 boys and girls.
	One-third of its annual income is raised from public donations, solicited by begging letters and promotional videos.
	I'm Father Valpeter, the caretaker of Father Flanagan Stream, and the executive director of Boys Town.
	Does Boys Town really exist, people ask me?
	You bet it does.
	Located in the heartland of America, Boys Town youth have come from many backgrounds and locales.
	As they graduate...
	They shall seek new adventures and head for different places.
	But always, they shall carry with them the spirit of Boys Town.
	If you'd like to help Boys Town, send your tax-deductible gift to Father Val Peter, Boys Town, Nebraska, 68010. Boys Town, for me, was the first thing I ever heard of when you think of institutions that you respect.
	Believe it or not, I was there for a while when I was a young boy.
	Probably worldwide, there's no institution other than Boys Town that has done so much good for so many children over such a long period of time so successfully.
	When an institution like that gets contaminated for purposes of abusing children instead of protecting children, then you better, if you've got any decency at all, do something about it or at least get it cleared up.
	John DeCamp lays the blame for the contamination of Boys Town on the one-time leader of the National Black Republican Council, Larry King.
	Larry King was the fastest rising black star in the entire Republican Party of the United States during all of the 1980s.
	And he was also one of the most evil individuals in this country in terms of being a dealer of children, in terms of being a thief.
	40 million that they documented he stole, and in terms of using and compromising and corrupting one after another politicians.
	The base for his network was a small people's bank in Omaha, Nebraska, the Franklin Federal Credit Union.
	Larry King was its general manager.
	Thank you.
	This is especially an exciting day for me.
	Mr. King was a very charismatic person.
	When he came to the credit union, he was brought in because the credit union was actually failing.
	He did everything to build the credit union.
	King courted the leaders of Omaha's wealthy business district.
	Banks, industry and charities placed millions of dollars in King's hands.
	From 1979, Larry King developed close commercial ties to Boys Town, and Boys Town youngsters were sent to work for his companies.
	Boys Town had quite a few accounts at Franklin Credit Union.
	Those were considered very valuable accounts.
	They were handled exclusively by the bookkeeping department.
	But on the average of once a month or...
	Once every two months, we always seem to incorporate a person from Boys Town.
	King used Boys Town as a source of young boys for his business and for sex and drug orgies.
	Paul Bernathe was a victim of King's abuse.
	He was also sent by King to lure Boys Town youngsters off campus.
	We used to just drive around and go up to a home that's when we used to do some of the scavenger hunts with picking up some of the kids.
	You know, just kind of win their confidence, become friends with them for a while.
	Start inviting them to the parties.
	The kids were ten years old or older.
	In 1986, King's plundering of Boys Town was reported by staff to the chief executive, Father Valpeter.
	Subsequent testimony proves that he carried out his own investigation.
	But that King's victims refused to talk.
	Nebraska has a very clear statute that child abuse allegations should be reported to authorities.
	They shouldn't be reported to the principal of the school, director of a facility.
	They should be reported directly to either Child Protective Services or law enforcement.
	An internal investigation at Boys Town would have no status.
	I mean, in other words, that evidence collected may be something that could augment, but it certainly could not take the place of.
	An investigation, a criminal investigation.
	Could you understand why a very detailed report from a social worker employed at Boys Town, identifying children and identifying their alleged abusers, never saw the light of day?
	Nothing happened with that?
	No, I couldn't understand that, because as I know that had been...
	I wouldn't put up with that.
	But, uh...
	Has something like that happened?
	I don't know.
	Well, in retrospect, I, uh...
	I regret having any association with Larry King.
	Had I known it at the time, it would never have happened.
	Despite the investigation, Larry King remained free to feed his pedophilic parties with child victims.
	But in 1988, a routine review brought the Boys Town cases to the attention of Nebraska's State Foster Care Review Board.
	In the information presented to the Foster Care Review Board, either via the telephone reports, the personal reports, or the reports we reviewed, Larry King's name was consistently present as someone that the youth were making allegations against.
	I mean, I turned that information over to authorities, and nothing happened.
	I would say we handed over at least a foot high amount of material.
	Generally speaking, the allegations were ignored.
	Omaha police now accept that Larry King may have been abusing children.
	But its most senior detective claims he never received any evidence.
	It is certainly possible that Mr. King was involved in illegal acts with children.
	If there was sufficient evidence of those types of allegations, he would have been prosecuted by the county attorney's office.
	For me, it was very clear.
	That the case was not investigated and not pursued because of the alleged perpetrators.
	Those perpetrators named by the children formed a ring of rich and powerful pedophiles in Omaha.
	Men from industry, politics, the media, even the police.
	Besides Larry King, ringleaders were department store billionaire Alan Baer and the celebrity columnist of the Omaha World Herald newspaper, Peter Citron. ringleaders were department store billionaire Alan Baer and the celebrity And the celebrity columnist of the Omaha World Herald newspaper, Peter Citron.
	With the judicial system apparently paralyzed, Larry King's political and business empire grew.
	He courted the Republican Party nationally and plundered Franklin's accounts to finance a luxury lifestyle of limousines, private planes and palatial homes.
	Three in Omaha...
	And one in Washington, D.C. Franklin's records show he spent $10 million on jewelry, flowers, and private planes.
	And his lavish spending bought him a charmed life.
	Larry King was constantly heralded, cheered, applauded in the news media as the great businessmen that's helping the poor people, the black community of Omaha.
	But King's extravagance attracted the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.
	As a result, on April 11, 1988, the Franklin Credit Union was raided and closed by the FBI. King was arrested, and a federal investigation showed he'd stolen $40 million from Franklin.
	But the FBI's inquiries were secret, and evidence of King's sex ring was quickly covered up.
	In November 1988, Nebraska's state government set up a parallel investigation into the Franklin financial collapse.
	A legislative committee was formed.
	Its chairman was the Republican head of Nebraska's banking committee, corn farmer and state senator Lauren Schmidt.
	But the money trail led quickly to the original allegations of child abuse.
	And almost immediately, anonymous threats began.
	I received a phone call on the floor of the legislature.
	The caller did not identify himself, but he said, Lauren, you do not want to have an investigation of the Franklin Federal Credit Union.
	And I asked who I was speaking to, and they said, that doesn't matter, but you shouldn't have that investigation.
	And I said, well, why not?
	He said, it will reach to the highest levels of the Republican Party.
	And we're both good Republicans.
	The night before we testified, before the legislative committee, I did receive a phone call at home that said if he speak, we won't live to regret it.
	Undeterred, Schmitt's committee hired professional investigators Karen Ormiston and Gary Caridori.
	When we hired Mr. Caridori, I was very specific to him.
	I said, we do not want you to bring to the committee rumors innuendos.
	Nothing that cannot be backed up with facts.
	I said, bring to the committee that which we can take to a prosecutor.
	On the streets of Omaha, Gary Caridori and Karen Ormiston found new victims of King's paedophile network. Gary Caridori and Karen Ormiston found new victims of King's
	Every new youngster told the same stories as those from Boys Town, covered up three years earlier.
	They were telling us about prominent people in Omaha and elsewhere that were abusing children at parties.
	The prominent citizens' names that originally came up were of concern to me because I knew many of those individuals.
	And I very frankly was shocked to have those names show up on the list.
	Oh God.
	Ormiston and Cara Dori recorded their new witnesses on videotape.
	A victim of abuse since he was eight, Paul Bernassi was present at many of Larry King's sex parties.
	"Who are the only people that would come to these parties?" "I actually think it's the cultural voice of life." Media personality Peter Citron procured some of his victims from Boys Town.
	The kids he liked were mainly around the age of about 8 and 13. He was mainly fondly in oral sex with him.
	He did have some anal sex, but he usually did that with the older kids.
	But Citron's abuse of Paul Bernassi involved ever more sadistic parties.
	"I mean another guy tied me up and..." "You okay?" "Yeah." "They tied me up and..." "I had to make a kid perform sex on the other day, only..." "Key and me are making fun of me since he was." "Okay, just take a deep breath now."
	Thank you.
	Whenever you were tied up, was there anybody else present other than you, Peter Simpson, and Danny King?
	Yes.
	Who was that?
	It was Alan Bear's intense, Mary King, Bon Marino, and then there was also Troy Bonner.
	Troy Bonner was Italian.
	I was there.
	Troy Bonner was 17 when he was introduced to the paedophile parties by Alan Bear.
	He lifted me up, kind of moved me over to bed, said let's get on the bed, and put his head down, started performing oral sex on me while his penis was at my end.
	As they say, a 69 possession.
	Yeah.
	Yeah. .
	Alan Bear was a sick fuck.
	didn't care you know one in sex nasty you know I don't even know if you can call it sex you know and I'm taking anyway you can get it pay for it you like to but if he had to take it by force he would Larry King was the same kind of sick fuck Alan Bear was except Larry King was more violent more sure of himself you know
	I mean, I would, you know, see him fuck a ten-year-old boy in the ass, you know, until he bled and, you know, just go out and stop and, you know, push him down, you know, and then go out and, you know, meet with decent people.
	King would also provide underage girls for abuse.
	Alicia Rowan was 15 when she attended her first party.
	I met some guys there that were from Boise Hill.
	And it was at that party that I met Larry King.
	At the time that I met Larry King, I did not know if he was Larry King.
	I had met him.
	It was the first time I'd ever met him.
	Alan Bear and Larry King frequently hosted the child sex parties in penthouse apartments at the Twin Towers luxury block.
	A lot of it was me handcuffed with my hands behind my head and my feet tied.
	And I was doing different things.
	What do you mean?
	Uh, sometimes there'd be a guy straddling over my face.
	Okay.
	Most of the time.
	Mary King took pictures quite a bit during that time.
	I know it's difficult.
	I don't know.
	Okay.
	And I think I couldn't even know.
	Okay.
	But I don't know.
	Okay.
	And you know...
	Alicia, you're a victim.
	And at a young age...
	Let's go off camera for a minute.
	We were appalled.
	Appalled.
	It was...
	It was incredible.
	It's incredible what these kids went through, I think.
	I was shocked when I walked in.
	There was a kid, I would say, about...
	15 years old, out in the middle of the room, one guy was standing in front of him.
	He was bent over, and the other guy was, like, reaching under him, playing with his nipples, while a guy whom Jeff told me was a police officer, shoving beads up his rectum.
	The police officer was shoving beads up his rectum?
	Yes.
	Everything, I mean, from just, you know, touching to, you know...
	Fruit, squash, you know, huge squash, you know, that big around, you know, stuck into you, into your ass, you know.
	Heat, heat things, hot things, you know, poked at you and stuck in you, you know.
	I got those scars on my arm one night at a party where Larry King was, and he had brought somebody, I don't clearly remember who it was, you know, wanted to see how...
	Stronger men were or something, you know, and have us push our arms together.
	And you push your arms together.
	The king has these same scarves.
	And you push them tight together.
	And you light cigarettes.
	And as soon as you get burned, you drop them down between your arms and, you know, let it burn.
	You know, and they made us stand there naked and touch each other by holding our arms together and burn cigarettes.
	You know, it's on film someplace.
	And then they filmed it.
	Burning, you know.
	And those of us that...
	Didn't like to be involved and didn't want to be involved or threatened.
	Okay.
	I understand.
	And who would do these threatening remarks?
	Larry King.
	Do you think Larry King personally did?
	I think he did.
	And when they threatened, you know, that I can go find somebody that will kill you and it will kill your family.
	He didn't tell anybody.
	Larry King was also here.
	He came here, and we drank and did cocaine.
	I didn't do much, and he turned me on to what Larry King did.
	He didn't like me because, you know, I would get high on drugs, you know, and I would question him about, you know, how can you do that?
	I mean, once I asked him, you know, he wanted me to shit on him, urinate on him, you know, and I did gladly.
	You know, I mean, I even said to him, you know, you stupid fucker.
	You know, I mean, I just sit in here paying me money.
	How can you get into that, you know?
	And I got, you know, beat up by it.
	I came home here a lot of times, beat the shit from, you know, misspeaking my tongue, so to speak, and, you know, just telling them how I felt sometimes.
	Drugs are a strong part of how they got control of some of the kids, because that's what some of the kids were there to get.
	They would do the sexual acts and then be provided with cocaine or whatever type of drug they wanted.
	Heroin, you know, I don't know, but that was my drug of choice.
	To this day, I remain an addict, you know.
	Larry King was, I would say, the center of transporting the children around the country.
	The airplanes were usually in his name, at least in his name.
	They were paid for by Larry King.
	We met them in Pasadena.
	Met who in Pasadena?
	We met Larry King with there.
	There was three boys that I had seen at one of the receptions at the country cathedral were there.
	And I was positive they were both 10 boys.
	I was positive.
	Um, they wouldn't have...
	You mean, graduates of Boys Town or are not present?
	I think they were present because they were young.
	Well, how would they get away for a long time?
	I have no idea.
	Okay.
	Boys Town came up frequently during the investigation, but we found it very difficult to get information about Boys Town.
	I was not able to find any information on my visit there, and Mr. Curidori could not get information either.
	Four years on, Boys Town remains unwilling to discuss its involvement with Larry King.
	and We asked for an interview with Chief Executive Father Valpeter, but Boystown's public affairs officer refused.
	I would have to give you a flat no.
	I'm just going to tell you at this point that we will not participate with you.
	We have no interest in talking to you folks.
	It's something that we don't even care to delve into.
	Hi.
	Hi, is Father Valpita available, please?
	You can check in the office.
	It's the first one on the...
	Thank you very much.
	We're here because we have to give Father Valpita and Boys Town every opportunity to talk to us about the very serious...
	...allegations...
	Turn the quarter off.
	Please step outside.
	Why is it that Boys Town is unwilling to discuss your relationship with Larry King?
	We don't have a relationship with him.
	I'm afraid papers that we possess show that Boys Town had a relationship with Larry King.
	I just suggest you be very careful about what you report, excuse me.
	Unless you leave.
	By the spring of 1989, so serious were the child abuse allegations before the Franklin Committee that its chairman, Lauren Schmidt, sought the advice of his lawyer, John DeCamp.
	He told Schmidt to turn over all the evidence to the FBI. Immediately, the videotaped testimony was leaked to a hostile media.
	The media immediately started discrediting the witnesses.
	The witnesses came across in the media, in the Omaha World Herald, especially, as the criminals.
	The last three victim witnesses were demolished by the press, particularly the Omaha World Herald.
	The paper never looked for information that would support any of the allegations.
	The whole purpose of the stories was to destroy any credibility that these youth may have.
	I've heard that people said that Gary Caridori coached me and that he told me what to say, but the fact was I didn't meet Gary Caridori until way after I'd already talked to the Omaha police about the abuse and had named all the same people.
	They didn't ask me very much about Larry King or even Alan Bear at all.
	They treated the allegations that I made about the people who abused me almost like a joke.
	The information did not come our way.
	It was given, as I said, to the FBI and Nebraska State Patrol.
	They conducted their own investigations of the information.
	The stories were of such significance.
	That the investigators first wanted to prove the accuracy of the stories.
	As they said about the investigation of the three, initially three and then a fourth person were telling the stories, as the investigation developed, it became obvious to the investigators that the information was not accurate, that in fact it was an entire conspiracy of allegations, none of which had any truth to them.
	I was very disappointed with the way the FBI and law enforcement treated the victims.
	Turned them into the offenders, so to speak.
	And instead of taking the evidence that was delivered to them by the victims and interrogating the persons whom the victims identified, they seemed to bear down and try to get the victims to change their story.
	Troy Bonner was brought in for questioning by the FBI. The FBI's attitude was, you know, just, no, these kind of things don't happen.
	From the first interview, when I went, you know, and realized they don't believe a fucking thing I'm saying, you know, I mean, they were just appalled, but I realized what that look in their eye was back then.
	It was fear.
	It was fear of him, you know.
	I mean, I had witnessed, you know, first time.
	The End
	A Republican from the Midwest, Lawrence E. King, is serving a 15-year prison sentence for a multi-million dollar fraud.
	The End But financial crime is only half the story.
	This is the true story of Lawrence King.
	It is the story of an evil at the heart of America, of a cover-up at the highest level.
	One man is attempting to uncover the full story.
	John DeCamp is among the most highly decorated Vietnam veterans.
	A former Republican state senator in Lincoln, Nebraska, he is now a lawyer fighting the legacy of Lawrence King's evil network.
	It's a web of intrigue that starts in our holy of holies, Boys Town, Nebraska, one of the most respected institutions in the United States.
	Spreads out like a spider web to Washington, D.C. Right up to the steps of the nation's capital, the steps of the White House.
	Involves some of the most respected and powerful and richest businessmen in this United States of America.
	And the centerpiece of the entire web is the use of children for sex and drug dealing and drug couriers, the compromising of politicians.
	The compromising of businessmen, but worst of all, the corruption of key institutions of government that have the duty and responsibility to make sure these things never happen.
	World-famed Boys Town is in the news again.
	Made famous by an Oscar-winning film, Boys Town Nebraska is America's favorite children's charity.
	It was founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan.
	is a neglected, unwanted and unloved boy who has become a serious problem in our society.
	Boys Town was started to be home for orphans.
	That was after World War I. And since then society has changed and the problems of boys have changed.
	And so now it's a question of Taking care of homeless, abandoned, neglected, abused boys, and now girls also.
	With cash reserves of $500 million, Boys Town is the richest square mile in the world.
	It has been granted the privileges of an incorporated town, a Catholic diocese, and a school district for 500 boys and girls.
	One-third of its annual income is raised from public donations, solicited by begging letters and promotional videos.
	I'm Father Valpeter, the caretaker of Father Flanagan Stream, and the executive director of Boys Town.
	Does Boys Town really exist, people ask me?
	You bet it does.
	Located in the heartland of America, Boys Town youth have come from many backgrounds and locales.
	As they graduate...
	They shall seek new adventures and head for different places.
	But always, they shall carry with them the spirit of Boys Town.
	If you'd like to help Boys Town, send your tax-deductible gift to Father Val Peter, Boys Town, Nebraska, 68010. Boys Town, for me, was the first thing I ever heard of when you think of institutions that you respect.
	Believe it or not, I was there for a while when I was a young boy.
	Probably worldwide, there's no institution other than Boys Town that has done so much good for so many children over such a long period of time so successfully.
	When an institution like that gets contaminated for purposes of abusing children instead of protecting children, then you'd better, if you've got any decency at all, do something about it or at least get it cleared up.
	John DeCamp lays the blame for the contamination of Boys Town on the one-time leader of the National Black Republican Council, Larry King.
	Larry King was the fastest rising black star in the entire Republican Party of the United States during all of the 1980s.
	And he was also one of the most evil individuals in this country in terms of being a dealer of children, in terms of being a thief.
	40 million that they documented he stole, and in terms of using and compromising and corrupting one after another politicians.
	The base for his network was a small people's bank in Omaha, Nebraska, the Franklin Federal Credit Union.
	Larry King was its general manager.
	Thank you.
	This is especially an exciting day for me.
	Mr. King was a very charismatic person.
	When he came to the credit union, he was brought in because the credit union was actually failing.
	He did everything to build the credit union.
	King courted the leaders of Omaha's wealthy business district.
	Banks, industry and charities placed millions of dollars in King's hands.
	From 1979, Larry King developed close commercial ties to Boys Town, and Boys Town youngsters were sent to work for his companies.
	Boys Town had quite a few accounts at Franklin Credit Union.
	Those were considered very valuable accounts.
	They were handled exclusively by the bookkeeping department.
	But on the average of once a month or...
	Once every two months, we always seem to incorporate a person from Boys Town.
	King used Boys Town as a source of young boys for his business and for sex and drug orgies.
	Paul Bernathe was a victim of King's abuse.
	He was also sent by King to lure Boys Town youngsters off campus.
	We used to just drive around and go up to a home that's when we used to do some of the scavenger homes with picking up some of the kids.
	You know, just kind of win their confidence, become friends with them for a while.
	Start inviting them to the parties.
	The kids were ten years old or older.
	In 1986, King's plundering of Boys Town was reported by staff to the chief executive, Father Valpeter.
	Subsequent testimony proves that he carried out his own investigation.
	But that King's victims refused to talk.
	Nebraska has a very clear statute that child abuse allegations should be reported to authorities.
	They shouldn't be reported to the principal of the school, director of a facility.
	They should be reported directly to either Child Protective Services or law enforcement.
	An internal investigation at Boys Town would have no status.
	I mean, in other words, that evidence collected may be something that could augment, but it certainly could not take the place of.
	An investigation, a criminal investigation.
	Could you understand why a very detailed report from a social worker employed at Boys Town, identifying children and identifying their alleged abusers, never saw the light of day?
	Nothing happened with that?
	No, I couldn't understand that, because as I know that had been...
	I wouldn't put up with that.
	But, uh...
	Is that...
	Something like that happened?
	I don't know.
	Well, in retrospect, I, uh...
	I regret having any association with Larry King.
	Had I known it at the time, it would never have happened.
	Despite the investigation, Larry King remained free to feed his pedophilic parties with child victims.
	But in 1988, a routine review brought the Boys Town cases to the attention of Nebraska's State Foster Care Review Board.
	In the information presented to the Foster Care Review Board, either via the telephone reports, the personal reports, or the reports we reviewed, Larry King's name was consistently present as someone that the youth were making allegations against.
	I mean, I turned that information over to authorities, and nothing happened.
	I would say we handed over at least a foot high amount of material.
	Generally speaking, the allegations were ignored.
	Omaha police now accept that Larry King may have been abusing children.
	Good morning, Roberta.
	Good morning, King.
	But its most senior detective claims he never received any evidence.
	It is certainly possible that Mr. King was involved in illegal acts with children.
	If there was sufficient evidence of those types of allegations, he would have been prosecuted by the county attorney's office.
	For me, it was very clear.
	That the case was not investigated and not pursued because of the alleged perpetrators.
	Those perpetrators named by the children formed a ring of rich and powerful pedophiles in Omaha.
	Men from industry, politics, the media, even the police.
	Besides Larry King, ringleaders were department store billionaire Alan Baer and the celebrity columnist of the Omaha World Herald newspaper, Peter Citron. ringleaders were department store billionaire Alan Baer and the celebrity And the celebrity columnist of the Omaha World Herald newspaper, Peter Citron.
	With the judicial system apparently paralyzed, Larry King's political and business empire grew.
	He courted the Republican Party nationally and plundered Franklin's accounts to finance a luxury lifestyle of limousines, private planes and palatial homes.
	Three in Omaha...
	And one in Washington, D.C. Franklin's records show he spent $10 million on jewelry, flowers, and private planes.
	And his lavish spending brought him a charmed life.
	Larry King was constantly heralded, cheered, applauded in the news media as the great businessmen that's helping the poor people, the black community of Omaha.
	But King's extravagance attracted the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.
	As a result, on April 11, 1988, the Franklin Credit Union was raided and closed by the FBI. King was arrested, and a federal investigation showed he'd stolen $40 million from Franklin.
	But the FBI's inquiries were secret, and evidence of King's sex ring was quickly covered up.
	In November 1988, Nebraska's state government set up a parallel investigation into the Franklin financial collapse.
	A legislative committee was formed.
	Its chairman was the Republican head of Nebraska's banking committee, corn farmer and state senator Lauren Schmidt.
	But the money trail led quickly to the original allegations of child abuse.
	And almost immediately, anonymous threats began.
	I received a phone call on the floor of the legislature.
	The caller did not identify himself, but he said, Lauren, you do not want to have an investigation of the Franklin Federal Credit Union.
	And I asked who I was speaking to, and they said, that doesn't matter, but you shouldn't have that investigation.
	And I said, well, why not?
	He said, it will reach to the highest levels of the Republican Party.
	And we're both good Republicans.
	The night before we testified, before the legislative committee, I did receive a phone call at home that said, if you speak, you won't live to regret it.
	Undeterred, Schmitt's committee hired professional investigators Karen Ormiston and Gary Caridori.
	When we hired Mr. Caridori, I was very specific to him.
	I said, we do not want you to bring to the committee rumors, innuendos.
	Nothing that cannot be backed up with facts.
	I said, "Bring to the committee that which we can take to a prosecutor." On the streets of Omaha, Gary Caridori and Karen Ormiston found new victims of King's paedophile network.
	Every new youngster told the same stories as those from Boys Town, covered up three years earlier.
	They were telling us about prominent people in Omaha and elsewhere that were abusing children at parties.
	The prominent citizens' names were...
	that originally came up were of concern to me because I knew many of those individuals and I very practically was shocked to have those names show up on the list.
	Ormiston and Cara Dori recorded their new witnesses on videotape.
	A victim of abuse since he was eight, Paul Bernassi was present at many of Larry King's sex parties.
	Who are some of the people that would come to these parties?
	And I actually think it's the cultural voice of life.
	And those who like to do it about that, like that people.
	Media personality Peter Citron procured some of his victims from Boys Town.
	The kids he liked were mainly around the age of probably about 8 and 13. He was mainly fondly in oral sex with him.
	He did have some anal sex, but he usually did that with the older kids.
	But Citron's abuse of Paul Bonassi involved ever more sadistic parties.
	"I need another guy to tie me up and..." "You okay?" "Yeah." "They tie me up and..." "I have somebody to perform sex on me and they..." "They need me and they burn me some cigarettes." "Okay." Just take a deep breath now.
	Whenever you were tied up, was there anybody else present other than you, Peter Simpson, and Danny King?
	Yes.
	Who was that?
	There was Alan Bear St. James, Mary King, Don Marino, and there was also Troy Bonner.
	Troy Bonner was to tell you off.
	And there was Bear.
	Troy Bonner was 17 when he was introduced to the paedophile parties by Alan Bear.
	He lifted me up, kind of moved me over to bed, said let's get on the bed, and put his head down, started performing oral sex on me while his penis was at my end.
	As they say, a 69 possession.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	Alan Bear was a sick fuck.
	Didn't care, you know, wanted sex, nasty, you know, I don't even know if you can call it sex, you know, and take it any way he can get it, pay for it, he'd like to, but if he had to take it by force, he would.
	Larry King was the same kind of sick fuck Alan Bear was, except Larry King was more violent, more sure of himself, you know.
	I mean, I would, you know, see him fuck a ten-year-old boy in the ass, you know, until he bled and, you know, just pull out and stop and, you know, push him down, you know, and then go out and...
	You know, meet with decent people.
	King would also provide underage girls for abuse.
	Alicia Rowan was 15 when she attended her first party.
	I met some guys there that were from Boise Hill.
	And it was at that party that I met Larry King.
	At the time that I met Larry King, I did not know if he was Larry King.
	I had met him.
	It was the first time I'd ever met him.
	Alan Bear and Larry King frequently hosted the child sex parties in penthouse apartments at the Twin Towers luxury block.
	A lot of it was me handcuffed with my hands behind my head and my feet tied.
	And I was doing different things.
	What do you mean?
	Sometimes there'd be a guy straddling over my face.
	Okay.
	Most of the time.
	Larry King took pictures quite a bit during that time.
	I know it's difficult.
	I don't know.
	Okay.
	And I think I couldn't say no.
	Okay.
	But I don't know.
	Okay.
	And you know...
	Alicia, you're a victim.
	And at a young age...
	Let's go off camera for a minute.
	We were appalled.
	Appalled.
	It was...
	It was incredible.
	It's incredible what these kids went through, I think.
	I was shocked when I walked in.
	There was a kid unsaved.
	Fifteen years old, out in the middle of the room, one guy was standing in front of him.
	He was bent over, and the other guy was, like, reaching under him, playing with his knickers, while a guy whom Jeff told me was a police officer, shoving beads up his rectum.
	The police officer was shoving beads up his rectum?
	Yes.
	Everything, I mean, from just, you know, touching to, you know...
	Fruit, squash, you know, huge squash, you know, that big around, you know, stuck into you, into your ass, you know.
	Heat, heat things, hot things, you know, poked at you and stuck in you, you know.
	I got those scars on my arm one night at a party where Larry King was, and he had brought somebody, I don't clearly remember who it was, you know, wanted to see how...
	And those of us that...
	Didn't like to be involved and didn't want to be involved, they're threatened.
	Okay.
	And who would do these threatening remarks?
	Larry King.
	Did Larry King personally do?
	I think he did.
	They threatened, you know, that I can go find somebody that will kill you and it will kill your family.
	He won't tell anybody.
	Larry King was also here.
	He came here and we drank and did cocaine.
	I didn't do much.
	He turned me on to what Larry King did.
	He didn't like me because I would get high on drugs and I would question him about how can you do that.
	I mean, once I asked him, he wanted me to shit on him, urinate on him, and I did gladly.
	You know, I mean, I even said to him, you know, you stupid fucker.
	You know, I mean, I just sit in here paying me money.
	How can you get into that, you know?
	And I got, you know, beat up by it.
	I came home here a lot of times, beat the shit from, you know, misspeaking my tongue, so to speak, and, you know, just telling them how I felt sometimes.
	Drugs was a strong part of how they got control of some of the kids, because that's what some of the kids were there to get.
	They would do the sexual acts and then be provided with cocaine or whatever type of drug they wanted.
	Heroin, you know, I don't know, but that was my drug of choice.
	To this day, I remain an addict.
	Larry King was, I would say, the center of transporting the children around the country.
	The airplanes were usually in his name, at least in his name.
	They were paid for by Larry King.
	We met them in Pasadena.
	Met who in Pasadena?
	We met Larry King with there.
	There was three boys that I had seen at one of the receptions at the French Cathedral were there.
	And I'm almost positive they were both 10 boys.
	I'm almost positive.
	They were there.
	You mean graduate to Boys Town?
	Well, I'm not present.
	I think they were present because they were young.
	How would they get away from?
	I have no idea.
	Okay.
	Boys Town came up frequently during the investigation, but we found it very difficult to get information about Boys Town.
	I was not able to find any information on my visit there, and Mr. Curridori could not get information either.
	Four years on, Boystown remains unwilling to discuss its involvement with Larry King.
	We asked for an interview with Chief Executive Father Valpeter, but Boys Town's public affairs officer refused.
	I would have to give you a flat no.
	I'm just going to tell you at this point that we will not participate with you.
	We have no interest in talking to you folks.
	It's something that we don't even care to delve into.
	Hi.
	Hi, is Father Valpita available, please?
	You can check in the office.
	Thank you very much.
	We're here because we have to give Father Valpita and Boys Town every opportunity to talk to us about the very serious allegations.
	Turn your recorder off.
	Please step outside.
	Why is it that Boys Town is unwilling to discuss your relationship with Larry King?
	We don't have a relationship with it.
	I'm afraid papers that we possess show that Boys Town had a relationship with Larry King.
	I just suggest you be very careful about what you report, excuse me.
	Unless you leave.
	By the spring of 1989, so serious were the child abuse allegations before the Franklin Committee that its chairman, Lauren Schmidt, sought the advice of his lawyer, John DeCamp.
	He told Schmidt to turn over all the evidence to the FBI. Immediately, the videotaped testimony was leaked to a hostile media.
	The media immediately started discrediting the witnesses.
	They were, um, the witnesses came across in the media, in the Omaha World Herald, especially, as the criminals.
	The last three victim witnesses were demolished by the press, particularly the Omaha World Herald.
	The paper never looked for information that would support any of the allegations.
	The whole purpose of the stories was to destroy any credibility that these youth may have.
	I've heard that people said that Gary Caridori coached me and that he told me what to say, but the fact was I didn't meet Gary Caridori until way after I'd already talked to the Omaha police about the abuse and had named all the same people.
	They didn't ask me very much about Larry King or even Alan Bear at all.
	They treated the allegations that I made about the people who abused me almost like a joke.
	The information did not come our way.
	It was given, as I said, to the FBI and Nebraska State Patrol.
	They conducted their own investigations of the information.
	The stories were of such significance that the investigators first wanted to prove the accuracy of the stories.
	As they said about the investigation of the three, initially three and then a fourth person were telling the stories, as the investigation developed, it became obvious to the investigators that the information was not accurate, that in fact it was an entire conspiracy of allegations, none of which had any truth to them.
	I was very disappointed with the way the FBI and law enforcement treated the victims.
	They, in fact...
	Turned them into the offenders, so to speak.
	And instead of taking the evidence that was delivered to them by the victims and interrogating the persons who the victims identified, they seemed to bear down and try to get the victims to change their story.
	Troy Bonner was brought in for questioning by the FBI. The FBI's attitude was, you know, just, no, these kind of things don't happen.
	From the first interview, when I went, you know, and realized they don't believe a fucking thing I'm saying, you know, I mean, they were just appalled, but I realized what that look in their eye was back then.
	It was fear.
	It was fear of, you know, I mean, I had witnessed, you know, firsthand things that would, you know, destroy this city.
	You know, people, a position, you know what I mean?
	It's not going to be believed, believed, they said.
	It will not be believed.
	You will be found guilty of perjury.
	I mean, they weren't telling me maybe.
	You know, they were saying, uh-uh, there's no way.
	You go on with the story, you're going to jail.
	I mean, that was said to me direct.
	Just out of fear, I came to recant the story out of fear.
	Troy Bonner agreed to recant his videotaped testimony and state instead that his evidence had been invented.
	Next, the FBI used Troy in an attempt to trap Alicia Owen into recanting her evidence about Larry King's ring of powerful pedophiles.
	The phone call, recorded by the FBI on March the 9th, 1990, proves conclusive evidence for John the Camp.
	This is Special Agent Michael F. Mott.
	The following will be a consensually recorded telephone call between Troy Bonner and Alicia Owen.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hey, what's going on?
	I'd like to ask you that.
	Nah, talk to me.
	No, you talk to me.
	I don't understand what you're lying.
	Why are you lying?
	What are you talking about?
	That's what I meant to be.
	You're calling me why I'm lying?
	Yeah.
	You can talk to this whole thing at least, yeah?
	You're full of shit.
	You can tell me what's going on.
	You're full of shit.
	Hey, look.
	I have nobody listening to me.
	I'm listening to you and I'm hoping you...
	Give me some fucking answers.
	I'm not trying to play a game.
	You're being stupid, Alicia.
	I'm not going to go to jail for you.
	And that's what's going to happen.
	No, jail for lying.
	What have you lied about?
	I have a right.
	Okay, but why are you...
	Listen, shut up.
	Listen to me.
	You're not out here being talked to them every day.
	The pressure's kind of hard.
	You literally have to have bricks for brains to take on the FBI in this country.
	And that's exactly what you have to do to do this properly.
	They now, in my opinion, in my investigation, are the architects of the cover-up.
	We asked the FBI for an interview about its investigation of the Franklin scandal.
	It would be inappropriate for us to comment.
	We've worked this with the Omaha Police Department.
	We just don't feel it would be appropriate for us to make comments.
	As Gary Caridori and Karen Ormiston sought out new witnesses on the streets of Omaha, they found themselves under constant threat.
	Gary was threatened several times.
	His vehicles were tampered with.
	I would think whoever tampered with, it was a scare tactic because it was so obvious that they were being tampered with.
	Gary got, he was, there was one piece of evidence I know he got that he was, that he even said he got one step ahead of him this time.
	He told us about this book.
	It was like addresses, telephone numbers, names.
	He said if they, if they knew you had it, they'd kill him.
	On July 11, 1990, Gary Caridori and his eight-year-old son, AJ, were flying home from Chicago.
	They had watched the All-Stars baseball game, and Caridori had been pursuing new leads.
	Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are in Harold Cameron's Cornfield trying to determine what caused this private plane to crash, killing its two occupants.
	The bodies of Gary Caridori and eight-year-old AJ were found in the wreckage.
	National Transportation Safety Board investigators say wreckage from the crash is apparently strewn over a three-quarter to one-mile long stretch in this field.
	The fact that the wreckage is scattered over a large area certainly demonstrates that it did break up in flight.
	The exact mechanism of break-up yet is still unknown.
	The federal investigation was never able to discover.
	What tore the plane apart?
	There are things missing from the plane.
	His briefcase is missing.
	Again, we'll never know what all was missing because I don't know what he had with him.
	I don't know what he did in Chicago.
	He may have had information he was coming back with.
	Within 24 hours of the tragedy, FBI agents impounded all records of the investigation.
	Gary's widow Sandy is still unable to come to terms with her loss. .
	As a mother, I don't want to ever think that somebody murdered my child, let alone my husband.
	But I think if you'd ever talk to any parent, be it mother or father, who's ever lost a child, I mean, the worst thing that you can think of is that somebody would want to murder a child.
	I really feel that somebody killed my brother.
	And inside me, I know that somebody killed my brother.
	If somebody could help us out somewhere, somebody knows something.
	and may may god help those who did that to him and his family gary caridori's death pricked troy bonner's conscience He promised Sandy that he would recount his recantation and tell the truth.
	I set the record straight.
	I was, you know, going to do it.
	And would, you know, the truth would come out, you know, and somebody would be held accountable for his death.
	And then at the funeral I had seen, you know, FBI guys, you know, and they looked at me.
	You know, I was supposed to meet Senator Labetz and Schmidt for lunch after the funeral.
	And, you know, that's when I decided, I told my mom, you know, we're not going to do the lunch.
	We're going to hightail it out on Lincoln now.
	The effect of Gary's crash on the investigation, I think, in effect, put an end to anybody else coming forward with sensitive information like this.
	That's when I was finished, because I figured out if they murdered Gary and his son, there was nothing that would stop them.
	There was no piece of paper, there was nothing we could come up with that was going to get anything done.
	Under pressure from the FBI, Troy Bonner agreed to tell a Douglas County grand jury investigating Larry King that he and Alicia Rowan had concocted the entire child abuse story on payment of a $500 bond.
	Troy Bonner was to be the star witness against Alicia Rowan.
	But he grew uneasy about maintaining what he claims were the lies fed to him by the FBI. But when his brother Sean died in an inexplicable gun accident, Troy and his family were convinced they'd been sent a warning message.
	You know, and they killed him just flat out, right?
	Somehow, professionally, made something happen, you know, to shut me up.
	The purpose of Sean's death?
	To instill fear.
	And it worked.
	Do I feel guilty about my brother?
	Yes, I do.
	That's where all this is coming from.
	That's where the energy is coming from, that I'm getting to do this.
	It's for him, because...
	I mean, it should have been me there instead of him.
	Really.
	I mean, I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad, but I mean, he...
	He was brilliant and, you know, innocent.
	You know, it should have been me.
	I mean, he had so much to give.
	I had taken so much.
	You know, it should have been the other way around.
	I can explain to you what it feels like to lose a child.
	But when you see the pain your kids have because of that, it's much worse.
	I can't do anything for him.
	I can't take that pain away from him.
	Lauren Schmidt's legislative committee issued a report denouncing the grand jury.
	Two months later, it was disbanded, leaving Schmidt a broken man.
	The message was not lost on most politicians in Nebraska.
	I think the message that was delivered was of any legislative committee.
	Never tries to conduct a thorough investigation again.
	the same thing will happen.
	It has shaken my faith in the institutions of government He used to be a firm believer that the system would work.
	And that...
	People who did things wrong would be punished.
	And we discovered victims who claimed to have been abused and who the grand jury acknowledged had been abused.
	But they did not try to find out who had abused those individuals.
	Instead, they convicted Alicia Owen of perjury.
	End of vessel from my point of view.
	In July 1991, Alicia Rowan was convicted of perjury.
	Her sentence was between 9 and 25 years.
	I can't find a case in the history of this country where some kid got sentenced to 25 or 30 years in prison for something like this.
	If you were going to pick a, what I call a tell sign, something that says something specious about the whole thing, it was in the sentencing itself.
	For some reason, they had to send a signal to every kid who was a potential witness.
	My opinion again.
	A signal so loud and clear, if you dare to come forward, if you dare to talk, watch what happens.
	Three months later, Larry King was jailed for the $40 million fraud.
	He was given a 15-year sentence, 10 years less than Alicia Owen.
	John DeCamp is now the only man fighting to help Larry King's victims.
	He's become the lawyer for Paul Bonassi and Alicia Rowan.
	I live in Nebraska.
	Hell, I was born here, raised here.
	I have four kids growing up here.
	Like it or not, it's my heritage, you know?
	Well, if it's a dirty cesspool that I got to live in or look back on that I left, that ain't good.
	The real cost, if I were going to say to my family, has been the fear and intimidation that's put in some of the kids.
	A couple of the kids are really, really frightened and really had some sleeping problems over, you know, here, this or that.
	So that's been the real concern I've had.
	In the face of mysterious threats, John has turned for advice to his friend and one-time boss, former head of the CIA, Bill Colby.
	Old Bill Colby told me better than anything.
	The one thing that the bad people can't afford is publicity and knocking you off right now or doing something obvious to one of your kids would bring them more trouble than it's worth.
	I said, you have to consider the possibility of some danger to not only your reputation, but to your person.
	I mean, there are...
	people do react rather violently to some kinds of charges, or particularly if they're true.
	There's more apt to be a negative reaction than if they're false.
	If they're false charges, then they can be reacted to in a normal way, by a libel suit or whatever.
	But if there's truth in it, there can be a danger in that situation.
	We've seen that happen in other cases.
	John DeCamp has arranged to meet Troy Bonner, the young man he sees as the key to the cover-up.
	He's in great danger.
	The reason is he carries the secret, so to speak.
	He served his purpose for the FBI and others by committing the lies that put the seal on the cover-up.
	His greatest safety probably lies in doing exactly what he knows he should do, that is, exposing the whole thing, taking one final last chance and telling the truth.
	My fears are that, you know...
	I'm not going to be believed again.
	It's just, you know, going to be a whole other kind of exploitation like it was last time.
	You know, I'm afraid that that's going to happen or, you know, I might end up dead.
	our loved one might end up dead again.
	I want this to go forward and have something done so that all those other kids who are a lot worse, more worse things have happened to can Come forward and see that action can be taken.
	Because there are a lot of other kids out there that, you know, things happen to them that, you know, a lot worse than happened to me.
	You have to, if you want to protect yourself and your life and your family's life, both now and particularly in the future, is to use the institutions of government that have been set up to protect you and make them work.
	You go into federal court, you go after the people that have done this cover-up, and you expose it so there's no longer any percentage on their part in eliminating you because the secret's out.
	That's why we're here today, to let it out.
	I have no doubt that he's now telling the truth, number one, and number two, that he originally told the truth.
	Potentially...
	They could decide to charge him with perjury because now he is telling that they forced me to lie.
	I did lie at Alicia's trial.
	I did lie before the grand jury.
	I did it because the authorities were forcing me to do it and I was scared for my family.
	My brother had been killed when I tried to back out the one time.
	Potentially, they could charge him with perjury this time.
	Alicia Rowan is out of prison and on bail while the camp appeals against her perjury conviction.
	As he prepares for a court hearing, new evidence of the cover-up emerges.
	And once again, it involves Troy Bonner's evidence.
	The tapes that were shown to the grand jury had been edited.
	Everything that matched Troy's statement that matched mine was edited out.
	And I think maybe one of the things we want to do is show the judge specifically how...
	Where these, you know, little five-minute segments of, look, this tape says this, and then show him it isn't in this tape, and this is the tape the grand jury saw.
	I'm going to attempt to get these tapes, and we'll see what happens next.
	But to obtain the evidence, DeCamp must approach some of the very officials he believes were involved in the cover-up, the county attorney's office which ran the grand jury.
	In the good old Alicia Olin case, 127-194.
	I'm trying to get the evidence, the tapes and the transcripts of Troy and Danny, Troy, Troy Boehner.
	That might be kind of scary.
	Who got that up here once?
	Yeah.
	I think there's two tapes.
	There should be, as I understand, and the transcript of them.
	But if I can get them, I can start reviewing and figure out maybe a little bit on what's happening on some things.
	Look at the county attorneys, they have all the bills up there.
	Robert?
	Let me guess, Robert Siegler has them.
	Robert Siegler is the prosecuting attorney fighting to send Alicia Rowan back to prison.
	After lengthy negotiations, the camp emerges with the tapes the grand jury never saw.
	- Airman, it's around $4,000, about $4,000.
	- Okay, in one airline?
	I flew out of America.
	Okay, and did you go direct?
	No, it was a stopover in Dallas, Fort Worth.
	So you went from where to where to where?
	I went from Omaha to Dallas, Fort Worth, like an hour, and then a big plane from Dallas to Los Angeles.
	Did anybody go with you?
	Alicia Owen.
	If this indeed were left out of the grand jury proceedings, then I am totally shocked and angry beyond words.
	Here it is, so to speak, the smoking gun that they could go out and verify, the corroboration, in other words, the linkage to King that was denied.
	Cover-up.
	Organized, planned, deliberate cover-up.
	The courthouse, Wahoo, Nebraska.
	The hearings begin.
	Alicia Owen is ready to testify.
	Bye.
	Thank you.
	so too is Paul Bonassi but there is no sign of Troy Bonner DeCamp discovers that Robert Siegler has sent the young man a threatening subpoena.
	Fearing arrest for perjury, Troy has gone into hiding.
	He's trying to subpoena more for this guy.
	Is Troy okay?
	Yeah, he's okay.
	He's just not going to have any testimony for after a few days.
	Okay, Troy's not here.
	It's more salarial.
	No.
	In court, DeCamp successfully pleads for another adjournment.
	The county attorney's office begins to search for Troy Bonner, but Robert Siegler won't say why.
	I'm going to ask you whether you're about to charge Troy Bonner with perjury.
	Oh, no.
	Why isn't the window calling, Mr. Siegler?
	You're a public official, aren't you?
	Mr. Siegler, is it true that you are about to charge Troy Bonner with perjury?
	No, no.
	Mr. Siegler, if you do not charge Troy Bonner with perjury, does that mean you accept what he's saying is true?
	No, no.
	Why are you trying to have Troy Bonner's summons to this hearing, Mr. Siegler?
	No, no.
	Why no comment, Mr. Siegler?
	No, no.
	Every victim witness who stepped forward in any way or even was a potential witness that somebody heard about has either been killed, put in jail under some theory or other, terrified or put in jail under some theory or other, terrified or run out of the state, discredited.
	Every perpetrator, every perpetrator, even the convicted ones, had been treated as conquering heroes.
	Obviously, the FBI was protecting something a lot more significant than a bunch of old pedophiles having improper relations with little boys.
	They were protecting something a lot more significant than a bunch of Drug peddlers.
	They were protecting, in my opinion, they were protecting some very prominent politicians, some very powerful and wealthy individuals associated with those politicians and the political system up to and including the highest political people some very powerful and wealthy individuals associated with those politicians and the political system In search of answers,
	In search of answers, John DeCamp goes to Washington to investigate Larry King's powerful connections in the nation's capital.
	Paul Bernassi has come too.
	Larry King threw child sex parties at his $5,000 a month Washington house.
	Paul Bernatty was one of the victims.
	Larkings House down in Washington DC was a nice house.
	It was on what they, I guess, believe it was Embassy Road because that's what they kept talking about.
	There were a lot of flags from different countries when you drove around in the area.
	So tell me, Paul, how often did you come here?
	I was about 14, about 1981, and at first it was about three or four times the first year.
	After that, it was about once a month after 81. And who brought you here?
	Larry King brought me here.
	And this is the actual house where you...
	Yes.
	And what?
	You were used for sex there?
	Yes.
	Some of the parties, when they started off, were straight, political-type parties with no sex.
	And then when some of the men had left, some of the politicians had left, the ones that had planned, they had planned on engaging in some type of sexual activity, that would come after the party.
	Some of the kids would be held downstairs in some of the rooms where if they acted up or if they started freaking out because of the drugs that they were on, they'd put them in a room that they couldn't get out of and they'd lock them in.
	Were there drugs at these parties?
	Yes.
	What kind of drugs?
	You're telling me those things were at these parties where you had Larry King and prominent politicians?
	Yes.
	Were they readily available to anybody at the party?
	At the after parties, they were ready to label for anybody.
	Beforehand, they did it more upstairs than they did anywhere else, and it was kind of in the back rooms.
	Were any attempts ever made that you know of to expose this situation?
	As far as I know, nothing's ever been done, and most of the people that were in there had already been, I guess you'd say, compromised.
	King's partner in sex crime was powerful Washington lobbyist Craig Spence.
	He took youngsters like Banassi on midnight tours of the White House.
	So you were in the White House then?
	Yes.
	And how did you gain access?
	Well, I came down with Larry King, but Craig Spence was the one that arranged the trip for us.
	And it was kind of a gift for our services that we were doing.
	How many times were you on this kind of a trip?
	I came to a dawn two times.
	Two times?
	And were you used for sex on those occasions?
	None until after we left.
	After you left the White House?
	No.
	What time of night?
	It was usually around midnight.
	To me it was just kind of weird being in the White House at that time of the night, getting to go into places that the guy was telling us that nobody gets to go to.
	I've seen rooms in there that I'd never even heard about.
	Craig Spence and Larry King had a couple of groups.
	One was called Bodies by God and they had the Cowboys and there was another group that was started by Larry King which was called the Golden Boys which was kids that were usually under the age of approximately ten.
	On the trail of Craig Spence, DeCamp finds the investigative reporter who exposed Spence's callboy network, Paul Rodriguez of the Washington Times.
	We had uncovered a series of allegations from some miners that led me to a callboy operation here in Washington.
	It sure fits with, you know, this boy Paul Bonacic.
	He tells the tale of being brought to the White House on occasion kind of as a reward for the kid.
	Craig Spence is dead.
	He committed suicide.
	He had advanced stages of AIDS. He was an AIDS carrier and he killed himself.
	This is the thing that always bothered me.
	They claimed it was the largest male prostitution ring in the city that they ever had uncovered.
	It was a million dollars a year, minimum.
	And yet they only prosecuted the operator, Henry Vinson, and three of his lieutenants, as it were.
	They never went after any of the jobs or the clients.
	This operation...
	Which was, again, quite large.
	Claimed to have clients that ran from the White House, to the Capitol Hill, to the State House, to the churches, within the media.
	That's precisely what Paul describes as the people he was with.
	And a lot of the stuff led there, but we couldn't quite nail it at all cases, because, again, to accuse someone of high stature, you've got to be very careful.
	I understand.
	We were able to do it through the mother load which divided us credit card receipts and canceled checks and then Lists of the clients the prosecutors knew all this stuff.
	There was approximately 20,000 pieces of dot or 20,000 documents.
	Yes, that they have they steal the entire record when they found out I was accessing They required consent agreements from all the lawyers all the clients all the relatives of all the clients all the bookers Including the clients themselves means you can never gain access they steal them by court order and And we've attempted on several occasions to unseal that, and we've been told it'll be a cold day in hell before those records ever get unsealed.
	And it makes me wonder what's in those records.
	The Attorney General is now involved.
	Bill Colby has passed a camp's evidence to a senior lawyer in the Justice Department.
	He did say that the Attorney General's office would be very sensitive to any charges of abuse of children.
	That this was a matter of considerable priority to the department, that this sort of thing not take place, and that they would assign an officer to look into the case.
	For John DeCamp, the story of Larry King's corrupt empire holds a dire warning for America.
	If you can control about three or four key elements, you can totally own a state, you can make right, wrong, you can make truth, falsehood, falsehood, truth.
	If you control the media...
	If you control the Justice Department, if you control the police, you own the system.
	It's beyond belief that arguably the most powerful person in the world, the President of the United States, in the form of Richard Nixon, could not prevent the investigation of Watergate, or that President Reagan could not prevent the investigation of Iran-Contra, and yet somehow...
	This group of unnamed, unknown, anonymous individuals in Omaha, Nebraska have such power they can control and protect all of these people from being investigated.
	Those allegations are ridiculous.
	Well, first of all, Nixon did cover up Watergate, number one.
	Bush did cover up Iran-Contra, at least officially.
	And Omaha has successfully covered up this situation.
	In each case, it was the press that exposed the problem.
	It wasn't institutions of government.
	They had been corrupted.
	They had been compromised.
	They were the ones doing the cover-up.
	The Justice Department acting through FBI and the US Attorney's Office in Omaha emerges from the record.
	of the Franklin investigation, not so much as a party to the cover-up, but as its coordinator.
	Rigging grand juries, harassment of witnesses, incitement to perjury, and tampering with evidence, federal personnel were seen to apply all those techniques in the Franklin case.
	The Franklin case is a very important part of the Constitution.
	The Franklin case is a very important part of the Constitution.
	The Franklin case is a very important part of the Constitution.
	The Franklin case is a very important part of the Constitution.
	The Franklin case is a very important part of the Constitution.
	But financial crime is only half the story.
	This is the true story of Lawrence King.
	It is the story of an evil at the heart of America, of a cover-up at the highest level.
	One man is attempting to uncover the full story.
	John DeCamp is among the most highly decorated Vietnam veterans.
	A former Republican state senator in Lincoln, Nebraska, he is now a lawyer fighting the legacy of Lawrence King's evil network.
	It's a web of intrigue that starts in our holy of holies, Boys Town, Nebraska, one of the most respected institutions in the United States.
	Spreads out like a spider web to Washington, D.C. Right up to the steps of the nation's capital, the steps of the White House.
	Involves some of the most respected and powerful and richest businessmen in this United States of America.
	And the centerpiece of the entire web is the use of children for sex and drug dealing and drug couriers, the compromising of politicians.
	The compromising of businessmen, but worst of all, the corruption of key institutions of government that have the duty and responsibility to make sure these things never happen.
	World-famed Boys Town is in the news again.
	Made famous by an Oscar-winning film, Boys Town Nebraska is America's favorite children's charity.
	It was founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan.
	The greatest spectacle in our social life is the neglected, unwanted and unloved boys who have become a serious problem in our society.
	Boys Town was started to be home for orphans.
	That was after World War I. And since then, society has changed and the problems of the boys have changed.
	And so now, it's a question of...
	Taking care of homeless, abandoned, neglected, abused boys, and now girls also.
	With cash reserves of $500 million, Boys Town is the richest square mile in the world.
	It has been granted the privileges of an incorporated town, a Catholic diocese, and a school district for 500 boys and girls.
	One-third of its annual income is raised from public donations, solicited by begging letters and promotional videos.
	I'm Father Valpeter, the caretaker of Father Flanagan Stream, and the executive director of Boys Town.
	Does Boys Town really exist, people ask me?
	You bet it does.
	Located in the heartland of America, Boys Town youth have come from many backgrounds and locales.
	As they graduate...
	They shall seek new adventures and head for different places.
	But always, they shall carry with them the spirit of Boys Town.
	If you'd like to help Boys Town, send your tax-deductible gift to Father Val Peter, Boys Town, Nebraska, 68010. Boys Town, for me, was the first thing I ever heard of when you think of institutions that you respect.
	Believe it or not, I was there for a while when I was a young boy.
	Probably worldwide, there's no institution other than Boys Town that has done so much good for so many children over such a long period of time so successfully.
	When an institution like that gets contaminated for purposes of abusing children instead of protecting children, then you're better, if you've got any decency at all, do something about it or at least get it cleared up.
	John DeCamp lays the blame for the contamination of Boys Town on the one-time leader of the National Black Republican Council, Larry King.
	Larry King was the fastest rising black star in the entire Republican Party of the United States during all of the 1980s.
	And he was also one of the most evil individuals in this country in terms of being a dealer of children, in terms of being a thief.
	40 million that they documented he stole, and in terms of using and compromising and corrupting one after another politicians.
	The base for his network was a small people's bank in Omaha, Nebraska, the Franklin Federal Credit Union.
	Larry King was its general manager.
	Thank you.
	This is especially an exciting day for me.
	Mr. King was a very charismatic person.
	When he came to the credit union, he was brought in because the credit union was actually failing.
	He did everything to build the credit union.
	King courted the leaders of Omaha's wealthy business district.
	Banks, industry and charities placed millions of dollars in King's hands.
	From 1979, Larry King developed close commercial ties to Boys Town, and Boys Town youngsters were sent to work for his companies.
	Boys Town had quite a few accounts at Franklin Credit Union.
	Those were considered very valuable accounts.
	They were handled exclusively by the bookkeeping department.
	But on the average of once a month or...
	Once every two months, we always seem to incorporate a person from Boys Town.
	King used Boys Town as a source of young boys for his business and for sex and drug orgies.
	Paul Bernathie was a victim of King's abuse.
	He was also sent by King to lure Boys Town youngsters off campus.
	We used to just drive around and go up toward a home that's when we used to do some of the scavenger homes with picking up some of the kids.
	You know, just kind of win their confidence, become friends with them for a while.
	Start inviting them to the parties.
	The kids were ten years old or older.
	In 1986, King's plundering of Boys Town was reported by staff to the chief executive, Father Valpeter.
	Subsequent testimony proves that he carried out his own investigation.
	But that King's victims refused to talk.
	Nebraska has a very clear statute that child abuse allegations should be reported to authorities.
	They shouldn't be reported to the principal of the school, director of a facility.
	They should be reported directly to either Child Protective Services or law enforcement.
	An internal investigation at Boys Town would have no status.
	I mean, in other words, that evidence collected may be something that could augment, but it certainly could not take the place of.
	An investigation, a criminal investigation.
	Could you understand why a very detailed report from a social worker employed at Boys Town, identifying children and identifying their alleged abusers, never saw the light of day?
	Nothing happened with that?
	No, I couldn't understand that, because as I know that had been...
	I wouldn't put up with that.
	But, uh...
	Has something like that happened?
	I don't know.
	Well, in retrospect, I, uh...
	I regret having any association with Larry King.
	Had I known it at the time, it would never have happened.
	Despite the investigation, Larry King remained free to feed his pedophilic parties with child victims.
	But in 1988, a routine review brought the Boys Town cases to the attention of Nebraska's State Foster Care Review Board.
	In the information presented to the Foster Care Review Board, either via the telephone reports, the personal reports, or the reports we reviewed, Larry King's name was consistently present as someone that the youth were making allegations against.
	I mean, I turned that information over to authorities, and nothing happened.
	I would say we handed over at least a foot high amount of material.
	Generally speaking, the allegations were ignored.
	Omaha police now accept that Larry King may have been abusing children.
	Good morning, Roberta.
	Good morning, King.
	But his senior detective claims he never received any evidence.
	It is certainly possible that Mr. King was involved in illegal acts with children.
	If there was sufficient evidence of those types of allegations, he would have been prosecuted by the county attorney's office.
	For me, it was very clear.
	That the case was not investigated and not pursued because of the alleged perpetrators.
	Those perpetrators named by the children formed a ring of rich and powerful pedophiles in Omaha.
	Men from industry, politics, the media, even the police.
	Besides Larry King, ringleaders were department store billionaire Alan Baer, And the celebrity columnist of the Omaha World Herald newspaper, Peter Citron.
	With the judicial system apparently paralyzed, Larry King's political and business empire grew.
	He courted the Republican Party nationally and plundered Franklin's accounts to finance a luxury lifestyle of limousines, private planes and palatial homes.
	Three in Omaha...
	And one in Washington, D.C. Franklin's records show he spent $10 million on jewelry, flowers, and private planes.
	And his lavish spending brought him a charmed life.
	Larry King was constantly heralded, cheered, applauded in the news media as the great businessman that's helping the poor people, the black community of Omaha.
	But King's extravagance attracted the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.
	As a result, on April 11, 1988, the Franklin Credit Union was raided and closed by the FBI. King was arrested, and a federal investigation showed he'd stolen $40 million from Franklin.
	But the FBI's inquiries were secret, and evidence of King's sex ring was quickly covered up.
	In November 1988, Nebraska's state government set up a parallel investigation into the Franklin financial collapse.
	A legislative committee was formed.
	Its chairman was the Republican head of Nebraska's banking committee, corn farmer and state senator Lauren Schmidt.
	But the money trail led quickly to the original allegations of child abuse.
	And almost immediately, anonymous threats began.
	I received a phone call on the floor of the legislature.
	The caller did not identify himself, but he said, Lauren, you do not want to have an investigation of the Franklin Federal Credit Union.
	And I asked who I was speaking to, and they said, that doesn't matter, but you shouldn't have that investigation.
	And I said, well, why not?
	He said, it will reach to the highest levels of the Republican Party.
	And we're both good Republicans.
	The night before we testified, before the legislative committee, I did receive a phone call at home that said, if you speak, you won't live to regret it.

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