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By Jim Rarey
September 16, 2001
‘What a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive."
Robert Burns
CHANDRA, JOYCE AND MARY - R.I.P.
This is the story of three young women who went to the nation’s capital
to learn about government. What they learned may have been the cause of
their deaths. The three, Chandra Levy, Joyce Chiang and Mary Mahoney had
interned in various departments of the executive branch of the federal
government. As scandal after scandal swirled about them, they may have
become privy to information that made them dangerous to powerful people.
This article is about those scandals that likely ended up destroying the
young women.
This writer, in several previous articles, has documented the odyssey of
Chandra Levy ending with her job at the Bureau of Prisons. As a result
of her duties there, the author believes she came into possession of
knowledge on one or two subjects that made her dangerous to some in
Washington D.C.
The subjects were Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing and the
CIA/drug connection possibly through the controversy regarding the
whereabouts of Carlos Lehder, cofounder of the Columbian drug cartel.
Sometime after the articles were written, Chandra’s interest in those
subjects was confirmed by no less a person than Gary Condit. He told a
Newsweek reporter; "They talked about the upcoming executions of
Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh and drug trafficker Juan Raul Garza.
"She seemed to have a lot of interest in those two things," said Condit,
"a lot more interest in them than I did."
The work and death of the second intern, Joyce Chiang, may very well
also tie into the McVeigh and OKC bombing tragedy.
Joyce, a graduate of Smith College interned in the office of California
Democrat Representative Howard Berman while a student. After graduation,
she worked in his office while attending law school at Georgetown
University. She became Berman’s expert on immigration law and later, in
1995, took a position as special assistant to the director of the Office
of Congressional Relations at the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS).
During Timothy McVeigh’s Denver trial, the immigration status of one
Andreas Strassmeir became an issue. Strassmeir was a German citizen with
counter intelligence experience in the German army who was active in the
Elohim City compound of a white supremacist group outside of Oklahoma
City. According to Carol Howe, a paid BATF informer, Strassmeir had been
agitating for direct action against government buildings. Phone records
showed that McVeigh had tried to contact Strassmeir at Elohim City a
couple of weeks before the bombing.
After the bombing, the BATF notified the INS that it wanted to detain
Strassmeir and he was put on the INS’s watch list. Also, the FBI and INS
had scheduled a raid on Elohim City in February, two months before the
bombing to apprehend Strassmeir for alleged weapons and immigration
violations. The raid was abruptly canceled with no explanation to date.
When Strassmeir turned up in Germany he was taken off the INS watch
list.
The McVeigh’s defense team tried to introduce evidence of participation
in the bombing conspiracy by Strassmeir and Dennis Mahon through the
testimony of BATF informant Carol Howe. Special Prosecutor Beth
Wilkinson flat out lied to Judge Richard Matsch. She told the judge that
Strassmeir was "A mere wisp of the wind." She said Strassmeir’s only
problem was that he might have overstayed his visa. She falsely stated
that the letters "A" and "O" on Strassmeir’s immigration record stood
for "admitted" and "overstayed" respectively. (See this author’s article
"Levy/Condit Amazing Coincidences" for background on Wilkinson’s role in
providing cover for intelligence agencies.)
Wilkinson also falsely told the judge that Carol Howe had been fired by
the BATF as mentally unstable and untrustworthy. She falsified the date
Howe left the service of the BATF.
Wilkinson’s lies were exposed during a trial of Carol Howe. The
government had indicted her on weapons violation charges. Her BATF
handler, Angela Finley had to admit that Howe was in possession of the
weapons at the request of the BATF. She also confirmed that the BATF had
given Howe a raise from $25 a day to $400 a day and sent her back into
Elohim City for further undercover work after the date Wilkinson said
she had been fired. Howe was easily acquitted.
The INS later corrected the record on Strassmeir’s immigration status
showing that "A" stood for diplomatic passport and "O" for highly
qualified. It was also discovered later that Strassmeir had applied for
positions with the DEA and CIA.
Later, an appeals court judge gave only mild criticism to Judge Matsch
for accepting the word of government prosecutors when contradicted by
defense records. Matsch himself has an interesting background.
Judge Matsch was in military counter intelligence during the Korean
"conflict." In 1987 he presided over the trial of four white
supremacists who were convicted of assassinating radio talk show host
Alan Berg. In 1992 his 24-year-old daughter, Betsy, died after
accidentally falling into a steam vent at Hawaii Volcanoes National
Park. He obviously had no stomach for further involvement with white
supremacists as he granted the prosecution’s motions to suppress the
evidence without hesitation.
There were other discrepancies between the representations made by
prosecutors about INS records that were the opposite of the truth. Space
does not permit listing them.
As an expert on immigration law and department policies and procedures,
it is quite likely that Joyce Chiang became aware of the government’s
duplicity in the trial.
On January 9, 1999 Joyce Chiang disappeared after being dropped off by a
friend about three blocks from her apartment with the intention of
stopping at the nearby Starbucks coffee shop (a location that would also
figure in the murder of Mary Mahoney).
Three months later her body was found in the Potomac River. The body was
so badly decomposed that no cause of death could be determined. Because
some of her clothing had been found near a bridge over the river, her
death was ruled a suicide. Some of her friends doubt that verdict and
her brother, Roger, to this day believes she was murdered.
The murder of Mary Caitrin Mahoney and trial of her alleged killer,
while probably not tied to the OKC bombing nevertheless involves an
almost unbelievable cast of characters at a time large amounts of
illegal campaign finance money were being raised and serious breaches of
national security occurred.
Mahoney had landed an internship working in the office of the Secretary
of Commerce, Norman Mineta (the Current Transportation Secretary) for
Doris Matsui. Matsui is the wife of California Democrat Representative
Robert Matsui. However, she had political connections of her own having
served as a trustee of the California Economic Advisory Council with
Public Official Executive Board members, Gray Davis, Barbara Boxer and
Dianne Feinstein.
Matsui worked closely with John Huang, with the title of deputy
assistant to President Clinton. Together they raised over $3 million in
campaign funds from Asia and Asian-Americans. $1.2 million had to be
returned because it came from corporations and non-citizens.
It was in this time frame that Charlie Trie worked first in the Commerce
Department and then transferred to the Democratic National Committee
(DNC) but kept his high security clearance. Trie had been attending CIA
briefings and then immediately went across the street to the Washington
office of Jackson Stephens, the Arkansas broker who was a financial
angel of Bill Clinton and placed phone calls to his Chines handler in
the Lippo Group in Indonesia.
Stephens was a partner with James Riady of the Lippo Group in the
Worthen bank in Little Rock. The bank was alleged to have been involved
in laundering CIA drug money. The bank (and Stephens) were involved
(along with the Rose Law firm and partners Hillary Clinton, Web Hubbell
and Vince Foster) in the takeover of First American in Washington D.C.
by BCCI. Robert Bartlett, the then Editorial page editor of the Wall
Street Journal said he first starting keeping his eye on the Rose Law
firm when he heard of its involvement with BCCI.
And there sat intern Mary Mahoney in the midst of all that activity. The
Clinton’s had another reason to keep an eye on her. Mary was an open
lesbian and aggressive supporter of gay rights. She had become something
of a "den mother" for younger interns who claimed to have suffered
sexual harassment at the hands of the president (not including Monica)
She had been threatening to do something about it.
Mary also held a part time job as assistant cashier at the local
Starbucks coffee shop. In July of 1997, she and two other employees were
gunned down around closing time by what police claimed was a robbery
although no money was taken. Mahoney was shot five times. One of the
shots was to the back of her head gangland execution style.
In March of the following year, FBI agent Bradley Garrett arrested Carl
Derek Cooper for the three murders. After 54 hours of questioning by
Garrett and another agent, Cooper signed a confession that he
immediately repudiated as soon as he got to court. Garrett is currently
in charge of the Chandra Levy "missing persons" case and was the lead
agent on the Vince Foster death determined to be a "suicide."
Judge Joyce Hens Green set a trial date for April 10, 1999. This is the
point at which the cast of characters becomes bizarre starting with
Judge Green who was first appointed as a federal judge by President
Jimmy Carter in 1979.
In the last year of President Reagan’s second term, Green was appointed
to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to serve a
non-renewable seven-year term. That court deals exclusively with
national security and with international terrorism, and involves
approving applications for electronic surveillance. Judges on that court
require the highest security clearance available. In 1990, then
President George Herbert Walker Bush appointed Green presiding judge of
that court and she handled all emergency matters during the remaining
five years of her term.
Judge Green also presided over the BCCI trial that had resulted from
indictments obtained by New York Assistant District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau. Morgenthau’s investigation was stopped when the FBI stepped
in under the direction of Robert Meuller (currently the new FBI
Director) and no further investigation ensued. Judge Green approved plea
bargains that resulted in BCCI forfeiting its assets in the United
States. Two defendants had been indicted, Roger Altman and Clark
Clifford an influential power broker in the Democrat party. The two men
had accepted the two top spots in First American after the BCCI takeover
but claimed they had no idea BCCI was involved in the nearly nine years
they functioned in those capacities. Altman was acquitted and Clifford
never stood trial because of ill health.
Back to the Cooper trial. Before the trial even started, a controversy
arose when Janet Reno announced she was going to seek the death penalty
for Cooper. D.C. officials were furious claiming Reno was overstepping
her bounds. The district had never asked for the death penalty in any
murder case.
Reno held a hearing on the matter. At that hearing, defense attorney
William Martin (not connected with the Cooper case) urged Reno to ask
for the death penalty. Yes, that’s the same Billy Martin who represented
Monica Lewinski’s mother, Marcia Lewis, and currently represents Chandra
Levy’s parents.
To complete the cast, Judge Green then appointed attorney Francis D.
Carter to represent Cooper. Carter is the Frank Carter to whom Vernon
Jordan took Monica Lewinski. Carter prepared the false affidavit for
Monica’s signature which put her at risk for perjury when she later
testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Monica escaped
prosecution when she was granted immunity my independent counsel Ken
Starr.
With Carter as his defense counsel, Cooper was convicted despite a weak
circumstantial evidence case. There were, of course, no eyewitnesses and
Cooper’s fingerprints were not found at the murder scene. During his 54
hours of interrogation, Cooper had consistently denied the crime and
volunteered several times to take a lie detector test. Most of the
testimony against him was by FBI agent Garrett based on Garrett’s
representation of what Cooper had said during the interrogation. The
questioning was not recorded or videotaped although another agent took
notes.
One wonders at the array of a high powered Washington judge with ties to
the intelligence community and an attorney who barely escaped being
disbarred (in another high profile case) in a case claimed to be a
routine robbery murder case by a career criminal.
We may never know what information these women possessed that may have
led to their demises. Certainly if they confided in any friends, it
would take a tremendous act of courage for those friends to come forward
given what happened to Chandra, Joyce and Mary. May they rest in peace.
Permission is granted to reproduce this article in its entirety.
The author is a free lance writer based in Romulus, Michigan. He is a
former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a retired customs
administrator and accountant, and a student of history and the U.S.
Constitution.
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