djui5 said:
rangler said:
The documents showing the actual sales of Yamashi.tas Gold IS the smoking gun..
Is it Yami's gold, or just gold? I believe the failure to provide proof comes in a FAILURE to prove WHERE THE GOLD CAME FROM, correct? Or did I just read things wrong?
Hey Randy,
I think what you missed is the actual amount of gold. Marcos was in possession of more gold bullion than the entire national treasury of the Philippines. I have a lot more documents, that prove the Marcoses were wallowing in gold bullion.
There is an extant photograph of Roger Roxas kneeling down next to his golden Buddha.
There were several reasons for the drastic differing opinions of the initial Hawaiian Court that heard the case and the Hawaiian State Supreme Court that heard the cross appeal.
One was because the supreme court did not have a great majority of the transcribed testimony from the first trial. A lot of information had been lost.
One was because, as it was discovered, Imelda Marcos had offered Roger's Brother Jose an unknown amount of money to testify that a brass Buddha was the one that Roger had. This fact was discovered and entered into evidence near the end of the second trial.
Another BIG fact was that the Marcoses had fled the Philippines and moved to the United States at the pleasure of the Government of the United States. I absolutely believe there was a lot of string pulling.
Google "Robert Curtis" or "Bob Curtis" and include "Marcos" in the search. You will get a longer version of this story:
Bob Curtis owned a refinery in Arizona or Nevada (I think Arizona). Through a mutual friend, Curtis was told President marcos wanted to talk to him. The picture above shows Curtis meeting Marcos for the first time.
Curtis' Court Testimony stated that Marcos asked him if he could resmelt a large amount of gold bullion. He wanted both the hallmarks changed, and the chemical composition of the gold changed so its' origin could not be traced. Curtis was taken to the basement of Marcos's Curtis agreed to the proposition. He started to build a refinery in the Philippines big enough to handle the large amount of gold bullion.
A few months later, Curtis was taken to a spot to be executed by one of Marcos' Generals. He talked his way out of being executed, and immediately left the Philippines. He didn't return to the country until after Marcos' death.
Photo taken February 1975 at Ferdinand Marcos's summer palace in Marivales, Bataan.This photo was taken minutes after Curtis saw and examined the Roger Roxas golden buddha and was taken to the vault under the palace and shown a room full of gold stacked floor to ceiling with mostly 75 kilo gold bars.
So Randy,
What all this proves is that Marcos had more gold bars than money. That means the most likely explanation is that he didn't buy the gold. He got the gold in that form. He had so much, he had great difficulty trying to sell it.
Where could he have gotten ahold of more gold bullion than was in the Philippine National Treasury? Yamas Caches, that's where.
Best-Mike