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United States Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater (CGAS Clearwater) is the United States Coast Guard's largest air station.[2] It is located at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in Clearwater, Florida and is home to nearly 700 USCG aviation and support personnel..

Air Station Clearwater also operates two aviation facilities in The Bahamas, one at Great Inagua and the other at the United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) installation at Andros Island. These facilities support continually deployed MH-60Ts from various Coast Guard air stations for Operations Bahamas, Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), a joint U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Coast Guard counter-narcotics (CN) and migrant smuggling interdiction operation.

CGAS Clearwater has a rich history and its operations have been at the heart of significant events in Florida and the Caribbean for many years. In the early 1980s, its high operations tempo earned AIRSTA Clearwater two Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendations, the Humanitarian Service Medal, and the Coast Guard Unit Commendation. It was also during this time that the air station provided crucial support to the USCG surface fleet during the Cuban refugee boat lift. Shortly thereafter, AIRSTA Clearwater answered the call to duty with other U.S. military forces during Operation Urgent Fury, the Grenada rescue mission, and was awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for its support of the invasion as well as the Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation for its continual support efforts. Later that same year another Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation was awarded to AIRSTA Clearwater for its role in Operation Wagon Wheel, an international drug interdiction effort.

In 1986, following on the success of the previous operation, AIRSTA Clearwater conducted Operation Hunter. This drug interdiction effort planted the seeds for what is today's OPBAT (Operation Bahamas and Turks and Caicos). Perhaps the single most noteworthy mission for the air station also came in 1986, during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Current aircraft
The HC-130 Hercules first became a part of Air Station Clearwater in 1976. The Lockheed HC-130H model is the current version assigned, with 5 such aircraft in the air station's current inventory.

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2010 Haitian earthquake victims are unloaded from an AIRSTA Clearwater HH-60J at U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay.

1990

The Justice Department on Tuesday ordered 173 U.S. banks to turn over records of more than 750 accounts that officials charged have been used to launder $400-million in drug profits for Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel...

Southeast Bank of Tampa was one of a long list of Florida banks named, most of which were in the Miami area..

Thornburgh said the action was the latest phase of Operation Polar Cap, a widely publicized investigation that last year uncovered the existence of an international money-laundering network known as La Mina.

Overseen by a cartel financier named Eduardo Martinez, who was extradited by Colombia last summer and now faces trial in Atlanta, La Mina collected $1.2-billion in drug profits from street sales of cocaine nationwide between 1987 and early 1989. The money was allegedly shipped by armored cars to a group of Los Angeles jewelry stores and then laundered into overseas bank accounts in Panama, Uruguay and Europe.

But records turned over by Panama as well as eight other foreign governments in recent months showed that the drug traffickers had later wire-transferred about $350-million back to the United States. This money, combined with about $50-million that remained here, was used to finance the cartel's U.S. operations _ meeting payrolls, purchasing aircraft, paying lawyers, investing in real estate and covering other capital and operating expenses, officials said.

1994

Struggling against heavy losses and runs by depositors, Miami-based Southeast was seized by federal regulators on Sept. 19, 1991. The bank, once Florida's largest institution and a lender to many blue-chip corporations, was sold immediately to North Carolina's First Union Corp.

Since Southeast's demise, however, finger-pointing and allegations of a fixed deal seem more like something from a John Grisham novel.

"What happened here was a vast and unfortunate betrayal of the public interest," charges Bill Brandt, a bankruptcy trustee for Southeast Banking Corp., the parent of Southeast Bank.

In a lawsuit, federal regulators now stand accused by Brandt of seizing the bank too early. The feds deny it. But the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. admits it has made tens of millions of dollars in profit from the seizure of Southeast Bank...

The bank was an elitist and stuffy lender to big business for decades under chief executive Charles Zwick. Zwick had wowed Miami's business circles with his credentials as a Harvard economist and his position as President Lyndon Johnson's budget chief..

Brandt got into bankruptcy work almost by mistake nearly 20 years ago. He took a break from his doctoral studies in sociology at the University of Chicago to help a friend reopen a troubled Kentucky coal mine.

He formed a Chicago firm, Development Specialists Inc., in 1977 and opened a Miami office in 1986.

In the Tampa Bay area, he is bringing Tampa's DataCare Inc., which supplies computer services to hospitals, out of bankruptcy. He revived the bankrupt Mid-Florida Yogurt Inc., the nation's largest TCBY Yogurt franchisee, and sold the Winter Haven-based outfit as an operating company.

He just completed work as trustee for a group of radio stations, including WGUL in Dunedin, that now has new investors. And Brandt served as trustee for Florida Park Banks Inc., the bankrupt parent of the failed Park Bank in St. Petersburg.

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Blum's wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has received scrutiny due to her husband's government contracts and extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country..

In 2009, Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, a government agency that had recently awarded her husband's real estate firm, CB Richard Ellis, what the Washington Times called "a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms."

Latest news on Oxfam sex scandal links children's charity BRIGHT HORIZONS with Clinton Foundation and many others... https://archive.searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/2421123

the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a client of Bright Horizons

So what does Damien Hirst know about big pharma? On Baxter Labs based at Thousand Oaks, Tim Alefantis of Sanofi, COBRA, the NIH and biowarfare https://archive.searchvoat.co/v/pizzaga ... er/2845678

> Abbott Labs > Bright Horizons

Mason co-founded, with future husband Roger H. Brown, Bright Horizons, a provider of employer-sponsored child care, emergency back-up care for children and adults/elders, educational advising, and global work/life consulting. ..

Mason, with Brown, co-founded the Horizons Initiative, now Horizons for Homeless Children, a Boston-based organization that serves the needs of homeless children throughout New England, and the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, which creates safe, enriching, and nurturing spaces in homeless and domestic violence shelters.

Mason is chair of Mercy Corps, an international relief and development agency headquartered in the U.S.[9] Humanitarian work with Mercy Corps has taken her to the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia.

Mason served as co-country director of Save the Children's emergency program in Sudan during the African famine of 1984–85, creating a national program that served 400,000 Sudanese famine victims.[11] Mason also directed a feeding program for malnourished children in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thai border after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia of 1979. She co-authored the book Rice, Rivalry, and Politics (University of Notre Dame Press, 1983), which looked at the politics and the challenges of the Cambodian relief operation.

Mason has held leadership positions on the boards of non-profit institutions, including chair of Mercy Corps,[8] co-founder of Horizons for Homeless Children,trustee of Yale University, chair of the Yale School of Management Advisory Board, trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and trustee of the Packard Foundation.

Mason was one of five corporate recipients of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership presented by President Bill Clinton.

She was the 1996 recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Bright Horizons partnered with First Lady Michelle Obama on her national “Let's Move!” child anti-obesity campaign.

She seems to have photographed everybody.

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an American businessman, philanthropist, and academic administrator and former president of Berklee College of Music. Brown is also the co-founder of Bright Horizons and founder and chairman of the Salt Lick Incubator

After his first year at Yale, he and his wife, Linda A. Mason, co-directed Land Bridge, a famine relief program on the Cambodia-Thailand border. Working under the auspices of CARE and UNICEF, the program served as many as 25,000 people a day and was the largest emergency food distribution effort ever attempted.[3] He then returned to Yale, earning a Masters in Public and Private Management in 1982.[5] He and Mason wrote a book about their experiences in Cambodia, Rice, Rivalry, and Politics.[3]

After graduating, Brown took a job with Boston management consulting firm, Bain and Company, but left in January 1985 to co-direct famine relief efforts in Sudan for Save the Children. The innovative program developed by Brown and Mason established many local food distribution centers, rather than a few centralized ones