Conspiracy Of Silence — The Franklin Cover-Up

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A Republican from the Midwest, Lawrence E. King, is serving a 15-year prison sentence for a multi-million dollar fraud. 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, Boyz Town, Nebraska, one of the most respected institutions in the United States. And 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, poor sex and drug dealing and drug careers. 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 Boyz Town is in the news again. Made famous by an Oscar-winning film, Boyz Town, Nebraska, is America's favorite children's charity. It was founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan. The other spectacle in our social life is an neglected, unwarranted and unloved boy who has become a serious problem in our society. Boyz Town was started to be home for orphans, as 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 our girls also. With cash reserves of $500 million, Boyz 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 follow Valpira, the caretaker of Father Flanagan's dream, and the executive director of Boyz Town. Does Boyz Town really exist people who ask me? You bet it does. Located in the heartland of America, Boyz Town youth have come from many backgrounds and low-counts. As they graduate, they shall seek new adventures and head for different places. But always, they shall carry with them the spirit of Boyz Town. If you'd like to help Boyz Town, send your tax deductible gift to Father Valpira, Boyz Town Nebraska, 68010. Boyz 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 Boyz 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, purposes of abusing children, instead of protecting children, then you back to the world. It's 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 Boyz 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 politician. 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. This is 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 Boyz Town, and Boyz Town youngsters were sent to work for his companies. Boyz 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 Boyz Town. King used Boyz Town as a source of young boys for his business and for sex and drug orgies. Paul Bonafi was a victim of King's abuse. He was also sent by King to lure Boyz Town youngsters off campus. We used to just drive around up to what a home has some use to be some of the scavenger hands with picking up some of the kids. You know, just kind of when their confidence become friends for a while. Start inviting them to the parties. The kids were 10 years older older. In 1986, King's plundering of Boyz Town was reported by staff to the chief executive, Father Valpita. 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 the facility. They should be reported directly to either child protective services or law enforcement. An internal investigation at Boyz Town would have no status. I mean, in other words, that evidence collected maybe some of the neck of the 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 Boyz Town identifying children and identifying their alleged abusers never saw by light of day. Nothing happened with that. No, I couldn't understand that because I know that had been... I wouldn't put up with that, but is that something like that happened? I don't know. In retrospect, I regret having any association with a very 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. By 1988, a routine review brought the Boyz 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 telephone reports, 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 it's the 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, ring leaders were department store billionaire Alan Bear, 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, DC. 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 cloned by the FBI. King was arrested and a federal investigation showed he'd stolen $14 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 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, Cornfarmer 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. It's called it another 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 testify before the legislative committee, I did receive a phone call at home that said if he speak, he won't live to regret it. Undeterred Schmidt's committee hired professional investigators, Karen Ormiston and Gary Carradori. When we hired Mr. Carradori, I was very specific to him. I said, we do not want you to bring to the committee. Rumors in UN those, 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 Carradori and Karen Ormiston found new victims of King's pedophile 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 that originally came up were concerned to me because I knew many of those individuals. And I, Brian Prathaway, was shocked to have those names swept up on the list. Ormiston and Carradori 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 were some of these people that would come to these parties? I actually think the person was the best. I'm serious. I'm also like, do I have a fight for people? Media personality, Peter Citron, procured some of his victims from Boys Town. It's his he liked, mainly around the age of, uh, about eight and thirteen. It's mainly, uh, fondly and 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. You okay? Yeah. It happened to be an accident. And to demonstrate, from sex, I believe, from a family member to a friend who is considered a sexist. Okay. Just take a deep breath out. And whenever you were tied up for it, was there anybody else who had come to another room and I knew Peter took her in danger? Yes. Who was that? There's Alan Beres and Kevin's. Very cute. All my knowledge. In there, that's the Troy Bona. Troy Bona was tied up and was there. Troy Bona was seventeen when he was introduced to the Peter Files parties by Alan Beres. He got threatening me out. Um, Kevin moved me over the bed to let us get on the bed and uh, put his head down, stood before me all the sex on me while his penis was at my end. Uh, as they say, I said tonight, you know, it's a nice time for you. Alan Beres 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 um, take it anyway, you can get it paid 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 Beres. It said 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's glad and, you know, pushing down, you know, and, 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 guy who said it was from Beres's town, and it was at that time he was that I met her king. At that time that I met one king, I did not know if he was what I think. I, I had met him at the first time I ever met him. Alan Beres and Larry King frequently hosted the child sex parties in penthouse apartments at the Twin Towers luxury block. I wanted it with, you know, a haircut with my hands behind my head. And my feet tied. Yeah, I, they're doing the fit for you. Um, what do you mean? Uh, sometimes you do guys trailing over my face. Okay. Most of them Larry King took pictures quite a bit during that time. I know it's difficult. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And you know, Alicia, you're a victim. And, uh, the three young age. Let's go up. We were 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 unsafe about 15 years old. I had a little room. I 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 shutting beads up his record. The police officer was shutting beads up his record? Yes. Everything I mean from just, you know, touching to, uh, you know, through squash, you know, huge squash, you know, that big around, you know, stuck into you. You're asked, you know, uh, heat, heat things, hot things, you know, poke that in, stuck in you. You know, I got those scars on my arm one night at a party where Larry King was. And he advised somebody on door, clearly remember who it was. You know, wanted to see how strong a men were or something, you know, and have his push your arms together. Danny has King has these same scars. And you push him tight together and you'd light cigarettes and as soon as you get burning, you just drop him down between your arms and, you know, let it burn. You know, and they made a stand there and make it and touch each other way. 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 with that. Chris. I want to say, you know, and who would do this right in the marks? 19. How many Larry King personally did? I mean, that's not true. And then he died. And they tried and you know, that I can go find somebody that would throw you. And it will throw you down, right? You wouldn't tell anybody. Larry King was also here. He came in and now we drank and did cocaine. I didn't do much. I just gave him a turn to the audience. You didn't like me because I would get high on drugs. 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. You know, and I said, well, gladly. You know, I even said, you know, you stupid fucker. You know, I just said on your pain be money, how can you get into that? You know, and I got beat up by it. I came home here a lot of times to beat the shit from, you know, and this is speaking my tongue, so to speak, and you know, just telling 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 this sexual acts and then be provided with cocaine or whatever type of drug they wanted. And heroin, you know, I don't know, but that was my drug of choice. Until this day I remained an addict, you know. Lericking was, I would say, the center of transporting the children around the country. The airplanes were usually in his name, least in his name. They were paid for by Lericking. So that's the inner type of drug. That's who I'm talking about. We're not the same as you, you know. We're the only three boys that I have seen at one reception at the French Academy for that. And I'm the type of Phillip Boyce Tamborist. I was positive. I mean, graduate from Boyce Tamborist. And that is your credit for the young. How would they get one for a walkthrough? I have no idea about that. Boyce Tamborist came up frequently during the investigation, but we found it very difficult to get information about Boyce Tamborist. I was not able to find any information. My visit there and the security could not get information either. Four years on, Boyce Tambor remains unwilling to discuss its involvement with Larry King. We asked for an interview with Chief Executive Father Valpita, but Boyce Tamborist 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. Is Father Valpita available, please? You can check in here. First one, Emma. Thank you very much. We're here because we have to give Father Valpita and Boyce Tamborist every opportunity to talk to us about the very serious, how to get in the corridor. Please step outside. Why is Boyce Tamborist unwell in disheartening our relationship with Larry King? We don't have a relationship with him. And the fake papers that we possess show that Boyce Tamborist relationship with Larry King. I'd suggest to be very careful about what you report. Excuse me. I'll let you leave. By the spring of 1989, so serious with a 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 videotape testimony was leaked to a hostile media. The media immediately started discrediting the witnesses. They were... 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 so the Gary Caridory coached me that he told me what to say, but the fact was I didn't meet Gary Caridory until way after I'd already talked to the Omaha police about abuse and had named all the same people. They didn't ask me very much about Larry King or Alan Barrett, or even Alan Barrett, they treated the allegations that he 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 the brassist, David Troll, 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 obviously the investigators that the information was not accurate. 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. Instead of taking the evidence that was delivered to them by the victims and interrogating the persons who were the victims identified, they seemed to bear down and try to get the victims to change their story. Troy Bono was brought in for questioning by the FBI. The FBI's attitude was, you know, just no. These 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 with that, that looking there I was back then, it was fear. It was fear of every, you know, I mean, I had witnessed, you know, first hand things that would, you know, destroy this city, you know, people at the position, you know, what I mean. It's not going to be believed, believe they said. You know, I'm not being believed. You will be found guilty of perduring you. I mean, they weren't telling me maybe, you know, they were saying, you know, 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 through, I came through the story out of fear. Troy Bono agreed to recount his videotape testimony and stayed instead that his evidence had been invented. By use, 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 9, 1990, proves conclusive evidence for John the Camp. It's a special agent, Michael F. Mat, the following will be a consensually recorded telephone call between Troy Bono and Alicia Owen. Hello. Hey, what's going on? I'd like to know. No, talk to me. No, you talk to me. I don't know if you can hold me behind why you're calling me. What are you talking about? That's not me. You're calling me why I'm why I'm lying? You can talk to this whole thing only, Chef. You should tell me what's going on. Hey, look. I had nobody watching it to me. Listen to you and I'm hoping you give me some fucking answers. I'll be honest with you. I don't know what you're doing. I'm not trying to play here. And I don't know how much you have in here. It's all called. You're being stupid, Alicia. I'm not doing a good at jail for you. And that's what's going to happen. Why don't you put a key on jail for telling the truth? No, a jail for why you? What are you doing? I have a wife. Okay, the boy. Listen, shut up. Listen to me. You're not out here being a talk tool every day. The pressure is trying to hurt. 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. Larry, you want to ask me for the FBI here? We feel it would be inappropriate for us to comment. We work this with the Omaha Police Department. We just don't feel it would be appropriate for us to make comments. As Gary Caridori and Caranormiston 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 they were tampered with them. It was a scare-tacted because it was so obvious that they were being tampered with. Gary got...he was...it was one piece of evidence. I know he got...he even said he got one step ahead of him this time. He called us about this book. It was like addresses, telephone numbers, names. He said if they knew he 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 at Harold Cameron's Court Field, 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 crashes 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 and flight. The exact mechanism of break up got a stone. 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 that 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. There's a mother. I don't want to ever think that somebody murdered my child. I don't know what my husband is. But I think if you'd ever talk to any parents, be it mother or father, there'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 Carador's death, Prick Troi Bonner's conscience, he promised Sandy that he would recount his recantation and tell the truth. I said the record straight. I was going to do it in wood. The truth would come out when somebody would be held accountable for his death. And then at the funeral, I had seen FBI guys. They looked at me. I was supposed to meet Senator Obede and Schmidt for lunch after the funeral. And when I decided I told my mom, we're not going to do the most. I tell it, I don't think it now. The effect of Gary's crash on the investigation, I think, in effect, and 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, Troi Bonner agreed to tell a Douglas County Grand Jury investigating Larry King that he and a Leacheroan had concocted the entire child abuse story on payment of a $500 bond. Troi Bonner was to be the star witness against a Leacheroan, 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, Troi and his family were convinced they'd been sent a warning message. You know, when they'd be killed and just light out right somehow, professionally made something happen, you know, to shut me out. The purpose of Sean's death to instill fear and 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 is for him because I mean it did should have been me there instead of him. Really? I mean, I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad, but I mean he was brilliant and innocent. But you know, it should have been me. I mean he had so much to give. I've 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 that fits much worse. I can't do anything for them. I can't take that pain away for them. Lauren Schmidt's legislative committee issued a report denouncing the Grand jury. Two months later it was disbanded, leaving Schmidt a broken man. A message was not lost on most politicians in Nebraska. I think the message was never to lose if any legislative committee never tries to conduct it through investigation again, and the same thing will happen. It has shaken my face in the institutions of government. He used to be a firm leader that system would work. And that people who did things wrong would be punished. And we discovered victims who claimed to have 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 Lisa Owen and Perjury and the festival for my point of view. In July 1991, Alicia Owen 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, when I call it, tell a 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 has become the lawyer for Paul Bernassi and Alicia Owen. I live in Nebraska. How I was born here, raised here. I have four kids growing up here. Like it or not, it's my heritage. 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 here or this or that. 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 bad people can't afford his publicity and knocking you off right now or doing something obvious to one of your kids would bring him more trouble in his 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, 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 the camp has arranged to meet Traybona, 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. I'm not going to believe again. It's just going to be a whole other kind of exploitation like it was last time. I'm afraid that that's going to happen or my end of dead or 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 more worse things have happened to come forward and see that action can be taken. Because there are a lot of other kids out there that things happen to them that are 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 what we're here today to look to edit 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 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 have been edited. Everything that matched Troy's statement was shown that matched mine because I know it was rated out. And I think maybe one of the things we want to do is show the judge specifically how 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 that Grand jury saw. I'm going to attempt to get these tapes and we'll see what happens next. But to obtain the evidence, the camp 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 Rowan case, 127-194, I'm trying to get the evidence, the tapes and the transcripts of Troy and Danny, Troy Bonner. I might be counting scared. Who did that up there? Yeah. I think there's two tapes. There should be, as I understand, in 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. Robert Seagler 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'm a hundred elsewhere with Logan Howard and then a big, big clip from my jealous to Los Angeles. I think that anybody go with you? Alicia Rowan. 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, be smoking gun that they could go out and verify. The corroboration, in other words, the linkage to King that was denied. Cover up. Organized plan. Deliberate. Cover up. The courthouse Wahoo, Nebraska. The hearings begin. Alicia Rowan is ready to testify. So too is Paul Bernassi. But there is no sign of Troy Bonner. DeCamp discovers that Robert Seagler has sent a young man a threatening subpoena. Fearing arrest for perjury, Troy has gone into hiding. This is Troy and Sapim, the first guy to use this trial can't work. Yeah, he's okay. I just have to have him test the paragraph. He did. I have that very. What is the mission? In court, the camp successfully pleads for another agenda. The county attorney's office begins to search for Troy Bonner. But Robert Seagler won't say why. Let's give her the urub out to charge Troy Bonner with perjury. Why isn't one of them coming Mr. Seagler? You're a public official aren't you? Yes, I am. Mr. Seagler, is it true that you are about to push Troy Bonner with perjury? No, not for perjury. Mr. Seagler, if you do not push Troy Bonner with perjury, does that mean you accept his what he's saying is true? No perjury. Why aren't you trying to extract Troy Bonner's silence to this hearing, Mr. Seagler? No perjury. Why no comment, Mr. Seagler? 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 out of the state, 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. It's very powerful and wealthy individuals associated with those politicians and the political system up to and including the highest political people in this entire country. In search of answers, John DeCamp goes to Washington to investigate Larry King's powerful connections in the nation's capital. Paul Benassi has come to Larry King through child sex parties at his $5,000 a month Washington House. Paul Benassi was one of the victims. Larry King's house, down in Washington, DeCamp was a nice house. I guess I believe it was M.C. Roe 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 by 1981 and at first it was about three or four times the first year after that it was about once a month after 1981. And who brought you here? Larry King brought me here. And this is the actual house where 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 on engaging in some kind 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 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? Anything you wanted. Chocaine, heroin, spigals. 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 readily available for anybody. Before hand they did it more upstairs than they did anywhere else in this kind of bathrooms. 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 compromised. King's partner in sex crime was powerful Washington lobbyist Craig Spence. He took youngsters like Bernassie on midnight tours of the White House. Did you were in the White House that? Yes. And how did you gain access? Well I came down with Larry King but Craig Spence was the one that arranged the trip course 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 for left or left. After you left the White House for seven. All the time at night. I was usually around midnight. We were just kind of weird being in the White House at that time of the night. Getting to go into places. The guy was telling us that nobody just to go to. We'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 call boys. 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 10. On the trail of Craig Spence, the camp finds the investigative reporter who exposed Spence's call boy network. Polar Dregas of the Washington Times. We had uncovered a series of allegations from some minors that led me to a call boy operation here in Washington. Sure fits with, you know, this boy Paul Benossus. He tells the tale of being brought to the White House on occasion. Kind of was a reward for the kid. Craig Spence is dead and committed suicide. He had a bandstages of AIDS. He was an AIDS Gary 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've ever had uncovered. It was a million dollars a year minimum. And yet they only prosecuted the operator, Henry Benson, and three of his attendance as it were. Then everyone 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. And it was not only what Paul describes as the people he was doing. A lot of the stuff who led there, but we couldn't quite nail it at all cases because, again, to accuse someone of high-safety, you've got to be very careful. I understand. We were able to do it. The mother-loathe was invited us. Credit card received and cancelled checks. And then listed the clients. The prosecutors knew all this stuff. There were approximately 20,000 pieces of 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. So, it means you can never gain access. They sealed them by court order. And we have tried, we've attempted on several occasions to unseal that. And we've been told it will be a cold day in hell before those records ever get unsealed. And I make you wonder what's in those records. Yeah. 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 the Camp, 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 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 that 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 U.S. Attorney's Office in Omaha, emerges from record of the Franklin investigation, not so much as a party to the cover-up, but as its coordinator. Reagan 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.