WAYNE MADSEN SPECIAL REPORT : Loskarn Arrest Only A Tip Of A Pedophile Network That Includes Alexander, Other Tennessee Politicians

Pedophilia runs deep in American politics, intelligence, State Deaprtment

WAYNE MADSEN REPORT
By Wayne Madsen
02/13/2014

The December 11, 2013 arrest by U.S. Postal Inspectors of Senator Lamar Alexander's chief of staff Ryan Loskarn on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography in connection with international law enforcement's Toronto-based Project SPADE, represents only the tip of an iceberg which connects Alexander to a network of Tennessee politicians and businessmen associated with child sex abuse.

Loskarn, who was released against the wishes of federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia Mi Yung Park to the custody of his parents in Sykesville, Maryland for being a suspected suicide risk, was found hanging in the basement of his parents' home on January 23. Foregoing an autopsy, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland in Baltimore concluded, based on a mere visual inspection of Loskarn's body, that he had died from self-inflicted hanging.


Since Loskarn's indictment had previously been postponed until February 10, the last day which prosecutors had to bring formal charges, WMR was informed by legal experts that the delay in indicting Loskarn may have been the result of a pending plea agreement. Loskarn, who was identified as a child porn distributor, would have been in a position to identify actual or intended recipients of child pornographic photographs and videos found by postal inspectors in Loskarn's possession, had he lived.

Loskarn's purported "suicide note," which makes no specific mention of an intention to commit suicide, instead contains an effusive apology to his friends, family, and Senator Alexander. The suicide note has more of a ring of the type of letter drafted by legal counsel to a judge requesting leniency in sentencing, another indication that Loskarn and his attorneys may have been working out a possible plea agreement with Department of Justice prosecutors.

Bright Horizons and Lamar Alexander

In 1998, Massachusetts-based Bright Horizons, a child welfare service company, merged with Corporate Family Solutions, a firm that provided similar services and which was founded in 1987 by Lamar Alexander and Bob Keeshan, who had been known to millions of American children as television's "Captain Kangaroo." The merged company, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, was acquired by Mitt Romney's former firm, Bain Capital, in 2008.

George H.W. Bush and Lamar Alexander

Alexander, the Secretary of Education under George H W Bush, has been tied to a network of Tennessee politicians and businessmen associated with government and private companies, including Bright Horizons and Omni Visions, Inc. of Tennessee, as well as state government social service agencies, such as the Department of Childrens' Services, accused of endangerment and sexual abuse of foster and mentally challenged children.


Alexander's close GOP associate, Jim Henry, the CEO of Omni Visions, provides services contracted out by the state of Tennessee to developmentally disabled and troubled children. Henry is a close political ally of Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Haslam, as well as Alexander. Omni Visions has been cited in several legal cases for placing children into the foster homes of convicted pedophiles and endangering children by placing them under the care of abusive staff. There are also documented cases of children dying at the hands of Omni Vision care providers.

From Lamar Alexander's University of Tennessee to Penn State and Omaha

The network of child care providers linked to Alexander is also linked to the University of Tennessee and Penn State University, the latter the nexus for the pedophilia scandal involving former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and his The Second Mile Foundation.

Jerry Sandusky arrested for pedophilia

Graham Spanier, the former president of Penn State who was fired over the Sandusky scandal, had previously served as chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Spanier's close friend was his predecessor as chancellor, Ronald Roskans, a close friend of and adviser to fallen GOP rising star Lawrence King, who operated the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union of Omaha. King was implicated in a major GOP pedophile scandal, known as the "Franklin Cover-up," said to have involved former President George H W Bush.

Lawrence King, of Franklin coverup fame

One of the links between the University of Tennessee and Penn State is the Downsbrough family. George Downsbrough, Sr., a former head of HRB Singer, a State College, Pennsylvania-based firm that provided state-of-the-art technology to the National Security Agency, donated $3 million to Penn State. His son, Bruce O. Downsbrough, served beginning in 2003 as chief operating officer of the University of Tennessee Foundation, which serves as the fundraising arm of the state university. Lamar Alexander had previously served as president of the University of Tennessee. Downsbrough was installed in his position despite a prior conviction for child molestation.


Downsbrough had previously been an executive of the Colorado University Foundation in Boulder, Colorado. He was later charged and convicted in an 1986 case for molesting two underage boys in Boulder. Perhaps due to the Downsbrough family's significant political connections, Downsbrough's law license was merely frozen by the Colorado Supreme Court because it deemed him incapacitated because of an unstated disability.

As part of Project SPADE, Downsbrough was arrested in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2012. The same law enforcement operation resulted in Loskarn's arrest. Project SPADE involved the arrest worldwide of individuals found in possession of child pornographic materials distributed by Azov Films of Toronto. The common denominator in the arrests as part of the same operation of two seemingly unrelated men in different parts of the country is their professional association with Lamar Alexander.

A confidential source who investigated the Nebraska pedophile ring known as the "Franklin Scandal," believes that after the exposure of the GOP-based ring, the pedophile network moved from Nebraska to Tennessee and the protection of powerful GOP politicians, including Alexander, Haslam, Henry, and ultimately, the Bush family, which considers Tennessee to be a personal political fiefdom.
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This story continues to develop . . .

Veteran investigative reporter Silvija Germek contributed to this report.

Wayne Madsen (USA)

Wayne Madsen

Investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist, Madsen has over twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy.Madsen has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC and MS-NBC. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club, Madsen is based and reports from Washington, D.C. 

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WAYNE MADSEN SPECIAL REPORT : The Suicide Of Ryan Loskarn - A Likely Story

Politicians, pedophiles and CIA pederasts - an alliance forged in Hell

WAYNE MADSEN REPORT
By Wayne Madsen
02/08/2014

Befitting the small town of Sykesville, Maryland is the fact that its small bookstore on Main Street is called "A Likely Story Bookstore." That is because the official report on the January 23 suicide by self-hanging of Jesse Ryan Loskarn, the 35-year old former chief of staff to Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, is indeed a "likely story."

Lamar Alexander and Jesse Ryan Loskarn

A special investigation by WMR has discovered that Loskarn's body was not subjected to an autopsy to make certain his cause of death.

On February 7, Bruce Goldfarb, a spokesman for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) for the State of Maryland in Baltimore, told WMR initially that the autopsy report on Jesse Ryan Loskarn had not yet been completed.

But when Goldfarb returned our call 45 minutes later, he said there was no autopsy report on Loskarn. When Loskarn’s body was taken to the OCME morgue on January 23, an OCME inspection determined that the cause of death for the decedent was by hanging and that no full autopsy to determine the cause of death was necessary.

Sykesville's "A Likely Story Book Store."

The disposal of the body, whether through burial or cremation, is private information, according to Goldfarb. A visit by WMR staff and volunteers to the Haight Funeral Home in Sykesville, which handled the funeral of Loskarn, in Sykesville identified a crematorium in the rear of the building. An employee of the funeral home earlier stated that there was no information on the disposal of Loskarn's body or remains.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Department, which investigated Loskarn's hanging, is not required to release the police report of the incident until 30 days after its final completion.

The delay in Loskarn's indictment by the Justice Department indicates that a possible plea agreement with federal prosecutors was in the works. However, with Loskarn's death, any hope additional information leading prosecutors to others involved in the distribution and receipt of child pornographic materials came to an abrupt end.

Loskarn's parents own CG Print and Promo at 7533 Main Street in Sykesville.  CG stands for Consolidated Graphics

Although most residents of the Washington, DC area were well aware of the Loskarn case, residents, including police officials and employees of businesses in Sykesville, feigned ignorance of the high-profile arrest and suicide of a member of a well-known family in the small Maryland town where a number of employees of the National Security Agency live. Maryland Route 32, which goes past NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, extends through Sykesville.

Loskarn was arrested at his Southeast Washington home near the Stadium-Armory Metro station on December 11, 2013 by officers of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service on a probable cause basis for possession and distribution of child pornography, including videos.

Ryan Loskarn was found hanging in the basement of his parents' home in Sykesville, Maryland. The police report may or may not contain information on whether ground windows leading to the basement were tampered with or whether footprints leading to and from the house were seen in the snow on January 23

The children depicted in the hundreds of videos and thousands of photographs seized by authorities were as young as 6 years old. Loskarn was held in custody in Washington and arraigned the following day, December 12, at the U.S. federal courthouse for the District of Columbia.

Federal law enforcement agents seized materials and a computer from Loskarn's residence and searched his computer in Alexander's Senate office. Alexander removed Loskarn from his payroll on December 11. Loskarn's indictment was not scheduled until February 10, the last day federal authorities had to bring formal charges against the fast-rising star in Congressional GOP circles.

The Haight Funeral Home, which handled Loskarn's funeral arrangements, does have crematorium capabilities as seen from the rear facility with the metal smokestack from the roof. The funeral home did not disclose details of Loskarn's funeral to WMR assistant

 

Loskarn had previously served as an aide to Republican Representatives Wally Herger of California and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. He also worked for the House Rules Committee. Before joining Alexander's staff, Loskarn was the spokesman for the Senate Republican Conference, working for then-Senator Jon Kyle of Arizona.

The Haight Funeral Home

Alexander told Politico that he was "stunned, surprised and disappointed by what I have learned."

Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Mi Yung Park argued against Loskarn's release from jail at a detention hearing at the U.S. District Courthouse. However, Loskarn's attorney, Pamela Satterfield, who is married to Chief Judge Lee F. Satterfield of the District of Columbia Superior Court, successfully argued that Loskarn was not a suicide risk. Loskarn was then released on his own recognizance with the provision that he wear an electronic ankle bracelet and stay at the home his parents, Chuck and Gay Loskarn, at 6496 Ken Mar Lane in Sykesville. It was at this address where Loskarn's body was found hanging in the basement on January 23.

Chief Judge Lee F. Satterfield of the District of Columbia Superior Court, successfully argued that Loskarn was not a suicide risk

Satterfield's biography at the law firm of Schertler and Onorato in Washington states that she was "the Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1994 to 2003 where she was deputy chief of the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section, prosecuting adult criminal cases involving sexual abuse of adults and children, intra–family offenses, and child maltreatment."

Federal prosecutor Park, who, in 2013, assumed the sex offense prosecutor's position once held by Satterfield, argued against Loskarn's release because she stated that he was considered a suicide risk. However, U.S. Judge John Facciola disagreed with Park and ordered Loskarn's release to his parents custody.

Veteran investigative reporter Silvija Germek contributed to this report.
 

Wayne Madsen (USA)

Investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist, Madsen has over twenty years experience in security issues. 

Wayne Madsen

As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy.Madsen has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC and MS-NBC. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club, Madsen is based and reports from Washington, D.C. 

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