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SW: →King and LaRouche: "the rest of the story"
In great detail, this article outlined what King described as a sinister relationship between the LaRouche group and the Meli crime family (heroin traffickers in the Detroit area), Carlos Marcello (crime lord of New Orleans), Tony Provenzano (a prominent New Jersey labor racketeer), Frank Sheeran (the Teamster thug who would confess 23 years later to having killed Jimmy Hoffa--thus giving the lie to LaRouche's 1978 claim that the "Zionists" had done it), and assorted other hoodlums. The article also alleged that LaRouche's then security adviser, the late Mitch WerBell III, had underworld connections (WerBell had been a co-defendent with Cleveland crime boss John Nardi in a giant Florida pot-smuggling case--the defendants got off after the government's key witness died in a mysterious small-plane crash). In addition, the article alleged that LaRouche's 1980 Presidential campaign had paid $96,000 to a political consulting firm controlled by the business partner and closest friend of Rolland McMaster, a Meli crime family linked Teamster leader, convicted felon, and ardent LaRouche supporter who once had been Jimmy Hoffa's chief enforcer, specializing in the use of dynamite. None of the allegations in King's article (repeated in Chaps 34-38 of King's book along with fresh allegations regarding LaRouche's dealings with cocaine dictator Manuel Noriega) were ever disputed by LaRouche, WerBell, Marcello, McMaster, Sheeran, or any other hoodlum or mob-connected lawyer or businessman named in the article.
Another allegation by LaRouche supporters frequently repeated on the Internet is that King was and Chip Berlet were paid his for transportation expenses by [[John Rees]], a John Birch Society . member to speak on LaRouche at a gathering of journalists at the home of one John Train in the early 1980s. In fact, John Train's home was only a few blocks from King's home of the past 25 years (as the LaRouchians well know). King walked to the meeting and denies ever receiving any payment whatsoever. However, Berlet acknowledges receiving the expense money.
LaRouche supporters make much of the fact that King was once a member of the leftwing Progressive Labor Party, but carefully avoid giving the dates. King in fact left the PLP in 1973--over thirty years ago. In attacking King on his political past, the LaRouchians never mention the fact that many of LaRouche's key cadre also came out of the PLP.
