All language subtitles for Conspiracy Of Silence (Banned Discovery Channel Documentary)(360P)

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, Boys Town, Nebraska,

one of the most respected institutions
in the United States.

spreads out like a spider web to
Washington, D .C., right up to the steps

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

And the centerpiece of the entire web is
the use of children for sex

and drug dealing and drug couriers, 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 Boys Town is in the news
again.

Made famous by an Oscar -winning film,
Boys Town, Nebraska is America's

children's charity.

It was founded in 1917 by Father Edward
Flanagan.

is the neglected, unwanted, and unloved
boy who has become a serious problem in

our society.

Boys Town was started to be a home for
orphans.

That was 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
now girls also.

With cash reserves of $500 million, Boys
Town is the richest square mile in the

world. It has been granted the
privileges of an incorporated town, a

diocese, and a school district for 500
boys and girls.

One -third of its annual income is
raised from public donations, solicited

begging letters and promotional videos.

I'm Father Val Peter, caretaker of
Father Flanagan's dream and executive

director of Boys Town.

Does Boys Town really exist, people ask
me?

You bet it does.

Located in the heartland of America,
Boys Town youth have come from many

backgrounds and locales.

As they graduate...

They shall seek new adventures and head
for different places.

But always, they shall carry with them
the spirit of Boys Town.

If you'd like to help Boys Town, send
your tax -deductible gift to Father Val

Peter, Boys Town, Nebraska, 68010.

Boys 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 Boys Town that

much good for so many children over such
a long period of time so successfully.

When an institution like that gets
contaminated for purposes of abusing

instead of protecting children, then
you'd better, if you've got any decency

all, do something about it or at least
get it cleared up.

John DeCamp lays the blame for the
contamination of Boys Town on the one

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

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

and corrupting one after another
politicians.

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.

Mr. King was 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 Boys Town, and Boys

Town youngsters were sent to work for
his companies.

Boys 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 Boys Town.

King used Boys Town as a source of young
boys for his business and for sex and

drug orgies.

Paul Bernassi was a victim of King's
abuse.

He was also sent by King to lure Boys
Town youngsters off campus.

We used to just drive around and go up
to the homes that someone used to do

of the scavenger hunts with picking up
some of the kids.

You know, just kind of win their
confidence, become friends with them for

while.

Start inviting them to the parties.

The kids were 10 years old or older.

In 1986, King's plundering of Boys 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, the director of

facility. They should be reported
directly to either Child Protective

or law enforcement.

An internal investigation at Boys Town
would have no status. I mean, in other

words, that evidence collected may be
something that could 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

Boys Town, identifying children and
identifying their alleged abusers, never

the 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... Did something like
that happen? I don't know.

Well, in retrospect, I...

regret having any association with Larry
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.

But in 1988, a routine review brought
the Boys Town cases to the attention of

Nebraska's state foster care review
board.

And the information presented to the
Foster Care Review Board, either via the

telephone reports, the 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.

Good morning, Roberta.

Good morning.

But its 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,

would have been prosecuted by the county
attorney's office.

For me, it was very clear.

But 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, ringleaders were
department store billionaire Alan Baer.

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

finance a luxury lifestyle of
limousines, private planes and palatial

Three in Omaha.

and one in Washington, D .C.

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
businessman that's helping the poor

black community of Omaha.

But King's extravagance attracted the
attention of the Internal Revenue

As a result, on April 11, 1988, the
Franklin Credit Union was raided and

by the FBI.

King was arrested, and a federal
investigation showed he'd stolen $40

from Franklin.

But the FBI's inquiries were secret, and
evidence of King's sex ring was quickly

covered up.

In November 1988, Nebraska's state
government set up a parallel

into the Franklin financial collapse.

A legislative committee was formed.

Its chairman was the Republican head of
Nebraska's banking committee, corn

farmer 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.

The caller did not 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 testified, before
the legislative committee, I did receive

phone call at home that said, if you
speak, you won't live to regret it.

Undeterred, Schmidt's committee hired
professional investigators, Karen

and Gary Caradori.

When we hired Mr.

Caradori, I was very specific to him. I
said, we do not want you to bring to the

committee rumors, innuendos.

Nothing that cannot be backed up with
facts. I said, bring to the committee

which we can take to a prosecutor.

On the streets of Omaha, Gary Caradori
and Karen Ormiston found new victims of

King's paedophile network.

Every new youngster told the same
stories as those from Boys Town, covered

three years earlier.

They were telling us about prominent
people in Omaha and elsewhere

that were abusing children at parties.

that originally came up were of concern
to me because I knew many of those

individuals and I was very practically
shocked to have those names show up on

the list.

Ormiston and Caradori recorded their new
witnesses on videotape.

A victim of abuse since he was eight,
Paul Bernassi was present at many of

King's sex parties.

Who are some of the people that would
come to these parties?

Media

personality

Peter Citron procured some of his
victims from Boys Town.

The kids he liked were mainly around the
age of probably about 8 and 13.

He was mainly fondly in oral sex with
them.

He did have some anal sex, but he
usually did that with the older kids.

But Sitton's abuse of Paul Benassi
involved ever more sadistic parties.

Okay,

just take a deep breath now.

Whenever you were tied up, was there
anybody else present other than you,

Tiffin, and Danny's team?

Yeah. Who was that?

It was Alan Barrison, Terry, Larry King,
Tom Marino.

I was there.

Troy Bonner was 17 when he was
introduced to the paedophile parties by

Bear.

He lifted me up, kind of moved me over
to the bed,

the breastplate on the bed, and put his
head down, started performing

oral sex on me while his penis was at my
end.

as they say, a 59 -year -old possession.

Alan Bear was a sick fuck.

Didn't care, you know, wanted sex,
nasty, you know, I don't even know if

call it sex, you know, and take it any
way he can get it, pay for it, he liked

to, but if he had to take it by force,
he would.

Larry King was the same kind of sick
fuck Alan Bear was, except Larry King

more violent, more sure of himself.

I mean, I would see him fuck a 10 -year
-old boy in the ass until he bled

and just pull out and stop and push him
down and then go out and

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 guys there that were from
both towns.

And it was at that party that I met
Larry King. At the time that I met Larry

King, I did not know that he was Larry
King.

I had met him. That was the first time
I'd ever met him.

Alan Bear and Larry King frequently
hosted the child sex parties in

apartments at the Twin Towers luxury
block.

A lot of it was me handcuffed with my
hands behind my head and

my feet tied and doing different things.

Okay.

I know

it's difficult.

I don't know.

Okay. I don't know.

Okay.

And you know...

Alisa, you're a victim.

And at a young age... Let's go off
camera for a minute.

We were appalled.

Appalled. It was incredible.

It's incredible what these kids went
through, I think.

I was shocked when I walked in. There
was a kid on save up.

15 years old, out in the middle of the
room, one guy 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

shoving beads up his rectum.

The police officer was shoving beads up
his rectum? Yes.

Everything, I mean, from just, you know,
touching to, you know.

fruit squash, you know, huge squash, you
know, that big around, you know, stuck

into you, into your ass, you know.

Heat, heat things, hot things, you know,
poked at you and stuck in you, you

know. I got those scars on my arm one
night at a party where Larry King was,

he had brought somebody, I don't clearly
remember who it was, you know, wanted

to see how...

stronger men were or something you know
and have us push our arms together and

you push your arms together danny has
king has these same scars and you push

them tight together and then you light
cigarettes and as soon as you get

you just drop them down between your
arms and you know let it let it burn you

know and they made us stand there naked
and touch each other by holding our arms

together and burn cigarettes where you
know it's on film someplace and then

filmed it burning you know and those of
us that

didn't like to be involved, and didn't
want to be involved, they're threatened.

And who would do these threatening
remarks?

Larry King.

Do you think Larry King personally did?

I think he did.

And they threatened, you know, that I
can go find somebody that will kill you,

and it will kill your family.

You don't tell anybody.

Larry King was also here. He came in and
we drank and did cocaine.

I didn't do much and he turned me on to
it. Larry King did.

He didn't like me because, you know, I
would get high on drugs, you know, 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 did gladly.

I even said to him, you stupid fucker.

I just said, you're paying me money, how
can you get into that? I got beat up by

it. I came home hearing a lot of times
beat the shit from misspeaking my

so to speak, and just telling them how I
felt sometimes.

Drugs was 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 the sexual acts and then
be provided with

cocaine or whatever type of drug they
wanted.

Heroin, you know, I don't know, but that
was my drug of choice.

To this day, I remain an addict.

Larry King was, I would say, the center
of

transporting the children around the
country.

The airplanes were usually in his name,
leased in his name.

They were paid for by Larry King.

We met them in Cappadena.

Who in Cappadena? We met Larry King in
there.

There was three boys that I had seen at
one of the receptions at the country

cafe. They were there.

And I was positive they were both 10
boys.

I was positive.

You mean graduates of Boys Town? Well,
not presidents.

I mean your presidents, they're young.

Well, how would they get away for a long
time? I have no idea.

Okay.

Boys Town came up frequently during the
investigation, but we found it very

difficult to get information about Boys
Town.

I was not able to find any information
on my visit there, and Mr. Caradori

not get information either.

Four years on, Boys Town remains
unwilling to discuss its involvement

King.

We asked for an interview with Chief
Executive Father Val Peter, but Boys

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 his office. Thank you
very much.

We're here because we have to give
Father Valpita and Boys Town every

opportunity to talk to us about the very
serious allegations.

Please step outside.

Why is it that Boys Town is unwilling to
discuss your relationship with Larry

King? We don't have a relationship with
him. I'm afraid papers that we possess

show that Boys Town had a relationship
with Larry King.

I just suggest you be very careful about
what you report, excuse me.

Unless you leave.

By the spring of 1989, so serious were
the 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 videotaped 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

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 that people said that Gary
Caridori coached me and that he told me

what to say, but the fact was I didn't
meet Gary Caridori until way after I'd

already talked to the Omaha police about
the abuse and had named all the same

people. And they didn't ask me very much
about Larry King or even Alan Bear

at all.

They treated the allegations that I 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 Nebraska State Patrol. They
conducted their own investigations of

information.

The stories were of such significance.

that the investigators first wanted to
prove the accuracy of the stories.

As they set about the investigation of
the three, initially three, and then a

fourth person were telling the stories,
as the investigation developed, it

became obvious to the investigators that
the information was not accurate, that

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.

And instead of taking the evidence that
was delivered to them by the victims and

interrogating the persons who the
victims identified, they

seemed to bear down and try to get the
victims to change their story.

Troy Bonner was brought in for
questioning by the FBI.

The FBI's attitude was, you know, just
no, these kind of things don't happen.

From the first interview when I went,
you know, and realized they don't

a fucking thing I'm saying, you know
what I mean, they are, I mean, they were

just appalled, but I realized what that
look in their eye was back then, it was

fear. It was fear of, you know, I mean,
I had witnessed, you know, firsthand

things that would, you know.

and destroy this city. You know, people
are positioned, you know what I mean?

It's not going to be believed, believed,
they said. It will not be believed. You

will be found guilty of perjury. I mean,
they weren't telling me maybe.

You know, they were saying, there's no
way.

You go on with this story, you're going
to jail. I mean, that was said to me

direct. Just out of fear, I came to
recant the story out of fear.

Troy Bonner agreed to recant his
videotaped testimony and state instead

evidence had been invented.

Next, the FBI used 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

for John DeCamp.

This is Special Agent Michael F. Mott.
The following will be a consensually

recorded telephone call between Troy
Bonner and Alicia Owen.

to tell me what's going on hey look i
have nobody listening to me

have to have bricks for brains to take
on the FBI in this country.

And that's exactly what you'd have to do
to do this properly.

They now, in my opinion, in my
investigation, are the architects of the

-up.

We asked the FBI for an interview about
its investigation of the Franklin

scandal.

Larry Holmquist for the FBI here. We
feel it would be inappropriate.

us to comment. We work this with the
Omaha Police Department. We just don't

it would be appropriate for us to make
comments.

As Gary Caridori and Karen Ormiston
sought out new witnesses on the streets

Omaha, they found themselves under
constant threat.

Gary was threatened several times.

His vehicles were tampered with.

I would think whoever tampered with
them, it was a scare tactic because it

so obvious that they were being tampered
with.

Gary got, he was, there was one piece of
evidence I know he got that he was,

that he even said he got one step ahead
of them this time.

He told 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 the 11th, 1990, Gary Caradori
and his eight -year -old son, A .J.,

flying home from Chicago.

They had watched the All -Stars baseball
game, and Caradori had been pursuing

new leads.

Investigators from the National
Transportation Safety Board are in

Cameron's cornfield trying to determine
what caused this private plane to crash,

killing its two occupants.

The bodies of Gary Caradori and eight
-year -old AJ were found in the

National Transportation Safety Board
investigators say wreckage from the

is apparently strewn over a three
-quarter to one -mile -long stretch in

field. The fact that the wreckage is
scattered over a large area certainly

demonstrates that it did break up in
flight. The exact mechanism of breakup

is still unknown.

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 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.

As a mother, I don't want to ever think
that somebody murdered my child,

let alone my husband.

But I think if you'd ever talk to any
parent, be it mother or father, who's

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 Caradori's death pricked Troy
Bono's conscience.

He promised Sandy that he would recount
his recountation and tell the truth.

I set the record straight.

I was, you know, going to do it.

And would, you know, the truth would
come out, you know, and somebody would

held accountable for his death.

And then at the funeral I had seen, you
know, FBI guys, you know, and they

looked at me.

You know, I was supposed to meet Senator
LaBette and Schmidt for lunch after the

funeral. And, you know, that's when I
decided, I told my mom, you know, we're

not going to do the noise. We're going
to hightail it out of Lincoln now.

The effect of Gary's crash on the
investigation, I think, in

effect, put an end 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

son, there was nothing that would stop
them. 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, Troy Bonner
agreed to tell a Douglas County grand

jury investigating Larry King that he
and Alicia Rowan had concocted the

child abuse story on payment of a $500
bond.

Troy Bonner was to be the star witness
against Alicia Rowan.

but he grew uneasy about maintaining
what he claims were the lies fed to him

the FBI.

But when his brother Sean died in an
inexplicable gun accident, Troy and his

family were convinced they'd been sent a
warning message.

You know, and they killed him just flat
out, right?

Somehow, professionally, made something
happen, you know, to shut me up.

The purpose of Sean's death?

To instill fear.

And it 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.

It's for him because... I mean, it
should have been me there instead of

Really. I mean, I'm not trying to make
anybody feel bad, but I mean, he...

He was brilliant and, you know,
innocent.

You know, it should have been me. I
mean, he had so much to give. I had

much. You know, it should have been the
other way around.

I can't explain to you what it feels
like to lose a child.

But when you see the pain your kids have
because of that, it's much worse.

I can't do anything for him. I can't
take that pain away for him.

Lauren Schmidt's legislative committee
issued a report denouncing the grand

jury. Two months later, it was
disbanded, leaving Schmidt a broken man.

The message was not lost on most
politicians in Nebraska.

I think the message delivered was of any
legislative committee.

ever tries to conduct a thorough
investigation again, the same thing will

happen.

It has shaken my faith in the
institutions of government.

It used to be a firm leader that the
system would work.

And that...

People who did things wrong would be
punished.

And we discovered victims

who claimed to have been 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 Alicia Olin of perjury.

And defensible from my point of view.

In July 1991, Alicia Rowan 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

to 25 or 30 years in prison for
something like this. If you were going

a, what I call a tell sign, something
that says something fishy about the

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 Rowan.

John DeCamp is now the only man fighting
to help Larry King's victims.

He's become the lawyer for Paul Benassi
and Alicia Owen.

I live in Nebraska.

Hell, I was born here, raised here.

I have four kids growing up here.

Like it or not, it's my heritage, you
know.

Well, if it's a dirty cesspool that I've
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 it's put on some of the
kids. A couple of the kids are really,

really frightened and really had some
sleeping problems over it, you know,

this or that. So 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.

Old Bill Colby told me better than
anything, the one thing that the bad

can't afford is publicity and knocking
you off right now or doing something

obvious to one of your kids would bring
them more trouble than it's worth. I

said, you have to consider the
possibility of some danger to not only

reputation, but to your person. I mean,
there are, people do react rather

violently to some kinds of charges,
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, by 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 DeCamp has arranged to meet Troy
Bonner, 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 serves his purpose for the FBI and
others by committing the lies that put

seal on the cover -up.

His greatest safety probably lies in
doing exactly what he knows he should

that is exposing the whole thing, taking
one final last chance and telling the

truth.

My fears are that, you know, I'm not
going to be believed again.

It's just, you know, going to be a whole
other kind of exploitation like it was

last time.

You know, I'm afraid that that's going
to happen or, you know, I might end up

dead. Our loved one might end up dead
again.

I want this to go forward and have
something done so that all those other

who are a lot worse...

more worse things have happened to can
come forward and see that action can be

taken because there are a lot of other
kids out there that, you know, things

happen to them that, you know, 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 why we're here today, to let it
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

forced me to lie. I did lie at Alicia's
trial. 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 had been edited.

Everything that matched Troy's statement
that matched mine was edited out.

And I think maybe one of the things we
want to do is show the judge

how, where these little five -minute
segments of, look, this tape says this,

then show him.

It isn't in this tape, and this is the
tape the grand jury saw.

I'm going to attempt to get these tapes,
and we'll see what happens next.

But to obtain the evidence, DeCamp 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 Olin case, 127
-194, I'm trying to get the evidence,

tapes and the transcripts.

Troy and Danny.

Troy... Troy Bonick.

Yeah.

I think there's two tapes. There should
be, as I understand, and the transcript

of them.

But if I could get them, I could start
reviewing them and figure out maybe a

little bit on what's happening on some
things.

Oh.

Robert?

Let me guess, Robert Siegler has them.

Robert Siegler is the prosecuting
attorney fighting to send Alicia Rowan

prison. After lengthy negotiations, the
camp emerges with the tapes the grand

jury never saw.

Okay, and did you go direct?

No, I just got over in Dallas -Fort
Worth.

So you went from where to where to
where? I went from Omaha to Dallas -Fort

Worth like an hour, and then a big plane
from

Dallas to Los Angeles. Did anybody go
with you? Alicia Irwin.

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, the smoking gun
that they could go out and verify, the

corroboration, in other words, the
linkage to King that was denied.

Cover -up.

Organized, planned, deliberate cover
-up.

The courthouse, Wahoo, Nebraska.

The hearings begin.

Alicia Owen is ready to testify.

So too is Paul Bonassi.

But there is no sign of Troy Bonner.

De Camp discovers that Robert Siegler
has sent the young man a threatening

subpoena. Fearing arrest for perjury
Troy has gone into hiding.

In court, De Camp successfully pleads
for another adjournment. The county

attorney's office begins to search for
Troy Bonner, but Robert Siegler won't

why.

Mr. Siegel, is it true you are about to
charge Troy Bonner with perjury? No, it

cannot be.

Mr. Siegel, if you do not charge Troy
Bonner with perjury, does that mean you

accept what he's saying is true?

No, it cannot be.

Why are you trying to have Troy Bonner
summoned to this hearing, Mr. Siegel?

No, it cannot be. Why no comment, Mr.
Siegel?

No, it cannot be.

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

out of the state, discredited.

Every perpetrator, every perpetrator,
even the convicted ones, have been

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

more significant than a bunch of drug
peddlers.

They were protecting, in my opinion,
they were protecting some very prominent

politicians, some very powerful and
wealthy individuals associated with

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

powerful connections in the nation's
capital.

Paul Bernassi has come too.

Larry King threw child sex parties at
his $5 ,000 a month Washington house.

Paul Bernassi was one of the victims.

Larry King's house down in Washington, D
.C. was a nice house. I believe it was

Embassy Row 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, about 1981.

And my first year was about three or
four times the first year. After that,

was about once a month after 81. And who
brought you here?

Larry King brought me here.

And this is the actual house where
you... Yes. And what, you were used for

there? Yes. Some of the parties when
they started off were great political

parties with no sex.

And then when some of the men had left,
some of the politicians had left, the

ones that had planned, they had planned
on engaging in some type of sexual

activity, that would come after the
party.

Some of the kids would be held
downstairs in some of the rooms where if

acted up or if they started freaking out
because of the drugs that they were on,

they'd put them in a room that they
couldn't get out of and they'd lock them

Were there drugs at these parties? Yes.

What kind of drugs?

Anything you wanted, cocaine, heroin,
seagulls. 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 ready to
label for anybody beforehand.

They did it more upstairs than they did
anywhere else, and it was kind of in the

back rooms.

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

there had already been, I guess you
could say, compromised.

King's partner in sex crime was powerful
Washington lobbyist Craig Spence.

He took youngsters like Benassi on
midnight tours of the White House. So

were in the White House then?

Yes. And how did you gain access?

Well, I came down with Larry King, but
Craig Spence was the one that arranged

the trip for us.

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?

Not until after we left.

After you left the White House? Yeah.

What time of night?

It was usually around midnight.

To me it was just kind of weird being in
the White House at that time of the

night and getting to go into places that
the guy was telling us that nobody gets

to go to.

I mean, I've seen rooms in there that
I'd never even heard about.

Craig Stinson and Larry King had a
couple of groups. One was called Bodies

God, and they had the Cowboys, 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, DeCamp
finds the investigative reporter who

exposed Spence's callboy network, Paul
Rodriguez of the Washington Times.

We had uncovered a series of allegations
from some minors, and it led me to

a callboy operation here in Washington.

It sure fits with, you know, this boy
Paul Benassi. He tells a tale of being

brought to the...

to the White House on occasion, kind of
as a reward for the kid. Craig Spencer's

dad committed suicide.

He had advanced stages of AIDS. He was
an AIDS carrier and he killed himself.

This was the thing that always bothered
me.

They claimed it was the largest male
prostitution ring in the city that

ever had uncovered. It was a million
dollars a year minimum.

And yet they only prosecuted the
operator, Henry Vinson, and three of his

lieutenants, as it were.

They never went after any of the John.

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.

That's precisely what Paul describes as
the people he was with. And a lot of the

stuff led there, but we couldn't quite
nail it at all cases because, again, to

accuse someone of high stature, you've
got to be very careful. I understand.

We were able to do it through the...

The mother looked, was divided us,
credit card receipts, expansive sex, and

lists of the clients.

The prosecutors knew all this stuff.
There was approximately 20 ,000 pieces

documents that they had. They sealed the
entire record when they found out I was

accessing it.

They required consent agreements from
all the lawyers.

all the clients, all the relatives of
all the clients, all the hookers,

including the clients themselves. Which
means you can never gain access. They

seal them by court order.

And we have tried, we've attempted on
several occasions to unseal that, and

we've been told there'll be a cold day
in hell before those records ever get

unsealed. And it makes me wonder what's
in those records. Yeah.

The Attorney General is now involved.

Bill Colby has passed DeCamp'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 DeCamp, the story of Larry
King's corrupt empire holds a dire

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 truth 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 united states

in the form of richard nixon could not
prevent the investigation of watergate

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 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

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 the record of the
Franklin investigation, not so much as a

party to the cover -up, but as its
coordinator.

Rigging 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.