Hussein fundraiser and Casino Queen Board Chairman Elzie Higginbottom up out of Cedar Rapids Eastern Iowa Airport. 1989 GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE G-IV, tail number N2129 is currently cruising at 43,700 feet and pointed roughly at Florida.
N2129 Aircraft Registration
Aircraft Summary
Summary1989 GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE G-IV
Fixed wing multi engine
(22 seats / 2 engines)
OwnerBC1117 LLC
GARY , IN, US
https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N2129
Flight plan hidden, of course.
N2129 -BC1117 LLC (GARY IN)
This aircraft (N2129) is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N2129
Elzie Higginbottom
https://www.corporationwiki.com/p/2g9xcm/bc1117-llc
Obama fundraiser schmoozing Mugabe and Zanu PF for business deals
On Jun 28, 2013
By LIONEL FAULL, WONGAI ZHANGAZHA
A major Chicago fundraiser for United States President Barack Obama has been schmoozing senior Zanu-PF figures, including President Robert Mugabe, in the hope of winning business deals from the Zimbabwe government.
In return, amaBhungane understands, senior Zimbabwean security force members have been looking to the fundraiser,real-estate tycoon Elzie Higginbottom, to help the country to wriggle off the hook of targeted US sanctions.
Internal Zanu-PF documents seen by amaBhungane suggest that the Zimbabwean military was keen to enter into negotiations with Higginbottom to form a joint-venture diamond mining company in 2011.
Higginbottom’s vast property portfolio has been “conservatively” valued at $200-million by the Chicago Tribune. Campaign finance records indicate that he and his wife contributed $400 000 to Obama’s campaign war chest between 2008 and 2012 and donated generously to both Obama inaugurations.
Higginbottom’s largesse has catapulted him into a super-category of party political funders in the US popularly referred to as “bundlers” (see “Support in bundles”).
Zimbabwe security forces apparently saw the participation of Americans in the Chiadzwa diamond fields near Marange as key to avoiding further action by a “hostile” US government to restrict the Zimbabwe diamond trade.
The security forces also hoped that a delegation of Chicago businessmen led by Higginbottom would lean on key members of the Obama administration to reverse, or ease, US sanctions against senior Zanu-PF figures.
The sanctions, administered by the US treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (Ofac), prohibit US citizens from engaging in “any transactions with any person, entity or organisation” on a list of “specially designated nationals”.
moar at:
https://nehandaradio.com/2013/06/28/obama-fundraiser-schmoozing-mugabe-and-zanu-pf-for-business-deals/
IL Says Casino Queen Can't Stay Open 24 Hours
By AP/KWMU
Chicago, ILl. – The Illinois Gaming Board has rejected a request by the Casino Queen to stay open 24 hours.
Currently, the Casino Queen is open 22 hours. Illinois law allows 24-hour gambling, but the board must approve changes in hours.
Casino Queen director Michael Gaughan said the casino "is about two feet of water away from temporary closing" and wanted expanded gambling hours to compete with Missouri casinos, which are open all day.
"We are about two generations behind now," he said. "We are doing our best to stay proactive in this market today."
Jeannette Tamayo, interim board administrator, said the Gaming Board did not have enough staff members to supply agents at the casino if it were open 24 hours.
"We barely have enough staffing right now," she said.
Board Chairman Elzie Higginbottomtold Casino Queen officials that the board had received numerous letters and phone calls opposed to 24-hour gambling.
Four other casino owners have reduced hours of operation to cut costs after Gov. Rod Blagojevich got approval from lawmakers to take 70 percent of revenue over $250 million from the most profitable boats and smaller increases for less profitable boats.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/il-says-casino-queen-cant-stay-open-24-hours#stream/0