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| Los Angeles Times Friday, April 14, 2000 Ex-Military Brass Reject Allen's CIA
Claim People who say they were defrauded by a Newport Beach businessman they say masqueraded as a war hero put three retired military officers, including two generals, on the stand Thursday to dispute claims that he flew secret missions for the CIA and was shot down in Laos. The former officers, including Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord and Brig. Gen. Harry C. Aderholt, systematically rebutted testimony by insurance executive Edgar Dale Allen that his plane was downed during a top-secret Air Force-CIA mission in 1963 and that he was held prisoner. Secord, who held a variety of Air Force posts in Southeast Asia from 1962 to 1968, called Allen's story "simply not credible."... |
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He is a financial genius who manages "assets in the billions" for wealthy investors; earned a law degree at Harvard University; played baseball for the New York Yankees; flew Air Force One for President John F. Kennedy; and, as a colonel in the Air Force, was injured and held as a POW in the 1960s after performing covert missions for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Southeast Asia. She is the high-profile vice chairperson of the Orange County Republican Central Committee, a public-relations officer for Southern California Edison, and a frequent television commentator who espouses Christian traditional values and conservative politics. Together, Edgar Dale "Eddie" Allen, 70, and his wife, Jo Ellen, 55, appear the ultimate storybook Corona del Mar couple, living model lives in their $900,000 ocean-view Spy Glass Hill house. But last month, federal bankruptcy Judge Robert W. Alberts shattered the impressive façade, ruling that Eddie had for years fabricated his life story in schemes to defraud wealthy and modest-income individuals of millions of dollars. The Allens had hoped that the court would give Eddie and his company, American Life Underwriters, bankruptcy protection to block the investors from ever collecting their missing money. But after reviewing more than two years’ worth of evidence, Alberts was unequivocal: Eddie had been "thoroughly discredited," in part by knowingly giving false testimony and presenting doctored evidence. The judge also accused Allen of continuing to hide several million dollars from creditors.... Next week: Eddie Allen, master spy. Copyright © 2001, O.C. Weekly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. | ||||
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Contact us via e-mail mailto:letters@ocweekly.com, regular mail (Letters to the Editor, OC Weekly, P.O. Box 10788, Costa Mesa, CA 92627) or fax (714-708-8410). Letters will be edited for clarity and length. By submission of a letter, you agree that we can publish and/or license the publication of it in print and electronically. All correspondence must include your home city and a daytime phone number. ALLEN’S WRENCH Editor’s note: This week, the unprecedented. We turn over the entire Letters section to just one letter: Jo Ellen Allen’s response to last week’s cover story. She asked that we not edit her letter, which explains any spelling or grammatical errors. See R. Scott Moxley’s point-by-point response (indicated in brackets). In the October 5-7 edition of the OC Weekly my husband and I were maliciously and intentionally vilified by Scott Moxley in an article characterized by lies, innuendos, misinformation and vicious accusations (Moxley’s "God Bless America! How a Newport Beach power couple used right-wing politics to build an empire worth absolutely nothing"). Since this is standard fare for the Weekly, I can only conclude that the serious personal anguish, embarrasment and pain this has caused is of no concern to the Weekly. In fact, I am quite sure they are rejoicing in their effort to malign yet another conservative Republican [1]. Unfortunately, neither truth nor accuracy are of concern to the Weekly. While it is true I did not respond to the e-mails sent to me by Mr. Moxley (since I was neither a party nor a witness in my husband’s bankruptcy case), my husband and his attorney left several messages with both Mr. Moxley and Will Swaim, the Weekly’s editor, indicating when he would be available to talk to the Weekly. Not surprisingly, the Weekly published its attack without speaking with Eddie.... Jo Ellen Allen |
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Oct. 26 - Nov. 1, 2001 Orange County Weekly Orange County businessman Edgar Dale "Eddie" Allen tells
many exciting stories of his wartime heroism, but the best one
goes like this: it's late 1963, and the U.S. military is gearing up
for a major land war in Asia. Air Force Captain Eddie Allen, on loan
to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is flying a U-2 spy plane
over the jungles of Laos with a crew of three. Their mission: to find
the spot that will serve as a key radar beacon for the future bombing
of Hanoi. Then disaster strikes. The plane is shot down; only
Eddie ================================== |
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| Orange County Weekly (POW-MIA angle) November 23 - 29, 2001 Where Are the Cops? Despite a judge's ruling that he defrauded investors of millions, Eddie Allen still runs free by R. Scott Moxley For five years, Jon Illingworth has led the effort to expose Newport Beach businessman Edgar Dale "Eddie" Allen as a con artist who enjoys a life of luxury by defrauding millions of dollars from conservative Republicans across the country. In September, Illingworth won his biggest victory when a federal judge ruled that Allen gained access to other people's money by deceitfully posing as an affluent Harvard-educated attorney, Wall Street financial genius, and key CIA spy who advised Republican U.S. presidents and had been tortured while a prisoner of war in Vietnam. But the usually indefatigable Illingworth is exasperated these days. Despite a string of victories-the judge's stinging decision enumerating Allen's "fraudulent modus operandi," occasional media coverage, and the support of real CIA agents and military heroes-he is no closer to collecting the $40,000 he says was "conned" from his family in 1993. Worse, Illingworth and other victims of Allen's deceptions note, no law-enforcement agency has moved against Allen. Illingworth thinks he knows why, and it has to do with something Allen told him five years ago: it's politics.... |
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7 No. 14 December 7 - 13, 2001 by R. Scott Moxley http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/02/14/news-moxley.php In the three months since a federal bankruptcy judge ruled that her husband used patriotism, religion and political connections to defraud elderly Republicans out of millions of dollars, Jo Ellen Allen’s life appears unchanged. Several investors testified that Jo Ellen vouched for Eddie’s honesty and his phony military and business credentials. But the Southern California Edison spokesperson and Republican Party official continues to attend political functions, where she fires up God-and-country conservatives. And she still shows up a few times a month at KOCE, where she offers news commentary on the Huntington Beach public TV station. You’d know her: she emerges from a Lincoln Town Car wearing a 1950s-style shampoo-set hairdo and an expensive knit suit. Her sparkling blue eyes are outmatched only by the American-flag lapel pin she invariably wears. "I think Jo Ellen is in denial. She acts as if she’s done nothing wrong," says Jon Illingworth, a 59-year-old retired Tustin resident who Eddie defrauded for $40,000. "Far from apologizing and trying to make amends, the Allens claim they are the victims. They’ve never taken any responsibility for all the people they have hurt."... |
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