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25 John Simkin, “Henry Marshall: Biography,” Spartacus Educational, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmarshallH.htm (accessed 4 May 2011)

 
               
               
George Krutilek —
April 4, 1962
Accountant
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    VICTIM:
    GEORGE KRUTILEK
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    Cause of Death:
    Carbon Monoxide poisoning
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    Official Verdict:
    SUICIDE
    Actual Circumstances:
    Krutilek was the accountant for the financial scam being run by Billie Sol Estes and linked to Lyndon Johnson in Texas. Estes later testified that Johnson had personally ordered that Krutilek be killed, using hit man Mac Wallace.
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    Inconsistencies:
    A large bruise on Krutilek’s head indicated that he had been bludgeoned unconscious prior to inhaling the carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide poisoning was the modus operandi of hit man, Mac Wallace.
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    Like Henry Marshall, the death of George Krutilek was directly linked to the financial scandal involving Billie Sol Estes and Lyndon Johnson.
    Krutilek was the accountant for Billy Sol Estes and had close knowledge of the gigantic scam of subsidies for nonexistent crops that was fleecing taxpayers, claiming government credits for cotton that was never actually grown, but listed as grown and in storage. The “invisible cotton” was then also used as collateral to secure large fraudulent loans that weren’t repaid.
    A day after being questioned by the FBI, April 3, 1962, Krutilek was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. The following day, Billy Sol Estes was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on fifty-seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. Three men were arrested with Estes and two of them died under suspicious circumstances.
    LBJ did whatever it took to win. His political history was laced with blatant corruption. Johnson had failed in his bid for U.S. senator in a Texas election, losing by a margin of very few votes. Six days after the election, 203 “extra” votes turned up from a tiny town in Alice, Texas and, in an amazing anomaly in the laws of probability, 202 of those 203 votes were for Lyndon Johnson. He was declared the winner by 87 votes and that was why LBJ was mockingly referred to as “Landslide Lyndon”
“ ̾ the election judge in Alice (Texas) admitted that he had helped rig the election.” 26
    But that didn’t stop LBJ from blazing a path of corruption across the state of Texas and into the halls of the United States Senate. As veteran CIA operative (and Texas native) John Stockwell put it, everyone in Texas knew that:
“ ̾ Lyndon Johnson was corrupt to the core, with mob ties, with murders sometimes associated with his political campaigns.” 27
    To convey an idea of the extent of pervasive corruption wreaked by Lyndon Johnson’s political organization in Texas, one need look no further than the trial of his henchman, Mac Wallace. Described as Johnson’s hit man, Wallace was found guilty of First Degree Murder with eleven jurors recommending the death penalty and the twelfth juror recommending life imprisonment. But in an incredibly obvious example of a corrupt system known at the time as “Texas Justice,” the judge over-ruled the jury, technically sentencing Wallace to five years imprisonment, which was “suspended” by the judge, and Wallace was immediately freed.
    It is duly noted that, as an American citizen, even Lyndon Johnson deserved his day in court. Here, however, is a glimpse of what that day would have looked like. Douglas Caddy, Esq., the attorney formally representing Billie Sol Estes, contacted the United States Attorney’s Office on August 9, 1984 informing them that his client had personal and direct knowledge of, and was willing to testify that, Lyndon Johnson was responsible for ordering the murders of:”
•Henry Marshall
•George Krutilek
•Harold Orr
•Coleman Wade
•Josefa Johnson
•John Kinser
•President John F.