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In the News (Wed 15 Oct 08)

  
  Profile: Jackson T. Stephens (with Mary Anne)
Stephens founded Stephens Group, one of the largest investment firms off Wall Street, with his brother, the late W.R. “Witt” Stephens.
Stephens attended the Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he met and became friends with a midshipman from Georgia, Jimmy Carter.
Stephens was an outspoken backer of President Ronald Reagan.
www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/2004/04/stephens.html   (483 words)

  
 Ross (AR04) - Floor Statements - In Lasting Memory of Jackson T. Stephens
Stephens was also a remarkable supporter of the arts, and permanently donated to the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock his personal collection of artwork that include the likes of Degas, Monet, Picasso and Wyeth.
Stephens was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Citation from the University of Arkansas and in 1985, was bestowed an honorary law degree by the University.
Stephens will not only be remembered for his savvy business entrepreneurial skills, but also for his tremendous generosity to underprivileged children, education, and a tremendous appreciation of the arts.
www.house.gov /list/press/ar04_ross/morenews/floor_072705.html   (601 words)

  
 [The Harborsite] A bit of speculation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jackson Stephens, a name often linked with America's super-secret National= =20 Security Agency, has been an influential presence for several decades in=20 the tiny town which served as port of entry into U.S. flight and even=20 military training for the terrorist cadre implicated in the Sept 11 attack.
Jackson Stephen's connections to Venice Florida are raising anew questions= =20 about the shadowy "international networks" reputed to have aided and=20 harbored the Arab men who carried out the most heinous terrorist crime in=20 history.
Stephens is often busy with his many philanthropic activities, he did manage to have found enough time to later be fingered as the andquot;Old Manandquot; behind the Mena, Arkansas cocaine smuggling scandal dogging Bill Clinton throughout his time in office.
grunt.space.swri.edu /pipermail/harborsite/2001-October/000219.html   (3011 words)

  
 Supervisors Meeting - 09-28-06
The Jackson Township Supervisors held a public meeting concerning the ordination of Pine Lock Street as a public road in Jackson Township at 7:00 p.m.
Stephens said, yes and then you take the dates that they were all notarized and take the dates in which they were recorded and then go back and check to see if the Township Supervisors at a public meeting authorized them.
Stephens said, at times that may be the case but when I went there and the three of us were there, I observed saplings growing up on some of the graves.
www.jacksontwppa.com /Minutes/09-28-06.htm   (5112 words)

  
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Jackson Stephens is the Little Rock billionaire who has held substantial interest in Worthen National Bank as well as in Stephens Inc., one of the largest privately owned investment banks outside Wall Street.
Stephens, a 1946 Naval Academy graduate, had joined with William Middendorf II (Secretary of the Navy under Nixon and Ford) in April 1977 to acquire Financial General, a Washington D.C.-based bank with headquarters a block from the White House.
Jackson Stephens would later capitalize on the $100,000 donations he made to the 1988 campaign of George Bush (thereby becoming a member of Bush's "Team 100"), as well as his friendship with George Bush, Jr., to to get BCCI involved in funding a lucrative Harken Energy offshore project in Bahrain.
www.theconspiracy.us /og/og029   (2686 words)

  
 Aug 29, 2006 Monsanto buys 'Terminator' seeds company William Engdahl 321gold
Stephens Group board member, Jon E.M. Jacoby, today Chairman of Delta and Pine Land, and still a Vice Director of The Stephens Group, was a very senior, trusted member of the Stephens' inside circle for more than 35 years.
Jacoby was Vice President of Stephens Inc. in the early 1990's, shortly after the BCCI scandals and early into the Presidency of another Jackson Stephens protégé, former Arkansas Governor and recipient of Stephens' political largess, William Jefferson Clinton.
Jackson Stephens' political largesse was non-partisan: Democrats Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and then Republican George W. Bush, the man now in the White House as Monsanto seeks approval to take over the Stephens Group's Delta and pine land.
www.321gold.com /editorials/engdahl/engdahl082906.html   (3750 words)

  
 issue8
Jackson Stephens, a name often linked with America’s super-secret National Security Agency, has been an influential presence for several decades in the tiny town which served as port of entry into U.S. flight and even military training for the terrorist cadre implicated in the Sept 11 attack.
Stephens is often busy with his many philanthropic activities, he did manage to have found enough time to later be fingered as the "Old Man" behind the Mena, Arkansas cocaine smuggling scandal dogging Bill Clinton throughout his time in office.
Jackson Stephen’s connections to Venice Florida are raising anew questions about the shadowy "international networks" reputed to have aided and harbored the Arab men who carried out the most heinous terrorist crime in history.
www.madcowprod.com /issue08.html   (1140 words)

  
 Columnist Bob Smizik: Is Jamain main man at tackle?
The competition between Jamain Stephens and Paul Wiggins to become the Steelers' starting right tackle figured to be one of the most fiercely contested in training camp.
In his first two training camps, Stephens reported at close to 360 pounds, which even on a 6-foot-5 frame was distinctly too much.
The scale read 320 for Stephens yesterday and he expects to be lighter by the time the regular season begins.
www.post-gazette.com /Steelers/19980723bsmizik3.asp   (696 words)

  
 Jackson Stephens: The Father of WTI [Free Republic]
Among the many distinctions afforded Arkansas billionaire tycoon Jackson Stephens is the fact that his firm, Stephens Inc. marshaled the WTI hazardous waste incinerator's march from conception to birth.
In 1991, Jackson Stephens contributed $100,000 to the Republican Party for Bush's presidential campaign, and Stephens Inc. "kicked in another $100,000." Stephens wife was the Arkansas co-chairman of the Bush for President campaign.
Jackson Stephens was also the main man behind the deal which secured a huge contract to drill oil in Bahrain for George Bush's son, George Jr.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37d95a0809ce.htm   (8177 words)

  
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Jackson Stephens, who was a major fund-raiser for Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, would also become one of George Bush's "Team 100" through $100,000 political donations in 1988 and 1992.
In 1980 the Stephens sold most of their Beverly stock at a handsome profit, but retained the real estate from Leisure Lodges, which was rented to Beverly, and also contracted to provide data processing services to Beverly through Jack's software firm Systematics.
The Stephens brothers were thus nicely positioned to make out like a bandit if they could convince some politician to push through a system of National Health Care, which would provide a built-in government demand for both health and software services.
www.theconspiracy.us /og/og031   (1336 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jackson Stephens, meanwhile, proposed, developed, and financed a plant for hazardous waste facilities, called Waste Technology Inc., beginning in 1979.
The investment bank Stephens Inc. was brought in to give a "fairness opinion" on behalf of NationsBank Corp. shareholders, even though the Stephens family, through their Boatmen's stock holdings, stand to make more than $200 million on the acquisition.
Stephens had the bodies removed, but one of them was subsequently recovered, having been stuffed down a capped oil well in Louisiana.
web.textfiles.com /politics/og101096.txt   (1444 words)

  
 stephens ... NC ... madison co TN ... newport AR , jackson co.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Stephens had fallen at her home about a week ago and sustained a broken hip and a fractured arm.
Stephens was born in Jackson, Tenn., on Sept. 6, 1858.
Stephens was the mother of five children, all of whom have been dead for many years.
hometown.aol.com /larry52462/myhomepage/millennium.html   (2919 words)

  
 Jackson Stephens: the Father of WTI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Among the many distinctions afforded Arkansas billionaire tycoon Jackson Stephens is the fact that his firm, Stephens Inc. marshaled the WTI hazardoi as waste incinerator's march from conception to birth.
So with the financial backing of Jackson Stephens and his company, the WTI incinerator was launched in traditional business fashion: wheeling, dealing and brazen political fixing.
Jackson Stephens was a major donor to Bill Clinton's campaigns for Governor and raised at least $100,000 for Bill Clinton's first Presidential campaign (Seattle Times, November 6, 1993) while extending $2 million to the campaign through Stephens and Riady's Worthen bank (The American Spectator, October, 1992).
www.greenlink.org /grassroots/soc/wastenot/97i02784.html   (2581 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Stephens then send salemen from his Little Rock firm *Systematics* to talk to Middendorf about providing banking software for Financial General, but they were firmly rejected.
Jackson Stephens is a billionaire from Little Rock who owns the controlling interest in Worthen National Bank as well as in Stephens Inc., one of the largest privately owned investment banks outside Wall Street.
Jackson Stephens (along with Tyson) has recently thrown his support behind the Dole campaign.
web.textfiles.com /politics/og010.txt   (3670 words)

  
 .: Print Version :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Stephens was born Aug. 9, 1923, the youngest of six children.
He also was chairman of Stephens Group, Inc., a diversified financial group that operates several companies, including Stephens Inc. and Stephens Media Group, formerly Donrey Media Group.
Stephens, regularly listed on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans, was known for his philanthropy in recent years.
www.boonevilledemocrat.com /articles/2005/07/27/news/news1.prt   (271 words)

  
 KATV Channel 7 - Stephens Group Founder, Jack Stephens, Dies At Age 81
The Stephens building and the Stephens Empire are a long way from the family farm in Prattsville, where Jackson Stephens, began his life.
Stephens went to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, but poor eyesight prevented him from military service.
Stephens donated 22-million dollars worth of his personal art work to the Arkansas Arts Center, including an original Monet and Picasso.
www.katv.com /news/stories/0705/246042.html   (623 words)

  
 Stephens Inc. • News Room •• Stephens Inc.
Stephens Inc., opens a new Public Finance office in Jackson.
Stephens Inc., a full-service investment banking and brokerage firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, has appointed Kenny Gunderman, 35, as a managing director in Corporate Finance.
Stephens Inc., a full service investment banking and brokerage firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, today announced that the firm’s airfreight & surface transportation team was named a “Best Boutique or Regional Firm” in the 2005 Institutional Investor survey.
www.stephens.com /stephens/news-room   (153 words)

  
 The Winchester Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
While banter over the commonwealth’s budget continues to go back and forth as it has for the past several weeks, Stephens City officials are looking to move ahead with their own.
Sherri K. Jackson, Stephens City treasurer, said the two line items in the budget that will effect the most people are the proposed real estate tax rate and personal property tax rate.
Currently, she said, Stephens City’s personal property tax rate is 5.8 cents per $100 of value on qualified vehicles.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/060510/Area_stephens.asp   (510 words)

  
 Cruelty to animals - will the circle be unbroken? : Melbourne Indymedia
Huntingdon eventually found new financing with Stephens Inc., an Arkansas investment bank, and reincorporated in the United States as Life Sciences Research Inc. The American company’s share price, which fell to less than $1 in 2002, has risen to more than $11, and it recently reported its 15th consecutive quarter of revenue growth.
The Stephens tentacles are as close as our next door neighbor's cash register after all the greatest thieves that ever lived have been Marcos and Suharto...
A Stephens employee was once fired on a Friday the 13th (Nov. 1987).
melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2005/02/87225.php   (1298 words)

  
 Research Assignment [Archive] - Sean Hannity Discussion
Jackson Stephens has been a lifelong supporter of George Bush and he was, at the same time, the source of the $3 million loan that rescued a faltering Clinton Campaign in early 1992.
Jackson Stephens, from Arkansas, has controlled at least 70% of all banking transactions in the US, with intimate connections to BCCI, the multi-billion dollar banking scandal that revealed that Saudi and CIA interests controlled the bank and laundered proven drug funds for military and Wall Street accounts.
Stephens was critical in keeping Bush's head above water throughout his business dealings, particularly with Harken Energy, and as Death Star has already kindly informed us, Stephens was critical in keeping Clinton in the '92 election race.
www.hannity.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-54312.html   (3023 words)

  
 CARTER, REAGAN, BUSH, CLINTON, BUSH, AND BCCI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Stephens would later be described by the New York Post as the man who was to "Clinton what Bert Lance was to candidate Jimmy Carter."
Stephens brokers the arrival of BCCI to this country, and steers BCCI's founder, Hassan Abedi to Bert Lance.
The $52 million loss is covered by a Worthen check written by Jack Stephens in the middle of the night, an insurance policy, and the subsequent purchase over the next few months of 40% of the bank by Mochtar Riady.
www.apfn.net /MESSAGEBOARD/04-13-04/discussion.cgi.54.html   (1820 words)

  
 Jackson County Legal Advertisements
All creditors of the estate of Stephen Michael Parker, deceased, late of Jackson County, are hereby notified to render their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to me.
If the imposition and continuance of the tax is approved by the voters within the Jackson School District, such vote shall also constitute approval of the issuance of general obligation debt of the Jackson School District in the principal amount of $20,000,000 for the purpose of funding portions of the Jackson School Projects.
Those residents of Jackson County qualified to vote at such election shall be determined in all respects in accordance with the election laws of the State of Georgia.
www.mainstreetnews.com /Arch/01/0808/LegalsJackson.html   (5079 words)

  
 Jackson Stephens Bio
Jack Stephens is Chairman of Stephens Inc., a diversified financial group, of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Born on August 9, 1923, he was the youngest of six children.
He returned to Little Rock and joined his brother, W.R. “Witt” Stephens, in a business venture that became Stephens Inc. He served as President of the company from 1957 until 1986.
www.uams.edu /info/NewsReleases/2002/021902/stephens.htm   (246 words)

  
 GMWatch.org
Stephens Inc. is also one of the biggest institutional shareholders in 30 large multinationals including the Arkansas based firms Tyson Food, the world’s largest chicken industrial factory operation and the infamous Arkansas giant, Wal-Mart.
Officials at investment giant Stephens Inc., including longtime Clinton friend, David Edwards, take steps to rescue Harken Energy, a struggling Texas oil company with George W. Bush on its board.
Time magazine reported that, ‘In one case, [Henrickson claimed] a Tyson executive handed him an envelope of cash in the company's aircraft hanger in Fayetteville and said, 'This is for Governor Clinton.’ Arkansas has its political traditions and the Stephens and Tyson families are evidently skilled practitioners of that art.
www.gmwatch.org /archive2.asp?arcid=6940   (3904 words)

  
 Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute - Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute - ...
The Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is a center for research, education, and clinical care related to the spine.
It is named for philanthropist Jack Stephens of Little Rock, whose historic gift to UAMS made the institute’s 12-story building possible.
The Institute is the home of the Center for the Athletic and Aging Spine, University Rehabilitation, and the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery of the UAMS College of Medicine, as well as related neurosciences programs.
www.uams.edu /stephensinstitute/default.asp   (169 words)

  
 The Clinton Administration
Stephens and supported by the administrations of George HW Bush and William J Clinton
Jackson Stephens: the Father of WTIBy Brian Lipsett and Ellen Connett
When Lewis, in Panama, felt that his life was under threat by Noriega he called his "banker, Jackson T. Stephens, in Little Rock, Arkansas, who was desperate to get his friend and client to safety...Stephens phoned his former classmate at the Naval Academy, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William Crowe.
www.oilempire.us /clinton.html   (4832 words)

  
 The Webfairy -- [CIA-DRUGS] Jackson Stephens refresher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Stephens is a close friend and financial supporter of former President
Jack Stephens persuaded the government that he was an innocent party.
Jackson Stephens deal makers at the Rose Law firm….
thewebfairy.com /911/cia-drugs/Msg00168.html   (5231 words)

  
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Stephens evidently built his career and fortune by being connected to the ‘rightâ€=99 people.
The Riadys are Chinese-Indonesian businessmen who, of all places, moved to Arkansas in the 1970â€=99s, despite holding billions of assets in Asia.
Another Jackson Stephens protégé, former Arkansas Governor and recipient of Stephens’ political largess, William Jefferson Clinton.
www.free-conversant.com /realtruth/1020   (3515 words)

  
 Compass Loyola University New Orleans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jackson Stephens grew up in the dirrty south and the west side...
He graduated from Loyola New Orleans in 2003 and spent a year as the National Curriculum Coordinator for the Leadership Training Program in DC.
She asked me if I was stressed out about exams, and the only thing I could think of to say was Ryan Verret's old maxim, "I'm too blessed to be stressed." Curse you Ryan Verret!
www.loyno.edu /compass/PAGES/jackson.htm   (285 words)

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