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'''Joseph Daniel Casolaro''' (June 16, 1947 – August 10, 1991) was an investigative reoprter investigating [[Mena Airport]], the [[Arkansas Development Finance Authority]], [[Iran-Contra]], and the [[BCCI]]. Casolaro was nearing the end of his project and told friends he was about to publish something really big. He told the same friends he was receiving death threats and if something happened to him it would be no accident. He was found dead in the bathtub of a hotel in Martinsberg, [[West Virginia]], officially ruled a suicide, having slit his wrists 12 times so deep it cut the tendons.
The sale of the PROMIS software was the one of the principal topics that Casolaro was investigating at the time of his death either late Friday, August 9, or early Saturday, August 10, 1991. On Saturday around noon he was found dead in his room, Room 517, at the Sheraton Martinsburg Inn in Virginia. [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] represented the clients who were selling the PROMIS software worldwide, which a federal bankruptcy court ruled was "stolen" from [[Inslaw Inc]].
==Peter Videnieks==
Peter Videnieks was the original [[US Justice Department]] Contracting Officer on [[INSLAW]]'s PROMIS contract in 1982. Videnieks later worked in US Custons clearing export of the stolen PROMIS software. Videnieks was married to Barbara Videnieks, Chief of Staff to the [[Exalted Cyclops]] Senator [[Robert Byrd]].
On June 12, 1991, Casolaro spoke by telephone with Peter Videnieks at Videnieks' office then at the U.S. Customs Service but Videnieks declined to answer Casolaro's questions about INSLAW and referred Casolaro to Charles Ruff, the [[Washington DC]] attorney whom the [[US Department of Justice]] was paying to represent Videnieks in the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of the INSLAW case. Ruff along with [[Cheryl Mills]] later argued the defense for President [[Bill Clinton]]'s [[impeachment]] trial in the [[Senate]].
*Casolaro had documents related to "First American Bankshares" [Financial General] showing monies paid to officials in [[US Department of Justice]] and [[Treasury]].
On August 9, the last day of his life, Danny Casolaro said he had arranged a meeting with Peter Videnieks and [[Robert A. Altman]] another big player to trade them documents for further documents regarding the sale of the modified PROMIS software. Altman served as an attorney to Bert Lance, and as the president of BCCI-controlled First American bank.
Casolaro picked up two packages of documents he had given to a friend for safekeeping. exchange was to take place at a meeting said to have been arranged by a covert intelligence operative of the U.S. Army Special Forces named Joseph Cuellar. Cuellar befriended Casolaro at a local pub claiming to be friends with Peter Videnieks and that his ex-wife worked in Sen. Byrds' office with Mrs. Videnieks.
The next day after picking up two packages of documents for the meeting with Videniecks and Altmanthe character, Danny Casolaro was found dead in his hotel room at the Sheraton. Several days later a friend of Casolaro's, Lynn Knowles, who attended two meetings between Casolaro and Cuellar received a phone call from Cuellar who said in words or substance:
:"What Danny Casolaro was investigating is a business. If you don't want to end up like Danny or like the journalist [Anson Ng] who died a horiffic death in [[Guatemala]], you'll stay out of this. Anyone who asks too many questions will end up dead." <ref>Bua Rebuttal</ref>
==See also==
*[[Clinton body countBody Count]]*[[Mary Jacoby]]
==References==
==External links==
*[http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/inslaw.rebuttal.html INSLAW's ANALYSIS and REBUTTAL of the BUA REPORT], July 11, 1993.
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