VeriSeal and Cafasso exchange

Please notice that this is an exchange between Cafasso and the fellows who ran the VeriSeal site.

It is Cafasso's vendetta against Idema that shows at his blog,"Stuporpatriots" .

The blog posts at Stuporpatriots are old. He disappeared once he realized Idema was leaving Afghanistan. Cafasso quickly moved on to the Lt. Col. Jay Mosca persona, the Robert Stormer persona, the Jay Cafasso persona, and whatever else he could manage to fly under the radar.

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003
To: VeriSEAL Group
From: JACafasso [at] aol.com (Joseph Cafasso)
Subject: Idema v. Fox News, et al.

Gentlemen:

My name is Joseph Cafasso and I have been directed to your site. I have noted that you have posted the NY Times, March 29, 2002 article "At Fox News, the Colonel Who Wasn't" by Jim Rutenberg.

I have been silent way to (sic) long with regard to this story and that is about to change. There is much that this article did not print nor (sic) even know about. I muse with people who will post trash as gospel without even making contact to find out what the details really were. But that is not why I write now.

Your site is linked to the Hunt For Bin Laden Site owned and operated by J. Keith Idema. If you do not know who Mr. Idema is I recommend that you contact Mr. Jimmy Dean of the Special Forces Association. Mr. Idema is a convicted felon and served four years for 56 counts of wire fraud. The Robin Moore Book is highly controversial due to Mr. Idema's involvement. Currently I am not only involved in a civil litigation with Mr. Idema but I have a criminal complaint with the US Attorney's Office against Mr. Idema for impersonating a DOD Contracting Officer while he was a mercenary in Afghanistan and this investigation is pending. I might be called many things. But I have never been arrested for anything criminal nor did I work at Fox for any notoriety or monetary achievements. While at Fox I had a purpose of which (sic) is about to come out. Everything I did at Fox was with Honor one that was stolen due to politics and if you don't believe it you may contact Mr. Brit Hume wh (sic)

I am not asking for the removal of the article. You have a Second Amendment Right even if it is blind. Though the real story is about to come out. However, I am asking that the link to Mr. Idema's website be terminated until all legal proceedings are completed. It is violating the LA County Court Rules and potentially. I have already made this demand to Mr. Idema's attorney as well.

I do not think your organization wants to lend any creditability (sic) to Mr. Idema at this time. While I have no intentions of enjoining your organization in this matter.

Again, contact the Special Forces Association if you have any questions.

Thank You
Joseph Cafasso

I am preserving this here because the VeriSeal site appears to be down.

From: VeriSEAL Group
To: JACafasso [at] aol.com (Joseph Cafasso)
Subject: Re: Idema v. Fox News, et al.
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:14:57 (GMT)

Dear PFC Cafasso,

Thank you for your letter and your reminder of our Constitutional right to keep and bear free speech. Your abstruse
knowledge of this nation's founding precepts is most impressive.

In light of the fact that the link in question is to our site, and not from our site as you indicated, there is very little we can
do apart from sending them a "thank you" note.

We look forward to the earth-shattering revelations of your actual mission at Fox News. Such disclosures by you will
almost certainly serve to relieve us of our burdensome ignorance. We can only surmise that you were on a highly
classified operation to infiltrate Fox News and thereby effect monitoring and manipulation of their information so as to
disinform the Iraqi military. No doubt you are/were in the employ of a highly classified DoD unit tasked with unspeakably
sensitive operations, the existence of which is known only to POTUS and the makers of Reynold's Wrap.

As for your merciful offer to pardon us from litigation, thank you, although there remains some question as to whether
we could in fact be sued for fair-use reprinting of a news item even if the future of all mankind hung in the balance. But
we defer to your legal expertise.

With all due respect, we will forego your recommendation of contact to Mr. Jimmy Dean and simply copy this
correspondence to a member of the Special Forces Association Board of Directors as well as numerous other
interested parties.


Regards

VeriSEAL Group

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Robert Stormer - 1949-2005

Robert "Stormer" Storm 1949-2005

Could this be where Cafasso got the idea for "Rob Storm" alias? 

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Joe Cafasso, aka Bob Stormer, in custody on FTA charge

From the Chesterton Tribune:

A man who had been residing in Chesterton under the name of Robert Stormer and was charged with false informing in October 2008 when a DNR Conservation Officer said that he identified himself with the Social Security number of a Rhode Island girl is being held at the Porter County Jail on a charge of failure to appear.

Joseph Cafasso, 52, was taken into custody on Jan. 22 on a warrant charging him with failure to appear, court documents show. According to the Inmate Information System at the Porter County Jail, he is being held on a $500 cash-only bond, with no release date presently scheduled.

At 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 2, Conservation Officer Robert Cauffman stopped a male subject on the main road leading into Indiana Dunes State Park after clocking him at 35 miles per hour in a zone posted at 20 mph, Cauffman stated in his incident report.
The subject, who identified himself as Robert Stormer, 58, advised Cauffman that he did not have his Rhode Island-issued driver's license with him. Cauffman stated that when he ran the name Robert Stormer, it “came back not on file” in both Indiana and Rhode Island. Cauffman further stated that when he ran the Social Security number provided by Stormer, it returned to a 13-year-old Rhode Island girl.

Although the subject repeatedly insisted that his name is Robert Stormer and that there must be a problem with the computers, he eventually admitted to being Joseph Cafasso, 52, Cauffman stated. A second computer check listed his driver’s license in Rhode Island as suspended.

“During this conversation he stated he was hiding from members of the CIA and FBI along with several other stories,” Cauffman stated.

bwahahahaha!

In addition to the charge of false informing—a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a term of up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine—citations for speeding and driving while suspended-infraction were issued to Cafasso and an initial hearing was scheduled for Nov. 17.

The CHARGE OF FALSE INFORMATION. Did you get that, FLY?

Court documents show that Cafasso did not appear at the hearing and a bench warrant for his arrest on a charge of failure to appear was issued on Nov. 24. Cafasso was arrested on the FTA charge on Jan. 22, he entered a plea of not guilty on Jan. 23, and a bench trial before Porter Superior Court Judge Julia Jent has been scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 19, court documents also show.

Meanwhile, on Feb. 2, a woman who said that she had met a person calling himself Robert Stormer on an on-line dating service, and later lived with him, asked Chesterton Police to take custody of a computer which she said belongs to Cafasso. The woman advised the CPD that her son had recently been contacted by a man whom she believes to be a “Special Forces soldier who went rogue and tortured people in Afghanistan” and was subsequently “jailed in a military prison.” That man, she advised the CPD, “blames Cafasso for his troubles” on the ground that Cafasso “was instrumental in building a case against” him.

The CPD did take custody of the computer at Cauffman's request, police said, after Cauffman indicated that he may apply for a warrant to search the computer as part of an ongoing investigation of Cafasso.

Last week, however, Cauffman told the Chesterton Tribune, through a spokesperson, that he is no longer discussing the Cafasso case and has turned it over to the FBI. Special Agent Wendy Osborne of the FBI's Indianapolis office told the Tribune that, per policy, she can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any ongoing investigation.

The responding CPD officer appended to his report a Wikipedia entry purportedly on a Joseph A. Cafasso which claims, among other things, that a man under the name of Cafasso had worked for Fox News as a military and counterterrorism analyst until leaving the network when allegations surfaced that he had misrepresented his military record.

Posted 2/18/2009

I haven't checked Cramer's work at Cafasso's wikipedia page yet to see if she has caught up with the update that it ISN'T SOLELY A TRAFFIC VIOLATION that he is charged with.

I'm also glad to see someone in media decided to spell Cauffman's name right.

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International Check Fraud Busted by Police

Let's hope that police and authorities put some resources behind following what Joe Cafasso has been up to since at least 1998.

He has reportedly been embezzling money and forging government documents; and taking unsuspecting single ladies and paramours for their posessions and money.

In the video they talk about check fraud scam by con artists connected with the Russian mafia and that some were hiding in the Republic of Georgia. In January 2008 these people were nabbed.

I would hope that authorities could put together the tale of Joe Cafasso; because to my knowledge he's a two-bit con artist on a lesser scale-whose career doesn't extend outside the United States, but DOES extend to states all over the country.

Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Jersey, Florida and more!

Andrea Ello is Bunny E Rabbit

What an odd visual that is, particularly when you know that Andrea was Joe Cafasso's love interest and the widow that he victimized.  In light of that, it is very interesting to see how Andrea Ello was helping Joe Cafasso with her own blog.

Bunny E. Rabbit has a blog at blogspot, and the posts are published by "Andrea".

The last post on this blog is from September of 2008, presumably somewhere around the time that he was arrested in October (or at least stopped) while she was sitting in the car alongside him.  The drowning incident that he injected himself into where he raised the suspicions of rescue workers and authorities occurred in August 2008. 

The question remains: who is updating Robin Storm's blogspot blog while Cafasso sits in an Indiana jail? If you have any information you'd like to share, email me at causalnexus.george@gmail.com.

Chicago Tribune picked up on Cafasso's fraud

Laptop may hold key to high-level scam

February 7, 2009
Post-Tribune staff report

A traffic stop at Indiana Dunes State Park has led to an ongoing investigation involving a man whose past includes swindling Fox News and national political figures, local law enforcement agents say.

Joseph Cafasso, being held at Porter County Jail, was the subject of a 2002 New York Times article and has a Wikipedia page detailing his exploits.

Officials declined to talk about the ongoing case, which involves several federal agencies.

I wonder if this might involve the open FBI investigation in White Plains, New York.

"There are a lot of things involved here that I can't get into at this point," said Officer Bob Kauffmann of the Department of Natural Resources, who initiated the investigation.

It's believed that Cafasso impersonated rescue personnel in a drowning at Lake Michigan last year.

"Impersonated" is a rather odd description when you consider that he attempted to take over the rescue operations and began barking orders. And what they neglect to mention is - this article at the Tribune which mentions the drowning quotes Robert Stormer - out of all the rescue personnel who were there conducting search and recovery operations. Inadvertently journalists seem to use Cafasso as a source, even when he's using an alias! Moths to a flame!

In October, Kauffmann stopped Cafasso for speeding and driving with a suspended license.

Cafasso also provided Kauffmann with false information, including the alias "Robert Stormer."

There it is; Cafasso provided false information - a false ID to authorities.  I am told by a reliable source that he produced a military-type id that looked amateur-ish; with the name "Robert Stormer" on it. I don't know specifically, at this point in time, however, what that ID was supposed to be; but he didn't have a driver's license on him and was driving on a suspended license. It was his real identification he was supposed to show in court, which was why he didn't appear in court - as it says here:

And when Cafasso failed to appear in court last month, Kauffmann obtained a warrant for his arrest.

The curious case of Cafasso came to light Monday when a Chesterton resident turned over Cafasso's Apple laptop to Chesterton police. Kauffmann is waiting for a search warrant to access the laptop.

I hope they are able to get into it and find what's on it; that in itself would implicate him in a number of crimes including forging government documents.

The mother of the Chesterton resident had been in a relationship with "Robert Stormer."

She has been living with him for about a year.

She was also in the car when "Stormer" was stopped for speeding, Kauffmann said.

The woman, who resides in Tefft, in northeastern Jasper County, met "Stormer" about a year ago through an online dating service. They later moved in together. According to the police report, he took control over some of the woman's finances before she learned he was a fraud.

And he embezzled money from her, which is the main reason she's losing both of her homes and reportedly has nowhere to go!

According to the Chesterton police report, the woman and her son believe that Cafasso built a case against a man named Jack Idema, who also has a Wikipedia page.

"Built a case?" That's a rather odd description of his vendetta against Idema for ruining the scam that precipitated the New York Times article "At Fox News, The Colonel Who Wasn't". But Cafasso doesn't realize how many people at Fox unrelated to Idema didn't appreciate his brash manner, his rudeness, and his temper. And bringing up those Wikipedia pages is rather interesting when "Pleasantville" aka Kathryn Cramer is responsible for so many of the edits and updates there.

The police report continues:"Idema is allegedly a Special Forces soldier who went rogue and tortured people in Afghanistan without approval from his superiors. He was jailed in a military prison for this and he blames Cafasso for his troubles.

That is inaccurate. Idema is a Green Beret, and it is Cafasso who blames Idema for outting him as a fraud and blames Idema for losing his job at Fox. For the journalists who want to keep touting that "torturer" mantra about Idema, people might want to check out the story that was never told in the media about Idema at Cao's blog. I don't take a position either way, but I find it interesting that it is Cafasso who is in jail, but they keep repeating that "torturer" business as if it bears some type of merit. You need only look at the release photographs also at Cao's blog to see that there is more on the Idema story than meets the eye....and there is much more there than at Cramer's edited Wikipedia page on Idema, also.

Police say Idema knew about Cafasso's laptop. Idema contacted the Chesterton man through a phone search and told him he wanted the computer.

So he and his mother brought it to Chesterton Police.

Cafasso was successful in duping institutions and high-profile military and political figures as a well-connected counterintelligence expert who had a high-rank career in the Special Forces, according to an April 29, 2002, story in the New York Times.

Alleged victims included the Fox News network, Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign and "several representatives, military officials and activists to whom he had sold himself for years,"?

Cafasso appeared as a military and counterterrorism expert during Fox's coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan.

"But records indicate that his total military experience was 44 days of boot camp at Fort Dix, N.J., in May and June 1976, and his honorable discharge as a private, first class."

The article states Cafasso failed to show up to provide military records and other documents to The New York Times as he had promised.

The article continues: "Mr. Cafasso, it appears, has used his story of battlefield glories to make friends, find work, and perhaps most importantly, find acceptance among people who walk the fringes of Washington's power corridors, networking his way through a community of retired military officers to arrive at Fox News."

Absolutely priceless! What this article is missing is his masquerade before the Rob Stormer persona as LT. Col. Gerry Blackwood. Robert Stormer is not the only alias Cafasso has used over the years.

Still, this is excellent in terms of allowing people in on the magnitude of Cafasso's crimes and particularly his crimes against women.

I took the liberty of inserting some links into the text for the convenience of my interested readers.

Robert Stormer aka Shipdude

There are a number of aliases that people need to be aware of regarding Joe Cafasso, the changeling.  If you haven't been to KC's website recently, you need to add 'shipdude' (where does he get the money to dive?), Robin Storm and Robert Stormer, and watch out for the writings of Robert Stormer at "No Quarter" (such as this one). I wonder how much of that article written under "Robert Stormer" was written with information provided by KC. According to KC's 2008 update on Cafasso, he has at least 15 other aliases, but interestingly enough, doesn't bother to list them.

She claims she 'cares' about his victims! But upon closer examination what it is she SAYS versus her actions that uncovers her true intentions. She is not providing his victims (and potential victims) with his whereabouts and aliases; she is still covering for him.

See tracking Cafasso for more.

Her editing of Jack Idema's wikipedia page (look for Pleasantville) alongside Robert Young Pelton who is still upset that Idema discredited his claim of being the first person to interview John Walker Lindh- and Cramer's own stalking of Idema's father in her car are particularly worthy of note. KC is entertaining (although I'm sure she doesn't mean for people to laugh at her)-with her section entitled "clown espionage".  That term is an accurate depiction of herself; a clown conducting "covert operations" in order to produce 'scoops' of pure propaganda.  American Mata Hari she is not; and someone sympathetic to - or empathetic to Cafasso's victims and family she is not.  This is a person who is purely motivated by self-interest and narcissm.  She shares a common interest with those who are interested in Idema's whereabouts since he left Afghanistan.

One is left to wonder....why?

If she were truly interested in Cafasso's victims and potential victims, she would have taken more action in order to get him some serious help. The same could be said of his family. Cafasso has surrounded himself with a number of enablers; all of whom need a serious intervention; or perhaps a wakeup call.

As an aside, one wonders what ever happened to her friend SOJ, the blogger in Romania at Flogging the Simian that she fiercely supported until his disappearance from the WEB.  SOJ conned Idema supporters out of thousands of dollars because they thought he had the inside scoop on Idema while he was in Pol-i-charke in Afghanistan. They trusted that SOJ would use the money to help Idema, which of course never happened. Another self-interested con, SOJ disappeared when the name Samuel Eddy Reames emerged; exposed by skeptics of his own political stripe, tired of the subtrofuge and lies about having been involved in law enforcement.  At about this time-KC hysterically trumpeted that SOJ was a woman, in an attempt to throw people off track. The items that were stolen from Idema's cell with a note left by Tod Robberson showed the way on how to connect the dots--when those items were doctored and published on SOJ's website.

What a tangled web we weave.