so in order to get to the more interesting players, we'll quickly address her spurious connections. She does show up in some conspiracy discussions on Reddit threads, primarily with respect to occult or Illuminati symbolism in her songs and videos. We're not a strong supporter of Illuminati conspiracy theories, or thousand year old "Bloodline" families hell bent on controlling the world with their Alien overlords. Nevertheless, if one broadly defines "The Illuminati" as families with a lot of money and influence, then Katy Perry comes from one of those families. (Like a lot of celebrities, her assertions of coming from humble beginnings is better for marketing than saying you got to where you are because of raw talent, rather than family connections.)
Briefly, Apollo Industries, Inc. was formed in 1958 from the merger of the following three companies:
The San Toy Mining Company was involved in a controversial litigious takeover attempt for about a five year period beginning in 1908. One of the principals involved in the takeover was
Charles M. Schwab,
who is the great-uncle of Katy Perry.Charles M. Schwab was an Iron & Steel Industry "Tycoon" at the turn of the last century, known for first being the President of
Carnegie Steel, then after the purchase of Carnegie by a
JP Morgan buyout group, the CEO of
US Steel (formed from Carnegie and other smaller Steel companies.) After a fall out with the Bank of Morgan in 1903, Charles M. Schwab founded the modern "consolidated and reorganized"
Bethlehem Steel Corporation. (The modern Bethlehem Steel was formed around the original
Bethlehem Iron & Steel Works, which was originally founded in 1857 by, among others,
Johnathan Knecht, the Great-Great Grandfather of
Robert Swan Mueller the 3rd.)
Both companies, through World War II, if not longer, were the two largest Steel companies in the world at various times and essentially were the United States Steel Industry.
Charles M. Schwab is estimated to have been worth as much as $500 million to $800 million at one point prior to the stock market crash of 1929, in 2019 inflation adjusted dollars. He actually died relatively "broke" in 1939. He was known as a profligate spender and the depression after the crash wiped out most of the value of his holdings in Bethlehem Steel.
Although Schwab's "Iluminatti" status might have subsided with the loss of his wealth, his associations with Carnegie and Morgan interests made him a man of significant influence. Schwab, via Bethlehem, as one of the largest ship builders in the world, before and after the entrance of the USA into
WWI, he likely contributed to the efforts by a core group of American industrialists to get the USA into The Great War, for the primary purpose of making a lot of money quickly.
Schwab Interest in The San Toy Mining Company
Charles M. Schwab was a prolific investor/consolidator/corporate raider in his time. It was characteristic of pre-Sherman Anti-Trust Act Robber Barons to control all facets, or "verticals" of an industry by buying out competitors and complimentary companies. Standard Oil created the model early on after its founding. In short, in order to maximize profits, it bought competing refiners. It could then tighten its grip on the petroleum industry by buying out oil exploration and drilling companies, the railroads and barge companies that moved the oil, pipelines, and then the downstream refinery businesses, such as chemical manufacturers, grease/lubricant producers, and petroleum retailers.
The Steel Industry worked the same way. Schwab not only owned the steel mills, he owned the shipyards where ships were built with Bethlehem Steel and the mines that supplied the steel mills. One of the companies that he tried to acquire was San Toy Mining Company.
We will devote another post to
San Toy Mining's operations, and dive deeper into its ownership history, but for now, we will limit further details to Charles M. Schwab's involvement.
In November of 1908, Charles Schwab and his cohorts made headlines in the business pages with the filing of a lawsuit by the owners of San Toy, charging Schwab with colluding to gain control of the company. The suit was filed in the New York Supreme Court by two brothers,
Alfred B. and Sidney A. Witherbee. The basic premise of Witherbee brother's lawsuit is that Charles Schwab colluded and conspired with the minority shareholders of San Toy to gain a controlling interest in San Toy, to the detriment of the Witherbee brothers.
The lawsuit, the attention it gained, and the lists of co-defendants, counsels, and related parties perhaps provide valuable meta-data into the history of San Toy Mining, and how it essentially became a Mossad linked front-company used to smuggle Highly Enriched Uranium from Pittsburgh to Israel sometime between about 1958 and 1965.
Parties and Counter-Parties
As noted, the Witherbee Brothers are the plaintiffs, having filed the lawsuit in NY Supreme Court. The brothers were represented by attorney
Paul E. DePere who was formerly the partner of
Paul D. Cravath and
Charles Steele, "who more recently been known as one of the principal counsel to the banking house of J.P. Morgan & Co." [As noted above, Schwab had a falling out with the House of Morgan while he was the CEO of the Morgan controlled US Steel Corp. It is not apparent if the fall-out (1903) and the lawsuit (1908) are somehow related.]
