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Digging into the Leo Wanta story a little deeper, several old newspaper articles and interviews surfaced from the late 1990's filling in a few more pieces of the mysterious puzzle surrounding the man who has been dubbed The $27.5 Trillion Dollar Man.

Two of the articles were written in 1997 about Wanta's Wisconsin tax evasion case by the late Sarah McClendon, a senior White House correspondent who covered 10 Presidents.

Several other interviews, one in particular written around the same time by a lesser known journalist, severely questioned Wanta's credibility, calling him an international high finance con man instead of a trusted former Treasury agent fighting for the rights of the American people, as he has claimed and been depicted in numerous recent articles.

Although the full details of Wanta's past may never be fully known, those who believe him claim he is an honorable, God-faring man who has uncovered and trying to expose trillions of offshore money stolen by the last three Presidential administrations.

However, those more skeptical of Wanta's true intentions claim he is either being used by the powers that be or working together with them for a larger purpose unknown to the people. If this be the case, who the real controllers in the background also remain unknown, but several researchers point to the Vatican and the Jesuit Order.

As background, Wanta assumed the name, The $27.5 Trillion Dollar Man , after recently going public with an incredible story of huge offshore slush funds and CIA undercover intrigue, including a failed attempt to arrest international criminal Marc Rich and $250 million handed over by Wanta to Vince Foster in Switzerland only two weeks before his untimely death in a Washington D.C. park.

As the Wanta story unfolded during the last year, he claimed to be the legal trustor of more than $27.5 trillion in offshore money amassed after he was assigned by President Reagan to destabilize the Russian currency at the end of the Cold War.

After Reagan left the scene, Wanta claimed to be at odds with the last three presidential administrations since their intentions were to use the money for their own covert purposes instead of using the money like Reagan intended for the betterment of the American people.

For his steadfast loyalty, Wanta was first jailed in Switzerland for 133 days and then spent the better part of a decade in a Wisconsin jail for what he has called a bogus tax evasion charge.

Upon his release about a year and a half ago, he set out on a quest to repatriate the money and in June supposedly entered into a deal with U.S. authorities to return $4.5 trillion for the betterment of the U.S. economy.

But instead of the money being used properly, it has been supposedly languishing in either a Bank of America or Citibank account, being held up by the Bush administration who Wanta claims is using it for their own nefarious purposes.

While waiting for the money to be released or while watching the story be used as another ploy to help further a downfall of the U.S economy, here are the McClendon 1997 articles and several others about Wanta reprinted in order to fill in some of the missing gaps.

It should be noted in response to the article highly critical of Wanta by Mike Miller of the Capitol Times, Wanta has claimed the target of a massive CIA smear campaign as well as being targeted with numerous death threats. Two other interviews with Wanta are also included as well as other interesting comments made in and around the same time frame of 1997.