Category: Drug Trafficking

  • True Detective: Chicago, El Chapo, & Vince Vaughn’s Mom

    True Detective: Chicago, El Chapo, & Vince Vaughn’s Mom

    Actor Vince Vaughn, in the news for his starring role in HBO’s True Detective and recent controversial statements advocating more guns in schools, now has a new source of notoriety guaranteed to keep him in face time: his family. Vaughn’s mother, Sharon Vaughn, a sparkling and vivacious Chicagoland socialite, and his step-father, Stephen Ferrone, a…

  • CIA Plane in Big Aussie-American Heroin Bust

    CIA Plane in Big Aussie-American Heroin Bust

    Newly-obtained FAA registration records reveal that the American “mystery plane” busted this July with 35 kilos of heroin at an airport outside Sydney, Australia was a CIA plane. At least, it had been when it rolled off the assembly line 40 years earlier,  courtesy a CIA deal with the U.S. Forest Service. And the CIA…

  • 400-Kilo Drug Bust at Paris Hilton’s Ranch in Costa Rica

    400-Kilo Drug Bust at Paris Hilton’s Ranch in Costa Rica

      A private runway on a 6000-acre ranch in Costa Rica belonging to celebrity Paris Hilton was the scene of a major drug raid last week netting a half-dozen suspects in the middle of a multimillion-dollar drug deal. According to intelligence and law enforcement officials in the beleaguered Central American country, agents of the Costa…

  • The CIA Double-Dip: Drugs, Fraud, & the JFK Assassination

    The CIA Double-Dip: Drugs, Fraud, & the JFK Assassination

    A six-year long investigation into the drug trafficking operation in St Petersburg Florida that was exposed when two planes were busted in the Yucatan carrying a total of 10 tons of cocaine revealed the planes had all been “parked,” or “sheep-dipped,” in the names of straw owners to conceal the CIA’s involvement. The composition of…

  • Busted Again! Another American "Mystery Plane"

    Busted Again! Another American "Mystery Plane"

    At the heart of the story of Australia’s current experience with the latest American-registered drug plane busted overseas is that this is not just another American “mystery plane.” It’s a “stealth” mystery plane.

  • Donald Sterling’s New York "Slip & Fall"

    Donald Sterling’s New York "Slip & Fall"

     Beleaguered LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling  numbers among his associates at least three figures who were involved in a troubled “rogue” drug operation  run by Tampa ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) that consigned America’s reputation into the hands of people that other branches of the U.S. Government—even casino regulators in Nevada—wouldn’t trust not to cheat…

  • Tampa ‘Black Ice” drug operation tied to organized crime

    Tampa ‘Black Ice” drug operation tied to organized crime

    Doug McClain learned the ins and outs of financial fraud while working for Robert Colgin Wilson, who—far more than “The Wolf of Wall Street”—exemplified the role of American organized crime in financial fraud during the last quarter of the 20th Century. Wilson was no fly by night. His roots ran deep. When he was convicted…

  • DANGEROUS BLACK ICE

    DANGEROUS BLACK ICE

    News that a DEA affidavit implicated Fort Lauderdale aviation impresario Don Whittington for brokering the now-famous Gulfstream II jet that crashed with 4 tons of cocaine in the Yucatan to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) black operation in Tampa came as a complete surprise, even to those closely following the case. But in…

  • Feds raid CIA-connected air charter in Fort Lauderdale

    Feds raid CIA-connected air charter in Fort Lauderdale

    An affidavit filed by a DEA Agent in Colorado sheds new light on the mystery surrounding two American-registered drug planes from St. Petersburg  busted with a total of ten tons of cocaine. The Gulfstream II jet which crashed in Mexico belonged to something called Operation Mayan Jaguar, an unexplained Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in…