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Who got to CNN? Network pulls scheduled interview with Donald Sterling’s beat-up mistress
Donald Sterling has unsavory links with the owner of the New York City boutique hotel where his former mistress was beaten up Sunday night. Four developments during the past few days in New York City offer dramatic evidence that questions recently raised here (and elsewhere) about the links to organized crime of real estate mogul, sexual…
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Donald Sterling’s Secret History
Since his highly injudicious comments about Asian girlfriends, Magic Johnson and race almost a month ago, the name Donald T. Sterling, casual racist, parasitic landlord, and thoroughly-disgraced owner of the NBA’s L. A. Clippers, has been much in the news. The more salacious elements are on the record. He ran newspaper ads for “hostesses” interested…
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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…
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The Mexican-ization of American Justice
Mexican-style South of the Border Justice has arrived in America with a vengeance, and is on display in a courtroom in Miami where three members of New York’s Gambino Family, Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello, Anthony “Little Tony” Ferrari, and James “Pudgy” Fiorello, are on trial for the murder of Suncruz Casino tycoon Gus Boulis. The…