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The Vegas shooter, general aviation, & CIA planespotting
It is a circumstance unparalleled in American history. Two weeks after a gunman started pouring down fire from a 32nd floor window in Las Vegas on people at a country music festival, police and the FBI remain in the dark over why he did it—and why he stopped.
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True Detective III: “The Cowles’ Identity”
According to the DEA—which, caveat emptor, lies like a dog when it suits its purposes—El Chapo Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel “supplies 80% of the heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine, with a street value of $3 billion, that floods Chicago each year.” Though it seldom comes up, that flood flows both ways. And since the money from…
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True Detective II: “The Vaughn Addendum”
In 2003, Directors Performance Fund, a hedge fund controlled and run by Sharon Vaughn, mother of actor Vince Vaughn, capitalized a “bank” specializing in providing financing to drug traffickers and snake oil salesmen peddling goat’s blood. The deal received attention only after Vaughn’s hedge fund went fully rogue two years later, in a much larger…