Category: News

  • Fat Cops, Official Lackeys & The Parasitic Rich

    My beat is drug trafficking and the American Drugs Lords, but there will be occasional digressions, as the spirit moves me. Last week, it moved me a lot… Remember the pepper-spraying cop at that UC Davis Occupy Wall Street rally last November? The official government report was released last week, and it makes interesting reading.…

  • Narco-Banker: The Allen Stanford Story

    With his recent conviction on 13 counts of money laundering—ensuring that a man who once lived in a $57 million mansion with a moat will be doing his entertaining behind bars for a very long time—the Allen Stanford scandal would seem to be all but over.   But Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scandal is ending before…

  • Sarasota, Florida: “The Meanest City in America”

    As their son’s killer was sentenced to life in prison last week, the parents of two vacationing Brits murdered in Florida expressed anger over receiving no message of condolence from President Barack Obama, even though the President had recently expressed sympathy in the slaying of a 17-year old black teenager, also in Florida. The two…

  • Allen Stanford & ‘The Caribbean Two-Step’

    Call it the “Caribbean two-step.” The dance the U.S. Government has just pirouetted through with convicted mega-swindler Allen Stanford, repeats a familiar pattern its been using for at least 30 years. But rarely has it looked more like a lumberjack in  The Nutcracker. According to final reports of investigations by the two hand-wringing U.S. Agencies…

  • Allen Stanford, American Drug Lord

    Missing from coverage of the conviction two weeks ago of Texas "financier" Allen Stanford for running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme was any mention of Stanford’s long-time role as an authentic—if no longer certified—American Drug Lord.  "Sir" Allen (the title was bought) is an excellent example of a curiously under-publicized species: the American Drug Lord. (The…

  • America’s NarcoBank: Wachovia Bank was BCCI with a drawl

    Convicted Sarasota Ponzi fraudster Art Nadel, currently holed up in a Federal prison in North Carolina, is back in the news, after a Federal bankruptcy receiver filed a lawsuit accusing Wachovia Bank of criminal complicity in Nadel’s theft of $168 million.  This is a story about financial fraud, drug money,  and a global crime network…

  • Anatomy of a Cover-Up: The Hollywood Head

                            It was the most conspicuous head disposal in living memory. It’s been four weeks since a decapitated human head was found beside a well-traveled hiking trail leading to the iconic Hollywood Sign. The head was in a plastic bag underneath a bush, virtually…

  • Hollywood Head Was Mex Drug Cartel Hit

    A Border War cover-up in the Hollywood Hills It was a murder mystery made for Hollywood, as well as made in Hollywood…  Two weeks ago, on a hiking trail in the shadow of the iconic Hollywood Sign, a decapitated human head was found in a plastic bag. It was a moment many have dreaded, when…

  • Michael Brassington Sentenced to Prison

    "Uncle Peter, Cousin Winston, The Russian Mob, & the CIA" Michael Brassington was sentenced in a packed Federal courtroom in Newark, New Jersey last week for the spectacular crash of one of his company’s jets at Teterboro Airport outside New York City in early February 2005. His sentencing came more than a year-and-a-half after being…