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The Mystery on Mutton Mountain
A chapter from Gangster Planet The crash of a Cessna Citation business jet three weeks ago in mountainous terrain in Oregon raises questions—both immediate and going back twenty years—about the pilot who died when it nosedived into the ground at 400 miles per hour. The pilot, Richard Boehlke, is no stranger to trouble. In 2000 and…
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Sarasota FBI Protected Decade-Long MAGA Mega-Fraud
A billion-dollar a year criminal enterprise flourished for more than a decade in Sarasota, Florida, using a boiler room run by what financial crime specialists call a “hyena pack” of fraudsters and con-men who manufactured phony shell and dummy front companies on an industrial scale ready to be used in money laundering and penny stock…
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Steve Bannon, Guo Wengui, & the World’s Most Expensive Selfie
In the race to identify the American players in the transnational criminal network involved in what’s described as Russiagate, a key operative recently coughed up a big clue. Three months ago Steve Bannon was cruising off the coast of Connecticut on a $28 million-dollar mega-yacht belonging to a shady business partner, when it was boarded…
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A Short History of Election Fraud
AN OPEN MEMO TO SEAN HANNITY It’s not like I’m not sympathetic to the notion that elections can be stolen. It’s just that the people talking about it are such fucking parvenus. All week on FOX Sean Hannity said he just wanted to see an honest election where every vote gets counted. Sounds reasonable. Except,…
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Protected: SARASOTA: WHERE THE STUPID STARTED
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The CIA, a ‘law and order’ U.S. Attorney, & 20 tons of cocaine
It was the second biggest drug bust in American history. On the evening of June 16, 2019, as skies grew cloudy over Delaware Bay, a giant container ship lumbered towards the Port of Philadelphia. Longer than three football fields laid end to end, The Mediterranean Shipping Company’s MSC Gayane (2nd largest in the world) is…
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Bannon-Badolato Bust Exposes The Abyss
Steve Bannon was the chief strategist for the President of the United States. Why has it taken until now—more than four years later—for his proximity to power to begin to give people pause? Even so, it’s uncanny. Stephen K. Bannon was accused last week of exactly the same federal offenses he was warning might befall…
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The Politics of Contraband (from Gangster Planet)
On June 17, 2019, a massive 20-ton cocaine bust went down at the port of Philadelphia aboard a container ship calling at the port. Today is the one-year anniversary of that drug bust, the second largest in American history, and one of five covered in “Gangster Planet.” Agents from a multi-agency Federal task force swarmed…
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AMERICAN GENERATION DELIVERS IN THE CLUTCH
One week ago, I watched fascism attempt to rear its ugly head, and I will never forget it. Tonight I am proud of this generation of Americans, who answered the call of destiny with determination and grit (grit! from millenials!) when that awful video of police homicide hit the airwaves two weeks ago. Because of…