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A Prime Minister, a Drug Pilot, an Oligarch, & RussiaGate
(WARNING: A long read…but worth it) RussiaGate is all about the Mob, says the current meme. Not ‘The’ Mob, or just one Mob, but a gamut of players— Russian, American, British, Israeli, Saudi—belonging to a global criminal network connecting the forces of transnational organized crime across nation-states, time-zones, and continents. ‘Transnational organized crime’ doesn’t have…
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Source: Rudi Dekkers drug case “will never go to trial”
The upcoming trial in Houston of Rudi Dekkers for drug trafficking has been pushed back and may now never happen, according to a lawyer close to the case. “The case has been continued, and a plea agreement is in the works,” said the attorney, who asked for anonymity. “The case will never go to trial.…
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Honduran jet fighter shot down DEA drug plane
A jet fighter from Honduras shot down a plane carrying cocaine last month over Guanaja, part of the Bay Islands chain in the Caribbean, killing a DEA agent onboard. According to El Herald newspaper in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, which broke the story, the shoot-down of the DEA-approved drug flight was behind the U.S.…
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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…
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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…