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OTHER GUYS WHO OWNED ANDY BADOLATO’S BEACH HOUSE
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140 Days After the Perfect Crime
It’s been 140 days since the second largest drug bust in American history went down in the waters off-shore of the Port of Philadelphia. Agents from a multi-agency Federal task force swarmed aboard a two block-long container ship, the MSC GAYANE, the second largest in the world. It marked the beginning of Containergate. They found…
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Carlos Slim, the NY Times, & the trial of El Chapo Guzman
Former 17-year old beauty queens; diamond-encrusted pistols; cocaine in cans of hot peppers and gallons of cooking oil; 18-wheeler’s and ‘cocaine trains;’ drugged 13- year old girls at $5K a pop; a view of the Brooklyn Bridge through the windows of a cartel stash house. The trial in Brooklyn of El Chapo Guzman, a short…
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American Show Trial
It was a show trial. Except it wasn’t in Moscow. It was in Brooklyn. The guilt of the defendant was never in question. It was an honest-to-God American show trial. It was a display of an “enemy of the people” at the moment he is smitten by the righteous might of American justice. It was…
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The Lie at the Heart of the Trial of El Chapo Guzman
The lie at the heart of the trial of El Chapo Guzman is one familiar to every American who understands what happened to this country during Prohibition: Men and women are human. They can be bought, bribed, threatened or cajoled. It is the basis of organized crime. Getting the ‘go-ahead’ from Marta Fernando…
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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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THE BRASSINGTON FILES
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Trump, Khashoggi, & Germany’s Criminal Deutsche Bank
It is public knowledge that two well-known customers of Deutsche Bank have deals considered sensitive to scrutiny. One is Donald Trump. The other is—or was— Adnan Khashoggi. The death of Saudi arms dealer and CIA fixer Adnan Khashoggi in London two weeks ago reminds the world again about Adnan Khashoggi’s rich history with fellow Palm…
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The CIA Double-Dip: Drugs, Fraud, & the JFK Assassination
A six-year long investigation into the drug trafficking operation in St Petersburg Florida that was exposed when two planes were busted in the Yucatan carrying a total of 10 tons of cocaine revealed the planes had all been “parked,” or “sheep-dipped,” in the names of straw owners to conceal the CIA’s involvement. The composition of…