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“In a New York minute, everything can change”
I got an email yesterday, from an Amazon customer who hasn’t yet received his copy of “Barry ‘the boys,’” my book about the biggest drug smuggler in American history, and it has prompted me to do something I’ve been reluctant to do: Announce my coming—but not quite yet imminent—demise. My reply to the customer whose…
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OTHER GUYS WHO OWNED ANDY BADOLATO’S BEACH HOUSE
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Deep Dive into Sarasota Deep State
“Sarasota County is to Republicans what Mena, Arkansas was to Clinton-era Democrats: one-party rule enforcing a level of secrecy necessary for large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering operations to flourish.” Sarasota grifter Andrew Badolato (and maybe even Steve Bannon!) will stand in the dock of the Federal Courthouse of the Southern District of New York…
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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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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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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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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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Cartel behind 20-ton drug move in Philadelphia to skate on charges
A Russian-based transnational organized crime drug cartel is responsible for the 20 tons of cocaine seized in Philadelphia in June. But because the organization is Donald Trump’s biggest and most reliable backer in the 2020 Presidential election, there is virtually no likelihood any major figure in the group will ever face charges. Today the…
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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…