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From Barry Seal to Donald Trump II
Part II of a brief primer about Donald Trump’s connections in the U.S. with transnational organized crime. In addition to his casino deal with Donald Trump, Leslie Greyling— Donald Trump’s multi-million-dollar benefactor in the sale of a Palm Beach mansion to Trump for half its true value—was working on two other casino deals. On the off…
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‘AMERICAN MADE’ LIES, SEX, & VIDEOTAPE
It’s hard to credit anything about a movie whose ruthless Medellin Cartel Drug Lords wear powder-blue leisure suits. Still, when a “based on a true story” movie spreads egregious falsehoods about a man who will someday be of vital interest to future historians, attention must be paid.
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Russian Oligarch in Election Probe Linked to Drug Cartel
New evidence indicates that Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who paid $10 million a year to Paul Manafort between 2004 and 2009, has been in business since 2004 in Guyana with a politically powerful crime family involved in international drug trafficking whose most famous member is a drug pilot who had also been the chief pilot of…
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Oleg & Me
Publishing a story called “Oleg & Me” the day after the “Oleg” in question runs a half-page ad in the New York Times ad offering to sue the Associated Press is probably a little foolhardy for someone who’s not even—you know—associated. But it has to be done.
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‘Alt-right’ Trump operative running stock fraud ‘hyena pack’
How can Donald Trump “drain the swamp” in Washington when some of its slimiest denizens work for his own campaign?
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Frank Sinatra, Pablo Escobar… and Meyer Lansky
“Two kilos of heroin for a little walking around money” A ‘friend’ on Facebook found a link I posted there to a DailyMail story about Frank Sinatra’s purported ties to Pablo Escobar, (Frank Sinatra was ‘a better cocaine dealer than singer), based on interviews with dead Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s son where he claims singer Frank…
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A Muckrakers Life, Interrupted
Last week, after almost four months of silence, I published a 2400-word initial account about what’s been learned about the man who became a daily fixture on cable and network news when his nephews were accused in the Boston attack. Ruslan Tsarni is also—and not coincidentally—an unacknowledged spook with ties to the CIA. On a…
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Rudi Dekkers and the American Oligarchy
If you’re the kind of man who occasionally relinquishes the remote and “watches what she wants for a change,” you may already understand that there are strange and valuable truths which conjoin very different worlds.
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FINALLY! Rudi Dekkers Behind Bars for Drug Trafficking
The long run of Rudi Dekkers, 56, the Dutch national who first passed out bunks to Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi when they arrived in the United States to enroll at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, ended last week when he was arrested for drug trafficking in Houston.(read the criminal complaint .pdf)