Tag: Watergate

  • Dancing with Mr. ‘D’

    Dancing with Mr. ‘D’

    Trump, RussiaGate & transnational organized crime In June of 2019 Federal authorities discovered twenty tons of cocaine at the Port of Philadelphia aboard a giant container ship, the “MSC Gayane.” The drugs were found in seven shipping containers. How they came to be aboard a giant 1000-foot long and ten-story high  container ship,  Bloomberg magazine…

  • 140 Days After the Perfect Crime

    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…

  • Meet the Russian Hackers Behind Russia-Gate

    Meet the Russian Hackers Behind Russia-Gate

    A Russia-Gate bombshell per day.  Watergate burglars Gordon Liddy & E. Howard Hunt were already famous by now. So why aren’t the Russian hackers? 

  • Mexico’s Narco Televisa Scandal: The Impunity of the Elite

    Even as he prepares to take office in a month, a mushrooming scandal in Mexico threatens that country’s new President, Enrique Pena Nieto.  Some call it Mexico’s Watergate; the comparison might even be apt.  Like Watergate—which picked up momentum only after Richard Nixon had won the ’72 Presidential election—the Narco Televisa Scandal is heating up…