Author: Chris Moore Publisher: Gill ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 340
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Colin Lees was everybody's friend. A successful businessman in the little town of Magherafelt, County Derry, he had charm, good connections and was a winner. Until, that is, it all went wrong. debt, caused by over-ambitious expansion in previous years. Lees was in the hole for #35 million. On top of that, there was a further fraud involving a missing #23 million. Then it emerged that Lees had a second business in Scotland which was an MI6 shadow company. It had collapsed as well. passport, that is. He did not tell them about his Irish passport, with which he flew the coop and went to the United States. There he soon relieved a Texas businessman of $1 million in a scam and ruined the business of one of his father's oldest friends. He returned to Ireland in 1996 and, by the time he was finally arrested, was involved in a maze of criminal activity involving drugs shipments and money laundering for the Mafia. Colin Lees gets out of jail in 2004: the missing #23 million is waiting somewhere for him. Lees was everybody's friend. A successful businessman in the little town of Magherafelt, County Derry, he had charm, good connections and was a winner. Until, that is, it all went wrong. debt, caused by over-ambitious expansion in previous years. Lees was in the hole for #35 million. On top of that, there was a further fraud involving a missing #23 million. Then it emerged that Lees had a second business in Scotland which was an MI6 shadow company. It had collapsed as well. passport, that is. He did not tell them about his Irish passport, with which he flew the coop and went to the United States. There he soon relieved a Texas businessman of $1 million in a scam and ruined the business of one of his father's oldest friends. He returned to Ireland in 1996 and, by the time he was finally arrested, was involved in a maze of criminal activity involving drugs shipments and money laundering for the Mafia. Colin Lees gets out of jail in 2004: the missing #23 million is waiting somewhere for him.
Author: Chris Moore Publisher: Gill ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 260
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In 'Ripe For The Picking' Chris Moore tells the inside story of Northern Europe's biggest-ever bank raid - a heist that landed the IRA with as much trouble as money, derailed the Northern Ireland peace process and shattered the credibility of Sinn Fein.
Author: Michael C. Ruppert Publisher: New Society Publisher ISBN: 1550923188 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 773
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The acclaimed investigative reporter and author of Confronting Collapse examines the global forces that led to 9/11 in this provocative exposé. The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon examines how such a conspiracy was possible through an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism—without which 9/11 cannot be understood. In reality, 9/11 and the resulting "War on Terror" are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil—the beginning of the end for our industrial civilization—is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control. Crossing the Rubicon is more than a story of corruption and greed. It is a map of the perilous terrain through which we are all now making our way.
Author: Irvin Muchnick Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1770906517 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 232
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Inside the most controversial issue in sports Traumatic brain injury in football is not incidental, but an inevitable and central aspect of the sport. Starting in high school, through college, and into the NFL, young players face repeated head trauma, and those sustained injuries create lifelong cognitive and functional difficulties. Muchnick's Concussion Inc. blog exposed the decades-long cover-up of scientific research into sports concussions and the ongoing denial to radically reform football in North America. This compilation from Muchnick's no-holds-barred investigative website reveals the complete head injury story as it developed, from the doctor who played fast and loose with the facts about the efficacy of the state-mandated concussion management system for high school football players, to highly touted solutions that are more self-serving cottage industry than of any genuine benefit. Known for extensive reporting on the tragic story of the Chris Benoit murder-suicide, Muchnick turns his investigative analysis to traumatic brain injury and probes deep into the corporate, government, and media corruption that has enabled the $10-billion-a-year National Football League to trigger a public health crisis.
Author: Robert I. Friedman Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316092878 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 209
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In the past decade, from Brighton Beach to Moscow, Toronto to Hong Kong, the Russian mob has become the world's fastest-growing criminal superpower. Trafficking in prostitutes, heroin, and missiles, the mafiya poses an enormous threat to global stability and safety. Today, the mafiya controls over 80 percent of Russia's banks and has siphoned off billions of dollars in Western loans and aid, almost certainly derailing the chance for a stable democracy there. But that is just the beginning, for the mafiya is now in every corner of the United States and has infiltrated some of the banks and brokerage firms that handle your money. And American law enforcement is just waking up to this staggering problem. No journalist in the world knows more about the mafiya than Friedman, who has covered the Russian mob for Details, Vanity Fair, and New York. At great peril to himself, Friedman interviewed many of the top mobsters, who were stunningly candid about their activities. In their depravity, ruthlessness, and brutality, Russian gangsters make the traditional Mafia look like choirboys. Red Mafiya will appeal to anyone interested in the Mob.
Author: Michael Gross Publisher: Broadway ISBN: 076793265X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 562
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A history of lucrative real estate in Los Angeles shares the lesser-known contributions of a range of figures from Douglas Fairbanks and Marilyn Monroe to Howard Hughes and Ronald Reagan. By the best-selling author of Rogues' Gallery.
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