organized-crime
You Could Be Selling Drugs Anonymously on Instagram in a Couple Hours
Matthew Phelan · 09/13/14 09:30PM
Illicit drugs: They're not for winners at coin-op arcades, according to former FBI director William Sessions. Members of Instagram's still thriving drug trade should take note. Dealing drugs illegally is also frowned upon, but technology has never made it easier or safer than it does on Instagram right now.
FBI File: Televangelist Had Ties to Mobsters and the PLO, But Not God
Matthew Phelan · 09/09/14 05:15PM
Along with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, and his wife, Jan, Paul Crouch founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1973 with the simple goal of spreading Our Lord's message of mercy and love. Along with mobsters, Paul Crouch was involved in a "narcotics transfer of funds" according to a recently declassified FBI file.
200 Years of Swiss Bank Secrecy Is Ending. So, Where's the Money?
Matthew Phelan · 09/08/14 02:30PM
A funny thing's happened in Finland. Scores of its monied elite have filed requests to correct their tax data this summer—suddenly recollecting that they'd stashed earnings away in Swiss banks. Truly, this is the end of an era, thanks entirely to a U.S.-led crackdown on tax evasion. It's also a strange new beginning.
Just a 400-Kilo Drug Bust at Paris Hilton's Family Ranch in Cañas
Matthew Phelan · 09/04/14 03:37PM
Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) confiscated roughly 400-kilos of cocaine and $1.5 million at a private airstrip on the Hilton family-owned Rancho Horizonte in the country's northern Cañas region. Three Nicaraguans were among the arrested, (realistically) because of leftover Iran-Contra bullshit.
Jeremy Renner's Goatee Is an Insult to This Dead Journalist's Legacy
Matthew Phelan · 08/27/14 04:12PM
Pulitzer prize-winner Gary Webb is arguably the reason we know anything about CIA complicity in the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s—collateral damage of the Reagan administration's desire to fund the Contras despite three Congressional amendments forbidding them. Even more admirably, Webb did not have a goatee.
Masked Gang Lifts $10 Mil From Armored Truck in Chilean Airport Heist
Matthew Phelan · 08/15/14 02:08PMTax Pledge Cretin Will Join, Deeply Misconstrue Burning Man
Matthew Phelan · 08/01/14 04:42PM
Churlish hamster Grover Norquist nearly brought the U.S. to the brink of default three years ago, pressuring legislators with his "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" into a debt ceiling battle that was both dangerous and inane. This year, Norquist plans to attend Burning Man, which he sees as a stateless capitalist Utopia.
Osama bin Laden Murdered JFK Jr., Reports Shiny, Stapled Pages at 7-11
Matthew Phelan · 07/24/14 10:30AM
Star, a tentacle of tabloid kraken American Media, Inc., has a special "Who Shot JFK Jr.!" issue out. (No question mark!) Their answer: "Muslim terror kingpin Osama bin Laden." Or the Mob. Also, LBJ killed JFK, they report. It is a breathless corroboration of the far Right's favorite JFK conspiracy phantasies.