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It’s hard to believe the number of swindlers that show up this time of year. I get at least one ad a week for a free gift card or for virus protection that I’ve supposedly signed up for. These are sponsored by fraudsters trying to glob onto the insides of my laptop, or to tease […]
When we were living in Montreal and my kids were young, we used to take them to the Jay Peak Ski Resort in Vermont. Little did I know that one of the owners was stealing millions of dollars that were supposed to be invested in the park. In the early 2000s Jay Peak was underdeveloped […]
In the last newsletter I described how my former client in Montreal, SNC-Lavalin, was involved in the Grand Man Made River in Libya. In 2011, when the civil war took place, Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saadi, needed to get out of the country. Fast. An SNC executive facilitated a payment of $200K to charter a private […]
We have met the drug smuggler and he is us. More than 200K people travel from Mexico into San Diego each day. In 2023, 27K pounds of Fentanyl were seized at the border crossing. We hear that Mexican cartels are the ones flooding us with these drugs. But that’s not true. In reality, drug-trafficking crimes […]
Day of the Dead is one of my favorite holidays. Some people mistakenly equate it with Halloween, but Day of the Dead is much deeper than that. It is huge in Mexico. It isn’t about ghouls coming back to haunt the living so much as the living celebrating the lives of their lost loved ones. […]
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