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This is the latest in a continuing series on Radovan Vítek and his real estate company, CPI Property Group. CPI Property Group answers to one man. He controls the board, and the managers. He controls the numbers CPI publishes: the building values, the occupancy figures, the debt

  What Was Lost First Brands, a Cleveland-based auto parts company, went into bankruptcy last year. It employed 26,000 people on five continents. About 6,000 of those workers were Americans in Midwestern factories. The other 20,000 were in China, Mexico, Europe, and other pl

    Czech billionaire Radovan Vítek is the majority stockholder of CPI Property Group, a debt-heavy European real estate conglomerate that borrowed billions from institutional investors while enriching insiders through a maze of dubious transactions. In 2020, when Vítek

This is the first in an initial two-part series In April 1997, Jon Padfield — thirty years old, an electrical engineer by training — received a registered letter from General Motors informing him that his position no longer existed. At home, there was a three-month-old daughter.

Part 1 made the geopolitical argument for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Part 2 examined the case the Biden Department of Justice put on. Part 3 examined how the prosecutors lied to secure the trial before a biased judge and an uninformed jury

The Old Switcheroo The case of United States v. Daedone and Cherwitz was the first federal forced-labor conspiracy conviction that relied entirely on psychological coercion, with no physical restraint and no spoken threats. In fact, it rested entirely on a conspiracy-only charge.

Jack Grynberg was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who arrived in Denver in 1949 with twenty-seven dollars in his pocket and built one of the great independent oil fortunes of the twentieth century. He died in 2021 at the age of 89. By then, his three children — Rachel, Stephen,

This is the second installment in our series on Syncromune, Inc. and the prostate cancer therapy now entering Phase 2 trials in the United States. The first installment, published May 2, examined the trial itself and the patent identifying Dr. Jason R. Williams as a co-inventor.

This is the latest installment in a continuing series on Czech billionaire Radovan Vítek and the financial structure of his publicly traded real estate empire, CPI Property Group. I have been contacted by officials in the Trump administration who have expressed interest in whethe

Four federal cooperators with 134 admitted murders testified against Juan Orlando Hernández. None of their stories were corroborated. He got 45 years.

Part 1 made the geopolitical argument for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Part 2 examined the case the Biden Department of Justice put on. Part 3 is about how the prosecutors got a biased judge and an uninformed jury. The legal name for what th

Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz ran a San Francisco company called OneTaste that focused on sex and enlightenment. Sixteen thousand people took courses. Years later, they found themselves in a federal courtroom not in permissive San Francisco but in Brooklyn, where the rules a

Frank Rose spent 30 years in national security. The United States Senate confirmed him twice. The nation entrusted him with the nuclear arsenal. Kathryn Hewitt was once his research assistant. Years later, she alleged that he retaliated against her for reporting sexual harassment

By Ralph Cipriano In the Penn State sex abuse case, Senior Judge Maureen Skerda is resolutely engineering a cover up. But last week because of a procedural error, the Honorable Judge Skerda was forced to reverse herself. And in the process, perhaps out of concern that her extreme

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants to replace the Assigned Counsel Program — a 60-year-old system that meets the state-mandated obligation to provide lawyers to people who cannot afford one, those charged with crimes, and indigent parents in Family Court proceedings. He s