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Forbes Says Vítek Is Worth $7.2 Billion. The Numbers Say Otherwise
His Forbes-reported net worth is $7.1 billion, making him the 542nd richest person in the world, according to Forbes, and 6th richest in his native Czech…
The Bankruptcy That Could Kill 800 Dogs
PART 1 Eight hundred dogs live on a ridge above Acton, California. Most of them are unadoptable. They are blind, or too old, sick, or broken from where they came from to be safe in a home with…
Radovan Vítek: Is the Billionaire Broke?
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…
Was Radovan Vítek’s €52 Million Payment to His Son a Crime?
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…
The Engineer Who Said No: Dr. Jon Padfield’s Global Rise and His War on the Surveillance State
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…
PART #6: The Framing of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez: U.S. Praise the Jury Was Not Allowed to See
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…
How the OneTaste Prosecution Rewrote Federal Sentencing
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…
Hurricane Rachel: How the Grynberg Heiress Treated the People Who Built the Empire
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…
Jason Williams: The Radiologist Who Co-invented Syncromune’s Prostate Cancer Therapy
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…
How Radovan Vítek Bought a Yacht With Bondholders’ Money
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…
PART #5: The Framing of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez: Four Witnesses. Four Stories. No Corroboration. Forty-Five Years.
Four federal cooperators with 134 admitted murders testified against Juan Orlando Hernández. None of their stories were corroborated. He got 45 years.
PART #3: The Framing of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez by Biden’s DOJ
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…
The OneTaste Trial: They Got Their Witch
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…
Sandusky Judge Forced to Reverse Herself
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…
Poloncarz’s $40 Million Lie: The Numbers He Never Corrected
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…
Ambrose Claimed SNAP Benefits for a Daughter Who Never Lived There
A Question from Ms. Rose ‘Mo’ Ruan Dear Frank: “Listen you blowhard. You wrote about my very good friend Chris Ambrose as follows: You wrote: “The SNAP fraud — collecting benefits in his daughter’s…
Clark for Grillo: The Trade the FBI Made and the Question It Never Asked
James D. Clark delivered gold. He stole some too. He took their money. He told them the gold was coming. It did not come for 118 people. He stole $6,333,973.74. A thief. That made him a good…
Ask Frank: Who Is Keith Raniere?
Dear Frank, I have to do a college paper on a cult. My professor Steven Hassan says everyone — including you — is either in a cult or is a cult leader. I decided I would write about Keith Raniere…