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Somoza Part 2: The Insurance Worked. That Was the Problem
Rev. Hardwick had funerals he couldn't pay for. Curtis Somoza found the number Transamerica missed. The church still collects. Somoza went to prison.
Rev. Hardwick had funerals he couldn't pay for. Curtis Somoza found the number Transamerica missed. The church still collects. Somoza went to prison.
A Manhattan fund predicted exactly how Radovan Vítek would strip ORCO. All three predictions came true within 30 months. The regulator later agreed.
A Luxembourg regulator found Radovan Vítek took control of ORCO in secret. He never made the buyout offer. He's never been charged.
A pastor needed burial money for his poor Black congregation. A Beverly Hills financier found the mortality gap that made it possible.
A judge found Grillo won't flee and didn't obstruct justice. He denied bail anyway — because Grillo might pick up a telephone.
A 77-year-old animal sanctuary founder is held without bail on a kidnapping that never happened, on the word of an informant facing his own fraud case.
Raniere branded women and got 120 years. Nathaniel Cullerton kissed someone on a bench and got his verdict in five days, from TikTok.
Weil billed 13 lawyers for one hour on January 15. Two weren't admitted to the bar. Inside the $109 million First Brands bankruptcy bill.
Bankruptcy professionals billed First Brands $247 million in six months. The creditors are still waiting. The lawyers were paid first.
Juan Orlando Hernández: the sealed indictment, the ledgers the jury never saw, the 45-year sentence, and the pardon that freed him.
The Carroll verdict against Trump and the OneTaste convictions rest on the same legal theory: believe the accusation first.
A major drug seizure, two federal districts, and a cooperator whose supporters say extraordinary assistance went unrecognized.
Trump uses the pardon like no president has, with the intended purpose the founders gave it – not for mercy, but to correct injustice. He should do more, not fewer pardons. Alice Johnson’s role of pardon czar is for expressly this purpose.
