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Story-Dash: Lehman Channeled Risks Through ‘Alter Ego’ Firm
Typically, companies are required to disclose only material investments or purchases of public companies. Hudson Castle was neither. Nonetheless, Hudson Castle was central to some Lehman deals up until the bank collapsed.
2010-06-29 to banking, bestof, collapse, crime, investment, mortgage crisis by soobrosa
Norimitsu Onishi: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord
“Misunderstanding and jealousy,” in his view, were behind the “My Way” killings.
2010-05-05 to bestof, crime, culture, death, karaoke, music, philippines by soobrosa
Joshuah Bearman: Art of the Steal - On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief
Blanchard’s own surveillance equipment was still transmitting from inside the ATM room, so before he skipped town, he could listen in on investigators. He knew their names; he knew their leads.
2010-04-13 to bestof, burglary, crime, portrait, profile, story by soobrosa
Jill Lepore: Rap Sheet
The American homicide rate is twice that of any other affluent democracy.
2009-11-22 to america, bestof, books, crime, homicide, murder, society, us by soobrosa
Raffi Khatchadourian: The Stolen Forests
Inside the covert war on illegal logging.
2009-07-28 to bestof, biology, biosphere, business, china, crime, global warming, globalisation, greed, mafia, organized crime, russia, smuggling, walmart by soobrosa
Clive Crook: A criminally stupid war on drugs in the US
Somebody in the White House should take a look. This national calamity is no laughing matter.
2009-04-17 to bestof, business, crime, drugs, economy, war by soobrosa
Hellhole
The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
2009-04-14 to bestof, business, crime, humanrights, prison, psychology, psychosis, punishment, thenewyorker by lipi
Feeling the heat
The cops are squeezing the robbers in Tokyo
2009-03-24 to bestof, crime, japan, tradition by soobrosa
Gene Weingarten: Fatal Distraction
Forgetting a child in the back seat of a hot, parked car is a horrifying, inexcusable mistake. But is it a crime?
2009-03-24 to auto, bestof, children, crime, death, mind, multitasking, stress by soobrosa
Joshua Davis: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
The Antwerp Diamond Center vault was protected by 10 layers of security. We don't know whether 10 or 100 million USD went bust.
2009-03-22 to bestof, crime, profile, story, technology by soobrosa

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