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dan6085 · 1 year

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Historical figures who have been controversial or have faced criticism for their actions or beliefs. It is important to note that opinions on historical figures may vary depending on cultural, social, and political perspectives.

Adolf Hitler: The leader of Nazi Germany during World War II, responsible for the deaths of millions of people, including six million Jews in the Holocaust.

Joseph Stalin: Soviet dictator responsible for the deaths of millions of people through purges, forced labor camps, and famines.

Christopher Columbus: The explorer who is often credited with discovering America, but whose actions also led to the exploitation and mistreatment of indigenous people.

Andrew Jackson: Seventh President of the United States who forced Native American tribes to relocate from their lands, leading to the Trail of Tears.

Richard Nixon: Former U.S. President who resigned after the Watergate scandal, where he authorized illegal surveillance and sabotage of political opponents.

George W. Bush: Former U.S. President who authorized the invasion of Iraq in 2003, leading to a controversial and costly war.

J. Edgar Hoover: Former Director of the FBI who abused his power to target political opponents and civil rights activists.

Joseph McCarthy: U.S. Senator who led the anti-communist "Red Scare" campaign, resulting in false accusations and ruined reputations.

Charles Manson: Convicted murderer and cult leader responsible for a series of brutal killings in the 1960s.

Timothy McVeigh: Perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, resulting in the deaths of 168 people.

Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial killer who murdered and dismembered 17 young men and boys in the 1980s and 1990s.

Osama bin Laden: Founder of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda and mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

David Koresh: Leader of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect that engaged in a violent standoff with law enforcement in Waco, Texas in 1993.

James Earl Ray: Assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

Ted Bundy: Serial killer who confessed to the murders of at least 30 young women in the 1970s.

Bernie Madoff: Convicted fraudster responsible for a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme that ruined the finances of thousands of investors.

Harvey Weinstein: Former Hollywood producer convicted of rape and sexual assault in a high-profile trial in 2020.

Roger Ailes: Founder and CEO of Fox News who was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women.

Rush Limbaugh: Controversial conservative radio host known for making inflammatory and divisive comments.

Roy Cohn: Infamous lawyer who was known for his involvement in controversial cases, including the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage, and his involvement in Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist campaign.

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looloolooweez · 1 year

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January

Books

Finished reading:

Audiobook – Moby Dick by Herman Melville, 1851

Book – Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, 1939

Currently reading:

Book – How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler, 2022

Book – What the Eyes Don't See by Mona Hanna-Attisha, 2018

Media

Finished watching:

TV series – The Crown starring Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton; 2016 – TBD

TV series – The Sandman starring Tom Sturridge; 2022 – TBD

Docuseries – Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street produced by Joe Berlinger; 2023

Movie – Belle starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw; 2013

Movie – The Menu starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy; 2022

Movie – The Pale Blue Eye starring Christian Bale; 2022

Comedy special – Inside starring Bo Burnham; 2021

Currently watching:

TV series – The Righteous Gemstones starring John Goodman, 2019 – TBD

YouTube series – Binging with Babish starring Andrew Rea at Babish Culinary Universe, 2016 – TBD

YouTube series – Tasting History with Max Miller starring Max Miller at Tasting History, 2020 – TBD

Projects

Finished projects:

Recipes – Houston Cooks by Francine Spiering, 2019

Current projects:

Recipes – Food & Wine 40th Anniversary Special Edition ed. by Hunter Lewis et al., 2018

Recipes – Good Drinks by Julia Bainbridge, 2020

Cross-stitch – Feminist Cross-Stitch by Stephanie Rohr, 2019

#reading #watching #bookblr #filmblr

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laresearchette · 1 year

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Wednesday, December 04, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (Global) 8:00pm CHICAGO MED (City TV) 8:00pm HOME ECONOMICS (Global) 8:30pm TOUGH AS NAILS (Global) 9:00pm CHICAGO FIRE (City TV) 9:00pm MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT (Lifetime Canada) 9:00pm BIG SKY (CTV) 10:00pm CHICAGO P.D. (City TV) 10:00pm 1,000-LB. BEST FRIENDS (TLC Canada) 10:00pm NFL TAILGATE TAKEDOWN (Food Network Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT SPECIAL FORCES: WORLD'S TOUGHEST TEST (FOX Feed) THE GIFT: KINDNESS GOES VIRAL (CBS Feed)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA NOS ÉTES (Seasons 1 - 4)

DISNEY + STAR GRAILS: WHEN SNEAKERS CHANGE THE GAME MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS (Season 3) THE MENU STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH (Season 2) TAIWAN CRIME STORIES (Season 1 premiere)

NETFLIX CANADA HOW I BECAME A GANGSTER THE KING OF THE WORLD THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS MADOFF: THE MONSTER OF WALL STREET THIS IS US (Season 6)

IIHF WORLD JUNIORS (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 2:30pm: Semifinal (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 6:30pm: Semifinal

NBA BASKETBALL (SN/SN1) 7:30pm: Bucks vs. Raptors (SN1) 10:00pm: Heat vs. Lakers (TSN/TSN4) 10:00pm: Pistons vs. Warriors

THE OTHER SIDE (APTN) 7:30pm: During the 1918 Flu, Slave Lake had to create mass graves just outside of town to bury the dead.

STILL STANDING (CBC) 8:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): The seafaring town of Gibsons, BC, once made famous for The Beachcombers is reinventing itself as a regional hub for Filipino culture, a tourist destination and a paradise for beer lovers.

SPIRIT TALKER (APTN) 8:00pm: Shawn travels to the Mohawk Territory of Kanesatake in southwestern Quebec; Travis Gabriel teaches Shawn how to make a traditional handcrafted lacrosse stick; a mother gets unexpected news from a spirit and rare connection emerges.

RUN THE BURBS (CBC) 8:30pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Andrew interviews for his dream job in community development. Camille holds a focus group for her business launch.

GHOST HUNTERS OF THE GRAND RIVER (APTN) 8:30pm: The ghost hunters explore Park House Museum, one of the oldest buildings in Ontario; cabinet doors are said to open and close at random and children are said to run in and out. PRETTY HARD CASES (CBC) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): After long eight months apart, Sam and Kelly reunite on a high-stakes assignment, going undercover as bridesmaids to secure a murder confession.

NAZIS AT NUREMBERG: THE LOST TESTIMONY (Nat Geo Canada) 9:00pm

THE RESIDENT (CTV) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): A famous cardiothoracic surgeon -- who happens to be Dr. Yamada's mentor -- comes into Chastain after experiencing heart pain; Kit breaks the news that the emergency room will no longer be accepting trauma patients due to budget cuts.

RESTORATION ROAD WITH CLINT HARP (Magnolia Canada) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): A one-hundred year old barn is moved to Greycliff, Mont.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #the other side #still standing #spirit talker #run the burbs #ghost hunters of the grand river #pretty hard cases #iihf world juniors #nba basketball

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maysshortmoviereviews · 7 years

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The Wizard of Lies (2017)

A chronicle of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which defrauded his clients of billions of dollars.

Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer are just astounding in their roles. I did not see them, I saw Ruth and Bernie Sanders. In fact, the whole cast did an excellent job. This is a captivating and at times depressing story. I find it hard to believe that no one in authority suspected what Madoff was up to. I wonder if there were banks that knew, but didn’t care for as long as they made money out of it...

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belletristwordsalad · 2 years

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My Names for Bully's Townsfolk

Bullworth Town and Old Bullworth Vale

· Frederick Bambillo, after Frederick Chilton from Silence of the Lambs

· John D. Breckindale, after John D. Rockefeller

· Bernie Doolin, after Bernie Madoff

· Michael Huntington, after Michael Bluth from Arrested Development

· Marilyn Isaacs, after Marilyn Monroe

· Flo Kopke, after “Aunt Flo”

· Stan Martin, after Stan Smith from American Dad!

· Clifton Ramirez, after Clifton Collins, Jr., the voice actor of Cesar Vialpando from GTA: San Andreas

· Joan Rushinski, after actress Joan Crawford, who was infamously portrayed in Mommie Dearest

· Gary Smith I. Mr. Smith seems like the kind of guy who’d name his son and grandson after himself.

· Marty Sullivan, after Marty Byrde of Ozark

New Coventry

· Abby Questal, after Mae Questal, the actress who portrayed Aunt Bethany from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

· Denny McLaren, after Gregory Paul McLaren aka Lucky Diamond Rich, who holds the Guinness World Record for most tattooed person

· Handy Townsend, an Old English surname indicating a person living at a town’s edge

· Roland Krakauer, after Roland Weary from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five

· Vladimir Mihailovich, after Vladimir Glebov from GTA IV

· Michael Ray Osbourne, after ESPN commentator and Washington Post columnist Michael Ray Wilbon

Blue Skies

· Joe Buckingham, after Joe Gerard from Rhoda, a spinoff of The Mary Tyler Moore Show

· Larry Castillo, after Larry the Cable Guy

· Chuck Brendon, after actor Nicholas Brendon, who portrayed Xander Harris from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

· Carl Johnson, after Carl Andrew Bork from the Batman comics

· Kelly McInnis, after Kelly Donovan, twin brother of Nicholas Brendon

· Alan Salvatore, after Alan Bleasdale, creator of British drama Boys from the Blackstuff

Retirement Home

· Mario Bubas, after Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather

· Abraham Gordon, after Abraham “Grampa” Simpson

· Pearl Lisburn, after Pearl Shay of 227

Happy Volts Asylum

· Randle Fenwick, after Randle McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

· Gregory Turkle, after Mr. Turkle from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

· Theo Spivey, after Dr. John Spivey from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Police Officers

· Thornton Williams, to rhyme with "Norton"

· David Monson, after David Brown from Rampart

· Henry Ivanovich, after Detective Henry Oak from Narc

· Barney Morrison, after Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show

Shopkeepers

· Betty Weber, after feminist and theologian Nadia Bolz-Weber

· Stephen Carmichael, after Captain Stephen Peacock from Are You Being Served?

· Adolfo Moratti, after Adolfo Pirelli from Sweeney Todd

· Andy Oh, a nod to his voice actor, Andrew Pang

· Stan Chong, after actor Tommy Chong, who portrayed Leo from That ‘70’s Show

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athingirl · 5 years

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Smug as a Bug in a 6 by 8 Cell

Smug…having or displaying an excessive pride in oneself. Haughty and conceited, self-important and selfish, strutting like a peacock preening its feathers. I read that Bernie Madoff, the most famous swindler on the planet, has petitioned our dear President for an early release from jail. The 81 year-old crook of all crooks is serving a 150 year sentence in a federal prison in Butner, North…

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#Bernie Madoff asks for clemency #Betrayal The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff Andrew Kirtzman #Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity #President Trump Granting Pardons #Webster&039;s Dictionary #Yiddish

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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 years

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Strength in numbers

Accountancy is more likely to be mocked than celebrated (or condemned), but accountants, far more than poets, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Though "bean counters" are employed by firms, they are notionally bound by a professional code of ethics every bit as serious as the Hippocratic Oath: "count things honestly." Without an accurate accounting of quantities, you can't make good decisions on quality.

Though accountancy concerns itself with counting things, it is inextricably bound up with the realm of ideas, and accounting conventions (how you account for things) are philosophical matters, not empirical ones.

It's no coincidence that Modern Monetary Theory owes more to accountancy than it does to economics. Economic accounts of the economy have an unfortunate tendency to proceed from first principles, creating models based on pure reason, without checking in on the actual world.

For example, neoclassical econ's "homo economicus," the rational value-maximizing actor who populated so many models; or economists' insistence on targeting inflation with interest rates; or treating national "debts" like they were household debts.

It's telling that the greatest economics revolution of my lifetime was "behavioral economics," which could also be called "checking to see whether real people act like we've assumed they acted."

If it seems weird that economists would spend generations operating on the incorrect assumption that people behave in a certain way without ever checking, consider that Aristotle assumed women had fewer teeth than men, - and never bothered to count.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/aristotles-error/

Accountants check, and what they find is…gnarly. In "An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer," Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson offer a mindbending account (heh) of where money comes from (hint: not taxes), and where it goes ("poof").

https://gimms.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/An-Accounting-Model-of-the-UK-Exchequer-Google-Docs.pdf

The authors did a two-part MMT Podcast interview describing the paper's findings, and it is the most extraordinary 2.5h audio you're likely to find: not just the realities of money, but the deliberate obfuscation thereof.

https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/84-andrew-berkeley-richard-tye-neil-wilson-an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer-part-1

https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/86-andrew-berkeley-richard-tye-neil-wilson-an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer-part-2

One thing the Exchequer paper reveals is that accountants bat for both teams: team clarity and team obscurity. As many finance scandals and finance dramas have reminded us, accounting can be turned to obscuring and dazzling rather than revelation.

After all, somewhere in HM Exchequer is a team of accountants who know *exactly* how money works - and know that it's nothing like the account produced by economists or politicians. They know it because they are in charge of it. They do money, all day long.

When accountants go rogue, things get bad. And thanks to neoclassical economics - and its emphasis on the "efficiency" of monopolies - we are living through a golden age of ghastly accounting fraud.

Just four companies - EY, KPMG, PWC and Deloitte - audit the books of 97% of the 350 largest UK companies; but they make far more selling these companies consulting services, and have made a habit of lying about those books in order to boost their consulting income.

Accountancy is meant to be a profession that understands that conflicts of interest are a moral hazard. But just as doctors convince themselves they won't get addicted to their own painkillers, accountants talk themselves into believing that conflicts won't corrupt them.

That's how the Big Four accounting companies came to sign off Carillion's fraudulent books. The company hid £7b worth of debts, took on management of vital government services up and down the country, then collapsed, leaving the nation stranded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillion#Financial_difficulties

For the Big Four, Carillion's collapse was a feature, not a bug. After all, the only accounting firms large enough to oversee its bankruptcy were...the Big Four, who billed millions for cleaning up the mess left behind by their own fraud.

Accounting fraud is a fascinating potential fracture line in economic reform. After all, fraudulent accountants may help *some* plutes get rich - like, say Bernie Madoff, or Donald Trump - but they often do so at the expense of *other* plutes.

Like Exxon, which lied to its investors for 11 years about the value of its shale-gas holdings, which it purchased at the peak of the fracking bubble and whose revenues and liabilities it has buried in its financial statements ever since.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2021/02/02/whistleblower-sec-complaint-alleges-exxon-fraud-overvalue-fracking-assets

The company is finally writing down $19.3b worth of those assets, but the true figure is more like $50b. And yes, Exxon's big investors include a lot of passive funds that invest pension savings, meaning this hurts Main Street as well as Wall Street.

But as ever, those pension-savers are the Lucky Duckies here, because - joke's on us - Americans have basically no pension savings, thanks to the wage stagnation and asset inflation that left almost all working Americans facing penury in old age.

Hey, at least they're not getting ripped off by Exxon! The real victims of this decade-long, multibillion-dollar fraud are the same people who got snookered into buying into shitty Trump casinos and luxury buildings: rich people.

By definition, rich people deal in quantities that exceed their ability to personally count so they are especially vulnerable to scam accounting. It's only when the frauds tank a company we all suffer, as jobs and businesses disappear, screwing workers and cities.

The absence of a neutral ref and scorekeeper is a really big deal in online business and policy circles. The ad-tech duopoly isn't merely content to price-gouge advertisers - they also lie about what those sky-high prices are paying for:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#wannamakers-ghost

But each member of the duopoly has a different scam. Google's frauds are complex, behind-the-scenes market manipulations, an abstruse, mathematical grift that leverages complexity and monopoly to fleece its customers.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3500919

Facebook is much more straightforward. It just lies. Back in 2016, FB lied about how many people were watching videos, and encouraged hundreds of media company to beggar themselves to chase fraudulent video dollars:

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-lawsuit-pivot-to-video-mistake/

Accounting fraud is in Facebook's DNA. After all, this is a company whose primary sales-pitch is, "We will count everything you do and then charge people to help them sell you stuff."

This proposition is intrinsically hard to evaluate. How can a customer know if their FB ad generated a sale, or whether it was an ad elsewhere, or random chance, or even that elusive beast, customer loyalty?

The main source for the belief in Facebook's efficacy is...Facebook. It's not a neutral party, and the accountants who sign off on its books have repeatedly shown themselves to be untrustworthy.

Here's the latest scandal: since 2018, FB's been defending a class-action suit brought by its customers who claim that FB lied about "potential reach" - that is, how many users would see their ads.

https://www.ft.com/content/c144b3e0-a502-440b-8565-53a4ce5470a5

And while FB strenuously denies that the inaccuracies in "potential reach" metrics were just normal, unpredictable variations in user behaviors, a whistleblowing FB product manager has produced emails in which they warn execs that they're committing fraud.

The execs who got these memos rejected them, telling the product manager that acting on them would have "significant revenue impact" - that is, "Our customers wouldn't buy our products if we were truthful about them."

The fraudulent reach figures begat fraudulent revenues, and those revenues were fraudulently reported to investors. Those investors will now take a haircut if FB loses in court.

Accounting fraud's pathology is bimodal: it abets the wage-theft and austerity that harms the poorest and most vulnerable - but also the reporting scams that harpoon finance's biggest whales.

It's a curious alliance of interests. For now, it seems like Big Tech is going to be antitrust and anti-corruption's harbinger, but I wouldn't count accountancy out - it's got exactly the right kinds of enemies to fire sustained political will.

#pluralistic

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brbbinging · 3 years

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Documentaries to Watch

Hi Everyone!

Two weeks ago I hosted a Clubhouse room with our awesome members where we discussed what draws us in to watch a documentary and some of our current favorites. I took notes and compiled all the documentaries below for those that weren’t able to catch them all and for whoever needs a new documentary to get lost in.

Comment below your thoughts if you end up watching any of them or if you have already seen them. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Till then, BRB... binging 🍿🍸✌🏽

The September Issue: A documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue.

The 13th: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Miss Americana: A look at iconic pop artist Taylor Swift during a transformational time in her life as she embraces her role as a singer/songwriter and harnesses the full power of her voice.

Athlete A: Follow the Indianapolis Star reporters that broke the story about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse and hear from gymnasts like Maggie Nichols.

The Jinx: Robert Durst: Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki examines the complicated life of reclusive real estate icon Robert Durst, the key suspect in a series of unsolved crimes.

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado: Every day for decades, Walter Mercado — the iconic, gender non-conforming astrologer — mesmerized 120 million Latino viewers with his extravagance and positivity.

The Staircase: The high-profile murder trial of American novelist Michael Peterson following the death of his wife in 2001.

Allen V. Farrow: A look behind the years of sensational headlines to reveal the private story of the accusation of sexual abuse against Woody Allen involving his 7-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow.

Tiger: A look at the life, success and scandals of golf legend Tiger Woods.

Tina: Exclusive access to the Grammy Award-winning artist to celebrate her career.

O.J.: Made in America: A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

I Am Not Your Negro: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

The Madoff Affair: Bernie Madoff was responsible for the largest financial fraud in history. Frontline correspondent Martin Smith investigates how he managed to steal $65 billion dollars from investors.

Bigger Than Enron: The meteoric rise and stunning collapse of Enron caused many to question why the corporate oversight system that was supposed to protect investors failed to sound any alarms about the company's dubious finances.

American Greed: Documentary focusing on history's largest financial crimes ranging from Ponzi schemes, murder for hire, and insider trading.

25 Million Pounds: 25 Million Pounds details the collapse of Barings Bank in the mid 1990s primarily by a broker called Nick Leeson, who lost £827 million ($1.3 billion) by speculating on futures contracts. The film contextualises the downfall as the history of Barings Bank was one of the oldest and most prestigious merchant banks in Britain, run by the same family for decades with extensive ties to Britain's elites.

Naomi Osaka: Featuring unprecedented access to Osaka, the documentary follows her pivotal year, from the U.S. Open in August 2019 and on tour, as she plays in each of the Grand Slams and prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Who Killed Malcom X?:Activist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad begins his own investigation into the perplexing details surrounding the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X.

Paris is Burning: A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

Love on Spectrum: A four-part documentary series following young adults on the autism spectrum as they explore the unpredictable world of love, dating and relationships.

Sophie: A Muder in West Cork: The documentary follows the investigation of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, a French film and TV producer who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland, in 1996.

The Last Dance: Charting the rise of the 1990's Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, one of the most notable dynasties in sports history.

Dear Zachary: A letter to a Son about His Father: A filmmaker decides to memorialize a murdered friend when his friend's ex-girlfriend announces she is expecting his son.

The Imposter: A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.

Wild Wild Country: When Osho, the world's most controversial guru, builds an Utopian city deep in the Oregon country, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.

Varsity Blues: College Admissions Scandal: Reenactments drive this documentary investigating the mastermind behind a scam to sneak the kids of rich and famous families into top US universities.

Murder on Middle Beach: A young man is determined to solve an unspeakable crime and absolve the people he loves, while looking for answers within his fractured family and community.

Showbiz Kids: A documentary about the highs and lows of children in show business, featuring interviews and examinations of the lives and careers of the most famous former child actors in the world.

Val: Documentary centering on the daily life of actor Val Kilmer featuring never-before-seen footage spanning 40 years.

Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami: Two childhood friends go from high school dropouts to the most powerful drug kingpins in Miami in this true story of a crime saga that spanned decades.

Abuducted in Plain Sight: The twisting, turning, stranger-than-fiction true story of the Brobergs, a naive, church-going Idaho family that fell under the spell of a sociopathic neighbor with designs on their twelve-year-old daughter.

Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer: This limited docu-series tells the true story of how one of the most notorious serial killers in American history was hunted down and brought to justice.

*This last recommendation is a podcast but it was an interesting listen.*

S-Town: John despises his Alabama town and decides to do something about it. He asks a reporter to investigate the son of a wealthy family who’s allegedly been bragging that he got away with murder. But then someone else ends up dead, sparking a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an unearthing of the mysteries of one man’s life.

#documentary #documentaries #documentary recommendations #film recommendation #clubhouse #true crime #finance #sports

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moviepassionreview-blog · 6 years

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The Wizard of Lies: Tease (HBO) The Wizard of Lies, starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, premieres Saturday May 20 at 8PM on HBO. source

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bountyofbeads · 5 years

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‘She was shaking’: Court filings describe system Jeffrey Epstein allegedly used to procure girls

https://wapo.st/2OMuAji

People close to Epstein fear he was murdered...as Epstein told authorities someone tried to kill him in a previous incident weeks earlier. He was described as being in good spirits in recent days...

Jeffrey Epstein dies by apparent suicide in New York jail

By Matt Zapotosky and Renae Merle | Published August 10 at 10:48 AM ET | Washington Post | Posted August 10, 2019 11:46 AM ET |

Jeffrey Epstein, the politically connected financier and registered sex offender charged recently with sexually abusing dozens of young girls in the early 2000s, has apparently died by suicide in prison, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Epstein, 66, hanged himself in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, though the exact timing was unclear according to ABC News, which was first to report the development.

Epstein, a multimillionaire with ties to celebrities and politicians including President Trump and former president Bill Clinton, was arrested last month on federal sex trafficking charges that could have put in him prison for 45 years. Prosecutors alleged he abused dozens of young girls at his Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., homes and enlisted his victims to bring him others.

Epstein had pleaded not guilty in the case, and a federal judge had recently denied his request to be released to home confinement.

Last month, Epstein was found in his cell with marks around his neck, and authorities were trying to determine if he was attacked or attempted suicide. He showed no obvious signs of distress at a later court hearing.

A Justice Department spokeswoman and a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s Office in New York, which brought the new case against Epstein, declined to comment. Spokespeople for the Bureau of Prisons, officials with the Metropolitan Correctional Center and Epstein’s lawyers did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

Epstein’s case had attracted widespread attention — in part because of his wealth and political connections, and in part because of a lenient plea deal he reached more than a decade ago to resolve similar allegations. That 2008 agreement allowed Epstein to plead guilty to just two state charges in Florida, avoiding federal exposure entirely, and spend just 13 months in jail, with work-release privileges.

The deal was approved by Alex Acosta, who was then the U.S. attorney in Miami and would go on to become Trump’s labor secretary — a post he resigned after Epstein was charged last month and the controversy over the previous case was reignited.

Epstein’s death is sure to draw intense scrutiny of the Bureau of Prisons and the Metropolitan Correctional Center. The high-rise federal detention center in downtown Manhattan has a fearsome reputation; one inmate who spent time there and in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, famously said Guantanamo Bay was “more pleasant” and “more relaxed.”

The facility is no stranger to high-profile inmates. It recently housed notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman while he was on trial in Brooklyn, and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has spent time there around court proceedings in New York — though records show he has since been moved to a different facility in Pennsylvania.

The facility in New York also housed Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, and Bernard Madoff, who ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.

‘She was shaking’: Court filings describe system Jeffrey Epstein allegedly used to procure girls

By Beth Reinhard, Marc Fisher, Tom Hamburger and Carol D. Leonnig | Published August 09 at 7:41 PM ET | Washington Post | Posted August 10, 2019 11:44 AM ET |

He demanded sex three times a day. A parade of powerful figures visited his private estates, which were adorned with pictures of naked girls and stocked with sex toys. And the schedules of teenagers on call to give him massages at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion were documented in phone messages from his assistants.

Those and other claims about financier Jeffrey Epstein unsealed in court filings Friday lay out disturbing details both about his alleged activities and the number of people in his orbit who could have observed them, raising new questions about how the sex abuse charges against the multimillionaire were previously handled.

Epstein, who is now facing federal sex trafficking charges involving the alleged abuse of dozens of minors, previously pleaded guilty in Florida state court to two felony counts, serving about 13 months in jail. A federal judge ruled in February that the prosecution team led by then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, who recently resigned as President Trump’s labor secretary, violated the rights of alleged victims by failing to notify them of an agreement not to bring federal charges.

The newly unsealed documents — part of a now-settled defamation case brought by one alleged victim, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, against a woman she said recruited her — depict an organized system to regularly provide Epstein with girls.

In one 2005 message detailed in the documents, an Epstein assistant noted that one girl wanted to know if she could come to the house at a later time. “She is wondering if 2:30 is o.k. She needs to stay in school,” the message read.

Epstein has pleaded not guilty to the current charges against him. Martin Weinberg, an attorney for the financier, did not respond to a request for comment Friday about the documents.

The material was gathered as part of the defamation suit brought by Giuffre against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell that was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2017.

A federal appeals court in New York last month ordered documents related to the case to be made public.

In a 2016 deposition included in the filings, Giuffre said she was a “teen sex slave” who traveled to his homes in New York, Palm Beach, New Mexico and the Caribbean and was directed to give massages and have sex with Epstein and his friends at will.

“I’m angry with anybody who has it in their mind that they can hurt and abuse a minor child and continue to lie about getting away with it and that what they’ve done is okay,” Giuffre said in the deposition. “Yes, I’m furious.”

Lawyers for Maxwell did not respond to requests for comment Friday. In a 2016 deposition, Maxwell said: “Virginia is an absolute liar and everything she has said is a lie. Therefore, based on those lies I cannot speculate on what anybody else did or didn’t do . . . everything she said is false.”

Giuffre has said she was recruited by Maxwell when she was 16 or 17 and working at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club in Palm Beach. According to the court filings, Mar-a-Lago produced 177 pages of records in response to a subpoena, including one chart showing that she had been a summer worker at age 17 and that she was terminated in 2000.

In a deposition, Giuffre said Epstein told her Trump was a “good friend,” but she said that she had never seen them together.

Giuffre said that she was told by Maxwell that she would be trained at Epstein’s residence as a masseuse, but that “on the very first meeting that I had with him . . . she instructed me to take off my clothes and to give oral sex to Jeffrey Epstein.”

Asked in a deposition about Maxwell’s role in procuring girls for him, Epstein refused to answer, citing his constitutional protection against self-incrimination.

Giuffre said that Epstein flew her around the world and introduced her to an array of political and entertainment figures. She also said that Epstein told her that he had his house wired with hidden video cameras that recorded her every move, even in the bathroom.

In the court documents, Giuffre named a number of prominent men she claimed she had sex with at Maxwell’s instructions, including Britain’s Prince Andrew, former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson (D) and former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine).

“My whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy,” Giuffre said in the deposition. “Their whole entire lives revolved around sex.”

On Friday, representatives of both Richardson and Mitchell denied her allegations, saying the men never had any contact with Giuffre.

The British royal family and Prince Andrew have repeatedly denied her claims. “Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue,” a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said Friday.

Attorney Alan Dershowitz, who represented Epstein at one point, has vigorously denied Giuffre's allegation that she had sex with him, calling her a “certified, complete, total liar.”

Those remarks prompted Giuffre to file a defamation suit against Dershowitz, which is ongoing.

Giuffre was part of a sprawling network of young women allegedly targeted by Maxwell to give massages that led to sexual relations with Epstein and his friends, according to the court documents.

Johanna Sjoberg, a student at Palm Beach Atlantic University, testified that Maxwell recruited her to be “a legitimate assistant” answering phones for Epstein and then “asked her to perform sexual massages for Epstein, and punished her when she didn’t cause Epstein to orgasm.”

Asked if she had ever tried to get Epstein to explain why he received so many massages from so many different girls, Sjoberg said in a deposition: “He explained to me that, in his opinion, he needed to have three orgasms a day. It was biological, like eating.”

A chef who worked for friends of Epstein recalled meeting a visibly upset young woman who said she had been hired as “Jeffrey’s executive personal assistant.” She was 15.

Rinaldo Rizzo said the girl told him, tearfully, that she had been taken to Epstein’s home in the Virgin Islands and asked for sex. She said she had no memory of how she had returned to New York.

“She was shaking,” Rizzo testified. “I mean literally quivering. . . . She says, ‘I’m not supposed to talk about this.’”

The documents also include images of telephone messages from Epstein assistants summarizing calls from people procuring girls. “Has girl for tonight,” one says. “Confirmed [redacted name] at 4 pm. Who is scheduled for morning? I believe [redacted name] wants to work.”

Several messages from 2005 say only, “I have a female for him.”

Massage tables were scattered around Epstein’s home in Palm Beach, said Juan Alessi, who worked for Epstein from 1991 to 2002. He said in a 2016 affidavit that a massage “was like a treat” that Epstein provided his guests. He said that as many as 100 masseuses visited the property in the time he worked for Epstein, mostly women.

Epstein only took his massages in his private suite, which adjoined Maxwell’s bedroom suite, but was off limits to guests, he said. Alessi said he would clean up Epstein’s suite up after these massages and would sometimes find vibrators and sex toys in Maxwell’s sink.

Rosalind S. Helderman, Manuel Roig-Franzia, Matt Zapotosky and Deanna Paul in Washington, and Lori Rozsa in West Palm Beach, Fla., contributed to this report.

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