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Corrupt practices

Many People Have Done Worse

From a video recording of a July meeting in London between Stephen Payne and Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov. Payne is president of the lobbying firm Worldwide Strategic Partners. Dosmukhamedov, a.k.a. Eric Dos,…

Contempt of Court

by Aaron Wider,

From a deposition given over two days last year by Aaron Wider, CEO of HTFC, a mortgage investor, to Robert Bodzin, a lawyer for GMAC Bank. In February, U.S. District…

Trailer of Tears

by Leonard Samuel Shoen,

From a December 16, 1976, management bulletin by L. S. Shoen, founder of U-Haul and company chairman from 1945 to 1986. The document was obtained by the Los Angeles Times,…