In 2011, Bill Koch’s lawyers interviewed Rudy about counterfeit bottles Koch had bought from another collector. The bottles had originated from Rudy’s cellar. ibid. caption
There was everything you would need to make fake wine. ibid. FBI raid Rudy’s house
Rudy is charged and taken to a detention centre in New York City. Deemed a flight risk, he is not given bail. ibid. caption
Who backed it? Where did this money come from? Who created it? ibid. investigator
Organised crime steals £2 million from our bank accounts every day. Tonight: detectives investigate a gang who have stole hundreds of credit cards. They uncover the bent bank insiders selling our account details and go after an international gang who have made millions of pounds as they target the criminals behind Britain’s fastest growing crime. Fraud: How They Steal Your Bank Account, ITV 2019
One in five of us have cards stolen or compromised. ibid.
Every day in Britain over 230 people have their account details stolen by card skimming gangs. ibid.
The City of London police regularly arrest corrupt bank workers. ibid.
If we shift toward a model in which we are determining the onset of disease in time for therapy to be effective we will change outcomes. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes, 2019
Elizabeth has raised more than $400 million; the company is valued at $9 billion. ibid. observer
Nestled in the foothills above Silicon Valley there is a 700-acre plot of land called the Stanford Research Park … In the fall of 2014 she [Holmes] moved her bio-tech start-up Theranos to the research park. The company employed 800 people and was valued at nearly $10 billion: 4 years later it was worth less than zero. ibid. commentary
The value of the story: this compelling tale of divining hundreds of diseases from a drop of blood. ibid.
She had a policy of controlling demonstrations and tightly guarding access to the Edison prototypes. ibid.
It was a mess inside. ibid. company worker on machine
Then after a while people became paranoid of one another. ibid. worker
With the Walgreens rollout, the problems at Therenos were magnifying. ibid.
Their downfall was when they started giving us results that were not matching up with other labs. ibid. woman
Internally, we had so little faith in these tests but were still resulting them on patients. ibid. lab technician
Nothing works. We’re on a sinking ship. It’s a lie. ibid. worker
I knew that most of their blood tests were run on commercial analysers. ibid. John Carreyrou, The Wall Street Journal
In 2018 Theranos dissolved. Elizabeth and Sunny were charged with conspiracy and fraud. They pleaded not guilty. ibid.
Deputy, I’m looking at evidence of a vast financial conspiracy involving blatant tax fraud and the repurposing of corporate funds for personal gain. Fargo s3e10: Somebody to Love, financial dude, Netflix 2017
Mike Duffy never ran for public office but became as famous of the politicians he reported on. He was born to smooze and it took him to the top of his profession in radio and TV. It was fun and it was funny when it was just a joke but beneath the joking lurked a secret dream. An appointment to the senate made the private lifestyle of the bon vivant public business. And a $90,000 cover-up has turned the newsman into news. The Fifth Estate: The Rise and Fall of Mike Duffy, CBC 2014
An audit that would eventually flag four senators: Harb, Brazeau, Wallin, Duffy for dubious expenses. ibid.
Earlier this morning in Birmingham Alabama an indictment was unsealed charging Richard Schrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth Corporation, with fraud, money laundering and other offences. Trial by Media s1e4: King Richard, prosecutor
… Has gone from CEO to religious talk show host with his wife by his side … ibid. news
It was just this mindset of we have to hit the numbers. ibid. insider
Months after the conclusion of the HealthSouth trial, Richard Scrushy was indicted for bribing the former government of Alabama, Don Spiegelman. ibid. caption
America: the world’s greatest democracy, and at its heart the vote, the will of the people. But how do you know if the vote is counted correctly? And if you don’t know then what have you got? Democracy? James Naughton, Hacking Democracy, HBO 2006
This is the story of a small group of citizens headed by a grandmother … How does American count its vote? What they found is secrecy, votes in the trash and how to change the course of history. ibid.
In 2000 Al Gore lost the presidential election in Florida amongst the chaos and arguments over how to recount the votes, but no-one thought to ask how the computers originally counted the results. ibid.
The origin of the negative votes was never proved. ibid.
‘… Dozens and dozens of elections that were miscounted by machines.’ ibid. activist
Computers count around 80% of America’s votes. ibid.
Why were there so many security flaws and why could they count votes backwards? ibid.
‘Why they [Diebold] are collecting receivables from the Republican committee?’ ibid. activist
Diebold was called to account by the state of California. ibid.
‘The source code in fact got out. The key is not published.’ ibid. inquiry dude
‘They did not fix any of the problems.’ ibid. activist
They malfunctioned leaving thousands without a vote. ibid.
‘We cannot win this [Ohio] election’ [John Kerry] … People were stunned. John Kerry had promised to challenge the machines … Kerry stopped any investigation by conceding. ibid.
Voting is about our capability to change the way the government works by changing the people who make the decisions. And have a peaceful transfer our power when the people have made their choice. Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, Harri Hursti, election security expert, Sky Documentaries 2020
You understand how fragile everything is … Everything is hackable, always. ibid.
Most 20th-century voting stations are little more than mechanical adding machines. Often, the only electronic component was the electric light. Today, computers are in charge – even in precincts that use paper ballots. ibid.
‘There’s no national election system. No agency. And all this is left up to the counties.’ ibid. Sue Halpern
In 2005, using only a memory card, Hursti demonstrated how easy it is to change votes on a digital voting machine. When Hacking Democracy was released, the manufacturer called the hack a sham and attempted to stop the film’s distribution. ibid. caption
After two years of negative publicity, Diebold Election Systems was sold, ultimately to a Canadian company called Dominion Voting Systems. The same machine that Hursti hacked in 2005 is slated for use in 20 states for the 2020 election. ibid.
If you don’t believe that there is this kind of room [Las Vegas hacking convention] in Russia running 24/7 you are kidding yourself. ibid. Hursti
DEF CON reported that every piece of equipment in the Voting Machine Village was ‘effectively breached’. ibid. caption
A federal court banned the use of Accuvote voting machines in Georgia beginning in 2020. ibid.
Not President Clinton? OK. Forget the polls: Trump stole the election. Now my book is not a prediction, it’s a warning … The facts: They’ve already removed 17,000,000 people from the voter rolls, that’s federal government’ numbers for the past two years’ of record keeping. 17,000,000 voters. We’re going to be shocked that they don’t get their mailing ballot, and guess what, Max? … If you don’t get your ballot, you can’t mail it in. Greg Palast, interview The Keiser Report, RT 2020
2020: It has been stolen through the massive purge of the voter rolls and other trickery and through changes in the election law … But it can be stolen back. ibid.
Brand new tricks: see, in 2018 the Supreme Court handed a new weapon to the vote thieves … A new trick to remove voters … If you miss a couple of elections, that means you’re an inactive voter … and then you don’t answer [a] postcard. ibid.
They took it for a test drive in Georgia in 2018 and I was there … One third of a million voters in Georgia were wiped out illegally. In fact, 300,134. ibid.
‘Hundreds of thousands of voters from Brooklyn went missing from the voter rolls.’ ibid. Stacy Herbert
Democrats disenfranchise each other. ibid.