Rudy Kurniawan's Rare Wine Fraud Scheme Will Be Featured on 'The Con'By Shannon RaphaelMar. 24 2021, Published 2:07 p.m. ET
Source: YouTubeBack in the early aughts, Rudy Kurniawan embedded himself in the rare wine world, where bottles would sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was a constant presence at tastings and auctions, and he prided himself on his ability to sniff out counterfeit blends. Many looked to him for advice on improving their own collections. Read More...
When I was growing up near Corbin, Ky., in the 1980s, the little town was still grappling with a shameful event that had happened decades earlier. In 1919, a mob of white men had driven nearly 200 black railroad workers out of town. The local paper vehemently criticized “the terrible calamity,” and some white families sheltered black residents, but many were forced out at gunpoint. Corbin became widely known as “a sundown town”–a place where African Americans were actively unwelcomed–well into my childhood. Read More...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has bombarded the camps of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) in Delta State. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the Police Commissioner in the state, Muhammed Ari, confirmed that a security team led by the Air Force carried out the operation.
Ari had said the police used a helicopter in the state capital around lllah to disperse members of IPOB and send a signal to them that the command is in charge. Read More...