The Infernal Machine: From Powder to Dust
To understand why a company called ViSalus is the fastest-growing company of its size in the United States, just watch cofounder Nick Sarnicola in action at one of the company’s periodic sales...
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The Paper World of Brookfield Asset Management
Enter the name of Toronto-based public company Brookfield Asset Management into a search engine and it delivers more than 1 million results. The global conglomerate, whose annual sales exceed $18...
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A Rousing Relationship
This is a sidebar to “The Paper World of Brookfield Asset Management.” For more coverage, click here. A series of transactions beginning last winter involving Brookfield Asset Management and Rouse...
View ArticleNorthern Exposure
This is a sidebar to “The Paper World of Brookfield Asset Management.” For more coverage, click here. Beginning at about 9 a.m. on Jan. 24, 1996, in the offices of Toronto law firm of Tory Tory...
View ArticleDisclosure Diligence
This is a sidebar to “The Paper World of Brookfield Asset Management.” For more coverage, click here. Brookfield Asset Management’s disclosure practices have raised regulatory eyebrows before. In a...
View ArticleThe Erstwhile Hedge Fund King of Akron, Ohio’s Very Difficult Summer
On Aug. 4, 2012, a bright young mortgage department employee at J.P. Morgan named Ben Sayer was all smiles: The head of a rapidly expanding hedge fund said to have almost $200 million in assets—one...
View ArticleThe Penny Stock Lawyer
When in Southern California and in need of a lawyer who understands the needs of a company that may exist largely on paper (and that may never materialize), Phillip Koehnke is your man. The...
View ArticleThe Man Behind the Marijuana Boxes
Shannon Illingworth is the founder and chief executive of AVT Inc., a Corona, Calif.-based maker of automated dispensing machines that manufactures the pot-vending units for Medbox. A former college...
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Tinkerer, Lawyer, Hustler, Lies: One Man’s Path to a Dope Fortune
Edel Rodriguez In the spring of 2010, exasperated police detectives from all over Los Angeles began phoning the county’s consumer affairs department to complain that an outfit calling itself the Active...
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Brookfield’s Looking-Glass World
Edel Rodriguez A wry investor might be forgiven for concluding that peering at Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management’s filings is akin to Lewis Carroll’s Alice peeking behind the mirror and finding...
View ArticleThe People of the County of New York vs. Bryan Caisse
Over five days in mid-October, prosecutors with the New York County District Attorney’s Major Economic Crimes unit brought forth a stream of witnesses who told a grand jury about a money manager named...
View ArticleBryan Caisse Comes Home
Bryan Caisse, the former submarine weapons officer turned hedge fund manager, was arrested Saturday in Bogota, Colombia, by officers from the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. His name...
View ArticleMeet Benjamin Wey, Media Mogul
Sometime on Sept. 3, Maureen Gearty, 56, of New York City started receiving emails and calls from old friends and colleagues asking about the details of her torrid affair with a man named Ronen Zakai,...
View ArticleHow To Effortlessly Earn A Riskless 90% On Your Bitcoins Through The Magic of...
Let’s discuss an ambitious African immigrant named Obawtaye Folayan who appears to have a very big American dream but an unfortunate approach to getting there. Starting in the mid-90s Folayan started...
View ArticleThe Copper Archipelago: InterCloud
Editors note: In addition to several minor copy edits to correct spelling and grammar usage, the article was amended to include a comment from John Mylant denying that he is part of an organized stock...
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Kindred Healthcare Chairman Snares Loaded Retirement Sendoff
Editors Note: This is a cross-posting of an article released today from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting that we felt would be of interest for our readers. By: James McNair7 hours ago...
View ArticleThe Copper Archipelago: Truth, Lies and InterCloud Systems
InterCloud Systems, a company familiar to Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation readers, put out a press release late last week sharply disagreeing with the claim that they had hired a...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name: The Ongoing Saga of Medbox
It is the third week of April of 2011 and Rishi Patel is on a mission: He is taking a hard look at business opportunities in the wake of Arizona’s decision to permit the sale of medical marijuana in...
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The Mitzvah Factory
Imagine you and your younger brother are poor Jewish kids in mid-1950s Hungary. Unlike so many, you managed to avoid the Holocaust only to be swept up in a bitter revolt against the cruel Soviet...
View ArticleThe Invention of Professor Dr. Anthony Nobles
Reader, let’s not mince any words about Dr. Anthony Nobles, a 50-year old inventor, teacher, community leader, entrepreneur and soon-to-be space tourist: his life is vastly better than yours. Hailing...
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