We downplay the schemers, the short cuts and the subterfuge.
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Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn play the three schemers.
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Yet they are credible as irresponsible schemers led by their genitals.
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Scott) as they battled the inept Slavic schemers Boris Badenov (Mr.
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In Benioff and Weiss' hands, the schemers have all come to bad endings.
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" The song declares, "If dreamers were schemers, I'd make my dream come true.
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The diplomat: History and politics can be split on the survival rate of schemers.
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Every nation has its scammers and schemers, its cheats, criminal liars, and con artists.
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The fact that they fearlessly call out and challenge the schemers testifies to their courage.
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So what do we do about the Ponzi schemers, the tax scammers, the money malefactors?
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Did anyone teach you how to guard against schemers, hackers and other bad actors online?
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These schemers distort markets and aid those who seek to harm Americans and American interests.
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The schemers walked around the neighborhood to see if anyone would come, and something unexpected happened.
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Then one of those schemers lays hands on an artistic goldmine, and the rush to profit begins.
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But you let that collapse in Congress because of Stephen Miller and the other alt-right schemers.
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Scammers, fraudsters, insider traders, Ponzi schemers, stock spoofers — the Securities and Exchange Commission has seen it all.
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For years Sansa has been quietly taking lessons from some Westeros' most cold-hearted schemers, from Littlefinger to Cersei.
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Knowing these two schemers, there will probably be caveats and side plots involved, no matter what they're up to.
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Blac Chyna's going on the offensive to block tricky strippers and schemers from cashing in on her good name.
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Chancers who gave it a go were considered get-rich-quick schemers and worth of little more than derision.
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He has come to see the Clinton team as unprincipled schemers, much as the Republicans he long opposed do.
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Come bet it all, you dreamers and schemers, make your fortune in the rapidly-developing western regions of the country.
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The game is meant to help students from third grade through sixth guard against schemers, hackers and other bad actors.
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Doug himself says he is Plan A. It is never explained why the schemers go with a failing Plan B instead.
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Chuck and Bobby are schemers, and much of the fun of "Billions" comes from watching their game of three-dimensional chess.
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Toward the end of the first season of HBO's "Succession," some corporate schemers plot a takeover strategy called a bear hug.
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The schemers gave the newlyweds a "buck for luck", a polaroid of themselves, and an apology for crashing their big day.
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This is an enormous opportunity but, like any new financial opportunity, the schemers and crooked charlatans are having a field day.
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I mean the knaves, nuts, schemers and dreamers who have taken their cues from him or turned his lessons against him.
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Both Sinclair and Cersei were schemers who advanced their family's interests and power -- but at the cost of losing a child.
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The series has housed (heh) a motley crew of murderers, adulterers, power-grabbing-schemers, and, in general, no good, very bad people.
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Westeros is troubled by schemers and threatened by invasion, and the only thing holding it together is their hateful marriage of convenience.
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The Italians are foils — old-world artisans and Machiavellian schemers whose ethos is embodied by the company patriarch, Enzo Ferrari (Remo Girone).
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Unfairly pigeonholed as a love interest for too much of her career, Dunst has always been best at playing black-hearted schemers.
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The military men are hapless schemers, in thrall to American advisers; the narrator is involved in a gay relationship with another pilot.
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Darsombra describe themselves as "trans-apocalyptic galaxy rock, for dreamers and schemers and those seeking an audio-visual journey," which, yeah, makes sense.
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And it appears that the rate at which schemers are uploading new high-priced offers has outpaced whatever monitoring the company is doing.
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But the new rating system isn't fool-proof, since some fake-review schemers have a way to get around the "verified purchase" requirement.
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Olivia Colman won best actress in a comedy or musical for her work in "The Favourite," a pitch-black comedy about royal schemers.
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"They've covered the cobbles, but they'll never defeat / all the dreamers and schemers who still teem through these streets," Walsh read to the vigil.
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But H.R. 5037 would take away states' ability to protect their constituents from financial ruin at the hands of corporate fraudsters and Ponzi schemers.
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But the same opportunity that Amazon saw, and which it sold to millions of merchants, has attracted schemers and scam artists across the globe.
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A number of the women are sick, self-loathing schemers eager to act out their revenge fantasies, so the battle lines are evenly drawn.
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Though local, state and federal law-enforcement authorities may collaborate to pursue schemers, the firm itself is often its own first line of defense.
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The FBI, concerned that as much as $300 million had been sucked out of insurance companies by the schemers, opened yet another investigation of Corbally.
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Let the better candidate win the runoff, without the negative intervention of party schemers in Washington, and let the party unite behind whichever candidate wins.
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Whether attempting to scam off life insurance policies or abandoning mass debt, these schemers have faked everything from disappearance-by-canoe to murder by Tamil rebels.
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The game pokes fun at role-playing games like Earthbound and Pokémon, but it also makes a point to portray politicians as liars, connivers, and schemers.
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The fact that Astro's founders Andy Pflaum and Roland Schemers collaborated with Dharmaraj on Zimbra, which initially exited for $350 million to Yahoo, sure can't hurt.
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Whatever one thinks of Mr Duterte, the country's voters chose him and he deserves to take office with the wind, rather than schemers, at his back.
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Soon, the Dogecoin Reddit forum was full of angry scam victims and get-rich-quick schemers, and the once tight-knit Dogecoin community started to disintegrate.
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Maybe that's what Dany's "You're not a hero" speech to Tyrion really meant — she's letting him know that, increasingly, the show isn't focused on strategists and schemers.
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While most of this season is built to make D.C. look like an ever-expanding hellmouth of schemers — where even was Duncan's premiere episode July 4th party?
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As Julia's advisor Rob Macdonald (Paul Ready) tells police, his group of anti-Julia schemers simply wanted to embarrass Julia out of political life — not murder her.
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But where the Coens have often seemed to question power in the past — most famously with the corporate schemers who dot many of their movies — Hail, Caesar!
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The magazine was an outpost of confusion in those days, and Condé Nast was a castle of paranoia, its towers filled with schemers hoping to avoid defenestration.
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After years of enmity, the two most formidable schemers on a series full of them (three, if you count Wendy) are united, and now anything seems possible.
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So the schemers trying to stop Trump have had to settle for people with no national experience or any realistic chance whatsoever of striking a meaningful blow against Trump.
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But Mars also opposes Neptune during this full moon, which may create a frustratingly passive—or passive aggressive—energy, and you need to watch out for schemers and manipulators.
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Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are back as Frank and Claire Underwood, the Machiavellian schemers and menacing first couple in this pulpy series, which returns for its fifth season.
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Pump-and-dump stock schemers could create an A.I. stock-picker that writes false analyst reports, thus triggering automated quants to sell and causing flash crashes in the market.
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They were schemers in the secret sale of arms to Iran and the skimming of profits for rebel forces in Central America, violating American foreign policy and common sense.
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The documents showed that Mossack Fonseca has worked with Ponzi schemers, diamond traders, members of FIFA, property tycoons, Saudi kings, wealthy art collectors, drug kingpins, and Ukrainian oligarchs alike.
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Aiden Gillen has played a number of oddly-accented schemers who closely resemble Littlefinger over the past few years, most recently in 2017's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
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Cohen could have easily created what schemers call "plausible deniability" where Daniels was concerned by making sure no paperwork was created that could document a story different from his own.
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According to a 2018 Wired article, the conspiracy has risen in sophistication, netting millions in scam money and minor celebrity status for the Nigerian email schemers who commit the fraud.
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But that same openness allows some schemers and con artists — everyone from counterfeiters to price gougers — to take advantage of the platform in a way that Amazon can never fully stop.
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America likes to assign blame for its "bad" wars — the Spanish-American War, Vietnam, Iraq — to devious schemers who trick the public into supporting them: William Randolph Hearst, Lyndon Johnson, neoconservatives.
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After several seasons of Joffrey's depravity, it was a nice change of pace for the various King's Landing schemers to now have to deal instead with the kind but weak-willed Tommen.
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Mind games between Nagy, Fangio in Denver Both lauded schemers, Bears head coach Matt Nagy and Broncos head coach Vic Fangio were teammates on the Chicago staff just a few months ago.
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And as the new rating feature attracts more and more feedback from verified buyers, it'll get more expensive for schemers to buy enough phony reviews to try to break through the noise.
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And before you count Facebook as one of the victims, remember that the schemers aren't exploiting some loophole or trick or hack, just taking advantage of how Facebook is designed to work.
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Arthouse dramas like Frozen River and Wendy and Lucy fit the bill, as do thrillers like A Simple Plan, any action movie involving schemers or scammers, and quite a few Coen brothers films.
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All of these schemers have at least one thing in common — a 48-year-old financial analyst from Ohio, using an algorithm and an army of tipsters, nailed them for their dishonest racing deeds.
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"Kings of War" takes the home-viewing pleasures associated with serial television portraits of cutthroat schemers, like those in "House of Cards" and "The Sopranos," and magnifies them to the proportions of grand opera.
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"It had been an outlandish notion," Barry Siegel writes in DREAMERS AND SCHEMERS: How an Improbable Bid for the 2150 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles From Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis (University of California, $19903).
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It's about how some ne'er-do-wells and well-off schemers regard fraud as essential to a financial come-up, and how all of that's tied to bourgeoisie psychology, male fragility, and American late capitalism.
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Or at least that's what I took from the story of a Hungarian banker, Willy Palaffi (Mark Evans), who would rather stay single than consort with the schemers and sinners he meets in Budapest society.
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The former schemers and pundits have laid out epic plans, but then they've consistently been sidelined and outsmarted by characters who are supposed to be less witty and observant, less influential and careful, or less crafty.
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The report also said former Chongqing Party boss Sun Zhengcai and a group of other top officials ousted for graft, including former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, were "schemers" and "plotters" out to further their own careers.
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And Jay, we've been talking about this for a couple of years, you and I. You've made protecting the retail investors from the fraudsters, the scamsters, the Ponzi schemers, the whole lynchpin of your time here.
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More and more, this play was looking like a lopsided melodrama about grotesque Southern schemers fighting for their slices of a dying patriarch's estate, with an overextended father-and-son ontology lesson for a second act.
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Two of the NFL's brightest offensive schemers - the San Francisco 53ers' Kyle Shanahan and the Los Angeles Rams' Sean McVay - joined the NFC West in 2017, but they haven't faced each other as contenders ... until Sunday.
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A review of public records found dozens of people across the U.S. who happen to share names with disgraced bankers, infamous Ponzi schemers, convicted securities fraudsters, and even fictional Wall Street villains Gordon Gekko and Patrick Bateman.
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And while The Wolf of Wall Street is about a group of schemers who make a killing on sketchy financial schemes, in the end it totally isolates its central sleazy financial baron played by Leonardo Di Caprio.
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Mr. Trump's confrontational phone calls, in particular, don't sound like the working out of an economic or even political strategy — cunning schemers don't waste time boasting about their election victories and whining about media reports on crowd sizes.
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With his testimony, Sondland portrayed the Trump-Giuliani scheme as constructed out of lies and fantasies and characterized the schemers to be aggressive, abusive and heedless of the damage they were doing to both the United States and Ukraine.
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We spend most of our adventure with Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key's misguided schemers Ducky and Bunny; Keanu Reeves' hilariously emotional Canadian daredevil Duke Caboom; and the Polly Pocket-inspired cop with impeccable comedic timing, Giggles McDimples (Ally Maki).
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The many students enmeshed in the college admissions scandal that was unveiled last week now face a reckoning as universities seek to determine whether they were innocent victims who should keep working toward their degrees or unethical schemers worthy of discipline.
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At the same time, it seems logical that these schemers will have to purchase more fake reviews to make an impact on their product's ratings if the overall amount of customer feedback is growing as a result of the one-tap feedback feature.
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The trope of a group of Jewish schemers who undermine the master race helps make the story work, and in somewhat modified form can be pressed into service as an explanation for why Israel can prevail against numerically much larger groups of Arabs.
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They also found that, over their 30 years in business, Mossack Fonseca has attracted an array of colorful clients, such as Ponzi schemers, diamond traders, confectionery oligarchs, international arms smugglers, Saudi royals, members of disgraced football association FIFA, art dealers, drug kingpins, and so on.
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Amazon said on Thursday that it blocked more than a million items from sale on its marketplace in recent weeks that made false claims about defending against the novel coronavirus, as schemers across the globe looked to make a quick buck amid a global health threat.
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Let's talk instead about all the wonderful women — brawlers, bawlers, schemers, dreamers — on the small screen, a nickname that we have to retire because television is proving infinitely bigger in spirit and more in tune with the moment than most of the loud schlock shoveled into multiplexes.
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Sansa Stark's innermost secrets might be hiding in every taut French braid and half-up hairstyle the sitting Queen in the North wears, but when actress Sophie Turner isn't playing one of Winterfell's most promising new schemers on Game of Thrones, she's actually our favorite source of long-hair inspiration.
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Reyes has himself been active and diligent in enforcing Utah laws — even going so far as to persuade the legislature to create a public database of mortgage schemers, insider traders, and other white-collar criminals — as well as joining his colleagues from other states in national actions against large corporations.
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Two more royal schemers are still to come in "Mary Queen of Scots," which stars Saoirse Ronan in the title role and Margot Robbie as her rival, Queen Elizabeth I; both Ms. Ronan and Ms. Robbie were nominated for best actress last year and could return to that category once again.
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Art collection is a velvet buzzsaw: you think you're merely buying a bit of beauty, but what you've actually done is enable a bunch of schemers to get rich off manipulating systems, events, and buyer's collections to continue to do the same, driving up the price of art, and essentially killing its soul.
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" Protecting the presidency from "venality and corruption" was paramount for the vast majority of Americans, including Benjamin Gale of Connecticut, who warned that, "an elective king…will eternally embroil the state by schemers for the outs and ins and by the foundation of clamours, broils, and contentions that will end in blood.
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The series, starting with 1970's Nine Princes In Amber, is an episodic, epic story about a sprawling family of power-hungry schemers using magic, intrigue, and alliances to vie for control of Amber, one of two "true worlds" that's spawned an infinite number of "shadow" universes with widely varying physical laws.
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If she had, Lopez, in contention for her role in "Hustlers," a film about a group of exotic dancers-turned-expert-schemers, would have been the first American Latina actress to be nominated for an Academy Award since 1994, when Rosie Perez was nominated for "Fearless," as noted by The New York Times.
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The behind-the-scenes schemers and string-pullers who shaped the show have fallen on hard times in recent seasons, as Benioff and Weiss have run out of Martin's source material, forcing them to take on more of the burden of plotting and scripting the show — and bringing their own blunter tastes and interests to the fore.
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Harrison loves his schemers, especially the high-stakes New York City variety, and his exuberance for plundering financiers, money-grubbing heirs and double-dealing musclemen for hire is the fuel that propels "You Belong to Me." At the center is Paul, whose comfortable lifestyle comes from his boutique law practice but whose passion lies in obsessive rare map collecting.
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"President Trump does not care about anti-Semitism" Paul Waldman in The Washington Post: Trump regularly asserts that Jews do and ought to have unquestioning loyalty to Israel (he refers to Benjamin Netanyahu as "your prime minister" when talking to Jewish audiences) and describes Jews as greedy, money-grubbing, conniving schemers who only want to horde [sic] wealth and power.
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The Panama Papers—22 million leaked documents that detail the inner workings of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm accused of helping drug lords, sports stars, Ponzi schemers, kings, presidents, prime ministers, FIFA officials, mafia members, high-profile thieves, high-ranking politicians, and at least one convicted sex offender launder money, evade taxes, and escape criminal prosecution—are a big deal.
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" At times, Sondland seemed almost gleeful as he outed Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and top administration figures as players in an effort to extract a political favor from Ukraine in return for vital military aid from the US. "With his testimony, Sondland portrayed the Trump-Giuliani scheme as constructed out of lies and fantasies and characterized the schemers to be aggressive, abusive and heedless of the damage they were doing to both the United States and Ukraine.
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His other books include "A Dirty Distant War" (1987), a sequel of sorts to "The Dirty Dozen" set in Asia, in which the same Office of Strategic Services officer who organized the criminal company finds himself in French Indochina fighting with local guerrillas against the Japanese; "The Latecomers" (1970), about a psychologically deluded actor with a Christ obsession; "It Gave Everybody Something to Do" (with Louise Thoresen), a seeming memoir about a grotesque marriage that ends in murder (1974); "Knight's Cross" (with Aaron Bank), about German P.O.W.s who turn traitor (1993); and "Lovers and Schemers" (2003), a fictionalized social history of coastal Southern California from the 1960s through the 1990s.
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