This article is about “Empire In Pain,” a new book on the Sackler family and their OxyContin driven, opioid crisis. It provides a look into how far back the treachery of the family goes, clearly the most villainous force in American medical history.…

Bernard Madoff, Architect of Largest Ponzi Scheme in History, Dead at 82 He’s gone but won’t soon be forgotten. In his case, however, the memory will not likely soften. He had begged to be released due to his terminal illness, but the response was,…

So rather than being scared off by Bernie Madoff’s sentence to spend the rest of his life behind bars, this fellow decided that he had better way to take people’s money. And now we have a candidate who truly fits the description of a “Bad Actor,”…

Shades of: The Financial Crisis Revisited…or... A cautionary tale about how the use of “shady” financial instruments called “swaps,”  can camouflage the true exposure/risk/leverage that large investors are able to take, and the resulting catastrophe…

Judge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s $28.5 Million Bail Proposal Ghislaine Maxwell was finally arrested and imprisoned in July 2020, following her years of grooming young girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse. Her bail request was denied at year-end…

The latest craze for selling books. How Crying on TikTok Sells Books - “BookTok” videos are starting to influence publishers and best-seller lists, and the verklempt readers behind them are just as surprised as everyone else.

“Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Boy do they ever! It is not for nothing that such kinds of sayings come to be, ie: “Play with fire and you WILL get burned," both subsets of “What Goes Around Comes Around.”  Observe enough people making abusive, demeaning…

James Levine…Maestro or Monster? Should have been remembered as the former, but unfortunately will be as a mixed bag. The recently deceased James Levine was lauded for creating musical masterpieces over a long career and should have been remembered…

Aide Says Cuomo Groped Her as New Details of Account Emerge How far down is down for Andrew Cuomo? The thorns from the seeds he planted in his garden of life are now appearing big time. “Oh no, not another one," he gasps!” Yes, another accuser and…