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...existed in Tijuana for electronic music was obliterated by the arrival in the early '90s of rock en Espanol, an irony-free form of hard rock. Artefakto broke up, but Mogt and his friend Melo Ruiz, 32, kept experimenting with techno and electronica under the name Fussible (foo-SEE-blay) and sending out tapes to record companies. "Our music was too strange for the Mexican labels," Mogt recalls. "They kept telling us to make it more pop or put vocals on. The European labels thought it was too old and unoriginal, because in Europe, you know, there are 300 guys...
...governor this March. While he was never taken seriously by pundits, the struggling New York Libertarian Party managed to double its membership during Stern's brief candidacy to 800, a party official told TIME Daily. "He gave us the equivalent of millions of dollars of free publicity," says Blay Tarnoff, ballot access coordinater for the Libertarians, and an ardent Stern for Guv supporter. Left unsaid was the distinct probability that the Libertarians failed to gather the number of voter signatures required for putting Stern's name on the ballot...
While Ellis was seeking out investors, Blay-Miezah was living overseas, having fled the U.S. in 1974 after he was charged with trying to cash $250,000 worth of stolen cashier's checks. But the Ghanaian was always willing to greet his American benefactors at the posh offices or hotel suites he had set up with their money in London, Amsterdam and Accra. "I can't live like a pauper," he told one investor. "I have to impress my people...
Ellis has been charged with 64 counts of theft and conspiracy, and if convicted, faces a maximum of 543 years in prison and fines of $985,000. Ellis told TIME last week that he first met Blay-Miezah in 1972 when the Ghanaian was being held in a Pennsylvania prison after failing to pay a large bill at Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel. After Ellis assisted him in posting bond and paying off the hotel bill, Blay-Miezah promised to pay back his new friend "with considerable interest" and took him on as his partner in the trust deal. Ellis...
Meanwhile, back in Ghana, Blay-Miezah is in detention as government authorities investigate the sting. A loyal investor, New Jersey Businessman Walter Hajduk, says he visited Blay-Miezah in a government compound, where the Ghanaian urged him to tell officials that, if set free for seven days, he could travel to Europe and prove that the trust exists. If he failed, Blay- + Miezah told the investor, the authorities could shoot him. Hajduk would like the Ghanaians to take Blay-Miezah up on his offer. Should Blay-Miezah prove to be a liar, says Hajduk, "I'll put the bullets...