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...brazen heist took place at 4:30 in the afternoon, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, considered to be among the museum's most expensive, says the museum's curator, Lukas Gloor. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody was hurt...
...More shamefully, at the broker’s persistent urging to exaggerate their income, the couple chooses to lie, claiming a baffling $300,000 combined income. The brokerage firm has a disincentive to check the couples’ income, and thus these inflated incomes become the basis for the new mortgage. On both sides, irresponsibility and dishonesty destine these mortgages for failure; regulating brokers to promote responsible lending is a necessity, as is educating borrowers on the financial implications of their loans...
...Most disappointing of all is that no one in the entire process is blameless, including the homeowners. In signing the mortgages as financially responsible adults—albeit at the urging of greedy brokers—many of these borrowers lie about their income. Perhaps foreclosure then is the rightful resolution for those who took on loans that they had no prayer of repaying...
...between America and Sicily, reestablishing the business and drug trafficking ties between the Sicilian and American mobs. For a while, that relationship had been paramount in the netherworld as the Gambinos reigned supreme in the 1970s and 1980s. Arriving in the early '80s, the exiled Inzerillos were content to lie low under the protection of their powerful relatives. But the Gambino era would not last for long. In the mid-80s, 22 Sicily-born defendants were tried in the Pizza Connection case on charges of using New York pizzerias as fronts for importing heroin and laundering profits. The Gambinos suffered...
...Backtrack, again—there are some things you need to know about me. Every winter, I change my clock forward a single hour and fall into a total despair. I lie in bed eating Dove Promises and wondering when the goddamn sun will come back out. After years of trying to pin the blame for this behavior on outside forces—El Niño! our economic situation!—it was this winter that I finally accepted the fact that I’m a victim of Seasonal Affective Disorder...