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...successful scamsters ever have his day in court? Czech prosecutors asked a Prague court to issue an international warrant for the arrest of Viktor Kozeny, 40, who lives in the Bahamas and has already been indicted in the U.S. for grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office accused him of pocketing $182 million from a group of American investors in an Azerbaijani privatization scheme that never took place. The Czechs want him in connection with separate allegations that he defrauded 250,000 small investors of up to $370 million. A Czech émigr...
...advertising intern in Manhattan this summer, I couldn’t help but become intensely saturated by media. On a typical day, I would trek over to a dirty Union Square newsstand and buy as many popular magazines as I could carry, combing through them for competitive advertisements. After tearing out the ads for the higher-ups, I’d take the discarded leftovers of the magazines and add them to the huge supply of pop literature in my desk drawer. I’ve always loved magazines, but this was the beginning of a pop culture addiction that...
Kozeny was charged with 15 counts of grand larceny and two counts of criminal possession of stolen property, for allegedly stealing from investment funds managed by Manhattan-based Omega Advisors, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced...
...Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has started extradition proceedings to bring Kozeny—who is currently in the Bahamas—to the United States. The extensive investigation involved gathering documents and witness accounts from Eastern Europe, the Channel Islands and Switzerland, among other places...
...John Jr., his self-minimizing son. Ultra-prudent, teetotaling and possessing what Okrent calls a "clenched psyche," Junior--almost everybody called him that or, worse, Mr. Junior--nonetheless managed to launch the massive Rockefeller philanthropic operations. And when his advisers talked him into leasing 11 acres in midtown Manhattan, a deal that required paying $3.6 million a year in rent to Columbia University, he unflinchingly initiated the largest construction project in American history to increase the value of his new holdings...