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...undoing. He hooked up with the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force to get rid of the paintings - and that made him an I.R.A. target. He was killed in 1994, the victim of the last official i.r.a. assassination before the Good Friday peace treaty. All but two of the paintings Cahill stole were recovered. The next man to loot Russborough House is believed by senior police sources to have been Martin Foley - known as the Viper, and one of Cahill's most loyal lieutenants. In a June 2001 raid, his gang took two paintings: Bellotto's View of Florence and Gainsborough...
Maats: You want a freestyle poetry slam? Let’s see...Jodie, you stole my heart/How is it you seem to Foster/these pure feelings since the start/of your career...
...Matmos who stole the show with their dynamic and visually arresting performance, which often felt like a sample orchestra of two. With Daniel micromanaging the elaborate groove architectures and Schmidt “playing” various objects including bells, whistles, a creaky box and a set of plastic balls that he ran through his mouth, the boredom that often accompanies live electronic shows was nowhere to be found. The pair, who are well known for using sounds as diverse as inflating balloons, liposuction surgery and amplified crayfish nerve tissue as musical elements, used the projector screen to lift their...
...cracked last week: there was nothing any of its estimated 40,000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly stole passwords for those reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at $60 a pop. That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their names. Cost to the victims: $3 million and rising...
Hundreds of shoplifters are in prison in California for 25 years to life, including men who stole a bottle of vitamins, a magazine or three golf clubs. There should be a proportionate sentence for CEOs and CFOs found guilty of defrauding stockholders of millions of dollars. It could be a life sentence or even the death penalty. GEORGE BIRBILIS Clearwater...