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...looked into the case, says he figures the whole thing was a relatively simple prank called a sendmail spoof, in which the prankster posts a message with a phony return address. He says the Willowick police never produced a copy of the posting for him so that he could unravel the tangle for them. Indeed, when the policeman called, "he didn't really understand what he was trying to tell me," says Russell. "The average Joe Blow police detective doesn't know flip about the Internet...
Permit us to disagree. It's a rare journalist who has the energy and persistence to unravel a story as tangled as this one. And Pooley, says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, "is one of the best I've ever seen. He has unlimited curiosity, and a remarkable sense of whether a source is credible...
...Bosnia. After serving as the primary architect of the Dayton peace plan, Holbrooke might be forgiven if he thought his business in the Balkans was finished (he's rumored to be leaving the State Department and returning to Wall Street later this month). But the arrangement was beginning to unravel, and the man who had knit it together in the first place was being summoned to perform some quick-stitch diplomacy...
...authorities did unravel one of his money-laundering schemes, which typifies their complexity. Cash earned in the U.S. was smuggled to Mexico and handed over to a Monterrey currency exchange. Couriers then flew or drove the funds back to the U.S. and deposited them in the exchange's bank account in McAllen, Texas. Then, with the help of two directors at the American Express Bank International in Beverly Hills, California, the money was wired to the Manhattan accounts of Cayman Islands holding companies, and from there to investments stretching from Texas to Switzerland. In this way, the real owners...
Those began to unravel in earnest on Saturday, Nov. 11, when Joe disappeared from National Airport in Washington. He had gone there with his wife's brother-in-law, ostensibly to meet the trustees of a $5 million family trust fund he claimed to have. Once there, the over-6-ft., almost-300-lb. Waldholtz slipped away, beginning six days on the run with the FBI in pursuit. After he surrendered on Friday in Washington, Waldholtz was released into the custody of a lawyer friend until he is called before a federal grand jury...