Hints and tips:
...In February 1981, six undercover DEA and IRS agents followed Kattan all day. They watched him order a Cuban coffee, before he met two men in a flashy Jaguar and handed them a mysterious red briefcase....
...On a more serious note, Maureen Tkacik has been doing good work all year on an undercovered and hugely important story: The Great US Healthcare Rollup....
...But if your actual out-of-New-York-state hours don’t add up to a full day, the IRS agents won’t let you count it as one. Turns out you’d be using all that bad hotel shampoo for nothing....
...The Americans got their chance when soccer-mad IRS agent Steve Berryman — one of Bensinger’s best sources, and therefore a hero of this book — discovered that the US Exco member Chuck Blazer had not filed...
...“You cannot discerne that ever any people had bene there before us,” wrote the ship’s agent, John Jourdain. And for a long time, that was the deal with the archipelago....
...Authorities also seized a green 2005 Bentley GT, an 18-carat gold Rolex watch, a bracelet with 2,420 diamonds, and other jewellery....
...According to mashreghnews.ir, a website close to the government, he has links to elite military forces and the defence ministry....
...In a series of allusive, hallucinatory episodes, the book introduces various IRS agents, whose lives are lived inside the vast impersonal bureaucracy of “the service”....
...The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely, Faber RRP£18.99 Pamuk shines in a novel rich in its evocation of 1970s and 1980s Istanbul....
...In The Lonely Planet Story, their joint autobiography, Maureen blames “the most beautiful green eyes” for dissolving her initial resolve to brush off any advances....
...He lambasts both the green romantics who oppose capitalism, and the economically driven “ostriches” who do not recognise that “nature matters and we are making a mess of it”....
...Executive director Maureen Ford acknowledges that attracting new, affluent buyers while also retaining “mom-and-pop retailers” and keeping house prices low will be difficult....
...of estate agents’ brochures....
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