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...“The pace and amount of investment was extremely aggressive,” said one venture capital investor who asked not to be named....
...Overseeing this operation is a 52-year-old former detective named Stephen White, known officially as the Receiver of Wreck....
...So it’s deeply ironic that Orlando, who was an unknown Miami businessman before he got involved with Trump and then was dumped from the deal he orchestrated, could thwart the whole thing....
...The operation, code-named “Synitsa”, took six months of planning. Kuzminov, formerly a captain in Russia’s 319th separate helicopter regiment, also had to keep it from crew with whom he was flying....
...Four days after his resignation, Costa addressed fears that Operation Influencer would scare off investors....
...La Playa is one of Carmel’s larger hotels, as well as one of its oldest, in operation since 1905....
...“It becomes very difficult to read,” says one participant, who asks not to be named because of the sensitivity of the talks....
...It is this unknown chemistry of the “superheavies” that Oganessian, now 90, admits to finding most intriguing....
...“The moment we evacuated civilians from here, the fighting became much easier,” said lieutenant-colonel Adoniram, also of the engineering corps....
...A year later, Utkin established Wagner, named after the German composer beloved by the Nazis. His own call sign was also “Wagner”....
...Also named on the application was Richard Ravitch, who briefly served as the lieutenant-governor of New York, but who died on June 25....
...During the next four captivating days we joined two AP collaring and tagging operations, watching from our helicopter as a young British vet named Richard Harvey leaned out of a second chopper to dart fleeing...
...This spirit of co-operation has now been abandoned, with all the matches of the 2023 World Cup being played within India alone....
...They include Lady Amanda, which Comair bought in 2017 and named after his wife (for unknown reasons, it used to be called Revenge II)....
...Others believe MBZ is spreading responsibility among trusted lieutenants as the UAE’s ambitions grow....
...“The thing about our industry,” one expert told me, “is that by its nature it’s unknown. We take loads of money, make lovely cables and stick them in the bottom of the ocean....
...Then came an opaque takeover attempt by an unknown UAE investor with ties to a Kremlin-connected tycoon....
...Wearing a black glove to cover the scars from a recent operation, a wary 81-year-old Pierrepoint spoke only briefly....
...The company previously had only a representative office in the UAE, but some of its trading operations moved from Geneva to Dubai last year....
...In the legal scrum, it emerged that a lieutenant of Harris’s had written a presentation about how to pursue litigation against Black....
...He’s not responsible for the whole Goenka operation. The organisation has many heads. The power doesn’t just lie in one place....
...Many of the works on this list are also named on the German Lost Art Database website....
...A second strand of Putin’s strategy is that the cold typically slows the tempo of military operations....
...“Travelling outside Beijing is like gambling these days,” said a lawyer who asked not to be named....
...Staley, a 66-year-old American who worked at JPMorgan for more than 30 years until 2013, developed ties with Epstein while an executive at its asset management operations....
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