driver. >> The FBI’s job was simple. Find the criminals, build the case, put them away. But for 20 years in Las Vegas, one casino and the man who ran it had a different arrangement. The FBI knew exactly who he was. They knew where the money came from. They knew about the bodies, and…
Walk through the front doors of the Venetian today and you will be greeted by marble floors, painted ceilings, and gondelas gliding through an indoor canal. It looks like a dream. It looks like money. It looks like the last great palace standing on the Las Vegas strip. But here’s the thing about beautiful illusions….
Everyone knows Fred Hampton got murdered by the FBI. That part is not controversial anymore. The documents came out. The $1.85 million settlement in 1982 basically admitted it. But here is what nobody talks about. 3 months before they killed him, Fred Hampton stood on a stage in Chicago with a white man wearing…
December 22, 2016, Montreal. Downtown inside the Alexis Nihon complex, shoppers are thinking about Christmas lists and food court coffee. Then a small team moves in with purpose. Canadian officers, a quiet approach. No Hollywood sprint, no sirens, a hand on an elbow, a sentence spoken low. 8 years on the run ends in an…
June 5th, 1986, about 2:00 p.m., Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. Robert DiBernardo walked out of 418 Broome Street, climbed into his gray 1986 Mercedes, and headed into the last ride of his life. By the end of that day, he would be sitting inside Sammy Gravano’s office in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn,…
Eight British royal tiaras that are hidden in the royal vaults who once wore them. Some of the most powerful royal tiaras were never meant to dazzle crowds. They were worn once, twice, then sealed away. Hidden deep inside royal vaults, these crowns carry stories of queens who ruled, brides who became legends, and…
She stood in Amsterdam, a young queen barely into her 30s, and did something no monarch had ever done before. She unpinned a brooch worth millions, two diamonds weighing 158 carats combined, and placed them into the trembling hands of a nearly blind elderly man. As tears streamed down his face, she whispered a…
On August 31, 1997, the world woke up to news that seemed impossible to believe. Princess Diana, the most famous woman on the planet, was dead. She had been killed in a car crash in Paris, fleeing from paparazzi photographers who were chasing her through the streets of the city. The woman who had…
In the late 1920s, Joe Kennedy did something that no man in his position was supposed to do. He brought his mistress home for dinner. Not to a restaurant, not to a hotel, not to some discrete location where the two worlds he was maintaining could remain safely separate, to the family home, to…
In the spring of 2018, inside a temperature controlled room at Buckingham Palace, conservation lighting fell across the Grareville emerald Kakosnik tiara with the precision of an examination. The stones, deep and cool in their settings, crafted by the Paris House of Beron in the early 20th century, absorbed the light and returned it…
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