The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam
How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Vince Beiser Wired Feb 2021 Permalink
Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.
Andy Greenberg Wired Apr 2021 30min Permalink
The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?
Ed Caesar New Yorker Apr 2021 40min Permalink
Sentenced to life in prison at 16, Adolfo Davis hoped a Supreme Court ruling would give him a chance at a new beginning. But nothing about freedom turned out as he expected.
Maddy Crowell The Atavist Magazine May 2021 40min Permalink
Rebecca Raffle came to Indianapolis from Los Angeles with dreams of building a cannabis empire. She introduced herself as a West Coast #girlboss, SEO ninja, LGBTQ Family, and avid baker. But she was altogether something different.
Derek Robertson, Michael Rubino, Julia Spalding Indianapolis Monthly Aug 2021 30min Permalink
Próspera was supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise—but it’s a hard sell for the neighbors.
Ian MacDougall, Isabelle Simpson Rest of World Oct 2021 30min Permalink
Federal agencies have long struggled to stop illegal fishing and drug smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico. In recent years, it’s only gotten worse.
John Burnett Texas Monthly Nov 2021 Permalink
How the Bounty, a busted-up replica built in 1960 for the film Mutiny on the Bounty, ended up 100 miles out to sea during the height of Hurricane Sandy.
Kathryn Miles Outside Feb 2013 30min Permalink
Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing secret compartments in cars. If they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured, that wasn’t his problem. He was wrong.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2013 25min Permalink
On former nursing student One L. Goh, who killed six people at Oikos University in Oakland, California, and what it means to the Korean immigrant community.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Mar 2013 20min Permalink
“Southwark’s petty thugs must have thought all their birthdays had come at once: a well-dressed toff stumbling round their borough in no state to defend himself, and with an alcoholic street whore as his only companion.”
Reconstructing a mysterious 1892 London murder.
Paul Slade PlanetSlade Feb 2013 50min Permalink
The story of the attack that killed U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, told from the persepctive of the security agents there to protect him.
Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz Vanity Fair Aug 2013 30min Permalink
In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.
Dugald McConnell CNN Jul 2013 15min Permalink
How the Google co-founder, forced out of a leadership role in 2001, came back to run the company 10 years later.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Apr 2014 40min Permalink
On the urge to live in a house you can't afford, the "acceptable lust" of American life.
Michael Lewis Portfolio Sep 2008 20min Permalink
The story of Tyrone Hood, who served 21 years for a murder he didn’t commit, and the Chicago criminal justice apparatus that allowed a serial killer to go free.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Jul 2014 40min Permalink
How the tech billionaire came to own 87,000 acres, three hotels, a wastewater treatment plant, a cemetery and 380 cats.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Sep 2014 30min Permalink
He’s spent decades dodging the law. He’s escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He’s given millions to the poor. The story of how Vassilis Paleokostas, Greece’s most wanted man, became a folk hero.
Jeff Maysh BBC Sep 2014 Permalink
A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.
Brian Phillips Grantland Nov 2014 10min Permalink
A reporter who investigated Scientology tracks down the man who once ran the church’s intelligence operations – and who may hold the secret to years of harassment (and the mysterious death of a pet dog).
Joel Sappell Los Angeles Dec 2012 30min Permalink
Lauren spent six years of her childhood locked in a closet, starved and tortured by her birth mother and stepfather. Miraculously, she survived; that’s when her long road to recovery began.
A profile of personal finance guru Dave Ramsey, who built his biblically inspired get-out-of-debt empire on the premise “it’s within your power to not take part in recessions and the economic troubles facing American families.”
Helaine Olen Pacific Standard Oct 2013 20min Permalink
Manson at 79: in poor health and walking with a cane, obsessed with Vincent Bugliosi, willing to talk at length with a reporter for the first time in years, and visited every weekend by a 25-year-old woman he calls Star.
Erik Hedegaard Rolling Stone Nov 2013 40min Permalink
The Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman star on being married to Woody Allen, Jewish words, and Girls.
Claire Barliant The Toast Dec 2013 25min Permalink
The rise and fall of the new oligarchs, who raided the Russian state. When Putin came to power most fled, but not Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “The other oligarchs, when they saw the fuzz, knew they should run. But Khodorkovsky forgot.”
Keith Gessen London Review of Books Feb 2010 25min Permalink