Grubstakers

This week it's the $2.8 billion president of Chile Sebastián Piñera. We discuss the protests, his accomplished family, how he won friends and influenced people at home and abroad (laundering money for a dictator's inner circle with the blessing of the CIA), and more! The audio's a little screwy at the beginning and we are deeply sorry. As penance we will make Yogi, who had nothing to do with the production or editing of this episode, read one thousand audio engineering books.

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In this 3 part special series we explore the bank of credit and commerce international, or BCCI, the forgotten banking scandal of the century. We discuss this worse than Watergate scandal and the reasons why it's been hushed up including its links to Iran-Contra, the CIA, the Mossad, weapons trafficking, global terrorism, and yes, Jeffrey Epstein

This week's patreon teaser is quite dark. Learn some of the crimes proliferated to make Isable Dos Santos a billionaire

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2013/08/14/how-isabel-dos-santos-took-the-short-route-to-become-africas-richest-woman/#16711e4045f5

This week we cover the model T madman Henry Ford. Find out all about how he hired thugs to act as an independent police crew to keep his staff on task, the literal giant wooden melting pot turning native garb into suits while holding American flags and last but least his terrible relationship with his son. The outro is an interview with Ford and Edison.

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It has been over 2 months since I spoke to my friends across the mountains. As kids we set up a string between cans to talk to each other, but even that was cut. Thankfully I am paid in Microsoft points to help me support my family. When will this war end. When will all wars end.

-Lakshmi Govinda 2019

On this episode we cover the misdeeds of Ukrainian Billionaire Igor Kolomoisky. His efficiency knows no bounds he once sent armed to cease physical control of UKRNAFTA. His story includes and pissing matches with Putin about who is more corrupt. Thanks for reading this stickers are on the horizon, and we will be filming Andy licking the Wall street bull soon stay tuned.

CORRECTION: The first version of this episode had Sean saying Asst. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met directly with Dmytro Firtash to ensure the election of Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko. Though there was a meeting where Firtash got one of Poroshenko's main opponents in the race to drop out it was not true to say the Nuland met with him directly. We edited the episode to remove this claim. The Andrew Cockburn article mentioned is a good read on how the US role played out:

https://harpers.org/blog/2015/08/undelivered-goods/

On this Patreon episode we get into why "the King of Good Times" Vijay Mallya partied too hard, and committed too many party fouls. For the full episode, check out www.patreon.com/grubstakers

https://sevenpillarsinstitute.org/the-case-of-vijay-mallya-and-kingfisher-airlines/

"It wasn't only real estate that Lampert signed over to himself. In 2014, Sears sold Land's End, a clothing brand, to a consortium that was two-thirds controlled by ESL. Today, the brand has a rough market value of $314 million. In 2016, Sears sold Craftsman brand tools to Black & Decker for $900 million. The profits were used to pay off debt, including to Lampert. In 2017, Die Hard batteries were put up for sale. And this year, Lampert has made a $400 million bid for Kenmore appliances, the crown jewel of what remains at Sears, along with an $80 million bid for Sears Home Improvement stores.

So the leadership of the Sears empire—Lampert—is gradually selling off bits and pieces of it, mostly to Lampert. The cash generated from those deals in large part serviced Sears's debt, the payments on which also went to Lampert. And now, having put Sears into bankruptcy, the top creditor—Lampert—stands to gain from the final fire sale."

https://prospect.org/economy/sears-gutted-ceo/

Political donations can get you lots of things, like the 43rd president promoting your Dell televisions in a statement about national security. For the full Michael Dell episode, visit https://www.patreon.com/grubstakers

This week on Grubstakers we're discussing the billionaire who made a killing in the US gun market, Gaston Glock. Hear all about how this Austrian former Hitler Youth member got a government subsidized start building his glock 17 in Austria then plied police officers all across the United States with booze and prostitutes in order to get them to switch over their standard issue firearm to his brand. There's also tax dodging, a family feud, attempted murder, constant spree killings in the USA, and so much more. Our primary source for this ep was the book "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun" by Paul Barrett