The Opperman Report'

“We were invisible. We had to be. We took an oath of absolute secrecy. We never even told our immediate families who we were. We went about our lives in New York City. Just like you. We were your accountants, money managers, lawyers, executive recruiters, doctors. We owned your child’s private school and sold you your brownstone. But you’d never guess our secret lives, how we lived in a kind of silent terror and fervor. There were hundreds of us.”

Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as his life disintegrated, his self-esteem eroded, and he lined the pockets of Gans and her cult.

Cult members met twice weekly, though they never acknowledged one another outside of meetings or gatherings. In the name of inner development, they endured the horrors of mental, sexual, and physical abuse, forced labor, arranged marriages, swindled inheritances and savings, and systematic terrorizing. Some of them broke the law. All for Gans.

“During those years,” Schneider writes, “my world was School. That’s what it’s like when you’re in a cult, even one that preys on and caters to New York’s educated elite. This is my story of how I got entangled in School and how I got out.”

At its core, Manhattan Cult Story is a cautionary tale of how hundreds of well-educated, savvy, and prosperous New Yorkers became fervent followers of a brilliant but demented cult leader who posed as a teacher of ancient knowledge. It’s about double-lives, the power of group psychology, and how easy it is to be radicalized—all too relevant in today's atmosphere of conspiracy and ideologue worship.

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“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets Camelot.”—Washington Post Book World

In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.

Praise for A Very Private Woman

“Power is so utterly fascinating. Sometimes it’s used for evil purposes, like the kind of power that has silenced the telling of Mary Pinchot Meyer’s mysterious murder for over three decades. In A Very Private Woman, Nina Burleigh has finally told this tragic tale of a privileged beauty with friends in high places.”—Dominick Dunne

“A superbly crafted, evocative glimpse of an adventurous spirit whose grisly murder remains a mystery.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

“Proves that every Washington sex scandal is juicy in its own way.”—Glamour

“Nina Burleigh has dissected Washington’s most intriguing murder mystery and produced a captivating biography, a thriller, and an insightful portrait of Georgetown in its golden presidential age.”—Christopher Ogden, bestselling author of Life of the Party: The Life of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman

“Provocative, erudite . . . pure Georgetown noir.”—New York Observer

“A rich array of real-life characters.”—New York Times Book Review

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Executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate are accused of moving $13 million.

In a legal filing, the attorney general for the U.S. Virgin Islands said the two men sheltered the money from the liquidation of an investment fund in which the deceased financier had a stake.
The two executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate — both longtime advisers to the deceased financier — could receive millions of dollars in payouts long after his death, the authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands said in a legal filing on Friday.

The payouts to the executors, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, are tied to the Butterfly Trust, an investment vehicle Mr. Epstein had established in 2013, according to the filing by lawyers for Denise George, attorney general for the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The court filing by Virgin Island authorities raised questions about the transfer of millions of dollars from a trust originally set up by Mr. Epstein to several trusts that stood to benefit the executors.

The transfer of money took place nearly a year after Mr. Epstein killed himself in his prison cell in Manhattan and after Ms. George’s office had sued Mr. Epstein’s estate.

The Butterfly Trust initially received a wire transfer of $13 million in April 2020 after the liquidation of another investment fund in which Mr. Epstein had a stake, according to the filing. Some of that money was transferred again several months later to three newly created entities — two of which listed Mr. Indyke, Mr. Kahn and their spouses as the beneficiaries, the filing said.

Ms. George and her lawyers asked a Virgin Islands judge to order the estate to submit to discovery requests to make sure other estate assets have not been transferred to “enrich” the executors.

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“The government discovered that substantial funds kept secret from the government were transferred for the benefit of the coexecutors in an apparent effort to enrich themselves and shelter these assets from recovery,” the filing said.

The filing said the executors also had not disclosed several million dollars in loans they received from Mr. Epstein.

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This is the behind the scenes story of the Columbine tragedy, from a year before the killings, telling the entire story up to today. This book covers many of the unknown details, the cover-ups, the lies, the secrets and the real life story of the family involved in Columbine. If you think you know the story of Columbine, you are wrong. This is the real story of the tragedy, from the point of view of the family at the center of the tragedy. This is a unique opportunity to read the true history of Columbine, from someone on the inside. This is not a book with an agenda. This is the truth. No matter how painful it is, this book is the truth. An invaluable chance to read the real history of one of the great tragedies of this Country.You will read about the coverup by the police, the lies and deception, the bullying, the reason for the killings, and about ballistics details that have never been released. All of this information is well documented, and taken from the investigative files. If you want to know what really happened at Columbine and in the ensuing years, this is the source.Read it and learn.The bonus chapter is about how to stop School Shootings. It is invaluable information.The final chapter discovers the reason behind the coverups and lies.This is the only source for that information.

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This is the behind the scenes story of the Columbine tragedy, from a year before the killings, telling the entire story up to today. This book covers many of the unknown details, the cover-ups, the lies, the secrets and the real life story of the family involved in Columbine. If you think you know the story of Columbine, you are wrong. This is the real story of the tragedy, from the point of view of the family at the center of the tragedy. This is a unique opportunity to read the true history of Columbine, from someone on the inside. This is not a book with an agenda. This is the truth. No matter how painful it is, this book is the truth. An invaluable chance to read the real history of one of the great tragedies of this Country.You will read about the coverup by the police, the lies and deception, the bullying, the reason for the killings, and about ballistics details that have never been released. All of this information is well documented, and taken from the investigative files. If you want to know what really happened at Columbine and in the ensuing years, this is the source.Read it and learn.The bonus chapter is about how to stop School Shootings. It is invaluable information.The final chapter discovers the reason behind the coverups and lies.This is the only source for that information.

The Writer with No Hands is a 2017 British documentary feature film, which follows unemployed academic Matthew Alford as he tries to establish that the accidental death of Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore was, in fact, an assassination by the United States government

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Tom Secker describe the influence of dept of defense and intelligence agencies have in the tv and movie industry

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Ed Opperman invited me on The Opperman Report to talk about the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In this very fun conversation we discussed the question of FBI informant Emad Salem, and how he was pulled out of the WTC bombing gang 6 months before the blast. We also look at probable CIA assets the Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and Ali Mohamed, and how their role was covered up in all the arguments over Salem. We rounded off by discussing my book and some problems with the alt media discussion of false flag events.

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The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch--Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.

Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Texas. David Thibodeau survived to tell the story.

When he first met the man who called himself David Koresh, David Thibodeau was a drummer in a local a rock band. Though he had never been religious in the slightest, Thibodeau gradually became a follower and moved to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. He remained there until April 19, 1993, when the compound was stormed and burned to the ground after a 51-day standoff with government authorities.

In this compelling account--now with an updated epilogue that revisits remaining survivors--Thibodeau explores why so many people came to believe that Koresh was divinely inspired. We meet the men, women, and children of Mt. Carmel. We get inside the day-to-day life of the community. We also understand Thibodeau's brutally honest assessment of the United States government's actions. The result is a memoir that reads like a thriller, with each page taking us closer to the eventual inferno.

2 years ago #david, #kores, #opperman, #report, #story, #survivor's, #thibodeau, #waco

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Clive Doyle : Journey to Waco: Autobiography of a Branch Davidian
Nearly twenty years after they happened, the ATF and FBI assaults on the Branch Davidian residence near Waco, Texas remain the most deadly law enforcement action on American soil. The raid by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents on February 28, 1993, which resulted in the deaths of four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians, precipitated a 51-day siege conducted by the FBI. The FBI tank and gas assault on the residence at Mount Carmel Center on April 19 culminated in a fire that killed 53 adults and 23 children, with only nine survivors.

5 years ago #autobiography, #branch, #clive, #david, #davidian, #doyle, #ed, #journey, #koresh, #popperman, #report, #waco:

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