21-07-2009, 07:09 PM
OK - cutting through some of this inevitably tangled web:
Curtis was one of Khodorkovsky and Yukos' foreign lawyers.
Yukos was used by western financial elites to seize control of Russia's natural resources and exploit them for the benefit of western financiers.
Russia's own spooky gangsters, including the likes of Putin, did not like this.
Curtis has a helicopter accident.
If the original piece is accurate, Curtis liked the high life and kept most of the legal and financial details of the transactions in which he was involved in his head.
I'm actually surprized he lasted so long.
Curtis was one of Khodorkovsky and Yukos' foreign lawyers.
Yukos was used by western financial elites to seize control of Russia's natural resources and exploit them for the benefit of western financiers.
Russia's own spooky gangsters, including the likes of Putin, did not like this.
Curtis has a helicopter accident.
If the original piece is accurate, Curtis liked the high life and kept most of the legal and financial details of the transactions in which he was involved in his head.
I'm actually surprized he lasted so long.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war