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OS ANGELES, Feb. 11 — Michael Jackson is near insolvency as he continues to pile up debt, sapping his last credit reserves, several close financial advisers say.Mr. Jackson faces an immediate cash crisis with a $70 million loan from the Bank of America that is due on Tuesday and has no money to repay it, the advisers said. But Al Malnik, a Miami entrepreneur who is helping repair Mr. Jackson's finances, said that he was trying to have the loan extended.Mr. Malnik said he met with Mr. Jackson's business managers this week to discuss the loan. Together, he said, they...

  I'm curious about any concrete, documented information that people have concerning the Miami mob, especially as it might relate to the massive Miami-based liquor distributor, Southern Wine & Spirits. As you might guess from my screen name, I dabble in wine as a hobby, and I've been interested in the exploits of Southern ever since the Wall Street Journal's 1999 exposé [excerpts below]. The now semi-retired chairman of Southern is one Jay W. Weiss [widely believed among oenophiles to harbor a weakness for Montrachet]. Recently, he's been very prominent in the Miami social scene as a result of his...

This is a continuation of a previous article which exposed the fact that the security for the Logan International Airport was contracted out to two foreign-owned security companies: Securitas in Sweden, and ICTS in the Netherlands. See Two Foreign-Owned Companies Have Airport Security in WTC Attack for details. The following is further evidence which connects the terrorists to European backers, and especially to the Netherlands. One arm of the web of corruption eventually goes back to the Clintons. Some of the following comes from an article by Daniel Hopsicker at http://www.madcowprod.com. The convoluted trail of companies is difficult to follow, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - On an obscure track from his 1995 double-CD album "HIStory Past, Present and Future, Book 1," Michael Jackson (news) sings over and over: "Tom Sneddon is a cold man." The subject of that little-known single, "D.S.," is none other than Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., the Santa Barbara County district attorney who headed a child sex abuse investigation of Jackson 10 years ago and brought a brand new case against the pop star this week. Along with then-Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, Sneddon spent several months in 1993 and 1994 probing allegations that Jackson molested...