PART ONE — HOW A NEWSPAPER STORY KILLED A TEN-BILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY Joshua Wander is 44. In 2015, he co-founded 777 Partners in Miami. 777 began by buying structured legal settlements and lottery winnings. A person entitled to monthly payments for, for e... See more
A federal prosecutor released unimaged evidence to a private buyer while the defendant sat in jail Nineteen years later, the government has never explained why On November 3, 2009, in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles, Judge A. Howard Matz sentenced Curt... See more
Part one: $500M Fraud Rap — and a Baby Photo as ‘Witness Tampering’ HOW A $10 BILLION FIRM DIED IN NINETY DAYS Suppose Joshua Wander is presumed innocent. Suppose that his firm, 777 Partners LLC, claimed more than $9 billion in assets and more than 2,000 ... See more
PARTNERS SAY THEY WERE CUT OUT VitekBy the summer of 2016, Radovan Vítek had completed what might be called the dismantling and capture of ORCO Property Group. The Luxembourg regulator had issued its findings in 2017. Vítek paid the fine. When everybody f... See more
Radovan Vítek is a Czech billionaire who controls CPI Property Group, a real estate company that claims more than €20 billion in assets. Forbes says he is worth $7.2 billion. He rarely appears in public. He does not give interviews. He has made a habit of... See more
