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...Duma's Communist Party faction, and campaigns tirelessly on behalf of his friend and former employer, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who once headed Yukos, Russia's biggest private oil company. Khodorkovsky is currently in jail after having been convicted on tax evasion and fraud charges that he says are bogus. "I'm amazed at myself," says Kondaurov. "A former kgb major-general, and yes, I do feel I'm a dissident now." He says that many former colleagues equate him with Pyotr Grygorenko, a top Soviet officer who was expelled from the party in the 1960s and confined to a mental asylum...
...first suspected Russian spy nabbed in Canada in a decade is stirring memories of cold war espionage in North America. The alleged Russian agent, known only as Paul William Hampel - the name on his bogus Canadian passport - was arrested Nov. 14 at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport under a national security certificate signed only five days earlier by two senior Cabinet ministers in charge of public safety and immigration...
...Before Hampel was hustled off to a Montreal jail last week, agents with the Canada Border Services Agency seized his bogus Ontario provincial birth certificate, the passport that had been obtained with the phony birth certificate, $7,800 in five different currencies, encrypted prepaid cellphone cards and index cards containing information on Canadian history and civics. Hampel claimed to be a former lifeguard and travel consultant living in Montreal since 1999. Journalists found a website he had set up where he described his extensive travels abroad and published photos of the countries he visited, primarily in Eastern Europe...
Anna Nicole Smith, winner of bogus multi-million-dollar lawsuits vs. Nancy Kerrigan, not winner at the Olympics after Tonya Harding had someone attack her with a crowbar...
...heart-breaking tales of injustice and corruption in hopes he can help. When one of his exposés appears in print, Dan learns how perilous journalism can be. He also discovers, appropriately for modern China, that another reporter has pirated his intellectual property, swiping his name and bogus website to climb onto the gravy train. Then Dan takes one risk too many by sneaking Little Plum into a banquet, just so she can experience delights like sea cucumber and "minced pigeon breasts with mashed tofu molded into tiny snowballs, sprinkled with tiny tender green scallion flakes." Writes...