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Elmcroft, one of the Russian's two Long Island estates, is seen on Friday as movers frantically load vans with boxes. The Russians had until noon on Friday to get out of their Maryland and New York compounds before the State Department took custody.
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Cars are seen entering the Killenworth estate on Friday, as Russian officials closed down one of their Long Island compounds.
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TRUMP RESPONDS: MOVE ON. Donald Trump's chosen White House press secretary on Thursday urged the Obama administration to show its cards if it has solid proof that Russia was behind a series of election-year computer hacks that may have cost Hillary Clinton the presidency. Vans arrived at the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC on Friday, after emptying the government's compounds.
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The Russian government-owned compoud in Centreville, Maryland is seen below.
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A long line of moving trucks, SUVs and buses were seen with diplomatic plates leaving the Russian government's estate in Centreville, Maryland on Friday.
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People are seen gathered outside the Russian-owned Maryland compound on Thursday.
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On Friday, the Russians quickly packed up two compounds in Maryland and New York, which President Obama is closing in the new round of sanctions. Below, the Russian compound in Centreville, Maryland on Friday, where a ladder was left propped up in the last minute move. President Obama cut off Russian access to the two buildings starting at noon on Friday. That left the Russians with little time to pack of the houses. Above, another view of the Maryland compound where a window was left ajar
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The Russian government is sending this plane, an Ilyushin Il-96 - to the U.S. to ferry its expelled diplomats out of the country by New Year's Day The Russian government is sending the plane to ferry its diplomats out of the U.S., after President Obama expelled them in a new round of sanctions against the country for its alleged meddling in the presidential election. On Thursday, the president labeled 35 Russian diplomats from the country's embassy in Washington, DC and consulate in San Francisco 'persona non grata' - giving them 72 hours to get out of the country. Previous reports stated that some of the diplomats were having a hard time booking travel out of the U.S. at the last minute and during the holiday season. The Kremlin addressed the issue on Friday, saying they would be sending a plane to the U.S. to pick up these expelled diplomats and their families, ensuring that they are out of the country by Obama's New Year's Day deadline. Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4076486/The-Russian-government-sending-plane-ferry-expelled-diplomats-U-S.html
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DEIFIED:Lols.... |
jagugu88li:Lols......These rich drug lords don't take cash to the bank for security reasons, you know now. So they prefer storing the cash in a warehouse, barn, underground, or large vault. Sometimes rats do eat the cash when they keep about millions or more in cash. Rats eats over a billion dollars annually from Pablo's warehousing, but if someone steal a bill and get caught? Attched Image: This was found in another drug Lord's home during a raid, El chapo
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Butteredpako:Lol... |
Rest In Peace Sis. |
An0nimus:I should see that movie. |
Ishilove:There learners. |
clip:Thanks bro. |
tk4rd:Lol... |
ritababe:Like bread & Beans. |
December 3, 1993, Escobar was shot dead by a special police force after being on the run for 7 months. His run-ins with the law came to an end in 1993 when he was gunned down at his aunt’s house. Escobar tried to escape police capture by fleeing to the rooftop with his bodyguard. Neither of them made it.
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One of Pablo Escobar’s most efficient cocaine labs was a village on wheels. Cocaine labs employing hundreds of people were built deep inside a forest. These labs became small cities with schools, canteens and medical centers. One of the efficient labs was a huge farm on the borders of Venezuela. This lab was a village on wheels. When a flight was due to pick up or drop off a consignment, the houses in this village would be wheeled back, exposing the landing strip and wheeled forward again when the plane took off.
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Pablo Escobar designed and built his own prison complete with waterbeds, entertainment systems and was protected by guards he personally chose. In 1991, Pablo Escobar agreed to surrender to the Colombian authorities but on his terms. The Colombian government accepted the terms and thus La catedral came into existence. La Catedral was a five-star prison designed and built by Pablo Escobar for his confinement. The luxury prison had waterbeds, entertainment systems and an unbroken view of Medellin mountains. From this prison, he conducted his business, ordered the deaths of his detractors, hosted booze and drug filled parties, enjoyed his barbecue and football. He selected his own bodyguards and no Colombian authorities were allowed within three-mile radius of this luxurious prison.
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He revealed that his greatest fear was jail. He was once quoted saying, “I’d rather be in a grave in Columbia than a cell in the United States.”
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Pablo Escobar blew up an aircraft in an attempt to kill a Presidential candidate who supported his extradition. Pablo Escobar through his henchmen blew up the Avianca flight 203 on November 27th, 1989. The bombing of the plane was considered the deadliest single criminal attack in many decades of the Colombian violence. The bomb was planted intending to kill the then Presidential candidate, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, a politician who supported Pablo Escobar’s extradition process between Colombia and the US. Gaviria, however, was not on the flight. Instead, all 107 people on board the aircraft were killed including 2 Americans.
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Escobar was responsible for the deaths of up to 4,000 people. Including members of the police force, court judges and journalists.
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When the kingpin was forced to go on the run his daughter became sick with pneumonia. He burned $2 million of cash to keep her warm.
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Although being a drug lord and leader of an infamous cartel isn’t the most revered profession, Escobar was celebrated by the Columbian people. Despite his horrific business dealings he was known to give money (which he had quite a lot of) to churches and hospitals. He built schools, hospitals, orphanages, parks and soccer stadiums and establish food programmes, which earned him the nickname ‘Robin Hood’. Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Colombia’s 20billion USD of foreign debt in order to avoid extradition to the US. When the Colombian government turned the heat on drug trade, Pablo Escobar approached the government with an unusual peace treaty. He offered to invest the cartel’s money into the national development programsand also pay off the foreign debt in return for not getting extradited to US. The Colombian government refused.
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In the 1980s everyone was dying for a line and demand for cocaine skyrocketed. During this time Escobar’s cartel were smuggling 15-tons of the stuff into the States, equal to the weight of two African elephants.
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He smuggled cocaine into America using planes, stocking them in the plane's tyres. To handle the free-flowing wealth that came his way uninterrupted, Escobar bought a Learjet for the sole purpose of flying his money. Escobar’s personal Learjet could hold and transport $10 million worth of cash back from the U.S. to his home in Colombia. The pilots could earn up to $500,000 a day for their efforts.
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Pablo Escobar lost 10% of his annual income to rats which would eat the stashed currency notes. Once Pablo Escobar entered the drug trade, cash began to flow in rapidly. He earned so much that he had to hide the piles of cash in Colombian farming fields, dilapidated warehouses and in the walls of the cartel members’ homes. Some of these cash piles would be eaten by rats or turn moldy due to water seepage resulting in a loss of 10% of his annual income (that would be 2.1 billion USD). If this man is still alive today and he offers you a job of $10,000 weekly to arrange and care for his cash in the farm/warehouse, will you take it? cc: funjosh, tkrd, paschal47
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He had so much cash that he spent $2,500 a month on rubber bands to hold the cash together.
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In 1979 Escobar was ranked the seventh richest man in Forbes’ list of international billionaires. The top ten that year included Japan’s real estate baron, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, Fiat’s Giovanni Agnelli and the Benetton family.
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At the peak of the most notorious drug kingpin’s reign he was estimated to have been making near on $420 million a week.
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In 1975 he began cocaine trafficking. The government referred to his inescapable and effective policy in dealing with the law as “PlataO Plomo” (literally “Lilver or Lead” , which meant “Accept Money, or Face Bullets).
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, the man no get joy at all