One of our favorite slept-on tracks of recent years is “Cali Hustle”, off the criminally hard-to-find Bay Bury-Ya compilation. In the song’s final verse, Mac Mall kicks off his bars with this clever line: Colombian neckties for small fries We’ve always taken it for granted that such a grisly fate has befallen many a criminal […]
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The Colombian Necktie Half-Truth
November 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Colombian Necktie Half-Truth
Tags:cocaine·Colombia·Colombian necktie·crime·urban legends·War on Drugs
Great Moments in Fraud, Part II
February 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Great Moments in Fraud, Part II
On the heels of yesterday’s YBM Magnex post, let us now cast our fraud-seeking eyes southward toward Colombia, where 700,000 small investors have apparently lost everything in a blatant Ponzi scheme. The scam’s architect is David Murcia Guzman, who claims he’s a) misunderstood and b) a champion of the poor. Sounds like a regular Rod […]