#Anthony olivieri

[mommydearestella]

Michael Jackson Documentary

Last night I watched a documentary on Michael Jacksons and the circumstances surrounding his death. According to this documentary he was being administered the drug Propopol which I may be spelling incorrectly. It was said that this is a powerful drug used to anesthetise people and that he supposedly needed this to sleep. Why would someone feel the need to be anesthetized in order to fall asleep on a regular basis? Then I wondered if someone may have been bombarding him with unwanted noise or a barrage of constant dialogue or static noise which I have experienced before. I think the purpose of it or one of them is to bombard a person, keep them stressed out, maybe keeping them up at night which then would result in waking up later and getting less done during the day. In addition, at such times the subject or target may appear to be very quiet or distracted and may even at times look lost when in fact they may be trying to concentrate to be able to hear something at a low volume that is somehow broadcast or directed at them. Ironically this is happening to me as I write this and the purpose of it is to distract me from writing this. In my experience the group doing this wants to run down their subject financially by wasting their time and have made several racist and anti-Gay remarks on a regular basis when engaging in, among other things, economic terrorism in the process. I have no idea and think it is probably a long stretch however if someone is distracted enough or if the abusers are successful in interfering in subjects ability to work and earn money there may be an expectation that a wealthy person would sell off some assets to raise cash. Since this group of losers have engaged in real estate mobbing it would not surprise me at all. Maybe they have an expectation that such assets could be bought at less than fair market value. Who knows however I thought that it was an interesting question.

#saratoga race course #raymond james #mirasol #turnberry isle #sailfish point #terrorism #tudor city #aventura #wicked witch of saratoga #Ella Olivieri Felcher #allison olivieri #todd olivieri #Stacy olivieri #Joan olivieri #the villages #Armand olivieri #Anthony olivieri #advanced insurance underwriters #merrill lynch #evil ella #Ella Olivieri Felcher is a real estate broker and I think a nasty old hag #ALEXA OLIVIERI #ALEXA FLORA #MICHAEL JACKSON

[chez-mimich]

I CONCERTI DEL SABATO

Ho un po’ colpevolmente trascurato una serie di concerti di musica classica che il Conservatorio Cantelli di Novara offre, per di più gratuitamente, alla città. Frequentandoli, non assiduamente, ma con una certa abitudine, ne ho potuto apprezzare il valore e soprattutto “l’utilità” (sì, proprio come sa chi mi segue, perché io sono tra coloro che considerano la cultura “utile” e non un mezzo per fare soldi). Questa utilità, al Conservatorio, è legata anzitutto alla genialità (oltre che dalla innata simpatia) del Prof. Alessandro Zignani che prima di ogni concerto (ricordo che i concerti si tengono alle 17:00 di ogni sabato nell’Auditorium “Olivieri” del Conservatorio di Novara), tiene un “laboratorio” della durata di mezz’ora circa, dove con grande senso empatico e una indubbia e approfondita conoscenza della materia, illustra i concerti al pubblico. Il programma dei concerti, molto vasto e ben assortito, ha visto il primo appuntamento lo scorso novembre e si protrarrà fino al 18 maggio prossimo, sette mesi di concerti da camera che spaziano dalla musica barocca fino alla musica contemporanea. Il programma di sabato scorso, per esempio, verteva sulle composizioni cameristiche di quattro compositori contemporanei, Anthony Caillet (1983), Jeanine Rueff (1922-1999), Eduardo Boccalari (1859-1921), Paul Arma (1905-1987), Andrea Pongiluppi (2000), Andrea Marena (1960), quest’ultimo presente in sala anche per esporre al folto pubblico alcune specifiche tecniche del suo “Quartetto per clarinetti”. Gli interpreti solitamente sono allievi o ex allievi del “Cantelli” dei quali certamente si sentirà ancora parlare. Il sabato precedente, era stata la volta del dramma giocoso “Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali” di Gaetano Donizetti (tanto per dare l’idea della versatilità del programma), mentre il in occasione della Giornata della Memoria, era stata proposta una originalissima drammaturgia teatrale dal titolo “Il Re degli Elfi” su musiche di Franz Schubert e Gustav Mahler con soprano (Valeria Romanazzi), pianoforte (Daniele Ambrosi) e voce recitante (Alessandro Nava) il cui autore è proprio Alessandro Zignani. Insomma, un appuntamento del sabato pomeriggio che vale assolutamente la pena di segnare in agenda per varietà e qualità e molto attrattivo anche per un pubblico meno specialistico, proprio grazie a questa formula del laboratorio. Il pubblico, per così dire “senilmente qualificato”, sembra gradire molto gli appuntamenti, gli altri (leggi giovani), naturalmente, sempre illustri assenti…

[nfliplnews]

[ad_1] Xuan ThaiCloseXuan ThaiESPN Senior WriterXuan Thai is a senior writer and producer in ESPN's investigative and enterprise unit. She was previously deputy bureau chief of the south region for NBC News.Anthony OlivieriOct 30, 2023, 07:51 PM ETA federal judge on Monday dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by former NFL quarterback Brett Favre against ex-NFL tight end and current ESPN personality Shannon Sharpe related to Favre's alleged involvement in an ongoing welfare fraud case in Mississippi.Favre had accused Sharpe of making "egregiously false" statements about him in September 2022 on the Fox Sports 1 talk show "Skip and Shannon: Undisputed.""Because Sharpe's comments are constitutionally protected rhetorical hyperbole using loose, figurative language," U.S. District Court Judge Keith Starrett wrote in a filing, "they cannot support a defamation claim as a matter of law."The judge also emphasized that Sharpe noted on the show that Favre had not been criminally charged. More than a year later, there remain no criminal charges against the former quarterback.Editor's Picks2 RelatedFavre is one of dozens of defendants in a Mississippi civil lawsuit seeking to recoup some of the at least $77 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds that were misspent, according to a state audit published in 2020. Eight people have been indicted, six of whom have pleaded guilty. In April, a judge ruled that Favre would remain in the civil suit. He has since demanded a jury trial.According to the state audit and civil lawsuit, Favre was paid $1.1 million in TANF funds for speeches he did not make. Favre eventually paid the money back, but the state auditor demanded Favre also pay $228,000 in interest. In addition, the athletic foundation at Favre's alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, received $5 million in TANF funds, according to the state audit. Text messages show Favre pushed state officials for funding for a new volleyball facility on campus during the time his daughter was on the team. Two concussion drug companies backed by Favre also received more than $2.1 million in TANF funds, according to the civil lawsuit.Favre has denied any wrongdoing."The Court also acknowledges that from the reports in the public arena after government investigations, forensic audits, civil litigation, Favre's text messages, and Favre's own implicit admission by returning $1.1 million dollars to the State, it appears to be widely believed that the money obtained by Favre for himself and USM came from welfare funds," Starrett wrote in his dismissal."Although the funds may have come from the State of Mississippi, such TANF funds were intended to go to poverty-stricken families, not to fund the construction of a college volleyball [facility]."A representative for Favre told ESPN: "We respectfully disagree with the court's decision. Mr. Sharpe's statements were unquestionably false and defamatory. We are considering our options."A representative for Sharpe declined to comment. Sharpe later thanked his legal team in a post on social media noting the suit's dismissal. [ad_2] Source link

[moazdijkot]

Brett Favre sues Shannon Sharpe, Pat McAfee, auditor for defamation #NFL #Football

6:44 PM ET John Barr Close John Barr ESPN.com Joined ESPN in June 2003 Winner: 2013 Peabody Award; 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award/Video Investigative Reporting Covers breaking news, investigative pieces and human interest features Anthony Olivieri Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre, who remains embroiled in the largest welfare fraud scandal in Mississippi state history, filed three separate…

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[heavyweightnation]

Michigan Defeats Rutgers 24-9

Michigan Defeats Rutgers 24-9

Coming off a loss to number 1 Penn State on Friday Michigan looked good as they took care of business against the Scarlet Knights. Full Results: 125- Dean Peterson (Rutgers) dec Jack Medley (Michigan) 3-1 133- Dylan Ragusin (Michigan) dec Joe Heilmann (Rutgers) 2-0 141- Joey Olivieri (Rutgers) dec Cole Matting (Michigan) 3-1 149- Fidel Mayora (Michigan) dec Anthony White (Rutgers) 7-3 157-…

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[justinhlong]

KDR305 presents Florida Room No1, featuring 24 artists, writers, and makers in an eclectic sunroom setting. Florida Room No1 acts as a survey of subtropical artists living and working from Miami and beyond. Inspired by the Greater NY show at MOMA PS1 that assembles artists from the metropolitan area, this exhibition celebrates a snapshot of Floridian artists' uncanny and familiar “humid” thread they all share through various practices in an intergenerational grouping.

KDR305 is housed in a structure from 1920 which lends itself as a perfect setting for this show. Subtropical weather like hurricanes, hot vaporous summers, and mild winters have permeated through these untraditional walls of the sunroom (now a gallery) for the last 102 years.

Thematically the artworks overall range from the organic, nautical, historical, fantastical, sometimes problematic, political, climate-related, floral, fauna, folklore, underwater, over water, of course, the beauty, and most of all the quirkiness that is the peninsula!

The exhibition is framed in the John James Audubon engraving of the Roseate Spoonbill, a species of particular concern in Florida. Serving as a beautiful reminder of the ecological fragility of this majestic state.

Florida Room No1 most of all encapsulates the feeling of Florida as it is a special place all the artists call home, rain or shine.

Jason Arles (b.1983), Zack Balber ( b.1983), R. Beans ( b.1986), Kelly Breez ( b.1985), Autumn Casey ( b.1987), Beatriz Chachamovits (b. 1986), Max Ferro (b.1985), Naomi Fisher (b.1976), Raymond Fort ( b.1988), Rodrigo Gaya (b.1987), Adler Guerrier (b.1975), Islandia Journal (est. 2019), Justin H Long (b.1980), Carly Mejeur (b.1986), Nicole Mijares (b.1990), Jessy Nite (b.1985), Ian Patrick O'Connor (b.1982), Brett Olivieri ( b.1986), Lauren Shapiro (b.1984), Paul Anthony Smith (b. 1988), Magnus Sodamin ( b.1987), Cornelius Tulloch (b.1997), Alexandra T. Vazquez (b.1976), Purvis Young (b.1943-2010)

[totallytrucked]

list of sa vids (mostly boots, a few bts vids)

saw this done by @lady-ivie-iv and i didn't want to clog up her post with additions so I made my own

(contains a lot of the same videos, i just added some cast members + more int. productions)

Lincoln Center concert

OBC: Jonathan Groff (Melchior), L*a M*chele (Wendla), John Gallagher Jr (Moritz), Lauren Pritchard (Ilse), Jonathan B. Wright (Hanschen), Lilli Cooper (Martha), Gideon Glick (Ernst), Remy Zaken (Thea), Phoebe Strole (Anna), Brian Charles Johnson (Otto), Skylar Austin (Georg), Christine Estabrook (Adult Women), Steven Spinella (Adult Men)

Backstage at Spring Awakening with Jonathan Groff

OBC kinda: Jonathan Groff (Melchior), L*a M*chele (Wendla), John Gallagher Jr (Moritz), Phoebe Strole (u/s Ilse), Jonathan B. Wright (Hanschen), Lilli Cooper (Martha), Gideon Glick (Ernst), Remy Zaken (Thea), Krysta Rodriguez (u/s Anna), Brian Charles Johnson (Otto), Skylar Astin (Georg), Frances Mercati-Anthony (u/s Adult Women), Steven Spinella (Adult Men)

Jonathan Groff and L*a M*chele's last performance: Jonathan Groff (Melchior), L*a M*chele (Wendla), John Gallagher Jr (Moritz), Emma Hunton (Ilse), Matt Doyle (u/s Hanschen), Lilli Cooper (Martha), Blake Daniel (Ernst), Remy Zaken (Thea), Phoebe Strole (Anna), Brian Charles Johnson (Otto), Skylar Austin (Georg), Christine Estabrook (Adult Women), Glenn Fleshler (Adult Men)

7 Aug 2008: Matt Doyle (u/s Melchior), Alexandra Socha (Wendla), Gerard Canonico (Moritz), Emma Hunton (Ilse), Jesse Swenson (u/s Hanschen), Amanda Castanos (Martha), Morgan Karr (u/s Ernst), Caitlin Kinnunen (Thea), Emily Kinney (Anna), Gabe Violett (Otto), Andrew Durand (Georg)

Broadway probably 2008: Matt Doyle (u/s Melchior), Alexandra Socha (Wendla), Blake Bashoff (u/s Moritz), Emma Hunton (Ilse), Jesse Swenson (u/s Hanschen), Lilli Cooper (Martha), Blake Daniel (Ernst), Remy Zaken (Thea), Phoebe Strole (Anna), Brian Charles Johnson (Otto), Skylar Astin (Georg) Glenn Flesher (Adult Men), most likely Christine Estabrook (Adult Women)

Broadway Tony Performance

Weird censored performance on good morning America

Spring awakening cast does grease (iconic)

Broadway press reel

First national tour: Kyle Riabko (Melchior), Christy Altomare (Wendla), Blake Bashoff (Moritz), Steffi D (Ilse), Andy Mientus (Hanschen), Sarah Hunt (Martha), Ben Moss (Ernst), Kimiko Glenn (Thea), Gabrielle Garza (Anna), Anthony Lee Medina (Otto), Matt Shingledecker (Georg), Angela Reed (Adult Women), Henry Stram (Adult Men)

29 Nov 2011 1nt: Jake Epstein (Melchior), Christy Altomare (Wendla), Blake Bashoff (Moritz), Steffi D (Ilse), Andy Mientus (Hanschen), Sarah Hunt (Martha), Ben Fankhauser (Ernst), Kimiko Glenn (Thea), Gabrielle Garza (Anna), Anthony Lee Medina (Otto), Matt Shingledecker (Georg), Angela Reed (Adult Women), Henry Stram (Adult Men)

Totally Trucked 1nt bts vids

2nd National tour (audio playlist, video playlist): Christopher Wood (Melchior), Elizabeth Judd (Wendla), Coby Getzug (Moritz), Courtney Markowitz (Ilse), Devon Stone (Hanschen), Aliya Bowles (Martha), Daniel Plimpton (Ernst), Emily Mest (Thea), Rachel Geisler (Anna), George Salazar (Otto), Jim Hogan (Georg), Sarah Kleeman (Adult Women), Mark Poppleton (Adult Men)

Class of 1891 bts vids (2nt)

London playlist: Aneurin Barnard (Melchior), Charlotte Wakefield (Wendla), Iwan Rheon (Moritz), Lucy May Barker (Ilse), Jamie Blackley (Hanschen), Hayley Gallivan (Martha), Harry McEntire (Ernst), Evelyn Hoskins (Thea), Natasha Barnes (Anna), Edd Judge (Otto), Jos Slovick (Georg), Sian Thomas (Adult Women), Richard Cordery (Adult Men)

Deaf West (act 1) Spring Awakening (act 2): Austin McKenzie (Melchior), Sandra Mae Frank/Katie Boeck (Wendla/voice of Wendla), Daniel Durant/Alex Boniello (Moritz/voice of Moritz), Krysta Rodriguez (Ilse), Andy Mientus (Hanschen), Treshelle Edmond/Kathryn Gallagher (Martha/voice of Martha), Josh Castille/Daniel David Stewart (Ernst/voice of Ernst), Amelia Hensley (Thea), Lauren Luiz (Voice of Thea/Melitta), Ali Stroker (Anna), Miles Barbee/Sean Grandillo (Otto/voice of Otto), Alex Wyse (Georg), Camryn Manheim and Marlee Marlin (Adult Women), Russel Harvard and Patrick Page (Adult Men)

LA dwsa woybr: Joey Haro (Hanschen), Josh Castille/Daniel David Stewart (Ernst/voice of Ernst)

Dwsa Tony performance

Dwsa on Seth Meyers

amateur/regional productions:

Spring awakening at Syracuse Summer Theatre: Chip Weber (Melchior), Maya Dwyer (Wendla), Tim Willard (Moritz), Madeline Shuron (Ilse), Liam Collins (Hanschen), Chelsea Colton (Martha), Doug Schneider (Ernst), Taylorann Flurschutz (Thea), Taylor Peck (Anna), Chris Wagner (Otto), Emmett Wickersham (Georg), Michaela Oney (Adult Women), Tallon Larham (Adult Men)

Bitch of living from Ann Arbor Concert: Ben Walker (Melchior), Rohit Gopal (Moritz), Matthew Kemp (Hanschen), Cameron Sirian (Ernst), Grant Rossini (Otto), Griffin Binnicker (Georg), John Siebert (Adult Men)

Some non-english language productions:

Mexico playlist ( Despertando en Primavera): Mauricio Romero (Melchior), Melissa Barrera (Wendla), Pepe Navarrete (Moritz), Roxana Puente (Ilse), Iker Madrid (Hanschen), Ivonne Garza (Martha), Arturo Valdemar (Ernst), Melissa Ortiz (Thea), Estibalitz Ruiz (Anna), Pablo Rodriguez (Otto), Diego Medel (Georg), Fernanda Borches (Adult Women), Cristobal Garcia-Naranjo (Adult Men)

Brasil cast recording (O Despertar da Primavera): Pierre Baitelli (Melchoir), Malu Rodrigues (Wendla), Rodrigo Palfando (Moritz), Leticia Colin (Ilse), Thiago Amaral (Hanschen), Laura Lobo (Martha), Felipe de Carolis (Ernst), Julia Bernat (Thea), Estrela Blanco (Anna), Bruno Sigrist (Otto), Andre Loddi (Georg), Debora Olivieri (Adult Women), Carlos Gregorio (Adult Men)

Some Spring Awakening Vienna videos: Rasmus Borkowski (Melchior), Hanna Kastner (Wendla), Wolfgang Turks (Moritz), Jennifer Kothe (Ilse), Johannes Huth (Hanschen), Sonja Dengler (Martha), Matthias Bollwerk (Ernst), Jeannine Wacker (Thea), Jana Nagy (Anna), Marlon Wehmeier (Otto), Dominik Hees (Georg), Julia Stemberger (Adult Women), Adult Men unknown

Argentina proshot (Despertando en Primavera): Fernando Dente (Melchior), Florencia Otero (Wendla), Federico Salles (Moritz), Mariana Jaccazio (Ilse), Eliseo Barrionuevo (Hanschen), Belén Pasqualini (Martha), Leandro Bassano (Ernst), Julieta Nair Calvo (Thea), Mivaela Pierani Méndez (Anna), Cristian Centurión (Otto), Julián Rubino (Georg), Irene Almus (Adult Women), Tony Lestingi (Adult Men)

SA Japan trailer (there are other vids on yt)

SA Korea Totally Fucked (South Korea)

gosh this is long as hell omg... Once again thank you to @lady-ivie-iv for the idea and great list!

#I need help! this is too long #i am supposed to be studying form #*for midterms #and I did this #I have too much fun censoring l*a m*chele #I am once again thinking about totally trucked #might just binge watch them tonight #armwarmers #anyways enjoy! #spring awakening #long post #musicals #broadway

[sditepod]

Our first episode is titled Three Superheroes Walk Into An Elevator! In this tale, three superheroes walk into an elevator, and then they do it again. What happens in between? Donate now and listen right away!

Meet the cast and crew behind this episode! It was written by Tal Minear, who happens to be the SDITE showrunner! Andrew Siañez-De La O plays Megablaze, a hero with a fiery temper. Colin J. Kelly plays Electrospark, a clever and electric hero. Anthony Carlos Fuller II plays Soul Strike, a hero strong and brave. Evan Tess Murray plays The Shadowe, a- wait, there were FOUR people in this elevator the whole time? Leslie Gideon plays Time Change, a second class time manipulator. Anna Rodriguez plays Lewis, CEO of SUPERHEARTS, a superhero dating app. Ali Fuller plays Technotide, a hero who works behind the screens. Brad Colbroock plays Respawn, a hero who's gotta go, gotta go, gotta GO! Nathan Blades plays Spencer, reporter for the Dawnstar City Times. Sawyer Greene plays Tobias, fashion designer and Spencer's plus one. Cole Burkhardt plays Riley, definitely not a super-villian. A.R. Olivieri plays Bob, definitely not a hench-person. Ryan James Horner plays Kit, Caroline Mincks plays Anne, and Jeff Van Dreason plays Miles, all people who probably should be taking the service but eh, most of the guests are already here and it's probably fine. This episode was sound designed and scored by the amazing Anna Rodriguez! You can HEAR THE SUPER POWERS! Tal Minear directed this episode and did the dialogue edit! All supporters of our crowdfunding campaign (at any tier) can listen to this episode RIGHT NOW! Those who support at $5 or more will also get access to our second episode!

#adite #audio drama #audio fiction

[effervescentdragon]

I want to personally thank No Such Thing Productions and Jordan Cobb for murdering me with Janus Descending podcast. I listened through the whole thing in a day, and have been randomly thinking about That Ending and tearing up for the past two weeks. It has a horror narrative, a really good sci-fi setting, and is a love story on top of that. The voice actors for Peter and Chel, Anthony Olivieri and Julia Schifini, have a great range and had me biting my nails as their non-chronological tale proceeded. So I drew something while I was listening, and here it is, alongside my thoughts on it. The non-linear narrative works wonders, the writing is amazing, and the whole thing left me an emotional wreck. So here, have this little piece of hope amongst the stars.

#effervescentdragon tries to draw #janus descending podcast #janus descending #chel janus descending #peter janus descending #horror podcast #effervescentdragondraws #badly at that #sch #effervescentdragonrants #podcast rec

[fromthe-point]

ECHL Transactions - Jan.07

Retired:

^Adam Gilmour (F) || Florida Everblades

Contracted Players Released:

Tab Lardner (F) || Rapid City Rush Anthony McVeigh (F) || Idaho Steelheads Ed Minney (G) || Wichita Thunder

Released as EBUG:

Joseph Stebbins (G) || Indy Fuel

Waiver Claims:

Don Olivieri (D) || Atlanta Gladiators → Norfolk Admirals

Traded:

^Ryan Misiak (F) || Florida Everblades → Idaho Steelheads

Added to Active Roster:

*Curt Gogol (F) || Allen Americans

Recalled to AHL by NHL:

Brandon Halverson (G) || Maine Mariners → Hartford Wolf Pack Oleg Sosunov (D) || Orlando Solar Bears → Syracuse Crunch

Recalled by AHL:

Brad McClure (F) || Idaho Steelheads → Texas Stars James Phelan (F) || Idaho Steelheads → Texas Stars Jared Thomas (F) || Tulsa Oilers → San Diego Gulls

Assigned from AHL by NHL:

Josh Anderson (D) || Colorado Eagles → Utah Grizzlies

Assigned by AHL:

Neil Manning (D) || Rockford IceHogs → Indy Fuel Spencer Naas (F) || Texas Stars → Idaho Steelheads

Activated from Reserve:

Tim Shoup (D)  || Manchester Monarchs

Placed on Injured Reserve:

Mike Gunn (D) || Allen Americans [effective 01.05] Alex Ranger (F) || Allen Americans [effective 12.17]

Placed on Reserve:

Justin Agosta (D) || Manchester Monarchs

* Acquired in a trade

^ Traded from Utah to Florida

#echl #ahl #t:info #s:transactions

[popentertainment-moviereviews]

TRAFFIK (2018)

Starring Paula Patton, Omar Epps, Laz Alonso, Roselyn Sanchez, Missi Pyle, Luke Goss, Dawn Olivieri, William Fichtner, Claude Duhamel, Lorin McCraley, Scott Anthony Leet, Claude Duhamel, Lorin McCraley, Stacey Arwen Raab, Lisa Hitchcock Kallstrom, September D'Angelo, William W. Barbour, Adrian Bustamante and Lindsay Vanina.

Screenplay by Deon Taylor.

Directed by Deon Taylor.

Distributed by Lions Gate. 96 minutes. Rated R.

In the old days, they used to make exploitation films which claimed to be decrying the very thing they were gleefully exploiting – for example, such cult classics as Reefer Madness, Sex Madness, Cocaine Fiends, etc.

As Reefer Madness put it: “An unspeakable scourge. The real public enemy number one!” So, let’s shine a light on the seedy, sexy side of it.

Truth is, filmmakers never stopped doing this, they just got better at hiding their intentions.

Take Traffik. (No, I don’t quite get the point of the oddball stylized misspelling of the title, either. It made a little more sense a decade ago when that same misspelled title was used on another film with a Soviet storyline.)

Traffik is meant to be an exposé on the evil world of human sex trafficking. Thing is, though, it spends so much time on the violence, degradation and sexual torture of the situation that it almost feels like they are enjoying the storyline situation just a bit too much. Or at least hoping that the audience will.

And while it is in no way as knowingly campy as the earlier mentioned exploitation films, it still aims to exploit. Which is not necessarily a bad thing; there is a long history of very good exploitation films. But let’s call it what it is. Traffik is a pretty good action thriller which is trolling in some murky waters. It’s trying to disapprove of human trafficking at the same time as it is titillating its audience with the same exact thing.

Paula Patton plays Brea, a serious investigative journalist in a new media world that is built for speed. She loses her latest story – and perhaps her job – after working on it for months. Her editor got tired of waiting for her to cover all the bases and assigned the article to a co-worker who would not get as deeply into the story but could turn it over quickly.

Distraught about the turn in her career, Brea agrees to have a romantic getaway with her supportive boyfriend John (Omar Epps). Their best friends, Darren (Laz Alonso) a sports agent and his wife Malia (Roselyn Sanchez) offers them a modern mansion deep in the woods, where John plans on popping the question to Brea. Then Darren and Malia will come to celebrate with them.

Unfortunately, at a truck stop on the way to the secluded mansion, Brea runs into a drug-addicted-looking woman with a bunch of tough bikers. The woman seems to be trying to tell Brea something, and slips a cell phone in her pocket. In the meantime, Brea and John run afoul of the gang of bikers.

(Not an important plot point, but there is also a running discussion in this segment in which at least three different characters had no idea what flavor the blue slurpees in local convenience stores were – beyond just “blue.” To ease the characters’ minds – and that of writer Deon Taylor – blue slushies are usually either blue raspberry or simply blueberry.)

Anyway, that night, the couple is enjoying their romantic getaway when Darren and Malia show up early. That saps the romance a bit, and it gets even less important when Brea finds the phone. They are able to break the password code (from an honestly needlessly vague hint by the woman at the rest stop. Inside, they find lots of pictures of women who seem to be getting sold for sex.

Then things really spin out of control when the woman from the truck stop shows up at their place looking for the phone, with all the tough human-trafficking bikers waiting out in the darkness.

Can the four of them survive in a glass house in the middle of nowhere with a whole bunch of homicidal criminals surrounding them? Can they find and save the women being held captive? Can they trust the local law enforcement when the Sheriff is played by Missi Pyle? Can they find even more short, torn and revealing outfits to dress Paula Patton in as she fights for her life and freedom?

So, stay away from rural truck stops and glass mansions deep in the woods. Remember the wise words of Reefer Madness.

“Failing this, the next tragedy may be that of your daughter's... or your son's... or yours... or yours.... Or yours!”

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2018 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: July 17, 2018.

#Traffik #2018 #Movie Reviews #Paula Patton #Jay S. Jacobs

[mommydearestella]

BLOOD MONEY IN THE RICH, CLUBBY WORLD OF HORSEMEN, SOME GREEDY OWNERS HAVE HIRED KILLERS TO MURDER THEIR ANIMALS FOR THE INSURANCE PAYOFFS

On the rainy night of Feb. 2, 1991, in despair over the prospect of causing the death of a horse by breaking its hind leg with a crowbar, Tommy (the Sandman) Burns sat in a bar outside Gainesville, Fla., and got drunk on gin and tonic. "Really wasted," Burns recalls. "I had never done one like that before."

For a decade the cherubic 30-year-old had made a sporadic living as a hit man hired to destroy expensive horses and ponies, usually so their owners could collect on lucrative life-insurance policies. But no owner had ever ordered Burns to dispose of a horse by breaking one of its legs—that is, by causing a trauma so severe that a veterinarian would be forced to put the animal down with a lethal injection.

Burns's preferred method of killing horses was electrocution. It had been so ever since the day in 1982 when, he says, the late James Druck, an Ocala, Fla., attorney who represented insurance companies, paid him to kill the brilliant show jumper Henry the Hawk, on whose life Druck had taken out a $150,000 life-insurance policy. In fact, says Burns, Druck personally taught him how to rig the wires to electrocute Henry the Hawk: how to slice an extension cord down the middle into two strands of wire; how to attach a pair of alligator clips to the bare end of each wire; and how to attach the clips to the horse—one to its ear, the other to its rectum. All he had to do then, says Burns, was plug the cord into a standard wall socket. And step back.

"You better get out of the way," says Burns. "They go down immediately. One horse dropped so fast in the stall, he must have broken his neck when he hit the floor. It's a sick thing, I know, but it was quick and it was painless. They didn't suffer." And it was, for the collection of insurance claims, an ideal method of execution. According to doctors at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, one of the nation's leading large-animal hospitals, even the most-experienced pathologist would be unlikely to detect signs of death by electrocution—unless, perchance, the pathologist was looking for it and the clips happened to leave singe marks. Many of the horses Burns electrocuted were assumed to have died of colic.

So Tommy Burns (a.k.a. Timmy Robert Ray), who had worked around horses since he had run away from home in Connecticut at the age of 15, became a serial killer of horses and got away with it for 10 years. According to federal agents, Burns destroyed some 20 horses, mostly show jumpers and hunters, on the show-horse circuit from Florida to Vermont to Illinois. "In 1989 it got crazy," Burns says. "I killed three horses in one week." Indeed, toting the canvas athletic bag in which he hid his deadly wires, Burns became such a regular presence among the wealthy show-horse crowds that he earned a sobriquet of which he would remain, until recently, unaware. "People knew what was going on," says a prominent West Virginia horsewoman. "When Tommy arrived at a show, they would say the Sandman was around. They knew a horse would be put to sleep." In almost every ease, something about a horse—its performance, its health, its age—had made the unthinkable occur to its owner.

By that night of Feb. 2, Burns had, by his own admission, run "hard and wild for 10 years." A few days earlier he and his associate, Harlow Arlie, had driven a vanload of show horses from their base in northern Illinois to Canterbury Farms in Florida. Among the equine passengers was Streetwise, a sporty chestnut jumper with a white stocking on each leg, a blaze on its face and a $25,000 insurance policy on its life. Burns has told federal investigators that the 7-year-old gelding's owner, Donna Brown, a prominent horsewoman on the clubby show-horse circuit, had hired him for $5,000 to arrange a fatal accident for Streetwise. According to Burns, the insurance policy did not cover death by colic—Streetwise had a history of colic, a life-threatening condition in a horse—so Brown insisted that he break the animal's leg.

"I don't want to break his leg," Burns, at the bar near Gainesville, sang to Arlie in his executioner's song. "I'm not into that."

"I'll do it," Burns says Arlie told him. "For half your fee."

The two men left the bar and returned to Canterbury. Burns figured the rain that night would make the perfect alibi: They were loading Streetwise into the van when the horse slipped, fell off the ramp and broke its leg. At about 10:10 p.m., after helping to load three other horses into the van for a trip south to West Palm Beach, Burns stood in the middle of a brightly lighted lot and held a lead shank tethered to Streetwise's halter.

Unbeknownst to Burns, investigators for the Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer Services, acting on a tip, had been following his van ever since it had rolled into Florida, and on this night they were staking out the farm. One of the investigators, Harold Barry, lay flat and still on the top of a beat-up horse trailer less than 100 yards away, watching helplessly as the dark, rain-swept scene suddenly turned from eerie to macabre.

The powerfully built Arlie appeared behind Streetwise's right rear leg, a crowbar in his hand. Arlie swung the bar like a baseball bat, and agents across the highway could hear a crack. Neighing loudly, in a high, panicky scream, Streetwise began thrashing on his dangling leg, fell to the ground as a stunned Burns hung onto the lead—"I'd never seen anything like it; the horse went into shock," he says—and then scrambled back to his feet. The keening horse tore the shank from Burns's hand and took off around the stable, disappearing in the night, falling again, bellowing, only a sound now, an echo behind the barn now, in the dark now, in the quiet rain.

Tommy Burns punched numbers on a cellular phone, calling Donna Brown in West Palm Beach to inform her of events. Meanwhile Arlie informed Carlie Ferguson, president of Canterbury Farms, who summoned a vet. The vet phoned Brown, and on her instructions he called the insurance company on its 800 emergency number. Of course, the company authorized immediate euthanasia for the suffering animal. Moments after arriving on the scene, the vet put the horse down.

Burns and Arlie did not get far. After the death of Streetwise, Burns fired up the rig and took off. But two miles down Route 26, Florida Highway Patrol cars converged on the van from all directions. "They were even coming out of dirt roads," says Burns. He made a run for it, but he was quickly subdued, handcuffed and arrested at shotgun point. "What were you guys doing at the farm?" a cop yelled in Burns's ear.

They had him cold. Agricultural investigators found the crowbar and the electrocution wires in Burns's white pickup. An accomplice who had helped to load the horses at the scene, Chad Sondell, said in a sworn statement to state investigators that Burns and Arlie had told him they were to be paid $5,000 by Brown to kill Streetwise. Arlie confirmed Sondell's story, according to police reports, and admitted having struck Streetwise with the crowbar. Arlie soon pleaded guilty to charges of insurance fraud and cruelty to animals, and he eventually served six months of an 18-month sentence before being paroled.

Federal authorities had been investigating Burns for months—it was they who had tipped the Florida agricultural department that the Sandman was heading south with a potential victim in his van—and Burns's arrest turned out to be the major break in what had become a difficult collection of cases to crack.

Underscoring the importance of the arrest, an FBI agent and a top Justice Department prosecutor from Chicago, Steve Miller, descended on Gainesville only hours after Burns was taken into custody. Caught in the act, incriminated by Arlie and Sondell and facing certain conviction and a jail term on charges of insurance fraud and cruelty to animals. Burns decided to cooperate with federal prosecutors. He spent three weeks in jail, and after the Alachua County Circuit Court finally released him on $100,000 cash bail—under an order that he stay away from horses—he returned to Chicago, where he began cooperating with a grand jury that has been looking into the killing of horses for insurance money.

Burns quickly unraveled his sordid tale to law-enforcement officials, giving names, places and dates from his history as a professional horse-killer and a co-conspirator in cases of insurance fraud. Burns faces sentencing Dec. 14 in the case involving Streetwise, and he expects the feds to seek leniency on his behalf on grounds that he is a key government witness in what has become an investigation of stunning scope.

"Tommy Burns turns out to be the tip of the iceberg," one federal agent says. In the next few weeks, as agents from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms wind up their investigations, sources estimate that as many as 40 owners, trainers, veterinarians and riders will be indicted on various charges related to the killing of horses for insurance payments. Law-enforcement officials are piecing together felony fraud cases against the owners and trainers who hired Burns, and they're tracking down itinerant stable hands and grooms who can confirm details of the killings that the Sandman carried out for their bosses. The inquiries have led agents on a long, circuitous trail from one scene of electrocution to the next, and along the way investigators have picked up leads on other insurance-related deaths not involving Burns and on still other crimes that include suspicious stable fires and the fraudulent sale of overvalued horses.

In the 21 months since Burns's arrest, investigators have developed hard evidence that such crimes have not been confined to the show-horse business and that Burns is not the only hit man working expensive stables. During that time the investigators have concluded that killing horses for insurance claims is business as usual at all levels in the world of show horses.

This phenomenon is hardly new, nor is it confined to jumpers and hunters. Twenty years ago, at some prominent thoroughbred racetrack barns, animals were dying at such an alarming rate that insurance companies were refusing to insure the trainers' horses. At one Belmont Park barn where horses were expiring mysteriously in the night, cynical grooms would show up in the morning and ask, "Anyone die last night?"

Veteran insurance adjusters say, however, that the number of suspicious claims by horse owners has increased dramatically in the years since the 1986 Tax Reform Act eliminated performance horses as depreciable assets. That "reform" and the anemic state of the economy cut the bottom out of the horse business, leaving a cash-starved industry with farms and stables struggling desperately to stay afloat.

Unlike paintings by Renoir or baseball cards bearing pictures of Honus Wagner, horses experience wild, often unforeseen fluctuations in value. Say, for instance, that a thoroughbred investor spends $500,000 for a well-built, well-bred yearling, insures him for that sum and sends him off, as a 2-year-old, to a racetrack trainer. And say that the trainer then informs the owner that the colt is so slow that he couldn't beat a $15,000 maiden claimer. Or that he is an ill-tempered, untrainable rogue. Or that he is about to bow a tendon and will never race. The humane sportsman might wince and take the loss, but more than a few others would make other arrangements. "The insurance is there, and it is very tempting," says one federal agent.

Over the last few years, says Harvey Feintuch, a New York lawyer who specializes in the investigation of equine insurance claims, "we have had a very, very significant increase in the number of claims that just don't look right."

Given the current economic climate, the sudden deaths of expensive, stall-bound horses tend to raise suspicions, even at the highest levels of the horse business. A widely respected freelance turf writer, Carol Flake, sent shudders through the thoroughbred industry when, in a meticulously reported article in the February 1992 issue of Connoisseur magazine, she raised the possibility that the death of Alydar—one of the most popular racehorses of modern times and one of the world's prepotent stallions—was not an accident (box, page 22).

In the investigation of thoroughbred fatalities, federal agents have found more than mere suspicions. In Brooklyn and South Florida, the feds say, they recently uncovered an insurance scheme that led to the death of one horse, a son of Seattle Slew named Fins, and nearly resulted in the death of another, Cutlass Reality, a New York stakes winner of $1.4 million. Prosecutors say that the scheme involved Victor Arena, the reputed head of the Colombo crime family; Howard Crash, a New York securities broker who is under indictment for bribery; and Larry Lombardo, a licensed owner and trainer of thoroughbreds who has been indicted on federal charges that he killed Fins "while making the death appear to be due to natural causes." Sources speculate that the horse was injected with parasitic bloodworms that brought on a case of thromboembolic colic, a fatal illness.

According to a 21-count indictment handed up in Miami on Aug. 4, Lombardo purchased Fins for $7,500, inflated the horse's value to $400,000 through a series of sales of phony shares, insured Fins for that amount and then collected on the policy after the horse died. Ron Rubinstein, Lombardo's defense attorney, claims that Fins died of natural causes and argues that the colt, at $400,000, was not overvalued as a breeding prospect. But Seth Hancock, the president of Claiborne Farm, which bred Fins and has been in the thoroughbred-breeding business for 80 years, said that Fins was a big, crooked-legged colt who couldn't run a lick.

Lombardo is also charged with conspiring to kill Cutlass Reality, the terrific winner of the 1988 Hollywood Gold Cup (and conqueror of the Horse of the Year, Alysheba), in an alleged insurance-fraud scheme. Crash and his former business associate Mark Hankoff—the two key government witnesses against Lombardo, according to sources close to the case—owned the horse in partnership with Lombardo and several others. What saved Cutlass Reality is unclear, but the hit was never made. "Somebody got scared and backed out," an FBI agent says. What is clear, according to the sworn testimony of an FBI agent involved in the case, is that Crash, Lombardo and Arena would have each received $1 million from the insurance settlement if the horse had been killed. Instead, Cutlass Reality will be standing stud in California next spring, servicing mares at $5,000 a pop—and that beats colic.

While the company that insured Fins had some doubts about the horse's stated value and was suspicious of the timing of the claim, which was made six months after the purchase of the policy, it nonetheless sent the $400,000 check to Lombardo and his cohorts. (Lombardo goes on trial next March 22; if convicted, he may be forced to make restitution to the insurance company.) Increasingly, however, insurance companies are balking at paying suspicious claims and are fighting them in court. The companies are also investigating suspicious claims more assiduously, looking for signs of fraud such as the bogus inflation of a horse's value and the concealing of ailments and infirmities. "We began to take more time and more care," says Feintuch, adding that Lloyds of London and other carriers have toughened their approach to paying claims.

Lloyds's increased vigilance dates back eight years to a case that rocked the highest levels of the thoroughbred breeding world and drove some of its biggest players to hide behind the woodshed in embarrassment. When, on March 25, 1984, an imported English horse named Pelerin died of vitamin D toxicosis shortly after ending his inconsistent career by finishing out of the money in a race in Louisiana, the underwriters of the insurance on the horse, all associated with Lloyds, had reason to be skeptical of the $1.45 million policy that Kentucky horseman Harold Snowden held on his half of the animal. Not only did Pelerin appear to have been poisoned, as the term toxicosis implies, but his value (Snowden and a partner had purchased him for $2 million) had dropped sharply in light of his less-than-stellar racing career.

Snowden, co-owner of the Stallion Station farm and breeder of two Kentucky Derby winners, Dust Commander (1970) and Bold Forbes (1976), had been one of the most active players in the business, the syndicator of more than 100 stallions and a prolific insurer of horses. In a gesture aimed at staying in Snowden's favor, the underwriters offered him $1 million—exactly what he had paid originally for half of the horse—to settle the claim. Snowden held out for $1.35 million. The carriers refused to budge, and Snowden took them to court. It was the first time that an equine insurance company had opposed someone of his stature.

Snowden came armed with 10 letters from fellow horsemen, all dated before Pelerin's death, in which each breeder expressed interest in buying a share in the horse for $75,000 upon his retirement to stud. At the 40 shares Snowden said he would have sold, Pelerin's claimed value now rose to $3 million. Among the nationally known breeders who sent letters were Warner Jones, then chairman of the board of Churchill Downs; J.T. Lundy, later head of Calumet Farm; and the late Leslie Combs II, then the aging pillar of Spendthrift Farm.

Snowden looked as if he would win in a gallop when—in a maneuver Perry Mason would have envied—Feintuch, acting on the underwriters' behalf, called two witnesses who destroyed Snowden's case and earned him the glowering wrath of the judge, Henry Wilhoit. One of the witnesses, a secretary for breeder Dwayne Rogers, testified that she had typed Rogers's letter to Snowden. The problem was that she had not begun working for Rogers until 14 months after Pelerin's death. She explained to the court that Rogers told her to backdate the letter to Jan. 5, 1984, two months before the horse's demise. The other witness, a receptionist at Spendthrift Farm, testified that she had typed Combs's letter to Snowden but that she did not go to work at Spendthrift until July 1984, by which time Pelerin had been dead four months. She testified that Combs had her type the backdated letter late one day, after everyone else had left the office.

Snowden was in trouble. His lawyers withdrew on him, leaving him to face a furious Wilhoit. Snowden hired F. Lee Bailey to put the toothpaste back in the tube, but that did no good. After a third horseman admitted that his letter was a fraud, Wilhoit concluded that "all 10 letters had been backdated." While never addressing the question of whether Pelerin was poisoned, Wilhoit charged that "a fraud had been practiced upon the court." Not only was Snowden out the $1 million that Lloyds had offered in the original settlement, but he was also left with a dead horse, a court-ordered judgment against him for $194,131.12 (to cover court costs and the amount Lloyds spent in legal fees fighting his claim) and bills from his own departed lawyers, not to mention from Bailey.

While the thoroughbred business has had its sorry share of cases involving insurance fraud, it has experienced nothing like the maelstrom that Burns is about to set spinning in the show-horse business. Sources say that, based on Burns's testimony, some of the most celebrated figures in the game are targets of the grand jury probe. They include Donna Brown and her husband, Buddy Brown, a member of the U.S. equestrian team at the 1976 Olympics and still one of the nation's leading performers in Grand Prix jumping. Not only does Donna face allegations in connection with the death of Streetwise, but she and Buddy are also under investigation for the death of Aramis, another show jumper. According to sources, insurance records show that Aramis, while insured for $1 million, died under suspicious circumstances. (No charge has been tiled in either case.)

Asked about the federal investigations into the deaths of two of the Browns' horses, the couple's lawyer, Mark Arisohn, a Manhattan criminal defense specialist, says, "I wish I could give you a response. We will plead not guilty. Our defense will be established in the courtroom."

Another horseman who has attracted the attention of investigators is George Lindemann Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., who has emerged as one of the nation's most accomplished equestrians since graduating from Brown University in 1986. Lindemann has ridden his stable of gifted show jumpers to victory in some of the Grand Prix circuit's richest and most prestigious events, but federal investigators are more interested in what role, if any, he played in the December 1990 death of his champion hunter Charisma.

Tommy Burns has told authorities that Charisma was insured for $400,000 when Burns electrocuted him for Lindemann in a stall at the Lindemann family's Cellular Farms, in Armonk, N.Y. According to another source, Lindemann had purchased Charisma for $250,000 in 1989. Minus Burns's alleged $35,000 fee for the hit, the insurance payoff would have left Lindemann with a $115,000 profit. It also left investigators wondering why, if Burns's allegations are true, the enormously rich Lindemann—the name Cellular Farms refers to cellular phones, the source of the family's wealth—would take so big a risk for so small a sum.

Asked about the inquiry into Charisma's death, Lindemann referred all questions to his lawyer, Elaine Amendola, who said, "Why should I be talking about this when George has the FBI hanging all over his neck?" She added, however, that "George is completely innocent."

Additionally, federal agents are looking into the possible involvement of veterinarian Dana Tripp, also an accomplished equestrian, in the death of Streetwise. Florida investigators say that Tripp's red pickup truck—with DANA TRIPP, D.V.M. emblazoned on its doors—was part of Burns's caravan as it made its way toward Canterbury Farms. It was Tripp, according to sources cited in the police report, who recommended to Donna Brown that she hire Burns to stage Streetwise's accident. Prosecutors have phone records revealing Tripp's numerous conversations with both Brown and Burns in the two days leading up to the death of Streetwise. Tripp has refused to respond to SI's questions about the matter.

The Sandman's trail has led federal agents to stables in at least eight states. Sources say that Paul Valliere of North Smithfield, R.I., one of the show circuit's leading trainers, is under federal investigation. Burns has told authorities that Valliere hired him to destroy Roseau Platiere, one of Valliere's own horses. Burns says he electrocuted the animal one night in its stall at a horse show in Sugarbush, Vt. Reached at his Acres Wild Farm in Rhode Island, Valliere refused to answer any questions. Seeking corroboration of Burns's Sugarbush story, SI spoke to a woman who said that she had picked Burns up at the airport in Burlington, Vt., and taken him to the horse show. (The woman said she had given this information to the FBI.) SI also spoke to others who described Roseau Platiere as vigorous and healthy in the hours before Burns's visit. Burns says he has federal agents that Roseau Platiere was one of the three horses he destroyed in 1989 during the busiest week of his career as a contract killer.

Agents are also following up Burns's account of the death of a show horse named Rainman. His owner, Chicago businessman Allen Levinson, collected a $50,000 insurance policy on Rainman's death, but he denies any wrongdoing. "I have never heard of Tommy Burns," Levinson says. "I was trying to sell that horse. I had it sold for more money than the insurance policy. There was a complete autopsy."

For the agents, investigating horse killings has been a difficult, unfamiliar experience. Only rarely has there been a body on which to perform a necropsy, as there was in the case of Streetwise; the carcasses usually have been lost to the rendering plants. So this has been in good part a paper chase. In some cases agents have served subpoenas on claims adjusters who had long before paid the owners for their losses. But the owners' files and personal financial records have been valuable, frequently confirming details of Burns's story of a horse's death—including in some cases the exact barn and stall where it occurred.

In fact, investigators have been struck by the ease with which they were able to follow the paper trail that some of Burns's clients left behind. Burns's presence on the circuit and the things that tended to happen when he was around became so accepted that he was treated like the feedman or the farrier. His employers frequently paid him with personal checks and sometimes with cashier's checks purchased at their banks.

Even federal agents, who thought they had seen everything, were shocked by the insouciance of some of those who dealt with Burns. Burns recalls one woman's approach to him at a horse show: "She said, 'Do you think you could kill my horse for $10,000?' So I did. She bought another horse with the insurance money and came up to me two months later and asked me to kill her new horse. She didn't like it."

There is a troubling banality about the evil at work in these cases. "We are dealing with a way of life here." one investigator said. "These people thought they had some sort of right to do these things."

Largely because of the nature of the crime ("These animals are so vulnerable that I'd compare it almost to hurting children," says Florida agriculture commissioner Bob Crawford), some law-enforcement officials have pursued the investigation with an inspired intensity. "This is a case where you can lose your detachment," says one federal agent. "These were beautiful animals. They were standing there helpless in their stalls. Most of these people had plenty of money. So you get outraged. And you work a little harder."

Burns knows better than anyone how the horses were standing in their stalls, wearing their halters and alligator clips and watching him curiously, like deer in a clearing, as he stepped outside and moved for the socket. He wants it known, as he has been telling the feds, that he wasn't there on his own. "I was not alone in all of this," he says. "I feel terrible about what I did. But I did not advertise. I did not do any sales calls. People found me and came to me. Very important people. Very wealthy people. They came to me because they somehow knew that I might be willing to do something they wanted done. They wanted these horses dead."

What the clients wanted, the clients got. However well he warbles, Burns knows he will do some jail time, just as he knows there will be no escaping, ever, what he did for so long with his life. There's no escaping that night in Florida, in the dark, in the rain, and the sight of Arlie with the crowbar, and the crack and the screams, the horse falling and thrashing, rising and running. Burns can still hear the cops yelling at him after his arrest: "You killed all those horses, and we know you did!"

"They were right," says Tommy Burns.

They always will be. That is his sentence.

FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

ANASTASIA VASILAKIS

Arlie swung the crowbar like a baseball bat, and agents watching from across the highway could hear a crack.

According to federal agents, Burns destroyed some 20 animals on the show-horse circuit from Florida to Vermont to Illinois.

Burns's presence became so accepted that he was treated like the feedman or the farrier. His employers frequently paid him with personal checks.

Over the last two years agents have concluded that killing horses for insurance payoffs is business as usual in the world of show horses.

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WILLIAM NACK

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