Jeff Greene, a...billionaire...popped up out of nowhere earlier this year, prepared to “spend what it takes” to grab the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate race in Florida to go to Washington and do for America what he has done for his bank account.
...Being the rich candidate is not without its burdens. For one, there’s the matter of that yacht, the Summerwind. Greene might see himself as an upstanding family man, but his yacht is bad, bad, bad. It’s an embarrassing, headline-making connection — the Levi Johnston of boats.
The government of Belize says Summerwind tore up a part of a national coral reef with its anchor, but Greene denies knowing anything about it. The yacht went to Cuba, apparently breaking the American embargo. Greene says that was just for emergency repairs, and, anyway, he spent the downtime visiting Cuban synagogues.
Well, they probably needed a minyan and he was rushing.
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In Peru:
American Ordered to Return to Prison in Peru
A Peruvian court said Wednesday that it had struck down a decision granting parole to Lori Berenson, the New Yorker imprisoned in the 1990s on charges of collaborating with a Marxist revolutionary group...the Peruvian court said it voided her parole because there were discrepancies in the addresses Ms. Berenson had provided for her planned residence.
...The Justice Ministry said in a statement that the court’s decision reversing her parole could not be appealed.
...Ms. Berenson’s parents, Rhoda and Mark, said their daughter’s parole had been “annulled on a technicality” that they hoped could be sorted out.
...She was initially arrested in 1995 in Peru while enmeshed with members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a group that became known internationally in 1996 when it raided the Japanese Embassy in Lima and took hundreds of diplomats and senior government officials hostage.
In an appearance before court officials on Monday, Ms. Berenson acknowledged collaborating with the Túpac Amaru group but said she had never killed anyone or took part in violent actions.
“If my participation contributed to societal violence I am very sorry for this,” she said at the televised hearing.
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