{"id":160,"date":"2008-12-15T20:09:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=160"},"modified":"2017-04-07T20:18:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T03:18:14","slug":"its-like-capones-running-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/its-like-capones-running-things\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Like Capone&#8217;s Running Things &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2138409\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kim Bryant from Real Housewives of Orange County\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/real_housewives..jpg\" alt=\"Kim Bryant from Real Housewives of Orange County\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> With Bernie Madoff &amp; his $50 billion Ponzi scheme, Rod Blagojevich <a title=\"Rod Blagojevich federal fraud cases\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rod_Blagojevich_federal_fraud_cases\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly auctioning Barack&#8217;s seat<\/a>, &amp; <a title=\"Billionaire hedge-fund manager Samuel Israel III disappears on his way to prison\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/billionaire-hedgefund-manager-samuel-israel-iii-disappears-on-his-way-to-prison-845139.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Israel III<\/a>-who hasn&#8217;t gotten as much ink\u2014to name 3 &#8220;solid&#8221; citizens-I&#8217;m sure these thieves are the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Brief History of Illinois Corruption\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1865681,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Corruption &amp; greed<\/a> are the oldest stories ever told, but in the last several years materialism has reached unprecedented heights. Middle-class folks were living like millionaires &amp; suddenly there are thousands of billionaires. Didn&#8217;t it seem too good to be true? As The Real Housewives of Orange County hobble along in their <a title=\"Louboutin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AIPzNlYTU98\" target=\"_blank\">Louboutin<\/a>s, there&#8217;s a<em> fall-of-Rome<\/em> feeling in the air.<br \/>\nUPDATE: all these years later in April 7, 2017. Was I right! Donald Trump is now president of the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Bernie Madoff &amp; his $50 billion Ponzi scheme, Rod Blagojevich allegedly auctioning Barack&#8217;s seat, &amp; Sam Israel III-who hasn&#8217;t gotten as much ink\u2014to name 3 &#8220;solid&#8221; citizens-I&#8217;m sure these thieves are the tip of the iceberg. Corruption &amp; greed are the oldest stories ever told, but in the last several years materialism has reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[11492,11666,11495,12657,11494,11491,12654],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized","tag-bernie-madoff","tag-billionaire","tag-loubiton","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-rhoc","tag-rod-blagojevich","tag-vicki-gundelson","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}