Wow all that to take over a construction company?
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vake — 10 years ago(January 21, 2016 05:09 PM)
also why did they need to kill Sandy? a guy knocks her out then they suffocate her. what was the point of that?
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TheWIDOWMAKER97 — 10 years ago(January 07, 2016 03:04 AM)
REAL LIFE BUDDY. HAPPENS ALL THE TIME
Nice to see something real..not lame big conspiracies AMERICANS need to believe in to buy guns , hate blacks and believe in the bible.
lol
Americans.so stupid.
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philoj — 9 years ago(April 15, 2016 10:39 AM)
The town of New London took an old lady all the way to the Supreme Court to get her property because it was blocking the way for a new mall.
Consider the amount of work needed to bring the suit in the first place and then ride it all the way to the Supreme Court. If you don't value human life, killing five people seems pretty efficient comparatively.
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philoj — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 10:15 AM)
You have no idea how much money is on the table for a large contractor. Lebendauer was trying to move into Pittsburgh, which is an industrial city currently trying to reinvent themselves as a service-oriented city.
That means cleaning up industrial parks, building new roads, building bridges & overpasses, putting up new office buildings, possibly putting in a new light rail system How much do you think it would cost to convert Pittsburgh to Seattle?
We're talking billions of dollars.
For a large, established government contractor, these contracts can be pretty easy to win - take a few officials out for a nice dinner, put together some impressive looking presentations, hire some local companies to do some early work (to show money flowing into the city) and voila - nine-figure contracts just fall from the sky.
Unless there's a small, local construction company that is capable of making waves. They challenge every public hearing, they demand studies on things that the big contractor was hoping nobody would notice, and if the big contractor does win the contract, then they are constantly pestering the city council to ask for audits, performance reports, and so on.
It can increase the costs of doing business by a factor of ten or more.
As taxpayers, we should appreciate this and embrace it. But the big money people hate it. Of course in the real world they don't go around assassinating business owners - but you can bet they've thought about it.
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Beauq81 — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 11:54 AM)
In the book, the couple are killed exactly because of that - they were making waves. Zec's company bribed their waves into government contracts, causing the couple's company to lose contracts they should have won. The husband started asking questions, so they killed him. The wife continued, so they offed her, too.
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imvaughn — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 07:33 PM)
I think Zec had his own team. The real shooter was already on his payroll as a hired assassin. So no extra money there. All they needed was a fall guy & a police officer. The fall guy was a loner who frequented the only long range shooting range nearby. So befriending him would be easy. Once befriended it would be easy to drug him & lift his fingerprints. The black cop said he didn't have a choice. So they probably blackmailed him. So it was probably inexpensive to set dude up. Maybe a couple million. But to receive hundreds of millions it's worth it to Zec.