{"id":4117,"date":"2008-12-18T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2008-12-18T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:09:17","slug":"juicy_nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/juicy_nuclear.html","title":{"rendered":"Juicy! Nuclear!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When rich rogues aren&#8217;t stealing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/did_you_ever_wonder_what_exactly_was_happening_on_the_17th_floor_or_more_evidence_that_when_rich_people_arent_ripping_off_you_theyre_probably_just_ripping_off_each_other.html\">from us and each other to support their conspicuous Manhattan lifestyle<\/a>, roguish governments are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12182008\/news\/regionalnews\/juicy_sites_iran_taint_144751.htm\">using Manhattan real estate as a front for their unneighborly activities<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Fifth Avenue building that houses Juicy Couture&#8217;s flagship store is secretly owned in part by an Iranian bank that helps fund Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program, the feds charged yesterday in a bid for an ownership stake. <\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan federal court case targets a 40 percent interest in 650 Fifth Ave. held by the Assa Corp., an alleged front company for Iran&#8217;s state-owned Bank Melli. <\/p>\n<p>The bank has &#8220;facilitated the purchase of sensitive materials utilized by Iran&#8217;s nuclear and missile industries,&#8221; according to the Treasury Department.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When rich rogues aren&#8217;t stealing from us and each other to support their conspicuous Manhattan lifestyle, roguish governments are using Manhattan real estate as a front for their unneighborly activities: The Fifth Avenue building that houses Juicy Couture&#8217;s flagship store is secretly owned in part by an Iranian bank that helps fund Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,58,10,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit","category-manhattan","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}