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Foilux
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CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER
#8039784 - 02/18/08 07:45 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER
February 18, 2008 -- A Harvard-educated Manhattan jet-setter has been pegged as the money-laundering mastermind behind a massive LSD drug ring run out of a Kansas missile silo, The Post has learned.
Stefan Wathne, a 39-year-old scion of New York's socially prominent Wathne apparel family, surrendered to federal agents Jan. 7 as he stepped off a plane at Newark Airport - after three years on the lam.
Wathne is accused in a 2005 federal indictment of laundering as much as $3 million through Russia between 1996 and 2000 for what authorities have described as the most prolific LSD operation in US history.
His arrest marks the latest chapter in a bizarre federal drug case that has unfolded over five years and featured a surreal cast of characters.
In addition to Wathne - an erstwhile financial planner and former American Ballet Theatre trustee - the case has included a prominent Harvard psychiatrist and a deputy director of a UCLA drug-study program.
In another strange twist, singers Sting and Paul Simon helped pay the legal bills for a witness in the case.
The drug ring was cracked in November 2002, when the US Drug Enforcement Agency descended on a decommissioned military silo outside Topeka, which had been converted to a lab capable of churning out massive amounts of LSD.
The drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamid and originally used to study personality disorders, is the most potent hallucinogen known. The government banned it in 1966.
The feds arrested the Princeton- and Harvard-educated head of the operation, William Leonard Pickard, a noted chemist who at the time was deputy director of UCLA's Drug Policy Analysis program.
Pickard and an accomplice, California computer specialist Clyde Apperson, were charged with conspiracy and possession to distribute after agents seized enough raw material to produce 16 million doses of LSD, with an estimated street value of as much as $160 million.
The arrests put Wathne on the DEA's radar.
A Reykjavik-born Icelandic national whose family later put down roots here, Wathne was introduced to Pickard through Dr. John Halpern, a leading psychedelic researcher from Harvard's prestigious McLean Hospital.
Halpern, records show, was paid $319,000 by Pickard from 1996 to 1999 - the same years Wathne is charged with laundering money for Pickard.
Testimony at Pickard's drug trial suggested that Halpern was paid for the Wathne introduction.
Wathne's alleged role in the LSD ring was to take drug money, cycle it through Russia and then send it back to Pickard, partly in the form of a "donation" to his UCLA research program, according to testimony at Pickard's trial.
After the silo bust, Halpern made a deal with the feds and ratted out his friends.
He also rolled on a one-time New Mexico business partner, Alfred Savinelli, from whom Pickard had bought chemicals and glassware to make LSD.
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: Foilux]
#8039926 - 02/18/08 08:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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"formally known as lysergic acid diethylamid"
so what is it called now? devil blotter?
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: JT]
#8039942 - 02/18/08 08:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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justin_thyme said: "formally known as lysergic acid diethylamid"
so what is it called now? devil blotter?
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: JT]
#8039951 - 02/18/08 08:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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justin_thyme said: "formally known as lysergic acid diethylamid"
so what is it called now? devil blotter?
"formally", like all formal n shit, not "formerly" as in the artist formerly known as Prince.
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: JT]
#8039957 - 02/18/08 08:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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awww
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: Delta9Hippie]
#8040242 - 02/18/08 09:23 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Delta9Hippie said:
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justin_thyme said: "formally known as lysergic acid diethylamid"
so what is it called now? devil blotter?
"formally", like all formal n shit, not "formerly" as in the artist formerly known as Prince.
haha wow...too much weed today
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: JT]
#8040302 - 02/18/08 09:33 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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anyway
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: ApJunkie]
#8044333 - 02/19/08 07:30 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ive read other atricles refering to missile silo's and manufacutring LSD, are these one and the same or is it just the thing to do nowadays. everybody want a secret underground drug labratory i guess.
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: Foilux]
#8044592 - 02/19/08 08:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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.... You can fill our prisons with as many "criminals" as you want, silo things pretty cool tho, also kinda local, MY LOCAL ACID MANUFACTURER JUST WENT TO JAIL!!! NOAONNOAAOOOOOO!!!!!!
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: bassbastard]
#8046400 - 02/20/08 08:51 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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most potent halucinogen?
what about salvinorum A?
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: Foilux]
#8046441 - 02/20/08 09:14 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wasn't Pickard busted years and years ago? Why is this news?
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: dblaney]
#8046735 - 02/20/08 10:58 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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> most potent halucinogen? > what about salvinorum A?
LSD is more than ten times as potent as Salvinorin A.
http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=2830
> Wasn't Pickard busted years and years ago? Why is this news?
His money laundering guy has been on the run in Russia for three years and just got caught in India.
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#8048346 - 02/20/08 05:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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A drought is coming then?
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: F1234K]
#8050309 - 02/21/08 01:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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The drought has been getting more severe since 2002 when they busted the lab. They're just figuring out who was laundering all the money now.
Smart people... The LSD ring that is... I wonder how many dicks the female agents had to suck to find this guy... Or maybe females were the problem, some young aspiring agent decided he'd blow a few to get the information he wanted.
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: HighHat]
#8050591 - 02/21/08 06:18 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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with an estimated street value of as much as $160 million.
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After the silo bust, Halpern made a deal with the feds and ratted out his friends.
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Re: CITY JET-SETTER'S BIZARRE LSD TRIP -HIGH-SOCIETY HEIR BUSTED AS DRUG-RING MASTER [Re: Foilux]
#8071185 - 02/26/08 01:43 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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hot piss!
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