A Little Too Generous
Imagine receiving a US$500 tip from a Lebanese businessman for a work well-done. Now imagine instead of giving you five 100-dollar bills, he gives you a single 500-dollar bill:
When a Malaysian hotel cleaner was tipped $500 by a high-rolling, self-proclaimed Lebanese “billionaire”, it seemed to good to be true.
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Businessman Elie Youseef Najem’s generosity turned out [...]
Dearborn is Beirut
This time I’ll be handing myself a "Looks Like Beirut" Certificate:
Sabastian Restum, 40, appeared in U.S. District Court in Detroit today charged with witness tampering. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mona Majzoub ordered Restum jailed until a detention hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
Details about a "hit" Restum allegedly put out on Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Abed Hammoud are contained [...]
“It was like Beirut”
Here’s my second “Looks Like Beirut Award” in as many days. Mr. Andy Ward, I give you the floor:
“I was up at about 1.50am to 2pm and I smelt it. I looked out the window and saw the reflection in the shop window opposite. I thought it was the room below that was on fire.
“I [...]
Gold Hunt
Grab your metal detectors, there’s gold in Lebanon:
The mortgage broker who posted an online confession last month before fleeing the country on a private jet has been returned to Sacramento to face a 44-count federal indictment.
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He left the U.S. the previous week on a chartered jet to Lebanon where authorities believe he may have stashed [...]
When in Lebanon…
Bribe. But don’t do it in a country where corruption is prosecuted:
An Emirati policeman has been sentenced to two years in jail and fined by the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court of First Instance for accepting a bribe and filing false reports of two accidents to help the Lebanese owner of a car rental agency collect [...]
