Intellectual Ventures Accused of ‘Mafia-Style Shakedown’

This post makes a good sidebar to the Michele Bachmann post directly below: Intellectual Ventures accused of ‘mafia-style shakedown’ in This American Life exposé - GeekWire.

We are witnessing an evolution -- it seems politics and the business world are starting to take their cue from one of the oldest successful business ventures in capitalist history: the American Cosa Nostra.

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