Sea of Greed by Douglas McCullough and Les Pendleton is now available!

IRVING, Texas - Sept. 22, 2014 - PRLog -- Sea of Greed by Douglas McCullough and Les Pendleton is now available!

Sea Of Greed

ISBN #: 978-1-62596-986-6

Size: 8.5x5.5

Page Count: 296

Price: $13.99

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Sea of Greed by Douglas McCullough and Les Pendleton is based on thetrue story behind the arrest of Manuel Noriega and the invasion of Panama pursuant to Operation Just Cause. Sea of Greed slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/sarahintampa/sea-of-greed)



McCullough, a former U.S. Attorney, prosecuted a sophisticated group of drug smugglers and money-launderers that had successfully gained access into Texas, North Carolina, Louisiana, Kentucky and Michigan, amassing over $50,000,000 which was placed in Panamanian banks with Noriega's assistance.  The investigation and apprehension of these smugglers eventually led to the exposure of Noriega as a drug lord and money launderer despite the fact that on occasion he provided intelligence to the CIA and DEA and received an award from President Reagan. A conspiracy that spanned this hemisphere, stretching from Colombia to the Grand Caymans, Jamaica and the United States, involved were local politicians, businessmen, celebrities and entertainment agents as well as Noriega and members of Colombian drug cartels. This is the only occasion where a head of state has been prosecuted in a federal court like any other criminal.

Judge Douglas McCullough sits on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.  Following service in the U.S. Marine Corps, McCullough was a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia before becoming Counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in Washington. He returned to his home state, North Carolina, in 1981 and became the senior Assistant United States Attorney where he served until 1996.  After four years in private practice he won his first election to the North Carolina Court of Appeals and was re-elected in 2010.

Stephen Kalish, the mastermind of the whole operation, has done his time and become a successful businessman in California. He has graciously agreed to an endorsement for the book. NYT Jan 29, 1988 (http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/29/world/drug-dealer-says-...)

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno, born February 11, 1934, is a former Panamanian politician and soldier. He was military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989. In the 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States he was removed from power, captured, detained as a prisoner of war, and flown to the United States. Noriega was tried on eight counts of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering in April 1992.

Noriega's U.S. prison sentence ended in September 2007; pending the outcome of extradition requests by both Panama and France, for convictions in absentia for murder in 1995 and money laundering in 1999. France was granted its extradition request in April 2010. He arrived in Paris on April 27, 2010, and after a re-trial as a condition of the extradition, he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in jail in July 2010. A conditional release was granted on September 23, 2011, for Noriega to be extradited to serve 20 years in Panama. He arrived in Panama on December 11, 2011. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega:/)