Santa Ana is like someone sunbaked Brooklyn. Insufferable.
We caught up with Tomas Dlurga and Adam Adams. They're both two-time losers who have changed businesses more often than the Cal State kids around here change sexual preferences. Cutting through the bullshit, it looks like they bought the emerald on the black market using loans they secured against the value of the emerald they didn't yet own. Unfortunately, these idiots didn't understand the éminence grise the Brazilian police exercise in the trade sector and failed to make the proper financial arrangements with them. So, by the time it got to the US, Brazil had flagged it as an illegally acquired artifact, the financiers claimed it as security on the loans they'd advanced these jokers, and the intended buyer had put in a legal claim based on a contract for it.
So, the emerald is currently sitting in lock up with the Santa Ana police while everyone fights it out in court. That is, everyone but Dlurga and Adams, who are fighting extradition to Brazil on the basis of (and this is my very favorite part) an analysis that says the emerald is so flawed and low quality that it is worth too little to count as a felony to justify seizing them.
Basically, the only real value this chunk of emerald has is as a curio in the geology section of a natural history museum. The entire legal fuck-up is based around wounded pride, arrogance and stubbornness. If we could cause it to disappear, pretty much every official party attach to it would likely sigh with relief at stopping the legal fees.
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Date: 2017-09-21 08:04 pm (UTC)We caught up with Tomas Dlurga and Adam Adams. They're both two-time losers who have changed businesses more often than the Cal State kids around here change sexual preferences. Cutting through the bullshit, it looks like they bought the emerald on the black market using loans they secured against the value of the emerald they didn't yet own. Unfortunately, these idiots didn't understand the éminence grise the Brazilian police exercise in the trade sector and failed to make the proper financial arrangements with them. So, by the time it got to the US, Brazil had flagged it as an illegally acquired artifact, the financiers claimed it as security on the loans they'd advanced these jokers, and the intended buyer had put in a legal claim based on a contract for it.
So, the emerald is currently sitting in lock up with the Santa Ana police while everyone fights it out in court. That is, everyone but Dlurga and Adams, who are fighting extradition to Brazil on the basis of (and this is my very favorite part) an analysis that says the emerald is so flawed and low quality that it is worth too little to count as a felony to justify seizing them.
Basically, the only real value this chunk of emerald has is as a curio in the geology section of a natural history museum. The entire legal fuck-up is based around wounded pride, arrogance and stubbornness. If we could cause it to disappear, pretty much every official party attach to it would likely sigh with relief at stopping the legal fees.