made off

Hector "El Father" says he's broke.

Major banks from the U.S., Britain, Spain and Japan have lost millions of dollars to New York hedge fund trader Bernard Madoff. The 70-year-old was arrested last week for running a $50 billion pyramid scheme. (via Foreign Policy)

N.E.R.D. do their part to clean up Wall Street in a new video, "Sooner or Later." (via Hypebeast)

A Cleveland hospital announced one of its doctors has performed the world's first near-total face transplant.

A Mets fan tells the New York Times he's glad Major League Baseball is now allowing team logos on funeral caskets because “they’re going to drive me to my grave."

The Los Angeles Times profiles Enrique Portocarrero, the Captain Nemo of Cocaine. The 45-year-old Colombian is credited with building and designing over 20 submarines used to transport drugs from Colombia to México and Central America. (via Metafilter)

Mexican drug cartels are the "greatest organized crime threat" to the United States, according to a report by the National Drug Intelligence Center: "The influence of Mexican drug trafficking organizations over domestic drug trafficking is unrivaled."