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I worked as a lawyer in Chicago in the late 1990s and represented a client who was on the FBI top ten most wanted list. His name is Nate Hill. He was a Chicago

I worked as a lawyer in Chicago in the late 1990s and represented a client who was on the FBI top ten most wanted list. His name is Nate Hill. He was a Chicago drug dealer. He fled to Africa and was running a coffee business as a front. US Marshals flew to Africa, found him, kidnapped him, and put him on a flight back to O'Hare. More details on his case: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-05-25/news/9905250177_1_drug-count-money-laundering-co-defendant http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-05-25/news/990525017...

RA_Fisher 13y ago
Looks like he was actually on the Top 15 list of the U.S. Marshall's, not the FBI Top Ten. http://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/ http://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/ However, it'd be cool to apply this analysis to that list, too!
- dmourati 13y ago
  Good find! I guess my memory from back then was a little off. Still, super interesting case to work. I met Hill briefly in the MCC.
  - RA_Fisher 13y ago
    I can't imagine what it'd be like to work a case like that. Was he really friendly to you?
    - dmourati 13y ago
      We spoke only for a few moments. I needed to visit him in the lockup to obtain a signature for some legal document. He seemed dazed but upbeat.
dfc 13y ago
Are all arrests kidnappings? Or was there something not kosher about the execution of the warrant?
- dmourati 13y ago
  He was on foreign soil in a country with no extradition treaty to the US. With the help of local bounty hunters, the Marshal's captured him, put a bag over his head, and put him on a plane back.
  - coldtea 13y ago
    So, isn't that like invading a foreign country and breaking the law? Or so Americans think they can do anything they like? How'd they fill if some foreign power did the same in American soil?
    - junto 13y ago
      They do because they can. Others don't because they wouldn't dare. The only exception is Mossad who have a history of both foreign soil kidnap and assassination. Russia has a history of assassination. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
      - coldtea 13y ago
        >They do because they can. Yes. In which case they should lose all moralistic pretenses.

RA_Fisher 13y ago

Looks like he was actually on the Top 15 list of the U.S. Marshall's, not the FBI Top Ten. http://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/ http://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/ However, it'd be cool to apply this analysis to that list, too!

dmourati 13y ago
Good find! I guess my memory from back then was a little off. Still, super interesting case to work. I met Hill briefly in the MCC.
- RA_Fisher 13y ago
  I can't imagine what it'd be like to work a case like that. Was he really friendly to you?
  - dmourati 13y ago
    We spoke only for a few moments. I needed to visit him in the lockup to obtain a signature for some legal document. He seemed dazed but upbeat.

dfc 13y ago

Are all arrests kidnappings? Or was there something not kosher about the execution of the warrant?

dmourati 13y ago
He was on foreign soil in a country with no extradition treaty to the US. With the help of local bounty hunters, the Marshal's captured him, put a bag over his head, and put him on a plane back.
- coldtea 13y ago
  So, isn't that like invading a foreign country and breaking the law? Or so Americans think they can do anything they like? How'd they fill if some foreign power did the same in American soil?
  - junto 13y ago
    They do because they can. Others don't because they wouldn't dare. The only exception is Mossad who have a history of both foreign soil kidnap and assassination. Russia has a history of assassination. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
    - coldtea 13y ago
      >They do because they can. Yes. In which case they should lose all moralistic pretenses.