5/31/2023 0 Comments Rogue patrick radden keefe![]() ![]() “Every time he tells me a new story idea, I feel like I have a mini–heart attack. This time, however, the intimidation campaign was coming from inside the house. While working on Empire of Pain, his 2021 book about the Sackler family’s role in the opioid epidemic, Keefe came to believe the family had hired an investigator to intimidate him by loitering outside his home. ![]() The culprit had added a single word to the page: No.Īs a staff writer at The New Yorker, Keefe has written about all kinds of disreputable figures - an international arms broker, hackers, a dubious diamond dealer, a mass shooter, and the Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, to name just a few - and this wasn’t the first time someone had tried to get him to beg off a story. When he returned the next morning, he found that someone had taken one of the pages - a picture of a dead body inscribed with a threatening message in Cyrillic letters - and placed it on his desk. Before calling it a day, he printed a trove of related documents and left them in a stack on his printer tray. On a recent evening, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe was in his home office in Westchester County, toying with a story idea that involved the Russian mafia. Photo: Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times ![]()
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