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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

He gives this like grand speech on the street. And like there's all these articles in New York papers being like the savior of New York. Und es gibt auch ein paar Leute, die für ihn gearbeitet haben, in verschiedenen Papieren in der UK, die sagten, er ist eigentlich ein großer Arschloch. Niemand kann für ihn arbeiten. Das wird nicht gut für euch enden. Und es ist sicher nicht.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Also kommt die 80er-Jahre zu einem Ende. Leider. Ich weiß, dass wir alle das immer noch weinen. Und plötzlich kommt ein großer ökonomischer Popp. Right. And interest rates skyrocket. And all of this debt that he had taken on to keep building this. He's always robbing Peter to pay Paul like a certain guy that we all know about right now.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Also kommt die 80er-Jahre zu einem Ende. Leider. Ich weiß, dass wir alle das immer noch weinen. Und plötzlich kommt ein großer ökonomischer Popp. Right. And interest rates skyrocket. And all of this debt that he had taken on to keep building this. He's always robbing Peter to pay Paul like a certain guy that we all know about right now.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Also kommt die 80er-Jahre zu einem Ende. Leider. Ich weiß, dass wir alle das immer noch weinen. Und plötzlich kommt ein großer ökonomischer Popp. Right. And interest rates skyrocket. And all of this debt that he had taken on to keep building this. He's always robbing Peter to pay Paul like a certain guy that we all know about right now.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like he's always in debt to a lot of banks for all this stuff. And suddenly it gets a lot more expensive to service that debt. And so in 1991, he has to sell Pergamon Press. And that's his like baby in order to keep everything else afloat. And that's also the profitable part of his empire.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like he's always in debt to a lot of banks for all this stuff. And suddenly it gets a lot more expensive to service that debt. And so in 1991, he has to sell Pergamon Press. And that's his like baby in order to keep everything else afloat. And that's also the profitable part of his empire.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like he's always in debt to a lot of banks for all this stuff. And suddenly it gets a lot more expensive to service that debt. And so in 1991, he has to sell Pergamon Press. And that's his like baby in order to keep everything else afloat. And that's also the profitable part of his empire.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

So he has now sold the golden goose to pay for the shit that's horribly in debt that he can't make a profit on. Not a great move. So, what do you do? If you're a guy who sucks ass and hates unions and hates your employees and suddenly you're out of money and you need to keep funding all of this debt.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

So he has now sold the golden goose to pay for the shit that's horribly in debt that he can't make a profit on. Not a great move. So, what do you do? If you're a guy who sucks ass and hates unions and hates your employees and suddenly you're out of money and you need to keep funding all of this debt.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

So he has now sold the golden goose to pay for the shit that's horribly in debt that he can't make a profit on. Not a great move. So, what do you do? If you're a guy who sucks ass and hates unions and hates your employees and suddenly you're out of money and you need to keep funding all of this debt.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Where do you go when interest rates are fucked and you simply can't take any more loans from banks?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Where do you go when interest rates are fucked and you simply can't take any more loans from banks?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Where do you go when interest rates are fucked and you simply can't take any more loans from banks?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Where do you go? Well, you know where there's a lot of money in any given company that's been around this long with a large workforce? The pension plan. He raids the pension plan. He raids the pension. He steals nearly half a billion dollars from the pension plan.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Where do you go? Well, you know where there's a lot of money in any given company that's been around this long with a large workforce? The pension plan. He raids the pension plan. He raids the pension. He steals nearly half a billion dollars from the pension plan.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Where do you go? Well, you know where there's a lot of money in any given company that's been around this long with a large workforce? The pension plan. He raids the pension plan. He raids the pension. He steals nearly half a billion dollars from the pension plan.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

This is kind of his mental state. He's in this period of collapse. And also right around this time, it becomes known that he is being investigated for war crimes in World War II. Because he like wrote letters to his wife and talked about them, like to journalists about like, again, I machined gun prisoners. And again, it's the least bad thing he ever did. But so he's got that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

This is kind of his mental state. He's in this period of collapse. And also right around this time, it becomes known that he is being investigated for war crimes in World War II. Because he like wrote letters to his wife and talked about them, like to journalists about like, again, I machined gun prisoners. And again, it's the least bad thing he ever did. But so he's got that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

This is kind of his mental state. He's in this period of collapse. And also right around this time, it becomes known that he is being investigated for war crimes in World War II. Because he like wrote letters to his wife and talked about them, like to journalists about like, again, I machined gun prisoners. And again, it's the least bad thing he ever did. But so he's got that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Zweitens, er hat all diese Schulden, sein ganzes Empire ist in der Lage zu zerstören, als er auf seinem Fahrrad, Lady Gillan, am 1. November 1991 verkauft hat. Er bekommt ständig Nachrichten von verschiedenen Banken, die sagen, hey, das ist überdurchschnittlich. Kannst du sogar beweisen, dass du nicht mehr in Solvent bist?