An interesting guy named Mort Lapides should be mentioned. Some fun legal documents still exist online and so does his very shadowy financial entity... And to think I knew him when he was still chasing 17 year olds at the trailer part in his limo.

Morty tried to corner the market on Coca Cola products in Israel and tried various and sundry monopolizing attempts of a somewhat smaller scale around the states. Lots of crooked investments and shady friends. Follow your nose, have fun.