http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/11/glock-family-goes-down-guns-blazing.html
Guns, money, sex, and betrayal: Rarely do the news gods smile down on
us with such charity. But Helga Glock, ex-wife to Gaston Glock Sr., the
gun industry’s most successful and secretive tycoon, has given us all
that and then some with a new lawsuit filed in an Atlanta federal court
earlier this week.
In the complaint—filed in Georgia, where the Austrian company’s U.S.
headquarters is based and most of its business conducted—Mrs. Glock’s
attorney accuses the 85-year-old gun manufacturer of a racketeering
scheme that spanned decades and the globe, all in an elaborate plan to
steal the business that Mrs. Glock and the rest of their family had
helped to build from a mom-and-pop machine shop into a company with $400
million in sales each year. An enterprise so successful—it supplies
U.S. police with two-thirds of their firearms and dominates the civilian
market—that Mr. Glock’s criminal dealings have cheated her out of
around $500 million, the suit claims, making the case one of the largest
civil suits ever under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organization Act.
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