The dealmakers, called agents, organized each voyage as a separate venture, sold shares in it and frequently bought insurance from local firms in which they had an interest.
And his capture offered investigators an opening to learn more about those higher up the pirate hierarchy, like the financiers who organize the voyages and the negotiators who secure ransom, court documents show.
Apparently the criminals who organize these voyages felt it was more important to put injured men and women out to sea than to seek medical attention.
The Islamic nongovernmental organization that organized the Mavi Marmara voyage — the I.H.H. Humanitarian Relief Foundation — declares in its advertisements that Israel itself will be put in the "felon's dock".
Later in 1997, Dr. McLaren attracted the interest of Mike McDowell, an adventure tour operator who organized the polar voyages.
In June 1948, Mr. Katz helped organize the voyage of the cargo ship Altalena, which was carrying weapons and Irgun fighters to Israel when it was sunk off Tel Aviv by the newly formed Israel Defense Forces.
A16 NEW YORK/REGION B1-10 Businesswonan on TrialIn Golden Venture Case Opening arguments began in the trial of a Chinatown businesswoman accused of running a smuggling ring and organizing the voyage of the freighter Golden Venture.
Its object, like that of the Dutch, was to trade in spices; and it was at first modestly organized on a single-voyage basis.
The 7,000-mile 7,000-mileoyage is being oresearch by the 5 Gyres Institute and the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, two nonprofit groups that campaign against plastic pollution, in collaboration with Pangaea Exploration, which operates an expedition voyage known as the Sea Dragon.
The voyage, as was the last one, was organized under the auspices of the Free Gaza Movement, a Palestinian advocacy group based in El Cerrito, Calif.
