https://www.stewriley.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-08-28 https://www.stewriley.com/home daily 1.0 2020-08-31 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f493cdd6320b5338c0ccdfc/t/5f4949f034b5d667fa6f3202/1598638584994/Stew+Riley.jpg Home Stewart Riley lives in Seattle with his wife and his dog, Rudy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. After graduating from the University of Washington Law School in 1969, he began practicing law in Seattle as a Senior Deputy Prosecutor in the King County Prosecutor’s Office. After three years with the prosecutor’s office, he embarked on a lifetime career as a criminal defense attorney, specializing in cases having international aspects and implications. During his career he has represented individuals from over 40 countries. Mr. Riley has been admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court as well as three international criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Court in The Hague (Netherlands). Mr. Riley is also well known for his successful defense of a Blackwater security contractor investigated for the shooting and killing of a bodyguard for the Vice President of Iraq in 2006. He is an avid outdoorsman and tennis player. Helena Star is his first book. https://www.stewriley.com/helenastar daily 0.75 2020-10-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f493cdd6320b5338c0ccdfc/t/5f4948140013b841f0c09e66/1603060952200/Cautlin+002.jpg Helena Star - HELENA STAR On April 17, 1978, the U.S. Coast Guard seized the aging freighter, Helena Star, 140 miles off the coast of Washington State. It’s hold was loaded with 37 tons of marijuana - the west coast’s largest pot bust - worth an estimated street value of $74 million. Drug agents later seized the sleek Joli, a 61-foot sailboat, for its suspected role in the case. A past winner of the prestigious Victoria to Maui sailboat race, the Joli had been purchased from William Niemi, Jr., former president of Eddie Bauer, by champion freestyle skier Mike Lund. From the trenches, author, Stewart Riley, the attorney for the captain of the Helena Star provides an insider’s unvarnished account of the case. The freighter and the conspirators involved in the smuggling were in the news from the seizure of the vessel in 1978, to its sinking in 2013. This drug bust and the ensuing events comprise a true saga about the inner workings of a Colombian-American drug cartel, smuggling on a massive scale, money laundering, the capture of fugitives in Bolivia, suspicious deaths, and courtroom battles in Seattle and San Francisco. Helena Star is Stewart Riley’s first book. Helena Star is published by Robert D. Reed Publishers, www.rdrpublishers.com (c) 2020.