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2016: You elected a kind of orange-stained porcine bloated bigot … We’ve had a coup d’etat: you’re slaves now.  ibid.

 

Five million ballots disqualified … They can’t steal all of the votes all of the time …  ibid.

 

People didn’t see Trump as a threat.  When you have basically Gestapo-kind-of-proto-death-squads grabbing people on streets, I think it’s motivating young people.  ibid.

 

You have to have a special ID to vote in Madison, to vote in Wisconsin, not just over a regular student ID.  That’s over 100,000 … You have to prove you’re in good standing.  ibid.

 

 

He said he lost his family in the Grenfell fire … It was Britain’s worst residential fire since the Second World War … More than £1 million was raised in the first 24 hours: in total £26 million was donated … He received £360 in cash, fresh food and clothing and temporary hotel accommodation … Now he was applying for a further £5,000 from the Grenfell fund … ‘He never lived there and nobody had ever heard of him’ … A man with 17 different aliases … 20 people in total have been convicted of Grenfell-related fraud.  Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e1: The Grenfell Conman, Kerry Daynes

 

 

The calm of Salt Lake City Utah was rocked today by two booby-trap bombs that left two people dead …  Murder Among the Mormons I, newscaster, Netflix 2021 

 

A morning that brought fear and death.  The first explosion ripped through a downtown office building, killing one man.  The second explosion outside a holiday home claimed another life …  ibid.

 

There was dark talk involving religious documents, hired professional killers …  ibid.

 

The bombing’s impact has drawn the Church into an uncomfortable spotlight.  ibid.  

 

Salt Lake City 1980: At that time I was introduced to Mark Hofmann.  And I was very excited to meet Mark.  He was in the Mormon document world, he was a rock star.  ibid.  Shannon Flynn, rare document dealer 

 

The Anthon Transcript discovery was widely publicized and brought Mark Hofmann into contact with top leaders in the Mormon Church.  ibid.  reporter   

 

I’d never seen anybody come up with the material that Mark was coming up with.  ibid.  Brent Ashworth, historical document collector

 

He takes out from his briefcase the Salamander letter.  ibid.  Flynn

 

It just changed everything.  Instead of God and angels, now it’s salamanders and magic.  ibid.  Sandra Tannner     

 

The McLellin Collection was potentially devastating.  ibid.  Flynn

 

 

Last year Hofmann sold a document known as the White Salamander letter to the men who were the apparent targets of the first attack.  Murder Among the Mormons II

 

For more than three hours officers sifted through boxes and collected evidence they hope to use in their case against Hofmann.  ibid.  news

 

The FBI has reportedly concluded there is no reason to believe the Salamander letter is a phony.  ibid.  

 

Every single document that Hofmann had handled had that cracked ink.  ibid.  document verification dude

 

 

It’s the biggest forgery case to ever occur.  Period.  Murder Among the Mormons III, observer

 

After Mark’s confessions, the Parole Board decides he will serve his entire life in prison.  ibid.  caption

 

 

In the UK one of the most well-known cases was that of Barlow Clowes.  Between October 1983 and May 1988 about 11,000, mainly elderly, small investors entrusted their money to Barlow Clowes International, the vast majority of whom were persuaded to do so by misrepresentation that their funds would be securely invested in gilts (government bonds).  In fact, very little, if any, of that money was invested in gilts.  Investors’ moneys were stolen and used to buy houses, farms, yachts, cars, antique furniture, a vineyard and shares in private and public companies.  In 1992, after a trial lasting 112 days Peter Clowes got 10 years in prison.  This case is still relevant in that it was only in 2011 (7 February 2011) that the case was finally declared closed when H M Treasury announced it had finally recovered £125 million of the £150 million defrauded from investors.  John Lea, A Brief Introduction to Corporate Crime

 

 

Blowing The Whistle: One Man’s Fight Against Fraud in the European Commission.  Paul van Buitenen

 

 

Last November, for the thirteenth year in a row, the EU’s auditors refused to sign off its financial accounts citing errors of legality and presumed attempts at fraud.  Then, only two weeks ago EU politicians were openly accused of fraud and embezzlement on a massive scale and an official investigation was launched that could potentially lead to the imprisonment of a number of MEPs.  Corruption, fraud and an overall lack of accountability are becoming increasingly rife amongst the European Union’s political elite and it is clearly time that ordinary citizens are given a direct say in the way that the EU is developing.  Simply giving people one vote every four or five years – to elect their political representatives – is not nearly enough in any political system that still professes to be a democracy.  Paul Anthony Taylor, external relations director of Dr Rath Health Foundation & campaign coordinator

 

 

The religious fraud is probably the most insidious.  I’ve seen more money stolen in the name of God than any other way.  It’s the worst form of con-artistry that you can imagine.  But think about ministers and those in the religious order – these are the folks you look up to and trust.  Joe Borg, Director, Alabama Securities Commission

 

 

Conmen: the most devious of all criminals.  Charming, cruel and calculating, they betray trust and devastate lives yet remain a complete enigma.  Conman Case Files s1e1: John Myatt & John Drewe, 2007

 

The 20th century’s biggest art fraud: a struggling artist was drawn into a con which would make millions, with the artist and conman secretly working together for almost a decade.  ibid.

 

Drewe: his masterstroke was the infiltration of the British art archives.  ibid.

 

‘We reckon he’d done about 200.’  ibid.  

 

The art world and the police were gathering evidence.  ibid.

 

 

The dramatic and shocking intricacies of one man’s elaborate crimes.  Conman Case Files s1e4: Carl Hildebrandt  

 

The men had created fictitious firms and businesses in a sophisticated scheme to fraudulently obtain almost £200,000 in government grants.  ibid.  

 

Stolen cheques had been converted to Krugerrands.  ibid.

 

He faked his own death then stole a dead child’s identity.  ibid.

 

 

Like many in the 1980s Nick Leeson wanted to be rich and successful.  But Nick Leeson was also a very strange man.  He had an extraordinary ability to manipulate and deceive those around him.  Adam Curtis, Inside Story Special, BBC 1996  

 

Together they lost £830 million.  In 1986 Mrs Thatcher deregulated the City of London.  The old division between banks and stockbrokers was removed.  The gentlemanly image of the banker was replaced by that of the trader.  Nick Leeson was working as a clerk for the giant American bank Morgan Stanley.  On the surface he appeared like everyone else in this new world.  A boy from the suburbs who wanted to be a trader.  In 1989 Leeson asked to become a trader but Morgan Stanley refused.  He decided it was time to move.  This time he chose a British bank.  Barings was the oldest merchant bank in England in Britain.  It had been run by the Barings family for over two hundred years.  They were related to practically everyone … Even the Queen held an account at Barings.  ibid.

 

Nick Leeson went to work for Baring Securities.  Six years before they had been a small team of stockbrokers.  Now they contributed over half the profits of the bank.  ibid.  

 

Leeson had joined an organisation falling apart after the boom of the ’80s.  He worked as a bookkeeper trying to keep track of the bank’s money.  And he was good at it.  So he was sent overseas to sort out problems.  ibid.  

 

Leeson was going to trade in one of the newest, most exciting markets – Futures … Leeson’s job was to buy and sell [Singapore] Futures: these are bets on the way a market will move in the future.  ibid.

 

In the summer of 1992 the market fluctuated violently.  In the chaos Leeson’s team began to make serious mistakes ... Leeson hid the loses.  He didn’t want to go back to being a clerk.  He put the loses into a computerised account called the 88888 account, and altered its software so London wouldn’t see what he was doing.  ibid. 

 

As the weeks passed London continued sending Leeson money.  They failed to notice there was no equivalent money coming in from clients.  Leeson had discovered a weakness in the system.  He would hide his mistakes and trade out of them in his own time, and no-one would ever know.  But the weakness that Leeson had discovered was just one crack in an organisation that was falling apart.  ibid.    

 

Leeson’s deception had gone badly wrong.  Throughout the end of 1992 the market had gone against him.  As it did so, the losses he had hidden mounted up.  The secret 88888 account turned into a monster with a life of its own.  At one point it held losses of £4 million.  ibid.    

 

Leeson started his deception again.  But this time it was not to cover up other people’s mistakes.  It was a deliberate fraud.  He began to use his secret account to give his clients cut-price deals.  He sold them Futures at unreal prices, making a loss for himself.  He then took these losses and hid them away in the secret account.  ibid.   

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