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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with $700m fraud
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chickenHeadKnob:

--- Quote from: edy on March 23, 2018, 02:10:21 am --- You think Holmes stashed a few million bucks away somewhere in the Caribbean, and after paying off her $500,000 "fine" will go live on the island?

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The first part of designing any scam is to make your exit plan. People may vaguely remember a junior Canadian mining start-up called BRE-X. They supposedly discovered the mother lode of all gold deposits in central Borneo. They went from a penny stock to 6 billion market cap. Then test core samples were sent out to independent analysts and before the reports became public the chief project manager mysteriously fell out of a helicopter. From Wikipedia:
 
 "The fraud began to unravel rapidly on March 19, 1997, when Filipino Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman reportedly committed suicide by jumping from a helicopter in Busang, Indonesia.[9][10] A body was found four days later in the jungle, missing the hands and feet, and with the penis "surgically removed".[11] In addition, the body was reportedly mostly eaten by animals and was only identified from molars and a thumbprint.[12] (According to journalist John McBeth, a body had gone missing from the morgue of the town from which the helicopter flew. The remains of "de Guzman" were found only 400 metres from a logging road. No one saw the body except another Filipino geologist who claimed it was de Guzman. And one of the five women who considered themselves his wife was receiving monetary payments from somebody long after the supposed death of de Guzman."

The real de Guzman was later reported to have been seen in Brazil. :-DD

The analysts who looked at the samples quickly determined they were placer gold, ie. gold that came from a stream bed via panning. There was no way it should be part of a core sample, implying the obvious, the cores were salted. Boom; the scam was over.

Both Brian Walsh (president) and John Felderhof(chief geologist) did the me know nothinks act. Claiming It was all de Guzman. Oh,  and doing it from their respective Caribbean island homes!

Brian Walsh  also had a home invasion at his Nassau island house where he was tied up at gunpoint by two masked men demanding he reveal his hidden stash.

The whole soap opera, with twists and turns I haven't mentioned, is now a movie starring Mathew McConaughey.
TheDane:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Don%27t%20hate%20the%20player%20hate%20the%20game

Another way of saying don't blame me; this is how the system works.
Don't hate the player hate the game ... Or society made me do it, or the system is flawed and I've figured out how to work it, or everyone else is cheating too, or I hope I don't go to prison.
 :palm:  :palm:  :palm:


- some will do anything for money.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-30/darwin-awards-nations
BrianHG:
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Charged with Criminal Fraud

CopperCone:
does her name make anyone else laugh/.
BrianHG:

--- Quote from: CopperCone on June 18, 2018, 11:32:19 pm ---does her name make anyone else laugh/.

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Not quite, but her eyes freak me out.  Sorta like a freaky partial 50% the way to a Japanese drawn animated character with huge wide open round eyes.
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