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@kaienphase if the casino had no idea what they were enabling, it's still cheating. they didn't consent to the advantage itself

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@getmoat So the bankruptcy was technically solvent but customers still got crushed because claims froze in dollars, not crypto.

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@0xPoPsik The call center gatekeeping its own board chair's capital is peak institutional dysfunction

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The real "Catch Me If You Can" con man told Johnny Carson he cashed 17,000 bad checks worth $2.5M. He said he conned a person only once. He promised a model $1,000 and handed her a $1,400 check.

Frank Abagnale said he ran away from home at 16.
For the next 5 years, he said, he posed as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, a lawyer and a professor.

Now he's on Carson.
Miami. He's 18. A rented Rolls-Royce, a penthouse at the Fontainebleau, "$500 a day."
At a party at the mayor's home, he meets "a gorgeous model."
He offers $300, then $600, then:
"I'll pay you $1,000 in cash."
At her door, he says he's going down to cash a check.
"I own 35% of this hotel. Never been in it in my life, of course."
She asks him to make it out to her.
"This check is for $1,400. We already agreed on a thousand."
"So she gave me 400 change."
"That's what's known as hooking the hooker."

He says a stewardess recognized him in southern France.
Prison in France. Then Sweden. Then 12 years in the US.
"I escaped 3 times."
Once, he says, as a prison inspector, through the front door.
After about 5 years, he got out to help the government catch fraudsters.

Spielberg made the movie. DiCaprio played him. $350M at the box office.
He spent decades lecturing banks and the FBI on fraud.

In 2020, author Alan Logan claimed records put him mostly in a New York prison during the years he said he was flying the world.

The book's title: "The Greatest Hoax on Earth."

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@lorneseth Prosecutors declined charges, so legally he was never convicted of anything. California support rules look at income gap and marriage length, not fault. The law answers this one, not feelings.

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@0xKyrex Her dad’s first question was about the money, and his second was “fair enough.” Would the same call have gone differently at $60,000 a year?

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@0x_markus In 2024 she was also jailed for 2 months for breaching a restraining order against her ex’s partner. Court cases were always part of the noise. Prison finally became part of it too.

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@softarox And he didn’t hide it. “We’ll help you,” they said. A few months later, his son was in a cell, and he called it scandalous.

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Ireland's richest man turned a £100 loan into $6B. He lost €3B on 1 bank and went bankrupt. His son went to jail for helping him move assets out of reach. Then he went too, in a police van.

In 1973, Seán Quinn was digging gravel on his father's farm.
By 2008, he was No. 1 in Ireland and 164th in the world.

Then he secretly bought up 15% of Anglo Irish Bank. The bank collapsed and came after him for around €2.8B.

His family moved foreign assets out of reach, including an office tower in Moscow.
In July 2012, his son and nephew got 3 months for contempt. The nephew didn't even show up for the sentencing.

Now he's on camera.
How does it feel, going from one of the richest men in the world to bankrupt?
"I feel disappointed."
"I know I've made big mistakes."
On his children:
"They said okay then, if you want that, we'll help you."
"They've done that, and they've finished up in jail."
"Whatever they do to me, they shouldn't be doing it to my wife or my kids."

On November 2, 2012, a judge gave him 9 weeks for "outrageous and serious" contempt.
A police van took him to Mountjoy Prison.

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@RonaldThomso Most of it was through CFDs, a bet on the share price. Anglo had bigger problems than him, but his stake was one of the things it had to cover up.

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@0xKevix For him, €3B was “disappointed.” For his son, it was a cell.

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@lorneseth That’s what the court said too. 3 months for contempt, and the nephew didn’t even show up.

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@StillnessHQ Not one decision. He kept buying more Anglo while the shares kept falling, all the way to 15%.

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@focuzzz_01 And he still called it scandalous. Not the debt, not the bank. That they went first.

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@focuzzz_01 That last line. Divorce with legal bills as the real settlement.

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@aaakr777 Pretty sure an 11 year old locking in a 4% gain during wartime was not a mistake.

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@uuexgk The economics are correct but the premise misses how much people value not depending on someone else's uptime

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@StillnessHQ honestly curious what's actually possible with a senate this narrow. seems less about will and more about math

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@softarox Costas also asked him about the 75% ratings drop that night. McMahon blamed the press, not the product. Eight weeks later NBC pulled out and the league was done.

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@0x_markus Erica Herman tried to get out of her Tiger NDA in 2023 using the new Speak Out Act. Judge sent it to arbitration. She dropped it.