On Sat, 25 May 2013 00:19:44 -0500, AlleyCat <
al...@aohell.com> wrote:
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>On Fri, 24 May 2013 22:46:58 -0600,RichTravsky says...
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>> This Issa?
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http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/martin-bashir-reminds-viewers-darrell-issas
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>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA 39 year old pranks... next!
Burning down a factory to try to defraud an insurance company of
almost half a million dollars is simply a "prank" in your eyes?
When Issa ran for the Senate in 1998, he rewrote his past:
"He had been a soldier, and he claimed that he was part of an elite
bomb detecting unit that guarded President Nixon at the 1971 World
Series," said Williams.
Williams called up the Nixon Presidential Library, and was told that
Nixon hadn't gone to any World Series games that year. Then Williams
looked into Issa's purportedly stellar career in the Army.
"The biography that he was providing the press in the context of his
campaign was all wrong. He had a bad conduct rating. He was demoted,
and a fellow soldier accused him of stealing his car," said Williams.
But probably the most suspicious and most uninvestigated event in
Issa's checkered past is the mysterious 1982 fire at his factory at a
time where he was buying out the owner of Steal Stopper, the
predecessor to Issa's car alarm company. Issa quadrupled his insurance
coverage and then boom! The place burned down. Lizza:
Joey Adkins, the former owner of Steal Stopper, provided the main
evidence against Issa. On the afternoon of September 20, 1982, in a
lengthy recorded interview with an insurance investigator, he
described a series of suspicious actions by Issa before the fire.
Adkins, who still worked for Steal Stopper, said that Issa removed the
company’s Apple II computer from the building, including “all
hardware, all software, all the instruction books,” and also “the
discs for accounts payable, accounts receivable, customer list,
everything.” According to Adkins, Issa also transferred a copy of
every design used by Steal Stopper from a filing cabinet to a
fireproof box. He also said that Issa put in the box some important
silk screens used in the production of circuit boards. Insurance
officials noted that, less than three weeks before the fire, Issa had
increased his insurance from a hundred thousand dollars to four
hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars. “Quite frankly,” Adkins told
the investigator, “I feel the man set the fire.”
So did the insurance company. They finally settled out of court for
about $20,000, which was a fraction of what Issa had sued them for.
Not mentioned in the Bashir discussion but equally interesting is this
small nugget:
The insurance company, meanwhile, had found something peculiar about
Issa, unrelated to the arson: there was no indication of where his
initial capital came from. After interviewing a family member, an
investigator reported, “She was unable to advise us as to his
financial banking [sic] to become an officer in Quantum Inc.” A second
report noted, “We were unable to find the source of his financing for
the business ventures he is engaged in at the present time.”
This is the guy holding himself out as the crusader for What is Right
and Just. Or as Bashir called him, a "paragon of virtue.