" I dont care if your mother needs the money for a operation that can save here life in Vietnam, you told me you were going to send me the money. If you really loved your mother, you would send me the money so that I can make you millions of dollars and you can really take care of her."
-Danny B (formally of ESB) of NSC to a client who had already sent 95k and had not recieved a single game. Oh and by the way the conversation was being recorded by the secret service at the time.
-Danny B (formally of ESB) of NSC to a client who had already sent 95k and had not recieved a single game. Oh and by the way the conversation was being recorded by the secret service at the time.
Journeyman said:
good choice jman. He is as relentless as a cockroach
http://www.state.tn.us/tra/orders/2004/0400188a.pdf
Also from 2000:
The Paradise Casino (Hoss Limited Inc.) who closed shop last December has recently settled with the IRS and have agreed to pay an extraordinary $11.4 million dollars in back taxes, interest and penalties. Hoss Limited partners, Marc Meghrouni, of Balboa, CA., and Scott D. Shaver, of Garden Grove, CA, pled guilty to charges of impairing the work of the Internal Revenue Service and violating the Wire Wager Act. The fine was confirmed by John Edens (a.k.a. Johnny DeMarco) that his business associate, Marc Meghrouni (a.k.a. Jack Price), a “silent partner” of the Paradise, opened up their books to the IRS and agreed to the fine to avoid possible imprisonment said to be a possible 5 to 15 years. Some of the fine will consist of property. U.S. Attorney Audrey Fleissig said Meghrouni and Shaver will forfeit a beachfront condo in Orange County, CA., valued at more than $1 million; an office building in Irvine, CA., worth more than $2 million; and a 1995 Lamborghini Diablo, valued at $250,000. Jack Price was the subject of a series of “scamdicapper” articles in the Los Angeles Times in December of 1997 and Sports Illustrated in 1998.
Feiner/Duffy
This was from that Sports Illustrated article a few years back, I know it has been posted here in other threads, but just to add more to the brother-in-laws angle:
The Source, a sports-adviser service in Farmingdale, NY, owned by Stu Feiner, who also owns a few 900 call-in lines. Exhibit C is Feiner's brother-in-law, the aforementioned Kevin Duffy, perhaps the nation's most prominent adviser, who became famous for running ads that said, "I will go 7-0 for you today, absolutely free." Too bad "absolutely free" meant you first had to sign up for a month's service at $350. Then, if Duffy didn't go 7-0 in the first week, you got the next month free. Duffy, who operates out of Massapequa, Long Island, also claimed to be no worse than 75% right, ever. Yet when his picks were audited by the Sports Monitor of Oklahoma City, one of the rare legitimate monitors (among the dozens of such outfits that purport to keep tabs on the performance of tout services), he never fared better than 58.8% in any regular football season between 1985 and '88, and he sank as low as 39.7% for his college picks in '87. Eventually the Sports Monitor refused to monitor Duffy because of his "deceptive ad practices."
Feiner agreed to be monitored by SI for four weeks in September. To his credit, he unfailingly gave us his choices. To his discredit, Feiner went 19-32, a 37% win rate, and lost us an imaginary $6,210 based on $100 per unit. During that same period, we were anonymously calling Feiner's 800 number, where, curiously, he claimed to be cleaning up.
This was from that Sports Illustrated article a few years back, I know it has been posted here in other threads, but just to add more to the brother-in-laws angle:
The Source, a sports-adviser service in Farmingdale, NY, owned by Stu Feiner, who also owns a few 900 call-in lines. Exhibit C is Feiner's brother-in-law, the aforementioned Kevin Duffy, perhaps the nation's most prominent adviser, who became famous for running ads that said, "I will go 7-0 for you today, absolutely free." Too bad "absolutely free" meant you first had to sign up for a month's service at $350. Then, if Duffy didn't go 7-0 in the first week, you got the next month free. Duffy, who operates out of Massapequa, Long Island, also claimed to be no worse than 75% right, ever. Yet when his picks were audited by the Sports Monitor of Oklahoma City, one of the rare legitimate monitors (among the dozens of such outfits that purport to keep tabs on the performance of tout services), he never fared better than 58.8% in any regular football season between 1985 and '88, and he sank as low as 39.7% for his college picks in '87. Eventually the Sports Monitor refused to monitor Duffy because of his "deceptive ad practices."
Feiner agreed to be monitored by SI for four weeks in September. To his credit, he unfailingly gave us his choices. To his discredit, Feiner went 19-32, a 37% win rate, and lost us an imaginary $6,210 based on $100 per unit. During that same period, we were anonymously calling Feiner's 800 number, where, curiously, he claimed to be cleaning up.
