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re: Baton Rouge Scandals
Posted on 1/17/25 at 5:18 am to Bard
Posted on 1/17/25 at 5:18 am to Bard
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Hank Jr's being so fricked up at his concert he couldn't even finish songs.
But that wasn't just in Baton Rouge.. I have an aunt who still holds a grudge against him today and she is in her 60s.. She said all she wanted to do was hear him play Dinosaur and he couldn't cut back off the pills and booze long enough to even do that.
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Posted on 1/17/25 at 5:44 am to 3BlockUber
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I remember my dad saying they pitched him and he said it was so too good to be true, anyone who fell for it was an idiot.
Yeah frick that dude. Without going into detail a family member was able to get my grandma to change her will (long story short, my pops had passed away by then).. Im not getting into it, but right before my grandmother was brought to the living facility, with the help of some sorry shady arse lawyer, after my grandma wouldn't budget on changing her will (they evidently brought her to his office first thing that morning she eventually changed it soon after 5PM that day). Guess what they used the money for?
Yeah if you want to scam idiots just find people who are die hards of any political side, convince them you share the same views as them and that opens a whole new level of trust. Of course it works with religion as well.
Easy targets are people who already know the side they are on, on any issue, without even wanting to hear all of the details. You just redirect that mindset to what you are selling. All you have to do is appear confident. Evidently if you are as good as Allen Stanford all it takes is a one, less than an hour meeting.
Posted on 1/17/25 at 5:56 am to eyeofthetiger2121
Jimmy Swaggart humping a skank in a sleezy hotel on Airline Dr.
Getting caught, crying on TV then doing it again.
" I HAVE SINNED"
:wah: :wah: :wah: :wah:
YouTube Confession: LINK
Getting caught, crying on TV then doing it again.
" I HAVE SINNED"
:wah: :wah: :wah: :wah: YouTube Confession: LINK
This post was edited on 1/17/25 at 5:59 am
Posted on 1/17/25 at 6:06 am to MikeBRLA
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This. He was giving 12% returns on CDs when the legitimate rate was around 3%. Anyone who thought it was a legitimate business was a fool. I know several who lost about $5MM each. It was hard for me not to laugh in their face when they lost it all. AFAIK the claw backs were not successful
The dude in Shreveport who was operating the same time as Stanford was targeting oil and gas operators with eight figure and up net worth. One of the guys he scammed had an MBA from the London School of Economics. Nobody's immune if a scammer finds the right buttons to push.
Posted on 1/17/25 at 6:56 am to Jim Rockford
Sadly, Stanford kept it going for years luring people in with the returns. Word of mouth helped out also. I know folks who were taken to the Bahamas and wined and dined on helicopters and private islands multiple times. Most investors got returns regularly. They were advertising themselves as FDIC insured allegedly which the Gov knew was going on and at the same time untrue (feds later denied coverage in SPIC) and had brick and mortar stores with local people selling the products and vouching for all of this. These people (Stanford account execs) are still around and doing well after all of this. The Feds knew about it several years before hand yet couldn’t build a case against them and let it go on for a few years and allowed many people to lose more money. Then the Feds and courts ruled this was no good because it was technically based partly in the Bahamas, despite having lots of brick and mortar and employees here in the States. MANY doctors, lawyers, plant workers etc… lost a lot, if not all their life savings. The Feds have still refused any SPIC coverage despite covering all the Bernie Madoff investors fully to the extent of SPIC coverage. Other’s commenting about this that say it was “easy to spot” this are woefully ignorant on the subject.
Some investors have gotten bits and pieces of their money back from lawsuits and settlements against all the large banks and institutions that helped peddle this Stanford product either knowingly or w/o doing their own due diligence. Pennies on the dollar at best.
Some investors have gotten bits and pieces of their money back from lawsuits and settlements against all the large banks and institutions that helped peddle this Stanford product either knowingly or w/o doing their own due diligence. Pennies on the dollar at best.
This post was edited on 1/17/25 at 7:05 am
Posted on 1/17/25 at 7:02 am to eyeofthetiger2121
Pat Screen should've been but it was kept quiet
Posted on 1/17/25 at 7:07 am to zippyputt
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Other’s commenting about this that say it was “easy to spot” this are woefully ignorant on the subject.
It was easy to spot. I had several conversations with Stanford “investors” where they were bragging about how great it was. The whole time I was thinking to myself….”if something sounds too good to be true it usually is”. Their greed blinded them. That’s why I really don’t feel sorry for them.
Posted on 1/17/25 at 7:25 am to zippyputt
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Some investors have gotten bits and pieces of their money back from lawsuits and settlements against all the large banks and institutions that helped peddle this Stanford product either knowingly or w/o doing their own due diligence. Pennies on the dollar at best.
Friend of mine supplied most of the chairs, desks and safes for the business. She was out $2M when all was said and done. Word on the skreetz was that although Stanford would take forever and a day to pay you, it was worth the wait for the profit they made.
She supplied 4 very expensive safes and shipped them to Aruba
Posted on 1/17/25 at 7:39 am to eyeofthetiger2121
Jimmy Swaggart. Easily the winner. A global wide scandal.
Posted on 1/17/25 at 8:01 am to OweO
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That was pretty crazy and I kind of forgot the whole situation, but I know a family who had ties to him by relation or through something and I just being something random that I found out about once it all went down and it was just kind of out of the blue that there was a connection with those folks and him.
What a rambling say nothing run on sentence. Typical Oweo
Posted on 1/17/25 at 8:16 am to fallguy_1978
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Son's of Silence (Sugar's Caberet)
Home of 15 beautiful women, and 3 ugly ones
Spent many nights in there after striking out at the Texas Club
Posted on 1/17/25 at 8:22 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Roger. I wonder what ever became of his wife, Diane Deaton. I guess she finally retired from WAFB
She's still around Baton Rouge and is a customer of mine.
Posted on 1/17/25 at 8:26 am to REB BEER
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Striking out at Texas Club
That’s hard to do unless you have super high standards.
Posted on 1/17/25 at 8:34 am to Pizza Dan
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Striking out at Texas Club
That’s hard to do unless you have super high standards.
Definitely wasn't a Wednesday night
Posted on 1/17/25 at 8:45 am to Btrtigerfan
I don't recall the Son's of Silence / Sugars scandal. What were the details?
Posted on 1/17/25 at 8:58 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
my mom worked for doug doing accounting and i didnt ever hear anything about cocaine. maybe it became that after she left
Posted on 1/17/25 at 9:35 am to alterego55
How about will Hayden and the sons of guns candle? Finally had a tv show out of baton rouge on the national level and finding out things happened in his life.
Posted on 1/17/25 at 9:39 am to Btrtigerfan
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Son's of Silence (Sugar's Caberet)
I've never heard about this - care to elaborate?
Posted on 1/17/25 at 9:43 am to MikeBRLA
Again, woefully ignorant of what went on and the level of deception.
Posted on 1/17/25 at 10:04 am to Jimbeaux
it was called Vincent's Restaurant.
Offspring from the one located in NOLA.
Offspring from the one located in NOLA.
This post was edited on 1/17/25 at 10:06 am
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