Tom McMurrain is back with the most bizarre scam ever
Remember Tom McMurrain? No? Oh, man, we wouldn't know where to start. Noni and teak scams. Imaginary tree houses with elevators for the disabled. An independent country that ...
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Monte Friesner’s lawyer José Luis García spent four years in jail
No clients, a sailing school without boats, and Friesner's lawyer spent four years in jail for a fraud case...
Things are not going well for Canadian scammer Monte Friesner ...
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Legislator José Blandón’s law firm protects scammer Monte Friesner
"As you can imagine, Panama’s national bank, through a politically connected law firm, in cahoots with an international money launderer and swindler facilitating a debit card scheme founded ...
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Wild Bill – it’s a right wing thing
With the case of serial killer William Dathan Holbert unfolding (the latest gory tidbit was how he collected the golden teeth of his victims, apparently extracting them while ...
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MasterCard® investigates Monte Friesner’s Pronto Cash debit card scheme
Bananama Republic has learned that MasterCard's fraud department is investigating Pronto Cash, a debit card scheme in Panama that is run by Canadian fraud artist Monte Friesner. Pronto ...
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Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser joins Panama jihad on journalism
Patrick Visser of Silva Tree has filed a criminal defamation complaint against us for an article based on an earlier publication in the Christian Science Monitor and the ...
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Bananama Republic “frozen” by FCC?
Don Winner, the publisher of scam promotion website Panama Guide, published a jubilating story to the effect that your Bananama Republic had been "frozen" as a result of ...
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Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser sends the legal bullies
Mail today, from Michigan. Lawyer John Di Giacomo of Traverse Legal writes us and the legal department of GoDaddy, our hosting service, on behalf of Patrick Visser, who ...
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Co-author of Uruguay dictatorship crimes in XIV Premio Nacional de Periodismo jury
Today La Estrella ran a full page ad on page 12A presenting the jury for the 14th National Journalism Awards. And to our big surprise, on top of ...
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Silva Tree’s Patrick Visser joins list of hustlers trying to sue us
Patrick Visser, the head of Silva Tree Panama, just wrote us an email (in Dutch, translation to follow) announcing that his lawyers will start legal procedures to have ...
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One flew over the Friesner nest – Facts behind the fiction
Yeah, it's a bit difficult to keep track of all the shit flying around Monte Friesner's head these days. We know. But hold on: The facts of the ...
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Panama is open for business (3): Silva Tree reforestation scam
And we have another great example of how just about any foreign swindler can set up shop in Panama: The Christian Science Monitor reports today how a company ...
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Right wingnut website suggests Panama closes Canal to France
Panama's leading scam promotion website published an article today stolen from La Critica, about Panamanian efforts to get stricken off the French blacklist of tax havens. This affects ...
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H.A. Engineering INC. kills cab driver and calls it an “accident”
For a full day the media in Panama published each and every detail they could come up with about the cab driver who got killed by a slab ...
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Stanford Panama deposited money in crooked Iceland bank
Stanford Bank Panama is being sold by the SEC, reports the Latin American Herald Tribune:
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that approximately $14.2 million has been secured ...
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