Author : Chris Moore
Publisher : Gill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Bankrupt, the Conman, the Mafia and the Irish Connection by : Chris Moore
Download or read book The Bankrupt, the Conman, the Mafia and the Irish Connection written by Chris Moore and published by Gill. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Lees was everybody's friend. A successful businessman in the little town of Magherafelt, County Derry, he had charm, good connections and was a winner. Until, that is, it all went wrong. debt, caused by over-ambitious expansion in previous years. Lees was in the hole for #35 million. On top of that, there was a further fraud involving a missing #23 million. Then it emerged that Lees had a second business in Scotland which was an MI6 shadow company. It had collapsed as well. passport, that is. He did not tell them about his Irish passport, with which he flew the coop and went to the United States. There he soon relieved a Texas businessman of $1 million in a scam and ruined the business of one of his father's oldest friends. He returned to Ireland in 1996 and, by the time he was finally arrested, was involved in a maze of criminal activity involving drugs shipments and money laundering for the Mafia. Colin Lees gets out of jail in 2004: the missing #23 million is waiting somewhere for him. Lees was everybody's friend. A successful businessman in the little town of Magherafelt, County Derry, he had charm, good connections and was a winner. Until, that is, it all went wrong. debt, caused by over-ambitious expansion in previous years. Lees was in the hole for #35 million. On top of that, there was a further fraud involving a missing #23 million. Then it emerged that Lees had a second business in Scotland which was an MI6 shadow company. It had collapsed as well. passport, that is. He did not tell them about his Irish passport, with which he flew the coop and went to the United States. There he soon relieved a Texas businessman of $1 million in a scam and ruined the business of one of his father's oldest friends. He returned to Ireland in 1996 and, by the time he was finally arrested, was involved in a maze of criminal activity involving drugs shipments and money laundering for the Mafia. Colin Lees gets out of jail in 2004: the missing #23 million is waiting somewhere for him.