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To: TeamTi who wrote (11980)	8/11/2003 5:56:47 PM
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morelaw.com Please E-mail suggested additions, comments and/or corrections to Kent@MoreLaw.Com. Date: 7/14/03 Case Style: Thoedore Roxford d/b/a Vakil v. Ameritech Corporation Case Number: 02-3198 Judge: Unknown Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Plaintiff's Attorney: Unknown Defendant's Attorney: Unknown Description: In the mid-1990’s, Lawrence Niren explained to anyone who would listen how he used a variety of schemes to con businesses out of more than $2 million. In most cases, companies paid Niren a small fee in exchange for information about potential investors or other business opportunities that didn’t really exist. Niren eventually came clean, sending a full confession to various media outlets and turning himself into authorities. He hoped the publicity he generated would help him promote the book he had almost finished—he had even sold an option for the rights to the movie, tentatively titled “Barbarians at the Gate Meet Robin Hood, as Written by Woody Allen.” The only problem with Niren’s confession was that nobody seemed to care enough to hear it. Several of the companies Niren says he swindled thought he had actually completed the work he was paid to do, while others determined it wasn’t worth their time to try to collect the small amounts Niren claimed to have stolen. The Justice Department decided not to pursue a prosecution, leaving Niren strangely willing but unable to get arrested. Forbes magazine, in a featured article entitled “Stop Me Before I Steal Again,” called Niren a fellow “so pathetic his story demands to be told.”1