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To: SiouxPal who wrote (86790)	5/20/2004 3:55:05 PM
From: SalemsHex	Respond to of 122087

Hey cool! You just put up driving directions to Robert Welch's body double.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (86790)	5/21/2004 7:56:58 PM
From: M0NEYMADE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Heya Sioux! "Man Pleads Guilty in Google Stock Swindle" nytimes.com. May 18, 2004 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Dutch man pleaded guilty yesterday to promising wealthy New Yorkers an inside track to stock in Google and blazing through $350,000 of their money in a three-month spree of five-star hotels, expensive restaurants and Atlantic City gambling. The plea was entered by Shamoon Rafiq, who told would-be investors late last year that he was a venture capitalist and a college friend of the founders of Google, prosecutors said. Mr. Rafiq dangled the lure of preferred stock available to founders' friends and families for $12 a share. At least five investors, including a lawyer for a European telecommunications company, an investment banker, a senior brokerage executive and the chairman of a global telecommunications firm wired $500,000 into Mr. Rafiq's bank accounts. The scheme unraveled when the investment banker grew suspicious and started demanding his money back. The F.B.I. arrested Mr. Rafiq outside his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in March, hours before he was to fly home to the Netherlands. The authorities said Mr. Rafiq had been spending his victims' money almost as fast as it came in, handing $100 tips to workers at restaurants like Nobu London and Pastis and hotels like the Four Seasons. Mr. Rafiq could be sentenced to more than five years in prison under the terms of his agreement with prosecutors, two years less than he might have faced if he lost at trial."