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Some things don't seem very plausible. Obviously he was successful, but I doubt it was on a scale he tells it. If you're smuggling helicopters from Marseille to
by locallost 6y ago
Some things don't seem very plausible. Obviously he was successful, but I doubt it was on a scale he tells it. If you're smuggling helicopters from Marseille to Chad, you don't deal with 40k insurance scams. I also doubt the claim of 35 million total in insurance fraud. If his scams were in the 40-200k range as mentioned in the article, he would need to deal with hundreds of claims. IMHO he's a medium level Frank Abagnale catch me if you can type con artist, who also likes to exaggerate his success. He's also a bit too open telling his story for everyone to know.
I read the whole thing and also did not appreciate the writing. Mostly it's just cliches and fluff, and superficial in that it didn't really dig deeper other than taking the said things for granted.
- Semaphor 6y agoMy impression was (and TR claimed so as well), that he did those things for fun. he was an adrenaline junkie. It might mostly be lies, and you could be right, but reading this, doing crazy insurance scams just because he could seems 100% in character for the person depicted.
- calvano915 6y agoIt was made clear near the beginning that the details may or may not have been exaggerated or embellished. It was purposefully written as so because that's a part of what's intriguing about the character, that his entire schtick requires believing and/or personifying the exaggerations, and in a way it becomes reality.