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Long but worth at least skimming. Full of little tidbits adding up to a damning indiction of London's welcoming embrace of wealthy criminals. > Riverwalk was b
by sparsely 3y ago
Long but worth at least skimming. Full of little tidbits adding up to a damning indiction of London's welcoming embrace of wealthy criminals.
> Riverwalk was built by the London property impresario Sir Gerald Ronson, who was convicted in 1990 on charges of conspiracy, false accounting, and theft in connection with a stock-fraud case; he did a stint in prison, and then in 2012 was made a Commander of the British Empire for his philanthropic work.
- ehto 3y agoAs a Londoner this was the aspect of the piece I found most hideous. The whole city runs on a quiet attitude of 'money above all' that makes living here as someone on the outside of this world frustrating
- twic 3y agoI think it's fair to say that Ronson is mostly not a criminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ronson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ronson He's more "swashbuckling businessman who was a bit too swashbuckling" than "career criminal". Rather different to the post-Soviet oligarchs, at least.
- dmix 3y agoMusic producer Mark Ronsons uncle too.
- Terr_ 3y agoPerhaps not "old money" looking at those dates, but I'm still reminded of: > They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of. -- Making Money by Terry Pratchett