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4y ago
Yeah he kinda screwed over an entire publicly traded company. He made millions as a very under qualified CEO on a fake CV. He was a real scum bag to a lot of people well before his fake pro cycling career. He lives in a million dollar house
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4y ago
One thing that helped him was he was perpetrating this last round of frauds in the US and was an Australian citizen. It just makes it a little more difficult for those of us in the US to fact check somethings. He crafted his story with just
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4y ago
Well the lies slowly grew. They didn’t get wide circulation until 2021. By then he had befriended a lot of folks who were blinded by friendship. He took it too far with all the bogus KOMs and the Pez article. People did notice and everyone
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4y ago
Well he was decently fast. And he used the ole “I am old/fat excuse…” but yeah most amateurs haven’t ridden with ex pros so how would we know?
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4y ago
Totally agree. I suppose I was one of the duped. But really I didn’t know much about pro cycling and didn’t understand what he was lying about. But when it started coming out 2 years ago, I found everything online within a few hours. Makes