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07hogada t1_iwgshhy wrote
Reply to comment by kwjyibo in TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted. by jamescookenotthatone
From the wiki:
>The fraud began to unravel rapidly on March 19, 1997, when Filipino Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman reportedly committed suicide by jumping from a helicopter in Indonesia. A body was found four days later in the jungle, missing the hands and feet, "surgically removed".
That's as much a suicide as a russian falling from a window, onto two bullets in the back of the head.
07hogada t1_j11nhy2 wrote
Reply to comment by bamaxfer in Brooklyn pastor who was robbed while preaching charged with wire fraud and lying to FBI in unrelated case by Octavus
As someone who is not familiar with all of these, are they all similar to the US megachurches, where money/stuff gets funneled into one or a small group of preachers, or are they just places of worship with a large capacity? I'm guessing the former, but hoping the latter.