Milamber

iTrader: (2)

Died over the weekend still wanted by uk police.

ArtistFKAN

Good man, shame he didn't get away with all the criminal stuff really. Have to respect anyone who rips off the government.

Brendan Hughes

...to the tune of how much UK taxpayers' money???

Mustapha Camel

You w4nker!
Why pay homage to a coke dealing crook who ripped off the British tax payer?

ArtistFKAN

Sounds like the kind of career path I'd like to have followed in another life.

Mustapha Camel

It's never too late for a career change
Try and have better luck than JDL though

ArtistFKAN

I've found a way to live the good life that doesn't involve getting locked up or the threat of it. Would be more glamorous to do the DeLorean way though.........

Milamber

iTrader: (2)

Apparently he was trying to sell £12.5million pounds worth of coke in order to save the ailing factory. He was acquitted of this IIRC.

Brendan Hughes

I remember Mad Magazine's spoof of Back to the Future and the comment about using a DeLorean as the time machine; the prof explained to Marty "I thought it was most appropriate seeing as he did time for building it!"

brickboy

He did cook up the Pontiac GTO, however .... the original "muscle car".

David Lock

Didn't he look a bit like Kilroy-Silk?

pslewis

He was the man that represents the Tory party almost perfectly - me, me, me, me and sod the rest!

Maggie would have been really proud of him had he been a decade later!

Pete

Mustapha Camel

More sound policies from the tories then! Who really gives a toss about the man next to you?

thecirsch

Hard to believe I shook his hand.

The year the De Lorean was released he did a personal appearance at Earls Court. I went along, he was giving out flyers for the car, I took one and shook his hand.

I've still got the flyer somewhere, although no idea where I carefully stored it

pslewis

Remember he was a Tory - did you count your fingers afterwards??

Pete

thecirsch

Nah, but I wiped my nose with the same hand a few minutes later. I felt good for a week

johnfelstead

Funny that Pete, as it was Labour who gave him the money to start the factory in Belfast, it was Labour who were negligent in ensuring the project was viable, the Southern Ireland Government had already rejected the deal because they could see it was a waste of time and money.

Then we had years of the conservatives trying to get some money back via the courts for false acounting practices by Andersen's for DeLorean, which was written off by the New Labour Government as soon as they got back into power.

Funny old world isnt it.

http://www.accountancyage.com/news/42871

pslewis

Not disputing that John - the point I was making was that he was Tory through and through.

Stuff the rest I'm alright Jack Tory!!

Pete

johnfelstead

I thought he was an American.

Isnt that the mantra of Labour these days? Oh sorry, thats stuff someone elses wife, I'm alright Jack.

pslewis

The gent involved wasn't betraying ANYONE, nowt wrong with that - what the woman wants the woman gets As I have always believed!

If it was a Tory, he would have been caught with an orange in his mouth, head tied in a binbag and some whipping on his **** from his boyfriend from ETON!!

Pete

carl

I believe that Colin Chapman was also involved in a scam involving John DeLorean. But he died before the govt realized so was never prosecuted for his part, either.

CrisPDuk

I think you'll find that the coke dealing part of your statement can be classed as slander.
IIRC He was target for an FBI/DEA sting operation purely because it was widely known that he was looking for a large amount of finance to prop up DMC, they thought they could get him to agree to smuggle cocaine because at that point he really was desperate. Not only was he eventually acquitted of all charges, the judge in the case recommended that charges be brought against the government agencies responsible for the operation.


Pete, you really are a blinkered w4nker aren't you, just out of interest have you any idea who first brought the accounting irregularities at DMC to the attention of the Commons?

CrisPDuk

To save you the bother of looking it up, it was one Nicholas Winterton, MP for Macclesfield. And yes, he is Conservative

Mustapha Camel

So he can sue me then!

judgejules

pslewis on google.com...

Your search - I need info for scoobynet to carry on a conversation as if I know what I'm talking about - did not match any documents



Jules

mart360

MY wife remarked the other day, that they still have some delorean parts in there warehouse that will never be shipped!!!



Hmm for sale 1 scoob NEW car forces sale lol



Mart

CrisPDuk

gsm1

No need to insult the dead.

David Lock

Markus

OK, so maybe slapped wrists for JDL, however, the car, well, how many of us have wanted one, due to the Back To The Future films? I know I've hankered for one, ok, they are not that reliable and the (volvo? - why do I think it was a V6 volvo engine?) engine is a bit lacking in power, but oh, the look of the thing