Karma: The Alan Grayson Great Train Robbery

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Long distance phone company?

International Discount Telecom where he was President. It was bought out and I suspect that was his cash-out. Funny thing is according to Wiki he started out professionally as an economist.

Technically, professionally he started out as a janitor and night watchman while he was putting himself through school. I know the purpose of this thread is to crow delightedly over a self-made man's misfortune's (as the Right prefers their men to be to the manor born), but the actual details about the fraud are pretty interesting:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.1542786

As always, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.