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Con artist fires his memory of $134 million smackeroonies
Posted by Fired Fred on April 9, 2007 5:01 PM
Oh sure, he's listed as an economics professor at Charleston Southern. It looks more like Al Parish was the living breathing version of the southern fried con man Tom Hanks played in "The Ladykillers." Professor G.H. Dorr, IMDB says, was the Hanks role, but the casting director missed out on a real life version in Scamming Al.
The SEC, by which I mean the Feds and not the football conference, thinks that Smiling Al pulled off quite a trick, by making $134 million disappear. A few million of that came from Stealing Al's employer, Charleston Southern.
Slick Al isn't talking, either...
As SEC investigators attempted to question Parish, he claimed to be suffering from amnesia and checked himself into a hospital, so he has not commented on the mess, leaving investors and investigators very much in the dark.This is right up there in Mike Tyson country. He blew through about three times what Smooth Al did. I know sometimes I forget how I started the day with six bucks and ended it with 85 cents and a bottle cap, but how do you forget $134 million?
The SEC complaint added that “without disclosure to the investors, virtually all of the assets of the funds have been dissipated.�
Unless you're just dumping that cash like Monopoly money into Vegas or someplace like that, you have to have something to remind you of where the cash went, like maybe a mansion or a few ex-wives or something. Maybe a whole bunch of Carl Jr wrappers in the backseat of the car.
Al's not employed by the college any longer. They aren't using the word 'fired' about his lack of employment status, but that's probably because they'd like to use the phrase 'missing corpse' instead.