[pcfunder]

Is it just me... or is everyone they lent money to, "connected" in some way to fraud. Looks to me, like the scam was: 1. Raise money from investors using fake default numbers. 2. Funnel a huge portion of the money to "shell corporations" that they probably had a hand in (which ultimately don't pay). 3. Water it down by funding almost anything that comes in the door (thousands of customers and only 10 held 228M in outstanding receivables).

It looks like it had many moving parts (fraud within fraud)...

Some of these guys have serious talent when it comes to critical thinking. Imagine if they used it for good.

I've said it many times... this is a movie.

That doesn't really seem too talented to me. They had connections and knew how to swindle people with lies. How hard is that?

[Steven_O]

That doesn't really seem too talented to me. They had connections and knew how to swindle people with lies. How hard is that?

Sorry... talent shouldve been replaced with Cojones.

[pcfunder]

Sorry... talent shouldve been replaced with Cojones.

Even still? It takes more cojones to not give into temptation and to build a business up the right way. Maybe he has a small package of "cojones" and wanted to over compensate as fast as possible with as little effort as possible. That seems like a more realistic scenario.

[Steven_O]

It takes more cojones to not give into temptation and to build a business up the right way.

You're stating the obvious...

The point is, what they are accused of doing - is the kind of stuff that movies are made from.