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Re: Interesting artilce about BVI Finances
[Re: YachtReprise]
#199285
07/05/2019 10:13 AM
07/05/2019 10:13 AM
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Tortolian
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Back in the day Romney was the agent for our BVI Company, and Shaun was his rep. We had dinner with Shaun and his wife at their home and had a wonderful evening. We laughed about the room full of cigars that Shaun had in his home - the result of repossessing a startup BVI cigar company that failed. It all seemed very innocent.
Shaun seemed to be a sweet, gentle man. After it all went down a short time later it seemed incongruous with the guy we came to know.
It was great to be young and stupid! Do you remember the safe from the Romney office mysteriously 'being stolen' when it all went down? Any idea what happened to the Murphys? I know they went into witness protection (although someone in the BVI claimed to have heard from Shaun later on). Jenny was so nice I wonder if she knew what was going on? Strange times.
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Re: Interesting artilce about BVI Finances
[Re: Tortolian]
#199758
07/10/2019 07:59 PM
07/10/2019 07:59 PM
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Joined: May 2011
Posts: 463 Chicago
YachtReprise
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Back in the day Romney was the agent for our BVI Company, and Shaun was his rep. We had dinner with Shaun and his wife at their home and had a wonderful evening. We laughed about the room full of cigars that Shaun had in his home - the result of repossessing a startup BVI cigar company that failed. It all seemed very innocent.
Shaun seemed to be a sweet, gentle man. After it all went down a short time later it seemed incongruous with the guy we came to know.
It was great to be young and stupid! Do you remember the safe from the Romney office mysteriously 'being stolen' when it all went down? Any idea what happened to the Murphys? I know they went into witness protection (although someone in the BVI claimed to have heard from Shaun later on). Jenny was so nice I wonder if she knew what was going on? Strange times. Ha!Yes! I almost forgot about that! The last I heard they were running a B&B in Portugal, but that was a long time ago.
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Re: Interesting artilce about BVI Finances
[Re: tpcook]
#199836
07/12/2019 04:07 PM
07/12/2019 04:07 PM
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Posts: 10,999 Macon, Georgia
GlennA
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Never slowed down "Mr. 10%". I will never understand why someone who was so good at raiding the cookie jar is still so honored. The BVI is still paying for the Global Water Paraquita Bay sewer plant fiasco. Romney got caught at MIA trying to leave for home with $1 million in undeclared cash in his luggage, his fee for that deal, and it never made the local papers.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Interesting artilce about BVI Finances
[Re: GlennA]
#199838
07/12/2019 04:17 PM
07/12/2019 04:17 PM
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sail445
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Never slowed down "Mr. 10%". I will never understand why someone who was so good at raiding the cookie jar is still so honored. The BVI is still paying for the Global Water Paraquita Bay sewer plant fiasco. Romney got caught at MIA trying to leave for home with $1 million in undeclared cash in his luggage, his fee for that deal, and it never made the local papers. Since this has turned into a political thread I’ll give a similar incident with the Mayor of Atlanta caught on camera doing smoking Crack and accepting monies for some under handed deal where he was arrested and the people voted him in again as Mayor.
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Re: Interesting artilce about BVI Finances
[Re: GlennA]
#199862
07/12/2019 11:33 PM
07/12/2019 11:33 PM
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YachtReprise
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Never slowed down "Mr. 10%". I will never understand why someone who was so good at raiding the cookie jar is still so honored. The BVI is still paying for the Global Water Paraquita Bay sewer plant fiasco. Romney got caught at MIA trying to leave for home with $1 million in undeclared cash in his luggage, his fee for that deal, and it never made the local papers. We were at EIS around that time when a private jet was being loaded with what appeared to be canvas bags of cash, stacked on a pallet. There were about 8 or so armed guards, facing in all directions on the tarmac. Air traffic was stopped until the transfer was completed. Dunno if it had anything to do with anything, but it was really unusual! I think that 10% Cyril was revered for his cunning - even though it was ethically questionable. Most people wished that they could be him!
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