I just posted this in the Y and. R forum when speaking about Victor having a cage in his basement:
One of my neighbors had a cage in his basement. He was a DJ and a “photographer”. Turns out he put an ad of Craigs list looking for women to model high end lingerie. The high end lingerie turned out to be cheap crap her bought at a Halloween costume store. He had one young women come over and while he did not " rape" her, he forced her to do some really sick things to him and he recorded it, then locked her in the cage. He let her out and paid her but said he would make the video public if she said anything to anyone. Well, she did report it to the police. There were other victims but they were too scared to testfy. He said he found Jesus, which we have another neighbor who goes around the neighborhood trying to convert people so I wouldnt be surprised if he went along with it. Same weirdo also dj’ed at high schol parties and took upskirt pictures with a camera he had set up on the floor. Anyway… Because he did not “rape” her and because she took money, he was convicted on some charge and served 3 years in jail. Moral of the story: some people really do have cages in their basement.
Another one of many weird things that has happened in my life:
I worked at a very large financial.company that everyone would recognize for 15 years. The department was the. Abandoned Property Unit. In a nutshell, per state laws, if a client does not have contact with the institution for x amount of years (usually 3 years) or does not cash a check for x amount of years, their account or their check must be handed over to the state for safekeeping. The state will return the money to them if they prove it is rightfully theirs. We would attemot to find the client or their heirs. Many times the client died and their heirs had no idea there was money waiting for them. It was really a very rewarding, interesting job that I loved.
I worked under a team leader Scott for 7 years. We got along very well. For the last 2 years that I worked with him he slowly fell.apart and ended going out on mental health leave, took disbility for 2 years and then quit. I and others saw him socially a few times. I would see on Facebook that he bought a nice house, took his family to Disney numerous times, went to the superbowl and other expenses that made me wonder how he afforded it.
Well, turns out he afforded it by embezzeling $3 million from the company. He stole our passwords and made uo fake requisitions to have money sent to his brother in law who he split the money with.
Not only did he steal money but in retrospect he lied to me and others. It was such a betrayal. Thinking of all the times he lied and used us was like a knife in the back. He was invetigated by the FBI fir fraud and money laundering and was sentenced 4 years in jail, which he got out after 3. Was supposed to lose his house, pay retitution and pay back the money he stole. He is still in the house 6 years later. He will never be able to pay back the money. The financial intitution did the right thing and made the cllients/heir whole.
This was the second time in my life that I experienced a con artist. They are good. Thats why the are called cons…they gain your confidence and are artists at what they do!