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Here we go again?; Seems like our MPs never learn!
Topic Started: Nov 2 2012, 03:14 PM (303 Views)
H16 BRM
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According to the story this guy should be locked up.


Link to BBC news story.
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John
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Most MP's now observe the rules but there will always be some idiots that think the rather generous salary is not nough. H has paid all the expenses back and been forced to resign but a nominal custodial term is warrented.
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I looked at the photo of Denis MacShane and considered his age

Younger people first exposed to the candies can be excused for their abuses. But by the time you get to the age of Denis MacShane, there can be no excuse and it speaks to the core of the person.

A relevant story, with first the background.

A true story or rather, should I say to protect myself from litigation for libel, a story.... I made a decision for my company to invest in a Denver based AMEX listed company, even though I wasn't to happy - or rather let me say I didn't feel comfortable, with Mark, the CEO. I liked the chairman who you felt you could work with even though you learned over time to take everything he said with a bag of salt. But the CEO - he rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

The investee company - say G@sco - invited us to go to Vienna and Geneva and London to help in a roadshow to raise more money. They invited Deloitte Touche Tomatsu as well to help put the package together. The bill for DTT was about $100,000 and they tried to stiff my company with the bill.

I somehow felt I could never trust G@sco management.

Personally I found the CEO to be a bit of a selfish pig. Totally stubborn and not apparently capable of quid-pro-quo or being empathetic with anyone. Not flexible.

He was a very religious person. And yet...

In Vienna we were encouraged to visit the Babylon Club. This was a massive underground club and is perhaps the best house of ill repute in the world. What a facility! It was owned by an American with his business partner and wife, a Filipino.

The club had a holding bar where you could meet beautiful women from just about anywhere. It had restaurants, hotel rooms and function rooms.

I have lots of fun stories to tell about how I and two Germans rented the champagne room (say 300 square meters) just by buying bottles of champagne and we had a huge party. They had a cabinet with swords and as luck would have it I know how to cut the top of a champagne bottle with a sword.

Fun was had by all, and some of the guys paid for private time with the girls. Not saying who.

I found out later that the CEO and the Chairman of G@sco - well at least I was told by the accountant - expensed their bills at the Babylon club to their company.

I know lots of people who must entertain in a certain fashion that doesn't always go down well with prudish people. Most of us just suck it up and pay for the costs personally. We would never charge our shareholders or taxpayers with such costs. You learn very quickly that you can only charge companies/taxpayers with legitimate expenses.

These guys expensing such costs - their personal pleasure that had nothing to do with legitimate business - told me they could never be trusted and they crossed the line.

So this Denis MacShane has, at his age, done the same thing. Jail time is not appropriate for the size of the transgression, but he should never be allowed to be a member of government ever again.

Little things confirm the bigger nature of a person. He is a thief whose primary interest is in himself. Further, he lacks judgment.
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