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muriel_volestrangler

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1. For those who don't know, Saunders and 3 others were convicted in 1990

Reply to dkf (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 05:42 PM

May 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Saunders

He went on to fake the symptoms of Alzheimer's, so that his prison sentence was cut short on compassionate grounds. He then claimed to make the world's only recovery from Alzheimer's, and became a business consultant. He's sort of the British equivalent of Michael Milken, but even more shamelessly dishonest.

That Bain & Co. were closely associated with him is a huge moral failing of theirs.

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