Last night the Old Girl and I met up with an old friend at a relatively new Auckland eatery - a kind of tapas wine bar that has been very successful and well patronised. Going there on a Monday gives you a chance to get a table. We aren't restaurant groupies, it just so happens that the Old Girl works in a building just next to this excellent eatery. We were enjoying our glasses of wine and the various plates when our friend drew our attention to the guy sitting at the end of the bar. It was he of the hundreds of millions that used to rest in the public coffers and Joe Citizen's pockets. He was also no doubt enjoying the ambience, the great food and the excellent wine list apropos of which he had the most expensive Chardonnay open next to him -$145 a bottle. Look I know that he's got plenty and that a weeks interest on his money is more than I earn in a year but why be so bloody ostentatious? Looking around the room I thought that the money that this joker 'earned' divided by the entire NZ population, would have enabled us all to dine free that evening.
Dave A (61) Says:
... robbed the New Zealand taxpayer blind with his winebox frauds, his use of the Bank of New Zealand as his own piggy bank, New Zealand Rail and many other scandalous activities.
He and .... fled overseas just before the Winebox report came out, thinking they were to be prosecuted for fraud. Yet the only penalty they suffered was having to pay for insider trading with the railways, and that was a decade later.
How anyone could grovellingly call him “Sir” .... is beyond me.
10 comments:
Being a new Kiwi, I don't know who you're talking about.
He does however, sound like a right bastard.
And now he's being all righteous about people buying farms...
The $40 million dollars profit he was likely to make was the main driver
Cunt.
Who? Me? I was innocent I tell you.
I don't even drink milk.
What winebox fraud? Please elucidate.
Were you involved?
I actually liked the wine available in Tesco's wineboxes. A good honest blended Claret. Great gluggable wine. Got you pissed nice and cheap.
It was called the Winebox enquiry because some important documents presented at court were all packed into empty wine cartons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winebox_Inquiry
No, I wasn't involved but at the time I was working for Magnum, one of the companires implicated.
By the way, wine in 'wineboxes' those 2, 3 or 4 litre cardboard 'casks' is crap. The plastic liners breathe oxygen and the wine oxidises very very quickly. To combat this wine companies pump in huge amounts of preservatives which make the wines taste foul and cause allergic reactions in those who suffer from asthma and headaches. Hey! I guess that covers Richard and all of his audiences - although on second thought maybe that doesn't cover that many people after all.
Ah yes we are talkng about the events of 1994-1995.
Bit early for TSB. Google IRD and the Wine Box Inquiryon New Zealand.
Dear Winston Peters blew the whistle on this one I recall.
AS an IT specialitst at the tiem it intrigue dme how they used computers and scanned the documents to use as evidence in court for the first time. Problem was they had to look sidewasy at the docs as they could not be displayed the correct way back then due to technology limitatiosn of the day. It was a crack up wathcing the TV news coverign th trial over many months.
On Thursday night The Old Girl and I were walking past this establishment and said tosser was in there again spending my money.
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