proof that pickering is a fraud a liar and a criminal
Pickering is commonly known as a cartoonist, but he's also an inveterate liar, a bankrupt conman with a seedy history of fleecing the gullible of millions of dollars while not paying his own bills.
With various failed business ventures and numerous personal relationships of equal standard, for decades he has plied a grubby trade behind sundry stooges and partners, assisted by the odd sharp lawyer and hapless corporate and consumer regulators. He is not a nice man.
Cold-call racket
Hiding behind other people, Pickering ran a high-pressure cold-call racket that promised mug punters computer software that would pick winners on the race track for them. Yes, you would have to be a fool to fall for such a thing, but as shysters like Pickering know, there are actually a lot more than one born every minute.
Pickering used his creativity to refine the fraud, an early adopter of mailing out glossy video presentations of the good life to be had from the magic of computer power applied to hayburners. His first effort featured himself, but he quickly retired from the front line, hiring an actor for the role, a familiar face from a well-loved soap. It became a very big business with glossy offices in a prime Gold Coast site, the home of so many scams.
All of this must seem a long way from the business pages, but Pickering decided he could apply the same formula to the stock market. Substitute picking stocks for picking horses, hire an unfortunate newsreader who thought it was legitimate software, and the scam was taken to market under the name of National Futrax.
Which is where the Channel Nine Business Sunday team I was part of came across the story, exposing the fraud and Pickering. On this occasion, the Pickering plan had done enough to fall beyond the letter of the law and the corporate regulator was able to close National Futrax down for the want of a securities licence.
Reinvention
It was gone, but like other Pickering ventures, managed to be reinvented. Under the public face of Larry Pickering's son, Jamie, the stock trading software idea was tidied up and brought within the letter of the law to the extent of being listed on the ASX as Tomato Technologies. And subsequently failed.
The horse race software racket rolled on though, despite regularly being done over by A Current Affair. Pickering appeared to be running it from very comfortable quarters in Vanuatu for a period, but soon enough was back at his spiritual home on the Gold Coast – which is where The Daily Telegraph and Gold Coast Bulletin caught up with him last year over another horse betting con of which Pickering, as usual, denies all knowledge.
So Pickering can afford to run his blog and subscription campaign, defaming and taunting all he likes – there's no point trying to sue a bankrupt for damages - but in the strange world that is the blogosphere, he has earned his own critics, Kangaroo Court of Australia one example.
The stink of Pickering remains on the hands of those passing his material on.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/larry-pickering--the-conman-stalking-gillard-20120820-24hxi.html#ixzz3IiXxbW9E
Cartoonist Larry Pickering's son on drug charges
The nightclub-baron son of cartoonist Larry Pickering has been charged with supplying cocaine to girls as young as 16.
Jamie Pickering, 49, faced Southport Magistrates Court on Monday charged with five drug-related offences, including two counts of aggravated supply of dangerous drug to a minor aged 16 years or more.
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/cartoonist-larry-pickerings-son-on-drug-charges-20140407-...
Pickering faces new evidence over failed scheme
Cartoonist, bankrupt and failed businessman Larry Pickering has always claimed he had nothing to do with a sports-betting software scheme that fleeced hundreds of investors of millions of dollars.
''I feel sorry for people who lost money, but I had nothing to do with it,'' Mr Pickering told a newspaper two years ago.
But new evidence suggests Mr Pickering was using secret offshore companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and managed in Hong Kong to channel funds generated by the software scheme. The documents were leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which has published stories this year that have rocked the world of private banking.
The 70-year-old Pickering, who has recently devoted himself to writing defamatory blogs about the prime minister, has 11 children to five women and lives in a waterside mansion on the Gold Coast.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/pickering-faces-new-evidence-over-failed-scheme-20130615-2ob7f.htm...
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