22-03-2012, 06:09 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Some more back ground information of the 'lone nut'
Quote:Afghan Murder Suspect Bales 'Took My Life Savings,' Says Retiree
By BRIAN ROSS and MEGAN CHUCHMACH | ABC News 11 hrs ago
Robert Bales, the staff sergeant accused of massacring Afghan civilians, enlisted in the U.S. Army at the same time he was trying to avoid answering allegations he defrauded an elderly Ohio couple of their life savings in a stock fraud, according to federal documentsreviewed by ABC News.
"He robbed me of my life savings," Gary Liebschner of Carroll, Ohio told ABC News.
Financial regulators found that Bales "engaged in fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, churning, unauthorized trading and unsuitable investments," according to a report on Bales filed in 2003. Bales and his associates were ordered to pay Liebschner $1,274,000 in compensatory and punitive damages but have yet to do so, according to Liebschner.
"We didn't know where he was," Liebschner told ABC News. "We heard the Bahamas, and all kinds of places."
Liebschner says he recognized Bales after news reports named him as the American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a shooting rampage.
Liebschner filed a complaint against Bales in May 2000, claiming Bales took his life savings of $852,000 in AT&T stock and through a series of trades reduced its value to nothing.
The Ohio retiree recalled Bales as a "smooth talker." Asked if he regarded Bales as a con man, Liebschner said, "You've hit the nail on the head."
At the time, Bales worked for an Ohio brokerage firm, MPI.
According to federal documents, Bales failed to appear at an arbitration hearing to resolve Liebschner's complaint.
http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-murder-susp...-news.html
He certainly seems to be the ALL-American-Boy!...with memory loss...16 killings? what killings? I was out for a walk...all I remember.
Quote:In a statement, Bales's wife, Karilyn, offered her condolences to the victims, and said she was still struggling to come to terms with what happened. Reports of the shootings that she had read and seen in news reports were "completely out of character of the man I know and admire," she said. "My family are all profoundly sad. We extend our condolences to all the people of the Panjawai District. Our hearts go out to all of them."Wow, She sure is the emotional type - full of compassion and remorse too. NOT! What a tepid and wet sqwib response.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass