A huge Wine scam in Sausalito CA

[samintx]

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How do people think up these things?

Sorry, didn't realize this would require bandwidth :banghead:

[DP]

This is what I get:

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[samintx]

DP wrote:
This is what I get:

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sorry...I made a boo boo

the scam: a man offered to "store" wine for people and did store some very expensive wine for individuals AND wineries. He then sold the wine at auction and lived off the money. Eventually his crimes caught up with him. He torched the warehouse and destroyed millions of dollars of wine...ended up in jail. Many wineries lost all their retail wine for about 2 yrs.

[malfunction]

Are you referring to this story?

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Vall...112595.php

This is a pretty old story - arson in 2005.

[samintx]

Yes, but it was just on the tellie, American Greed last night.

[hal]

malfunction wrote:
Are you referring to this story?

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Vall...112595.php

This is a pretty old story - arson in 2005.

I thought this sounded familiar...