Gio Di Stefano has Got his Rangers Share

[chilledbear 16]

Never discount anything in this Saga.

[CumbernauldGers 0]

Never discount anything in this Saga.

 

Normally i would agree mate but not with this guy.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

he's very much on the fringes of what's possible. but I agree just about anyyhings possible.

 

if someone said last year whyte had fraudulently borrowed money to buy us almost everyone would have laughed.

[Guest Gregor Stevens Fan Club]

he's very much on the fringes of what's possible. but I agree just about anyyhings possible.

 

if someone said last year whyte had fraudulently borrowed money to buy us almost everyone would have laughed.

 

forlanssister did over on RM - nobody laughed, he got ripped to shreds.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

I know I saw it. I can't say I believed him but I didn't join in the ripping to shreds at least.

 

it also wasn't quite whate he said. his post was about close leasing IIRC

[forlanssister 3,059]

forlanssister did over on RM - nobody laughed, he got ripped to shreds.

 

Things are improving though, it took a whole 11 posts the other day before someone called me the "T" word for pointing out MHG had appointed Allenby Capital as it's NOMAD.

 

It's always quite amusing looking back through the old threads on RM and seeing how many of those uber fans were genuflecting Whyte.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

after we went into admin and it became clear whyte was a cunt. rm was hilarious. you actually took pelters for weeks for daring to criticise whyte.

[craig 5,199]

Please lets all refrain from aspersions towards other sites, regardless of affiliations.

 

Thanks

[forlanssister 3,059]

Di Stefano 'false lawyer' claims

 

 

A FORMER Dundee Football Club director has appeared in court charged with falsely claiming to be a qualified Italian lawyer.

 

Giovanni di Stefano, 57, a lawyer who has represented a series of notorious crooks including Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and serial killer Harold Shipman, appeared at City of London Magistrates' Court accused of four counts of fraud by false representation, four counts of fraud by abuse of position, and two counts of using a false instrument with intent it be accepted as genuine.

 

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/crime-courts/di-stefano-false-lawyer-claims.18421146

[Steve1872 4]

THE TRUTH “THE SCOTSMAN”RESPONSIBLE FOR AIDING AND ABBETING CRAIG WHYTE IN PLUNDERING RANGERS FC

10 August 2012:

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http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-827222

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Just days before Rangers Football Club PLC sought the protection of Administration the Scotsman newspaper proclaimed on its back pages:

Craig Whyte reveals £25m ‘personal commitment’ to Rangers

The paper went on to revel in the statements made by Whyte with quotes such as:

““There is no risk to Rangers fans whatsoever. I want to tell the fans that the money they put into Rangers stays in Rangers.

“I can reassure the fans that any money we get in is used to run the club and nothing else.

“I have a personal commitment of £25 million in Rangers and I have never taken a penny out of the club.”

Giving credence to the statements made by Whyte the newspaper, established in 1817 whose circulation has dropped from 100,000 to less than 20,000 because of inaccurate and exaggerated reporting often in return for ‘favours to the authorities,’ stated to the supporters

“Whyte stressed he was the secured creditor of Rangers and not Octopus, the parent firm of Ticketus.”

The history of the paper is as controversial as its demise. Founded by a lawyer and a Customs Official in response to the "unblushing subservience" of competing newspapers to the Edinburgh establishment the paper was pledged to "impartiality, firmness and independence".

In 1995 reclusive millionaires David and Frederick Barclay acquired the paper for an astonishing inflated price of £85 million but when they realised that the paper had become a “puppet for the political figures of the time” and “having disregard to the editorial concept of its founders William Ritchie and Charles Maclaren they offloaded the paper to the Johnston Press ten years later making an “acceptable profit.”

On the 22nd October 2011 after the BBC had broadcast the documentary on the clear wrongdoing and fraud at the club the Scotsman proclaimed

"Craig Whyte vows to sack anyone at Rangers who talks to BBC"

In an article heavily defending Craig Whyte the paper wrote that Whyte was

"incensed by what he calls an “institutionalised bias” against his club within the walls of Pacific Quay, Whyte re-iterates his intention to sue the broadcaster, adding: “Maybe the BBC are going to be paying the [HMRC] tax bill.”

It was this kind of support for Craig Whyte that allowed him the space he needed and was not “curtailed by the authorities long before St Valentine’s Day 2012.

A detective from the police currently investigating Whyte on the instructions of the Crown Office who requested not to be named said “With papers like the Scotsman supporting Whyte after the BBC expose there was a faction of the police and HMRC Special Investigation officers that wanted to move in on Whyte but we did not want to see headlines in the paper blaming us for potentially closing down the Club.”

There is no doubt that the debacle at Rangers was caused primarily by the support Whyte received from The Scotsman and in April 2012 financially pressed owners Johnston Press sacked John McLellan who was the paper's Editor-in-Chief replacing him with Ian Stewart who assumed the role in June 2012 after he had sought assurances from Johnston Press that he was not “bound by the policies of the past regime.”

There is little doubt that The Scotsman has been responsible for the support Craig Whyte received and the hesitation in the Prosecuting Authorities investigating Whyte at a time when it could easily have avoided Administration.

It is difficult to believe that when as far back as October 2011 the Insolvency Service spokesman Robert Burns was sounding warning bells over the activities of Craig Whyte it was the Scotsman itself that carried the Whyte banner printing his statement with prominence

“On the basis of what I’ve heard the Insolvency Service said last night I’m looking into the possibility of suing them personally. For what he [burns] said, he deserves to be sued personally. Because it’s a lie.”

But then it should be no real wonder because a number of journalists at The Scotsman were, as a source said, “under the influence and direct pay of Craig Whyte receiving substantive benefits for positive stories and what seemed endless excuses.”

There is no evidence currently at hand that sacked editor John McLellan was a direct party to accepting favours and “fringe benefits” from Craig Whyte but his dismissal a source at Johnston Press close to the much respected CEO Ashley Highfield said “the editor turned a blind eye to the standards in reporting.”

It was the support for Craig Whyte from The Scotsman and the clearly misleading articles written by the paper that permitted Craig Whyte to operate Rangers Football Club PLC when at the highest level the paper knew full well the real truth.

The Scotsman even defended Whyte when he was accused of misleading the Court of Session in September 2011 when yet more warning bells were ringing but muffled by the support of the paper.

The Scotsman printed an interview with Craig Whyte written by Tom English allowing Whyte to rubbish claims of financial troubles at the club. In one exchange the paper supported Whyte’s excuses as to non-payment of a £35,000 bill the respected law firm Levy & McRae, sued Rangers for payment of a £35,000 bill for representing the club in UEFA disciplinary hearings. The Scotsman wrote

“Tom English – You seem to be constantly fighting people. The tax man, Bain, McIntyre, the BBC, various solicitors firms, all sorts of people. Levy & McRae took action over an unpaid bill of £35,000. Why is there so much hassle?

Craig Whyte – Levy & McRae acted for Rangers previously and under Law Society rules they shouldn’t be acting against their client so when they represented Bain we complained about them to the Law Society and to be fair we were a bit bloody-minded when we said we weren’t going to pay them because they started acting for Bain against us. That was the reason we didn’t pay them. They took us to court and with hindsight it would have been easier just to pay them.”

It is of course correct that other Scottish papers published misleading stories about Craig Whyte but only The Scotsman operated a policy of openly supporting the regime of Craig Whyte at Rangers in order that he would feed them stories and hopefully enhance the circulation of the paper.

The Editor paid with dismissal, the Scotsman has seen its sales dwindle and its credibility reduced to junk, Craig Whyte under investigation by a multi-national prosecuting team, and Rangers Football Club PLC still in Administration facing an uphill fight by only a few who seek the truth about the involvement of the Scotsman in the club problems.

A source for Strathclyde Police stated that the role played by The Scotsman and other papers in the takeover and “after acquisition” would be subject to review as would “any evidence of benefits paid to The Scotsman” for media support.