A $15M novella paid for by me and you

Thanks to John Barber's Saturday column in the globe for this link. Now his column (and the other Globe worthies) are now out of circulation, I'll quote some of the highlights:

This "executive summary" of the whole MFP scam cost more
than $2M to produce. It is... a blazing indictment with every loose detail
obtained over years of evasive testimony nailed tight into place, every
ridiculous alibi demolished by rifle shots of hard facts and and the clear,
obvious truth about a complicated scam set out in the brightest light (like the
denouement of a good detective novel, only true).

And Mr. Barber is good enough to highlight the damning indictment of the two best known individuals in the whole sad story, ex-hairdresser-turned-IT salesman (and also Tie Domi's brother) Dash Domi and former City of Toronto Treasurer and 2003 mayoral candidate, Tom Jakobek.

i) Jakobek and Domi had an inappropriate and otherwise inexplicable relationship
ii) Jakobek and Domi repeatedly denied or minimized their relationship
iii) Domi and Jakobek went to extraordinary lengths to deny or minimize the extent of their relationship:
a). Jakobek recalled only a handful of conversations with Domi; the evidence proved over 100 cellular telephone conversations; ...
iii) ...Domi and Jakobek both relied on family members to provide alibis for their suspicious banking transactions between November 1 and 3, 1999. Both alibis shared remarkably similar fundamental elements. Both men relied on:
a. the purported repayment of long-standing imprecise family debts, which had never been documented;
b. family members to fill obvious gaps in their own stories;
c. family members’ willingness to handle thousands of dollars of cash;
d. family members having thousands of dollars in cash in their homes;
e. spontaneous, extraordinarily generous gifts of money from less wealthy to more wealthy family members that were apparently treated as if it was pocket change; and
f. incredibly tight-knit, loyal, and protective family members.

There's lots more - including an $11M dollar Oracle contract signed with no business or presentation to management. There's Wanda Liczyk's affair with a consultant of record, followed by her 'close friendship' with Dash Domi. Really, it's like a soap opera - only acted out by real people and not actors.