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Posted By: rob

First off, I have no experience with the people mentioned in this piece but i have one piece of advice for those who have. Most of us are honest, hard-working people who hang around honest hard-working people. I had the unfortunate experience of hanging around people who werent such, but I had no idea, nor did any of my co-workers. In other words, we take people at face value, believe what they say, and expect it to be true. The fact is, criminals dont care who they lie to and how much they lie. It is a slippery slope and becomes almost second nature, even when dealing with friends and family - especially when dealing with money. But as honest people, we often do see the clues or expect it because we dont have the experience of mingling with these individuals. Its white-collar crime and it is the most difficult to discover, but when it is, it is usually pretty broad-ranging. I am not sayng anyone is a criminal here, all I am saying is things arent always as they seem, and just because you believe someone has always been honest with you and you want to believe them, it doesnt make it so.