{"id":20069,"date":"2013-05-02T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20069"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:54:19","slug":"fraudster-who-sold-fake-bomb-detectors-to-iraq-jailed-for-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/fraudster-who-sold-fake-bomb-detectors-to-iraq-jailed-for-ten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudster who sold fake bomb detectors to Iraq jailed for ten years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the circumstances, a ten year sentence is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-22380368\" target=\"_blank\">pretty lenient<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fraudster James McCormick has been jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick, 57, of Langport, Somerset perpetrated a &#8220;callous confidence trick&#8221;, said the Old Bailey judge.<\/p>\n<p>He is thought to have made \u00a350m from sales of more than 7,000 of the fake devices to countries, including Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The fraud &#8220;promoted a false sense of security&#8221; and contributed to death and injury, the judge said. He also described the profit as &#8220;outrageous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police earlier said the ADE-651 devices, modelled on a novelty golf ball finder, are still in use at some checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing McCormick, Judge Richard Hone said: &#8220;You are the driving force and sole director behind [the fraud].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The device was useless, the profit outrageous, and your culpability as a fraudster has to be considered to be of the highest order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One invoice showed sales of \u00a338m over three years to Iraq, the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>The bogus devices were also sold in other countries, including Georgia, Romania, Niger, Thailand and Saudi Arabia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the circumstances, a ten year sentence is pretty lenient: Fraudster James McCormick has been jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors. McCormick, 57, of Langport, Somerset perpetrated a &#8220;callous confidence trick&#8221;, said the Old Bailey judge. He is thought to have made \u00a350m from sales of more than 7,000 of the fake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,370,15],"tags":[343,194,333,39],"class_list":["post-20069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","category-middle-east","category-technology","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-fraud","tag-iraq","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5dH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20070,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20069\/revisions\/20070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}