Holocaust survivor walks free - $8.8M fraud

Started by MikeWB, February 21, 2009, 10:43:41 PM

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MikeWB

February 21, 2009, 10:43:41 PM
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Holocaust survivor walks free
Bellinda Kontominas
February 16, 2009

HE KNOWS better than most the harsh reality of incarceration. In 1945, aged 19, Peter Gabriel Agoston was freed from a Hungarian concentration camp under Hitler's control.

Now, at 81, his mind is failing him. He has been diagnosed with dementia and suffers from high levels of anxiety.

It was for these reasons that Mr Agoston walked free from Sydney District Court last week, even though a judge found that a jury could convict him of attempting to defraud the Australian Tax Office of about $8.8 million. The alleged offences involved tax returns Mr Agoston filed between 1995 and 2000 in relation to four Australian films, including a soccer documentary narrated by the SBS commentator Les Murray.

Mr Agoston, who was in a partnership with others to attract film investors, was accused of falsely overstating the claims for spending by more than $2.8 million in one financial year.

He did this by allegedly using the figures for the projected spending, calculated before film production began.

Judge Christopher Geraghty said documents seized from Mr Agoston's office revealed that in the 1995-96 financial year he had overstated the spending on a film called Super Champions Of The World by $800,000.

In 1999-00 Mr Agoston had overstated the spending on the soccer documentary Height Of Passion by more than $2.8 million, the court heard.

The discrepancies were discovered during a Tax Office audit of the tax returns, so no money was lost by the commonwealth, Judge Geraghty said.

He said the evidence against Mr Agoston was strong enough for a properly instructed jury to convict him of the offences.

But in an earlier judicial decision Mr Agoston had been deemed unfit to stand trial because of his mental health, expected to deteriorate rapidly.

Taking into account his age, his mental health and personal history, it was "inappropriate to inflict any punishment" on Mr Agoston, Judge Geraghty said.

He accepted that Mr Agoston would have been affected by the "unimaginable cruelty" inflicted by the Nazis before he was freed on April 13, 1945.

Mr Agoston declined to comment.
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CrackSmokeRepublican

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February 22, 2009, 01:55:01 AM
You know, whenever I see the words "Holocaust", "Survivor" and  anykind of money numbers, I immediately get the feeling a massive Jew scam occured.
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

sullivan

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February 22, 2009, 06:48:55 AM
Quote from: "MikeWB"Taking into account his age, his mental health and personal history, it was "inappropriate to inflict any punishment" on Mr Agoston, Judge Geraghty said.
How about a heavy financial punishment, the kind this sort of person fears the most? Is that inappropriate too? If the perp was a goy, would the leniency be similar?
"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as \'international bankers.\' This little coterie... run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen, seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."
John F. Hylan (1868-1936) - Former Mayor of New York City
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