He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney – but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be. Hamish is due to be sentenced to jail in early 2019 for swindling a handful of victims out of more than $7m. But these crimes are just the final pages in a resume too thick to staple; for decades he’s duped victims in the US, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong and Australia. How did he do it? How did he evade authorities around the world for so long and what’s he done with all those tens of ...
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On today's show, Newell addresses the recent revelation that the City of New Orleans may have to open a line of credit and borrow money to cover their city employee payroll. Then Newell has on Paul Webster, Senior Fellow at the Cicero Institute, to explain how California managed to spend $24 billion in taxpayer money to address homelessness over the past years only for the problem to get substantially worse, Michael Hecht, President & CEO of GNO Inc., to talk about New Orleans grappling with major budget and payroll pressures, Ray Gregson, CEO of the River Region Chamber of Commerce, to discuss all of the amazing progress that he’s leading in the River Region, with an emphasis on catalytic projects that are expected to impact St. John, St. Charles, and St. James, and Jay Cicero, President and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, speak on the upcoming Honors Luncheon on November 6, the NOLA Bowl, and what's on the horizon for sporting events coming to New Orleans.
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On today's show, Newell addresses the recent revelation that the City of New Orleans may have to open a line of credit and borrow money to cover their city employee payroll. Then Newell has on Paul Webster, Senior Fellow at the Cicero Institute, to explain how California managed to spend $24 billion in taxpayer money to address homelessness over the past years only for the problem to get substantially worse, Michael Hecht, President & CEO of GNO Inc., to talk about New Orleans grappling with major budget and payroll pressures, Ray Gregson, CEO of the River Region Chamber of Commerce, to discuss all of the amazing progress that he’s leading in the River Region, with an emphasis on catalytic projects that are expected to impact St. John, St. Charles, and St. James, and Jay Cicero, President and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, speak on the upcoming Honors Luncheon on November 6, the NOLA Bowl, and what's on the horizon for sporting events coming to New Orleans.
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