Re: Jewish loan shark jailed

Frank Booth Snr wrote: 
Paul Hyett wrote:

In uk.politics.misc on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 at 12:05:00, John Gilbert wrote
:

A loan shark who extorted more than £800,000 through illegal money
lending has been jailed for nearly four years. Mark Johnson, 38, from Hall Green, Birmingham, pleaded guilty to
offences under the consumer credit act.
Birmingham Crown Court heard he charged interest rates of up to 8,000%
and threatened anyone who missed payments.
The court heard Johnson had preyed on the weakest members of society,
showing a "cruel disregard" for his victims, between 2002 and 2004.
Johnson pleaded guilty to carrying on a consumer credit business
without a licence between April 2002 and October 2004.
He also admitted three counts of blackmail, one of possessing criminal
property and another of attempted deception in relation to a mortgage
application and a further charge of unlawfully obtaining a disability
benefit book.
The court heard on Tuesday Johnson took social security benefit books
or National Insurance numbers as security for the unauthorised loans
and piled default charges on to his clients for missed payments.
He would threaten physical violence and threaten to take people's
possessions if payments could not be made.
Despite claiming to be on benefits he spent between £30,000 and
£40,000 on sports cars.
Jailing him for three years and nine months, Recorder Andrew Tidbury
told Johnson he had profited at the expense of some of the most
unfortunate members of society.
"(Your) business inevitably preyed on the weakest members of the
community, these were people who had no one else who would lend them
money," he said.
The case was the first brought by Birmingham's Loan Shark Unit - a
pilot scheme funded by the government. 


He doesn't sound, or look Jewish, and no such thing was mentioned in the
article.


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He isn't Jewish. But that's J. Gilbert's pathetic nazispeak spin for you.

Look at the picture, it's as 'plain as your nose' that he has a very large one!

Besides, a little birdie tells me your 'news' that he isn't Jewish will come as a shock to the congregation at Singer's Hill Synagogue where there is currently much shock & upset. Not over what he did, but over him being careless enough to get caught. :-))
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