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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Australia's worst corporate crooks deserved utter contempt... now the HIH conmen are out of jail and living large on YOUR life savings - but there's one grim silver lining for their victims: SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BY CANDACE SUTTON
They are Australia's biggest conmen whose obscene greed and lavish spending left a trail of suffering and empty wallets when their fraud caused the country's biggest corporate collapse. The high-flying swindlers from insurance giant HIH drove Ferraris and Rolls-Royces, bought palatial mansions, threw expensive parties and heaped gifts upon their friends, families and favourite staffers.
Washington Post
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
‘Henry Johnson' is a dark (a)moral fable from David Mamet
Talk is power in the world according to David Mamet. It always has been. Con men, salesmen, movie producers, all wielding the gift of gab as if it were a vivisection kit: These are his charming predators, and those who are stuck listening — because they're weak, or can't think fast enough to interrupt, or because they like being dominated — are the prey.
