DM, “Next time I’ll hit them with a baseball bat!’, 12 Feb 2016:

Former World’s Strongest Man vows rough justice on ‘human garbage” migrants after he is fined £40,000 when refugees are found hiding in his Britain-bound lorry.

Muscleman: Mariusz Pudzianowski is facing prosecution after threatening refugees with a baseball bat. He was fined £40,000 after eight stowaways were found hiding in one of his trucks in Calais, France

• Mariusz Pudzianowski was fined £40,000 after migrants hid inside his truck
• Stowaways caused £23,000 of damage before they were found in Calais
• Polish muscleman now faces prosecution after posting a picture of himself holding a baseball bat on social media and threatening refugees
• Former World’s Strongest Man was reported by anti-racist group HejtStop

A former World’s Strongest Man, now a haulage company boss, faces prosecution for threatening refugees found hiding in one of his trucks with a baseball bat.

Weightlifting champion Mariusz Pudzianowski, who runs an international transport company, was fined £40,000 when French officials caught eight refugees inside lorries bound for Britain in Calais.

The bodybuilder posted a threatening picture of himself holding the bat on Facebook - and warned next time he would be waiting for migrants who hid in his truck with a bat.

Threat: Mariusz Pudzianowski, who won the World’s Stongest Man competition a record five times, posted this picture on Facebook and warned he would protect his trucks in the future

His uninvited guests had also caused £23,000 of damage to goods inside the truck.

The Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) expert and five time World’s Strongest Man champion said he would soon go to France to deal with ‘this human garbage’.

He wrote: ‘With this [baseball bat] I’ll be waiting on my trailer at the ferry from Calais to the UK.

‘We are dealing with the protection of personal property.

‘If someone attacks you, you have the right to defend yourself, and if you steal something and are caught in the act you have the right to deal with him to prevent crime.’

Stowaways: Eight refugees, from countries including Syria, were found inside one of his trucks by French officials. He posted these pictures of his damaged vehicle and the refugees on social media

Damage: Gang who hid in his lorry in Calais had caused £23,000 worth of damage while inside before they were discovered

Prosecution: Mariusz Pudzianowski is under investigation after posting these images online. He was reported to police by the anti-racist group HejtStop

Posting photographs of his damaged lorry and the refugees on social media, Mr Pudzianowski added: ‘These are the destroyed goods on a trailer lorry at Calais.

“With this [baseball bat] I’ll be waiting on my trailer at the ferry from Calais to the UK” - Mariusz Pudzianowski

‘The cost of the destroyed goods is about 30,000 Euros. The driver was stopped by police for 48 hours and bailed for 5,000 euros and the matter is now waiting to go to court.’

In another post he said that although he works with people of different faiths, including Muslims, he would ‘not tolerate robbers, rapists, burglars’.

He is now under investigation by Polish prosecutors for inciting hatred and racism after being reported by anti-racist group HejtStop (Stop Hatred).

Joanna Grabarczyk, who is campaign coordinator for HejtStop, said: ‘No matter what happens, nothing justifies anyone to incite or commit a crime especially in such a delicate matter as refugees.

‘Public figures do not realise that their words have an effect.’

In his defence, Pudzianowski, who once served 19 months in jail for assaulting a local mafia boss, said: ‘At no time have I called for hatred or attacks on different religions, nationalities.

‘There is a difference between the incitement to violence and defending when one is affected.

‘I won’t allow another group of immigrants onto my trucks. I don’t want my employees to be put at risk from refugees armed with knives.

Damage: The refugees are said to have caused more than £23,000 of damage to goods inside the truck

Strongman: The bodybuilder and five-time World’s Strongest Man champion was fuming that his haulage company had to pay a fine of £40,000


Defence: Mariusz Pudzianowski said that at no point had he called for attacks or incited hatred, but said he would protect his property, including his trucks, in the future.

‘I know immigrants, refugees who live in Poland. They are normal people, they behave like civilised people.

‘But if someone behaves like cattle, whether it be in Poland, or abroad, I’ll say something and not ignore it.’

He added: ‘I’m going to protect my own property. If someone breaks into my house, I will protect my belongings. It’s the same with my employees and trucks.’

WGP, ‘The Irish Elections 2016: A White Genocide Perspective,’ 21 Feb 2016:

by Patrick O’Brian

The election process is currently underway in Ireland and the so called “nationalist” political party Sinn Féin is out campaigning and drumming up votes.

The insane anti-White duplicity of this party can best be demonstrated by looking at their support for the Palestinians. On the one hand they show 100% support for this group and their right to a homeland.

 
Sinn Féin rally

But on the other hand they have no problem selling out the indigenous White Irish peoples homeland as long as it gets them some votes (the secondary consideration) and keeps them inline with the anti-White narrative (the primary consideration). Never mix the two up. Too many times we hear people saying “it’s all about the votes”. Nope, it’s a small part about the votes and a LARGE part about turning White countries non-White in the name of “diversity”.

                 
As they say, a picture speaks 1000 words and here is Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams out posing for votes.

Let’s not forget that prominent members of this group were actively involved in the violent struggle against the British. But yet today they are the ones out advocating a “diverse” Ireland made up of “new Irish”.

         
      Edmund

Anti-White madness like this only starts to make sense once you factor in the White geNOcide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=HCrDp2DZIGs

Anti-White madness like this only starts to make sense once you factor in the White geNOcide

Not the factor in conclusion of that syllogism that some might believe we should hear.

White Genocide Project, ‘German “anti-fascists” threaten mafia-style attacks on anti-immigration village’  21 Feb 2016:

“Antifa” Berlin.

The East German village of Clausnitz was in the news this week because a crowd surrounded a bus full of illegal immigrants, who were going to be housed there. The crowd chanted “We are the people” and stopped them getting off the bus for 2 hours, until the police arrived.

Anonymous German so-called “anti-fascists” have released a threatening open letter to the villagers. It reads:

“Dear Clausnitzers, everywhere one reads that you are afraid, that you are insecure. You want a dialogue at eye level. On Thursday you showed, where your dialogue leads and we are happy to build on it!”

“We of the Antifa visited your village. A beautiful village. Even your local museum was much appreciated.”

“Things can go broken, tractors can spontaneously combust – it would be a shame. Well, some of our other options would unsettle the population.”

“If you scare one more refugee, there will be consequences for you. We’re watching you. Another attack on a refugee, a firecracker outside the property – and your village will be in ruins. We will drive up the price of your inhumanity as high as possible.”

“Your hatred and your agitation will not remain unchallenged. We will not stand by the sidelines as you live out your authoritarian character. You live in a world in which ‘Being German’ is worth more than being human. We will not tolerate that.”

They also threatened police, saying they “promote a racist Saxon mob.”

“You too will feel the consequences for your inhuman act.”

So the “anti-fascists” are telling people what to do and threatening people if they don’t . . . and it hasn’t dawned on them that they ARE what they claim to fight?

Merkel has waged a full-out White genocide against Germany, in the form of forced “diversity”. Her so-called “anti-fascist” friends haven’t yet realized that they are White as well, and their comfortable lives in a nice White suburb is coming to an end if they keep pushing these policies.

There is a saying: be careful what you wish for . . .

Her so-called “anti-fascist” friends haven’t yet realized that they are White as well - Are they White as well?

TNO, “We like European Identity’ — Putin” 18 Feb 2016:

Russian president Vladimir Putin has openly declared himself on the side of those who oppose the nonwhite “refugee”-invasion of Europe, saying that Russia “likes” the position of “defend[ing] European identity.”

Putin’s remarks, made during a joint press conference with visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow yesterday, are the clearest indication yet that a new eastern European-based bloc is forming up against western European liberalism and the racial suicide of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her allies.

During the meeting the two leaders discussed a range of issues including the invasion of the European Union by millions of bogus refugees, and the role of terrorism in causing the invasion.

“The reason for the current refugee issue is the destabilization of states in entire world regions — Northern Africa, Afghanistan and other countries. In order to solve the refugee issue the prime cause should be eliminated. The countries’ statehood, economy and social sphere must be restored so that people can live in their own country or return there,” Putin said.

In what way are the flags together behind them?

He added that he shared Orban’s views on the causes of the refugee crisis, saying that their opinions “largely coincide” and that the “position of Hungary and its prime minister, which is to defend European identity, the identity of one’s country and people, is likable to us.”

The EU already has formal sanctions against Russia since July 2014, when “restrictive measures” were imposed in response to the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine, which the EU blames on Russia.

According to those sanctions, EU nationals and companies are forbidden from making major financial investments in Russian state banks, energy or defense companies, or from selling or buying arms or items which could have military applications. In addition, it is illegal to sell equipment and technology used for certain types of oil exploration and production to Russia.

Although the Hungarian government initially supported the EU sanctions against Russia, Orban said yesterday at the press conference that the time to extend the sanctions had passed, and that more EU countries are starting to oppose the restrictions on Moscow.

“I believe that this period is behind us… I think that in 2016, by mid-year, it will be impossible for the European Union to automatically extend the sanctions… All the countries of the EU are beginning to understand that it is necessary to cooperate. I think there is a chance that we will work together,” Orban said.

Perhaps the commentariat can help decipher this. There should be nothing against Russia as a reasonably delimited and potentially cooperative ethnosstate - as opposed to being a multi-racial and Jewish influenced Federal empire (not entirely unlike The U.S.) that interferes with the vital interests of Europe.

I guess the first question to ask is, what does Putin mean by “non-white” when he expresses a wish to cooperate against the non-White invasion of Europe. Could it be part of a problem-reaction-soluton scenario, in which Putin’s regime is going to provide the “solution.” ?

And what of Orban? Have we been desperately appreciative of his display of ethnocentrism and assertion of national bounds - things which should be merely normal - ignoring his Christianity and other potential non-European influences in the manner that some were desperately appreciative of the neo-cons and now desperately appreciative of Trump and therefore blind to some ritical influences?

It is perhaps not being too critical to again raise skepticism of some politics circulating among Hungary, whether in its Christianity, in regard to Jobbik, its connections to Jews and Turks, the Pan Eurasian movement, etc.

YLE, ‘Russian border guard to STT: Russian security service behind northeast asylum traffic’, 24 Jan 2016 (emphasis added):

Afghan nationals Nazirulhag (left) and Rahmatullah wait at a boom station three kilometers east of Alakurtti, Russia on January 23, 2016 for permission from the Russian Border Guard to continue on with their trip to Finland’s Salla border crossing. | Image: Jussi Nukari / Lehtikuva

Finnish news agency STT reports a Russian border guard’s confession that the transport of asylum seekers to Finland’s two northeast border crossings is being orchestrated by the Russian Federation’s Federal Security Service, the FSB. Families with children are given priority, the source said. Finnish authorities have suspected for some time that the transfer of asylum seekers from Russia to Finland has been part of a carefully organised operation.

The Tampere-based newspaper Aamulehti reported on Saturday that a Russian border guard told the Finnish news agency STT that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has arranged asylum seeker access to the Finnish border. The FSB organises the traffic in concert with the Kandalaksha district administration of Russia’s Murmansk region and the Russian Border Guard.

The board guard source says the FSB decides which car moves at what time and how it can proceed to the border. The state-sponsored organisation gives priority to families with small children, the source reveals.

An STT photographer who visited the Russian side of the Salla border crossing told the Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat that he had seen asylum seekers waiting in their cars in the Russian city of Alakurtti, located about 70 kilometres from the border. The photographer said there were dozens of cars with asylum seekers waiting there, cut off by a boom that allowed other cars to pass.

The Finnish commercial television station MTV says the photographer later picked up a Border Guard employee whose car had stalled in the cold. During their journey together, the Russian guard told the Finn about the Russian asylum seeker operation.

Finns suspected organised activity

Several Finnish authorities have gone public recently with their suspicion that the transfer of asylum seekers from Russia to Finland is an organised effort. On Yle’s morning programme Saturday, MEPs Jussi Halla-aho and Petri Sarvamaa said they believe Russia is using the migrant crisis to gain foreign policy leverage.

Foreign Minister Timo Soini met with officials at the Lapland border stations early Saturday morning and said the visit confirmed his suspicion that the asylum seeker traffic there is arranged by Russian enablers.

“The impression that someone is organising and regulating things on the Russian side is probably true. Border guard employees don’t play politics, they jointly take care of cross-border traffic. It is quite obvious that activity like this is a managed effort,” he said.

Reality is an interesting thing, isn’t it?

But if a person has been reading most European ethno-nationalist news sites a person would surely have been led to believe that Russia is a ‘friend’ of Europe, and that the Russian Federation is the last hope for Europe, and that they alone will defend Europe. Or something like that.

Do not be deceived, Russia wants to see the European Union collapse and is more than happy to assist in that process, while simultaneously pretending that they are not involved in it.

See here:

YLE, ‘Medvedev: Russia won’t send “excessive numbers” of asylum seekers to Finland’, 12 Feb 2016 (emphasis added):

President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev | Image: Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Lehtikuva ja Yekaterina Shtukina / AFP

Ahead of a Friday evening meeting with Finnish President Niinistö, the Russian PM is quoted as saying that Moscow cannot stop asylum seekers from crossing into Finland.

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö meets with Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev on Friday evening on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. The two are likely to discuss the migrant situation along the countries’ mutual border, where the number of arriving asylum seekers has been surging in recent weeks.

Medvedev was earlier in the day quoted as saying that Russia does not intend to prevent asylum seekers’ movement toward the Finnish border.

The quote was posted on the Russian government website as part of its version of the premier’s interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt – although the business daily’s published interview does not include any mention of Finland. In the official transcript, Medvedev says that Russia cannot stop asylum seekers from crossing into Finland.

“No legal grounds” to stop migrants

He is also quoted as saying that Niinistö and Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä are very concerned about the situation, but that Russia does not have any legal grounds to stop those heading west into Finland. Medvedev met with Sipilä in St Petersburg in late January.

Medvedev notes that Russia is a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. He insisted that Russia has no bad intentions and does not plan to send excessive numbers of asylum seekers into Finland.

Finland’s 1340-kilometre border with Russia is the EU’s longest.

See, the Russian-Jew Prime Minister Dmitry (((Medvedev))) says that there are ‘no bad intentions’! He can totally be trusted, right? Every European ethno-nationalist site can now return to posting stupid memes about how ‘cool’ Russia’s government is, while the Russian FSB are continuing to ferry migrants across Russia’s largest border with the EU.

Other sites may have ideological, religious, or even monetary reasons to slavishly support Russia, but thankfully we at Majorityrights have no such entanglements.

Because of our ideological, religious, and monetary independence, Majorityrights can and will continue to call a spade a spade.

Jews may not flock to Russia upon Putin’s offer, as New Observer quotes Mikhail Skoblionok saying, but they’re already comfortably affixed there. The reason they may not flock there from other places is because the parasitic ways they established there have already desiccated the economy of that host -

TNO, Jews “Won’t Go to Russia,” 12 Feb 2016:

European Jews will not take up Vladimir Putin’s recent offer to take “refuge” in Russia, even though the Russian Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister are Jews, Mikhail Skoblionok, a leading member of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress has said.

Writing in the Tatar news website Realnoe Vremya, Skoblionok, (here in Russian, and here in English) who also is president of the Jewish National and Cultural Autonomy of Tatarstan, said that “a Jew of sound judgment won’t go to Russia.”

Putin made the offer last month in a meeting with members of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) that took place in the Kremlin. Moshe Vyacheslav Kantor, EJC president, complained to Putin about the rising anti-Semitism across Europe and the growing number of attacks against Jews.

Putin replied: “Let [the Jews] come to us then,” adding that “during the Soviet period they were leaving the country, and now they should return.”

Skoblionok, who represents the 10,000 Jews in the Republic of Tatarstan, a federal state of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District, expressed his doubt that Jews would take up Putin’s suggestion.

“To start with, I will describe the situation in Israel,” Skoblionok said.

“There is a tendency there: French Jews have been buying up apartments in Israel for the last five years. There are houses but the light is off. I am asking, ‘Why is the light off? Are these apartments empty?’

“People say that French Jews bought up these apartments and keep them in store. They are afraid that France will become a merely Muslim state so have prepared reserve flats,” he wrote, indicating that Jews were preparing to leave France in large numbers in the case of an emergency.

“My friends, who go to France, note that the Arab people are crowded into the country. Arabs will soon account for 80 percent of the population, like our Far East is populated by Chinese people,” he continued, in this case referring to the colonization of the far eastern regions of Russia.

“The population of ethnic French people is reducing in number; they are not reproducing, unlike the Arabs. The Muslims have large families there—sometimes a family has fifteen children,” Skoblionok pointed out.

“France lacks space, and Jews go to other countries where there is work and an opportunity to make money. The number of attacks based on national and religious beliefs is increasing in Europe. There is hysteria among the Arabs too. Europe fears a pogrom against Jews, and this feeling is strongly noticed in France,” he said.

Skoblionok then went on to discuss Putin’s proposal: “Vladimir Putin always knows what to do and say. But a Jew of sound judgement won’t go to Russia,” he said.

“I will explain why. Our country is at the height of an economic crisis. There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor which does not exist in many other countries. The rich buy villas, hotels, and yachts abroad, while the poor simply have nothing to eat. A revolution may yet come about here,” he said—ignoring the fact that he is one of the “rich” himself, having become the oligarch head of the natural gas exploration and petroleum production company TAkPO CJSC in 1987—and then buying it when privatization came after the fall of Communism.

“The Jews all over the world know and have assessed this situation. This is why I don’t think that there will be a mad rush of Jews from the whole world to Russia.”

However, he then said that that there was no danger to Jews in Russia.

Under the heading “Country headed by Jews,” Skoblionok said that “in Russia, the attitude of both ordinary citizens and the government to the Jews is good.

“In addition, there are large numbers of Jews in the Russian government.  [Prime Minister Dmitry]  Medvedev has Jewish roots. [Deputy Prime Minister Arkady]  Dvorkovich is Jewish. What attitude will they have to themselves?” he rhetorically asked.

Even so, he went on, in his own region of Tatarstan, “the situation is different. The regional government has no Jews [in it].”

He told of how a local synagogue had failed to be given land next to its building, even though they had won the rights to it in court.

This piece of land, he lamented, “will be up for auction. And we were told ‘go and buy it’ [instead of getting it for nothing].”

“What Jew will come here?” he concluded.

But where there is a will there is an oy vey! And where there is a vey! they can make a deal, such a deal.

And WHAT would we do without “The Super Bowl”?

Perfectly fitting entertainment that it is for a stadium full of White sheeple and a world wide audience of White sheeple - in attendance to one team of fast twitching blacks in ultra-actualized competition against another team of fast twitching blacks.

        ...speaking of the dark side of self actualization and its destabilizing effect on healthy social systems…

TMZ, Beyonce Pays Homage to Black Panthers During Super Bowl Performance, 8 Feb 2016:

Beyonce made a stirring political statement during the Super Bowl halftime show, in what appears to be a tribute to the Black Panthers, a ‘60s group that advocated violence to correct racial injustice.

The singer was flanked by backup dancers who wore berets, similar to the berets worn by the group. They also raised their fists, symbolic of the Black Power movement.

At one point the dancers posed with a sign that read “Justice 4 Mario Woods,” the man shot and killed by San Francisco cops.

The dancers on the field also formed an “X” on the field, which seemed symbolic of civil rights militant Malcolm X. Beyonce also had a strap on her chest in the form of an “X”.

                                     
                        Malcolm X: “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the black man will rule.”

Tina Knowles posed with the dancers, fists raised high.

It’s not only a symbol of the Panthers, it’s also a gesture used by Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the ‘68 Olympics.

       

                                         
                                          Dig the photo of Khalid Muhammad behind New Black Panther leaders

Jewish Chronicle, ‘Fraudsters convicted after conning investors out of almost £80 million’, 8 Feb 2016:

Three Jewish fraudsters who fleeced investors out of £79.5milion and blew the cash on ‘Bentleys, yachts and million pound houses’ are facing years behind bars.

Spencer Steinberg, 45, Jolan Saunders, 39 and Michael Strubel, 53 claimed they had won a contract to supply electricals to the Olympic Village ahead of the 2012 London games.

They said Saunders Electrical Wholesalers Limited (SEWL) also supplied goods such as including trouser presses and kettles to major hotel chains. But it was just a shabby high street electrical retailer in east London – a ‘one man and a van operation’.

Victims were persuaded to invest hundreds of thousands over a period of two months so SEWL could meet urgent orders, then paid seemingly sky-high returns. They were then asked if they would ‘roll over’ their investment for another two months.

The trio used bogus accounts to impress clients into parting with their cash. Two investors parted with £2m after being shown fake company invoices that showed they were supplying the Olympic Village. Others were fooled after Saunders started using doctored invoices from the Park Plaza chain of hotels that suggested they were a major supplier.

The trio were not investigated until the scandal of United States investor and notorious fraudster Bernie Madoff hit the headlines in 2008, jurors heard. Steinberg and Strubel were unanimously convicted of conspiracy to defraud after a five month trial at Southwark Crown Court.They had denied the charges. Saunders earlier admitted conspiracy to defraud and acting as a company director while disqualified. There were tears and shouts of “oh no” from the public gallery as the verdicts were given. Judge Michael Grieve granted Steinberg and Strubel bail ahead of sentence but warned: “I am sure you are fully aware of the fact that it is a very serious offence of which you have been convicted and the inevitable sentence is going to be a custodial sentence.”

Opening the case prosecutor Sarah Forshaw said the trio raked in £79.5 of investor cash and “lived the life of Riley”. She said: “The defendants persuaded people to part with their money on the promise they were going to invest it for them in a good, profitable business, then effectively pocked the money themselves. ‘It made them rich, rich at the expense of people they defrauded – you will hear about Bentleys, Ferraris, Porsches and Rolls Royces, you will hear about yachts and million pound houses. ‘You will also hear about how it was that these defendants, for a times, lived the life of Riley.” She continued: “When their victims found out what these men had done, there were tears and expressions of regret from both of these defendants.

“Probably some of these tears were genuine, they knew by then they were in real trouble, they’d been found out. “Many of the investors from whom they had stolen money had been friends, they had trusted them. “These defendants had rather hoped that the fraud would continue for longer so that their closest friends and even some of their family members would not lose out when the scheme imploded as it did.” She added: “Genuine or not, these expressions of regret were as convincing as the lies they had told in order to persuade people, some of them professional business people, to part with their money – these people are con men and they do it well.”

One balance sheet for SEWL for the year ending 2008 showed revenues of around £100,000, but the following year’s accounts, showed a 2008 end-of-year revenue figure of £43.3million. A purchasing order of £4.71 for light bulbs for the Grosvenor Hotel was doctored to show an order for £47,000. Jeremy Stone, an old school friend of Saunders’ at the prestigious Chigwell School in east London, told how he lost £17 million in the scam. Saunders offered him the chance to invest in SEWL “out of the blue”, saying he needed to borrow £256,400 over 30 days to meet an urgent order. Mr Stone said: “My thought was that small business were struggling for investment, and it was somewhere [private] investors could step in and that could be a very profitable arrangement.”

He added that the first request had not been for a very large amount of money, and he also wanted to support a friend he had lost touch with over the previous few years.

Mr Stone brought in his father Martin, an accountant and management consultant, to carry out all the due diligence and to manage the family’s investment in SEWL. Over the next few years, SEWL apparently seemed so lucrative, Mr Stone employed his father and his sister on salaries of £200,000 and £80,000 respectively to manage the family’s relationship with the company. He invited 14 other business associates to join him in investing in the company. Mr Stone said they were sent hundreds of forged bank statements, invoices and other company documents to keep them on board. He was taking a summer holiday in the summer of 2010 when he received a call from his sister saying she had received a NatWest bank statement for SEWL showing assets of £5 million, with a recent in payment of £5,085,000. But instead of showing a bottom line of in excess of £10 million, the bank statement read £00.00.

It was only then that the Stone family began to realise the company was not legitimate and launched their own investigations. They eventually went to the High Court to ask for a freezing order on the assets of Saunders, Steinberg and their business associates. Mr Stone told the court he ploughed £27 million into the scheme and had £10 million handed back in “returns”. Neither his family nor any of their co-investors have been able to recoup any of the outstanding money.

The trio ran the Ponzi scheme for four years between 2006 and 2010 until they were investigated by the Serious Fraud Office. Steinberg and Strubel claimed they had no reason to suspect the business was anything but legitimate. When the Bernie Madoff scandal broke in 2008, one investor told Steinberg he was “spooked” by the seemingly sky high returns he was getting from SEWL. Steinberg said he was not concerned because Madoff’s business was “a city company”. ‘It was a completely different business to Saunders. I didn’t think SEWL was a Ponzi scheme,’ he said.

Steinberg of Lodge End Radlett, Hertfordshire and Strubel of Princes Park, New Southgate, north London, were both convicted of conspiracy to defraud.

Saunders, of Almonds Avenue, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, admitted the same charge.

A sentencing date is expected to be fixed next week.

       
          But what would we have done without thaaat light show….