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[solarbird]

This is not how to extort money from a former employer.

Though he went to some lengths to make himself untraceable technically, past altercations between [Myron] Tereshchuk and the company made him the prime suspect from the start, according to court records. The clearest sign came when he issued the seventeen million dollar extortion demand, and instructed the company to "make the check payable to Myron Tereshchuk."

Comments

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

Coincidence: I live in Connecticut. My dad lives in Arlington, VA. :)

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

Please make the check out to "I.M.A. Jackass, c/o Big Charlie's Cell, Pound Me In The Ass Prison, Attica, NY"

[ashareem.livejournal.com]

That's about as smart as this one:

http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=10&aid=D83ECLO00_story

"Man Arrested After Confessing to Reporter

June 25, 2004 08:01 PM EDT


GADSDEN, Ala. - Apparently, setting the record straight was more important than staying out of jail. Mark Allen Patterson, 44, was arrested Thursday after being identified as the man who visited The Gadsden Times to confess to an attempted bank robbery, police said.

When detectives later asked Patterson why he visited the newspaper, he said he wanted to correct a detail from a story the newspaper published Sunday about the robbery: The truck he drove when he tried to rob the bank was burgundy - not green, as the paper reported police as saying."

(Or my brother-in-law trying to rob a bank on a weekend with his *very* identifiable vehicle in the parking lot. Let's hear it for California's 3-strikes law on that one; sadly it didn't happen soon enough, he'd already bred.)