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[CW: suicide] Toronto artist says he lost $2M in stolen paintings, forged mortgage to alleged fraudster killed last week (www.cbc.ca)

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One of his victims finally had enough and shot him. Then killed himself sadly.

"If you were a victim of a Missaghi fraud, you were put in the unenviable position of [pursuing] this multi-millionaire, undischarged-bankrupt fraudster through the court system who was defending himself with the best lawyers in Toronto," said Smiley. "Which he is paying for with the money that he stole from you."

Not sure what to say here really. This is just a wild story. I see so many people ground to a pulp by the justice system for trivial bullshit and this guy skates? He won't be missed.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is a pretty comprehensive article about the type of scamming the guy who got killed allegedly did, from 2018, but somehow he kept getting away with stuff and didn't get convicted yet. I guess he afforded good lawyers and nothing caught up to him yet until this one disgruntled guy.

When I first heard about the shooting I assumed it might've been a scammer who got killed, because those small-time mortgage brokers can get really sketchy really quickly.