“The criminals must have had a good laugh among themselves over how perfectly they had suckered the poor unsuspecting manager in his office,” says McGee. It was only several days later when the drafts arrived at Taghmon for processing that the scam was discovered. The gang then reconnected the Taghmon bank’s phone lines and called to say the problem had been solved.
#Charlie last name wilson album full#
Each man walked out with the full £5,000. “The ruse worked like clockwork,” says McGee. The cashier asked if he knew the man named on the bank draft, and the man at the other end would reply that he did, even offering a physical description to seal the deal.
“One by one, the bag men entered their assigned branches in Dublin, and one by one the calls started coming through to this fella waiting in a shed,” according to McGee.
The gang behind the fraud, who clearly had a good deal of engineering knowledge, had rerouted the bank’s phone lines so when someone called Taghmon, it was one of them who picked up the phone. This is what happened when all five men presented the drafts, which were worth a total of £25,000 (about €125,000 in today’s money).Įxcept the calls did not go to Taghmon Bank of Ireland. The drafts, which had been stolen from Smurfit print works, were filled out with a fake name and the name of the branch in Taghmon.īack then, standard procedure when cashing a draft was for the manager to ring the customer’s local bank branch to make sure they were on the level. No problem, responded a bank official.Īt that moment, 160 kilometres away, five men were preparing to enter five different Bank of Ireland branches in Dublin.Īt exact six-minute intervals, the men entered the branches, each carrying a bank draft for £5,000. They were reassured when a man claiming to be from Telecom Éireann rang up to say the disruption was being caused by technical problems they were trying to fix and not to be alarmed if the lines went down over the next few days.Ī week later, the same man rang the bank again and said the lines would be going down for half an hour while they tested for the problem. In the days leading up to the scam, officials in the bank, which was located in the village of Taghmon, Co Wexford, noticed their phone lines acting strangely. Behind the crime was a highly intelligent criminal who had been a thorn in the side of the fraud squad for many years, and another man who would go on to become well known in the Irish entertainment industry.Īt that stage McGee had been on the force for a decade and a fraud squad detective for about half that. It was the bizarre culmination of an already unusual investigation into a sophisticated fraud perpetrated on a rural Bank of Ireland branch some weeks earlier. In 2009, it was also certified gold by the RIAA, surpassing sales of 500,000 copies.In 1979, a young detective named Willie McGee found himself standing outside a well-to-do address in Dublin pushing a “relatively rotund man” back through a window he was trying to crawl out of.
Charlie, Last Name Wilson debuted and peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard 200 with first week sales of 71,400 copies. Kelly, will.i.am, Justin Timberlake, T-Pain, KayGee, Terence "Tramp-Baby" Abney, The Underdogs and The Platinum Brothers. The album includes production from several R&B hitmakers including R. It was released by Jive Records on Augin the United States. Charlie, Last Name Wilson is the third studio album by American singer Charlie Wilson.
0 kommentar(er)
