
Our Favorite Wine Fraudster
Bribe, Swindle or Steal
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Rare Wines
When his scheme was uncovered, they quite literally ound the workshop in his kitchen with funnels and labelsnd and wax. So if he breaks on to the scene, he's very generous. He's buying up a what you rightly call a finite resource. And that's what he did. You're closer to this story than just about anybody. Do you have a sense when that switch flipped and he he started recorking bottles with his own concoctions? It happened fairly quickly, i believe. And there's evidence of that. For example, in two thousand and three he sold millions of dollars of wine to a titan of the retail world, the brian divine, the head of
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