Millionaire businessman James McCormick guilty of selling fake bomb detectors

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You could be forgiven for admiring somebody that can pull off such an elaborate hoax for so long, excepting that he conned a lot of people and most likely caused bombs to go undetected. It doesn't say much for the fools thatn bought his 'detectors'.

A millionaire businessman is facing jail today after being convicted of selling fake bomb detectors. James McCormick, 56, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of three counts of fraud after jurors heard the devices did not work. McCormick, of Langport, Somerset, made an estimated £50 million from sales of his three models to Iraq, Belgium and even the United Nations for use in Lebanon. But, the court heard, the Advanced Selection Equipment devices had no scientific basis and were based on a £13 American novelty golf ball finder.



Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...y-of-selling-fake-bomb-detectors-8584621.html
 
It baffles how the US military or the British come to that said nothing about this, he was allowed to sell the useless detectors for a long time.
 
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