Porterhouse wrote:
at people walking in (and out of) the shot at :30
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| Author: | Porterhouse [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
Video Version http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sectio ... id=6872650 Trotter talks about ties to alleged Ponzi schemer By John Garcia June 18, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Former Chicago fire commissioner Cortez Trotter is talking about his connection to a suburban man who is missing and has been named a fugitive by federal authorities. David Hernandez disappeared Monday. He is accused of bilking investors out of $11 million in what prosecutors call a Ponzi scheme. Since leaving his job with the city, Cortez Trotter has run a consulting firm. He worked with David Hernandez since December, but he says the closer he got to the business, the more questions he had. He says he raised those concerns with David Hernandez, but Hernandez denied there was any problem. That was shortly before the feds filed charges and Hernandez disappeared. It was a solid concept: sports talk radio for the internet, with shows hosted by some well-known Chicago sports broadcasters, like Mike North, a partner in the project, and Chet Coppock. But the man behind it all, David Hernandez, has disappeared and the project, called Chicago Sports Webio, is dead for now. "Anger is a big commonwealth right now, anger, disgust. And, Monday, life is going to be beautiful. All of our checks were going to be cleared. They're playing basketball with our checks right now," said Chet Coppock, sports broadcaster. Coppock is one of several alleged victims, employees who never got paid, investors who never got their returns. A lot of people left other positions to work for Webio and are now out of work. The former head of Chicago's Office of Emergency Communications, Cortez Trotter took Hernandez on as a client for his consulting business but quickly became suspicious. "There was too much money going out and I couldn't see how this company was making the type of money that was being spent," Trotter said. The 48-year-old Hernandez spent nearly three years in prison in the late 90's for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors. But his partners and employees at Webio apparently had no idea of his background. "This guy is one of the great con men in a city with a history of great con men since I've been alive," Choppock said. Cortez Trotter says he went to the FBI with his suspicions. Hernandez also owes him money. "You don't want to admit to being gullible like that, but there were a lot of smart people that have been around this guy for a long time and they've been taken, too," said Trotter. Hernandez has been missing since Monday, but he reportedly called one of his attorneys Wednesday saying he was at a Downers Grove hotel and he is ok. Police are downplaying that report. Meantime, the feds say there is a nationwide manhunt underway to try to find him. |
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| Author: | Reared on the Score [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
Porterhouse wrote: at people walking in (and out of) the shot at :30
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| Author: | IkeSouth [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
Reared on the Score wrote: Porterhouse wrote: at people walking in (and out of) the shot at :30thats hilarious because if that dude just kept walking it would have looked normal
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| Author: | Porterhouse [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
3 guys walked straight thru the shot, then 2 guys walked backwards like it's on rewind! |
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| Author: | shakes [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
Quote: It was a solid concept: sports talk radio for the internet, with shows hosted by some well-known Chicago sports broadcasters, like Mike North, a partner in the project, and Chet Coppock. FAIL |
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| Author: | spmack [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
This sounds like a joke.. "So a Black man, a white man, and a hispanic man walk into a bar...." |
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| Author: | uncle fester [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
I believe one of those gents was Jerry Taft. Excellent job there guys.
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| Author: | Gloopan Kuratz [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
Man. Trotter, Nort, BeBe, Jessie..... All these guys were thisclose to figuring it all out right before the Feds. /sarcasm off |
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| Author: | Spiral Stairs [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
if anyone hires trotter's company after this clusterfuck they deserve to be taken to the cleaners. trotter and his co-horts didn't do a criminal background or credit check on hernandez either? just another greedy fuck taking easy money |
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| Author: | Score is doomed [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ABC7s John Garcia w/Webios Cortez Trotter |
Trotter knows self protection, he's a politican. He will have no qualms about throwing anyone under the proverbial bus to make himself look better, including North and Bebe. If I were them, I'd be worried. He's already said he didn't understand all the spending with no money coming in, something that the north's never seemed to understand. Maybe because they were doing all the spending, to themselves and their friends. This could be a very entertaining summer. |
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