Posted on 10/11/2014 7:57:39 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
King Lear, strippers, and show horses: Inside the $500 million lawsuit that could bring down Gaston Glock’s gun empire.
Guns, money, sex, and betrayal: Rarely do the news gods smile down on us with such charity. But Helga Glock, ex-wife to Gaston Glock Sr., the gun industry’s most successful and secretive tycoon, has given us all that and then some with a new lawsuit filed in an Atlanta federal court earlier this week.
In the complaint—filed in Georgia, where the Austrian company’s U.S. headquarters is based and most of its business conducted—Mrs. Glock’s attorney accuses the 85-year-old gun manufacturer of a racketeering scheme that spanned decades and the globe, all in an elaborate plan to steal the business that Mrs. Glock and the rest of their family had helped to build from a mom-and-pop machine shop into a company with $400 million in sales each year. An enterprise so successful—it supplies U.S. police with two-thirds of their firearms and dominates the civilian market—that Mr. Glock’s criminal dealings have cheated her out of around $500 million, the suit claims, making the case one of the largest civil suits ever under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Every gun shop owner I know has a story about a Glock misfiring or discharging accidentally... And sometimes a hole in the floor to go along with the story. The dirty little secret? Fun to shoot, light, and cheap, Glocks are also inherently unsafe and always have been.
They were married in 1962 and she still looks like that?? Is she a vampire or something?
That kind of money buys a lot of skin.
Horse$hit
>>Every gun shop owner I know has a story about a Glock misfiring or discharging accidentally... And sometimes a hole in the floor to go along with the story. The dirty little secret? Fun to shoot, light, and cheap, Glocks are also inherently unsafe and always have been.
LOL. The “I knew a guy who knows a guy who saw a Glock do an AD” story in by #2! Congrats.
Watch out, the Glock fanboys will be here in a minute to tell you what a heathen you are.
Anything “The Daily Beast” writes is with an agenda (leftist) and is to be suspected, if not dismissed outright.
Ex-wife of inventor of Glock handgun loses claim for part of his company in divorce from husband (who is now married to someone 50 years his junior)
1911 A-Frame scumbag.
I suspect that's the mistress.
This is Helga Glock:
>>I suspect that’s the mistress.
Yeah, you’re right. I liked the vampiress theory better though.
Virtually *all* the accidental discharge stories that I have followed with Glocks are because someone had a finger on the trigger, or some other object was inside the trigger guard and activated the trigger.
Glocks do what a pistol is supposed to do: fire when the trigger is pressed.
“(who is now married to someone 50 years his junior)”
He told her he had an 8-inch Glock.
[From the article] “These foundations that were supposed to ensure the financial stability of his wife and heirs now fund a horse farm, where an Olympic show-jumper named London lives. Glock gave London to his new wife as a present and, at $15 million, it is one of the most expensive horses ever purchased.”
It took a couple of tries, but I finally got a look at that horse. Wow. Whatever else, the Glocks have impeccable taste in show jumpers.
‘Welcome to Team GLOCK!
Gerco Schröder and London
They are the dream team of the international show jumping scene and yet their future together was in doubt. The Eurocommerce Stables auction meant that Gerco Schröder, the show jumper from the Netherlands blessed with tremendous sensitivity, and London, the chestnut Belgian stallion that jumps so well, faced an uncertain future and seemed fated to go their separate ways.
Fortunately, a dream has come true for Gerco Schröder and the world’s show jumping arenas can still welcome the dynamic duo. Gaston and Kathrin Glock bought the 12-year-old BWP stallion (Nabab de Reve x Chin Chin) at the auction for the top price of €8.6 million and Gerco Schröder will join Team GLOCK.’
http://www.ghpc.at/en/netherlands/news/details/article/gerco-schroeder-and-london/
This isn’t the first time the Glocks’ legal dramas have played out in the media.The family’s dirty laundry was aired in 2011 during divorce proceedings that would end the Glocks’ 49-year-long, if not happy then lucrative, relationship. The short story: After Glock suffered a stroke in 2008, his nurse-slash-mistress Katrin Tschikof, 50 years his junior, restricted the family’s access to the ailing magnate. And in a tale more suited for TMZ than The Wall Street Journal, by 2010, Gaston Glock had locked his wife out of their mansion in Austria, fired his three children—Brigitte, Gaston Jr., and Robert—from the family business, and stopped speaking to his grandchildren.
Helga and Gaston’s divorce was final on June 28, 2011. By the following day, Mrs. Glock (she kept her name) was no longer a part of the company. He married Tschikof later that year and appointed her to the company’s advisory board.
Sounds about right.
Sue for 500 mil, settle for 5 10 or 20% and live well.
Guess what you do is SETTLE with your lawyer first and let him keep all above what you have agreed upon.
That should ‘inspire’ the *ambulance chaser and shamus to get you yours and work hard to strip the SOB out of the rest.....
(*when talking in terms of possibly hundreds of millions, they don’t mind what you call them).
And if you have NO CASE, one would tell you to take a hike but I am sure there are plenty of the sleazeballs out there that would go along with you.
Course if that bad and greedy, after he gets his, he will go after yours...
Of course, if you have the big/big/big bucks, plenty of things will crawl out of the woodwork to ensure you get to keep it.
Well, crawler will have his fangs into a good portion but SHE won’t get it.....
Which makes a grip or thumb safety kind of nice. I just never liked the Glock myself.
Wow. Makes the fictional Ewing family of “Dallas” look like a normal family in comparison.
Glock Family Goes Down, Guns Blazing
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Interesting head line.
Reminds me of many years ago (before certain acts were made public and/or popular),
a ‘lady’ was dating a French Flyer(Chinese?)
and when getting ready to ‘do the nasty’
he grabbed a bottle of Champagne and a book of matches and started pouring it ‘over’ her.
“Sweety! What are you doing”?
“When PIERRE goes down, PIERRE goes down in flames”.
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