Millionaire Businessman James McCormick Guilty of Fraud Over Fake Bomb Detectors

Metro ^ | Tuesday 23 Apr 2013

[nickcarraway]

Why do they need something that detects fake bombs?

[SpaceBar]

Reminds me of the E-Cat. Every few years you send it in for servicing, where they reload the unicorn cannister with fresh kitty litter and shredded newspaper. Warranty void if seal broken.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Polish mine detector? Oops - ethnic humor no longer acceptable.

[molson209]

they’re great if you have lost your golf balls , I bet Obama has some

[2banana]

Easy way to check if they work

Put the CEO in a minefield with one of his products and watch him make his way out...

[Bob]

To me, this says as much about the sloppy acceptance testing used by his customers as it does about him. At some point, a savvy customer should have discovered that the devices didn’t perform as claimed.

[eddie willers]

Sold these to Boston PD?

[ConfusedAndLovingIt]

To me, this says as much about the sloppy acceptance testing used by his customers as it does about him.

What testing? You bribe the right people and you get the contract. I have no doubt that's how he sold each and every one of these.

[Bob]

What testing? You bribe the right people and you get the contract. I have no doubt that's how he sold each and every one of these.

Good point. His co-conspirators at the agencies who purchased those devices should be prosecuted as well.

[nickcarraway]

What does the seal do? Give fish to the cat?

[SpaceBar]

Next time I'll use entry detection sticker to avoid that embarrassing misspelling.

[hadaclueonce]

This is pretty harsh treatment for someone trying to sell a con. I think Al Gore would agree with me.

[sarasmom]

It does appear that some savvy customer did, in fact, discover just that.
Hence the fraud charges and conviction....

People laugh at long, convoluted product “specifications” all the time. Some learn not to laugh, when they find about these kinds of fraud cases.

I do wonder how many low and mid level buyers were bribed to buy his products.Sometime for a box of donuts.

[nickcarraway]

Powdered or glazed?

[nickcarraway]

He’s probably lucky. Imagine the charges and lawsuits, if a bomb that had been cleared by these machines went off.

[Bob]

Yeah, somebody eventually caught on but not until after he had sold a great many of them to a number of different agencies.

If I'm betting my butt on something to detect a bomb, I'm darned sure going to make sure that it works as advertised. I guess that if it's not your own butt on the line, as in the case of these buyers, you don't need to be all that picky.

[ptsal]

Easy way to check if they work... Put the CEO in a minefield with one of his products and watch him make his way out... .

Does anyone think this would work for Zero and his worthless minions?

[Cyber Liberty]

He said: ‘I never had any negative results from customers.’

...primarily because customers who had a negative experience are DEAD.

[Cyber Liberty]

Poles are more or less white, so have at ‘em.