Real History and the guilty Australian mega fraudster The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) The Sun-Herald Melbourne, The terrible toll on my family: Adler By Annette Sharp and Alex Mitchell Adler leaving court this week. Photo: Simon O’Dwyer RODNEY Adler has spoken for the first time about the impact the investigation into the HIH collapse has had on his family.
Adler, who will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to four criminal charges in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, said his wife and children had been under tremendous strain as a consequence of the regulator’s four-year investigation into the insurer’s multibillion-dollar collapse. “The events of the past four years have taken a tremendous toll on my family and I believe that the reality of this will only sink in after my sentencing hearing,” Adler told The Sun-Herald .
None of Adler’s family – his wife of 17 years Lyndi and their children Jason, 16, Romi, 14, Natalie, 10, and Charlotte, 7 – were [ sic. was ] in court to hear his guilty plea. But the former high-flying businessman denied the couple’s marriage has been tested or weakened by the ordeal, saying that they have been brought closer by recent events. “Lyndi has been unbelievable,” he said. “She did not sign up for this job. We’ve been married nearly 18 years and it’s as good as it’s ever been.”
David Irving comments: NOW is this a bit of sympathetic writing or what? And that photo up there, doesn’t it makeya just want to hug and comfort the poor guy? You can pick through the hair of the two journalists whose bye-line is on this piece, and you won’t find a single flea or louse on them, that I will wager. The same will probably go for their bank-accounts — at present: but future rewards will no doubt pile up in journalists’ heaven.
They know which side their bread is buttered on, Down Under. Just to remind our readers, here is one of those Nice Folks Next Door who ran a bogus insurance operation for years, bilked thousands of Diggers out of their life savings, fought a four year court battle at Australian taxpayer expense to avoid jail, then finally admitted that, yes, he had been guilty as charged all along.
Now this Adler is worried about going to jail — where he may be obliged to play the mouth-organ a bit (and not quite as well as his namesake Larry Adler); and he is worried about his poor wife and kids. Bit late for that, methinks. Yes, they have some People of Character in Australia, when we come to think of it. We wonder where all those millions went; and where the Adlers will go too, when the time comes — to which safehaven country, we mean.
Although Adler would not be drawn on his reasons for pleading guilty after such a long and bitter battle to clear his name, it is widely believed his decision to strike a deal was motivated by a desire to spare his family any further heartache. Adler pleaded guilty to two charges relating to the dissemination of false information to the sharemarket and two charges of failing to disclose “adverse information” about a sideline business.
He faces up to 20 years jail when his sentencing hearing begins on March 29. The guilty plea followed an agreement being reached with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions which saw three other charges relating to market manipulation dropped. The deal is expected to see his jail term reduced to a lesser term, if he is jailed by the court. This will enable him to