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Lance Uppercut

Lance Uppercut

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What a legend!

Get's off shooting Benji dead, whilst Carl and all the other patsy's go down.

Throws eggs at the media when they stake out his house :D

Has the gall to complain that he is a straight businessman who just wants to get on with his life.

Now he's off to Singapore to stand over various Opes Prime ratholes, to bring back "the vast majority of the ($300M) money", and "bring it back in suitcases, several suitcases" :D

The guy is an absolute legend, one of history's classiest gangsters.

What do we think? Can he get the money? Or is he just going through the motions to justify his "non-refundable" fee?
 
Dry Rot said:
Heard about that Singapore deal - impressive.

Is the Underbelly depiction of him fair? If so, looks like a guy you could do business with. :)
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Mick's always been The Man. The only clear winner from the Underworld war. Coincidence? I don't think so :cool:

It's interesting. If you read the latest Chopper book, he pans everybody in the ganglands war. Puts himself right in the middle of it (yeh right chop chop :o ), and says how he was involved and everyone else were amatuers. The only person he didn't pan was Big Mick; you could just tell he had respect for him above all others.

On an aside, I was probably about 500 metres away when Mick put a cap in Benji's ass. I was living in Carlton then, good times!
 

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He could be just going through the motions, Singapore's not really the place to start throwing your weight around. However if he can recover some of the $$ good luck to him.

Though I find the label of "legend" a bit hard to swallow. Whilst he might have taken down fellow scum and got away with it, he's still made cash off other peoples misery.
 
You disapoint me Lance. Don't tell me you're one of these squareheads who blokes like Gatto would bend over any chance they would get. I knew that crew and none of them were as depicted in that comedy Underbelly. If they had you in thie presence for one day and showed their true face you would be a squeeling puppy. Gatto is not to be respected and anyone who does resoect him is a fool. And whilst on the subject Williams was right he did kill in self-defence of himself and his family.
 
Ruanaidh said:
You disapoint me Lance. Don't tell me you're one of these squareheads who blokes like Gatto would bend over any chance they would get. I knew that crew and none of them were as depicted in that comedy Underbelly. If they had you in thie presence for one day and showed their true face you would be a squeeling puppy. Gatto is not to be respected and anyone who does resoect him is a fool. And whilst on the subject Williams was right he did kill in self-defence of himself and his family.
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I disappoint you? Whoah, I'm shattered.

I have also spent a lot of time in the company of pyscho meth heads, so you don't have to tell me how lame the portrayals of blokes like the Morans were in Underbelly :rolleyes: Those guys were pyschos, as is Gatto, no doubt.

But Gatto is the last man standing. He goes about it all with a bit of panache. If you don't recognise that, or you disagree, whatever
 
You don't have to like what somebody is to appreciate how they go about it. I mean, shit, Gatto's main game was standing over troublesome unionists and I think that is disgraceful. But as a keen observer of gangster-ism in all it's forms I do get a good laugh out of how he carries his shit.

And for the record, Gatto has never been involved in drugs, he's a stand-over man first and foremost.
 
GentlemanJeff said:
You have stooped to a new low.

Now the left is romanticizing the lifestyle of Gatto - a self confessed murderer and thug.

I also find it amusing that leftists such as Bit-pattern think there is something noble about the "stand-over man industry". I am sure the small businesses that were extorted and forced to the wall due to these protection rackets would disagree with you.
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They wouldn't disagree with Mick Gatto though, would they? :D
 

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Kerry O'Brien just opened the ABC 7.30 report tonite introducing a story about Mick Gatto, Opus Prime and the ANZ bank. In that order.

At the end of the story he made a major reference to Mick again.

Love him or hate him. One thing Mick's involvement in this has done is getting a few previously carefree financial money movers/lenders thinking about a rare word so far in their footloose profession.

CONSEQUENCE

Up to now there has been a fair bit of sign em up and our job is done forget em mentality about a few of our financial institution's.

Tomorrow with a little bit of luck after a nightmare and possibly catching up with an episode of "Underbelly", a few of these sign em up and let them rot financiers will spare a thought of Mick Gatto with his big belly and A-Team T-Shirt striding around Tullamarine airport on his way to Singapore to seek out Opus Prime funds.

We used to have lenders with a conscious, and we probably need them again.

As I earlier said you can love him or hate him. But I love him for this, he did not have to put this in the public domain, but he chose to. And some of these unscrupulous lenders will have an uneasy feeling about this.

And they deserve to.
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Mick's always been The Man. The only clear winner from the Underworld war. Coincidence? I don't think so :cool:

It's interesting. If you read the latest Chopper book, he pans everybody in the ganglands war. Puts himself right in the middle of it (yeh right chop chop :o ), and says how he was involved and everyone else were amatuers. The only person he didn't pan was Big Mick; you could just tell he had respect for him above all others.

On an aside, I was probably about 500 metres away when Mick put a cap in Benji's ass. I was living in Carlton then, good times!
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Thanks for the laugh Lance.:D
 
GentlemanJeff said:
You have stooped to a new low.

Now the left is romanticizing the lifestyle of Gatto - a self confessed murderer and thug.

I also find it amusing that leftists such as Bit-pattern think there is something noble about the "stand-over man industry". I am sure the small businesses that were extorted and forced to the wall due to these protection rackets would disagree with you.
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ah Jeff, you're a odd little man aren't you? :D I feel honoured that you think my views are representative of some mythical, monolithical "Left". It's quite the compliment!

But why do I read everything you post in a high-pitched, nasally, panicky whine? It's weird :D
 
Sad when people respect crooks.

Hopefully someone shoots him over there.
 
jazz said:
Sad when people respect crooks.

Hopefully someone shoots him over there.
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ooh everyones so sewious!! :rolleyes:

You ever heard of a guy called Ned Kelly? I guess you arc up every time someone talks about him. Hell, in a town called Glenrowan, they actually have monuments to him!! :eek: In fact, you could almost say respecting crooks is part of Australia's history & culture!
 

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jazz said:
Sad when people respect crooks.

Hopefully someone shoots him over there.
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Stuff that, these Opes Prime shysters are the real crooks

This story just keeps getting better :D

Gatto's money hunters hold court

MELBOURNE'S underbelly surfaced in the foyer of Singapore's five-star Shangri-La Hotel yesterday, with Mick Gatto and two associates holding court in the lobby as several local "friends" kept unwanted guests at bay.
A string of clients of failed stockbroker Opes Prime came to call, interested in enlisting Mr Gatto's infamous influence to recover their investments.
Apparently spooked by the coverage surrounding Mr Gatto, the three key players in Singapore companies used for suspicious Opes Prime share transactions had agreed to meet in the hotel today, Mr Gatto said.
Jay Moghe, senior Singapore representative and the sole director of the Virgin Islands-registered company that owes Opes Prime more than $100 million, was flying back from a Hong Kong conference for the meeting, Mr Gatto said.
With Opes Prime's liquidators belittling any prospect of his accessing the missing millions, Mr Gatto, with his blunt offsiders Matt Tomas and John Khoury, claimed they were on the verge of "doing a deal" with Singapore representatives that would recover large amounts.
Just how they could do so, how much was involved and how the Singapore men could make any deal grew less clear with every comment.
Directors of Opes Prime-linked companies Mr Moghe, Gordon Browne and Raj Maiden had agreed to meet today, Mr Gatto said. The men deny they have, or control, any of the missing funds. Mr Gatto was angry at suggestions Mr Moghe was rushing back to Singapore to fly his wife and children out for their own protection.
"That's not our style," Mr Gatto said. "I haven't spoken to him or anything at this point.
"I've got a reputation to uphold and one of my key points is I don't interfere with women and children. I'm firm on that.
"We've got no intention of doing anything illegal or untoward to anyone."
Mr Gatto said he had planned to make people worried. "We don't mind them being a little bit nervous because they'll be honest and truthful with us, and hopefully we will get a result."
"There are properties involved," Mr Khoury said. "We are way in front of (liquidators) Ferriers and Deloittes, all they are doing is selling shares and we are on to assets, meaning property."
With Opes Prime's Singapore office abandoned, its only property BusinessDay could locate was a Chinatown shop and home. The colonial-era property would be worth millions, but would make barely a dent on the more than $500 million owed to creditors. Told this, Mr Khoury said millions had been parked in accounts in the British Virgin Islands, some controlled by the Singapore representatives. "That's why we are going to negotiate with them; they might get to keep a bit of it," he said.
"Don't worry about how we are going to get the money. We aren't here for the noodles."
Mr Browne and Mr Moghe did not respond to calls yesterday, but Mr Maiden rejected any suggestion they had hidden funds.
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http://business.theage.com.au/gattos-money-hunters-hold-court/20080409-24xx.html
 
Lance,
The guy is an extortionist and a bully who makes a living by threatening people with harm if they don't give him money.

Pond scum and so are his offsiders.
 
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Daytripper said:
Lance,
The guy is an extortionist and a bully who makes a living by threatening people with harm if they don't give him money.

Pond scum and so are his offsiders.
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Are you talking about Mick ?

Or one of the toe rag's that the banks send in to vacate people from their houses after one of the banks dodgy mortgages go's sour ?
 

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