What do you get when you cross Star Trek jargon , a decent knowledge of Photoshop , andFlorida ? Well , judging by Howard Leventhal ’s attempt to insure around $ 3 million in funding for a fake tricorder , the reply is one impressively delusional case of fraud .
Last class , Laventhal decided to tell executives at Fort Lauderdale , Florida’sParagon Financial Group , Inc.that Health Canada was backing Laventhal ’s very own McCoy Home Health Tablet that — you guessed it — takes its name from Star Trek ’s Leonard H. McCoy himself . But that ’s not all the two share in common ; just like Leonard , the tablet was also 100 % not a real affair . But that did n’t hold on Leventhal from accepting the $ 800,000 in funding before taking his personal skill fabrication saga a few steps further .
Next , Leventhal fashion phony contracts between his ( also bastard ) company Neovision USA and the Canadian government ; this include forging Deputy Health Minister Glenda Yeates ’ signature . But patently the phony Candian political science is horribly generous with their notional money — the contract purported to provide Leventhal $ 8.2 million in funding .
It also , as Bloomberg reports , included the following description of the “ gimmick ” :
Heltheo ’s McCoy Home Health Tablet , named after the fictitious Dr. Leonard McCoy of TV ’s Star Trek serial , is designed as a platform to maximise the patient welfare through broadband - augmented in - habitation telemedicine .
Maximize ! welfare ! Broadband ! Yet despite all these delightfully meaningless buzzword , Leventhal never got the additional $ 2.5 million he was asking for , which belike had something to do with the fact that he give his bogus contract to an undercover agent sitting as a Paragon employee .
While Leventhal is presently out on a $ 100,000 bond certificate , he ’s schedule for a audition in Brooklyn on Oct. 30.And harmonise to Bloomberg , Leventhal will be contesting the charge . Consequently , we ’re now accept wager on the fabricated serial publication from which he ’ll draw off his defense mechanism . Current odds favor The Matrix . [ Bloomberg ]
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