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[sean mclaren]

thanks for that Len .... good read and breaks the day for me

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 7:10 AM L.B.Loveday <lloveday at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> Conman ‘jockey’ Christopher Woods rides back into town
>
> Mark Morri, The Daily Telegraph
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> May 29, 2019 7:30pm
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> One of Sydney’s most colourful conman is back in town after being released
> from an American jail where he served four years for a multimillion-dollar
> mortgage fraud scheme.
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> Christopher Woods lived the life of a millionaire, mostly on other
> people’s money, claiming to be one of the world’s top jockeys.
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> [image:
> https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/f93561b0d364cceab4b27ccdbf63d75a?width=650]
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> Christopher Woods was able to scam millions of dollars posing as a
> champion jockey. File picture
>
> In reality, the boy from a Maroubra housing commission estate was a
> Randwick stablehand for a short time, but was able to convince people he
> was a Melbourne Cup-winning rider.
>
> He ripped off punters by saying he could give them a sure thing at the
> races because he was in on the “fix’’.
>
> “He has probably gone through $20 or $30 million of others people’s
> money,” retired Detective Inspector Mark Smith told True Crime Australia
> <http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia>’s Police Tape
> podcast.
>
> “I’ve known him probably 30 or more years.”
>
> [image:
> https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/02177cae611ba5390f42896bff2dd04a?width=650]Woods
> liked to live a life of luxury — on other people’s money. File picture
>
> His favourite story is when Woods found himself in strife for giving some
> big time punters in Sydney the wrong information on some horses.
>
> He spent the next three days being chauffeur-driven around the city in a
> gold Rolls-Royce, but unfortunately for him he was tied up in the boot, and
> the chauffeurs were Sydney criminals Adrian Kay and “Bob the Basher” Rakich.
>
> Every so often Rakich would drag Woods out of the boot, give him a belting
> and then stuff him back in the boot of the Roller.
>
> “It was a colourful time,’’ Smith said.
>
>
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> While Woods is still alive, Rakich and Kay were not so lucky. Rakich died
> when he crashed a Ferrari in the eastern suburbs in 1986. Later that year,
> Kay was shot dead at his Kings Cross hotel, King Arthur’s Court.
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> Smith said Woods loved the high life. When in America he lived in the best
> hotels and put everything on his black American Express card.
>
> “He would get on a plane and would turn left — never right — into first
> class. It’s the only way he flew.’’
>
>
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> Smith once spoke to the con artist about his lifestyle and asked what he
> would do if he was down to his last $10.
>
> “I wouldn’t bother with food, I’d probably just go get a tan,” was the
> answer. “He was a narcissist,” said Smith.
>
> In 2012, Woods, then 53, was sentenced to four years in a federal prison
> in California and ordered to repay more than $3 million for his part in a
> mortgage fraud scheme, but he is now back in Australia.
>
> Smith said he saw him recently on a bus in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. “I
> couldn’t be bothered talking to him. He was a parasite who lived off other
> people.”
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