>
> "A disabled pensioner who made £850,000 selling fake antiques his son made
> avoided jail yesterday.
>
> George Greenhalgh, 84, sold the items to art houses and museums saying he
> found or inherited them. They included an "Egyptian statue" sold to Bolton
> Museum for £440,000.
>
> Greenhalgh, of Bolton, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and got a
> two year suspended sentence at the town's court. The judge said he was too
> infirm to go to jail."
>
> --
> "And idiots begat fools, and fools begat morons, and morons
> begat imbeciles, and imbeciles begat dufuses. And then
> dopes like Nick, Assthrobby and Groggy realized they could
> do this with people outside their immediate families..."

>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:16:21 +1300, Greg Procter ihug.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
> :>Larry in AZ wrote:
> :>>
> :>> "A disabled pensioner who made £850,000 selling fake antiques his son made
> :>> avoided jail yesterday.
> :>>
> :>> George Greenhalgh, 84, sold the items to art houses and museums saying he
> :>> found or inherited them. They included an "Egyptian statue" sold to Bolton
> :>> Museum for £440,000.
> :>>
> :>> Greenhalgh, of Bolton, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and got a
> :>> two year suspended sentence at the town's court. The judge said he was too
> :>> infirm to go to jail."
> :>>
> :>> --
> :>> "And idiots begat fools, and fools begat morons, and morons ...