In a lovely piece of investigative journalism – the old school stuff that’s all too rare these days – journalists at The Age newspaper have dug up all the details of Henry Kaye’s dodgy land option scam. They published their stories today, and what a fascinating read they make!
How to be more like Jamie McIntyre: Inside a spruiker’s seminar
OK, so this isn’t too much skin off Jamie McIntyre’s nose. He’s been linked to Henry Kaye repeatedly over the years to the point where most people assume there’s something dodgy going on due to the association. Add to that his repeated run-ins with ASIC and it’s clear he’s NOT someone you’d trust with your hard-earned.
But it’s all new for Greg Klopper and his long-suffering team at Global 1 Events. They’ve managed to keep their dodgy dealings quiet for 4 years – which is much longer than I ever expected them to. Greg didn’t do it on his own, he’s simply not that sharp. No, he had Henry’s unethical law firm waiting to slap a lawsuit on anyone who considered speaking up, and Henry’s usual team of grunts on hand to make anonymous death threats to silence people.
Still, it was inevitably going to get out sooner or later. Which begs the question of what on earth Greg was thinking? He went into business with Henry knowing that when it came out his reputation would be trashed, and indeed now it has: he’s the new Jamie McIntyre of his industry.
People are distancing themselves faster than you can say “plausible deniability”. You can be sure that John Demartini‘s people are re-reading his contract with Global 1 under instructions to find a get-out loophole. Squeaky-clean Ryan Deiss of Digital Marketer is doubtless doing the same, no doubt ruing the day (quite recently) that he signed it. Benjamin Harvey isn’t going anywhere: Global 1’s business is too lucrative to him and besides, he doesn’t yet have much of a brand to be tarnished by the links to Henry.
So why did Greg faceplant his whole business with the Henry Kaye deal? I think he basically just didn’t think it through. Greg isn’t super bright, but he is renowned for his willingness to chase a dollar regardless of ethics.
Everyone who’s dealt with Greg comes away noting that he has no real mission or purpose behind what he does, it’s only about the money. So when Henry’s frontpeople, Michael Grochowski and Julia Feldman, put some big juicy commission projections in front of Greg, he simply gave in to his natural Pavlovian response. And that put him on the path to today’s predicament.
Oh dear, Greg!
Global 1 Events and Henry Kaye 