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Main Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Dave Meckanic
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Main character, designer, engineer and researcher that was involved in designing the lethal electrified fences, the EMP Cannon and other weapons systems in SA and was inadvertently involved in the $150m R&D tax and public funds fraud in Canada
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Ericka
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Dave’s wife, pretty ‘n petite and clever too
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Quantum
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Dave’s R&D company
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Tanya
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Dave’s daughter, born in Canada
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Michael
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Dave’s son, born in South Africa
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Mercedes
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Dave’s mistress, her internet handle
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Natalia
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Dave’s mistress, a beautiful woman but whenever something is too good to be true... you know the rest. A woman who is superficially perfect, but who is also considerably more venomous than the average tree viper.
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South Africa - Daltronics Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Daltronics
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A military contracting company that produced lethal electrified fences and other user friendly equipment
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Chronos
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The manufacturing wing of Daltronics that produced the actual high voltage generators for the Lethal Fence
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Teddy Dalhaus
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Andy
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Managing Director of Daltronics and a fantastic guy, great sense of humor, charismatic. He has 3 children, Frank, Victoria and Kathy.
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Frank Dalhaus
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John
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Teddy’s son the village idiot and part time R&D Director, the opposite of his father. Frank was plagaristic and always ready to take credit for someone else’s work.
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Victoria Dalhaus
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Tina
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Teddy’s oldest daughter and accounts manager, very classy and attractive girl (she may have been the nicest person in Teddy’s family and it was a terrible shame she was ‘taken’ so early in her life)
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Kathy Dalhaus
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Karen
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Teddy’s youngest daughter and never really part of the company but she certainly suckled at the teet of blood money. Pretty much her entire life and education was bought on the blood of the fence. She presently runs a surrogate ‘baby brokerage’ operation in Southern California.
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Donna
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Elise
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Victoria’s assistant in painted-on pants and Teddy’s “ex-party girl” that he palmed off on a Barcom Buyer named Vincent for his help in acquiring utility company contracts and “services rendered”
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Orville Headman
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Esmond
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Teddy’s financial ‘fixer’ who operated in the UK and Switzerland, banks and filtering currency, this guy looked like Frankenstein without the bolts
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Matt Sandford
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Mike
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The rotund and jolly pilot of the Piper Chieftan, this guy was a lot of fun, he was straight up and honest. He kept our “advertising” material, photos of the bodies on the fence.
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Denise Sandford
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Wendy
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Teddy’s accountant and Matt’s wife, a very smart woman
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Lori
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Lindy
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The second receptionist at Daltronics, nice but so thin if she turned sideways she’d fall between the cracks in the floor
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Krissi
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Colleen
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The first receptionist at Daltronics, a hottie like Donna, but if intelligence were water, she’d be a desert
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Joseph
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Peter
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Really friendly, helpful and smart black guy in the assembly laboratory
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Miguel Armani
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Jose
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Chief designer at Chronos and one of Dave’s closest friends
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Cynthia Armani
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Sonja
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Miguel’s wife
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Nathan Armani
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Miguel’s son
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Jimmy
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Jakes
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R&D Assembly Lab Technician, big guy like the friendly giant
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Jason
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Jock
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R&D Assembly Lab Technician, very nervous and afraid of everything
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Willem
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Hannas
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R&D Assembly Lab Technician, normal guy
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Jonas
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Johann
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R&D Assembly Lab Technician, bit of a cowboy
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Stephan van der Walt
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Andre
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R&D Lab Assistant, my bodyguard and a very dangerous man out of special forces, who’s father was the Chief of Counter-Intelligence and the progenitor of non-conventional and specialized weapons programs.
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Cameron
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Colin
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R&D Lab Assistant Programmer, smart kid straight out of Witts, wrote a fair amount of parts of the user interface for our Lethal Fencing systems
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Greg
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R&D Assembly Lab Technician, little guy, comical
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Randy
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Randy
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R&D Lab Assistant Programmer that I had to let go
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Paul
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Paul
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R&D Lab Assistant Programmer that I had to let go
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Helmut Johansen
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Kevin
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Managing Director of Chronos and could be a real ass at times like Teddy’s son, Frank
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Kurt Johansen
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Ken
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Helmut’s father and the site manager for the fence installations, a really nice guy
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Celine
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Martine
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Teddy’s little bit of French fluff
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Donald Greenbaum
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Keith
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A business partner of Dave Meckanic’s and the second husband of Liza Smith
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Liza Smith
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Melody
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The second wife of Donald Greenbaum and the ex-wife of Mike Smith, she gravitated towards money and cosmetic surgery, and once she had the cosmetic surgery Donald ran out of money
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Mike Smith
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Al
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A friend of Dave Meckanic whom he knew in both Canada and South Africa. Mike was a black belt, purple sash in Karate and a mold, tool and die maker by chosen profession
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Candice
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Oldest daughter of Mike and Liza Smith
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Lyric
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Youngest daughter of Mike and Liza Smith
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Ron
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Erol
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An alleged investment organizer that turned out to be a moll for the South African government
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Norman Noire
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A business partner with Dave Meckanic
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Andy Noire
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Phil
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A hardware store owner and investor/partner with Dave Meckanic
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Sandra Noire
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Sally
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Andy Noire’s wife and accountant
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Jeremy
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A friend helping to organize investment
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Fanny
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Funja
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Dave’s third and most normal maid who was Sotho and Jewish
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Emily
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Anna
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Dave’s first maid, she was a skinny little thing but had a big heart and she was Sotho
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Beauty
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Lucy
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Dave’s second maid who looked like Aunt Jemima and was Sotho
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Walter
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Hendrik
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Dave’s first maid Emily’s Zulu husband
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Henry
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Henry
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Dave’s second maid Beauty’s, Bantu boyfriend
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Jessie
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Josie
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Ericka’s good friend across the street who was Scottish
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Mickey
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Davie
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Jessie’s husband, also Scottish and a really nice guy
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Katrice
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Mickey and Jessie’s daughter
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Vander Meir
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Beetge
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Dave Meckanic’s first landlord in South Africa
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Vanessa
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Julie
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Owner of a hair salon in a local shopping mall
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Willie
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Ronnie
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Willie and Barbara were married and owned an auto shop in Johannesburg where Donald Greenbaum conveniently helped remove some of their “waste cash”
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Barbara
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Marie
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Willie and Barbara were married and owned an auto shop in Johannesburg where Donald Greenbaum conveniently helped remove some of their “waste cash”
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Lucille
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Hennie
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Donald Greenbaum’s ex-wife and the bane of his new wife, since Donald still had feelings for her
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Barcom
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Eskom
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South African Electrical Utility company
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Vincent
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Donny
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Donna’s boyfriend who showered her with gifts, he is a buyer at Barcom who would steer contracts to his “friends” like Teddy
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South African / Canadian / US Government Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Colonel Manny Vander Walt
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Colonel Jorrie Jordaan
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Chief of Counterintelligence and Stephan’s father, he was meant to be on the Helderberg along with his wife returning from Taiwan with weapons grade materials, some of which were for Dave Meckanic’s offensive weapon project
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Du Toit
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Commandant deVillers
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Commandant, Buyer at QMG/KMG for Armscor
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van de Merve
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Commandant Browning
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Commandant, working with PMP and Armscor
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Minister, Foreign Affairs
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Pik Botha
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South African Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Wilhelm Westchester
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Magnus Malan
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South African Minister of Defense
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US Ambassador to South Africa
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Eddie Perkins
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US Ambasador to South Africa
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LaPierre, Canadian Consul to South Africa
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R.A.J. Adrian Brazeau
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Administrative Consul, Canadian Embassy in Pretoria, you don’t need spineless wankers like this guy around
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University of Witwatersrand
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University of Witwatersrand
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The university that supplied Dave with an honorary doctorate for his work in high energy plasma physics for the Armscor weapon.
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Hendrickson
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Major Ousthiezen
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Major, in charge of Op’s room at Messina SMG
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Kirsch
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Commandant Nel
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Commandant, Administrative at 93AD
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Michelson
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Colonel Westhiezen
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Colonel, Commanding Officer at 93AD
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Erasmus
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Colonel Swanepoel
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Colonel, Commanding Officer at Messina SMG
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Hendrick
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CSO Hennie
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Chief Security Officer at 93AD
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Canada - Companies and Universities
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Real Name
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Description
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PowerMaster Inc.
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A highly corrupt shell company run by Samuel Littleman, Bruce Farmer, Bradley Weiss and Dave Meckanic, the corporate lawyer was Jack Meoff
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Angstec Inc.
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A technology company formed by Samuel Littleman, Bruce Farmer and Dave Meckanic, the corporate was Jack Meoff
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PDQ
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A large investment firm that managed roughly 8 billion in shareholder funds (PDQ is a fictional name)
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University
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One of the larger seriously corrupt Canadian Universities that touts itself as being above reproach, well that’s wrong
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Skinner and Crooke
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An accounting firm regularly tied to government scandals
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Hal Woods Inc
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A large manufacturing company owned and controlled by Samuel Littleman until very recently
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Leeman Sandhouse Cotts
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Another accounting firm regularly tied to government scandals and a high profile Canadian murderer
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Sound Health
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A physiotherapy and rehabilitation company tied to underworld connections
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Minotaur Capital
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An investment company that purchases other companies with technology so they can be split up and the assets sold to increase profits for Minotaur
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SightLine Electronics
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A high technology R&D company purchased by Minotaur Capital and then dismantelled and sold by Minotaur Capital
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Diamond Chev Olds
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A GM dealer that specializes in high end GM vehicles and where Dave Meckanic’s 1997 C5 Corvette was being delivered
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Toronto Chronicle
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A major newspaper which ran an article on Dave Meckanic, his technology and the battle with Powermaster, Angstec and Samuel Littleman
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World Telegram
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Another major newspaper that ran an article on Samuel Littleman and his involvement with universities and the ‘buying’ professors
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Energy Boss
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A company owned by Martin MacMaster that was contracting Dave Meckanic to develop products
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Pure Current
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A 2nd company owned by Martin MacMaster that was contracting Dave Meckanic to develop products
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Research Ontario Cooperative
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A large Canadian R&D company that contracted Dave Meckanic to develop products
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Laserworks
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A new venture company that contracted Dave Meckanic to develop products and then burned him for $800,000 through the Mulroney SRTC program
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Sonitron
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The company that invested in Lasertron at 20% on the dollar and took a tax credit of 100% under the Mulroney SRTC program
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Conceptual Inc
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A company owned by Martin Jeffries that was contracting Dave Meckanic to develop products
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Powermaster, Angstec, Hall Woods and Quantum Legal Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Meoffs-Anilheim
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Jack Meoff’s “boutique” law firm, “boutique” is just another name for “trendy and corrupt”
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Jack Meoffs
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The lawyer who organized the shareholder oppression in both Powermaster and Angstec that illegally dissolved Dave’s shareholdings and lost Dave Meckanic roughly $30,000,000
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Felletia Fuchose
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Jack Meoff’s “bitch” partner
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John Scavenger
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Ray Compton’s lawyers
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James MacIntyre
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Ray Compton’s lawyers
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Bruce Moorren
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Ray Compton’s lawyers
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David Lawson
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Dave Meckanic’s lawyer
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Sylvia
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David Lawson’s assistant
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Accounting Company Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Cindy Crooke
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The accountant who was structuring the tax evasion plan for Samuel Littleman, Powermaster and Angstec as well as handling the IBC’s and offshore accounts in conjuction with Samuel Littleman, Bradley Weiss and the lawyer, Jack Meoff (it’s not easy committing $100m in tax fraud unless you have a crooked accountant who can grease the government wheels and keep them involved)
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PowerMaster, Angstec and Hall Woods Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Dan Jackson
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The CEO of PDQ investments, the firm that purchased a small percentage of Angstec driving its value to $100 million
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Samuel Littleman
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The President and CEO of Hal Woods Inc and a financial partner in both Powermaster and Angstec. He also pretends to be philanthropic in order to hide his true agenda, He has been involved in many questionable and allegedly criminal activities and has a tendency to welch on most deals he makes. We’ll call him Sociopath A.
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Bruce Farmer
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A technology partner in Powermaster and Angstec, a womanizer who is seriously mentally twisted, we’ll call him Sociopath B.
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Brad Weiss
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An investment ‘fixer’ with criminal tendancies, a guy who can twist deals and organize Samuel Littleman’s illegal activities into something possibly manageable
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Danny Gosset
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A salesman at Hall Woods
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John Vander Meurve
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The Controller of Hal Woods and Samuel Littleman’s right hand man, who didn’t realize he worked for a demon
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Ray Compton
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A salesman who happened to be on the wrong golf course on the right day and who was hired by Samuel Littleman to be Powermaster and Angstec’s lead acquirer of investments, a point man
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Jillian Samson
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A woman who’s father was partner with Bradley Weiss in a smaller investment firm, Bradley knew the CEO of PDQ investments. She also happened to be on the wrong golf course on the right day during one of Samuel Littleman’s drunken rants and was hired to assist Roy Compton to jointly be Powermaster and Angstec’s lead acquirers of investments even though a deal had already been inked with Roy
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Doug Wheat
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Art Cox’s partner who was burned in a deal with Samuel Littleman involving Powermaster
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Art Cox
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Doug Wheat’s partner who was burned in a deal with Samuel Littleman involving Powermaster
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Rod Hammer
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An offshore banking consultant who scammed $9.6 million from investors on behalf of Powermaster and then cut and ran. Later the RCMP became involved and questioned Samuel Littleman et al.
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Peter White
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An offshore banking consultant who scammed $9.6 million from investors on behalf of Powermaster and then cut and ran. Later the RCMP became involved and questioned Samuel Littleman et al.
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Donald Teller
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An investment ‘story’ writer from the US that produced Powermaster and Angstec’s corporate high technology profile and image so that it could be marketed in private placements, specifically to PDQ
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Roxanne
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The receptionist at Hal Woods Inc., nice girl
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Simon MacDonald
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Retired Canadian General who came to a demo
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Arthur Cole
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A man with a dream of having all vehicles linked to one satellite based monitoring and help system
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Violette
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The book keeper at Hal Woods Inc.
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George Lastman
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The principal owner of Minotaur Capital who set in motion all of the plans to devour companies and sell off their assets
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Bruno Carmilli
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The salesman at Diamond Chev-Olds that was handling my 97 Corvette
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Patsy Ali
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An account manager at a leading Canadian Bank on Bay Street who happened to change her body and head from one day to the next
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Barry Geoff
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A technology consultant and market maker in the US that was linked directly to George Major from a US university
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Government Research Associated Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Gene Baptiste
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Canadian government representative for high technology projects associated with Grant Programs
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Martin MacMaster
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Owned two companies, Power Boss and Pure Energy both involved in electronic product development
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Martin Jeffries
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Owner of Conceptual Inc., a company involved in mobile electronic systems development
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Christopher Jacobs
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A researcher in alternative medicine, lived in northern Ontario
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Samantha Kelly
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A researcher in alternative medicine with an honary from a local Canadian university, lived in Toronto area
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Peter Masterson
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Owner of Sightline Inc., a company involved in electronic warfare systems development, located near Toronto
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John Eastman
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John and Bob were brothers who stole intellectual property and developed products from Martin MacMaster which were paid for by the Canadian government. The products were promptly shipped to an out of country holding firm.
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Bob Eastman
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John and Bob were brothers who stole intellectual property and developed products from Martin MacMaster which were paid for by the Canadian government. The products were promptly shipped to an out of country holding firm.
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Carl Rogers
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Martin MacMaster’s lawyer
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Brian Corman
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A rather flaky and anal inventor, who had a tendency to scoop others peoples ideas, claim them as his own and then capitalize on them.
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Canadian University Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Dean Matthew James
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Dean of a highly questionable Canadian university with billions in its coffers, the Dean knew Samuel Littleman
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William Roberts
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Assistant in the Dean’s Office
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Malcolm Rama
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Crooked Professor at the highly questionable Canadian university attached to Samuel Littleman and Powermaster
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duPlessies
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University ‘fixer’ and insider who knew Samuel Littleman
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Don Paddani
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Investigator at GREG, the conflict of interest and unethical behavior watchdog group at the university
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Aaron Feinstein
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Crooked Professor at the highly questionable Canadian university attached to Samuel Littleman and Powermaster
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ARI
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Aaron Feinstein’s company that benefitted from his university students unpaid work
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George Major
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A self-important professor at a US based university that professed that his primary function after the US nuclear program was to be the ‘Gatekeeper’ of the door to investment in all new technology
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Mel Sandrington
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Manager and chief investigator at GREG, the conflict of interest and unethical behavior watchdog group at the university
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G.R.E.G.
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The conflict of interest and unethical behavior watchdog group at the university
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Canada - Newspaper Media People
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Lee Price
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Staff reporter at the Toronto Chronicle, wrote a story on Dave Meckanic, his technology and the battle with Powermaster and Samuel Littleman in the late 1990's
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Taylor Camden
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Staff reporter at the World Telegram, wrote an article on Samuel Littleman’s ‘buying’ university professors and using students as unpaid ‘thinking meat’ in the late 1990’s, quite the expose in itself
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Canada - Implied Services
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Powell Bernbaum
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Owner of Implied Services
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Mohamed
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Chief Technology Officer for Implied Services
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ISi
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Short form of an Internet Porn company running out of downtown Toronto with a gross income of $18 million a month
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Implied Services
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An Internet Porn company running out of downtown Toronto with a gross income of $18 million a month
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Canada - SoundHealth Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Anthony Grimaldi
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The owner of SoundHealth Inc., a physiotherapy chain. Actually, he didn’t own it on paper as he did 17 years for murder and had serious underworld connections
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Raymond Beechman
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The accountant at SoundHealth Inc.
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Carmella
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Anthony Grimaldi’s niece, SoundHealth Inc. was full of nepotism
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Bob Carpessi
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Investment and franchise coordinator for SoundHealth and investment coordinator for Implied Services Inc. projects and a fixer used by Samuel Littleman to obtain investment capital. Bob was involved in the $9.6 fraud investigation by the RCMP of Samuel Littleman, Rod Hammer and Peter White.
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Jim Jones
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Bob Carpessi’s impotent replacement
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Canadian Government Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Timothy deVilliers
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Beaurocrat, Canadian government with Energy and Technology
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Walt Green
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Beaurocrat, Canadian government with Energy and Technology
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Jonathan Teacher
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Beaurocrat, Canadian government with Energy and Technology
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LaPierre
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Administrative Consul, Canadian Embassy in Pretoria, you don’t need spineless wankers like this guy around
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ODRFC
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Large Ontario R&D firm and think tank
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FIC
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Government Controlled Investment Firm
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Revenue Canada
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Revenue Canada
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Dr. Garfield
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A Director at Revenue Canada
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Ms. Montrose
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Secretary/Assistant, Canadian government with Energy and Technology
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Other Canadian, US and Internet Characters
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New Name
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Real Name
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Description
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Dennis Sampson
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A very good friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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Ward Carmichael
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Superintendent of Police, Durham Region
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Will Reese
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Police Officer, Durham Region
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John Morgan
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Owner of Laserworks who took a 20% SRTC and invested the money in real estate instead of research. Charged with tax fraud in 1987.
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Elvira
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Internet female, seriously malicious and lives in US
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Kathleen Cotts/Deneer
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Internet female, Elvira’s real name in the book
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Ivan
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Internet male, Elvira’s boyfriend and flavor of the week while she was screwing around on her husband who was back in the US
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Argo
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Internet male, local friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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LadyBird
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Internet female, local friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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NightStorm
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Internet female, long distance friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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Lavender
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Internet female, long distance friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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Mego J
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Internet male
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Stormie
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Internet male
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Tabathia
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Internet female
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Eliminator
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Internet male, long distance friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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GhostGurl
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Internet female, long distance friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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Undertaker
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Internet male, local friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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Bebe
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Internet female, local friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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PulseWitch
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Internet female
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Icee Cream
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Internet female
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BadData
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Internet male
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NDRThal
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Internet male
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Tadpole
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Internet male
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MotorMomma
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Internet female, long distance friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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Allison
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Internet female
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Rollin
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Internet female, long distance friend of Dave Meckanic’s and an attorney
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Reba
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Internet female, long distance friend of Dave Meckanic’s and an attorney
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Rene
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Internet female
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Huggles
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Internet female, long distance friend of Dave Meckanic’s
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Betty
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Dave Meckanic’s “holier than thou” bitchy and hypocritical cousin
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Judy
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Betty’ mother
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Philip
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Dave Meckanic’s cousin and long time friend
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Dream’s Away
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A virtual world and chat service on the internet that is flailing away like the dinosaurs that chose to die rather than adapt (or maybe like the dinosaurs they just aren’t smart enough)
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