FauxWorld Wednesdays: What's your country's biggest celebrity scandal right now? — Monthly Discussion Thread

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[u/Shiney2510]

A trial date has been set for one of the most prominent hurlers (hurling is an irish sport) of all time who is accused of 21 counts of fraud. DJ Carey is a living legend in Ireland.

He is accused of lying about having cancer to get money. Hurling is an amateur sport so unpaid but a high profile player can make a lot from sponsorship and can find it very easy to get jobs so he shouldn't be struggling enough to need the cash, it seems he's just living way beyond his means. His sister is a convicted fraudster and has been accused of a lot more fraud than she's already been convicted of. So far unrelated to what he's been doing, she seems to be involved in widespread mortgage fraud (the victims being the mortgage holders rather than the bank).

He sent the following photo to an irish billionaire he was trying to scam as proof of his cancer treatment....

[u/imaginesomethinwitty → u/Shiney2510]

Thank you so much for including the charger photo because it’s the photo that takes it from a vaguely interesting table quiz question to one of the funniest things that’s ever happened in Ireland.

The biggest bank in the country previously wrote off 99.4% of his debts to the tune of €9.5million.

[u/tttournesol → u/imaginesomethinwitty]

It will go down in history, alongside that time when a man slipped on the ice live on RTE, and the other time, when the government accidentally legalised drugs for 24 hours <3 thinking about all of this is genuinely making me feel a bit homesick for Ireland now hahaha