Kevin Randle: Kevin did a cold case review just recently of the evidence and the witnesses who claimed to have seen bodies at Roswell, and he has come to the conclusion that it is not as solid as we might have imagined. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers IV
I’m a born Catholic. But I would not like to be excluded from Heaven on a technicality. My name is Giovanni di Stefano. I’m a lawyer. Best known as the Devil’s advocate. I have defended the indefensible, from Saddam Hussein to Charles Manson. Devil’s Advocate: The Mostly True Story of Giovanni di Stefano, Sky Documentaries 2022
His client list runs as a Who’s Who for the criminal world. ibid. QC
The case of John Palmer. Goldfinger … ‘Giovanni got a £33 million confiscation order set aside for a notorious criminal.’ ibid.
R v Hoogstraten … ‘His conviction quashed.’ ibid.
‘His motivation was to stick two fingers up to the legal establishment.’ ibid.
MGM: I got away with $249 million. ibid. Giovanni
‘He said, I’m in Iraq. I’m representing Saddam Hussein.’ ibid. client
May 2006: ‘I was handed a file that contained an allegation brought against Giovanni di Stefano … of stealing the bail security.’ ibid.
Was he allowed to practise here? I don’t think he was legally allowed to practise law, was he, in this country? ibid. QC
A hornet’s nest of politics and espionage. ibid.
He didn’t appear to have done any work on my behalf. Devil’s Advocate: The Mostly True Story of Giovanni di Stefano II disgruntled client
He’d never registered with the Law Society. ibid. rozzer
My job is to deliver suitcases with counterfeit bills, fake dollars. They bring me the suitcase already packed, they call me up. Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller s1e3, Counterfeiters, National Geographic 2020
Lima, Peru: Every city has its secrets. Lima is no different. Over the last decade a new criminal enterprise has taken root, and a new breed of gangster craftsman has emerged. ibid.
Incredibly, it’s estimated that 60% of all fake US bills are produced in Peru. ibid.
In 2008 John and Anne Darwin were sentenced to six years in prison for fraud. The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story, caption, ITV 2022
Pretending you’re dead is quite easy. Coming back to life is as everyone knows slightly more difficult. ibid. John Darwin
John was taken home by his sons, Mark and Anthony, while police began to investigate if any crime had been committed. ibid. caption
Five lifeboats, two coastguard units, a helicopter and a spotter plane searched for John Darwin for 36 hours. Only a wrecked canoe and a paddle were found on a nearly beach. ibid.
On April 10 2003 John Darwin was officially declared dead. Shortly after, Anne claimed £162,000 in life insurance policies. ibid.
After 2,082 days missing, John Darwin handed himself in at a London police station. ibid.
The day after John Darwin’s reappearance, a British tabloid reporter received a tip-off that Anne Darwin was living in Panama City. ibid.
With Anne and John Darwin in custody, the police investigation began to focus on when Anne Darwin became involved in her husband’s disappearance and her part in the fraud. ibid.
The means and goals of military deception are essentially the same. Secrets of War s1e9: Tools of Deception, History 1998
By the Second World War camouflage was an accepted facet of tactical planning … Both sides instituted massive civil camouflage programmes. ibid.
Perhaps the most widely and effectively used decoys were fake tanks. ibid.
The decoy itself evolved … inflatable decoys were quite convincing. ibid.
Fake airfields were fabricated. ibid.
Every now and again there’s going to be a Nicholas Rossi that turns up. But Nicholas Rossi poses a threat to everyone. Imposter: The Man Who Came Back From the Dead I, man, Channel 4 2024
2022: The latest in the sage of a Rhode Island man who investigators say faked his own dead and fled the country. ibid. TV news
Arthur Knight is identified as Nicholas Rossi and arrested several times. ibid.
A guy who faked his own dead, who’s become a fugitive from justice. He’s one of America’s most wanted. He fled across the Atlantic. And he’s turned up in a hospital in Glasgow; he’s on a ventilator with Covid. ibid. journalist gets assignment
Arthur Knight seems to want as much attention as he can possibly get. ibid. extradition lawyer
What happened to me was fraud, extortion and blackmail. ibid. victim ot Nicholas
He basically just got older and fatter and even uglier and he took the victim to the max … An evil parasite that will leap from victim to victim. ibid. victim
You’ve got a serial rapist on the loose who faked his own dead. ibid. Utah prosecutor
It just screams psychopath. Imposter: The Man Who Came Back From the Dead II, man
The game has just started. The game is afoot. ibid. Nicholas to Edinburgh journalists
There were so many times when it would get physical. I had a black eye … I hated my life. I hated Nick. Imposter: The Man Who Came Back From the Dead III, Utah lady victim of domestic violence
He would urinate on his brother’s bed. Just to do it. Just to get his brother into trouble … He got so out of control he started hitting her [mother] … mental hospitals, behaviour programs … I’ll always feel guilty till the day I die … Nicky is Nicky. ibid. stepdad
Nicholas Rossi had photographs of himself in Glasgow … Scottish police then went to the address of Arthur Knight where they met Miranda Knight. Miranda told the police that her husband was in hospital with a severe case of Covid; following that lead the police went to the hospital where they found a man registered under the name of Arthur Knight, unconscious in a coma with Covid 19. They found distinctive tattoos on his arm that matched Nicholas Rossi … They also took fingerprints … We had found Nicholas Rossi. ibid. investigative journalist
Whether she still thinks he’s Arthur Knight or not, I can’t get my head around it really. ibid. journalist #2
Rhode Island: Kidnapping, Fraud, Extortion, Identity Theft, Blackmail, Harassment, Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Rape, the list goes on and on … Imposter: The Man Who Came Back From the Dead IV
The father? Crackhead, coke-head, wicked, wicked … diagnosed as a psychopath … sick, sick, he’s dead now … The kid was the devil’s spawn. ibid. stepdad
I would not be prepared to accept any statement of fact made by him. ibid. Scottish extradition judge
Miranda is the mystery in all of this. ibid. journalist
Gallery geezer #1: Must be a very late one. I’ve never come across it before.
Gallery geezer #2: Well it’s been out of circulation. Play for Today: Under the Hammer, BBC 1984
Gallery geezer #3: However much I look at it I don’t like it. ibid.
Plundered … stolen pictures … I thought it was interesting … ibid. porter’ talk
American geezer was here – reckons it was a fake. ibid.
I wish you’d kicked McClaren … If only you’d done it half an hour earlier … Absolute discretion, you understand? ibid. gallery geezer
We should go into the possibility of a discreet repair. ibid.
Looks genuine enough for me. ibid. painting repair man
I think you know what I have to say. ibid. gallery geezer to head porter