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HOW much turmoil can the diamond industry sustain without shattering? On July 13th (2004) in an Ohio court De Beers, the world's largest producer of rough stones, finally pleaded guilty to charges of price-fixing of industrial diamonds and agreed to pay a $10m fine, thereby ending a 60-year-long impasse.
originally posted by: and14263
Nice idea.
I think when we look around pretty much all industry is corrupt and bending the laws to suit in some way.
Generally, in my experience, any EU industry governed by a Regulation or major Directive has corruption right at the top. That's how big market players gain an advantage in many areas, not all but many.
A post above has suggested you are in the wrong and that these industries are working within laws. It's funny how educated and informed perspectives differ from emotional opinions.
Here is some evidence to back up your OP:
Pay Day Loan Companies Break Competition Laws
Prison Workers Break the Law and Enable Corruption
UK MP Expense Scandal
I could go on FOREVER.
Ooh I just remembered VolksWagen breaking the law BIG TIME with their emissions nonsense.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
I did think about them, but am pretty ignorant on most of them besides medical. Can you maybe post some of your concerns about these?
Let's take home owners. At the Malibu fire, I know someone who had a "nice house" (it's not typical high end Malibu, it's older style, almost farm-like, but they made it beautiful inside and it is an amazing house. But they have fire insurance and everything that goes a long with it. These people have the belongings of a family of hoarders (much of it was from both of their works - movies, TV, research & kids/family stuff). They weren't hit by the fire, but they complained about "smoke damage" which made it "unlivable" for months (even though my family who visited 4-5 days after the fire) barely notices a smoke smell. Well the insurance which was for a very large amount to cover all the hoarded materials (things people would never user/wear again, and much of it was old, in questionable condition, etc) and the insurance company is obligated to pay for cleaning of ALL the materials in this house (every wall has shelving floor to ceiling plus lots of deep closets of Stuff, huge walk-in closets STUFFED full of stuff, etc, etc ,etc). The estimate for the removal of smell was well over $1million not counting other issues like hotel stay (of equal housing accommodations - VERY expensive due to location) and so many other ways to milk the insurance companies out of vast sums of $$. I'd bet if you sold their stuff at a yard sale if you collected $2000-4000 you would be VERY lucky, so how can they pay $1 million to clean it. I guarantee there is fraud going on here.
Look at the company that stated back in late 70's early 80's called "Zeeee Best cleaners" it started just south of LA I think and the guy, Barry Minkow - ended up creating a ponzi scheme while also committing insurance fraud on a daily basis (on building rehab after fire & floods. he did cleaning like this (after fires or water damage) where they billed for work not done - or absolute minimum, pocketing many millions a week. The film is called "Con Man" (released 2018) and I think this is what is happening in Malibu as we speak - they are all getting millions for the "smoke damage" from the fires. So many of these people were having financial difficulties, were upside down in their mortgage payments, etc. There needs to be a special investigator to look into all of this. There is one VERY big bombshell I'm withholding about this whole situation, complete with video's and pictures from people who live in the community and I'll only release this if I find someone who is really digging into the situation. Everyone on this site dismisses others so quickly, so I'm not wasting this on the people on this board (no offense to the "good guys" / non trolls).
I'm not going to accuse family, but last time I was there they were having large fights about $$, wife spent like it grew on trees among taking extended vacations around the world, not working, and everything else (while husband slaved away paying for daughter's college - very pricey as well).
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
I did think about them, but am pretty ignorant on most of them besides medical. Can you maybe post some of your concerns about these?
Let's take home owners. At the Malibu fire, I know someone who had a "nice house" (it's not typical high end Malibu, it's older style, almost farm-like, but they made it beautiful inside and it is an amazing house. But they have fire insurance and everything that goes a long with it. These people have the belongings of a family of hoarders (much of it was from both of their works - movies, TV, research & kids/family stuff). They weren't hit by the fire, but they complained about "smoke damage" which made it "unlivable" for months (even though my family who visited 4-5 days after the fire) barely notices a smoke smell. Well the insurance which was for a very large amount to cover all the hoarded materials (things people would never user/wear again, and much of it was old, in questionable condition, etc) and the insurance company is obligated to pay for cleaning of ALL the materials in this house (every wall has shelving floor to ceiling plus lots of deep closets of Stuff, huge walk-in closets STUFFED full of stuff, etc, etc ,etc). The estimate for the removal of smell was well over $1million not counting other issues like hotel stay (of equal housing accommodations - VERY expensive due to location) and so many other ways to milk the insurance companies out of vast sums of $$. I'd bet if you sold their stuff at a yard sale if you collected $2000-4000 you would be VERY lucky, so how can they pay $1 million to clean it. I guarantee there is fraud going on here.
Look at the company that stated back in late 70's early 80's called "Zeeee Best cleaners" it started just south of LA I think and the guy, Barry Minkow - ended up creating a ponzi scheme while also committing insurance fraud on a daily basis (on building rehab after fire & floods. he did cleaning like this (after fires or water damage) where they billed for work not done - or absolute minimum, pocketing many millions a week. The film is called "Con Man" (released 2018) and I think this is what is happening in Malibu as we speak - they are all getting millions for the "smoke damage" from the fires. So many of these people were having financial difficulties, were upside down in their mortgage payments, etc. There needs to be a special investigator to look into all of this. There is one VERY big bombshell I'm withholding about this whole situation, complete with video's and pictures from people who live in the community and I'll only release this if I find someone who is really digging into the situation. Everyone on this site dismisses others so quickly, so I'm not wasting this on the people on this board (no offense to the "good guys" / non trolls).
I'm not going to accuse family, but last time I was there they were having large fights about $$, wife spent like it grew on trees among taking extended vacations around the world, not working, and everything else (while husband slaved away paying for daughter's college - very pricey as well).
People like that are why insurance is expensive and insurance companies are hesitant to pay claims...