# This Millionaire Faked His Own Kidnapping: The Wild Tale of Kevin McGeever

An episode of [Be Amazed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1687637469), 8 Oct 2026, 23 min.

Audio: https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/ec9aa2ba-42d3-458a-99ec-b92f6895e40a/stream.mp3

January 29th, 2013. Sleet was falling down that night in Ballinamore, Ireland. Catherine Vallely and her friend were driving through the slush, when they saw something strange in the headlights. It was a man standing in the middle of the road. He was soaking wet with a scruffy grey beard, his thin body draped in tattered clothes and a plastic sheet. Taking pity on him, the two women stopped and offered him a lift. Once inside, the stranger told them that for the past eight months he’d been kidnapped, starved, and held in an underground bunker. This man was Kevin McGeever, and his story is like nothing you’ve ever heard. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

## Transcript

[0:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: January 29, 2013.
[0:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Sleet was falling down that night in Balina, more Ireland.
[0:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Catherine Valleli and her friend were driving through the slush when they saw something strange in the headlights.
[0:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was a man standing in the middle of the road.
[0:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He was soaking wet with a scruffy gray beard, his thin body draped and tattered clothes in a plastic sheet.
[0:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Taking pity on him, the two women stopped and offered him a lift.
[0:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Once inside, the stranger told them that for the past eight months he'd been kidnapped, starved and held in an underground bunker.
[0:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: This man was Kevin McGeever, and his story is like nothing you've ever heard.
[0:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Understandably shocked by what the man had said, the ladle took him to the nearest guardestation, the Irish equivalent of the police.
[0:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Once inside the man who was apparently 68 years old was questioned but remained surprisingly calm throughout.
[1:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He gulped down tea and biscuits with gusto and even ordered some curry fries from the nearby takeout, but it was clear something was very wrong.
[1:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The man looked incredibly gant and across his forehead there were teeth, a misspelling of teeth, was scrolled in ink.
[1:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So, what had happened?
[1:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: According to the man who said his name was Kevin McGeever on May 27, 2012, his house had been broken into and he'd been held at gunpoint by three masked men.
[1:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: forced to comply, he was taken from his home in Gork County, Gaway, and imprisoned somewhere in a metal container underground.
[1:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There, he was given nothing but water in one ham sandwich a day for months.
[1:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: staring into his large sunken eyes, the guard had no reason to doubt this poor man's story.
[1:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It even corroborated with a missing person report McGeever's fiancée, Shavano Callahan, had filed back in June 2012.
[2:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So how did he escape?
[2:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well apparently his captors had just grabbed him one day, handed him a cell phone, and dumped him on the side of the road with no explanation.
[2:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Right.
[2:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When taken to Moulingarh General Hospital, most things seemed to corroborate his story, he only weighed 112 pounds and had some minor injuries to suggest he'd been manhandled, but one thing didn't add up.
[2:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: McGeever had no eye damage, strange considering he'd been trapped in a dark bunker for the past eight months.
[2:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But whatever, right?
[2:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He got lucky.
[2:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Then days later, Vallelee came across a photograph that shocked her.
[2:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It showed a 196-pound McGeever standing with his own private helicopter branded with his real estate company, KMM International.
[2:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It turned out that McGeaver was a multi-millionaire who lived in a mansion and owned a fleet of 13 luxury cars.
[3:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Um, what?
[3:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Before we go any further, you need to know one thing about Kevin McGeaver, he's a massive con man.
[3:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That fleet of cars and helicopter?
[3:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They were all leased with the latter Photoshop to bear his company name.
[3:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: By posing in this carefully curated photo, McGeaver gave himself legitimacy, even though he actually made his money by lying and cheating.
[3:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So when the Laley saw the image she found it weird, sure, but didn't immediately think it was fake, which was exactly what McGeaver was going for.
[3:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The problem was the Wiley-Con man had never got this much attention before.
[3:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The kidnapping was all over the news.
[3:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Daily Mail suggested Russian mobsters were behind it, while the Guardian wondered whether it might have been the provisional IRA, who were known for holding rich folk hostage in the 70s and 80s to raise funds.
[3:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Despite the Garda spending six months investigating, however, none of these theories went anywhere.
[3:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: On top of this, cracks in McGeaver's story kept appearing.
[4:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One eyewitness reported seeing the man outside Ocalahans home more than a week after the date the kidnapping was supposed to have happened.
[4:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And after examining McGeaver's phone, the Garda trace texts sent to Ocalahans from Germany
[4:23] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But that was far from the strangest thing they found out.
[4:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You see as a professional swimwear, McGeever owed millions to people all over the world that he'd scanned.
[4:33] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One of those people was Pub owner and multimillionaire Kevin Cook, who came forward with a bizarre tale.
[4:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: During McGeaver's supposed imprisonment cook received a mysterious phone call instructing him to come to the town of Trim and County Meat to meet with McGeaver, hoping to finally receive his money cook made the trip, when he arrived however, two men in a van approached ordered him to get in and placed a hood over his head.
[4:59] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He was driven to an unknown location and upon a rival directed towards a dimly lit room.
[5:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Inside Cook found none other than McGeaver,
[5:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He told him he'd been kidnapped and that those responsible won $10 million for his release.
[5:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Shaken Cook barely had time to respond before the hood was placed back over his head, and he was returned to trim.
[5:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Okay, if you found this story completely confounding, you're not alone.
[5:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The guarda arrested Cook on suspicion of being involved in a scam, and it was around this time that McGeever showed up on the road.
[5:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After interviewing Cook, however, the guard I concluded he was innocent and McGeever might have been in league with his supposed kidnappers after all.
[5:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Cook was released and on March 14th, 2013, McGeaver was arrested at his home in Cronwell for filing false reports and wasting guard a time, but why had he staged the kidnapping in the first place?
[5:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Why did he pull Cook into it?
[5:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Who even is Kevin McGeaver and how did he find himself in this mess?
[6:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: To find out, we're going to have to go back to the future.
[6:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Ah, sorry to the beginning.
[6:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Before we dive deep into this crazy case though, if you're enjoying the story so far, make sure to follow wherever you're listening so you never miss out on any wild true stories like this again.
[6:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Okay, back to business.
[6:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The story of McGeever's meteoric rise in fall starts back in September 1944 in Swinford County, Mayo, where he was born.
[6:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: His father worked as a master builder, which McGeever credits for his entry into the property industry.
[6:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Even back then, his behavior was a sign of things to come.
[6:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Once he and his father had stopped off at a pub and the landlord had told them about a plot of land outside of town.
[6:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Sensing an opportunity, McGeever quickly struck up a deal and forked over a 50-pound deposit, then he built a house on the plot and sold it before ever paying for the land.
[6:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Geez.
[6:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: McGeever's pursuit of wealth only accelerated as he grew older and he developed a weasely habit of disappearing and reinventing himself to evade being caught out.
[7:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In 1973 at age 29 he wild away his days with family and friends and was in the middle of working on a housing development when he suddenly drove to Dublin Airport and boarded a plane, abandoning everything.
[7:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Why?
[7:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We can't be sure, but it's likely one of his deceits had been discovered.
[7:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What happened after his unclear until the 1980s when he resurfaced on the other side of the world in Australia?
[7:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: By then, he was married to a woman called Valmai, had two daughters with her and lived in a four-bedroom waterfront house in Carila.
[7:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: life seemed to be going well until 1985 when McGeever once again lived up to the Irish goodbye.
[7:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He left his car at Sydney Airport and got on a plane leaving behind his family, as well as five angry investors, all of whom he tricked into buying the same roofing business.
[7:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: McGeever has dismissed this version of events saying that he took a trip overseas that happened to last the rest of his life and maintains that he has a good relationship with his family.
[8:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yeah, sure buddy.
[8:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One of the main reasons he was able to get away with so much for so long is because McGeever is charismatic, likable, and crucially, narcissistic.
[8:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: By the late 1990s, he was living in Georgia, USA where he married his second wife, Jeannie Nicole Chey.
[8:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was in the land of opportunity where he embarked on a new venture, creating his own bank.
[8:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Nothing untoward about that, right?
[8:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let's just see.
[8:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The new company was called the World Trust Bank and was based in Liechtenstein.
[8:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Using his trademark charm and charisma, McGeaver persuaded 88 business people from around the world to invest in this new prospect.
[8:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The only thing was, there was no world trust bank.
[8:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He'd set up the fake company to be registered in the British Virgin Islands with the help of a bogus lawyer called James Sexton.
[8:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Nonetheless, trusting investors poured a whopping $8.8 million into the bank account, lured by McGeever's promise of up to 25% monthly interest on their deposits.
[9:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Eventually, some investors got wise to the employee and froze their accounts, but by then over $2 million had vanished into McGeever and Sexton's pockets.
[9:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: These dubious dealings caught the attention of the FBI, who discovered that McGeever had bought himself a $67,000 Mercedes with the money in.
[9:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: An $18,000 church organ?
[9:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: My guess is as good as yours.
[9:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The remaining funds were traced to accounts in Belize and Panama, both of which had been set up by sexton.
[9:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The phony lawyer was imprisoned and eventually passed away in custody, which may have worked in McGeever's favor, seeing as he couldn't testify against him.
[9:49] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But then another accomplished Doug Johnson agreed to provide evidence to the police, with his scheme spiraling out of control and facing an FBI warrant for his arrest McGeever decided to cut his losses abandoning his second wife and fleeing America.
[10:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: to this day the warrant remains active.
[10:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The man himself denied any wrongdoing and even had the cahoones to claim thereafter the wrong Kevin McGeaver.
[10:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Ah yes, is that why you fled the country, Kev?
[10:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As for his wife, Chey, she filed for divorce 10 years later since McGeaver couldn't be traced, which seems like 10 years too late to me.
[10:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Gee, I wonder if he organized
[10:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The next time McGeever crops up is 2001 or 2002, when he moved to Dubai and was given another chance to reinvent himself.
[10:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was in these years he met his latest partner Shavano Callahan while on a trip to Dublin.
[10:50] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Of course, the trip wasn't just for fun, at the time Ireland was going through a period of rapid economic growth.
[10:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Capitalizing on this boom, McGeever set up an Irish roadshow offering people their
[11:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was a roaring success.
[11:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: 100 people all signed up to the plan.
[11:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Enter our old pal, Kevin Cook.
[11:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He handed over $880,000 for seven apartments.
[11:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What a steal.
[11:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: To reassure him, McGeever made regular calls to his home and killed air and kept him updated with construction shots.
[11:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The same as he did with all his investors, little did they know the construction shots were faked,
[11:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Suspitions arose among investors during a Christmas party at the Hilmar Hotel in County Westmeth in December 2007, where they discovered they'd all been told the same stories.
[11:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The next month, one of them visited Dubai by himself and confirmed their suspicions, returning to warn the other investors.
[11:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But by that point, McGeever was nowhere to be found.
[11:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But that's not the same McGeever had stopped his dodgy dealings.
[12:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Businessman Jim Bern was next to Fall victim, leaping at the chance of buying five brand new properties for an unbelievable price.
[12:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But in 2008, the Dubai property market began to crash and Bern became anxious.
[12:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After tracking McGeever down, the con man assured him everything was all right, and even flew some investors out to Dubai to view their properties.
[12:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Little did they know he was showing all of them the same handful of buildings.
[12:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: McGeever even sold the same commercial floor to buyers from Ireland, Russia and China 48 times.
[12:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: His con earned him some $77 million which he used to purchase a property in Dubai for, guess who himself.
[12:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Meanwhile, investors like Burn and Cook never received their properties, and if they thought McGeever had a refund policy, they had another thing coming.
[12:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: All together individuals faced losses from $22,000 to $2.7 million.
[13:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Of course, McGeever placed a blame squarely on the investors, accusing them of failing to meet their investment repayment obligations and being a nightmare to work with.
[13:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But it wasn't all plain sailing for the grifter.
[13:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Come January 2011, and McGeever's personal assistant, Shirley Anthony, was quickly losing patience.
[13:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It had been two months since she'd started working for him, and she still hadn't got her salary.
[13:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And when McGeever finally coughed up a check, it bounced after she tried to cash it.
[13:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: That was the last straw for Anthony.
[13:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: She reported him to the Dubai authorities who arrested him and told him he wouldn't be released until he'd paid up.
[13:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: A financier in Ireland who'd been swindled by McGeaver heard about this and flew to Dubai to hand the authorities all the bad checks McGeaver had given him too.
[13:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After spending a month in jail McGeaver book grudgingly sold one of his Dubai properties to repay Anthony and the financier and was freed.
[14:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: that year, Burn also tried to catch the trickster this time for good.
[14:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He flew to Dubai hoping to recover his stolen money and presented authorities with evidence of McGeaver's fraudulent scheme.
[14:18] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Interpol's subsequently issued a global arrest warrant for the con man, but unfortunately, it was too late.
[14:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: McGeaver had already fled the Emirate back to Ireland shortly after leaving jail, meanwhile the man himself was busy using $4.8 million of his grifting money to fix up his mansion back in Crockwell.
[14:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: From here, he came up with a brand new persona as an aviation executive.
[14:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Man, this guy is relentless.
[14:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In October 2011, he took a group of investors to Lars Airport in Germany, clearly forgetting there was a global worn out for his arrest.
[14:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Upon arriving, he was taken into custody and spent 48 days behind bars.
[15:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yet somehow, this still wasn't the end.
[15:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Irritatingly Dubai authorities were too slow and sending their documents over, and the case was dropped before he could be extra-dited to the UAE.
[15:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Once again, the con man's scurried back to Ireland, escaping any serious charges McGeever
[15:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: but his multiple scrapes with the law hadn't put him off his game.
[15:29] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He set up an office and from there began selling luxury properties in the Gulf, sometimes making lucrative property deals from Mullengar Park Hotel, where his American twang earned him the nickname, The Yank Among Locals.
[15:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: However, McGeever's problems were far from over.
[15:45] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Despite his latest scheme, he was drowning in debt, owed millions and was regularly hounded by all the people he'd defrauded.
[15:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: this was nothing new for McGeaver.
[15:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Daily Mail claimed that back in 2009, two thugs had broken into his apartment and dangled him by his ankles over a balcony until he wrote them out of check.
[16:06] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Now, in his late 60s, however, the elderly con artist wasn't in any position to be dangled over a balcony.
[16:13] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Indeed, he probably felt like he was running out of places to go, according to journalist Brian Carroll, who's chronicled McGeever's life.
[16:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Perhaps the very worst thing, though, was that around this time, O'Kala Han was sadly diagnosed with cancer.
[16:27] \[SPEAKER_00\]: For someone who'd been running from responsibility and consequences his entire life, all of this must have been terrifying for McGeever.
[16:36] \[SPEAKER_00\]: and it's here that we round right on back to his now infamous kidnapping.
[16:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was now May 2013, and McGeever was getting old, tired, sick of being pestred by his victims, and worried about his ailing wife.
[16:52] \[SPEAKER_00\]: so what did he do?
[16:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What he does best, of course, disappear.
[16:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Only just vanishing for a while wasn't going to cut it this time, so he made up a whole long-winded story about his mansion being broken into an armed gunman kidnapping him.
[17:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Then, partway through his eight-month disappearance, he hired people to pretend they'd taken him hostage and drive Kevin Cook one of his victims
[17:20] \[SPEAKER_00\]: two reasons.
[17:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One, McGeever wanted to have a credible witness that would confirm his kidnapping story was legit.
[17:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Two, he wanted Cook to believe he didn't have enough money to free himself, let alone pay him or any of the other investors back.
[17:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Or at least, that's the theory the guard landed upon after interrogating Cook.
[17:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: With that in mind, they arrested McGeever on March
[17:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: At first, the man wholeheartedly denied everything, and interviews McGeever would roar with anger about the trauma he'd experienced, apparently outraged that anyone would disregard his ordeal.
[17:58] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Remember the word thief was written misspelled on his forehead?
[18:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Well, he claimed that was evidence of his truth, it was written in a delible link, and remained there for months after McGeever was found.
[18:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: To cover it up, the A.J.
[18:11] \[SPEAKER_00\]: con man had to apply layers upon layers of makeup.
[18:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Eventually, he removed it, but only after 20 appointments with laser specialists to burn the word off.
[18:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You must admit, it does seem odd that someone who was well known for lathering themselves in fake tan, hair dye and expensive clothes would go to such links to make themselves look awful.
[18:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: and to leave your seriously ill-wife behind, that's diabolical.
[18:40] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But despite promising to provide documents that would prove his story true, none of this supposed evidence has ever seen the light of day.
[18:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One woman in Gohway, who chose to remain anonymous, said that McGeever's tricks are old hat.
[18:54] \[SPEAKER_00\]: She told the Irish Post that in 2011, McGeever owed her over $110,000 and had repeatedly
[19:05] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Then, in a chance meeting in 2012, he told her a cock and bull story about how he'd been, wait for it, kidnapped in Nigeria the previous December.
[19:14] \[SPEAKER_00\]: When she reminded him that he texted her happy new year during his apparent imprisonment, he just laughed it off.
[19:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He wouldn't be laughing it off just a few years later, though.
[19:24] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It's safe to say by April 2016, the walls had very much closed in on the con man.
[19:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: In that month, a then-71-year-old McGeever was escorted to Galway Circuit Criminal Court.
[19:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Before everyone, he finally admitted to fabricating the kidnapping story and pleaded guilty to all charges.
[19:43] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Now, it was everybody else's turn to be outraged.
[19:46] \[SPEAKER_00\]: His lies about the kidnapping had prompted a huge six-week investigation that wasted 3,000 hours of
[20:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The court learned about the millions he owed following the Dubai debacle, and how he invented the story of his imprisonment to get his creditors off his back.
[20:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: It was exactly as the guard ahead suspected.
[20:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: If you're wondering how McGeaver thought his plan would ever work, it was likely a mixture of desperation and overconfident narcissism.
[20:21] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He'd gotten away with it countless times before, why not again?
[20:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: His own defense counsel summed it up best.
[20:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: They described his actions as incredibly stupid, and read out an apology on McGeever's behalf.
[20:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But, you want to know the really wild thing?
[20:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After pleading guilty, he was interviewed by the Irish Independent.
[20:41] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Incredibly, he once again recounted the story of how he'd been kidnapped and starved,
[20:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As for what McGeaver was really doing during that eight-month period, it's impossible to say with any certainty, but he definitely wasn't being there for his wife.
[21:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: She lost her battle with cancer in November 2013, just a few months after McGeaver's return.
[21:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The Swindler later claimed he'd stayed in a remote cottage by himself and paid people to deliver food, though who he paid have never been identified.
[21:16] \[SPEAKER_00\]: not to say this didn't happen he had to have stayed somewhere while he was pulling his stunt on cook.
[21:22] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But if you remember, his phone was traced to Germany, so he must have gone abroad at some point, too.
[21:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Regardless of how he did it, though, ultimately, it didn't work.
[21:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And he guesses how much prison time he got?
[21:34] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Here's a clue.
[21:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Not enough.
[21:37] \[SPEAKER_00\]: After some deliberation, McGeaver was handed a suspended two-year sentence.
[21:42] \[SPEAKER_00\]: The judge said the lenient sentence was down to McGeaver's age and the substantial cost already incurred by the taxpayer, he argued imprisoning him would only add to that expense, which is a funny way for a judge to view the justice system if you ask me.
[21:56] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Someone should double-check he didn't get a free vacation afterwards.
[22:00] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But it wasn't quite over for the Elderly Fraudster.
[22:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Following the trial, Bern took his personal case against McGeaver to Irish Court.
[22:08] \[SPEAKER_00\]: McGeaver tried to pull yet another fast one and negotiate directly with his victim, promising that the debt could be settled by tapping into his business ventures in Hong Kong and Singapore.
[22:19] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Safe to say burned didn't fall for at this time and the court ordered McGeever to pay him around 1.2 million dollars.
[22:26] \[SPEAKER_00\]: On top of this, another high-court ruling demanded McGeever pay all his other victims back.
[22:32] \[SPEAKER_00\]: But with a list like McGeever's where do you start?
[22:35] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As of 2017, true to form, he'd failed to pay anyone, earning himself the fitting nickname the Deceiver McGeever.
[22:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As for what he's up to now, it's anyone's guess.
[22:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Maybe he's pulling another fast one on some unsuspecting soul, but I suspect he's just keeping his head low.
[22:55] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We'll have to wait and see.
[22:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: One thing I do know is that there's no one quite like Kevin McGeever.
[23:01] \[SPEAKER_00\]: So what do you make of McGeever's wild story?
[23:04] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Did hearing how he got away with it again and again make you want to pull your hair out?
[23:09] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Let me know in the comments if the platform allows it, and as always thanks for listening.
[23:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This is a crappy paste.

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