Disney Declassified: Tales of Real Life Disney Scandals, Sex, Accidents and Deaths Read Online Free PDF Page A
Author: Aaron Goldberg
or increase the seriousness of the claims and add or change the recipient's name to divert the money to a fraudulent billing service in Georgia. After doing this, Gregory would then distribute the funds to his co-conspirators in both New York and Georgia. The six-figure payout in such a short period of time was an anomaly for Disney accounting. The department noticed the large payouts and investigated. After Disney figured out the scheme, Gregory was arrested on seventeen felony charges of insurance fraud and racketeering.
Bonnie was a thirty-three-year-old executive assistant for Disney’s head of communications. She was living her own fairy tale working for Disney in California. She had a good job and was head over heels for her own Prince Charming. Unlike most stories involving Prince Charming, this real life tale didn’t have a storybook ending. Bonnie and her boyfriend, Yonni, were arrested in 2010 on charges that they offered to sell secrets about the company's financial picture to investment companies. The minor snafu in their plan was their insider information was going straight to an undercover FBI agent posing as a hedge fund operator.
Here’s how their intrepid scheme worked. Bonnie obtained information, such as Disney’s quarterly earnings before they were released to the public. She would tell her boyfriend, Yonni, who in turn tried to sell this insider information to over thirty investment companies via anonymous letters he sent to investment firms. Most of the firms went ahead and contacted the FBI, who then stepped in and posed as a financial big shot and offered to take the two entrepreneurs up on their offer for the insider information.
Bonnie and Yonni provided the FBI with Disney’s May earnings report before it went public. In return for the information, Yonni met with their financial friend to receive a payment of $15,000 as compensation. He also promised more information in the future for a 30% cut of any profits made from the confidential info. Then the hammer dropped, or shall we say the gavel. Both Bonnie and Yonni were arrested and charged with intent to commit securities fraud and wire fraud. In 2011, Bonnie received three years probation with the first four months under home confinement, plus 100 hours of community service for each year of her probation. Yonni received two years and three months in prison.
In one of the more head-scratching entrepreneurial stories you’ll hear in a long time, would you believe a drug dealer in Orlando actually stopped selling drugs and started selling fraudulent Walt Disney World tickets because it was more lucrative and carried less legal ramifications if he were caught? According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, this is a true story.
Complete a quick internet search and you’ll find countless advertisements for cheap or discounted Disneyland and Walt Disney World tickets. If you look within these same search queries, right alongside many of these ads and postings, you’ll read about the countless people arrested for selling fake or already-used tickets. The problem of counterfeit tickets plaguing Disney goes back to day one, literally. In 1955, on opening day of Disneyland, someone counterfeited a slew of tickets and inundated the park with guests. Today, it’s not much different, except technology has gotten better both for the counterfeiter and Disney.
As of March of 2014, Disney was trying to toughen the laws in Florida for ticket scammers. Executives from Walt Disney World were aligning themselves with state politicians to bolster the laws. The Disney backed bill would impose much longer prison terms for tickets scammers. Their new law would also work to include their new MagicBands that function as a park ticket, hotel room key, and credit card.
A Disney spokesperson said changes are needed because “fraudulent ticket sales can ruin family vacations.” True, Disney can spin it in the media however they want. It is annoying for
Bonnie was a thirty-three-year-old executive assistant for Disney’s head of communications. She was living her own fairy tale working for Disney in California. She had a good job and was head over heels for her own Prince Charming. Unlike most stories involving Prince Charming, this real life tale didn’t have a storybook ending. Bonnie and her boyfriend, Yonni, were arrested in 2010 on charges that they offered to sell secrets about the company's financial picture to investment companies. The minor snafu in their plan was their insider information was going straight to an undercover FBI agent posing as a hedge fund operator.
Here’s how their intrepid scheme worked. Bonnie obtained information, such as Disney’s quarterly earnings before they were released to the public. She would tell her boyfriend, Yonni, who in turn tried to sell this insider information to over thirty investment companies via anonymous letters he sent to investment firms. Most of the firms went ahead and contacted the FBI, who then stepped in and posed as a financial big shot and offered to take the two entrepreneurs up on their offer for the insider information.
Bonnie and Yonni provided the FBI with Disney’s May earnings report before it went public. In return for the information, Yonni met with their financial friend to receive a payment of $15,000 as compensation. He also promised more information in the future for a 30% cut of any profits made from the confidential info. Then the hammer dropped, or shall we say the gavel. Both Bonnie and Yonni were arrested and charged with intent to commit securities fraud and wire fraud. In 2011, Bonnie received three years probation with the first four months under home confinement, plus 100 hours of community service for each year of her probation. Yonni received two years and three months in prison.
In one of the more head-scratching entrepreneurial stories you’ll hear in a long time, would you believe a drug dealer in Orlando actually stopped selling drugs and started selling fraudulent Walt Disney World tickets because it was more lucrative and carried less legal ramifications if he were caught? According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, this is a true story.
Complete a quick internet search and you’ll find countless advertisements for cheap or discounted Disneyland and Walt Disney World tickets. If you look within these same search queries, right alongside many of these ads and postings, you’ll read about the countless people arrested for selling fake or already-used tickets. The problem of counterfeit tickets plaguing Disney goes back to day one, literally. In 1955, on opening day of Disneyland, someone counterfeited a slew of tickets and inundated the park with guests. Today, it’s not much different, except technology has gotten better both for the counterfeiter and Disney.
As of March of 2014, Disney was trying to toughen the laws in Florida for ticket scammers. Executives from Walt Disney World were aligning themselves with state politicians to bolster the laws. The Disney backed bill would impose much longer prison terms for tickets scammers. Their new law would also work to include their new MagicBands that function as a park ticket, hotel room key, and credit card.
A Disney spokesperson said changes are needed because “fraudulent ticket sales can ruin family vacations.” True, Disney can spin it in the media however they want. It is annoying for
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