Serial fraudster jailed

Habitual conman Media Corporation Mark Taylor is was his wife Kelie, behind bars at last, a 34, but it was mere 21 years after I Taylor who was first exposed him. pulling the strings. His final fraud was a She admitted publishing business aiding and abetting with the absurdly him to a breach of pompous name Global his directorship Media Corporation Ltd. disqualification Run from a dingy and was sentenced office in Birkenhead, to a two-year Merseyside, I told in community order 2013 how its and 175 hours coldcallers phoned unpaid work. companies and gave After the case the impression they Detective Sergeant Taylor and wife Kelie worked for the police Joanne Devers of to con generous businesses into taking Merseyside Police said: “Some of the out adverts in supposed emergency people who were taken in by this fraud service magazines. were small businesses who were just In 2016, this sham cost 52-year-old trying to make a living.” Taylor the maximum 15-year ban from Taylor has been running this being a company director. Now it’s also type of scam since at least June cost him a four and a half year jail 1997, when I told how he tricked sentence for fraudulent trading. businesses into paying for “charity” Liverpool crown court heard this adverts in his supposed Emergency week that he raked in £356,000 Services Yearbook – which wasn’t over three years from Global even published. Media and sister sham operation Ten of his companies behind Paramount Media. that incarnation of the fraud James Rae, prosecuting, said that were put into compulsory liquidation claims made by sales reps “were in the High Court in 2000 for utterly specious”, and businesses who “deliberate and dishonest became suspicious and refused to pay misrepresentations”. for unwanted adverts were subjected They raked in almost £940,000 in to bullying tactics. advertising fees in a single year but On paper, the director of Global gave just £11,400 to charity.

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