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And he’s a man of the cloth!

Today’s announcement of the “biggest case of insider trading linked to the fast-growing threat of global cybercrime” is red meat to ol’ UD, who loves her some high-level hypocrisy.

Admittedly, the arrest of a Pat Robertson-trained preacher for his part in “an alliance of U.S.-based stock traders and computer hackers in Ukraine [which] made as much as $100 million in illegal profits over five years after stealing confidential corporate press releases” lacks the panache of Yeshiva University’s Bernard Madoff and Ezra Merkin – they, uh, handled far more money – but this apparent graduate of Regent University’s online (I assume he did these online) MBA and Divinity degrees certainly does know how to use computers, for school and for work.

He was described in this way a few years ago in some SEC correspondence:

Mr. Korchevsky holds a B.A. degree from Sukhumi University, Sukhumi, Georgia, a M.Div. degree from Regent University and an M.B.A. from Regent University.

You can watch oodles of YouTubes of Korchevsky preaching if you’d like. Helps to know Ukrainian. Just put his name in the search engine.

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Update:
A local paper calls it “an incongruous mix of Christianity and criminality.”

Really? How incongruous is the use of religion as a cover for crime? I think the word the reporter is going for is congruous.

Margaret Soltan, August 11, 2015 4:20PM
Posted in: forms of religious experience

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5 Responses to “And he’s a man of the cloth!”

  1. Mr Punch Says:

    Oh, that Georgia

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Right – this is one of those rare stories featuring THAT Georgia AND the American state of Georgia…

  3. dmf Says:

    speaking of articles of faith, when competing commandments clash in Texas the winner is________
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/us/arlington-tex-officer-is-fired-in-fatal-shooting-of-christian-taylor.html
    you guessed it…

  4. charlie Says:

    Pat Robertson had a business deal with Robert Taylor, former Liberian strongman, who was tried for war crimes. Taylor testified that he awarded Robertson rights to a mining operation, in return for Robertson’s lobbying the Bush administration on behalf of Taylor…

    foreignpolicy.com/2010/02/05/charles-taylor-pat-robertson…

  5. Margaret Soltan Says:

    charlie: Yes – I remember reading that at the time. Altogether a prime specimen, Rev. Robertson.

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