Serial Swindlers: Selva Carmichael
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Media mogul Selva Carmichael promised to make stars of Big Brother's Lisa Appleton and Mario Maconi, and millionaires of investors in a fly-on-the-wall documentary. But the Bistrol conman's show was entirely bogus. The poorly edited footage that surfaced was a mere accessory, a fabricated "work-in-progress" designed solely to part investors from their cash in his latest deception.
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