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- From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
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- Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 01:25:07 GMT
- Organization: UDSI
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- References: <72729@cup.portal.com> <72805@cup.portal.com> <3JAN199305333876@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <3JAN199305333876@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
- >>I heard on Paul Harvey radio two days ago that former Gemini and Apollo 15
- >>astronaut David Scott had been charged with fraud. No further information
- >>was presented. Does this auction of the piece of tape have something to
- >>do with the story report on P.H./ABC News?
- >INo. it has something to do with a business partnership that was formed in
- >1980, and is unrelated to the Moon dust.
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- Todays washington post reported in the business section, that
- David Scott, Former Astronaut from Apollo 15, LEM driver, etc
- had been charged with fraud in connection with a business
- partnership he had created. He had apparently collected about
- 400,000 dollars from various individuals witht he intention
- of creating a Venture Capital fund, instead, he poured the money
- into companies and activities owned by Dave Scott. The investors
- lost their Butts, and are now suing, and pressing criminal charges.
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