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Last week, however, his big story turned out to be fiction. McGeever pleaded guilty at Galway Circuit Criminal Court to wasting garda time by making false statements. A garda told the court he did it to get creditors off his back and his barrister read out an apology on McGeever's behalf, and described his fantasy abduction as the "aberration" of an elderly a man under stress. McGeever escaped with a two year suspended sentence.
So it was with surprise that McGeever joined me on the porch, tucking in his expensive looking shirt into his jeans and talking about how he hasn't slept and has been unable to eat, and that his weight had fallen to eight stone during the time he spent confined to an underground container.
Two days after that, we are sitting in a hotel near his home. McGeever ordered a soya latte and looked quite Euro chic in shades, a Bonari navy Cartier love ring knock off jacket, a smart shirt and jeans. His ample, dark chestnut hair is slightly bouffant and he sports an impressive Cartier on his wrist. Is that real, I ask him later as the photographs are being taken. "What other kind of Cartier is there?" he asks.
The word "tief" inscribed on his forehead with indelible ink supposedly while he was held "captive" is no longer visible thanks to 20 laser treatments and some makeup. He denies that he wrote it himself: "Why would I do that?"
He is keen to correct the record and counter some of the "lies" he says have been written about him. But investors who say he owes them money will find little solace in what he has to say. The remorse he expressed to the judge for making false statements and costing the taxpayer a fortune in wasted garda time is absent. His only regret is that he ever started selling apartments in Dubai to the Irish: "If you gave me a million, I wouldn't deal with Irish again, because you couldn't trust them, the bastards, you couldn't trust them," he says at one point.
Oh yes, and he still seems to believe that he was kidnapped. But Kevin wants to talk about Dubai because "that's what started all this thing off". He spends almost an hour explaining in detail how he got into selling studio apartments and then commercial floors "off the plans" to investors.
But let's start with the backstory, where the McGeever enigma begins. He was born in Swinford, in Mayo, the son of a respected "master builder". McGeever worked with him as a lad. According to his own account, his first deal set the pattern for what was to follow. He chuckles away as he recalls how one day on their way home from work, he and his father dropped into a pub in the main square. The publican told them about an elevated site outside the town and McGeever says he did a deal to buy it. He paid a deposit, got building materials on credit, built the house and managed to sell it before he had ever paid for the land.
He used the profits to buy six sites at Spencer Park in Castlebar. "I was a young lad with big dreams. Because even back then I was infatuated with some of the successful men from the West who went to England with fancy cars and I could see myself in that position some day," he says.
He had a green suit that matched his metallic green Capri car. "Just before I got the car, I went into probably the best gentlemen's outfitters in the West put that down Mr Michael P Michael sold me a suit with a sort of greenish tinge in it. It just was the perfect match for the car. It was purely coincidental," he chuckles away. "Every time I came back, somebody would mention this to me." He knew Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach, who also hails from Castlebar "right from the beginning. He was a pretty cool operator. And he is still pretty cool, and a terrific Mayo man. And he still looks about 35."
Castlebar was always going to be too small for a guy with tastes for fast cars, fancy clothes and girls. He started building houses in Naas and is reportedly accused of leaving an estate unfinished, abandoning his Jag at the airport and leaving the country. He dismisses this.
"I decided to take a trip overseas and that trip overseas continued over the rest of my life," he says. "But I did business everywhere. I did fantastic business. I set up businesses and sold them. I had a good life."
As he tells it, he married in Australia, had two daughters, moved to America and got into business there, then moved to Dubai in 2000 or 2001, which is when his woes began.
But he attracted more than his fair share of interest from the international police agency, Interpol, more than once. The FBI went after him for setting Cartier copy love ring up a fake bank in Liechtenstein, in which investors lodged $8m, $3m of which went missing. He was indicted in his absence in a court in Los Angeles in 2003 and he could face arrest if he returns to the US.
In Dubai, he was reported to the police over the suspicious transactions around three properties. Shortly after he left Dubai in 2011, he was arrested in Germany to face extradition to the United Arab Emirates but the case fell through.
The journalist, Brian Carroll, who tracked McGeever for three years for a forthcoming RTE documentary, wrote last week that he "swindled his way across continents". In Australia he left the country, his sports car, his wife and two daughters, and five investors who were each "conned into buying the same roofing business."
McGeever wants to clear these things up: "I have two daughters and they have two sons, beautiful young men. I have met them on Skype. I still have a great relationship with my daughters. We are in touch a couple of times every week. I have a relationship with my ex and the last time we spoke was just after Christmas," he says.
"I left Australia, yes. But I didn't abandon them. I was in touch with them all the time. They were well looked after, they had a nice place to live. A man moves on with his life."
He puts the fake bank in Liechtenstein down to a case of mistaken identity. "There are probably literally thousands of people that emigrated from Ireland called McGeever. Strangely enough there's an awful lot of Kevin McGeevers living in America on the East Coast, in Arizona and in Florida, and all over the place. They got me confused with somebody else," he says.
"This is absolutely crazy shit. It's not me. I have never, ever, ever gotten involved with anything sinister. The only business I do is no result, no fee. I sell shit, big shit. If I sell it, I get money. If I don't.? Some sinister thing in Liechtenstein, how the hell would I set up a bank in Liechtenstein?"
His arrest in Germany in 2011 was "all a load of crap right from the beginning". He was on a business trip and about to sit down to a banquet when "a nice German policeman" discreetly called him aside.
"I found out later that a particular party in Dubai had lodged. a complaint against me and they would be holding me until they got further instructions. At the finish, the Germans said it was all a big joke and they didn't take it serious, and no truer word was spoken."
He moved to Dubai in 2001 or 2002, around the time he met Siobhan O'Callaghan, who died of breast cancer in 2013. He remembers the day they met. "I was staying out in the Four Season hotel in Dublin. I was sitting down one night having a bottle of water or something, because I'm not really a drinker, relaxing. It was November 29, 2002," he says. "So I was sitting there and I was just on my own. I noticed two girls walking, obviously going to the ladies room. I noticed this girl with the blonde hair, and she was like shining, her face, she was sparkling and she was beautifully dressed. She has an absolutely fantastic figure and gorgeous legs and she seemed so smiling and nice. They were both nice but she was copy Cartier ring particularly nice, I thought, so she really set my heart aflutter."
He chatted her up and asked her out on a date. "And then I took her out, and that was the beginning. That was like from 2002 to 2013. And she was buried exactly 11 years to the day after that, on her birthday, November 29. We travelled the world together."
She moved in with him to his million dollar apartment in the Palms in Dubai. He sold studios and commercial floors to investors "I would buy a whole lump of shit, as much as I could get and he (the agent) would move them on, either to Pakistanis or Russians or some other investor.
"I must have been absolutely mad in the head when I started selling stuff in Ireland," he says.
He set up an Irish roadshow during the boom, with brochures offering dream properties in Dubai, for a 10pc deposit and regular "progress payments" of 10pc.
The bottom fell out of the market and he claims people couldn't keep up the staged payments. Some investors claim he sold them properties he didn't own or sold the same property to multiple buyers. He denies this and insists he refunded everyone bar a "handful" of commercial buyers.
He claims he "sold everything" in Dubai and returned with Siobhan to Dublin in 2011 while the mansion he bought in Craughwell for 4m in 2006 was being done up. Siobhan's cancer had returned by then and Cartier love yellow gold ring fake she was seriously ill.
Last week, Detective Garda John Keating told McGeever's trial that his circling creditors led him to fake his own kidnapping. He had invested heavily in property in Dubai, and lost everything,classic replica cartier white gold ring steel You should have Let's know about a
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Last week, however, his big story turned out to be fiction. McGeever pleaded guilty at Galway Circuit Criminal Court to wasting garda time by making false statements. A garda told the court he did it to get creditors off his back and his barrister read out an apology on McGeever's behalf, and described his fantasy abduction as the "aberration" of an elderly a man under stress. McGeever escaped with a two year suspended sentence.
So it was with surprise that McGeever joined me on the porch, tucking in his expensive looking shirt into his jeans and talking about how he hasn't slept and has been unable to eat, and that his weight had fallen to eight stone during the time he spent confined to an underground container.
Two days after that, we are sitting in a hotel near his home. McGeever ordered a soya latte and looked quite Euro chic in shades, a Bonari navy Cartier love ring knock off jacket, a smart shirt and jeans. His ample, dark chestnut hair is slightly bouffant and he sports an impressive Cartier on his wrist. Is that real, I ask him later as the photographs are being taken. "What other kind of Cartier is there?" he asks.
The word "tief" inscribed on his forehead with indelible ink supposedly while he was held "captive" is no longer visible thanks to 20 laser treatments and some makeup. He denies that he wrote it himself: "Why would I do that?"
He is keen to correct the record and counter some of the "lies" he says have been written about him. But investors who say he owes them money will find little solace in what he has to say. The remorse he expressed to the judge for making false statements and costing the taxpayer a fortune in wasted garda time is absent. His only regret is that he ever started selling apartments in Dubai to the Irish: "If you gave me a million, I wouldn't deal with Irish again, because you couldn't trust them, the bastards, you couldn't trust them," he says at one point.
Oh yes, and he still seems to believe that he was kidnapped. But Kevin wants to talk about Dubai because "that's what started all this thing off". He spends almost an hour explaining in detail how he got into selling studio apartments and then commercial floors "off the plans" to investors.
But let's start with the backstory, where the McGeever enigma begins. He was born in Swinford, in Mayo, the son of a respected "master builder". McGeever worked with him as a lad. According to his own account, his first deal set the pattern for what was to follow. He chuckles away as he recalls how one day on their way home from work, he and his father dropped into a pub in the main square. The publican told them about an elevated site outside the town and McGeever says he did a deal to buy it. He paid a deposit, got building materials on credit, built the house and managed to sell it before he had ever paid for the land.
He used the profits to buy six sites at Spencer Park in Castlebar. "I was a young lad with big dreams. Because even back then I was infatuated with some of the successful men from the West who went to England with fancy cars and I could see myself in that position some day," he says.
He had a green suit that matched his metallic green Capri car. "Just before I got the car, I went into probably the best gentlemen's outfitters in the West put that down Mr Michael P Michael sold me a suit with a sort of greenish tinge in it. It just was the perfect match for the car. It was purely coincidental," he chuckles away. "Every time I came back, somebody would mention this to me." He knew Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach, who also hails from Castlebar "right from the beginning. He was a pretty cool operator. And he is still pretty cool, and a terrific Mayo man. And he still looks about 35."
Castlebar was always going to be too small for a guy with tastes for fast cars, fancy clothes and girls. He started building houses in Naas and is reportedly accused of leaving an estate unfinished, abandoning his Jag at the airport and leaving the country. He dismisses this.
"I decided to take a trip overseas and that trip overseas continued over the rest of my life," he says. "But I did business everywhere. I did fantastic business. I set up businesses and sold them. I had a good life."
As he tells it, he married in Australia, had two daughters, moved to America and got into business there, then moved to Dubai in 2000 or 2001, which is when his woes began.
But he attracted more than his fair share of interest from the international police agency, Interpol, more than once. The FBI went after him for setting Cartier copy love ring up a fake bank in Liechtenstein, in which investors lodged $8m, $3m of which went missing. He was indicted in his absence in a court in Los Angeles in 2003 and he could face arrest if he returns to the US.
In Dubai, he was reported to the police over the suspicious transactions around three properties. Shortly after he left Dubai in 2011, he was arrested in Germany to face extradition to the United Arab Emirates but the case fell through.
The journalist, Brian Carroll, who tracked McGeever for three years for a forthcoming RTE documentary, wrote last week that he "swindled his way across continents". In Australia he left the country, his sports car, his wife and two daughters, and five investors who were each "conned into buying the same roofing business."
McGeever wants to clear these things up: "I have two daughters and they have two sons, beautiful young men. I have met them on Skype. I still have a great relationship with my daughters. We are in touch a couple of times every week. I have a relationship with my ex and the last time we spoke was just after Christmas," he says.
"I left Australia, yes. But I didn't abandon them. I was in touch with them all the time. They were well looked after, they had a nice place to live. A man moves on with his life."
He puts the fake bank in Liechtenstein down to a case of mistaken identity. "There are probably literally thousands of people that emigrated from Ireland called McGeever. Strangely enough there's an awful lot of Kevin McGeevers living in America on the East Coast, in Arizona and in Florida, and all over the place. They got me confused with somebody else," he says.
"This is absolutely crazy shit. It's not me. I have never, ever, ever gotten involved with anything sinister. The only business I do is no result, no fee. I sell shit, big shit. If I sell it, I get money. If I don't.? Some sinister thing in Liechtenstein, how the hell would I set up a bank in Liechtenstein?"
His arrest in Germany in 2011 was "all a load of crap right from the beginning". He was on a business trip and about to sit down to a banquet when "a nice German policeman" discreetly called him aside.
"I found out later that a particular party in Dubai had lodged. a complaint against me and they would be holding me until they got further instructions. At the finish, the Germans said it was all a big joke and they didn't take it serious, and no truer word was spoken."
He moved to Dubai in 2001 or 2002, around the time he met Siobhan O'Callaghan, who died of breast cancer in 2013. He remembers the day they met. "I was staying out in the Four Season hotel in Dublin. I was sitting down one night having a bottle of water or something, because I'm not really a drinker, relaxing. It was November 29, 2002," he says. "So I was sitting there and I was just on my own. I noticed two girls walking, obviously going to the ladies room. I noticed this girl with the blonde hair, and she was like shining, her face, she was sparkling and she was beautifully dressed. She has an absolutely fantastic figure and gorgeous legs and she seemed so smiling and nice. They were both nice but she was copy Cartier ring particularly nice, I thought, so she really set my heart aflutter."
He chatted her up and asked her out on a date. "And then I took her out, and that was the beginning. That was like from 2002 to 2013. And she was buried exactly 11 years to the day after that, on her birthday, November 29. We travelled the world together."
She moved in with him to his million dollar apartment in the Palms in Dubai. He sold studios and commercial floors to investors "I would buy a whole lump of shit, as much as I could get and he (the agent) would move them on, either to Pakistanis or Russians or some other investor.
"I must have been absolutely mad in the head when I started selling stuff in Ireland," he says.
He set up an Irish roadshow during the boom, with brochures offering dream properties in Dubai, for a 10pc deposit and regular "progress payments" of 10pc.
The bottom fell out of the market and he claims people couldn't keep up the staged payments. Some investors claim he sold them properties he didn't own or sold the same property to multiple buyers. He denies this and insists he refunded everyone bar a "handful" of commercial buyers.
He claims he "sold everything" in Dubai and returned with Siobhan to Dublin in 2011 while the mansion he bought in Craughwell for 4m in 2006 was being done up. Siobhan's cancer had returned by then and Cartier love yellow gold ring fake she was seriously ill.
Last week, Detective Garda John Keating told McGeever's trial that his circling creditors led him to fake his own kidnapping. He had invested heavily in property in Dubai, and lost everything,
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Six hot Montreal spots to pick up takeout and have a picnic
The Atwater Quay in St Henri is a popular Montreal picnic spot.
With acres and acres of parks, grassy slopes and waterfront trails, Montrealers don't have to venture far to find an idyllic spot to lay out a blanket and snack, read, doze, kick around a ball or just watch the world go by.
There are quiet, sun dappled places all over the island that are perfect for picnics. So why don't we head out more often, now that the weather is so nice? Blame it on potato salad. Organizing an al fresco meal takes planning: There is mayonnaise and food safety to worry about, spill proof containers to find, potatoes to boil for that ubiquitous salad.
But what if a picnic were as simple as finding the right spot, packing a blanket and picking up delicious, ready made food? What if it were a reward after a bike ride or the finale after a morning at the market?
Here are a few locations around Montreal that offer picture perfect backdrops for an impromptu picnic. Best of all, each is handily located near a market, takeout restaurant, cheese shop or bakery that offers delicious food to go.
1. Jarry Park, Villeray
Boulangerie La Providencia, 7807 St Laurent Blvd.
Most of us know Jarry Park nostalgically, as the home of the Expos, or for tennis. But beyond Uniprix Stadium, this sprawling green space, just a short walk from the de Castelnau mtro station, is a tranquil oasis. At the park's southeastern extreme, behind the pine and larch trees that buffer the noise and dust from the endless stream of cars travelling along St Laurent Blvd., lies a little lake with a fountain in the middle, where ducks swim and wild grasses blow in the wind. The lawns around it are outfitted with comfy wooden chairs for lounging and picnic tables for eating. The tables under the willow trees by the water's edge offer idyllic views and cooling shade. The best way to access this part of the park is along St Laurent Blvd. at Villeray or Faillon Sts. Farther north, near Gounod St. there's a children's playground and wading pool.
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Her pastry shop, with its little grocery section, also boasts a selection of fresh baked sweets, like the Salvadoran cheesecake called quesadilla and pineapple filled turnovers known as pasteles de pina. To quench your thirst, get a bottle of cold tamarind or pineapple flavoured soda or, better still, one of the house made refrescos like rice based horchata or the sweet barley drink known as cebada.
2. Mount Royal Park, Plateau Mont Royal
The mountain is Montreal's playground and everyone has their own secret spot. The Parc Ave. side of Mount Royal Park, which stretches from Rachel St. to Mont Royal Ave. at the foot of the mountain, is more easily accessible than other areas. It features the Georges tienne Cartier monument (where the tam tams are held on Sunday afternoons), as well as grassy hillsides and a view onto Jeanne Mance Park across the street, with the stately greystone houses of Esplanade St. as a backdrop.
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The Atwater Quay in St Henri is a popular Montreal picnic spot.
With acres and acres of parks, grassy slopes and waterfront trails, Montrealers don't have to venture far to find an idyllic spot to lay out a blanket and snack, read, doze, kick around a ball or just watch the world go by.
There are quiet, sun dappled places all over the island that are perfect for picnics. So why don't we head out more often, now that the weather is so nice? Blame it on potato salad. Organizing an al fresco meal takes planning: There is mayonnaise and food safety to worry about, spill proof containers to find, potatoes to boil for that ubiquitous salad.
But what if a picnic were as simple as finding the right spot, packing a blanket and picking up delicious, ready made food? What if it were a reward after a bike ride or the finale after a morning at the market?
Here are a few locations around Montreal that offer picture perfect backdrops for an impromptu picnic. Best of all, each is handily located near a market, takeout restaurant, cheese shop or bakery that offers delicious food to go.
1. Jarry Park, Villeray
Boulangerie La Providencia, 7807 St Laurent Blvd.
Most of us know Jarry Park nostalgically, as the home of the Expos, or for tennis. But beyond Uniprix Stadium, this sprawling green space, just a short walk from the de Castelnau mtro station, is a tranquil oasis. At the park's southeastern extreme, behind the pine and larch trees that buffer the noise and dust from the endless stream of cars travelling along St Laurent Blvd., lies a little lake with a fountain in the middle, where ducks swim and wild grasses blow in the wind. The lawns around it are outfitted with comfy wooden chairs for lounging and picnic tables for eating. The tables under the willow trees by the water's edge offer idyllic views and cooling shade. The best way to access this part of the park is along St Laurent Blvd. at Villeray or Faillon Sts. Farther north, near Gounod St. there's a children's playground and wading pool.
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Cartier moved to NorthPark ten years ago from Galleria Dallas saying it needed a bigger store. It doubled its space when it moved into a 2,500 square foot store sharing the Neiman Marcus wing with Tiffany Co., David Yurman and Eiseman Jewels.
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