Rudy gets out of jail: #2020…
All true Maureen. Unfortunately, we couldn’t execute him, which would be the only way to prevent him from continuing his criminal life. He’ll now be living in an area of the world that not only tolerates that behavior, it actually seems to encourage it.
Jesus Christ, it was fake wine. Chill out.
If memory serves, (it doesn’t always) when the Rudy story hit West Coast media the comments columns had a number of people saying “so what” because some rich guys got cheated. It wasn’t half but it was a lot.
Honestly keeping him in the country and making a condition of his release the complete disassociation from the wine trade would’ve been better if that’s the goal. Of course he could make fake wine and attempt to consign it via third parties, but after watching him spend a decade in jail, I would think he would find it more difficult to find willing accomplices in this country. Frankly, if you’re willing to risk a decade in the clink, there’s a lot easier ways to make money.
The fact that he is off to southeast Asia where - let’s be charitable and say that intellectual property protection is not a priority - is of significant concern.
He doesn’t have legal residence. Not a good precedent to give someone legal residence for being a crook.
-Al
What, is English an issue for you? Maureen’s comment was that Rudy will be in an area of the world that will finance his return to faking wines, with 10 years of technology advancement to assist him. My satirical comment essentially agreed with her, because there were no practical alternatives to the punishment he received for his crimes. Lighten up Francis.
Rudy Kurniawan was released from prison into ICE custody yesterday (November 6). He was taken to the ICE El Paso detention center. A screen shot from the ICE website is below. The ICE website lists Rudy’s country of birth as Indonesia. It is my understanding that Rudy will be deported to Indonesia.
John Kapon, Allen Meadows, and I were not notified in advance, to say good-bye in person. Disappointing.
I’m sure you can send him a nice card. He’ll understand.
I can send a fake Hallmark greeting card, with according well-wishes.
Interesting article on Rudy’s current status. Another Twist in Rudy Wine Fraud Saga | Wine-Searcher News & Features
In asking for information about Kurniawan’s potential deportation, Wine-Searcher has gotten a weird runaround from ICE. An ICE spokesperson first claimed not to be able to identify Kurniawan, even though Wine-Searcher sent his name and Bureau of Prisoners register number, which should lead ICE immediately to all the US government’s information about him. The next day an ICE spokesperson claimed he wasn’t in ICE custody, though the timing of that email makes it likely that he was.
On Monday, ICE said it was researching our query. So we waited another day to publish this. But we received no further response Tuesday: Not “ICE doesn’t give out that information”, or some other ordinary bureaucratic denial that reporters are accustomed to. > These professions of ignorance by an official government spokesperson and serial dodging of a simple question are actually very unusual.
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This is ICE you’re dealing with, Blake…
Facebook just told me that I might know a guy named Rudy Kurniawan and suggested I friend him. Some of you are already his Facebook friends. I am not, but some of the comments on this page or wall or whatever you call it are funny. “If you can’t make it, fake it.”
Jay, I just came here to post the same thing about FB. Seems RK and I have three mutual “friends,” some more sarcastic than others.
Joke account, let’s see how much gas he or she has in the tank. I’m betting on not too much.
but, I’m along for the ride…
May the ISIS warriors in Indonesia prosecute him accordingly for his love of alcoholic beverages.
Same here. I was surprised at some of the people I know that were friends with him.
It’s a parody account made by one of the “Wine Knerds United”. Along with “Jabroni Suckles” and a few others, they can be funny from time to time.
I always thought it was Heywood Djablohmi.