Marquette International Ltd. should update their blurb about Cafasso

Marquette International, Ltd. has a web page that mentions Joe Cafasso, here, entitled the "Resume Liars Club". I contacted them with further information about Joe Cafasso since this is what they show on their page about him, along with a number of other con artists who haven't been honest:

In late 2001, Joe Cafasso, aka Jay Cafasso, succeeded in becoming a Fox News military consultant during the Afghanistan campaign. He convinced the cable network that he was a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army, had served in Vietnam and won the Silver Star for bravery and was later part of the failed secret mission to rescue US hostages in Iran in 1980. He had previously put forward the same story to the Patrick Buchanan presidential campaign and WABC radio in New York City, both of which accepted the line. Disgracefully, this story was a fabrication. According to published reports about his military records from Fort Dix in New Jersey, Cafasso's entire military career consisted of only 44 days, between May and June 1976, when he was honorably discharged as a Private First Class. Suspicions were raised about Cafasso at Fox when some of the information he provided was inconsistent and his office style clashed with others. An investigative firm was hired by another analyst to look into his background and determined that his story was a fraud. He was fired by Fox News Washington bureau chief Kim Hume in March 2002 prior to the investigative report being disclosed. Cafasso was considered a "gifted storyteller" by some of the people he encountered in his travels. His current activities are unknown.

His "current activities" certainly are known-and much has happened since March of 2002.  This was acknowledged just recently in February of 2009 (but only the Indiana Chapter), and I sent them a link to the Chicago Tribune article mentioning Cafasso's adventures in Indiana as Robert Stormer to at least bring readers current on what is fast becoming legend: the saga of Joe Cafasso, the casanova; con; fraud; and embezzler.

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Letter to Donald Covington, president, the Piano Store

Regarding Scott Covington fraudulently obtaining a credit report on Larry Sinclair, the letter at this link was sent to Covington's father who is reportedly the president of the Piano Store.   How the autotrack information fits into the story is something of incredible interest to this writer.  This methodology and associated story is somehow hauntingly familiar, although it is alleged by Mr. Sinclair that drugs are moving via UPS and Fed Ex in and out of the store.

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter aka Carl Rockefeller

Carl Rockefeller may have been captured after having "kidnapped" his own little girl, but the story behind the face is what is intriguing.

Joe Cafasso may have attempted to rub elbows with the rich and famous in much the same way as Gerhartsreiter, but at least his aliases were in keeping with his italian heritage.

Gerhartsreiter, by contrast, pretended to be a distant relative of the Rockefeller family. He married under that pretense, and divorced when his wife began to suspect that his story was not true.

Love is blind, so they say. And Cafasso knows that to be true, as he's infamous for proposing marriage to unsuspecting spinsters while he lays designs on their nest eggs.

Gerhartsreiter had been a 'stay-at-home dad', living in his wife's $2 million brownstone. Not a bad job if you can get it!

But that is just the tip of the iceberg; because after he left Germany, and had gone to school just long enough to get some level of English proficiency, he found his way to the US and found ways to take advantage of people.

Steve Savio, 39, said his mother answered a classified ad in the Journal-Register newspaper from a teen calling himself a German exchange student. He recalled Gerhartsreiter, who slept on their couch before moving into their basement, as a high-maintenance house guest.

“He was mad at us because we made him do his own laundry,” Savio said. “He was expecting to be served.”

He is wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple, Sohus. He was apparently staying in their guest house under another alias, Christopher Chichester. As it turns out, Chichester was one of many aliases Gerhartsreiter used in his 30-year odyssey.

In 1979, Gerhartsreiter moved in with the Savios family (in Connecticut) and attended Berlin High School as a foreign exchange student. The family said they knew the "snotty" student as Christian Gerhart Reiter. Gerhartsreiter moved to Wisconsin, where he married 22-year-old Amy Jersild on Feb. 20, 1981.

He disappeared the next day, with his new green card in hand.

This was a telling little tidbit:

Chichester soon after left the Savios' house and moved in with a librarian, who asked not to be named.

"He was a con artist," she said. "He thought he was better than everyone else. But he was not self-assured. He was an insecure young man."

Aren't they all.

Gerhatsreiter resurfaced in California around 1985 - this time as Christopher Chichester, a name he seemed to have borrowed from a high school science teacher. Friends and neighbors in California remember a man who tried to cozy up to the high-society crowd in San Marino but never quite fit in.

"I have a feeling he was looking for somebody to victimize so he could just take the money and run," said Carole Iliff, 69, who said Chichester tried to con her late husband out of $1,200.

Chichester rented the guest house of Jonathan and Linda Sohus in San Marino, Calif. The couple mysteriously vanished that year. Jonathan Sohus' remains were found nine years later buried in his back yard.

When cops came to question Chichester he was nowhere to be found. Gerhartsreiter's lawyer said his client recalls being in California but doesn't remember living with the couple and denies any involvement in their disappearance.

In the late 1980s, at some point, he adopted yet another identity - Christopher Crow - and worked for banks, including Credit Suisse, according to a co-worker who worked with him who wanted to remain anonymous. "This guy clearly is a wacko," the former co-worker told The News.

Gerhartsreiter, 47, then pulled off his biggest con of all, marrying executive Sandra Boss in Nantucket in 1995.

They spent some time in New York, moved into a $2 million townhouse in Boston and had Reigh in 2001. The couple divorced in 2007 and Boss, 41, gained full custody of "Snooks."

Another "Catch me if you can" fellow, only he claims to have amnesia or some such rot.

There are numerous parallels here to our Joseph Anthony Cafasso, the original two-bit conman, aka the Carteret Con Artist, including Gerhartsreiter's owning a boat at the marina. He just had it there so he could talk it up, apparently - he never took it out. And the story the FBI used in order to draw him out of the sparsely furnished apartment he was staying in with his kidnapped daughter - was that his boat was taking on water.

Unfortunately, Cafasso, who said he had a Clipper Ship at Bannister's Wharf, didn't even have a rowboat there.

What is absolutely fantastic is the french connection. (There seems to be a consistent theme here!) Cafasso claimed to have a home in France, Scott Covington claims to be jewish and french (what a joke!), and Jonathan and Lynda Sohus supposedly sent a postcard from France after they disappeared.

con artists banding together?

The Mitch and Nan Show used information from Stuporpatriots that had been taken down by blogger-but reappeared on a blog post at Stuporpatriots about Pelton's ridiculous book, "License to Kill"-- in order to intimidate Cao of Cao's blog.

Cafasso would rather beat women than fight like a man.  Judging from the phone call that Covington made to Larry Sinclair's mother in an attempt to extort money, it would appear they have a lot in common.

We've seen this before.  It's the same approach that was taken in the past, and it's interesting that Cafasso is so intent on recycling that information.  He may be laughing about the stupidity of the world with his disappearing act, but he's leaving a trail, nevertheless.

We've seen the same presentation on the posts, too.

The Mitch and Nan Show reminds us of Stuporpatriots for a number of reasons.

Take a look at these comparisons, from 10-31 and YWN.

The truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction, and in Cafasso's story, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he's somehow managed to have his way with these people - even using another alias.