{"id":238739,"date":"2010-01-27T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001313"},"modified":"2010-01-27T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:20:09","slug":"kiefer-sutherland-roped-into-869k-bovine-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238739","title":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland Roped Into $869k Bovine Ponzi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/jackbauer-thumb-165x124-36403.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Actor Kiefer Sutherland has lost $869,000 to a con-man who roped him into a bum cow investing scheme. Shyster Michael Wayne Carr had a plan to buy cows in Mexico and sell them in the US for a profit, but allegedly never bought the cows and sold cows that weren&#8217;t his. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps karmic comeuppance for his baby cow bestiality crimes in 1994&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ahONxl-wzm4\">The Cowboy Way<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The deal is said to have been handled by Sutherland&#8217;s financial advisers, who were duped by forged documents, and the actor had no knowledge of it. <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why you need to understand your investments and be involved in decisions about them, otherwise, one way or another, you&#8217;re apt to get fleeced. Even if you&#8217;re Jack Bauer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/79340\/kiefer-sutherland-loses-869k-in-cow-scam.html?utm_source=syn&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hom\">Kiefer Sutherland Loses $869K in Cow Scam<\/a> [newser] <em>(Thanks to GitEmSteveDave!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Kiefer Sutherland has lost $869,000 to a con-man who roped him into a bum cow investing scheme. Shyster Michael Wayne Carr had a plan to buy cows in Mexico and sell them in the US for a profit, but allegedly never bought the cows and sold cows that weren&#8217;t his. Perhaps karmic comeuppance for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}