James Blair Down

James Blair Down is a Canadian citizen who operated a large telemarketing scam with others. On November 7, 1999, the CBS highly rated television show 60 Minutes aired an interview with Martin S. Kenney, that was conducted by Mike Wallace as part of a program segment called Con Man that focused on Kenney's firm Interclaim who worked in conjunction with the FBI to attempt to recover millions of dollars of investor funds stolen in the telemarking fraud by Blair Down .

Canada’s most infamous felons, a powerful, heavyset figure called James Blair Down. Down had been plaguing the US authorities since the mid-1980s, as they tried (unsuccessfully) to stop his Canadian-based telemarketing scams. He’d stolen $240 million from up to a million elderly Americans, one of the largest such crimes in history.


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