Three men have been indicted in Georgia for allegedly trying to steal $3 million from gun maker Glock.
The indictment handed down by an Atlanta-area grand jury Friday says the three men conspired from 2000 until early last year to steal the money.
Jeffery Pombert, James Harper III and Jerry Chapman are charged with theft by taking and violation of a state racketeering law.
The indictment says Harper worked as an outside legal counsel for Austrian-based Glock’s U.S. headquarters in Smyrna, near Atlanta. It said the men transferred funds and assets from Glock to personal bank accounts they had set up.
Harper and Pombert have been released from Cobb County jail on bond. Chapman was still in jail Tuesday.
Gaston really knows how to hire good employees. A couple of years ago one of his executives arraigned to have him murdered and he came very, very close to meeting his maker.
Was that the case where he was ambushed in a parking garage by a guy wielding a hammer? And he physically fought the guy off?
That’s the story I heard.
eta; Nevermind, I found the story.
Frome Wiki
Murder attempt
In July 1999 in an apparent attempt to cover his embezzlement of millions from the Glock company, Glock’s associate Charles Ewert hired 67 year old French-born ex-mercenary Jacques Pêcheur to murder Glock in a garage in Luxembourg. Glock was able to survive and fend off the attack, striking Pêcheur twice. His injuries included 7 head wounds and some cuts and abrasions, causing the loss of about one liter of blood. Jacques Pêcheur was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the attack. As a result of Pêcheur’s testimony, Charles Ewert was sentenced to 20 years.[1]
You are correct. Gaston needs to find better friends.
