John Spano
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John Spano
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John Angelo Spano Jr. is an American businessman and admitted fraudster. He is best known for briefly buying control of the New York Islanders franchise of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1996, before it emerged that he had barely a fraction of the assets to buy the team; he used fraud to borrow enough money to initiate the purchase, believing he could use the fraudulently purchased team itself as the asset to then get the rest of the tens of millions of dollars needed to cover his fraud. He
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American businessman and fraudster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spano
date created:
2006-01-28T16:55:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T23:17:54Z
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