To date, GNK has committed 2.69 million dollars of fraud (and counting), that has negatively affected affected over 60 people and families (and counting). GNK has also committed historical sexual offences against a minor, and may well be up on similar charges right now. For all of his offending over a 30 year period, GNK has served a total of:
3 years Jail.
Now, this means that GNK has earned approximately $897,000.00 for every year he has been in jail, or around $90,000.00 of tax-free income, per year, for 30 years.
It is of thus absolutely no surprise to me that GNK is such a prolific offender -who wouldn’t be, with odds as much in his favour as this equation affirms?
The question many people have asked me over the past 6 weeks is “how have the authorities let GNK get away with this sort of offending for so long?”.
The possible answer to this very reasonable question is this: the authorities are governed by rules, regulations, and standards, whilst GNK is not – it may be that the very system that gives us the “rule of law”, is the very same system that undermines its own premise.
Imagine how the All Blacks vs France World Cup Final game would have gone if the ref had said to the French “play how you like, I won’t be blowing the whistle for anything you do”, whilst saying to the All Blacks “but I expect you Ritchie and the team to play by the rules of the game”.
There would have been a riot at Eden Park, because the crowd would have been incensed at the injustice of the ref”s call – yet this is the same un-level “playing field” that seems to confront the authorities in the Justice and Legal system -that “we” must play by the rules, whilst the criminals and offenders get to operate outside the rules.
No wonder a group of people hurt by GNK got to the point recently where, for them, enough was most certainly enough, and they prescribed some of their own summary justice upon GNK – if the Justice system can’t sufficiently “get” him, then I guess they decided that they could……and did.
Im surprised he still gets away with what he does..Well done on all the work you have done to finally have this prick put away
Hi Marissa, thanks for this – we still have a little way to go yet, but once we can get one current conviction on the board, then I am picking that a number of others will shortly follow. This whole saga is beginning to look quite embarrassing for a number of statutory organisations, as GNK has openly breached so many rules, regulations, codes of conduct, and laws for so many statutory organisations, that a visitor to NZ could be mistaken for thinking we were a modern version of Wyatt Earps’s “wild west”. We’re not of course – it’s just that, until now, no-one has been able to draw all of the pieces of the puzzle together, and get the media onside with the issues at hand. Now that I have done both, the authorities and the media now have much more to go on, and, coupled with an evidential trail, can now employ appropriate resources to nail GNK as they see fit.
Steve, as I said in a previous reply, we may well ask the police why they seem not to have the time or interest in investigating, in their own words.”A prolific habitual offender” told to me in 2004. Are they not somewhat responisble for his offending?
Yes, that which we don’t set boundaries against, is that which will eventually over-run us. In Pharmacology and Psychology, there is a term called the “re-bound effect”, whereby symptoms alleviated by medication can return stronger than they originally presented in the absence of medication. I suspect we are seeing a version of this effect play out here. GNK wasn’t “medicated” when he needed to be by the Police in 2004, so his offending increased unabated as a result. One wonders what the “rebound effect” is going to be on GNK when the authorities do eventually nail him 😉