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EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag’s Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up
New York Observer ^ | December 15, 2014

Posted on 12/15/2014 7:11:08 PM PST by SMGFan

In an exclusive Observer interview, Mohammed Islam, said to have investment returns of $72 million as a hs senior, admits he invented the whole story

(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: mohammedislam; newyork; newyorkcity; queens
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To: SMGFan
Knew this was BS the second I heard it.

It took me 20 years to make just $1m in the stock market and it took about an average of $500 a month of investments during that time to build up to that.

A journalist has to be a total idiot to think that some 17-year old high school kid can make $72m in the stock market.

Most likely this is a play on the Muslim believe that they have 72 virgins waiting for them in Muslim heaven.

21 posted on 12/15/2014 7:40:55 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Jet Jaguar

He should’ve tried something more believable, like that he’d been gang raped by privileged white males in a college fraternity...


22 posted on 12/15/2014 7:41:21 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: SMGFan

He learned the art of Taqqiya real fast.


23 posted on 12/15/2014 7:42:27 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Jet Jaguar
"Do reporters even bother to fact check anymore?"

Doesn't look like it.

Remember when Newsweek spiked Michael Isikoff's report on the Lewinsky scandal just hours before it was set to go to print? They claimed it was because they needed two verifiable sources to publish the story. None of the media is worth the powder to blow them to hell.

24 posted on 12/15/2014 7:44:28 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Do reporters even bother to fact check anymore?

I believe they still do at the National Enquirer...and probably Breitbart.

25 posted on 12/15/2014 7:50:19 PM PST by stevem
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To: pgyanke
Note the irony when he needed to lawyer up: "handled by a phalanx of four including the lawyer Ed Mermelstein of Rheem Bell & Mermelsein"
26 posted on 12/15/2014 7:58:28 PM PST by Riflema
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To: SMGFan

Facts, smacts. I’ve got a paper to sell here.


27 posted on 12/15/2014 8:01:25 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: SMGFan

The $72 million was too close to 72 virgins,LOL


28 posted on 12/15/2014 8:05:25 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: a fool in paradise

truth and facts are not important for leftist journalists


29 posted on 12/15/2014 8:31:55 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SMGFan

“I’ll have to pay HOW much in taxes?? Oh, ummm- well, hey I actually made it all up”.


30 posted on 12/15/2014 8:38:27 PM PST by richmwill
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To: Jet Jaguar

My name is Jack Americano................


31 posted on 12/16/2014 9:42:37 AM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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