Posted on 12/15/2014 7:18:24 PM PST by Signalman
It didn't take long for New York Magazine's story on a 17-year-old stock whiz with a rumored net worth of $72 million to make a splash. But the story's juicy premise unraveled almost as quickly. Wapo.com Jessica Pressler wrote the profile of Mohammed Islam, a senior at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, for a feature called "Reasons to Love New York." After getting an advanced look at Pressler's piece, the New York Post put the improbable story on its Sunday front page. By Monday morning, Islam's story was one of the hottest on Facebook.
Then it fell apart. In an interview with the New York Observer published Monday night, Islam admitted that he fabricated the whole story and has never actually made a return on any investment. "So it's total fiction?" asked the Observer. "Yes," Islam said.
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A muslim lying? Imagine that.....
On this point I can give him a break. He’s a teen and he and his friends had a fool of a reporter who was willing to write down whatever they told her as fact.
By Laura Italiano
December 14, 2014 | 4:52am
She should resign and become a fantasy writer.
The “content contributors” certainly haven’t covered themselves with glory in recent months.
I'm a bit older than a teenager - quite a bit. Can't say that if I had the hook set in this reporter that I wouldn't let the sucker run awhile.
Liberal rag gets punked.
Lies like a [prayer] rug. At least he was named appropriately.
He will sure be a hero to his little club, I have to admit that in his high school, it must be a pretty cool scam to have pulled.
It was a good chuckle by Mr. Islam, nice joke.
Remember the guy who hooked the media on the “Barney & Friends” being a subliminal devil worship experiment? They swallowed the hook, line, and sinker. The press conference made it true.
You can get one for $9 at Kohls.
No millionaire would wear such a tie.
LOL! I was just talking about this on another website, I use to drive a yellow cab in the 1990s in Queens NYC and deal with the Muzzies every day, and they would tell me this crap all the time with the straightest face. “Oh I made $300,000 on the stock market, I own 4 buildings, and 4 cars” meanwhile they are driving a taxi. They are the biggest BS artists going. I don’t know why, or why they would tell me because it wasn’t like they were going to scam anything from me, they just seem to have this ego problem when it came to money. Like if I had a good day and I made a few hundred, they would say “Oh I made a thousand” lol lol Same crap going on here with this kid, and I actually knew a “Mohammed Islam” who worked out of my garage. I use to tease him and introduce myself as “Jesus Christian” so I wonder if this kid is related or “Islam” is a name they use that is just as common as “Mohammed”.
Unwow ping. All a fabrication. Kid does have lots of money, wonder how he got it.
I’m sure the bimbo demanded to see his Schedule K...right?
I mean, she’s a sophisticated member of the uber-sophisticated NY media...
NY can blow me. Losers. Every single resident. You are the biggest suckers going, as defined in Hyman Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis. Have fun when it all falls apart, losers.
Reminiscent of the willing dupe Margaret Mead in Samoa.
What he pulled off makes our old senior pranks look pretty pale. Kudos to him for a good reeling in of a fish.
I had bought what would become Nickelodeon. It also had a show called "Nurse" which went into syndication about six months after I bought the stock. If I had held it, my $2800 would have been well over $100,000 in four years. We needed the money for other things as I had just gotten married.
Savin Corporation murdered me. So did Surebeam.
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