AUDIO: OPERATION VANDELAY INDUSTRIES
The New York Attorney General announced a 3-charge indictment Thursday against a guy auspiciously named Paul Newman – real name – for allegedly defrauding construction companies and business owners by pretending to be a licensed and registered architect. Newman drafted bogus designs for over 100 properties since 2010, making tens of thousands in the process. He was also the only employee at his company. The best part, though, is that the Attorney General called the investigation “Operation Vandelay Industries”, based on Seinfeld’s George Costanza’s running joke of pretending to work for Vandelay Industries.
* Is there any aspect of life today that can’t be summed up in a clip from “Seinfeld”?
* He also called his designs “Newman’s Own.”
* What happened when they tried to build one of this guy’s buildings?
* Is he the guy who designed the storage space for materials under that Atlanta bridge?
* Maybe he was the one who put the cooling pools above the nuclear reactors at Fukushima.
* Closer to home, I think this guy must have designed my house too.
* This wasn’t a graduate from Trump University by any chance?
* One sign he didn’t know what he was doing: The buildings’ basement was on the roof.
* Wait, this guy defrauded a bunch of building contractors? Just get some homeowners on the jury and he’ll walk scott free.
CLIP: George explains Vandelay Industries.
