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A fraudster was caught by police after they found photos of him rolling in piles of bank notes when they searched his home. Plattini Stalone de la Torre Cordoso took a number of photos of himself with wads of cash, including one of him lying back on his bed covered in thousands of pounds.

Other photos – which helped send the 22-year-old to jail for four years – included ones of him lounging around with a laptop with a picture of sports car on it as he surrounded himself with money…

The Brazilian, who made tens of thousands of pounds selling forged passports, was arrested on July 7 this year after a routine stop by officers from British Transport Police (BTP).

Police found him in possession of two forged driving licences and two passports and marched him back to his home in Shadwell, East London, where they uncovered the photos of him surrounded by cash.

They also found equipment used to forge passports, identity cards, and driving licences and also 400 capsules of class C drug Fenproporex…

A police source said…”If he had any sense at all he would never have taken those photos and would have hidden his forging equipment somewhere other than his own flat.

“When he couldn’t give us a straight answer about where he got all the money he knew he was heading to jail.”

Which is obviously where he belongs.

The website advertising legal services from Thomas J. Lyon & Associates boasts about Lyon’s victories for clients. “We win cases all the time,” the site says. “It’s what we do…”

But Lyon is not an attorney. He’s been using another person’s Wisconsin Bar license number, that of attorney Thomas J. Lyons who has a practice in St. Paul, Minn., according to a criminal complaint. Lyon also has used the notary stamp of a dead notary public and forged the signature of court officials, the complaint says.

Prosecutors on Friday charged Lyon with practicing law without a license, theft, forgery and related charges tied to Lyon’s legal practice…

The receptionist also said she was one of several prostitutes working for the escort service “Lacuna Limited” that Lyon had set up in Milwaukee. She told an investigator that she helped to recruit new prostitutes for the escort service…

A probation agent told a detective with the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office that Lyon is on probation after convictions of grand larceny, stalking and false imprisonment in New York. Lyon’s probation was transferred to Wisconsin, the probation officer told the detective…

The system is better now that it has some checks, he said. But the Minnesota Lyons, the real Lyons said he was amused that the coincidence of the similar names allowed someone to trick court officials.

I don’t think it’s especially amusing that the court officials and everyone from local business folks to the police department never noticed [a] this clown wasn’t a real lawyer and [b] he was fronting a string of hookers.

Doesn’t sound like a surplus of integrity in Milwaukee.