Telesio Galilei Academy of Science a Fraud?

[Possibility of Being]

Some interesting past connections here.

There was the infamous company Ascension Securities Limited who (if I understand it correctly) owned two other companies: Atis Corporate Finance Limited and Ascension Corporate Finance Limited.

According to the above linked website, Robert Fucilla was a Director/Stockbroker of Ascension Securities Limited between 13 Apr 2006 and 1 Dec 2007.

During that time both companies Atis Corporate Finance Limited and Ascension Corporate Finance Limited were created.

Atis Corporate Finance Limited (Company No: 06314690) was incorporated on 17 July 2007 under the name Ascension Corporate Finance Limited which was then changed to Atis on 13 November 2007.

Directors of Atis Corporate Finance Limited, e.o.:
Robert Fucilla Director - Stockbroker 17 Jul 2007 - 24 Apr 2008
Magnus Nwankwo Director 24 Apr 2008 - 27 Nov 2008

Atis Corporate Finance Limited was dissolved 12 May 2009 (under the directorship of Oliver Passmore)

Shortly after the first Ascension Securities Limited became Atis Corporate Finance Limited, on 28 November 2007 another Ascension Corporate Finance Limited was incorporated (Company No: 06439139) with Robert Fucilla as Director/Stockbroker between 28 Nov 2007 and 1 Mar 2008. Dissolved 05 Jan 2010 (under the directorship of Oliver Passmore)

Remember the name Magus Nwankwo?

Mr Magnus James Nwankwo (born 1967) was also a director of Acorn Equity Limited (Inc. 18 Jan 2008, dissolved 19 Dec 2010) from 18 Jan 2008 to 07 Oct 2008; other Directors were:
John Omoya (Actor: The Big I Am) 10 Aug 2008 - 31 Mar 2009
Robert Fucilla Director - Stockbroker 31 Mar 2009 - 31 Mar 2009 (according to another source, appointed April 5th, resigned April 7th)

Well, being a company Director before or after another person doesn't necessarily mean much. But then, there was

Goldsmith Global Equities Limited (Company No: 05330581) incorporated 12 Jan 2005, dissolved 16 Oct 2007 with Directors as follows:

Magus Nwankwo - Director 5 Jan 2006 - (Present)
Robert Fucilla - Company Secretary – Stockbroker 5 Jan 2006 - (Present)
Director – Stockbroker 12 Jan 2005 – (Present)

Who is Magus Nwankwo?

_http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/Media/News/190711Jailforbankerwhostolefromthedead.htm
Jail for banker who stole from the dead

19 July 2011

A man has been jailed after he stole more than £600,000 from dead, elderly and ill customers to fund his online gambling addiction.

James Leonard Finnigan, 42, from Twickenham, Middlesex was handed a four-year jail term at the Old Bailey on Friday (15 July 2011) having previously pleaded guilty to the fraud.

His crime was brought to an end after a City of London Police investigation. DS Ben Flannaghan, who led the investigation, said: "It may be cliched to describe a criminal as heartless, but in this instance it is difficult to think of a more apt description.

“James Finnigan appeared to target customers who were elderly in the hope of avoiding detection, in some cases going as far as taking money from accounts when customers had recently died.

“There can be no justifications for his actions, and his sentence reflects that."

Also jailed on Friday, following a separate investigation by City of London Police officers, was Magnus Nwankwo.

Nwankwo, also known as Magnus James, operated a small-scale British-based ‘boiler room’ – establishing businesses that appeared legitimate, before specifically targeting an elderly man for investment.

The 41-year-old, from Harrow, was sentenced to three years and four months imprisonment at the Old Bailey having previously pleaded guilty to the fraud. [...]

_http://www.ftadviser.com/2011/10/04/regulation/boiler-room-fraudster-given-three-year-jail-term-6LrJ071pr5ZVjl8x4TFW0L/article.html?refresh=true

Boiler room fraudster given three year jail term

A fraudster who operated a small-scale British-based boiler room has been sentenced to three years and four months imprisonment at the Old Bailey.
Published Jul 20, 2011

A man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to setting up a 'boiler room' fraud operation.

Magnus Nwanko, also known as Magnus James, was jailed last week at the Old Bailey following an investigation by City of London Police officers.

The court heard that Mr Nwanko had established businesses that appeared legitimate, before specifically targeting an elderly man for investment.

The 41-year-old, from Harrow, Essex was sentenced to three years and four months imprisonment having previously pleaded guilty to the fraud.

The sentencing follows the criminal conviction last month for boiler room fraud against David Roger Griffiths Mason, who was sentenced to two years in prison and disqualified from being a director for six years.

In that case the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said conviction sent a clear message that the court takes boiler room offences seriously and will hand down significant sentences to those involved in them.

The FSA spokesperson said at the time: "We will continue to crack down on all types of unauthorised business, such as boiler rooms, and seek the severest penalties where possible."

MOD NOTE: Robert Fucilla, through his lawyer, denies validity of these opinions and of this analysis of available data.

 

[SeekinTruth]

Very interesting connections, PoB. All this seems like the same patterns keep repeating. At least some were sent to prison for fraud (for which they plead guilty).

 

[dantem]

FYI here, a note on Jeremy Dunning-Davies, the TGA's President.

He's not listed on en.wiki, but on it.wiki he's got a page.

Jeremy Dunning-Davies è nato nel Galles nel 1941. È considerato da molti uno dei più dotati Fisici Teorici e Matematici degli ultimi 50 anni nel Regno Unito[senza fonte]. La sua voce spicca tra le principali autorità della Meccanica Adronica. Dunning-Davies è Professore all'Istituto per la ricerca di base, in Florida, Stati Uniti d'America.

[...]In collaborazione con Bernard Howard Lavenda dell'Università di Camerino, in Italia, ha prestato attenzione ad una vasta quantità di problemi nella termodinamica e nella termodinamica statistica.

[...]Di recente è entrato a far parte del progetto di ricerca di Franco Fucilla presso la Steriwave Plc.

Dunning-Davies è inoltre Presidente dell'Accademia Telesio - Galilei Academy of Science.

Transl:
Jeremy Dunning-Davies was born in Wales in 1941. It is considered by many to be one of the most gifted theoretical physicists and mathematicians of the last 50 years in the United Kingdom [citation needed] {no source, oh my! Could it be that his bio was pumped up a bit?}. His voice stands out among the leading authorities of Hadronic Mechanics. Dunning-Davies is Professor at the Institute for Basic Research, in Florida, United States of America.

[...]In collaboration with Howard Bernard Lavenda University of Camerino in Italy, has paid attention to a wide variety of problems in thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics.

[...]It has recently joined the research project at the Franco Fucilla Steriwave Plc.
{again Francesco is called Franco here}

Dunning-Davies is also Chairman of the Academy Telesio - Galilei Academy of Science.

A look on wiki's page contributors below. The user who created the page 'Newscience7 ', has disappeared. Then there's an IP 193.204.10.200 from Camerino, Italy, 'home' of his friend HBLavenda and another two from UK (London and Southampton).

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Some stuff and papers here:

Jeremy Dunning-Davies on Vixra.org - last submission on 2012-02-16 04:01:45

Science in Turmoil - Are we Funding Fraud? by Dr. Jeremy Dunning-Davies - September 26, 2009

Jeremy Dunning-Davies' profile

Gravity Probe B and Related Matters 05 September 2011

 

[ark]

"Jeremy Dunning-Davies was born in Wales in 1941. It is considered by many to be one of the most gifted theoretical physicists and mathematicians of the last 50 years in the United Kingdom"

In my opinion, this is one of the best jokes I've seen in my whole life. What is interesting it is that real scientists are buying this joke, and came to the gold medals delivery ceremonies with Jeremy Dunning-Davies at the Presidium table at the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III). Jeremy Dunning-Davies did not get a medal from the University in Toulouse, like his fellow joke "scientist polymath genius" Francesco Fucilla, but he was sitting next to the President of the University on one side and a mathematician and philosopher of the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Emile Picard, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse on the other side!

With his impressive list of publications (I could not find even one that I would call a scientific publication) containing very complicated formulas, like 1+z=sqrt((c+v)/(c-v))
Jeremy-Dunning Davies is indeed the most gifted joker in the last 50 years. (My opinion.)

 

[name]

Drawing Charts

The issue of drawing charts about this episode has come up several times.


There are two for-free tools which come to mind:
a) yED - a graph editor distributed as a java .jar file. It is similar to Visio but is easier to use and has less features.
This is a handy tool to draw graphs of various kinds by hand.
Download from --> http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html


b) Gephi - a very powerful tool for editing and exploring graphs (free / OS).
This tool can generate very beautiful (and informative) graphs.
Download from --> http://gephi.org/

 

[Laura]

Re: Drawing Charts

The issue of drawing charts about this episode has come up several times.


There are two for-free tools which come to mind:
a) yED - a graph editor distributed as a java .jar file. It is similar to Visio but is easier to use and has less features.
This is a handy tool to draw graphs of various kinds by hand.
Download from --> http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html


b) Gephi - a very powerful tool for editing and exploring graphs (free / OS).
This tool can generate very beautiful (and informative) graphs.
Download from --> http://gephi.org/

Hmmm... a chart might highlight the possibility of RICO related activities?

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

Perhaps some of you who are chart/graph savvy could get together and pull on some of the threads and unravel them that way?

 

[seek10]

Re: Drawing Charts

The issue of drawing charts about this episode has come up several times.


There are two for-free tools which come to mind:
a) yED - a graph editor distributed as a java .jar file. It is similar to Visio but is easier to use and has less features.
This is a handy tool to draw graphs of various kinds by hand.
Download from --> http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html


b) Gephi - a very powerful tool for editing and exploring graphs (free / OS).
This tool can generate very beautiful (and informative) graphs.
Download from --> http://gephi.org/

Gephi has some impressive demo that reminds me of artificial intelligence, matrix, soul hacking etc. Just like any other data modeling, critical part of this is data identification and entry and identifying the relationships ( blood relationship, company relationships, professional relationship (critical or cooperative) ) etc.
http://gephi.org/videos/

 

[seek10]

Re: Drawing Charts

The issue of drawing charts about this episode has come up several times.


There are two for-free tools which come to mind:
a) yED - a graph editor distributed as a java .jar file. It is similar to Visio but is easier to use and has less features.
This is a handy tool to draw graphs of various kinds by hand.
Download from --> http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html


b) Gephi - a very powerful tool for editing and exploring graphs (free / OS).
This tool can generate very beautiful (and informative) graphs.
Download from --> http://gephi.org/

Gephi has some impressive demo that reminds me of artificial intelligence, matrix, soul hacking etc. Just like any other data modeling, critical part of this is data identification and entry and identifying the relationships ( blood relationship, company relationships, professional relationship (critical or cooperative) ) etc.
http://gephi.org/videos/

Some more interesting video's Neo4j Integration into Gephi : http://vimeo.com/ -- Entering the data into Neo4J opensource DB, this is much easier to maintain.

how it works "Need a graph database like Twitter is built on? @neo4j delivers, @emileifrem tells why" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ElGO1P8v0c
connections between geographic info, social network, credibility Information.

I love to work on this, but Not sure I will have time to do, my job is on fire and looking for a new one.

 

[name]

I graphed the first page or so of htis thread with Gephi, until http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27261.msg332522.html#msg332522
I think that it contains most of the actors named in the thread who are related to this presumed scam.


A rendering of the network can be seen here


The nodes drawn bigger are those which Gephi calculates are the hubs of the network according to the data it has.


The .gephi file containing the network and all data is here in case somebody wants to continue with this or edit it in any way
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/349242/fucilla-gephi.html
*** This file will be available for 30 days.


I think remembering that the RICO Act has as pre-requisite of applicability that a crime is committed IN THE USA. A good starting point is http://ricoact.com, the website of a US lawyer specialized in the matter. Many EU states also have laws against organized crime, BTW. There is a dropbox in Texas and a connection to a former Uni professor


LIUM Uni has updated their website. They appear to have erased info that could relate them to the Fucilla family.

 

[seek10]

I think this is a COOL graph. Not sure how you entered the data. Tried to open the file you sent quickly , couldn't find the right software. If it is simple data entry ( into xml or so) , may be others can help.

Interesting thing with this graph is , suddenly William Facilla looks like a main man than FF. The complete picture will emerge once we enter the complete data we had.

 

[Laura]

That map is awesome. I'll be sending a large version of it to the Procurer Generale to aid in their exploration of the connections... and the screen shots of the sites that are currently being scrubbed.

 

[dant]

I think this is a COOL graph. Not sure how you entered the data. Tried to open the file you sent quickly , couldn't find the right software. If it is simple data entry ( into xml or so) , may be others can help.

Interesting thing with this graph is , suddenly William Facilla looks like a main man than FF. The complete picture will emerge once we enter the complete data we had.

Yep. Fucilla and ilk all over the place. Wonder if Area/location data could
be added if useful, i.e. US, UK, France, ...

To install gephi:
1) Download gephi package (Reply #473 : http://gephi.org/)
2) Unpackage gephi (I put the folder extract on my Desktop)
3) Download fucilla gephi project file (Reply #473: http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/349242/fucilla-gephi.html)
and rename it to fucilla.gephi

To run gephi & load the fucilla.gephi project
4) Start gephi (Desktop/gephi/bin/gephi or gephi.exe)
5) File->Open... [directory/file selector pops up & select file: fucilla.gephi], then click button: OK

Then the graph appears in [Overview] Tab.
To see the data entries, click the [Data Laboratory] tab

Note #1: This was done on Linux (Fedora 13) and works "out
of the box", using OpenJDK and since gephi is based on
Netbeans IDE. I am quite familiar with Netbeans, but not
data graphing.

Note #2: Fedora 13 is EOL as I abhor Gnome-3

Note #3: There are *many* gephi update plugins and
additional tools to make this application quite
extensive and most of all - free!

Note #4: I fail to see how to move the image around as
there does not appear to be scrollbar support? Anyone
figure this out?

 

[name]

@Dant
Thanks for posting the instructions.

To add Area/Location data, just add a column "Location" in Node view of the "Data Laboratory" and enter the pertaining data there for each row/node.

To scroll around, right-click on the background of the graph, keep the mouse button held, and drag.
Be careful because it accelerates and you can lose the graph fast.
Use the mouse wheel to zoom and the left MB to use the tools on the toolbars. Also use the left mouse button to drag single nodes around when the hand tool is activated.


To enter data in Gephi by hand, you can use the tools on the graph in the "Overview" page. There is one "pencil" for nodes, and another one for edges.
A "Node" represents "something": a person, a place, a car, an event ... They are the circles.
An "edge" represents a connection between things. They are the lines.


You can also use the data sheet on the "Data Laboratory" page. It looks and works like Excel or any other spreadsheet.
The grid has two views, you reach them by clicking the "Nodes" and "Edges" buttons top-left of the data sheet.


To enter a new node:
- Click the green "Add Node" button and enter its name in the popup.
- In the grid, add something in the "Kind" column which I have created to distinguish what kind of entity is represented: a person, a "commercial" location, an "institution" and so on. Use anything that is meaningful to you but try to stay consistent.
Disregard the columns to the right of "Kind" if you don't know what they are. They are statistics about these nodes and their place in the graph. Gephi calculates them by itself.


To enter a new edge:
- Click on the green "Add Edge" button.
- Select if the edge is "directed" as in "from A to B" or "undirected", where the direction is not given. I used (mostly) directed edges. An edge says (for example) "Person owns Company".
- Select a "Source" node and a "Target" node in the popup.
- You can enter something descriptive in the "Label" column of the grid. I used the titles which these people give themselves (Director, Prorettore ...).
Again, disregard the columns to the right of "Label", these values are calculated by Gephi.


To import data from CSV files, use the import tool in the "Data Laboratory". It should be straightforward if you know how to use a spreadsheet like Excel.
You need to arrange your data into two files, one for nodes and one for edges.
Nodes file has columns Label,Kind and Edges has columns Source,Target,Label


To layout your graph, look to the lower-left side of the graph the Layout tab.
The layouts which give best results are "Force Atlas 2" and "Yifan Hu Proportional" (select from list).
Be sure to install the plugins for these layouts.

 

[Guardian]

Y
To install gephi:
1) Download gephi package (Reply #473 : http://gephi.org/)
2) Unpackage gephi (I put the folder extract on my Desktop)
3) Download fucilla gephi project file (Reply #473: http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/349242/fucilla-gephi.html)
and rename it to fucilla.gephi

Oh wow! I need to learn how to use this...makes my spread sheets look as archaic as me

THANK YOU Dant!

 

[dant]

Welcome to all for thanking me for the gephi
install & load instructions, but in all fairness,
credit also goes to name for suggesting
the graph tools and taking the time to setup
the data and graph on gephi and for the tips
on how to use gephi!

And of course, thanks to Laura & team for providing
the research networking platform which made
all of this possible! :)