The Bagman

Fat Mick & Coward of the County

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A journey down memory lane for those that remember “fat mick Gatto” promoted by the

 

Hard to consider anyone more deserving of the cowards of the year 2011 award than “Fat Mick” Gatto and Autobarn boss Garry Dumbrell.

Maybe people are  not  aware that convicted criminal Gatto and his fellow “calorie enhanced” sidekick John Khoury have been responsible for some of the most spectacular failed attempts to recover monies on behalf of their clients

Fat Mick is promoted by the Herald Sun newspaper at every opportunity as a negotiator and a resolver of disputes.   Hardly a day goes by when he is not featured prominently along with other well known bottom feeders of the criminal world, Roberta Williams comes readily to mind,  Judy Moran and to a lesser extent Mark “no ears” Reid are all promoted by the Herald Sun at some time or other.

Chopper Reid was a” give up” and a “dog” after lagging in other prisoners to save his own skin, his books of fiction are regarded as fantasy by friends and foe a like .

Choppers friends, who incidentally would all fit into the side car of a motor bike, describe him as being as weak as boarding house tea and unable to pull the skin of a rice pudding, Now how’s that for tough.

If this mug wants to write another book rest assured the Herald Sun will have its dibs on it.

Lets get back to Fat Mick and the reason I want to nominate him for the puffed up fake of the year, before the global financial crisis a mob called Opus Prime went belly up causing many thousands of small, but greedy, investors to lose their life savings. One of those investors had the brilliant idea that they would engage Fat Mick and his talented team of negotiators to head off to Singapore where they wrongly believed the money had been stashed.

The Herald Sun promoted Fat Mick’s trip, and photos of him and his Calorie enhanced team were front page news,  I say  calorie enhanced because the picture of 3 fat blokes laden with suitcases leaving on their mission of mercy needed to be seen to be believed. The Herald Sun again promoted Fat Mick daily as he went about his business of finding the mysterious money and returning triumphantly with suitcases filled to the brim with the folding stuff.

Alas, much to the chagrin of the Herald Sun Fat Mick and his 2 Fat mates returned to Melbourne, 3 fat blokes with 3 empty suitcases. I wouldn’t employ these 3 Fat wallies to negotiate a lunch break.

Recently in the  news  was Harry Kakavas. Suing Crown Casino to the tune of $35 million for allowing him to bet and lose that amount over a number of years at what authorities describe as the centre of corruption and criminal activity, yep that’s it,you guessed it – Crown Casino.

Anyway to cut to the chase.  Harry had borrowed a couple of million from his old mate fellow property developer Jarred Mc Cracken ,they say there is no honour among thieves and, true to that adage, Harry was reluctant to repay the currency to his ex mate.

Brilliant idea!thinks young Jarred, lets get that bloke  the Herald Sun promotes as an enforcer and negotiator to put the screws on poor old Harry, meeting arranged, coffee ordered, sitting in the sun in lovely old Bourke St..

Harry was not exactly shaking like a dog shitting razor blades as the Fat boy put the hard word on him to cough up or else, or else what, Harry was heard to say , you’ve been reading your own publicity “youve got a fat head as well ” Get Fucked’  and off into the sunset Harry rode. The Fat boy nearly chocked on his equally fat cigar.

Disaster number 3 for Fat Mick and the Fat Boys came in December of  2009 ,the millionaire director of the Autobarn spare parts retailer Garry Dumbrell hired the Fat Boys as enforcers to negotiate on his behalf with his elderly neighbours in a land dispute.

Alan and Colline Miller aged in their late eighties rushed from their holiday farm after being warned that Fat Mick and Fat John Khoury were supervising the erection of a new fence between the properties which took away an old council lane  into Dumbrells property.  The disputed land is worth $150,000.

To terrorise an elderly couple in this way is nothing short of thuggery, the sort of thuggery that is conducive with the promotion of criminals in our society.

The award for coward of the year goes to Dumbrell for employing the Fat boys to intimidate this elderly couple, and to the Fat boys for lacking the courage or the guts to tell Dumbrell to go fuck himself. In all the actions of cowards!!

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  1. Yes David Reilly is still a serving officer.

    What will be very interesting is over the next 2 months Autobarn’s 3rd biggest store is converting to Auto One. The Browns Plains store is extreamly well ran and makes great profit, not to mention how much money it makes head office.
    This guy is changing over as he can see Autobarn hitting the wall.

    I cant wait to see what punches autobarn will pull to force him to stay in the group.

  2. Thanks for the current info, appreciate that you can provide paperwork.

    Is David Reilly a serving police officer?

    I wil provide postal address for you.

    Thanks

  3. The police officer I Know of is David Reilly. He is “employed” as a “crime prevention consultant”

    I cant pinpoint Gatto to being on the payroll it is a guess.

    Kawana Waters on the sunshine coast is another store that shut down to “bad management”… this is the 2nd owner in 8 years bi=oth lost there house and everything they owned?? it has recently sold to the 3rd sucker who will soon discover that the figures he was provided are false.

    Mentone in Melbourne has recently acquired a new owner.. he was promissed the world of support from head office. He has requsted help from head office and they said “where in the contract dose it say that we will help”…. thanks guys.

    Next time I am in Melbourne I will make a point of dropping off some paperwork for you.

    S W

  4. Thanks for the info ,I will check out the Sunshine store.

    Do you have any evidence of police on the payroll? or the deal with Gatto.?

    My contacts in the construction union have already provided me with details of how Gatto earns an income Its extremely interesting, but back to the subject of Autobarn if you can provide me with

    more info I will be happy to receive it .look forward to hearing from you.

  5. I have not changed my mind, I have been busy.

    A couple of things that you need to consider for yourself and about Mick. He was not emplyed or Hired by Dumbrelle. He is a Family friend and is frequently at family BBQ’s and events. Dumbrelle also has senior police detectives on the automotive brands pay roll. I dare say that Mick is on the pay roll as well.

    I have plenty of evidence and I am in the process of trying to get more.
    Your in Melbourne? have a look at the likes of the sunshine store which recently closed down due to “bad Management”.

    The evidence i’m trying to get is where recently autobarn told NAB bank to get in line or else… They got in line and pulled the funding on an oppositions shop.

    The best way to shut this joint down is for someone to act as a buyer of a shop, go through the training process and spend a month inside the organisation.

  7. If you have signed a C.A you must be a former employee.I would need to know the details of that agreement

    I would also need to know just what you know, before I could consider whether I put into print.

    I am a Journalist with extensive experience here and overseas and a member of the A.J.A .

    At this time everything is off the record

  9. Thanks for your reply ,do you have direct evidence that I could use.? What is your involvement ? would like to hear

    more from you in complete confidence

    Denis

  10. You could write a complete book on the whole family business autobarn. AKA Automotive Brands
    I would love to see an investigative reporter go through there.
    The amount of families that have been destroyed by buying into the franchise is sick.
    It is not always bad management as people may think. People rely on this big company to supply the truth and they rely on this.
    Many a time have I seen false financial reports to make bad business look good.
    Contracts that change the way the business operates the moment it has a new owner.
    Forced buying of products through head office and if you don’t then look out.
    The promised support that disappears the moment the owner takes over.
    False stock reports so the new owner pays for stock that dose not exist.

    Now the new business for the family is autopro. The new bigger way to further screw the members, allowing them to stick an autopro in the same territory as an autobarn to ensure they get complete market saturation. It dose not matter that they will cut the throat of the autobarn shop.. It is about getting every customer possible. (this will be big news to the autobarn shop owners that read this) Have a look in your contract there is nothing to stop them.

    I have seen complete families destroyed by this company with no ethics.
    Yet the banks still keep lending money on them… why?
    Because the families going broke and not being able to pay the loan repayments is a small price for the banks to pay to gain the business of $200 million plus that Automotive Brands puts through the bank each year.

    Yeah Coward of the country looks good.

  11. Bag-man…. Thank you for the article about fat Mick..
    Sorry to say that you will never get a job at the Herald Scum or that bundle of black and white wallpaper called the Age…

  12. Thanks Comrade, I am just so frustrated in the glorification of such low lifes as Carl williams, Mick gatto and no ears Reid and dont forget
    that before I found socialism and the trade union movement that could have easily been me .In my time we had a code where we didn’t” rat”
    you stuck up for your mates and their families. The days when workers protected each other,if your mate for some reason was given a government scholarship
    to be served at a re education facility or the “go slow” your mates made sure the rent was paid the kids looked after,more importantly no prick went around to back door the wife. I just long for a code ! Thanks jenny

  14. Bag-man…. Thank you for the article about fat Mick..
    Sorry to say that you will never get a job at the Herald Scum or that bundle of black and white wallpaper called the Age…

  15. Warren West ,now theres a blast from the past ! Keep in touch comrade. Since my days at the FFTS my partner and I have been travelling the world because we can ,just returned from cuba ,now we are planning to get to spain in the next couple of months.Enough of me let me know what your doing these days .

  16. Dear Denis you bloody old scallywag,

    I was surfing the dial yesterday and heard you on the radio and fair dinkum you have not lost your insight or your humour. I really enjoyed it and when I`m in town again I will listen in again.
    I have asked on many occasions Leo and Frank to give you my best wishes as I know you were crook for a time. I sincerely hope that you are feeling better and hopefully enjoying a wine or two. Give me a call if you wish on 0244466658 or 0422943200 or reply via emeil
    Best wishes keep up the fight
    Warren West Floorcovering Association

  18. I know what you mean, Denis. I don’t watch commercial news anymore as it’s a bit insulting to anyone with half a brain. All this Underbelly, trying to be like the New York mafia gangsters bullcrap, is really a blight on our society. We should be ashamed of that part of our society yet the media seems to want to glorify it. I’d like to see all these so-called toughies survive in Mexico, or some place where there is real crime. Yes, organised crime in Australia is real and has a detrimental effect on society, but one would hope the media would at least try and promote an Australia as tolerant and peaceful. Until they start sacking cretins like Andrew Bolt, this isn’t gonna happen.

    cheers Bagman,

    Darren.