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John Green's 26 Convictions for Fraud and Forgery
Mr Green claims to be good friends with Kevin Naughton, journalist and Chief of Staff at the Sunday Mail newspaper in Adelaide (circulation 250,000). "We were great friends in Darwin," Green told me. "Our families were very close."
"Quite the opposite," Kevin Naughton laughed cynically when I spoke to him on the phone. [John Green from Barmera] "has 26 convictions for fraud and forgery."
"Did he get anything out of you?" I asked.
"Lots," Kevin replied.
John Green's convictions in various Australian Courts are on the public record. Kevin Norton at the Sunday Mail can confirm this. Green claims to be a former employee of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, but the ABC told me they have no record of his employment.
Mr Green is often seen using the internet in Adelaide's public libraries and has been known to use Homeless Forums and Message Boards to make contact with people working in homeless welfare organisations. He arranges to meet them personally...
You can guess the rest.