{"id":50977,"date":"2017-01-27T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T21:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=50977"},"modified":"2017-02-01T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:59:08","slug":"ex-billabong-ceo-gets-8-year-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=50977","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Billabong CEO Gets 8 Year Prison Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-50978 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/matt_perrin-200x113.jpeg\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/matt_perrin-200x113.jpeg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/matt_perrin-450x253.jpeg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/matt_perrin.jpeg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Former <strong>Billabong<\/strong> CEO <strong>Matthew Perrin<\/strong> was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud and forgery on January 27, 2017, according to a story on <strong>News.com.au<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In sentencing the 44-year-old to eight years behind bars, District Court Judge Julie Dick said he still had \u201cno self realisation or remorse\u201d. . .&nbsp;\u201cYou seem to simply refuse to recognise that it was you who forged documents and you who caused them to be presented to the bank,\u201d Judge Dick said. . .&nbsp;She said he blamed his ex-wife Nicole Bricknell, the Commonwealth Bank and his former business partners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound like odd behavior for a corporate CEO. This one just got caught, it seems. But it&#8217;s not over for him. He&#8217;s 44 year old&nbsp;and will be eligible for parole in 2021, unless his lawyers can overturn his conviction on appeal, which is exactly what they are going claiming &#8220;the jury\u2019s verdict &#8216;was unsafe and unsatisfactory&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in Australia it seems that they don&#8217;t have special country club prisons for white-collar criminals and Perrin will be placed in <strong>Arthur Gorrie Prison<\/strong> with &#8220;rapists and murderers&#8221; according to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au\/news\/crime-court\/failed-billabong-boss-matthew-perrin-sharing-arthur-gorrie-prison-unit-with-murderers-and-rapists\/news-story\/f1556cf4ecfa0b6699e747122d297d4c\"><em><strong>Gold Coast News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/queensland\/disgraced-highflyer-matthew-perrin-in-court-for-sentencing\/news-story\/3035084c064c7ff2b2316955ecddb940\">News.com.au<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud and forgery on January 27, 2017, according to a story on News.com.au. In sentencing the 44-year-old to eight years behind bars, District Court Judge Julie Dick said he still had \u201cno self realisation or remorse\u201d. . .&nbsp;\u201cYou seem to simply refuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50980,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50977\/revisions\/50980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}