{"id":6072,"date":"2009-03-05T07:18:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T15:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2009-03-05T07:21:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T15:21:19","slug":"perrins-trail-of-gambling-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6072","title":{"rendered":"Perrin&#8217;s Trail Of Gambling Debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the bad economy wasn&#8217;t the only thing causing problems in the financial world of former <strong>Billabong<\/strong> CEO <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=Matthew+perrin\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Perrin<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/business.smh.com.au\/business\/former-billabong-boss-leaves-trail-of-gambling-debts-20090305-8q21.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sydney Morning Herald <\/a><\/em><\/strong>is now reporting that Perrin had at least $1.7 million AUS in gambling debts last year before everything went down.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The debts of the former high-flying Billabong chief executive include $800,000 to the Centrebet boss, <strong>Con Kafataris,<\/strong> $300,000 to Flemington bookie <strong>Frank Hudson<\/strong> and $160,000 to one of Victoria&#8217;s biggest bookmakers, <strong>Alan Eskander<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do they say? You have to bet big to win big?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.smh.com.au\/business\/former-billabong-boss-leaves-trail-of-gambling-debts-20090305-8q21.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the bad economy wasn&#8217;t the only thing causing problems in the financial world of former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin. The Sydney Morning Herald is now reporting that Perrin had at least $1.7 million AUS in gambling debts last year before everything went down. The debts of the former high-flying Billabong chief executive include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072"}],"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=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}