STEAL, CHEAT, AND LIE YOUR WAY TO THE TOP--a growing practice on both sides of the Atlantic that's costing consumers millions each year. Marine insurance is based on Uberrimae Fidei or utmost good faith but it hasn't worked out that way. Author Ed Geary closely examines the schemes of marine insurance fraud and conspiracy that involves not only boat owners and policy holders, but insurance brokers, and marine underwriters.
- During his five year USCG training mission of the Venezuelan Coastguard Geary's disclosure of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine Operation Deep Six to destabilize the elected government of Venezuela and install Hugo Chavez as president put him in the cross-hairs of the Agency. Silencing him became an even greater priority when Geary exposed the CIA's theft of high value yachts used in idiotic schemes to smuggle narcotics from Colombia to the United States.
- Gotcha delves into the flawed business practices of The London Salvage Association that ultimately destroyed an organization that's been around before the reign of Queen Victoria and exposes the fraud and "trickle-down-corruption" that has tainted the Lloyd's Agency System.
- After the melt-down of ENRON and WorldCom the cover-up of Arthur Andersen's fraudulent ship valuation conspiracy by the once reliable Lloyd's List in London challenges the imagination.
About the Author
Captain E.S. Geary has appeared as an expert in admiralty and maritime cases in Federal, State & local jurisdictions throughout the USA and Europe. Amongst other credentials and qualifications, he holds a US Coast Guard masters license for commercial vessels, was formally the USCG Department Chief?Pan American Auxiliary Liaison and Senior Policy Advisor to the Commandant of the Venezuelan Coastguard. He holds a masters degree (magna cum laude) in Criminal Justice Management, is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Marine Loss Adjuster, member of the American Boat and Yacht Council, American Society of Appraisers and Accredited Senior Appraiser of Yachts & Ships, a Licensed & Registered Professional Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Diagnostic Engineers (UK), IRCA Certificated ISO 9001:2000 & ISM Code Internal Auditor, member of the Yacht, Designers & Surveyors Association (UK), authorized Nautical Surveyor approved to carry out work for the United Kingdom Maritime and Coastguard Agency, member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (USA) and The American Society of Naval Engineers. He is a member and past director of the International Association of Marine Investigators who named him the 1996 Marine Investigator of the Year.
