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SF-Based Gay Grifter Crew Being Held for Murder
In case you missed this fascinating tale of con man Kaushal Niroula in the current issue of SF Weekly, grab it before it's swapped out or read it online here. Niroula is a Nepalese-born immigrant who, along with four local co-conspirators including a former bartender at Jet bar in the Castro, allegedly made a 74-year-old Palm Springs man disappear and proceeded to start emptying his house and trying to sell it for half of what it's worth.
Niroula--described as haughty and well dressed with a British accent--also seems to have been instrumental in the New College scandal of last year, having convinced the president there that he was Nepalese royalty and poised to make a $1M donation, if only he could have free tuition for a semester -- thereby extending his student visa, buying time for $1.3M in con jobs with various wealthy marks, and getting the University stripped of its accreditation in the process.
If you've got ten or fifteen minutes to spare, read Matt Smith's whole story.