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BBC Rogue Traders presenter Dan Penteado has been jailed for 12 weeks... for fraud!

  • 17-07-2012 9:27pm
    #1
    B.A._Baracus
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    RTE News Link
    Former BBC Rogue Traders presenter Dan Penteado has been jailed for 12 weeks for council tax and housing benefit fraud worth more than £24,000 (€30,000).

    The 40-year-old had previously admitted eight offences of dishonestly or knowingly claiming the benefits while not declaring he earned more than £56,000 (€71,000) from the BBC.


    The show saw him chase down bogus workmen with co-host Matt Allwright.


    His solicitor Terrence Scanlan told Bournemouth Magistrates' Court Penteado committed the fraud from 2008 to 2012.


    Mr Scanlan said Penteado was on a short-term contract with the BBC and made the "very poor judgement not to interrupt the flow of housing benefit".


    Penteado was only caught when a council housing benefit officer recognised him on Rogue Traders and matched the name to his fraudulent application.


    "This is not a victimless crime. It is actually a crime of stealing from the public purse," said chairman of the bench John Corben.
    "It was planned over four years and it was calculated and we consider it so serious that only a custodial sentence is appropriate. You knew exactly what you were doing.


    "You will be sentenced to 12 weeks in prison and it will not be suspended."
    Penteado is to be axed from the show following the case, the BBC said.
    A BBC spokesman said: "In light of the prosecution, Dan Penteado will not be returning to Rogue Traders."


    The irony :pac:


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  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Big embarrassment for the BBC to be sure - but not exactly their fault (this time).
    Guess he won't be flying anywhere for a while with his pilots licence.


  • #3
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    The 40-year-old had previously admitted eight offences of dishonestly or knowingly claiming the benefits while not declaring he earned more than £56,000 (€71,000) from the BBC.


    The show saw him chase down bogus workmen with co-host Matt Allwright.

    wow just wow


  • #4
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    He always came across as pretty stupid when he presented that programme. Not surprised by this really.


  • #5
    Hardonraging
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    I never did trust that fella, you could tell there was something dodgy about him from the off .. he did all the driving and poor Matt did all the hard graft


  • #6
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    I assumed he got paid per series and was on benefits at the start of the year and earned money later and forgot to cancel his dole money. Looks like he's just a greedy ****er!


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  • #7
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Is he the loud, small, bald, chappy me fellow me lad one? Hope so, cos I hate him anyway. Probably isn't though cos yer man looks like he'd come out smelling of roses if a cartload of manure fell on him.


  • #8
    Lapin
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    Who :confused:


  • #9
    Samich
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    Lapin wrote: »
    Who :confused:

    Former BBC Rogue Traders presenter Dan Penteado


  • #10
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Pottler wrote: »
    Is he the loud, small, bald, chappy me fellow me lad one? Hope so, cos I hate him anyway. Probably isn't though cos yer man looks like he'd come out smelling of roses if a cartload of manure fell on him.

    Naw, he's dom something or other isnt he? Littlewood?
    Pity. Thought it was him too!


  • #11
    Biggins
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    Its his TV career down the tube (no pun intended) for a start - or as well.

    Stupid man!


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  • #12
    BehindTheScenes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭BehindTheScenes


    Wonder will he end up on the show Saints and Scroungers presented by the Dom Littlewood fella. Would be hillarious.


  • #13
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Littlewood..pffft, fnar fnar.. no longer hate him, <<--- explains everything.:D


  • #14
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    what i cant understand is why didnt he sign off?i mean wtf a good tv career and all?


  • #15
    ejmaztec
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    BehindTheScenes wrote: »
    Wonder will he end up on the show Saints and Scroungers presented by the Dom Littlewood fella. Would be hillarious.

    More likel to be in Banged up Abroad in Britain.


  • #16
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    christmas2012 wrote: »
    what i cant understand is why didnt he sign off?i mean wtf a good tv career and all?

    Extreme greed and stupidity often go hand in hand. Lester Piggot for example.


  • #17
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »
    Naw, he's dom something or other isnt he? Littlewood?
    Pity. Thought it was him too!
    Think he has some previous too.


  • #18
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    Maybe this will make people think twice in future when the episode of Rogue Traders with me p*ssing in the sink is repeated


  • #19
    Biggins
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    Not the first time that the BBC has hired someone that has either turned bad or was previously a criminal.

    "Dirty Den" (early Eastenders) was a murderer. He killed a taxi driver while robbing him and went to prison for it, previous to be coming famous for his biggest role.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Grantham
    On 3 December 1966 he attempted to rob a German taxi driver, Felix Reese. A struggle between Grantham and the driver followed, and Reese died from a gunshot wound to the head. In his statement to the police following his arrest, he claimed that he did not know the gun was loaded and it had gone off during a struggle with the taxi driver. He was subsequently convicted of murder, a surprise verdict after being advised by his lawyer that a manslaughter verdict would probably be returned.

    Grantham was sentenced to life imprisonment at his trial in 1967. Although he had committed the killing in Osnabrück, Germany, he served the entirety of his imprisonment in various British prisons. This was because soldiers and officers convicted of any criminal offence that warrants a sentence of over two years are automatically transferred to HM Prison Service, since they are also automatically dishonourably discharged. Grantham was released in 1977, having served 10 years.


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