Did Theresa May’s help get a convicted US criminal £600,000 of public money for a business loan?
‘Theresa May is embroiled in an embarrassing controversy over how a convicted criminal obtained a £500,000 government-backed loan for a business in her Berkshire constituency that has now gone bust, amid suspicions of financial misconduct.
The Home Secretary has admitted that she lobbied various bodies on behalf of Charles Henry Mogford, a Land Rover dealer in Maidenhead. Mogford, 52, wanted a substantial bank loan for his business, Auto Ex Limited, after it was relocated to make way for a high-speed rail link. The salesman had achieved some fame locally from supplying specially modified Land Rovers for the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall.
When the Home Secretary agreed to raise his case, she was not aware that her constituent had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in the US after pleading guilty to multiple counts of grand theft and theft of state funds, involving a Florida luxury-boat business.’
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