Theodore Robert Wright III

[legion]

I feel like someone on the BBS probably knows more about this story. The comments mention a phony charity he was never indicted for.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/it-was-never-enough/

In a small airport like the one in Athens, planes might come and go unannounced. But Dyson, who owned an aircraft-servicing business at the airport, was diligent about writing down tail numbers. Now Reed took note of the number Dyson gave him for the suspicious Bonanza: N273. Thanking everybody, Reed excused himself and called a worker at the Federal Aviation Administration, who told him that the Bonanza was in the process of being registered—the paperwork was so fresh, in fact, that it was sitting right there on his fax machine. The FAA representative shared the plane’s recent history with Reed: the Bonanza had been purchased in 2013 by Raymond Fosdick, whom Reed would later identify as the dark-haired pilot Dyson had spotted prowling around the airfield. Reed also learned the name of the owner of the burned Citation: Theodore Robert Wright III—“T. R.,” for short. He was a businessman with an address in the coastal town of Kemah, southeast of Houston.
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He’d never planned to become an international arms dealer, he said. The sales just snowballed. “The deals get bigger and the stakes get higher,” he said, “and before you realize it, you’ve got a load of freshly overhauled attack helicopters getting snuck out of Marseille in the middle of the night going to Chad.”

[Dantilla]

Well known character on an aviation-based forum I'm on.

Up for parole soon. Who knows what the next chapter will be...

[legion]

I thought for sure someone on this BBS could give more of an inside story.

[KNS]

I read about him a few days ago, seems like a future Hollywood script in there somewhere.

[gwood]

, “and before you realize it, you’ve got a load of freshly overhauled attack helicopters getting snuck out of Marseille in the middle of the night going to Chad.”
I hate when that happens.

[Dantilla]

Originally Posted by legion

I thought for sure someone on this BBS could give more of an inside story.

Watched the story unfold in real time, as he was a regular on the aviation forum.
Kept us updated on his antics.
Some thought he was a wonderful high achiever, living the dream.
Others saw through the façade, and thought he was a fraud.

Me? I never responded to any of his posts. His bragadociousness (is that a word?) always rubbed me wrong.
Pretty much ignored him.

[stealthn]

Read the story in the link, what a tale!