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Bahamian Prison Extorts Inmates | $100M DEAL GONE WRONG!
Sat, 07 Jun 2025
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Chapter 1: What went wrong with the $100 million deal in the Bahamas?
This was the first $100 million of a $500 million deal. He said, you guys have families. We know people. You're going to regret this. And I have to say, they were right. We ended up with a franchise acting and modeling school. What we did, a road show, and this was in the summer of 2011.
What happens at these, you promote them and what people bring their kids in because their kids want to get into commercials or get into acting. So how did you end up in the...
the bahamas like how you went to the bahamas like how does obviously we're here on a true crime podcast so it obviously went wrong right it definitely went wrong so the whole family went down and just to backtrack to the process i mean it's like it was like pulling teeth trying to get information about what do we need to do to do this event in the bahamas I mean, it's like I called the U.S.
Embassy, I called the Bahamian Embassy, made a contact there, Bahamian Embassy in Washington, D.C., contacted the marketing company in Miami, and ended up working with a company called Carter Marketing in Bahamas. And every one of them was, what do we need to do this business trip and make this event?
Make sure that we're covered and we got all of our eyes dotted and our T's crossed that we're not going to have a problem. Well, there was never that satisfaction of, yeah, I got it covered. But the main thing was I was working with the Wyndham Resort in Nassau. I think it was called Cable Beach. And I was working with him saying, okay, am I covered? Do we have everything that we need?
He goes, well, you need a business permit. Well, no, you don't need a business permit. Well, I talked to so-and-so, and one of the chain emails that I have came from the representative from the Wyndham Hotel. And, you know, this is a small country, a small island over there. A lot of people know each other, which is also a detriment to what happened to us.
was was led to it but uh when they said oh we talked to so-and-so at immigration or travel and tourism don't remember exactly what the department was i think they talked to somebody in immigration and i've got this in writing in an email i said you do not need a work permit you're doing something to benefit the island and the citizens of the island all you need is a letter of intent submitted for what you're doing
Well, I had that. I've been sending that out since literally since the first week we started booking the event and everything. So it's kind of like, OK, well, I guess we're good to go. But never did feel real easy about it.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Terry face while planning the event in the Bahamas?
I kind of the understanding to me in this through the whole process of the months that I was stuck there was they didn't really care for Americans. But they knew that we spent a lot of money over there, the tourists and everything. Or either they were just so unemotional about everything. I know when you go to the beach and stuff like that, it's all nice and sweet and everything.
But when you're doing business there or you have other intentions there, that's when you really run into situations where you would never expect anything.
never expect to happen so i knew that just getting a feel for the people and how they operated there and everything that i was outnumbered there was no way that i was going to you know try to recover 15 1600 bucks and and be and go to the police it would just it would have been a it'll be just never worked out well and the way they were talking on the way out is we know people were you were going to regret this
and i have to say they were right right they were right so we finished up the showcase and i'm sitting there um at the end wrapping everything up kind of putting stuff together putting you know pulling paperwork and everything back together i had a little little like a little workstation in the back of the room
Um, and then all of a sudden a couple, there's three or four guys standing around me and one flashing flash on their badge. So we were, we're with the, we're in immigration department and I'm saying, okay, what would like to see your paperwork and your work permit? And I said, well, I don't have a work permit, but I have the paperwork that I submitted. Right.
in to get approved to do this event which is basically a letter of intent telling us what the event was and while we were there and what we're going to do and how it benefited the country that was kind of like what our letter intent was but that was acceptable through travel and tourism or whatever the name of that department was in the immigration department
Because when we went there, if I backtrack to when my whole family came there on the first event, which I believe was in July, I didn't want to put my whole family in jeopardy. So they held us up at the airport. They said, what's your paperwork, passports, and any type of paperwork? Why are you here for? We're here for business.
We're not going to fake it and say we're just here for a weekend vacation when we're going to be there for a month. And so I gave them the paperwork that I had prepared and submitted into the legal departments, including the Bahamian Embassy in Washington, D.C., which that was a joke. Absolutely no help at all from them.
They went back to their office, came back about 10, 15 minutes later and handed everything back, said, you're good to go. And I'm like, yes. You know, I'm thinking we're good to go. We're here.
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