Martin Armstrong
Martin Armstrong (born 1950) is the former chairman of Princeton Economics International Ltd. He was indicted in 1999 for alleged fraud involving Japanese investors, but not tried for a further seven years. In one of the most extraordinary contempt of court rulings in U.S. history, he was held in a Manhattan penitentiary until a plea bargain deal saw him brought to trial in 2007 on a single count of conspiracy to commit fraud. He was then jailed for five years, with no remission for time served, and is due for release from Fort Dix in September 2011.
OH: “the cia held him in custody because he didn’t tell them how he made his precise market predictions.”
He is the basis for the main character in the movie Pi.
he kept writing from prison during all those years — a friend put his reports on martinarmstrong.org and scribd. edited essays by him appeared on an online magazine called contra hour and there is an article by the new yorker about him.
edited essays by him appeared on an online magazine called contrahour and there is an article by the new yorker about him online.
he has been released from prison on march 8th, 2011:
