Where in the world was Lou Pearlman?

With help from FBI agent Scott Skinner, the Times put together a really cool map showing Pearlman's 2007 route from Orlando to Orlando, traveling around the world. He may also have taken some trips that we left out, but here's the basic route of his adventure: Orlando to New York to Dublin to Frankfurt to Berlin to Frankfurt to Madrid to Panama City (Panama) to Madrid to Frankfurt to Singapore to Nusa Dua (Bali) to Hong Kong to Nusa Dua to Guam to Los Angeles to Oklahoma City to Orlando--circumnavigating the world.

One of the fun things about doing this story was holding Lou's passport in my hands and looking over all the stamps. Here's a story that tells a little about his trip.

Comments

Orlando has great writers. You must not read much?

You don't read much do you?

Helen,

"As Lou Pearlman ran, investigators built their case" is brilliant reporting. You did really well to get the investigators and attorney to talk. They usually don't say much at all in these cases. Fascinating read, highly recommended to everyone following the case. It nicely tied up everything. Your best article so far. Kudos.

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They did not put the names of the associates on the list even though they invested.

1:39 pm, many of LP's associates lied and said they had vast sums in EISA. Scumbags.

You people are getting desperate.

4000 square foot houses plus please post its public info and whose homes are they?

Sammy we don't know about the AMEX bills, post them please.

sorry their names

What are there names?

[Sammy]

Kim one other correction. I just looked up the houses they are all over 4000sf not 5000. Still pretty big..

Now how about those amex statements? Would you be willing to say all the charges were for business reasons?

Is it surprising the Mandy and Fishetti had no holdings in the EISA and stock account? I wonder if any of Pearlman's employees had money in these accounts?

[Kim]

Thank you Sammy for acknowledging that fact.

We don't even know their names to even look them up. Thanks

[SammySweetNothing]

Kim you are correct. "All" is was to strong of a word. Lots would be the correct word to use.

Look up the office staff and the some of the pee-ons. Also the kids. It is all public info..

Start with the tax assessor.

Kids of Execs who would that be?

GM are you trying to take focus off you?

Pleaase tell us about Crudele and Fishetti. Enlighten us if you know something please. Who has a SL500?

8:48 what did they know and what did they do that was wrong?

[Kim]

To SammySweetNothing, I don't believe you know what your talking about. All of the employees did not live in 5000 sq ft houses nor did they all own and drive expensive cars. Might want to do better research before stating something like that.

SL500

Helen please don't drop the story until the agents knowledge and roles in this scam are public. Crudele and Faschetti knew tons.

Would love to see pictures of the houses these people live in and the cars they drive.

Never seen a Transcon employee's house please list names we can go to data base.

Why don't you tell us the WHOLE story because we have no idea.

Everyone at Transcon had a 5000 square foot house? Who lived in mansions? How do we get all the information as well . If you have it please share. How do you get hold of AMEX paperwork? Please post. Thanks

[SammySweetNothing]

It is unbelievable that the rest of Lou's clan will not have to pay a dime for helping develop this scam. Not one person thought it was strange that every person who worked at Trans Con had a 5,000 plus square foot house? Even the pee-ons were loaded and living in mansions!!!

This is the interesting part of the story that needs to be told. Tell how the kids of the execs were handed fistfulls of cash under the table. Tell what kind of cars they drove. Show the houses they still live in.. Pull the Corp Amex statements. Tell the WHOLE story. It would be an amazing read.

Is it GM

Iconoclast after reading your comment I don't believe you are an investor now are you? If you were you would understand how we feel and how we want to know what happened. Do you have a problem with that or are you going to be the next story and you don't like it?

Helen please don't resond to them. They are just trying to bait you and bring the blog down. Just delete them.

[Helen Huntley]

Hello Iconoclast--I thought the story of the investigation was an interesting one that deserved to be told, so I told it. And if by "Ms. Hurly," you mean me, I didn't lose a dime. I didn't even know who Lou Pearlman was until I started working on this story.

Re: "I think he lives in his own world where he justifies his actions to himself and is more concerned about his image than he is about how his actions have hurt other people."

Now who else does that remind you of? I'll give you a hint. He posts on this blog and owns an internet marketing company of ill repute.

If you have a problem with LP stories don't read them. By the way what is so important to you?

[Iconoclast]

I see that "Money Talk" has again become "Lou Pearlman Weeping & Wailing Talk". Sensationalism and the pandering to a scam artist that took advantage of peoples "genuine gold plated greed" is a horrendous waste of newsprint, and should be considered criminal. Causes one to think, as it begins to read like a movie script.
By the way Ms. Hurly, how much did you lose?

He should sit in his cell all day and do apology letters, maybe 2100 of repetition, it might start to sink in to his brain what he has done. Then he could apoligize to the families and their families.

Thank you Helen.

[Helen Huntley]

I have never spoken to Lou. Based on what others have told me, I think that Lou, like many white collar criminals, thought that if he just had time to do more deals, he eventually could have paid people back. I think he lives in his own world where he justifies his actions to himself and is more concerned about his image than he is about how his actions have hurt other people. I don't know what he reads in jail.

When you talked to LP after the capture what was his demeaner, was he remorseful, helpful, indignant or what? Was this his plan all along or did he think he could pay people back? Is he in his own world where he did not think he was hurting people? What is up with him and what reading material is he exposed to at this facility? Thanks

"Incognito Johnson" was a name the hotel gave him. He would only give them the name Johnson so the boy band "member" could find him when he visted him.

[Jill]

I'm sure he travelled more than that with those bands as I remember they did well overseas. Can you show his travels with them too.

That is why he was listed under Johnson.

Why did he choose to go to Dublin, Singapore, Bali etc? Do these locations indicate potential for hidden money or co-conspirators? I would imagine he went to certain places for a reason. Did his two friends know why he was using their credit cards, evading the law and are they going to be implicated in aiding him, if so?

He sure was a mogul!