Andrew Landeryou Reality Tour

Team Slanderyou is branching out into the travel business.

Our first product offering is the “Andrew Landeryou Reality Tour”.

The tour will offer a unique insight into the life and times of Andrew Landeryou.

Highlights include:

Day 1: A visit to the Melbourne University Student Union. We also visit the IQ apartments, and reminisce on what could have been.

Day 2: We retrace Landeryou’s trip to Costa Rica, with a highlight being on return a visit to the gaol where Landeryou was held.

Day 3: We then visit the courtroom where Landeryou laughed off his bankruptcy.

Day4: We take a leisurely stroll through Parkville and gaze on the mansion that was sold from under him to partially recover outstanding debts. Later in the day we take in a view of the Fat Cave.

Day 5: Patriots’ choice. Patriots can add their choice of sights to see and experience. (Please let us know).

Each day Patriots will be guided to the nearest KFC for breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, late supper, and midnight snack.

Guide to financial planning

Another busy week ahead Patriots. Therefore, spend some time considering the following.

Given the difficult economic circumstances we find ourselves in, it is important to obtain sound financial planning information.

While we do not encourage the following approach, it is a rather ‘innovative’ 10 step plan.

1. Run a company
2. Source the capital from one of Melbourne’s billionaires
3. Wreck the company
4. Head off overseas – but don’t tell anyone where you are going
5. Come back when the Supreme Court asks you to
6. Be declared bankrupt for a laughable amount
7. Don’t work for 3+ years
8. Not be enrolled in the work for the dole programme
9. Spend countless hours a day playing pretend journalist, and set up 2 insolvent blogs/websites
10. Eat lots of KFC

“Andy can’t even organise a mass-debate”

The REAL news keeps getting worse for Vexnews, Andrew Landeryou’s floundering new project.

Patriots have previously commented on Vexnews’ failings against a range of independent journalistic and commercial criteria.

Further investigation reveals how serious the situation has become for Vexnews’ shareholders, who in time will become creditors.

On the site, Landeryou has designed a page where the few Vexnews readers can ‘debate’ issues. (It can be found at http://www.vexnews.com/forum.)

TS can reveal that since going live there has been no debate and only 6 of Landeryou’s personalities have registered to participate. (Right click the picture above into a new tab in your browser to read the full details.)

As one commentator told TS “Andy can’t even organise a mass-debate!”

Patriots won’t be surprised by this development.

Show us the money Andy.

Having devoted nearly two years to tracking Andrew Landeryou, we are left with the same series of unanswered questions. These questions can be aggregated into one: how does he do it?

He is after all a bankrupt, unemployed, works full time on a financially insolvent blog, and lives in very expensive accommodation.

Show us the money Andy.

Landeryou admits to another debt

The human debt magnet, Andrew Landeryou, has today revealed another debtor - Ian Hanke.

Landeryou was not forthcoming on whether the debt was organised after he started to write his Liberal Party blog.

And of course, no new news on when and how Landeryou will pay off his debts. Landeryou is doing it rather tough living the cafe latte inner city lifestyle, and not having to work.

Lost something Andy?

Someone loses a watch and wants it back: Andy has a problem with that! An investor wants his $3.4 million dollars back: Andy has a problem with that!

Meanwhile, another Andy look-a-like was seen at the Footie. Or was it a look-a-like?

It is going to be a very busy couple of weeks Patriots so postings will be spare. Please continue your conversations and discussions here in the meantime.

You might want to consider why does Landeryou hate these guys?

Andrew Landeryou’s ‘skidmark’ legacy

Andrew Landeryou’s history, as all patriots must by now be aware, is littered with failure – MUSU, IQ Corp, Optima – which have all contributed in one form or other to his bankruptcy.

And his most recent project has been unable to escape that history. That project is his Blog of Sleaze. It has been struggling as a going concern financially since its creation.

But even in the ratings stakes it has collapsed. In April 2007 we reported that Landeryou's blog according to the prestigious blog traffic rankings provider, Alexa, was ranked a low 11,019 in Australia.

The news has only gotten worse for Landeryou with the same provider recording in February 2008 that Landeryou’s blog has fallen to 16,092 in Australia. In addition, the blog is down 36% on reach; and down 118,530,983 on traffic rank.

The supporting chart reveals that the Blog of Sleaze is flat-lining away into obscurity.

It seems that with MUSU, IQ Corp, and Optima scrubbed from history, his Blog of Sleaze will be his lasting ‘skidmark’ on history.

Federal Court continues anal-probe of Landeryou & other KFC nuggets

Last Friday, Andrew Landeryou was subject to his now regular anal-probe appointment with the Federal Court.

Numerous sightings and coverage of the events were reported by patriots.

Meanwhile in other unsavoury developments:

• Landeryou is overjoyed that terrorist state, Syria, has enabled KFC to operate in that country. Landeryou is doubly delighted because of his fondness for the deformed chicken speciality, and his own terrorist links.

• Landeryou is closely monitoring the US story involving soggy cookies and cakes, as a trio of inmates is suing an Illinois sheriff for $2 million, claiming their rights have been violated by the provision of lousy baked goods. When Landeryou was last in prison, he actually put on weight.

• Landeryou makes the news in The Ukraine. What is it with Landeryou’s fascination with exotic countries such as The Ukraine and Costa Rica – lack of extradition treaties?

• Landeryou comments on Macquarie Bank. Since October 2007, Macquarie has lost nearly a 1/3 of its share price. Losing shareholders money is something Landeryou knows how to do, very well.

• Landeryou accuses a real journalist of stalking. Landeryou should know.

• Meanwhile, another blogger says of Landeryou: “Resident right-wing nutter, Andrew Landeryou has a swag of blather in his usual shotgun style.”

2008 looks a lot like 2007, and 2006 for that matter!

Andrew Landeryou = Investors’ ‘kiss of death’

TS has commented previously about Landeryou’s paucity of success with business: MUSU, IQ Corp, Optima, Online Gaming Spivery Inc (Costa Rica).

His “success rate” has also extended to his officially bankrupt blog.

Now his patented ‘kiss of death’ has extended to newspapers.

New figures reveal that The Age newspaper has increased its readership; while the Herald Sun has fallen.

Since his court ordered return from Costa Rica, Landeryou has made it a personal (deluded) ambition to see the collapse of The Age; meanwhile promoting the Herald Sun at every opportunity.

Alarmed by the recent readership stats, it is no surprise that the Herald Sun has come out so strongly disassociating itself from Landeryou, slamming him as a goady gadfly.

Contrarian philosophy would suggest that if Landeryou wanted to damage The Age (given his poor business record) he would publicly endorse and support the newspaper, and like his blog, readership levels would indeed collapse.

Rene Rivkin once said (paraphrasing) if you want to make money, find an idiot, and do the opposite. Investors would be wise to do the opposite of whatever Landeryou advises. Rupert Murdoch, with the Herald Sun, appears to be now (belatedly) following that advice.

And on a related issue. Landeryou still hasn’t explained how many PBL shares he has. Obviously, enough to attend the company’s AGM in Sydney.

Andrew Landeryou’s “cut and run”

The Herald Sun newspaper, which Andrew Landeryou has himself rated highly, wrote the following about Landeryou’s “cut and run” to Costa Rica, and the associated fall out.

The only issue that the Herald Sun got wrong with its analysis is that Landeryou was not a Labor rat. He is in fact a Liberal Party rat, as he writes exclusively for the Liberal Party, as The Australian has reported.

For those time poor TS readers, we have provided a complementary Readers Digest version – reading the large font text provides a more than useful summary.

Rat left me bankrupt

FORMER city councillor Kimberley Kitching is bankrupt and set to lose her Parkville mansion over $3 million owed to retail tycoon Solomon Lew.

Ms Kitching blamed her financial collapse on her missing husband, Labor Party powerbroker Andrew Landeryou, who has skipped town leaving a trail of debt.

The son of former Cain government minister Bill Landeryou vanished in December and has not been seen since.

There is a warrant out for his arrest for failing to give evidence over the collapse of the Melbourne University Student Union.

Ms Kitching revealed yesterday she had filed for voluntary bankruptcy ahead of a scheduled court appearance today over the debt to Mr Lew.

She now stands to lose her heritage-listed Parkville mansion -- a wedding present from her husband -- to repay her creditors.

Breaking a long-standing silence, Ms Kitching told the Herald Sun she hadn't seen her husband since December 6, and wasn't sure if she ever would again.

"My husband told me he was going to Sydney on a business trip. He has not returned. I have not seen him since," she wrote in a statement.

"Over the last couple of months, I have been forced to accept that my husband has gone. I have no indication of his whereabouts or whether he intends to return.

"I fully trusted my husband and accepted his word that he would meet the financial commitments he had asked and advised me to enter into."

The $3 million debt relates to a failed company, IQ Corporation, controlled by Mr Landeryou and in which Mr Lew was a major investor.

Andrew Landeryou, his wife and his father Bill all signed documents agreeing to cover the debt.

An instalment due on December 22 wasn't paid, triggering the court battle over the funds.

Ms Kitching said in her statement that her attempts to reach a settlement with Mr Lew over the matter had failed.

Her bankruptcy trustee, Jim Downey, said apart from the debt to Mr Lew, Ms Kitching owed $600,000 to the Adelaide Bank, $35,000 to her father, and smaller amounts to about a dozen other creditors.

The Supreme Court this month heard claims that Andrew Landeryou transferred about $1 million to Hong Kong before he went missing. Liquidators believe some of the money has since been moved to Cyprus.

Ms Kitching served as a Melbourne city councillor until last year and was touted as a future mayor.

Andrew Landeryou talking real estate

Andrew Landeryou has been talking real estate again.

He has criticized someone for selling their family home, and one would expect, at a profit – profit is something Landeryou struggles to understand given his management of MUSU, IQ Corp and his bankrupt blog would suggest.

The criticism, as is per usual from Landeryou, is wrong.

However, Landeryou does maintain an interest in real estate.

He, of course, had up until recently lived in a luxurious apartment building, well known for its millionaire views, before moving to his Brunswick villa.

He once lived in the exclusive suburb of Parkville, before running to Costa Rica to pursue online gaming spivery activities, and before his Parkville Mansion was placed under forced sale to recover outstanding debts.

LIFE CAN BE SO JUST SOMETIMES

Given our 1 year birthday, we thought that we would consider how people who have come into close contact with Andrew Landeryou have faired.

We especially thought that it was appropriate as Landeryou has an amazing record of failure: MUSU, IQ Corp, Optima, and his insolvent blog.

But let’s look at the unfortunate people that have come into contact with Landeryou, and see how they have progressed in trying to put aside their former tawdry association with Landeryou.

- Evan Thornley (who sacked Landeryou) is now a successful backbencher in the Victorian state Parliament.

- Darren (disgustingly dirty) Ray is a successful realtor.

- Kimberly Kitchen found a job with Drake personnel, and has since moved onto be an adviser to Theo Theophanous.

- Even Landeryou’s dog Ronnie (named after Ronald Reagan) has gone on to find fame.

However, alas, Landeryou has made no progress at all, remaining a lonely, unemployed, bankrupt, “crap”, Liberal Party blogger.

Life can be so just sometimes.

Andrew Landeryou has no game (webgame that is)

While Andrew Landeryou is busy with Liberal Party leadership concerns, we can look at Andy's business record. Andrew Landeryou has a tremendous record of corporate failure, from MUSU, IQ Corp, and Optima.

In the meantime, shareholder activists are busily creating wealth.

Andy can’t even pay his Diners credit card bill. And his sleazey, Liberal Party blog is insolvent.

So, is Andy living totally in the cash economy?

MONDAY MANIA

On Monday we reveal that the founder of blog the Awful Cheek, Andrew Landeryou has been accused by a former investor of "ruthlessly shafting" him. Preferring to remain anonymous, the investor told Team Slanderyou that he was "extremely disappointed" with his investment ..."

More to come on Monday.

In the meantime, and over the weekend, you might want to consider how Landeryou, an unemployed bankrupt, can afford to be a subscriber of Foxtel. Obviously, he needs to do something else than surf the net for porn. But, how can he afford Foxtel?

LANDERYOU: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE E.G OF “WHAT NOT TO DO”

Kathleen Clothier LLB MBA, of firm Governance 4 Pty Ltd, made a presentation titled ‘Non-Profit Governance for the 21st Century’ in 2005.

In the various examples of poor corporate governance in the not for profit sector, Andrew Landeryou featured prominently.

Landeryou of course was instrumental in managing a range of not for profit firms, including MUSU and IQ Corp. He was so successful that he led both organizations into insolvency.

Clothier said that:

• Governance is about integrity, values and ethics
• Governance is about skills and competence – as individuals, as a team and as an organisation
• Governance is also about good governance ‘bones’ – structure and systems.

Clotheir wrote of Landeryou:

Melbourne University Student Union Inc & Andrew Landeryou

• “Over 16 days of hearings, the court heard that Mr Landeryou was behind at least five deals struck between the union and companies that were associated with Mr Landeryou, who was MUSU president in 1991, and other former union presidents.
• The deals included a $46 million agreement that committed MUSU to leasing student accommodation for 20 years.
• Mr McVeigh (the liquidator) said he had referred to Victoria Police, matters including allegations of conspiracy to defraud, forgery, and obtaining an advantage by deception.
• He told the Court that his investigations had uncovered contracts being awarded without appropriate approvals, falsification of records, conflicts of interest, and possible impropriety in student elections.
• He also said this week that he had concerns about possible breaches of the Corporations Act relating to the use of phoney directors and forged signatures”.
• "This insolvency has been difficult because what has been done has been systematic," he said. "It's almost a cultural corruption of the organisation, so we don't have one single person coming along and going, 'I will rip some money out of this'.
• "It has required the co-operation of a large number of people.“

Now, test what we know of Landeryou against Clotheir’s statements about corporate governance.

Andrew Landeryou news bumped

Andrew Landeryou loves nothing more than whine about The Age newspaper.

What is even more concerning is that while he whines about The Age, he more often than not directly links to their stories and commentary. Irony is rather lost on Andy.

But in related events, in 2006 Landeryou displayed another example of his lack of business skill and forecasting ability, when he trumpeted a website that he claimed would soon rival The Age.

That site was NewsBump. Don’t worry, if the link doesn’t work; the website no longer is operational. NewsBump was a website which enabled readers to vote for stories according to whether they like them; similar to Google News Australia, but with voting. A registration page though still exists for NewsBump.

Of course, as soon as Landeryou gave NewsBump the “Landeryou seal of approval”, the website site began to struggle, and is now extinct.

Team Slanderyou is no adding News Bump to the long catalogue of Landeryou business failures that include MUSU, IQ Corp, and Landeryou’s own insolvent blog.

Meanwhile, a blogger asks, “Seriously, how long can a Labor Student Union Hack stay in his position for?” Obviously, Andy is not on the same work-for-the-dole arrangements as others are on!

PREJUDICE EXPRESSED

We have interrupted our Landeryou free week to bring you this story.

Tim Blair is running an article about the issue of online comments and editorial policy matters.

We are reminded of the many hundreds of people who have posted comments on Andrew Landeryou's blog of sleaze, only to have them summarily scrubbed, without explanation or for that matter application of editorial or free speech consistency.

And of course, there is also the threat of litigation that the "bankrupt" Landeryou throws about like confetti.

The lonely Liberal Party blogger

Andy Landy appears to have stopped running 'loneliness' adverts on his insolvent blog. But it still appears that the Liberal Party blogger, who has been favourably compared to Kim Jong Il, is still struggling in the blog rating stakes.

So, let's all sing along with Andy.

I'm So Ronery

So ronery

So ronery and sadry arone

There's no one

Just me onry

Sitting on my rittle throne

I work rearry hard and make up great prans

But nobody ristens, no one understands

Seems like no one takes me serirousry

And so I'm ronery

A rittle ronery

Poor rittle me

There's nobody

I can rerate to

Feel rike a bird in a cage

It's kinda sihry

But not rearry

Because it's fihring my body with rage

I'm the smartest most crever most physicarry fit

But nobody else seems to rearize it

When I change the world maybe they'll notice me

But until then I'rr just be ronery

Rittle ronery, poor rittle me

I'm so ronery

Paris Hilton's prison diary - where's Andy's

UPDATE 2

Paris is released from gaol/jail; still serves more time than Andy.

UPDATED
Andrew can't be serious - or is he?

He is now criticising the Young Liberals and 'botching' $10,000. Why is the Liberal Party bogger doing it? I guess, he thinks people have forgotten how he turned $4 million according to Landeryou's own words "...a comic" total of just $13,000.

ORIGINAL
Paris Hilton is writing a prison journal. That other former inmate, Andrew Landeryou has yet to release his diary of his experiences in gaol, even though he said he would!

AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LANDERYOU

In February 2005, a ‘real journalist’ assembled the story involving Andrew Landeryou, utilising his blog dirges as commentary. The original story can be found here. We have since updated the story, with our editorial additions in brackets.

SL = SLANDERYOU

A “REAL JOURNALIST”: Describing himself as a retired company director (SL: bankrupt and sleaze blogger) in search of a new path (SL: from luxurious South Bank apartment to nearest KFC restaurant) , Andrew Landeryou writes that for a person of his reputation (SL: Andrew has a reputation?), perhaps journalism is his only option. (SL: Add Landeryou is still not a journalist)

His weekend spell (SL: too short?)in the Melbourne Assessment Prison prompted him to set up his own website ((SL: it’s a blog!), where he can safely (SL: cowardly more like) take aim at his enemies (SL: need a list the size of War and Peace).
His first blog appeared yesterday morning, under the headline, "The Truth Shall Set You Free". (SL: wrong right from the start!)

ONLINE DIARY (read by actor): The blog and a couple of nights at the big brick building (SL: call it what it was, gaol) on Spencer Street has liberated my keyboard and my big mouth (SL: except for all the KFC in it). Because I've copped the mother of all hidings in the press, I'll be returning fire not because it will discourage them, but to ensure the historical record includes both sides of the story. (SL: both sides?) Most journos have glass jaws, so it might be a bit of fun. (SL: Landeryou has a well worked jaw, having masticated through all the KFC that he does)

A “REAL JOURNALIST”: The son of the former ALP numbers man and Cain government minister Bill Landeryou, flew back into Australia last week, after a five month absence in Costa Rica. (SL: ‘Absence”?)

ONLINE DIARY (read by actor): Do you think I planned all this? (SL: let’s take a punt on this: “YES”) Do you think I wanted it? (SL: let’s take a punt on this as well: “YES” again)
That arrest warrant is a death warrant for my commercial and political career. (SL: got that right!)

A “REAL JOURNALIST”: He left his wife and the country the day before he was due to appear in court to explain his involvement in several companies which had signed multimillion dollar contracts with the Melbourne University Student Union. Recent former student union presidents, all young and aspiring members of the Labor Right signed the contracts, contracts which allegedly drove the Student Union into financial collapse.

ONLINE DIARY (read by actor): I'm not an expert on what happened with the Melbourne University Student Union's liquidation, but it didn't seem to collapse at all, other than the University decided to nuke it. (SL: why is it always someone else’s fault, eg IQ, or the Court not finding you to serve the subpoena before you flew to Costa Rica)

A “REAL JOURNALIST”: Himself a former student union president in 1991, Andrew Landeryou says he'll appear in court tomorrow with bells on. (SL: with’bells on’? What like a fairy or a clown?)

ONLINE DIARY (read by actor): In the days ahead you'll be given a warts and all account (SL: your blog has indeed infected the Australian National Library like a case of warts))of what went right and what went hideously wrong in my old life. It's been a grim few years of course. It seems that indeed I am homeless, penniless, spurned by wife. But do you think that will stop me telling how it is? No. I have nothing left to lose. I started with nothing, I may end with nothing. (SL: what a brave little soldier)

A “REAL JOURNALIST”: In his most recent entry, the Labor operative takes aim at the lawyer representing retailer Solomon Lew.

In a separate case, Solomon Lew is seeking the repayment of $3 million which he invested in Landeryou's online gambling venture, IQ Corporation. (SL: but Lew only got $13K back)