geni wrote:
Well I would but Fred Bauder just deleted the talk page. Still here goes. Reports from three continents over a period of over a decade show that in 1986 Mr Di Stefano was convicted of fraud in the UK. Souces include the Scotsman the Guardian the Independent a newspaper from new zealand (Di Stefano went there in the early 90s but wasn't allowed to stay) and US court records (Di Stefano was removed from the US mid 90s no idea why he was there).
The other question is is Mr Di Stefano actually a lawyer. By normal sourcing standards we could get as far as probably (no really solid evidence that he is but the evidence against is mostly of the newspaper X couldn't find any records type). By the sourcing standards being applied by Fred to the fraud conviction thing we can't really say that he is.
Anyway against that we have what?
Well the short version is that the information isn't publicly avialble.
I can't vouch for what was said in the papers, but if there was an actual conviction that information is publicly available from the court registry.
There is a need to distinguish between suppression based on public availability, and suppression based on Wikipedia's own policies.
Ec