”We publish some amazing stories,” Julie Marie McGregor once boasted of her business providing specialist services for people with dreams of publishing their first books.
But the do-it-yourself publishing entrepreneur has an incredible story of her own involving bankruptcy, fraud and a string of complaints from disgruntled clients from Victoria, NSW, Queensland and the ACT stretching back more than three years.
Acting magistrate Gary Finger described McGregor as “certainly naive to say the least” for her role in the complex fraud, in which she booked restaurant functions on fraudulent credit cards and then persuaded the restaurant owners to pay for non-existent florists and limousine services. A sobbing McGregor was told she would face jail time if she came before the courts again.
The undischarged bankrupt presented herself as a model businesswoman who had built her online publishing service from scratch only to emotionally fall apart following the death of her husband in 2015.
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