Judge Martin Nolen said that in in extorting almost €400,000 from 22 people to fund treatment for a cancer he did not have, DJ Carey was exploiting their good nature. File photograph: Patrick Bolger/Inpho
DJ Carey’s five-and-a-half-year prison sentence over a “reprehensible” cancer fraud underlines the increasing willingness of the courts to impose custodial sentences for fraud and forgery offences.
When jailing the former Kilkenny hurler at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Monday, Judge Martin Nolan slammed the nature of Carey’s offending.
Most fraud cases seek to exploit people’s greed but, in extorting almost €400,000 from 22 people to fund treatment for a cancer he did not have, Carey was exploiting their good nature, the judge said.
Before the landmark case of businessman Paul Begley in 2012, white collar crim
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