Barbara Moses: A wife's story
For feisty Barbara Moses life on the outside, without her beloved Roger, was no picnic.
Fortunately, a wide circle of family and friends rallied round and stood by the couple.
Those friends included retired members of the judiciary who Mrs Moses said not only expressed their support for her husband but also questioned why he had been sent to jail.
“We had some high-powered support from some pretty amazing people, people who continued to stand by us, who came to visit Roger. They included several retired judges.”
“I would wake up frequently in the middle of the night for the eight and a half months Roger was in prison.
“I could not believe that my good Roger Moses has been sent to prison for something that, yes, with hindsight one might do differently but it wasn’t dishonest.
“I mean, he was remorseful for what happened but I think he paid way too high a price.
“He has done a lot of good in his life and I just don’t think that was taken remotely into account.”
During his short stint at Mt Eden, Mrs Moses visited her husband as often as she could.
“The staff there were fantastic. They obviously realised that this wasn’t something I was especially used to and helped me as much as they could.
“Roger also had kindness from the other inmates there who realised that he wasn’t a regular and they were remarkably kind and good to him on many occasions.
“We tried to do things for them too. I looked up things on the internet for them and tried to order books for them and so forth, so there was a bit of a quid pro quo.
“We took in toys and children’s clothes for their families and I will never again think that people who are in prison are entirely bad.”
But Mrs Moses says delays by prison authorities in providing her husband with essential medication could have had fatal consequences.
“He was without his medication for 36 hours and they’re lucky he didn’t have an asthma attack or a stroke from the blood pressure going up.
“They’re lucky they didn’t have that on their hands and he’s lucky and I’m lucky. It was a terrible experience.”
For her part Barbara drove to Rangipo once a fortnight to see him as well as talking to him on the phone three times a day.
To keep the calling costs down they set up an 0800 number for him to ring her on.
And during this time she, too, had plenty of well wishers.
“In fact the most enormous circle of people, our close friends, our family, friends of our children, old colleagues of Roger just flocked around to support me and say how wrong they thought it was that someone like Roger had been sent to prison.
“They say that Remuera matrons are a bunch of bitches; well I have got to say I’ve found absolutely the opposite.
“They’ve come around with food and with pot plants. We have not been remotely ostracised.”
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Barbara Moses:
"I could not believe that my good Roger Moses has been sent to prison for something that, yes, with hindsight one might do differently but it wasn’t dishonest."
Hold on, Barbs: your "good Roger Moses" is an inveterate crook.
Just before Nathans Finance folded, they were sending out begging letters to All-and-Sundry. It was relentless, the mailing out of these tawdry pamphlets; having all the appearance of junk mail from the like of Super Cheap Auto and Repco. It was a real blitzkrieg, to rival Germany's bombing of Poland.
Nathans would have known the deteriorating state of their books -- namely, the growing default rates of their borrowers, balanced against payments due to to their investors. Yet, these honchos, shameless, went out to solicit in a manner that would cause any street-strutting K. Rd. whore to blush.
"Was I reading somewhere that fellow Moses I invested all my money with is home from jail?"
What were YOU thinking of investing ALL your money anywhere ?
If you have lost everything , you have only yourself to blame . Don't be such a hypocrit . Accept responsibility for your actions , as you expect Roger to do so for his .
Diversify , diversify , diversify . Read about it in one of Roger Moses books
Okay, so she lost some sleep (while many victims of her husband's cynical deceit lost their life's savings). Boo hoo.
Mr & Mrs Moses were made for each other.
They still have the TRUST money .but there is more.
What about the people he ripped off. They lost their life savings. I suppose you still have your trust so who cares about others. They should do some investigation and see if you knwew about it.
What a right pair these two are. Their hand-wringing musings should be required reading by all students of clinical psychology: How to exist in a parallel universe of your own construct; so totally devoid of reality and self-awareness, as to the harm and damage caused. Such is the degree of disconnect with this husband and wife. Can't even summon up a perfunctory expression of regret for the ruination of people's lives.
Roger Moses went "inside" not for reckless decision-making and poor performance as a director. He did time, because his conduct was conniving, wanton and duplictious.
Roger Moses is so hopelessly intoxicated by his own conceit that he'd never be able to accept this. Especially, with the ardent support of his wife, plying him with the Vanity liquor.
It is clear recidivist criminals and their comforters suffer from diseased minds manifested in extreme pomposity and blatant denial of their criminality.
PetTeri
Where are all these supporters of these two idiots? If they were so loved and supported as they claim by "former judges" and the "matrons of Remuera" you'd think maybe just one of these people would speak out to endorse what Matron Moses says? Yoohoo, is anybody out there?