In his days of living large, everything Marty Tirrell 'did was in excess.' By the time the law caught up with him his winter, he was living in his car.
CLOSE Marty Tirrell is awaiting trial on six charges that he defrauded eight people out of $1.5 million. The Register, Wochit
The money bankrolling that lavish lifestyle? It didn’t always belong to Tirrell, according to numerous court judgments against him. Ultimately, similar accusations landed him in a substance abuse treatment facility awaiting trial on six charges that he defrauded eight people out of $1.5 million. By the time the law caught up with Tirrell this winter, he was living in his car.
"When the mic was on, he could flip a switch and he could do his whole act,” said veteran broadcaster Geoff Conn, who once worked with Tirrell. “There was a niche audience that just ate it up and loved it. He was good on the air.” In 1998, for example, he bought a plane ticket from Odyssey Travel and Convention Services in Altoona, which had been advertising on his show. The check he paid with bounced. The company had to take Tirrell to court to recover the $1,119. That ended the relationship.
“We totally, as an organization, got starstruck,” CIT Charters owner John Grzywacz said. “Because he’s throwing out his connection to ESPN and, of course, he said he’d mention our name on the radio every once in a while."“When this stuff happens, you’ve got to get it out there so the next guy that’s like me doesn’t get hurt,” Grzywacz said.
The Shipleys advertised. Tirrell became a weekly visitor to the store, always leaving each encounter with a suggestion for further business ties. It was common for Tirrell to sell his new customers tickets to major sporting events. Melvin Shipley never again spoke to Tirrell. He took an earlier flight instead, already stewing over a $15,000 check he had written to Tirrell six weeks earlier for some Super Bowl travel packages they planned to sell at a profit. Those, too, didn’t exist.
“That really kind of put a hurt on dad as far as his psyche. He was a pretty proud guy, but he knew he’d gotten taken, and he didn’t like that,” Chris Shipley said. "After he closed the store, he never worked again. He was just too depressed.”“I would just get so mad and say: ‘Dad, why do we have to talk about this all the time?’” Chris Shipley said. “But in his mind, he had failed my mom. He had failed me. He had failed the grandkids. He was a failure.”“I forgave Marty a long time ago.
Tirrell, far from being ruined by the episode, was about to land the most lucrative gig of his career. “He seemed the kind of guy who maybe wanted to run in bigger circles than me,” Epping said. “... I never made an intentional decision that I wasn’t going to do any more work for Marty.Epping said Tirrell paid him all he was owed.The beginning of the end came in 2011, when Tirrell promised Toyota that he could get NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman to come to Des Moines to speak at a banquet and provide other promotional services. The company dutifully wrote him a check for about $72,000.
Shindler estimated that Toyota of Des Moines has recovered about a third of what Tirrell owes. Tirrell was adept at moving money quickly between his many bank accounts, Shindler said. He set up companies like Mouth of the Midwest LLC or MT Consulting, each with its own bank account. “Had he decided to go a different route, he could have been very successful. He’s an engaging, charming individual when he wants to be. He was very endearing to people who shared his love of sports. He made you feel important if you wanted to. But the consistency in his depositions is that it was always somebody else's fault that he didn't have the money. It was this atrocity, or that horror story.
The divorce papers detail $388,416 in debt. Originally, custody of their now-7-year-old daughter was to be shared. Tirrell didn’t show up for the divorce proceedings or a subsequent custody hearing. Gifford now has sole custody of the girl. McDermott, who dropped his professional association with Tirrell two years ago, said he witnessed increasingly bizarre behavior from his friend in recent years. Tirrell is an alcoholic who told the Register in a 2014 interview that he hadn’t had a drink since February 2008.
"At various times Tirrell represented to Whitinger that if plaintiffs would advance smaller sums, they would be paid the full balance owed to them the following day. Plaintiffs paid the requested sums to defendants, but were never repaid," the court ruling reveals.Tirrell tried defending himself in the lawsuit, showing up late for the April 4, 2018, hearing and not acquitting himself well. He admitted to owing $900,000 of the money, but disputed the remaining $100,000.
The $1.5 million that Tirrell is said to owe in the federal indictment is probably only a percentage of the total he has taken from Iowans, those who know him believe. Others who fell victim to his schemes are either too embarrassed to take him to court, or realize that it’s a wasted effort.
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