Express Gay News
 
Express Gay News (issue 70)
 
Henn Continues Lies in Colorado  
Norm Kent 

The Express has learned that Patric Ian Henn is attempting to continue his scam of deceiving people that he lost his lover in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11.

Henn, located in Littleton, Colorado, told AOL chat room members in a Denver M4M group, that he was finding “solace” and “comfort” while seeking a “respite from the pain in Colorado.”

      Online, using the screen name DCBoy4now27@aol.com , Henn told people he had just “sold his home in Florida,” and was in transit to the West Coast. Henn, whose scam took the Red Cross and other relief agencies for over $30,000, was revealed in an exclusive Express story on February 25.

Henn is currently in Denver, advertising online that he is “open and looking,” from Washington, D.C., and that he is a “chem. Friendly guy looking to meet new playmates.”

Planetout.com, gay.com, the Washington Blade, and the New York Blade picked up the newsbreaking piece two weeks ago. An article on the scam appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post, which was followed on Thursday with front-page features in the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald.

Last Wednesday evening, however, Patric Henn dined in Superior, Colorado with Andrew Tweedie, a gentleman he met online. Tweedie was in shock when he called The Express this afternoon. Tweedie spent Wednesday evening with Henn at 7044 Appleton Circle, in Glendale, Colorado, where Henn is staying.

“I could not believe I actually had dinner with this man,” Tweedie, 31 stated. “I just read about him on planetout.com, and realize now what a liar he had been. I sat there and listened to him as he told me how he was recovering from the loss of his lover in the World Trade Center attacks. He told me how he was trying to recuperate here in Littleton, Colorado.”

Tweedie says Henn told him a series of conflicting stories, including that Henn was without any of his possessions. Henn purportedly stated “the female friend that he was staying with left to go to Kansas for a wedding, but she took his Louis Vitton luggage with her. Henn told me that unfortunately in the luggage was his wallet with all his credit cards, driver’s license and passport.”

As reported by The Express, Henn has no driver’s license, and his Louis Vitton luggage is a couple of Army Duffle bags.

While Tweedie acknowledges Henn has not asked him for money, he left the impression he was “well off, had just sold his Florida home, and was affluent.” As reported in The Express, Henn owned no home, and had abandoned his Middle River Terrace apartment last month after not paying the February rent. The Red Cross had paid for the December and January rent.

After the original story of Henn’s deceptive practices appeared in The Express, at least three individuals confirmed that he was not only not a domestic partner with a lover who perished in the World Trade Center, but had married an Australian woman for “immigration purposes” and monetary compensation.

Sources confirmed that Henn was staying in Washington, D.C., and possibly seeking relief funds from various agencies there. One of his neighbors, Barbara Cardino, said Henn admitted as much to her.
 
 
Express Gay News (issue 69)
 
Theft Most Foul; Henn Disgraces Gays 

Last week, The Express was privileged to report on a gay man who wrongly collected thousands of dollars in disaster relief funds from agencies helping the survivors of the World Trade Center attack. Last week, we reported. Today, we editorialize.

We have learned since our feature news piece that our story about Patric Ian Henn was very accurate. We found numerous men who claimed Henn tricked with them regularly, and that he was nothing more than a party boy in heat.

Mostly, they are surprised at how successful he was at conning the numerous social service agencies he dealt with. No matter. We know he had no domestic partner, not unless you count the different ones he dated every night.

Henn, 27, of Middle River Terrace, was never entitled to a penny. Telling agencies his domestic partner was lost in the attacks, he sought refuge, succor, and support as a victim of the tragedy. But he was a liar, a con artist and a fraud.

While most Americans were reeling from horror at the events of September 11, Patric Henn was conspiring to greedily line his own pockets. He methodically devised a dishonest story of a lost partner that never existed. He used that story to receive and demand monies he never otherwise would have gotten. He even stupidly attacked agencies that refused to turn over cash on demand. And he tried to use his gayness as an excuse for not having the kinds of references married couples would have.

Patric Ian Henn is a traitor and a hijacker. He is a financial terrorist who held up charitable agencies that were providing support for genuine victims. He turned on his country in a time of crisis. He stole money out of the pockets of genuine and grieving victims. Henn did so in order to further his own egocentric, drug dependent, self-indulgent ways. There is no punishment too severe for him.

At the very least, he should be persona non grata in every bar, every business and every gay household in this community. He should be branded an outcast, a pariah and a thief most foul. He is a vile and disgusting human being who has disgraced the gay community, himself and his humanity.

The genuine victims of September 11 will forever be cherished in our memory as casualties of terror. Patric Henn, will always be remembered as Thernadier of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, a scoundrel and bandit who robs corpses, stealing watches off the innocent dead who lie in the streets.

Despite collecting over $25,000 from the Red Cross and other agencies since November, Henn is now apparently penniless. Despite having his rent paid for November, December and January, he is now being evicted for not paying February’s fare. But don’t worry, Patric. There will always be a home for you in the sewer with the rats. That is where you belong anyway.
 
 
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