From Newsday's James Bernstein:

David H. Brooks, charged with looting the Westbury-based body armor company he founded to pay for a lavish lifestyle, has been under house arrest in Manhattan for nearly a year now and is out of public sight.

Except on the Internet.

In the past few weeks, angry investors said yesterday, Web postings have gone up portraying Brooks as a "humanitarian" who has "saved thousands of lives" by developing body-armor technology, and who is involved in a mission in Malawi, Africa, "offering generous donations to help aid the grief-stricken area."

When this humanitarian wasn't saving the world through his generosity, his federal indictment claims he was using DHB Industries Inc., now called Point Blank Solutions, money to pay for personal expenses like an $8 million bat mitzvah and a $101,000 bejeweled belt buckle.