French intelligence and the CIA did a little bit of looking into his software, and they realized that Dennis Montgomery was just making shit up.

Not only that, these barcodes on Al Jazeera didn't exist.

The FBI did a counter-investigation into Dennis Montgomery and found that he had a, quote, long history of fraud.

He had an extensive gambling problem with deep debts.

So his former lawyer described Dennis Montgomery as, quote, a con artist and, quote, a habitual liar engaged in fraud.