TV MEDIA REPORTS


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LEGAL CASES

  • John Fox & Clemon Williams vs. Kern High School District, Whistleblowing to the FBI Re: Garland Purchase Orders, Bakersfield, California, 2013
  • GSA vs. Tremco, Qui Tam Suit, 2013
  • Los Angeles vs. Garland, Re: Bid Collusion, Racketeering, etc., Los Angeles, California, About 1997
  • Quality Tile Roofing vs. Tremco Roofing, Re: False Fraud Charges leveled at Tremco Certified Contractor for not bidding Tremco products at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Boise, Idaho, About 1997

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Why Scammers Won't Give Up and Do the Right Thing



Update:
Garland Product Sales listed on this chart are approximately $131,176,000 for the first 11 months of 2011  (see the "Pts." column and multiply by $1,000).

Garland Reps made 25% of those sales in commissions.

That's $32.794 million - about $33 million -  in commissions in 2011.

Most of Garland sales are in public work.....

Double the product sales for construction by various entities, including Garlands' own construction firm, and conservatively you would have about $262 million - or say at least a QUARTER OF A BILLION dollars - was lost in taxpayer funds in the roofing scam in the US  alone in 2011.

And that's just Garland, not including Tremco and any other roofing "manufacturer" pulling the same stunts!

We know this scam is operating in Canada, the UK and possibly  beyond ??? as well now.

Can we afford this???

Check the yearly sales figures on www.zoominfo.com and look up the various manufacturers.  The latest range of sales for Garland they list are $50 to $100 million in revenues.
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We all have always wondered why scam manufacturers and their reps won't give up destroying all of us through massively overspent bond monies we have to pay back.

In fact, it has sent this country into a downward spiral.

So what is it?

M-O-N-E-Y.

As long as the Government keeps allowing it to continue....it only gets worse.  

Because they keep getting away with it....to the point they are making videos now oh-ha-ha-ha "debunking" the indefensible.  

Even Garland's highest paid rep in the country - who is in New Jersey - made one of those videos.


Little wonder why.

Here's the proof.

What Garland Reps all over the US were paid in Commissions in the first 11 months of 2011:

Enlarge it on Legal or Ledger Size Paper when you print it out - the numbers are astounding....as to what schools and kids and teachers and the taxpayers are losing...no wonder we have saddled college kids with such heavy debt.


So how to read it?

Multiply the  numbers under "PTS" - Points - Column by $1,000 - to get how much in Sales that rep made in the first 11 months of 2011.

That's right.

They make 25% on sales.....so that tells you how much the PUBLIC is being hit up for.....

The highest paid Garland Sales Rep, Bill Pancoast, made $5,495,000 in sales the first 11 months of 2011.

That means his commissions were about $1.4 million or more in that same time period.

Many others made over $1 million in sales the same time period.

Tremco Sales Reps do the same.

Question:  Why do Garland Reps complain so bitterly about getting so little of their commissions?  

We know why.

Johns-Manville Sales Reps, et. al.:  How do you like your company openly private-labeling or allowing its products to outright be used under Garland's "top cap sheet" - charging 6 times for the same material you sell - while you aren't allowed to compete with them - and struggle to make $60,000 per year?

The Teacher's Union:  How do you like your teachers who haven't been laid off or made to take on many more students per class still paying for classroom supplies out of meager salaries?

Taxpayer Organizations:  How do you like the taxpayer being overly sold on products and installations not needed at ridiculous prices?

Bond Financiers must LOVE these practices, lining their fleecing pockets with more, more more enslavement of the public.


Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Qui Tam Case Against Tremco, Inc. Alleged Defects In BURmastic Roofing Systems



Apparently, one of the charges in the Qui Tam case against Tremco that has just been won is that there are defects in the BURmastic roofing systems. 

The article is located here:
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/qui-tam-case-against-tremco-inc-alleging-defects-burmastic-roofing-systems-settles-6

It reminds me of the Quality Tile Roofing case in Boise, Idaho during the mid to late 1990's, where the owner, a Western Roofing Contractor's Association President, was accused by Tremco of mixing polymers into their product and diluting it.  

Turned out that the Tremco sales scheme of selling wayyyyyyy too much product of what they "think" would be on the job backfired.

He had about 1,000 unopened cartons of their SBS modified product left on his yard - because they wouldn't take back all that way oversold product.

He sent 10 unopened cartons of the Tremco materials to Dick Baxter at CRS Monroe in Monroe, NC, who tested it.

Sure enough, the material was bad alright.  And it came from their plant, where the only high-speed Austrian-made mixers were available to mix the product.

He proved that Tremco knowingly sold him bad product, and then when he got disgusted and stopped playing the "round robin" of contractors to get their jobs, and bid a Malarkey product - at way less - they went to the US Attorney General's Offices and asked to have him criminally charged for making the product bad.

That's right.  Tremco tried to have him charged with mixing bad product on two roofs at Mountain Home Air Force Base, only one of which he had done...... with products they knew were bad and sold him.

By the way, not only was the cost way less to use the Malarkey materials, Malarkey had a REAL warranty, not that cooked-up massively expensive "Maintenance Agreement" Tremco, Garland and Hickman used......and still use with the two left.

It also reminds me of the San Francisco Bay Area roofing contractor estimator, a former Tremco Field Inspector and a roofing rep all reporting the same thing to me:  the practice of Tremco Sales reps to force "shorting" of the material between the plies, to ensure that the roofs would get done way, way way too soon.  Around here, about years 6-8 we would see the roofs redone at enormous prices......  

Incredible amounts of Churning going on.  Fraud, in fact.

The classic example?

IBM facilities managers, enamored somehow, used Tremco materials over their SIlicone Valley plant, so I heard from a very reliable roofing rep.  He got a call one day, from them, frantic.

Seems that the roofs were shorted of the asphalt materials, dried out and were leaking.  

Only in this case, the roof was over a Clean Room for chip-making - and water had gotten in.  

They had called the Tremco rep, who had it "fixed" - and had to replace the Clean Room and throw out all the chips.

It leaked again.  And that's when they called the roofing rep I know - and many of you know him too.  Another Clean Room destroyed and many more chips.

Total loss I heard was around $160 million.

He got to the site, the Tremco rep arrived, and the Facilities Manager threw the Tremco rep off the site.  My friend got it fixed - with another system.

But look at how much IBM lost in the deal.


Hickman did the same thing in New Jersey shortly before they went under, paying about $40,000 out in kickbacks on about $300,000 jobs, taking the money out of the SBS modified materials to be put down and effectively shorting the materials between the plies.  A former Hickman rep in that area told me this - I don't make these things up.

In Hickman's case, the roofs were already leaking by year one - and frantic former Hickman guys called me to see what they could do about their warranties - so-called.  I heard later all of a sudden any number of their school roofs in New Jersey got redone right away - with "Green Roofs".  Which previously were done by Hickman.  Unnhhh-hunnnhhhh......right........"green" roofs.......all on schools.......

So the BURmastic systems have had their problems .... all to further sales..........

Me oh my.....it's finally coming out.......but look at how long it took.  

Wonder how many of all the scammers' roofs are done in the same manner?

You have to know - I hear way lots more than I put up on here....unbelievable but true things going on in the roofing world.   Now you know why I keep hammering away......

The guys doing it right need not be ashamed and need to be bold in going after work - we all need good competition from folks doing it right!

The Department of Justice's Press Release on the Tremco Qui Tam Case


Click on the page below or download and read..... or go to:  

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/August/13-civ-968.html

This blogger thanks so much the man in Rocky River, Ohio who did the Qui Tam.  II have seen many entries on the blogs from Rocky River, and always wondered who it was.  Thank you so much!

It's been 16-1/2 years since I went to the FBI, and they "Strongly Recommended Prosecutions" of my bosses.  Unfortunately, the US Attorney General's Offices at that time refused to prosecute.  It was run at that time by Robert Mueller.  

The recommendations were regarding the illegal, restrictive proprietary performance specs written by Tremco and inserted into bidding documents, for the reroofing of four hospitals at the University of California, San Francisco.  

Their repeated, illegal specs on over 20 years' worth of building roofing projects on that 110-building campus was one of the big reasons a colleague of mine, a woman architect 20 years my senior, argued with bosses over "all those illegal contracts, how do they keep getting away with it?" and got run out for it - and in despair, killed herself over it on a Sunday in July, 1996 at her home in Mill Valley, California.  

Managers at UCSF later laughed at me, telling me that "EVERYONE!" was on the take - four years after lying to FBI Agents - all while seeing to it I have been blackballed.

Thank you so much for persevering - and I think many more than myself tell you the same!!!!

For a copy of the long complaint, please contact the US Dept. of Justice or email roofreports@gmail.com for the .pdf file.




Tuesday, September 3, 2013

GSA Wins Qui Tam Case Against Tremco


It's official - Tremco was hit with a Qui Tam Case from the GSA - and lost.


A former Tremco executive turned them in.

Read about it here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/27/5685826/former-tremco-employees-whistleblowing.html 

and 
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1435862

Which states, in part:

"Mr. Rudolph sued on behalf of the united states government alleging that Tremco, and its parent company RPM, had made false claims to the United States government by offering less favorable pricing to the government as opposed to pricing afforded to private customers, marketing expensive materials to federal government purchasers without disclosing the availability and opportunity to purchase comparable lower-cost, identical materials, and selling and installing defective products and systems on federal government buildings.

On August 13, 2013, Tremco and RPM International Inc. reached a settlement under which they will pay the government $60,958,963 plus interest for claims arising during the period from January 2, 2002 through March 1, 2011.  As the whistleblower, or relator of the information leading to the settlement, Mr. Rudolph is entitled to a portion of the recovery, which in this case amounts to 17.9% of the settlement."



Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1435862#ixzz2dotoaswx


Tremco is the company that I observed at the University of California, San Francisco getting their illegally, sole-sourced non-competitive bid specs put out to "bid" by my bosses.  The FBI ruled in my case in 1997 "Strongly Recommending Prosecutions" of my bosses for those specs.

They had been in the campus for at least 20 years, doing reroofing ad infinitum on most if not all of the over 110 structures.  Today, they have not been stopped and the campus has many more structures.

You can see Tremco's In-House Training Document, here - detailing how they scam the schools::
http://schoolroofingscam.blogspot.com/2008/02/tremco-in-house-training-documents.html

Here is what is supposed to be happening instead:
http://schoolroofingscam.blogspot.com/2013/08/roles-responsibilities-of-facility.html

Tremco is the same company which Thomas L. Smith, the Roof Consultant in Chicago did the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation Report on Tremco and Hickman's practices, released Sept., 2000.

See that report here:
http://www.state.nj.us/sci/school.shtm

Thomas L. Smith also did the blistering Investigative Report on the Tremco Specs for four major hospitals' reroofing at the UCSF Medical Center, for the California State Auditor, released Sept. 17, 2003.  They were the same specifications the FBI strongly recommended prosecutions of my bosses over.

See that report here:
http://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/I2003-2.pdf
and look at Chapter 5

For the great work of the Midwest Roofing Contractor's Association and their Testing Manager, LB "Huck" Morris' reports on the activities of Tremco, Garland and Hickman, you can see many of those reports in this blog and the associated blog, 
www.roofingscam.blogspot.com 

Their reports came out in 1997-8, with more in the early 2000's.

Copies of the reports and the actual Qui Tam Case are available by email.  Write roofreports@gmail.com and they will be sent to you.

Thanks to Diana Vice for obtaining the case for distribution.  At some point, it will be made available along with all other documents on this site and associated sites in .pdf form, for easy download.