TV MEDIA REPORTS


See the TV News Reports at the top of the Sidebar below to the right, just below this links section....and click on the photos!

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

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Texas Legislature Goes After Cooperative Purchasing Contracts



Last summer, the Texas Legislature held a hearing on the Cooperative Purchasing Agreements - which affect Roofing.

The hearing can be seen at:
Texas House of Representatives -

Committee on Government Efficiency & Reform - Meeting July 12, 2012


One can also see the following:

The Notice

The Witness List

In the list are the following Roofing Companies/Professional Association:

DuCharme, Michael (Carlisle Construction Materials)  -  who spoke at the first hearing on this issue, ever, held June 30, 2010 at the California Legislature's Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review

Huber, Michael (The Garland Company)

Naber, Dave (Dave Naber Tremco Incorporated) 

Ward, III, Arthur (RCI, Inc) - for those that don't know, the RCI is the Roof Consultant's Institute out of Raleigh, NC and have posted a position statement against the use of COOP Agreements, here:
and
                      
Wilson, Dennis (CCAP, Inc Firestone Building Products) - A Spokesperson from Firestone spoke at the California Legislative Hearings starting June 30, 2010
                                 
Woodring, William (GAF)  -  A Spokesperson from GAF also spoke at the California Legislative Hearings starting June 30, 2010

Note that  "Percaciante, Frank (The Garland Company)Registered but did not speak, according to their record above.

Tremco and Garland's interests in Texas' Cooperative Purchasing Agencies and any school or public works roofing contracts surely can be no different than what we have experienced in California. 

Note also that Garland had spent over $1 million to stop hearings and legislation in California since their June 30, 2010 hearings and were not only successful, the go-to State Senator let me know in no uncertain terms how viciously angry he was with me for alerting the California Legislature.  On a September, 2012 evening with only his daughter for a "witness", for over an hour he showed his fury in his face as we talked about another issue.  He was a former President of the San Francisco School Board.and on it with the other former President of the same board, who told me that "EVERYBODY" was on the take and laughing, then threatened my life, twice, in two minutes.  San Francisco Unified School District has done a majority of their roofing with Garland, sole-sourced.

Some politicians apparently don't like us exposing their "funding" sources....





Dayton, Ohio Daily News Reports on the Scam - Again


 The Dayton Daily News, the first to link the roofing scam nationwide in a report Oct. 22, 2000 and after several previous reports about the scam in their area, has done it again.  Reported Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012.

The scam has not been stopped in Ohio, and in their area.

Miami County Sherriff's Investigators "estimate county commissioners wasted about $500,000 by awarding no-bid contracts to a vendor from the Cleveland area while ignoring a local company that offered to do the work for less than half the price."


The Story is here:

Investigator: Lack of bidding cost Miami County taxpayers




A New Jersey Engineering Firm Prosecuted for Conspiracy & Money Laundering Goes Belly-Up


Why would this story relate to the Roofing Scam?

The tactics used by the Engineering Firm have been seen in similar scams targeting school funds and other public facilities construction contracts.

What happened?

Birdsall was "indicted for conspiring over six years to funnel money through employees to the same elected officials awarding them millions of dollars in public contracts."

The story is here:

Indicted N.J. engineering firm Birdsall Services Group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

The story is how they caught for doing what is here:

Secret recording led to criminal case against N.J. engineering firm Birdsall Services Group 

It's another lesson in how kickbacks are given for contracts....

____________________


And from the Comments Section to the first story above is a list of the politicians receiving "contributions" from Birdsall - note the preponderence of Democrats - same thing we see in California recently with the arrests in the San Diego area of 15 School Superintendents, School Board Members, Construction Management Company Personnel, a BOND Financier! and an architect - and we know it's a lot worse across California...:

"
I'd like to see a list of the top recipients of those Birdsall contributions! 

Mary Anne Connolly D
DNC D
Frank Pollone D
Timothy cardon D
Bill Pascrell D
James Treffinger R
John Edwards D
Jn Corzine D
Robert Menendez D
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee D
America Coming Together PAC D
Evan Bayh D
Barak Obama D
William Gormley R
Rush Holt D
Steve Rothman D
Donald Young R
Robert Torricelli D
John Kerry D
NJ Democrat State Committee D
New Millennium PAC D

Should I continue?
"

Oklahoma Legislators Debate Roofing Contracts



The State's use of a RAMP Program without competitive bidding has now reached the Oklahoma Legislature.


NEWS 9 in Oklahoma report is at:

Oklahoma Lawmakers Debate Over Roofing Contracts


You can help Oklahomans get the best prices and longest-lasting roofs with real warranties by contacting their legislature.


Group in Oklahoma Going After Wasted Roofing Dollars



KOKH Fox 25 in Oklahoma City reported that the State's "Ramp Program" was unfairly bid.


This is their Roof Asset Management Program.  The roofing manufacturers are not identified.  Previously, we saw reports of Tremco's involvement.  However - we need to see if Garland and others are involved as well.

They did not address the issue of locked-down specs, key to how these scams take place.

See it here:

Group Claims State Roofing Program Violates Law & Wastes Tax Dollars


Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Psychological Effect of Dealing with Fraud, Bid-Rigging, Collusion, Bribery and Corruption

Those who commit the crimes we have detailed in this blog either have no conscience or have "lost it" -  and are completely dead to the world.

There could be no other way one could continue to be involved in these horrific crimes.

I have good reason for saying it.  I have witnessed or heard about:

  • An American Psychological Association magazine article published in 1941 by an Industrial Psychologist, noting that Tremco's drop-out rate amongst salespersons was affected by the "darker side of sales"
  • A school facilities manager was apparently and brazenly attacked by one of the involved manufacturers when he allowed a substitution, in a midwest school district.  They asked the District Attorney to prosecute him, while denying what their own in-house memos showed:  that the test the school manager allowed the substitution under was considered an equal by the manufacturer.
  • A leading roofing contractor in the West was attacked by the same manufacturer for daring to bid another product - and had to waste huge dollars and time defending himself.  
  • Multiple threats and harassment were received by myself (and others) when I reported the activities to the FBI- who "strongly recommended prosecutions of the bosses".   They included death threats by phone (unknown) and in person (those from a former School Board President), daily calls hang on hang up we believe from the manufacturer involved, threats from politicians (2 now, one a Mayor of San Francisco/former 20-year California Assembly Leader, and the other a former School Board President and State Senator - in person), not to mention my colleague that killed herself over getting run out in the most horrible way, for standing up to the criminal activities at UCSF.

All of these criminal activities have a terrible affect on families and extended families and friends.

Yet not ONE law enforcement agency is doing anything about it.

It literally ripples throughout whole families.  In my case, it has affected hundreds of family and friends.


It's so very evil, what has been done, all of these normal-acting manufacturers but actually criminals make Aleister Crowley and Hitler appear saintly.   

I am quoting California Supreme Court Justices' characterizations that these were "criminal acts" - repeatedly yelling such at the defendant in my whistleblowing case - the University of California San Francisco.

But the worst of all is what has happened to Gerard Beloin in Goffstown, New Hampshire - and his School Board President.

A roofing contractor and manufacturer, he told his School Board President about the scam.  The young man got very interested, pursued it, was murdered, then the perpetrators started going after the roofing contractor, Gerard, with terrible threats, describing in detail how they killed the young family man.

Gerard caught it all on tape.

And now they have hounded him through courts, 17 times - and gotten him thrown in jail for carrying a gun into a courthouse that he didn't know he had in his briefcase.  He got out on parole, and then jailed again for having a gun - because those involved in the criminal activities stood on a ridge above and watched him for hours as he worked on his (large) family's Christmas Tree farm this past December.  When the family members were gone, at night, the criminals would go to his house and bang on his bedroom door at all times of the night.  He had no protection - and no one is helping him.

Not even one of the good manufacturers.  Or any District Attorney.

Which begs the question:  Is EVERYONE in New Hampshire dirty? 

Just as I was told "Everyone is involved!!!" -  by prominent and angry politicians here in California....afraid of exposure and losing their funding mechanism to control boards and councils......"spreading the wealth" around.........

Gerard is one of those fiercely independent guys, who believes right is right and wrong is wrong.  He and his family has been absolutely destroyed by these horrible criminals, his daughter's life particularly.  In his case, he was standing up to Garland.

He was also a really good roofer and roofing manufacturer, giving great value for the dollar.

People who give and take bribes have the right to lose their consciences in the pursuit of greed.

But they have absolutely no right to have any affect on the rest of us.

They are, simply put, horrific - we need to remove all these criminals out of society - from the top down.

Permanently - put on an island far from our shores, with the key to their cells thrown away.
 ______________________________________

You can read about Gerard Beloin in Chapter 3 of a new book put out by a prominent national reporter - here:
Prosecutors Gone Wild: The Inside Story of the Trial of Chuck Panici, John Gliottoni, and Louise Marshall    -    by Michael Volpe
 http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Dossier-PTSD-Whistleblowers-ebook/dp/B00BFPY89S/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360856807&sr=1-1&keywords=definitive+dossier+of+ptsd+in+whistleblowers


What has happened to Gerard can only be the result of one thing:  a MOB of manufacturers, construction management companies, school superintendents, business and facilities directors and managers, architects and engineers, bond financiers, insurance agents, and worst of all - politicians and school boards.

No persons should ever be paying the price of freedom and their rights destroyed for doing the right thing.  It's precisely what is happening over and over again, throughout society, with the bared teeth of these and other criminal monopolies in place.  With the help of politicians and bureaucrats - some of whom are at the helm of the activities, assisting their family members in massive monopolistic enterprises....as we see here in California.

We have too many criminals in the system, masquerading as legitimate businesses, who are in the process of destroying our country.

Gerard is a symbol of the terrible affect of these evil deeds - done in the name of massive profits and total greed. 

Garland, what you have done with your criminal, selfish and vicious acts are being published for history - and we hope much more will come soon.  Your brethren manufacturers who we all know are involved in these crimes have similar fates ahead of them.

You forgot one thing:  the basic law of physics - in order to keep the universe from flying apart, to every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

I wouldn't want to be any of you as time marches on.
 

Thursday, January 10, 2013

More Report Links in the Ongoing Indictments in School Construction Pay-to-Play Schemes Now Caught in San Diego



Here are more Reports to peruse:

In San Diego, Jan. 4, 2012:
5 Arrested and Pleaded Out  

School Officials, Construction Management Personnel, School Board Members and an Architect.

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2012/jan/04/stringers-charges-filed-against-current-and-/


In San Diego, Dec. 28, 2012:

15 Indicted in 232 Charges
 

(Including the first 5 pleading out - with more charges) 

3 Superintendents in 2 School Districts and One Community College, to a number of School Board Members on 2 School Boards, Construction Management Personnel (doing work across California).  

All were arraigned on Monday, January 7, 2013.  Some of the reports are seen here:


http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sweetwater-san-ysisdro-indictment-san-diego-185077431.html 

http://www.cbs8.com/story/20527397/15-indicted-in-san-diego-area-corruption-case

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/15-indicted-san-diego-schools-corruption-case.html


http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/15-indicted-in-San-Diego-area-corruption-case-4173666.php