Major Announcement Pending by Upper Peninsula Breaking News: Plus Our criminal probe continues into the Looting of the Estate of the U.P. Coca-Cola King the late Gordon Elson, who died this year and an estimated $30 million was looted – while Mr. Elson’s suspicious will leaves pennies to a few people – compared to his real worth – Calling attorneys Richard Graybill and Daniel Mead – please call us – even off the record

On Monday, Upper Peninsula Breaking News will make what we consider a huge announcement.

In addition, major developments in two ongoing investigations.

I have not written much in the past 2 weeks because we (U.P. Breaking news) were in negotiations – and have been following major leads in the “The Looting of the Upper Peninsula Coca-Cola King” – whose estate is missing millions and millions of dollars – plus missing luxury cars and more.

We are conducting a criminal investigation into the Looting of the late Upper Peninsula Coca-Cola King Gordon Elson – a kind, generous lovable man – who has been ripped off by attorneys, trustees, and a whole list of terrible things including the kidnapping of Gordon Elson.

Mr. Elson was held literally hostage in Florida by Marquette Businessman Bill Pesola and maybe others. Now those who accused Pesola have apparently done what Pesola did.

You see in this cast of characters – on one end its definitely incompetence – but the evidence indicates its major criminal conduct.

We keep begging attorneys Richard M. Graybill and Daniel D. Mead to please talk to us – even off the record – but at this point it seems like they have circled the wagons. I would appreciate you calling me – at the very least – please call Greg Peterson 906-204-2549.

We are investigating those attorneys – and much more.

And we are investigating the Elson estate trustee George Paavo of Negaunee, MI – about where did the $30 million go – and then there is questionable and very suspect Gordon Elson last will and testament.

We think there may have been previous Elson wills. We will explain in upcoming sensitive stories. None of our sources – believes Mr. Elson would have forgotten his alma-mater – and bequeath millions to his beloved Finlandia University. The University is not part of the will – but should be.

If you know of criminal activity involving the estate of Gordon Elson – or if you got lots of money from the Elson estate  – suggest you be the first in line asking for plea agreements etc.

Stories so far:

Eve of the Secret Estate Sale of Upper Peninsula Coca-Cola King Gordon Elson

https://upperpeninsulabreakingnews.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/where-is-the-rolls-royce

Where is the Rolls Royce? Did Late Marquette Businessman William Pesola betray Gordon Elson? Will Those listed in the Elson Will get their inheritance? – The Scandal is growing Tonight Surrounding the Fortune and Estate of U.P. Coke King Gordon Elson

http://wp.me/p4Nc4F-28

Upper Peninsula Coke Fortune Scandal: The effort to conceal information continued this weekend at an estate sale for multimillionaire U.P. Bottling King Gordon Elson

http://wp.me/p4Nc4F-1K

The Players Part 1: U. P. Coke Fortune Executor George Paavo of Ishpeming and ‘court-appointed’ estate sale helper Ed St. Aubin, who accosted reporter Greg Peterson, during investigation by ‘Upper Peninsula Breaking News’

http://wp.me/p4Nc4F-1F

U.P. Coke Fortune investigation continues – as estate worker goes after reporter on eve of estate sale – during probe of Will of U.P. Coca Cola Executive the late Gordon Elson of Ishpeming, MI

http://wp.me/p4Nc4F-Z

On the busiest weekend of the year for Michigan’s famed Mackinac Island – 11 Mackinac Island ferries are subjects of federal lawsuits filed within 5 days of each other last week in federal court in Marquette – one suit seeks over $30.5 million and the other about $2 million

Upper Peninsula Breaking News Exclusive:

Federal Court in Marquette, MI: The future of Mackinac Island’s longest running ferry service is in doubt – will it be the last Labor Day weekend for Arnold Line and its 11 vessels

On the busiest weekend of the year for Michigan’s famed Mackinac Island – 11 Mackinac Island ferries are subjects of federal lawsuits filed within 5 days of each other last week in federal court in Marquette – one suit seeks over $30.5 million and the about $2 million

By Greg Peterson, Upper Peninsula Breaking News

www.UpperPeninsulaBreakingNews.com

(Mackinac Island, MI) – The longest running ferry service to prestigious Mackinac Island in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is advertising its popular Labor Day Weekend trips – although the future of the “Arnold Line” and the sale of its 11 vessels including its proudest catamarans Mackinac Express and Island Express – are being played out in a pair of just filed battling federal lawsuits, Upper Peninsula Breaking News has learned.

Just filed in U.S. District Court in Marquette, Michigan (below you can download your own copies of lawsuits):

One federal lawsuit involves the Arnold Transit Company (ATC) and the sale of its catamarans Mackinac Express and Island Express to recover nearly $2 million – plus the other lawsuit involves the seizure of all 11 ferry boats and property to recover $30.5 million, according to documents obtained by Upper Peninsula Breaking News.

The lawsuits have dozens of defendants and many limited liability corporations (LLC) – most related in the ownership and financing of the company or its vessels – through financial companies, revocable trusts, loans, financing agreements, and many other tools.

The first shot across the bow of the Arnold Transport Company was filed on August 15, 2014.

Officially filed against the Mackinac Island Express, the Island Express, Arnold Bay Transit Company (ABT), Haldimand Bay Company, LLC; Mackinac Island Ferry Capital, LLC; and Roland Machinery Company.

A group of 20 people, trusts, trustees are listed as plaintiffs – and are seeking “to enforce and foreclose their First Preferred Ships Mortgages on the Mackinac Express and the Island Press, and enforce the secured Promissory Notes and Guaranty.”

Meanwhile five days later (August 20, 2014), the Mackinac Island Ferry Capital, LLC (Brent C. Rippe, CEO, Hamilton County, Ohio) filed the $30.5 million federal civil lawsuit in Marquette, MI against Haldimand Bay Company, LLC” and all the Mackinac Island boats owned by its subsidiary “ferry companies” in an effort to collect the monies through foreclosure liens on properties and vessels “that secure the indebtedness.”

The lawsuit lists several counts including breach of contract, and the foreclosure of both property and vessel mortgages. The plaintiff is represented by Traverse City attorney Matthew D. Vermetten of Brandt, Pezzetti, Vermetten & Popovits.

That 15-page second lawsuit (August 20, 2014) lists the defendants as Haldimand Bay Company, LLC; Union Terminal Piers, Inc.; Arnold Transit Company; McGregor Oil Company; Straits Transit, Inc.; Northern Ferry Company, LLC; Island Management Company, LLC; Island Resource Company, LLC; Anita Schneider; Henry W Schneider; The Toots Foundation; Stephen Schneider Trust; The 2008 Henry W. Schneider Trust, The Henry W. Schneider Delaware Trust, Cheboygan County Treasurer, Department of Treasury (Internal Revenue Service), Michigan Department of Treasury, U.S. Bancorp (financial services corp based in Minneapolis, MN); and Chase Industries, Inc. (a Michigan corporation); and the following 11 vessels – catamarans Straits Express, Island Express, and Mackinac Express, the traditional ferries Straits of Mackinac II, Chippewa, Algomah II, Ottawa, and Huron, and the non-passenger freight vessels Corsair, Beaver, and the Mackinac Islander.

Mackinac Express, a catamaran passenger ferry of the Arnold Transit Company at Mackinac Island, Michigan.
www.flickr.com/photos/hyku/163104958 by Flickr user “hyku” on June 8, 2006

The plaintiffs in the first (August 15, 2014) lawsuit are asking a federal judge to “issue a warrant for arrest and seizure of the Mackinac Express and the Island Express, but refrain from the removal of the vessels” from the Mill Slip in the Upper Peninsula town of St. Ignace.

Charging “breach of secured promissory notes, the plaintiffs want a “substitute custodian to take custody upon arrest of the vessels.”

“In 2010, plaintiffs sold all of the stock of Union Terminal Piers to the defendant Haldimand Bay Company, LLC (HBC) – and that ultimately left HBC as the parent company of the Arnold Transport Company (ATC), the lawsuit states.

The 35-page lawsuits states HBC and ATC failed to make “principal and interest payments under the terms of the secured promissory notes” due on June 18, 2014. That principal and interest was just shy of $2 million on June 30, 2014, the lawsuit states.

The 20 plaintiffs are: The Marsha Rudolph Adams Revocable Trust (Marsha Rudolph Adams, trustee); Andrew C. Brown; Barbara J. Brown; the estate of Dorothy M. Brown; James J. Brown, Jr.; Linda M. Brown Trust (Linda M. Brown, trustee); Paul H. Brown; Paul W. Brown Trust (Paul W. Brown, trustee); Prentiss M. Brown; Prentiss M. Brown, Jr. Trust (Prentiss M. Brown, Jr., trustee); Robert B. Brown; Caroline Cheeseman; Sally Ann Herbon; Jim & Sis, LLC; Laing Family, LLC; Pajalco Incorporated; Patricia Jane Perry; Susan L. Pierson, and Ruth M. Visnaw.

The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Brian J. Page and Mark. D. van der Laan of Grand Rapids (Dykema Gossett law firm)

The plaintiffs specifically list parts of both the Mackinac Island ferry boats including “all masts, towers, boilers, cables, engines, machinery, sails, rigging, auxiliary boats, anchors, chains, tackle, apparel, bowsprits, furniture, fittings, tools, pumps, radar, and other electronic equipment and supplies, and other attachments and accessories.”

The lawsuit requests judgments against the Mackinac Express and the Island Express – so the plaintiffs can recover the $1,961,283 that they claim is owed. Federal civil action summons issued on August 19, 2014 for the defendants state the have 20 days from date of service to respond to the lawsuit.

Download lawsuit and related exhibits:

Filed 8-20-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $30 M lawsuit

Filed 8-20-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $30 M lawsuit

Filed 8-19-14 Marsha Rudolph Adams vs The Mackinac Express Summons Civil

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 8

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 7

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 6

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 5

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 4

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 3

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 2

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Exhibit 1

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Complaint

Filed 8-15-14 Mackinaw Island Ferry $2M lawsuit Complaint main

Photo of Mackinac Express

Mackinac Express, a catamaran passenger ferry of the Arnold Transit Company at Mackinac Island, Michigan.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyku/163104958

by Flickr user “hyku” on June 8, 2006

Arnold Transit Co.

PO Box 220

Mackinac Island, MI

49757

(800) 542-8528

(906) 847-3351

(906) 847-3892 (fax)

www.arnoldline.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Transit_Company

Arnold president: Ferry line will keep operating

Tues., April 29, 2014

By Ryan Bentley, Petosky News

(231) 439-9342

rbentley@petoskeynews.com

http://www.petoskeynews.com/featured-pnr/arnold-president-ferry-line-will-keep-operating/article_804fbfc8-8420-5d60-a423-5ee95c8f0c2a.html

Arnold Line may not ferry passengers to Mackinac Island this year

By Garret Ellison

gellison@mlive.com
Follow on Twitter
April 22, 2014/updated April 25, 2014

www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/04/arnold_mackinac.html

Others:

www.mackinawcity.com/mackinac-island-ferries-12

http://sheplersferry.com

www.mackinacferry.com

www.mackinacisland.org/transportation

All season long, Mackinac Island is serviced from both Mackinaw City and St. Ignace by three ferry companies:

Arnold Transit

Shepler’s Ferry

Star Line Ferry

A 16 to 30-minute trip, luggage service, parking at the ferry docks.

See each company for schedules and pricing

Arnold Transit Company

(800) 542-8528

(906) 847-3351

 

Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry

(800) 828-6157

231-436-5023

Star Line Ferry

(800) 638-9892

(906) 643-7635

Paper Parody: Corporations Still Think They Are People: $100 Million Cash and Blame Battle Between Paper Making Giants Soon Enters 5th year Slicing Up the Financial Blame for the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site

Corporations Acting More Like Babies Than The “People” – That They Claim To Be:

Especially since the Paper Industry Giants may have killed people with “pollution” – and the Papers Giants Claim to be “People”

 

Paper Giants Battle Over Blame and Expense of Polluting the Kalamazoo River, Surrounding Areas and Real People (Not Corps ) With Cancer-Causing PBCs

Paper Industry Giants Duke It Out Over Who Was Worst of the Worst Polluter – Thus Who Picks Up Most of the Tab in Kalamazoo River Superfund Site:
Lawsuits filed in Federal Court in Michigan and Wisconsin – There’s a Tie to the Fox River Superfund Site in Green Bay

In fight over who should pay for pollution – Arrogant Polluting Corporations Believe They Are People:

$100 Million Blame and Cash Battle Between Paper Making Giants Soon Enters 5th year Slicing Up the Financial Blame for the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site:

 

Are the Superfund Violators/Polluters near Lake Michigan a Pretext for What We Can Expect In a Few Years After Owners of the Eagle Mine Decide to Skip Town With Their Pockets Full – Sludging A Path For Similar Sulfide Mines Planned Along Lake Superior – Leaving a Toxic Mess That Is Cheaper to Litigate – Than Clean Up

In federal court these paper making corporations  – think they are people

Corporations believe they are ‘People’

Latest in $100 Million Battle Twixt International. Paper Giants on Kalamazoo River Superfund Site – litigation that spills into Fox River Superfund Site in Green Bay:

I fear that the Upper Peninsula Eagle Mine – and other sulfide (acid) mines like it – could be a Superfund-like site when the company sucks up all the valuable minerals it wants and THEN leaves.

We “Pray” That The Evil Corporations Will Not Pollute – and Corps. “Pray” Not to Pay:
Praying for Relief From Federal Judge

GEORGIA-PACIFIC CONSUMER PRODUCTS LP, FORT JAMES CORPORATION, and GEORGIA-PACIFIC LLC

Plaintiffs

www.gp.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_James

Versus

NCR CORPORATION and INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

Defendants

www.ncr.com

www.internationalpaper.com/us

****Notice these corps think they are people – smile

The Big Paper Boys Swing Their Branches and PCB Allegations Against Each Other: In the fight over money between paper industry giants

“The case is about allocating responsibility for contamination … of the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site”

The plaintiffs (Georgia-Pacific) argue that the Kalamazoo River would not have been listed as a Federal Superfund site if “not for NCR’s use of PCBs in its CCP; and for the contamination of the Kalamazoo River by PCB Aroclor 1242 attributable to NCR broke and trim.

Georgia-Pacific filed the lawsuit to establish the liability of Defendants and determine their equitable costs of cleaning up the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site

Georgia-Pacific wants to require Defendants to pay their fair portion of past and future cleanup costs associated with the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site.

The suit was also filed due to “claims in this action arise from many of the same activities by the Defendants which are at issue in the case of Appleton Papers, Inc. and NCR Corporation v. George A. Whiting Paper Company for costs associated with the investigation and remediation of the PCB contamination in Fox River; and because the Defendants made arrangements in this District with brokers that ultimately resulted in the release of PCBs into the Kalamazoo River.

Georgia-Pacific is the corporate successor to Kalamazoo-area facilities that deinked and recycled PCB-containing NCR broke and trim.

Georgia-Pacific has paid in excess of $79 million to investigate and remediate the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, the company states.

NCR invented the PCB-containing Carbonless Copy Paper (CCP) that has caused the PCB contamination of the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, Georgia-Pacific alleges.

Plus GP alleges that NCR arranged for the disposal of PCB-laden waste from its own CCP converting operations.

Georgia-Pacific claims NCR arranged for the disposal of PCB-laden broke and trim from its contract coaters.

“Contract coaters” are the companies that used NCR’s coating (using NCR’s specifications) using an NCR emulsion.

NCR is also the corporate successor to at least two coaters — the Wisconsin-based Appleton

Coated Paper Company (ACPC), and Combined Paper Mills, Inc. (aka Combined Locks Mill).

Those companies arranged for the disposal of PCB-laden broke and trim resulting from the coating of NCR CCP.

Waste paper from all these activities was recycled at facilities near the Kalamazoo River, with resulting releases of PCBs into the Kalamazoo River, according to Georgia-Pacific as it tried to put most of the blame and expense on the other paper giant:

NCR has paid nothing toward the cleanup, Georgia-Pacific cried.

The (once nature concerned) Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) conducted studies between 1972 and 1989 that “determined that certain areas in and around the Kalamazoo

River below Morrow Dam were contaminated with PCBs,” the suit states.

The Allied Paper Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Superfund Site was declared a Federal Superfund site by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in August 1990.

In fact, the site was placed on the Superfund National Priority List (NPL).

In 1990, the site was listed by the MDNR as an environmental contamination site under the Michigan Environmental Response Act, the suit states.

EPA identified Georgia-Pacific as a “potentially responsible party” (“PRP”) at the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site.

Georgia-Pacific is now the only remaining PRP left at the Site to provide ongoing funding to investigate and remediate the PCB contamination of the Kalamazoo River, due to the bankruptcies of other PRPs at the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, the suit states.

Only one other company, Weyerhaeuser Company, is currently involved in remedial activity – is only funding measures to remediate a landfill it owned, and to investigate and remediate a former paper mill it owned, the suit claims.

PCBs were introduced to Portage Creek and the Kalamazoo River largely through past discharges, releases, and disposal of PCB-contaminated solids and paper residuals by paper manufacturing operations on Portage Creek and the Kalamazoo River, the suit charges.

The Kalamazoo River Superfund Site currently includes five disposal areas, four paper mill properties, an approximately 80-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River from Morrow Dam to Lake Michigan, and a three-mile stretch of Portage Creek, the suit states.

There are several areas that need total cleanup:

Operable Unit 1 is the Allied Paper/Bryant Mill Pond Operable Unit

Operable Unit 2 (Willow Boulevard/A-Site Landfill)

A groundwater investigation was undertaken in the summer of 2009 at Operable Unit 2 (Willow Boulevard/A-Site Landfill),the suit states

In September 2009, a consent decree was signed between the EPA and Georgia-Pacific for design and cleanup at the Willow Boulevard/A-Site Landfill was approved by the Federal District Court.

This decree/settlement, among other things, obligates Georgia-Pacific to consolidate waste materials, construct a permanent landfill cap, and install a groundwater monitoring system.

Operable Unit 3 is the King Highway Landfill

The remedy involves the construction of a landfill cap, the seeding of the cap with vegetative growth, and the construction of a gas collection trench (under the control of the State of Michigan).

Operable Unit 4 is the Twelfth Street Landfill

In September 2001, EPA san agreement and the remedy includes excavation of PCB residuals that have migrated from the landfill and placement of those residuals back in the landfill. This work is conducted by Weyerhaeuser with oversight by EPA and MDNR.

Operable Unit 5 concerns the Portage Creek and Kalamazoo River sediments

In February 2007, EPA reached two settlement agreements with Millennium Holdings

LLC (which has since gone bankrupt) and with Georgia-Pacific.

The agreements were the result of two years of mediated negotiations between the possible responsible parties (PRPs) and various government regulators and entities, including the EPA and the State of Michigan.

Georgia-Pacific and Millennium agreed to perform sediment excavation in the Kalamazoo River near Plainwell, Michigan, the suit states.

Georgia-Pacific and Millennium agreed to conduct a Supplemental Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (Supplemental RI/FS) on the 80-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River from Morrow Dam to Lake Michigan and Portage Creek from Cork Street to the confluence with the Kalamazoo River.

Georgia-Pacific’s Expenditures to Clean Up the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site:

Georgia-Pacific has spent at least $79 million dollars (as of Dec. 2010) to investigate and remediate the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, and to investigate the liability of other potentially responsible parties, such as NCR and International Paper.

You can read the original:

Lawsuit Filed Between Paper Giants 12-3-10

Read or download the Georgia-Pacific vs NCR financial ruling 9-26-13

And read the latest filing of the salvos between these Paper Industry Giants.

Carbonless Copy Paper (CCP).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonless_copy_paper

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2001-107/

http://www.google.com/patents/US2730457

http://news.ufl.edu/archive/1997/05/scientists-test-carbonless-copy-paper-for-sickening-side-effects.html

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144326/000114432613000031/R18.htm

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site

http://www.epa.gov/region05/cleanup/kalproject/index.htm

http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,4561,7-135-3304-84646–,00.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_Superfund_Site

http://www.fws.gov/midwest/es/ec/nrda/KalamazooRiver

http://www.kalamazoorivercleanup.org

https://www.kzooriver.com/kalamazoo

http://www.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/kalproject/images/OUmap.gif

http://www.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/kalproject/photos.htm

Seeps at base of TP1, Elizabeth Copper Mine Superfund Site Vermont, USA

[Large version of seep photo]

Portage Creek – Kalamazoo River, Michigan Public Domain EPA

“Portage Creek – Kalamazoo River, Michigan” by EPA

www.michigan.gov/images/main_82481_7.jpg

“<a href=”http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portage_Creek_-_Kalamazoo_River,_Michigan.jpeg#mediaviewer/File:Portage_Creek_-_Kalamazoo_River,_Michigan.jpeg”>Portage Creek – Kalamazoo River, Michigan</a>” by EPA – <a rel=”nofollow” class=”external free” href=”http://www.michigan.gov/images/main_82481_7.jpg”>http://www.michigan.gov/images/main_82481_7.jpg</a&gt;. Licensed under Public domain via <a href=”//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/”>Wikimedia Commons</a>.

United States Damage Assessment, Remediation & Restoration Program

http://www.darrp.noaa.gov/greatlakes/kalamazoo

http://www.westonsolutions.com/projects/project_kalamazooriver.htm

http://www.terracontracting.net/Multimedia/Video/TabId/74/VideoId/6/Kalamazoo-River-Superfund-Site.aspx

Kalamazoo River Watershed Council (KRWC)

http://kalamazooriver.org/?page_id=217

The Environmental Law Reporter

http://elr.info/subject-matter-index-cases/allied-paper-portage-creek-kalamazoo-river-superfund-site-%28mich.%29/3384

http://upton.house.gov/uploadedfiles/05_13_2014_congressional_letter_to_epa_re_kalamazoo_superfund.pdf

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-6th-circuit/1022237.html

http://www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2014-02-18-2014-03332

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1897/04-493R.1/abstract

https://www.msu.edu/user/giesy/Projects/Presentations/KZ-SS-BE-01.pdf

Fox River Superfund Site

http://www.epa.gov/Region5/cleanup/foxriver

http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/orda_docs/Assets/UploadedFiles/CaseDocuments/Assessment_Documents/WI_Fox-River_AR-PCBs-Pathways_1999.pdf

United States Department of Justice aka United States Justice Department

http://www.justice.gov/enrd/3643.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_River_%28Wisconsin%29

http://www.foxriverwatch.com

http://www.foxriverwatch.com/NCR_corporation.html

http://www.foxriverwatch.com/pcb_pcbs_sources_1.html

http://www.foxriverwatch.com/superfund_sediment_remediation.html

http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/greatlakes/greenbay.html

http://www.sevenson.com/index.php/project-summaries/fox-river-superfund-site/

Appvion, Inc. (formerly Appleton Papers Inc.)

http://www.appvion.com/en-us

http://www.appvion.com

https://www.linkedin.com/company/appleton

Appleton Coated

http://www.appletoncoated.com/index.php?GroupID=11

http://www.appletoncoated.com

http://www.appletoncoated.com/greenzone/index.php

Info on lawsuits:

http://www.law360.com/articles/213303/gp-wants-ncr-to-pay-for-mich-superfund-site

http://www.law360.com/companies/ncr-corporation/articles

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/09/hold_portage_creek_pcb_cleanup_1.html

http://michiganradio.org/post/federal-regulators-say-pcb-cleanup-kalamazoo-river-gaining-momentum

http://michiganradio.org/post/pcb-cleanup-continues-along-kalamazoo-river

http://michiganradio.org/post/kalamazoo-residents-struggle-epa-over-mount-pcb

http://michiganradio.org/post/epa-says-decision-about-kalamazoo-s-mount-pcb-will-come-summer

http://michiganradio.org/post/kalamazoo-rallies-pressure-epa-remove-hazardous-paper-mill-waste

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144326/000114432613000031/R18.htm

On September 26, 2013, United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker ordered that Defendants NCR Corporation and International Paper Company are found liable parties

Other litigation issues remain:

American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL)

http://www.acoel.org/file.axd?file=2013%2F10%2FGeorgia%2BPacific%2Bv%2BNCR.pdf

http://www.ncr.com/newsroom/resources/united-states-district-court-for-the-western-district-of-michigan-issues-decision-in-phase-i-of-kalamazoo-river-case

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site:

Hunsucker Goodstein Law

Federal Judge Finds NCR Corp. & Appleton Papers Inc. Liable For $950 Million in Cleanup Costs of Nation’s Largest Superfund Site (Mon, Oct. 3, 2011)

Philip Hunsucker

phunsucker@hgnlaw.com

(San Francisco, CA) – Federal judge rules NCR Corp. and Appleton Papers Inc. are liable for an estimated $950 million in cleanup costs and reimbursement of natural resource damages for PCB contamination at the nation’s largest Superfund site, located in eastern Wisconsin.

“We are very pleased with this ruling,” said environmental attorney Philip Hunsucker, of Hunsucker Goodstein, who represented Menasha Corp.,

http://hgnlaw.com/about-us/news/bid/158025/Federal-Judge-Finds-NCR-Corp-Appleton-Papers-Inc-Liable-For-950-Million-in-Cleanup-Costs-of-Nation-s-Largest-Superfund-Site

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/47696/ncr-paper

Liberty Mutual Fights NCR On $79M Superfund Site Coverage

By Kathryn Brenzel

(March 28, 2013) – Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. on Wednesday urged a judge to declare that it doesn’t owe coverage to NCR Corp. for a $79 million cleanup of the Kalamazoo River Superfund site, saying the company’s comprehensive general liability policy wouldn’t cover costs stemming from its alleged role in the Michigan river’s pollution.

In a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Liberty Mutual said it is not responsible for NCR’s portion of the cleanup and related defense costs, citing a pollution exception in the company’s insurance policy.

NCR was hit in 2010 by a suit from Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, which sought contribution toward the cleanup of the Kalamazoo River, which cost Georgia-Pacific $79 million.

http://www.law360.com/articles/428041/liberty-mutual-fights-ncr-on-79m-superfund-site-coverage

http://www.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/foxriver/pdf/foxriver_cd_201010.pdf

Appleton Papers, Inc.

United States of America and the State of Wisconsin, Plaintiffs–Appellees, v. NCR Corporation, Defendant–Appellant

No. 12–2069 Decided: August 3, 2012

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1608058.html

http://fox11online.com/2014/05/15/objections-filed-to-proposed-fox-river-cleanup-settlement

 

 

U.P. Breaking News Exclusive: Southwestern Michigan College official indicted on money laundering, mail fraud for enriching a secret company he owned with nearly $500,000 in college advertizing contracts at South Bend TV stations

By Greg Peterson, Upper Peninsula Breaking News
www.UpperPeninsulaBreakingNews.com

(Dowagiac, Michigan) – A federal grand jury has indicted the former executive director of marketing at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac on 11 felonies including nine counts of mail fraud and two counts of money laundering for steering nearly a half million dollars in college contracts to a company he owned in Indiana.

Gregory Albert DeRue of Granger, Indiana is accused of committing the mail fraud and money laundering crimes between January 2011 and May 2013 as the executive director of marketing, enrollment management and development at Southwestern Michigan College – a position he held for about two and a half years.

The Indictment of Gregory DeRue states the college made many purchases “on the recommendation and request of its Executive Director of Marketing.”

Gregory DeRue and that SWM “college began using DMG Media in June 2011 as an advertising agency for purchasing all television, radio, and billboard advertising until May 2013.

The indictment states DeRue owned the company and did not inform SWM he was the owner – and allegedly tried to cover it up.

The investigation revealed the company was essentially a mail box.

DMG Media invoices list its place of business as 5776-51 Indian Grape Road # 164 in Mishawaka, Indiana  that turned out to be a “UPS Store that rents mail boxes to various clients (and) Box # 164 was rented to DMG Media,” the indictment states.

“De Rue Marketing Group LLC is organized in the State of Indiana. The Indiana Business Entity Report on file with Indiana state government indicates that Greg DeRue is the
President of De Rue Marketing Group LLC. In August 2, 2011, De Rue Marketing Group filed
with the State of Indiana a Certificate of Assumed Business Name – DMG Media, the indictment states.

“While serving as executive director of marketing with the college defendant
DeRue never disclosed that he served as the President and sole employee of DMG Media, the indictment states.

“Rather, the college dealt exclusively through email with DMG Media’s purported agent, ‘Jack,'” the indictment states
From June 2011 to May 2013, DMG Media billed (SWM) a total of $487,427 and “all invoices were paid except the final invoice in May 2013 of $26,260, on which the College placed a stop payment order,” according to the indictment.
Of the “$487,427 gross amount invoiced to the College, DMG Media contracted with media
providers to provide $279,145 worth of services,” the indictment states.

The money includes “an agency commission of $32,360 paid to DMG Media by the college as a 15-percent commission on television and radio billings,” the indictment states.

Email billing invoices were sent from DMG Media to the College.

SWM “paid those invoices by cutting a check drawn on Fifth Third Bank in Western
Michigan and mailed via the United States Postal Service” from the Michigan college to the DMG Media address in Mishawaka, Indiana.

The indictment alleges that “DMG Media invoiced the College for more than the gross amount of the services actually provided and invoiced” but never provided.

DMG Media also “failed to pay some media providers for advertising that was completed on behalf of the college,” the indictment states.

DeRue “concealed from the College that he was the President and sole employee of DMG
Media, and that the College’s contact at DMG Media – ‘Jack’ – did not otherwise exist apart
from Defendant DeRue,” the indictment alleges.

DeRue was fired by SWM on May 23, 2013, the indictment states.

Before the DMG Media contract with SWM was terminated and after his firing, “DeRue contacted the College to advise that he would be handling the college’s account with DMG Media,” the indictment states.

The indictment alleges that DeRue invoiced the college for numerous advertising buys that did not occur.

For television advertising, the college cut checks to DeRue’s business totaling nearly $404,000.

Those bogus ad buys were mainly for WNDU-TV in South bend, Indiana but included WSJV, WBND, CW25, and Comcast, the indictment charges in the “manner and means” of the alleged crimes.

DeRue’s history includes a one-year stint as the marketing manager for Cumulus Broadcasting ending in 2008, according to his active LinkedIn page with over 500 connections.
Ironically most of his false advertizing buys were made to WNDU-TV – and that station’s call letters stand for his alma mater – Notre Dame University.
DeRue “was part of the scheme to defraud” as “DMG Media invoiced the College
for more than the gross amount of the services actually provided and invoiced for services
never provided,” the indictment states.

The indictment also lists forfeiture proceedings for DeRue’s property, money and a car.

The forfeiture includes $115,089.87 seized on June 26, 2014 from the Woodforest National Bank from an account named DeRue Marketing Group LLC; a 2012 Hyundai Santa Fe titled in the name of Gregory Albert DeRue and a sum of money equal to at least $61,272.53, which
“represents the balance of proceeds DeRue obtained, directly or indirectly from the scheme to
defraud charged in Counts 1-9.”

The July 24, 2014 grand jury indictment was signed by Assistant United States Attorney Clay M. West in Grand Rapids on behalf of U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr.

Gregory Albert DeRue
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/greg-derue/0/8b1/817

Click to access 146026SouthwesternMICollege20130214_412529_7.pdf

WNDU-TV
http://www.wndu.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNDU-TV

The Looting of Upper Peninsula Coca-Cola King Gordon Elson – A ‘Come to Jesus’ moment for the guilty – “Follow the Money”

Its time for search warrants, seizures, grand jury proceedings in the looting of the estate of late Upper Peninsula Coke King Gordon Elson

Looting of the estate of Upper Peninsula Coca-Cola King Gordon Elson across northern Michigan and Florida by Greg John Peterson

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Download the documents (one big tiff file – and notice the massive checks toward the end)

Gordon Elson, estate of Gordon Elson, Upper Peninsula, Coca-Coca

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z97a4yehpcwkgja/Gordon%20Elson%2C%20estate%20of%20Gordon%20Elson%2C%20Upper%20Peninsula%2C%20Coca-Coca%20001.tif

It’s Officially a Scandal – and those involved better rush to become witnesses for the prosecution aka state’s witness – federal informant!!

The looting of the estate of late Upper Peninsula Coca-Cola Gordon Elson is shocking and there are many accusations that it continues today.

Here are 30 documents that show the current executor of the estate George Paavo – and attorney Richard Graybill – accused Elson power-of-attorney holder late Marquette Businessman William “Bill” Pesola with a lot of crimes in the millions of dollars (tho i a civil Marquette County Probate Court fashion).

It also involves jewelry and vintage cars – massive property holdings – some have estimated Elson’s estate at $15 million or more (back in the day – 80s)

Then – inexplicably – they dropped the probate court accusations.

The Peninsula Bank fought the subpoenas.

*****Follow the money as they said during Watergate Scandal.

Toward the end of these documents you will see the checks – tallying millions.

Some of the checks may have been for legit reasons – but it’s a tiny glance into the finances of the late Mr. Gordon Elson.

We keep asking – Where is the Elson Rolls Royce – last spotted in Upper Peninsula.

We have a lot more info coming – as the scandal widens.

For those of you new to this site:

Upper Peninsula Breaking News stories on looting of estate of the late Gordon Elson

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The Looting of Upper Peninsula Coca-Cola King Gordon Elson – A ‘Come to Jesus’ moment for the guilty – “Follow the Money”

The Looting of Upper Peninsula Coca-Cola King Gordon Elson – A ‘Come to Jesus’ moment for the guilty – “Follow the Money”

Where is the Rolls Royce? Did Late Marquette Businessman William Pesola betray Gordon Elson? Will Those listed in the Elson Will get their inheritance? – The Scandal is growing Tonight Surrounding the Fortune and Estate of U.P. Coke King Gordon Elson

Where is the Rolls Royce? Did Late Marquette Businessman William Pesola betray Gordon Elson? Will Those listed in the Elson Will get their inheritance? – The Scandal is growing Tonight Surrounding the Fortune and Estate of U.P. Coke King Gordon Elson

Upper Peninsula Coke Fortune Scandal: The effort to conceal information continued this weekend at an estate sale for multimillionaire U.P. Bottling King Gordon Elson

Upper Peninsula Coke Fortune Scandal: The effort to conceal information continued this weekend at an estate sale for multimillionaire U.P. Bottling King Gordon Elson

The Players Part 1: U. P. Coke Fortune Executor George Paavo of Ishpeming and ‘court-appointed’ estate sale helper Ed St. Aubin, who accosted reporter Greg Peterson, during investigation by ‘Upper Peninsula Breaking News’

The Players Part 1: U. P. Coke Fortune Executor George Paavo of Ishpeming and ‘court-appointed’ estate sale helper Ed St. Aubin, who accosted reporter Greg Peterson, during investigation by ‘Upper Peninsula Breaking News’

U.P. Coke Fortune investigation continues – as estate worker goes after reporter on eve of estate sale – during probe of Will of U.P. Coca Cola Executive the late Gordon Elson of Ishpeming, MI

U.P. Coke Fortune investigation continues – as estate worker goes after reporter on eve of estate sale – during probe of Will of U.P. Coca Cola Executive the late Gordon Elson of Ishpeming, MI

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The Players #1: U. P. Coke Fortune Executor George Paavo and Ed St. Aubin, who accosted reporter

U.P. Coke Fortune: Estate worker goes after reporter on eve of estate sale; Will of Gordon Elson

U.P. Breaking News probes what happened to the estate of U.P. Coke King Gordon Elson

Shades of “Rock Star Rick” – Richard Hill of Ironwood, Michigan faces a max of 100 years in federal prison if convicted on conspiracy and distribution of meth

The many faces of Richard Hill of Ironwood – aka “Rock Star Rick” – according to federal indictment

(Marquette, MI) – He’s called “Rock Star Rick” to his meth customers – alleges a federal indictment at U.S. District Court in Marquette.

37-year-old Richard John Hill of Ironwood, MI – who was allegedly busted with $75,000 in methamphetamines – appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy P. Greeley on Friday, July 18, 2014 because of a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury to replace the original indictment – adding additional charges.

Rockstar Rick Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/Rockstarick/photos

Meth Suspect Rockstar Rick Hill in Vegas (Facebook)

In addition, the federal government has started forfeiture proceedings in connection with the cash, vehicles, and property seized in a  raid earlier this year.

The indictment mentions co-defendants.

Hill is charged with one federal county of conspiracy to distribute meth between July 2013 and March 6, 2014. That conspiracy charge carries a minimum 5 years in prison and a maximum 40 years in prison and a five million dollar fine.

He is also charged with three counts of possession of meth with intent to distribute. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

The indictment alleges that Hill and his alleged co-conspirators manufactured 50 grams (about 2 ounces) or more of liquid containing methamphetamine.

Hill pled not guilty and the case was tentatively set for trial during the October 20, 2014 federal docket in Marquette.

If “Rock Star Rick” is convicted on all charges – he could face 100 years in Jail. He is being held in the Chippewa County Jail near the Soo – that jail has a contract for federal prisoners – therefore he is lodged on the other side of the U.P. From his Gogebic County Home.

Rebecca Suzik

Hill was arrested in March 2014 with 37-year-old Rebecca Suzik of Ironwood.

They were charged with two state felony counts of delivery/manufacture of meth and possession of meth.

The Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team arrested the pair after serving a search warrant at 223 Kennedy Street in Ironwood.

Hill was represented in federal court by Attorney Jesse J. Monville of White Pine not far from Hill’s home in Gogebic County.

More arrests are possible and federal authorities have declared the U.P. meth problem a public health crisis.

Rebecca Suzik

Related links:

Federal Judge R. Allan Edgar
U.S. District Court Judge R. Allan Edgar
U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan
http://www.miwd.uscourts.gov/content/judge-r-allan-edgar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Allan_Edgar
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=686&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na
http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/allan-r-edgar-financial-disclosure-report-for-2003
http://www.hamiltoncountyherald.com/Story.aspx?id=1210&date=4%2F16%2F2010

U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy P. Greeley
http://www.nmu.edu/criminaljustice/node/75
http://abc10up.com/greeley-reappointed-u-s-magistrate-judge
http://www.nmu.edu/criminaljustice/node/135
http://www.miwd.uscourts.gov/content/magistrate-judge-timothy-p-greeley
http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?documentid=175357&start=1&page=92

Federal Prosecutors:

Asst. U.S. Attorney Hannah Bobee
She is Native American and and an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
http://www.rosettelaw.com/attorney-bio-bobee.html
http://www.justice.gov/dea/divisions/det/2013/det061913.shtml
http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/profiles/Hannah-Bobee-Assistant-US-Attorney-Marquette-%28MI%29-Office-.htm

Asst. U.S. Attorney Maarten Vermaat
http://www.justice.gov/usao/miw/news/2012/2012_0525_VProtasoff.html
http://abc10up.com/greeley-reappointed-u-s-magistrate-judge
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/07/12/attorney-actor-john-stamos-fling-year-old-student

Gogebic County Meth Cases include:

Joshua Anderson, 31; co-defendant, Alyssa Pollard, 23,
http://abc10up.com/federal-drug-charges-brought-against-ironwood-man
Tina Rappley, 53;
http://www.fox21online.com/news/article/three-arrested-upper-michigan-meth-bust

53-year-old Tina Marie Rappley, 52-year-old Gerald John Abramson and 43-year-old Michelle Lee Kitto
http://abc10up.com/update-meth-arrests-in-ironwood
http://abc10up.com/meth-lab-lands-ironwood-man-in-prison-for-up-to-20-years

George Davis, 59; Kristin Carter, 31; 40–year-old Wendy Hemmings, 34 year old Cindi Christensen and 35 year old Joel Graser, Jr.
http://abc10up.com/max-20-yrs-in-prison-for-meth-lab-defendant/
http://wkqsfm.com/upper-peninsula-news-updates/20836/charged-ironwood-meth-lab/