April 12, 2016 UPDATE (sort of) from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website (4/13/2016 print edition):
- Businessman repays taxpayers dime on dollar for troubled WEDC loan (no, it’s not Ron Van Den Heuvel who still owes $1.2 Million and faces Jail Time)
In separate cases involving more than $2 million in questionable state loans, one businessman has repaid state taxpayers just a dime on the dollar and the other is facing possible jail time, court records show. …
A failure to vet the businesses in each case left the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. with little choice but to sue to recover a fraction of the taxpayers’ investment. …
Making taxpayers whole may prove even more challenging in the second case, in which WEDC lent more than $1.2 million to Green Box, an environmental technology company in De Pere. Before making the loan, the state failed to turn up the many legal and financial problems of company chairman Ron Van Den Heuvel.
WEDC and two other creditors sued Van Den Heuvel in Brown County Circuit Court in May 2015, alleging that he gave them false information and offered them collateral that had been pledged to others. Later that summer, court documents showed that law enforcement was also scrutinizing the company. Officials with the Brown County district attorney’s office had no immediate comment on that potential criminal investigation.
In the lawsuit, Circuit Judge John Zakowski on March 18 [2016] found Van Den Heuvel in contempt of court because he transferred machinery that had been pledged to another creditor in the case, Cliffton Equities Inc. The judge ordered Van Den Heuvel to return the equipment, post a $650,000 bond or face jail time.
Reached by cellphone, Van Den Heuvel said he wouldn’t be able to repay WEDC until he could first resolve the situation with Cliffton by securing a bond, which he has not yet done. Attorneys for Cliffton didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this year, Van Den Heuvel told the Wisconsin State Journal that he hoped to repay WEDC by the end of February, but on Monday [April 11, 2016] he said that he hoped to do it sometime in April.
(Don’t hold your breath.)
Michels said only that the WEDC is continuing to seek repayment from Green Box, which has been put into receivership [as of June, 2015].
WEDC was created by Gov. Scott Walker and lawmakers in July 2011 to replace the former state Department of Commerce. Since then, the agency has had to repeatedly tighten its financial controls in response to audits and news stories detailing problems with its awards and administration.
But as Oneida Eye has noted, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s own reporting from the 1990’s shows that Ron Van Den Heuvel has a history of violating campaign finance laws and receiving Corporate Welfare from the State of Wisconsin that goes back decades.
Here’s the real question…
If the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was able to reach Ron Van Den Heuvel for a comment on April 11, 2016…
why hasn’t the Brown Co. Sheriff’s Dept. – or any other law enforcement agency – apprehended Ronald Henry Van Den Heuvel as ordered on March 18, 2016, by Judge Zakowski, as seen in the documents posted & excerpted below which were personally delivered to the Brown Co. Sheriff’s Dept.’s Office by Oneida Eye’s Publisher on March 28, 2016?
Unless the Brown County Sheriff’s Dept. isn’t simply giving special treatment to a good friend whose grandfather, Henry Van Den Heuvel, was a Brown County Sheriff…
as was Artley Skenandore, Sr., the father of Ron’s trash scam partner, Artley Skenandore, Jr. whose wife is Oneida Tribal Police Dept. Lieutenant Lisa Drew Skenandore / Lisa Skenandore, who is Cross-Deputized with the Brown Co. Sheriff’s Dept.
Related:
- September 3, 2014 UCC Filing Statement with Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions (WDFI); Debtors: Environmental Advanced Reclamation Technology HQ, LLC & Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC; Secured Party: Crossgate Partners, LLC (7320 McGinnis Ferry Rd., Suwanee, GA)
- July 29, 2015 UCC Filing Statement with Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions (WDFI); Debtors: GB-ARM, LLC; Secured Party: Advanced Resource Materials, LLC / ARM (7320 Mathis Ferry Road, Suwanee, GA)
Note that the addresses for both Crossgate Partners, LLC & Advanced Resource Materials, LLC, have the same street number but a different street name, and while there is a ‘7320 McGinnis Ferry Rd.’ in Suwanee, GA, there does not appear to be any ‘7320 Mathis Ferry Rd.’ anywhere in Suwanee, GA, or at all for that matter.
The September 3, 2014 UCC Filing Statement with WDFI lists the ‘Name of Contact’ as Atty. Roger Stanton of the lawfirm Cohen Norris Wolmer Ray Telepman Cohen based in North Palm Beach, FL.
The July 29, 2015 UCC Filing Statement with WDFI lists the ‘Name of Contact’ as Ty Willihnganz (who might be an attorney) of Ty Will Law, LLC, who – along with other former employees of Ron Van Den Heuvel – is still trying to get seized property back from the Brown Co. Sheriff’s Dept.
Note that the July 29, 2015 UCC Filing falls after the date that Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC, was put into Receivership by the Brown Co. Court in June of 2015.
Did Ty Willihnganz help Ron Van Den Heuvel & Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC, file false documents with WDFI regarding the illegal out-of-state transfer of property under the control of Receiver Michael S. Polsky, Esq., after the Receivership had been established to a pre-Receivership creditor who should have been involved in the Receivership?
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Oneida Eye has previously reported that its Publisher attended the MONDAY February 22, 2016 Contempt Hearing in Brown County Case No. 2015CV769, during which Judge John P. Zakowski and several attorneys discussed Ron Van Den Heuvel’s “shell games” involving real estate and various businesses (including one for which Oneida High School Principal & Fmr. Oneida Tribal General Manager Artley Skenandore was the Registered Agent – until it was changed from Artley Skenandore to Ron Van Den Heuvel on FRIDAY February 26, 2016), as well as Ron’s unauthorized transportation of multi-collateralized property (which Ron Van Den Heuvel claims to own) from Wisconsin to the Carolinas – of all places – in violation & contempt of the Court’s Receivership agreement.
- On February 22, 2016, Judge Zakowski found Ron Van Den Heuvel to be in Contempt until and unless Ron testifies honestly in accordance with Wisconsin Statute § 128.16 and returns the missing property to Wisconsin by March 23, 2016 – 30 days after Judge Zakowski’s February 22, 2016 ruling.
- On February 22, 2016, Judge Zakowski also ordered that Dr. Marco Araujo be reimbursed $814,508.84 for his malinvestment in Ron Van Den Heuvel’s Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC, to be paid from funds held on behalf of Ron Van Den Heuvel by Baylake Bank (and BB’s attorney seemed to be relieved for the bank to be allowed to relinquish Ron’s questionably sourced cash, especially since Brown Co. Sheriff’s Capt. David Konrath confirmed that the Brown Co. Sheriff’s Dept., the IRS, the SEC, and the FBI are all investigating Ronald McGarbage & his eco-scams)
Ron Van Den Heuvel –– Con Man, Fraud, Swindler & EcoSchlub
In recent months Ron Van Den Heuvel has officially changed the name of one entity in his far-reaching scam from ‘Green Box Wisconsin, LLC’ (formerly known as ‘Green Box NA Wisconsin OP, LLC’) to ‘EcoHub Wisconsin, LLC’ and has also started a new website for ‘EcoHub USA’ to display his latest shade of lipstick on a criminal pig:
Creation Date: 2016-02-15
Registrant Name: RONALD VAN DEN HEUVEL
Registrant Organization: TISSUE DEPOT
Registrant Street: 2077B LAWRENCE DRIVE
Registrant City: DE PERE
Registrant State/Province: WI
Registrant Postal Code: 54115
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.9203473838
Registrant Email: MIKEG@GREENBOXNA.COM
Is “Mike G” Michael Garsow of Evolve MTS, LLC, who is named in Plaintiffs’ Affidavits in Brown Co. Case No. 15CV1066, re: the Matter of the Return of the Wrongfully Seized Property of: Ty C. Willihnganz; Ty Will Law, LLC; Savannah Brault; Jeremy McGown; Evolve MTS, LLC; Michael Garsow; Nancy Van Lanen; and Meng Qiao, which was filed in the wake of the execution of Brown Co. Sheriff’s Dept. Search Warrants issued for Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC?
They say everything is ‘bigger’ in Texas, and maybe that applies to the size of Ron’s cowpie lies. Houston, Ron has a problem:
Ron Van Den Heuvel’s fellow EcoSchlub, George Gitschel of Organic Energy Corp. & EcoHub LLC / EcoHub Houston LLC / Ecolution
- SEC Form D for EcoHub, LLC in Houston, TX – George Gitschel, Chief Executive Officer & Director
- GreenTech Investor’s Forum: More info about the players behind EcoHub LLC – George Gitschel, Craig F. Harris, Rob Watson, Gelvin Stevenson, and Atty. Jeff Smith
Just like his shady scheme buddy & con artist ‘business’ partner Ron Van Den Heuvel, George Gitschel is also playing shell games with different businesses that all promote the same thing:
Trash Incinerators & Environmental Racism.
Organic Energy Corp. also promotes its dirty business model under the name ‘Ecolution’
Does that ring a bell? It’s exact same scam pitched to the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin and the City of Green Bay by the executives & officers of Tribally-owned Oneida Seven Generations Corporation, OSGC-subsidiary Green Bay Renewable Energy, LLC, and OSGS’s devious ‘business’ partners Artley Skenandore/Swakweko, LLC, Abdul Latif Mahjoob/American Combustion Technologies, Inc. & Ron Van Den Heuvel/Green Box NA
The exact same scam promoted to other tribes as a safe & sound investment by members of the Oneida Business Committee, including OBC Member & OSGC Liaison Brandon Yellowbird-Stevens…
…and current OBC Chair Cristina Danforth, who just happens to be the President of the Native American Financial Officers Association / NAFOA Board of Directors and is also on the Board of Directors of both the Native American Bank, NA & the Native American Bancorporation Co. in Colorado, and who filed for personal Bankruptcy in 2014.
[Note: Abdul Latif Mahjoob has registered a new company in California. American Combustion Technologies, Inc. / ACTI has re-branded itself as American Renewable Technologies, Inc. / ARTI, after ACTI was sued for Fraud.]
Here’s a news story about the dirty MRFers schemes in Texas:
- ABC News 8, WFAA – Dallas, TX: City junket to Europe leads to more waste for South Dallas
So in July, the city [of Dallas, TX] spent $2,500 to fly Sanitation Director Mary Nix and Mayor Pro-Tem Tennell Atkins to California to look at Gitschel’s design. Three weeks later, three of Nix’s workers spent another $2,700 to visit the same plant in California and two other…facilities in Arizona, owned by another company.
Three weeks later, Gitschel organized a more exotic, seven-day trip, for the same three sanitation department workers, this time to Germany and England to look at similar recycling plants. The overseas trip cost taxpayers more than $10,000.
Yet according to the e-mails obtained by News 8, one of the workers reported back to Nix calling the recycling cost steep, about 100 dollars per ton. Dallas currently charges waste haulers about $21 per ton to dump. Nix responds back in the same e-mail, “Sounds like not-a-good-fit for us”?
In all, the city spent more than $14,000 touring with Organic Energy Corporation and Gitschel. …
News 8 has also learned O.E.C., formed last year, has never built a plant a recycling plant despite its web site depiction of already having a facility in Dallas.
As to their claim of being able to recycle 90 percent of all waste?
Even the California plant Gitschel said he designed can only recycle less than 50 percent of what it takes in. What’s more, according to the plant’s general manager, the facility was actually designed by a Canadian company called MachineX. Gitschel assisted only with the design concept, he said.
“No other facility like this has ever achieved anything close to what our recycling goals are in Houston — and most have been outright disasters,” Scruggs said in a press statement earlier this month. “City officials have set a 75 percent recycling goal for this proposal, but when we researched similar facilities, none have ever exceeded 30 percent. It’s been shown over and over that real, successful recycling will never be possible if the city tells residents to mix their garbage with recyclable materials in the same bin.”
You can read about the coalition’s research in the report “It’s Smarter to Separate” (not to be confused with a Stormfront.org post). The report not only takes aim at the “one bin” approach, but also another part of the plan, which would incinerate some of the garbage and convert it into fuel. It’s the same “waste-to-energy” experiment that’s been attempted and halted in Baltimore, and cancelled in New Orleans. The coalition also points to an Energy Information Administration report that figures this kind of energy production is more expensive than producing energy from nuclear sources, leading the coalition to the conclusion that “waste to energy is a waste of energy.”
The coalition also senses a whiff of environmental racism in this deal. The areas slated for Dirty MRFers fall mostly in black or Latino communities — which is a shame, as Houston is one of the most racially diverse cities — and now the city has an environmental justice issue on its hands.
This is why the Houston branch of the NAACP is involved, as is the pioneering environmental justice scholar Robert Bullard, whose first research study in 1979 was on the siting of waste incinerators and garbage transfer stations in Houston’s black neighborhoods. The study was ammunition for a lawsuit against the city for the permitting of a waste facility in a black community that the residents did not want, and it’s considered a major jump-off point for the environmental justice movement.
Here they are almost 40 years later still fighting the same battle — against using black and brown neighborhoods as garbage projects.
See the pattern?
Organic Energy Corp. / EcoHub, LLC / EcoHub Houston, LLC appear to be targeting impoverished communities of color to site their trash incinerators, just like Ron Van Den Heuvel, Artley Skenandore & the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin-owned Oneida Seven Generations Corporation and its subsidiary, Oneida Energy, Inc. did by trying to use the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin’s Reservation to site a demonstration trash incinerator in order to sell the toxic concept to other Native American tribes & other impoverished communities of color.
Eventually OSGC created the subsidiary Green Bay Renewable Energy, LLC, and tried to build an incinerator in an area of the City of Green Bay that OSGC & GBRE’s attorney from Godfrey & Kahn told the Wisconsin Supreme Court was just an “industrial wasteland.”
Hey, Godfrey & Kahn job, try telling that to the Mather Heights neighborhood and other residents & citizens who live & work in the surrounding ‘fallout’ zones – especially the children in the several area schools & daycare centers.
As for EcoHub’s touting of the “endorsement” EcoHub received from Michael Dixon of IBM’s ‘Smarter Cities’ project, well…
…let’s just say that IBM has a history of being involved in & profiting from harrowingly racist endeavors:
Apparently EcoSchlub Ron Van Den Heuvel has failed to meet the two conditions that Judge Zakowski required for Ron to be able to avoid being found guilty of Contempt and law enforcement has been ordered to seize him for failing to make himself available to the Court and failing to return missing property.
Here are more court documents from the lawsuit, Brown Co. Case No. 2015CV769, Ability Insurance Co., Dr. Marco Araujo, Cliffton Equities Inc. & Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) v. Green Box NA Green Bay LLC; Atty. Michael S. Polsky, Receiver (Beck Chaet Bamburger & Polsky S.C.):
This Motion for Contempt is centered on Green Box’s undisclosed and unpermitted conversion of Cliffton’s and the Receivership’s collateral by removing it out of state in December, 2015 in disobedience of this Court’s Order Appointing the Receiver, Enjoining Creditors from Proceedings Against Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC and Granting Other Relief dated June 2, 2015…and contrary to Cliffton’s lien and consent.
In 2014, Cliffton lent Green Box funds to purchase two pieces of equipment from Kool Manufacturing Company (“GB Kool Unit No. 1” and “GB Kool Unit No. 2,” collectively, the “GB Kool Units.”). Green Box used Cliffton’s money to purchase these GB Kool Units. In return, Green Box gave Cliffton a security interest in the GB Kool Units which Cliffton perfected by filing a UCC Financing Statement.
Thereafter, Green Box defaulted under the terms of Cliffton’s loan and [Cliffton] commenced suit against Green Box. Cliffton, among other creditors of Green Box, also filed this Receivership Action to protect their secured interests. The Court appointed a receiver in June, 2015 and enjoined Green Box from transferring or disposing of its assets, which includes the GB Kool Units.
In December of 2015, however, Green Box, contrary to the knowledge of the Receiver and [Cliffton], cosigned and shipped the GB Kool Unit, No. 2 to company in North Carolina. By doing this, Green Box disregarded Cliffton’s secured interest and disobeyed this Court’s Order Appointing Receiver. Cliffton seeks immediate relief to redress the wrongful conduct by Green Box. …
On June 24, 2015, the Receiver filed a Motion to Compel Green Box to Turn Over Business Records. …On July 20, 2015, Judge [Thomas] Walsh held a hearing on the Receiver’s Motion to Compel. …The Court ordered Green Box to file with the Court certain documentation on or before July 30, 2015. …On July 31, 2015, Green Box filed an “Inventory of Assets & Liabilities” with this Court (the “Inventory”). …In the Inventory, Green Box lists both the GB Kool Unit, No. 1 and the [GB] Kool Unit, No. 2. …
On November 2, 2015, the Receiver filed a Motion for Contempt and Sanctions and for Authority to Enter into Stipulation (the “Receiver’s Motion for Contempt”). …The Court scheduled a hearing on the Receiver’s Motion for Contempt for November 11, 2015. …However, Judge Thomas J. Walsh recused himself from this case, and the hearing was adjuourned. …
On November 20, 2015, after multiple demands by the Receiver, Green Box confirmed the location of the GB Kool Units. …Green Box responded stating that: (1) GB Kool Unit, No. 1 is located at 2107 American Blvd., De Pere, WI; and (2) that GB Kool Unit, No. 2 was located at 500 Fortune Ave., De Pere, WI. …
On December 1, 2015, the Court assigned Judge Tammy Jo Hock.
The Court scheduled a hearing on the Receiver’s Motion for Contempt for January 9, 2016. …
On January 7, 2016, on the eve of the scheduled hearing on the Receiver’s Motion for Contempt, Green Box provided the Receiver with a Statement as to GB Kool Units which:
• Stated that the GB Kool Unit, No. 1 is owned by Green Box and is located in De Pere, Wisconsin;
• Stated that the GB [Kool] Unit, No. 2 is owned by Green Box NA Detroit and GDARM, LLC [sic?] and is located in Easley, North Carolina [sic?];
[It seems the actual company involved is more likely GB-ARM, LLC, which WDFI.org lists the ‘Registered Agent’ for as none other than (…drumroll…) GREEN BOX NA GREEN BAY, LLC! But it’s unclear if the author meant to refer to Easley, South Carolina.]
• Stated that no funds from Green Box were used to purchase GB Kool Unit, No. 2, and
• Provided the Receiver with an incomplete contract showing that Green Box was a co-purchaser of the GB Kool Unit, No. 2. …
On January 7, 2016, the date scheduled for the hearing on the Receiver’s Motion for Contempt, Judge Tammy Jo Hock recused herself from this case. …
After the January 8, 2016 hearing, Cliffton [again] inspected the premises and learned that, on or about December 3, 2015, Green Box removed the GB Kool Unit, No. 2 from 500 Fortune Ave. and cosigned and arranged for its shipment to Easley, North Carolina. …This information, and supporting documentation, was provided by the plant manager for a [Green Box] related entity that frequents the 500 Fortune Ave. location. …
[Again, it seems the actual city might be Easley, South Carolina.]
On January 15, 2016, the present case was reassigned to Judge John P. Zakowski. …
Cliffton has asked Green Box to return the GB Kool Unit, No. 2 and provide all information regarding its transfer. To date, however, Green Box has provided no response. …
Green Box disobeyed the Order Appointing Receiver when it removed and shipped the GB Kool Unit, No. 2 to Advanced Resource Materials in Easley, North Carolina. The Order Appointing Receiver explicitly enjoins Green Box from transferring, encumbering, or disposing of any assets, including the GB Kool Unity, No. 2. The GB Kool Unit, No. 2. is worth more than $650,000.00. Green Box’s actions constitute the transfer, encumberance, and disposal of the GB Kool Unit, No. 2, contrary to the permission of the Receiver and Cliffton. Moreover, the Loan Agreement also specifically provided that Green Box could not remove Cliffton’s collateral without Cliffton’s prior written consent.
‘GB-ARM’ is short for ‘Green Box Advanced Resource Materials.’ See how this works? Maybe there is an ‘EH-ARM,’ perhaps owned by some ‘EcoHub North/South Carolina’ or ‘EcoHub Georgia’ we have yet to find out about. You get the picture.
UPDATE: Speak of the devil…
- March 29, 2016 Letter from Ron Van Den Heuvel to Judge John P. Zakowski regarding Van Den Heuvel’s and Green Box NA Green Bay LLC’s noncompliance with Judge Zakowski’s Orders
The Plaintiff Cliffton Equities did not pay for the second GB Kool Unit. That unit was bought and paid for by a company in South Carolina. That company has taken possession of its unit and brought it to Atlanta, Georgia. Thus, there is no way Green Box [NA Green Bay LLC] could comply with your Order. …
There is no way Ronald Van Den Heuvel can personally provide a $650,000 bond, and he cannot return another party’s equipment. …
Sincerely, Ronald Henry Van Den Heuvel
First of all, Ron Van Den Heuvel failed to appear at his own February 22, 2016 Contempt Hearing so that he could try to con explain to Judge Zakowski in person what Ron’s version of the facts are. (Will Ron Van Den Heuvel now try to argue that Atty. John Petitjean provided Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC “inadequate counsel”?)
Second, notice that Ron Van Den Heuvel’s letter to Judge Zakowski glaringly fails to name both:
- the company that supposedly bought GB Kool Unit, No. 2; and
- the name the company to which GB Kool Unit, No. 2 was supposedly delivered in Georgia.
It seems likely that Ron Van Den Heuvel’s games of multi-collateralized equipment switcharroo is connected to these Georgia-based companies:
- Advanced Resource Materials, LLC – Randal Moore, Registered Agent C/O Crossgate Partners, LLC in Suwanee, Georgia
- Crossgate Partners, LLC’s State of Georgia Certificate of Existence letter to Marty Dougan
Or just maybe the Georgia-based company in question is none other than Green Box NA Georgia, LLC, which Ron Van Den Heuvel registered in the State of Georgia on October 12, 2012 – just 4 days before the City of Green Bay’s Common Council voted on October 16, 2012 to rescind the Conditional Use Permit that had previously been granted to Ron’s co-conspirators at Oneida Seven Generations Corp. and OSGC-subsidiary Green Bay Renewable Energy, LLC… before the Common Council realized they had been misled about the project by OSGC & GBRE.
Right Quarles & Brady?… Godfrey & Kahn? … Hinkfuss Sickel Petitjean & Wieting? … Whyte Hirschboeck & Dudek SC? … Schenck SC?
Qui bono?
Green Box NA Green Bay, Green Box NA Detroit, GB-ARM, Green Box NA Wisconsin OP, Green Box Wisconsin, EcoFibre, EcoHub USA. EcoHub Wisconsin, EcoHub Houston, Patriot This-That-and-The-other… Helluva Ponzi scheme shell game you got there! A real embodiment of Uncle Scam, borne on the force of you lie! Glory, O’Hare-lalujah!
- March 8, 2016 Letter from Ronald Henry Van Den Heuvel (Pro Se) to Judge John P. Zakowski claiming that Ron “has never been the ‘managing member’ of Green Box NA Green Bay,” and disputing that Cliffton Equities put $650,000 toward a thermal unit (with, uh, ‘exhibits’; note that Van Den Heuvel doesn’t even bother to spellcheck his own company’s name in the homemade letterhead, which is supposed to be ‘Environmental Advanced Reclamation Technology HQ, LLC …not ‘HW‘)
- March 9, 2016 Reply from Atty. Brittany Ogden (Quarles & Brady, LLP) to Judge Zakowski on behalf of Cliffton Equities to Ron Van Den Heuvel’s March 8 Letter noting that counsel for Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC (in the form of Atty. John Petitjean) was present for the February 22, 2016 Hearing but “Mr. Van den Heuvel chose not to appear,” and that “there are a number of agreements that contain Mr. Van den Heuvel’s signature and that he signed them on behalf of and as an officer or ‘managing member’ of Green Box Green Bay LLC”
- March 14, 2016 Letter from Atty. John Petitjean (Hinkfuss Sickel Petitjean & Wieting) to Judge Zakowski claiming “[t]he proposed Order [of Contempt & Writ of Bodily Attachment] submitted by Attorney Christopher J. Murray [on behalf of Receiver Michael S. Polsky] failed to indicate that Mr. Van den Heuvel will receive immunity and will not be liable to criminal prosecution or proceeding for or on account of his testimony, subject to the restrictions under § 972.085”
As to Paragraph 1 of the Order of Contempt [& Writ of Bodily Attachment submitted to the Court by Attorney Christopher J. Murray in his letter dated March 10, 2016, received March 11th, 2016], Ronald Van Den Heuvel is not the managing member of the Defendant Green Box. Green Box filed an accurate list of its assets and liabilities and shall to the best of its ability disclose all assets and liabilities of the company within the time frame of the proposed Order of Contempt. Green Box has a copy of the submitted list.
As to Paragraph 2 of the Order of Contempt, Ronald Van Den Heuvel refused to testify as to certain outside the receivership questions because he was so advised by counsel to assert his right to be free from self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
As to Paragraph 3 of the Order of Contempt, it should be amended to provide the full protections afforded to Mr. Van Den Heuvel under Wisconsin Statutes [§] 128.16. Namely, instead of merely stating that he should have “immunity,” it should state that he “shall not be liable to crimlnal prosecution of proceeding for or on account of his testimony.
As to Paragraph 4 of the Order of Contempt, Green Box shall clarify the sublease and true lessee in due course.
[Ron didn’t get his ponies, but at least he corrected the spelling of his company E.A.R.T.H. LLC’s name on the letterhead.]
- March 16 Reply from Atty. Christopher J. Murray on behalf of Receiver Michael S. Polsky (Beck Chaet Bamburger & Polsky S.C.) to Judge Zakowski about Atty. Petitjean’s & Mr. Van Den Heuvel’s Letters, noting that “Paragraph 3 of the proposed Order [for Contempt] properly cites Wis. Stats. § 128.16, which speaks for itself and provides the immunity discussed on the record at the hearing held on February 22, 2016,” and that “the Receiver reiterates the comments set forth by Atty. Ogden in her letter to the Court dated March 9, 2016”
AND NOW THINGS GET SERIOUS…
- March 18, 2016 ORDER of CONTEMPT and WRIT of BODILY ATTACHMENT by Judge John P. Zakowski, Brown Co. Case No. 2015CV769, Ability Insurance Co., Dr. Marco Araujo, Cliffton Equities Inc. & Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) v. Green Box NA Green Bay LLC; Atty. Michael S. Polsky, Receiver
ORDERED and ADJUDGED that:
1. The Defendant, Green Box NA Green Bay, and its managing member, Ronald H. Van den Heuvel, are in civil contempt of this Court for violating Paragraph 4 of the Receiver Order by transferring, encumbering and otherwise disposing of the assets of receivership estate of Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC, and the secured interests of Cliffton Equities, Inc., including one (1) GB Kool Unit, No. 2, also identified by serial numbers 8TKM0630NG03 and 8TKM111414NGO4 (the “2nd Kool Unit”); and
2. Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel may purge the contempt as against Cliffton by, within thirty (30) days from February 22, 2016, the effective date of this Order, by:
(a) Returning the 2nd Kool Unit to Green Bay, WI and securing the possession of the 2nd Kool Unit to the Receiver; or
(b) by posting a bond in the sum of $650,000 for the value of the 2nd Kool Unit.
3. Upon failure by Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC and Ronald H. Van den Heuvel to comply with the terms of paragraph 2 above, Cliffton may file with the Court an Affidavit of Noncompliance and providing notice of same to the Defendant Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC and Ronald H. Van den Heuvel by email to Ronald H. Van den Heuvel, and by copying the Receiver and all parties to this action. Upon the filing of an Affidavit of Noncomliance, the Court shall issue an Order of Contempt and Writ of Bodily Attachment to the Brown County Sheriff’s Office and upon receipt of the Order of Contempt and Writ of Bodily Attachment, the Brown County Sheriff’s Office or any other law enforcement agency able to locate Ronald H. Van den Heuvel shall immediately take Ronald H. Van den Heuvel into custody; and Ronald H. Van den Heuvel shall be brought before the Court within 24 hours of being taken into custody to address said failure to comply with this Order.
4. DONE AND ORDERED in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, on this 18th day of March, 2016.
BUT, WAIT! THERE’S MORE…
- March 18, 2016 ORDER of CONTEMPT and WRIT of BODILY ATTACHMENT Related to Receiver’s Motion by Judge John P. Zakowski, Brown Co. Case No. 2015CV769, Ability Insurance Co., Dr. Marco Araujo, Cliffton Equities Inc. & Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) v. Green Box NA Green Bay LLC; Atty. Michael S. Polsky, Receiver
ORDERED and ADJUDGED that:
1. The Defendant, Green Box [NA Green Bay, LLC,], and its managing member, Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel, are in civil contempt of this Court for violating Wis. Stats. § 128.13 and Paragraph 6 of the Receiver Order by failing to file an accurate verified list of its assets and liabilities and failing to turn over all of its books and records to the Receiver within ten (10) days of the Appointment Date, and for violating Paragraph 4 of the Receiver Order by transferring, encumbering and otherwise disposing of assets of receivership estate of Green Box; and
2. Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel may purge the contempt as against the Receiver by, within thirty (30) days from February 22, 2016, the effective date of this Order, by appearing at an adjourned deposition at the direction of the Receiver and/or his designee and testifying truthfully regarding the assets of Green Box pursuant to Wis. Stats. 128o16, including providing the names and address of others that may possess information regarding the assets of Green Box; and
3. In the event Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel complies with the provisions of Paragraph 2 of this Order, he shall be granted immunity and for such testimony pursuant to Wis. Stats.§ 128.16;
4. All rents received by Green Box, or its affiliate, Green Box NA, LLC, for the real property located at 821 Parkview Road, Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin (“the Parkview Real Estate”), since the Appointment Date shall be disgorged to the Receiver, and any and all tenants or subtenants of Green Box or Green Box NA, LLC shall pay future rents for the Parkview Real Estate directly to the Receiver;
5. The Receiver is hereby authorized to enter into a Stipulation with Little Rapids Corporation granting relief from the Receiver Order and permitting Little Rapids Corporation to proceed with terminating the Sublease for the Parkview Real Estate.;
6. Upon failure by Green Box and Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel to comply with the terms of Paragraph 2, the Receiver may file with the Court an Affidavit of Noncompliance and providing notice of the same to the Defendant Green Box and Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel by email to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel, and by copying all parties to this action. Upon the filing of an Affidavit of Noncompliance, the Court shall issue an Order of Contempt and Writ of Bodily Attachment to the Brown County Sheriff’s Office or any other law enforcement agency able to locate Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel shall immediately take Ronald H. Van den Heuvel into custody; and Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel shall be brought before the Court within 24 hours of being taken into custody to address said failure to comply with this Order.
7. DONE AND ORDERED in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, on this 18th day of March, 2016
Uh-oh.
Ron Van Den Heuvel… “testify honestly“?
Oneida Eye suspects that would result in Ron’s warped brain reacting organically like in the movie ‘Scanners‘ (Warning: Graphic).
Apparently Ron did not arrange to finally give an honest deposition about Green Box NA Green Bay LLC, nor has he returned the missing GB Kool Unit, No. 2 from the Carolinas back to Wisconsin, and so Judge Zakowski issued two Orders of Contempt & Writs of Bodily Attachment for the apprehension of Ron Van Den Heuvel by all law enforcement agencies.
Because the Orders of Contempt & Writs of Bodily Attachment that were signed by Judge Zakowski on Friday March 18, 2016 (before he went on vacation) had not been delivered to the Brown Co. Sheriff’s Office by Monday March 28, 2016, Oneida Eye’s Publisher personally went to the Brown Co. Clerk’s Office on Monday, purchased copies of both Orders & Writs, and delivered copies of both for Brown Co. Sheriff’s Captain David Konrath on Monday afternoon.
Oneida Eye Publisher Leah Sue Dodge delivers Judge Zakowski’s Orders of Contempt & Writs of Bodily Attachment to the Brown Co. Sheriff’s Office on Monday March 28, 2016
Unfortunately, the Brown Co. Sheriff’s Dept.’s Office’s Front Desk now closes at 4:00 p.m. (Seems kinda podunk, right?)
So, Oneida Eye’s publisher left copies of Judge Zakowski’s Orders & Writs on the premises on Monday night to be given to Capt. Konrath of the Investigative Division bright & early on Tuesday March 29, 2016.
Copies of Judge Zakowski’s March 18, 2016 Orders of Contempt & Writs of Bodily Attachment against Ron Van Den Heuvel delivered Monday March 28, 2016, for Brown Co. Sheriff’s Capt. David Konrath
Below are two reports with interviews of Ron Van Den Heuvel by former WLUK FOX 11 News Reporter Bill Miston regarding Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s November 6, 2015 Letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch supporting Oneida Tribe members’ September 21, 2015 Letter requesting a U.S. Dept. of Justice investigation of the individuals & Oneida Nation in Wisconsin-owned companies involved in Ron Van Den Heuvel’s schemes.
One of those companies having been funded by a $2 Million loan from the Wisconsin Dept. of Commerce to the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin-owned Oneida Seven Generations Corporation (OSGC)…
…and another funded by a $2 Million loan from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) to OSGC subsidiary Oneida Energy Inc., to be used for Ron Van Den Heuvel’s & Tribe members’ fraudulent schemes involving Abdul Latif Mahjoob and American Combustion Technologies, Inc. (ACTI).
That $4 Million in encumbrances was in addition to the $20 Million that OSGC and the Oneida Business Committee (OBC) wanted the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin (ONW)’s governing body – General Tribal Council (GTC) – to agree to borrow in a Bureau of Indian Affairs-backed loan for OSGC to use as part of Ron Van Den Heuvel’s Ponzi scheme, seemingly under the guidance of the Oneida Law Office and OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House.
Fortunately, the plans of the OBC, OSGC & OLO to borrow $20 Million for Ron Van Den Heuvel’s various pyrolysis & energy scams did not happen thanks to a majority of GTC members voting in self-defense to DISSOLVE OSGC due to the deceitful claims and the costly & harmful misdeeds of OBC, OSGC, and the OLO – under the direction of OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House – which seems to be guiding the OBC into one disastrous malinvestment after another, always for the benefit of a certain few, and always at GTC’s expense.
Oneida Eye strongly encourages readers to examine our previous post detailing the uncanny and undeniable similarities between the ‘green energy’ scams of Ron Van Den Heuvel & OSGC with the MANTRIA CORPORATION PYROLYSIS PONZI SCHEME, which has been been called the ‘Biggest Green Scam in America’ – until now:
Ron Van Den Heuvel, described as a longtime Republican donor, has a history of apparent ‘pay-to-play’ politcal donations, including his $10,000 donation to Fmr. WI Gov. Tommy Thompson being returned due to the appearance of impropriety after Ron’s company received $24 MILLION in tax-exempt bonding from the Thompson administration.
Ron Van Den Heuvel told WEDC that four states (which seem to include Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota and Georgia) have loaned him a minimum of $17 MILLION each.
Plus, Ron Van Den Heuvel was on the path to receiving $125 MILLION in tax-exempt bonds from MI Gov. Rick Snyder’s Michigan Strategic Fund…
…and pursued another $125 MILLION in tax-exempt bonds from the City of De Pere, WI, Ron’s hometown.
And Oneida Seven Generations Corporations’s business model seems to have been designed to scam other tribes and municipalities into investing in Ron Van Den Heuvel’s energy scams.
Ron Van Den Heuvel’s, Artley Skenandore’s & Oneida Seven Generations Corporation’s scams kinda make the Mantria Corporation’s measly $54 Million pyrolysis Ponzi scheme seem like small potatoes, don’t they?
- Did Ron Van Den Heuvel and Oneida Seven Generations Corp. executives & officers commit fraud in order to obtain state loans of federal funds (including money from the American Reinvestment & Recovery Act) with the purpose of using that ill-gotten money to obtain other state loans in order to donate those monies to political candidates (directly or indirectly through organizations like the Wisconsin Club for Growth) in the belief that the WEDC, the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF), and other agencies would eventually write off any overdue loans to the long distressed Green Box NA Green Bay LLC, and the legally ambiguous Oneida Seven Generations Corp.?
- Did Ron Van Den Heuvel & Oneida Seven Generations Corp. executives & officers give money to get money to give more money to get more money with the belief that the state & federally funded loans would eventually be written off and/or that they could declare bankruptcy when it caught up to them, all on the back of phony ‘green energy’ claims which actually promoting incinerators in disguise that would benefit companies like the Koch Brothers’ Georgia-Pacific by potentially allowing them to get tax credits for their industrial garbage being used as ‘feedstock’ by schemes like Green Box NA Green Bay LLC & OSGC-subsidiary Green Bay Renewable Energy?
- Did WEDC agree to join Marco Araujo’s lawsuit against Green Box NA Green Bay LLC only as an attempt to create the phony appearance of an adversarial relationship with long distressed Green Box NA Green Bay LLC and deflect accusation of pay-to-play when Ron Van Den Heuvel’s pattern of not paying his bills or court judgments but instead making campaign donations to politicians as was already well established – and perhaps relied on as a predictable result of givng him other people’s money to play with?
- Did Artley Skenandore & OSGC and its subsidiaries know that Ron Van Den Heuvel was involving Artley Skenandore & OSGC and its subsidiaries in fraudulent schemes to defraud the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, the City of Green Bay, the State of Wisconsin, and/or the U.S. federal government?
- If Artley Skenandore & OSGC and its subsidiaries did not know that Ron Van Den Heuvel was involving Artley Skenandore & OSGC and its subsidiaries in fraudulent schemes, why haven’t Artley Skenandore & OSGC or the Oneida Business Committee filed lawsuits against Ron Van Den Heuvel, including enforcing the $1.2 million judgment that Ron Van Den Heuvel already owes – yet still hasn’t paid – to OSGC-subsidiary Glory LLC?
- What legal standing do enrolled Oneida Nation in Wisconsin members have to sue Ron Van Den Heuvel and/or Abdul Latif Mahjoob & ACTI for defrauding the ONW General Tribal Council if Artley Skenandore, OSGC and its subsidiaries, and the Oneida Business Committee refuse to do so?
- What legal standing do enrolled ONW members have to sue Artley Skenandore & OSGC and its subsidiaries, officers, and executives if they were knowingly involved in – or should have been aware of – Ron Van Den Heuvel’s schemes to defraud OTIW, the City of Green Bay, the State of Wisconsin, and/or the U.S. federal government?
- What legal standing do enrolled ONW members have to sue the Oneida Business Committee (OBC) if OBC members were aware – or should have been aware – of any schemes by Artley Skenandore, OSGC and its subsidiaries, and/or Ron Van Den Heuvel to defraud the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin and engage Tribal corporations & agencies in attempts to defraud the City of Green Bay, the State of Wisconsin and/or the U.S. federal government?
Oneida Eye also strongly encourages readers to peruse the recently expired treasure-trove of information at Mantria.Weebly.com:
That information-packed repository contains a link to the August 5, 2011 ruling of Federal Judge Christine M. Arguello in Case 2009-CV-02676-CMA-MJW, Securities Exchange Commission v. Mantria Corporation, Troy Wragg, Amanda Knorr, Speed of Wealth LLC, Wayde McKelvy, and Donna McKelvy, which states that Mantria had scammed more than $54.5 million…
by egregiously, recklessly, knowingly, and shamelessly perpetrating a fraudulent scheme [that used] misrepresentations, omissions, and blatant lies to induce unsuspecting and unwitting victim investors to liquidate the equity of their homes and take out back loans to invest in Defendants’ scheme, which was nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
U.S. News and World Report added this information:
Two months before the SEC civil lawsuit, [Mantria Corp.] was publicly recognized for its stated commitment to “help mitigate global warming” by former President Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative. The company was cited for its plans to develop the biochar technology that it said would sequester carbon dioxide and reduce emissions in developing countries. Wragg appeared on stage with Clinton at the event in September 2009.
[Sleazy, corrupt scam artists often donate other people’s money in order to attain access to and be seen publicly with sleazy, corrupt politicians. Speaking of which…this happened.]
Yet, despite the SEC’s 2011 ruling that Mantria Corp. exemplifies the definition of a “Ponzi scheme,” the Mantria Corp.’s phony claims about itself being a ‘green energy’ company are still posted on the Clinton Global Initiative’s website to this day.
In fact, it took four years after Judge Arguello’s 2011 ruling against what she called the “sociopathic greed” of the Mantria Corp.’s “Ponzi scheme” for the US DOJ to issue indictments against Mantria Corp.’s principals:
The following is from the September 3, 2015 U.S. Justice Dept. statement about Mantria Corp. regarding federal indictments against these pyrolysis Ponzi peddling perps:
Indictment Charges Three People with Running $54 Million “Green Energy” Ponzi Scheme
An indictment was unsealed today charging three people in an investment scheme, involving a Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based company, that defrauded more than 300 investors from around the country. Troy Wragg, 34, a former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amanda Knorr, 32, of Hellertown, Pennsylvania, and Wayde McKelvy, 52, of Colorado, are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities fraud and seven counts of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Special Agent in Charge William F. Sweeney Jr of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division.
As the founders of the Mantria Corporation, Wragg and Knorr allegedly promised investors huge returns for investments in supposedly profitable business ventures in real estate and “green energy.” According to the indictment, Mantria was a Ponzi scheme in which new investor money was used to pay “earnings” to prior investors since the businesses actually generated meager revenues and no profits. To induce investors to invest funds, it is alleged that Wragg and Knorr repeatedly made false representations and material omissions about the economic state of their businesses.
Sound familiar?
UPDATE: Wisconsin law enforcement can’t seem to find & apprehend him, but look what the Green Bay Press Gazette dragged in:
Con artist Ron Van Den Heuvel mugging with fired Hewlitt-Packard CEO & failed GOP Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina stumping in De Pere, WI for Lyin’ creep Ted Cruz. Also, Patrick Hoffman, owner of The Creamery, and his unfortunate wife (Ron’s daughter Kristie) & kids. (Little guy in front knows what’s up.)
Ron Van Den Heuvel, also of De Pere, said he has been a Cruz supporter for a while and shares many of the same Christian beliefs and values that are seen throughout Cruz’s campaign.
Can Green Box or EcoHub recycle used barf bags? Oh, wait… Green Box & EcoHub USA recycle nothing (other than the same deceitful sales pitch), because they’re both based on the same racist ripoff Ponzi scam by a dangerous lying thief.
Of course Lyin’ Ron endorsed Lyin’ Ted! They’re both phonies, frauds & hypocrites. Some would say… sociopaths.
See also:
- Part 1, Supplemental Examination of Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel before James O’Neil, Court Commissioner, May 8, 2015 10:00 a.m. to 12:59 p.m in Brown Co. Case #2015CV769
- Part 2, Supplemental Examination of Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel before James O’Neil, Court Commissioner, May 15, 2015, 10:07 a.m. to 11:04 a.m. in Brown Co. Cae #2015CV769
- April 8, 2015 Supplemental Examination of Philip J. Reinhart by Atty. Jonathan Smies (Godfrey & Kahn) before James P. O’Neil, Court Commissioner, w/ Atty. John Petitjean (Hinkfuss, Sickel, Petitjean & Weiting) serving as counsel for Mr. Reinhart (68 pages, missing pg. 5-8) and related Exhibits (See also: Brown Co. Case No. 2014CV783, Jansen Logistics Services LLC vs. Sharad Tak; and the July 1, 2015 Order Denying Motion for Summary Judgment, Case No. 2014CV724, Jansen Logistics Services LLC vs. Sharad Tak)
