Corporations,
Litigations,
Donations
& Motivations
Fmr. Oneida Business Committee Treasurer &
Fmr. OBC Chair Cristina Danforth,
OBC Vice-Chair Brandon Yellowbird Stevens,
and OBC Chief Counsel Jo Anne House
are trying to convince General Tribal Council that
Artley Skenandore Jr.’s ‘Nature’s Way Tissue Corp.’ fraud scheme…
and OSGC’s ‘Green Bay Renewable Energy, LLC’ fraud scheme…
have nothing to do with each other…
…but it wasn’t until 2021 that we learned that Oneida Business Committee sock puppet NANCY SKENANDORE (aka NANCY PASTORINO) – whom the OBC appointed as 1 of only 2 members of the ‘reformed’ Oneida Nation Personnel Commission – was also a GREEN BAY LATIN KINGS gang’s “LATIN QUEEN” whose children & grandchildren were involved in selling Crack Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Fentanyl from her home in a school zone:
- July 1, 2019 Criminal Complaint including 8 counts against Defendant Nancy Skenandore (a/k/a Nancy Pastorino and Nancy Ortiz), Brown Co. Case No. 19-CF-924, State of Wisconsin v. Nancy Skenandore
The TIMELINE below proves
is at the center of MULTIPLE CRIMINAL ‘GREEN ENERGY’ / ‘RECYCLING’ FRAUD SCHEMES.
Brandon Stevens doubled down at the April 23, 2017 reconvened GTC Annual Meeting and said Ron Van Den Heuvel had nothing to do with Oneida Seven Generations Corp.’s and Oneida Energy Inc.’s GREEN BAY RENEWABLE ENERGY, LLC‘s PYROLYSIS ‘Waste-To-Energy’ scheme which was loaned $4 MILLION by WI Gov. Scott Walker‘s quasi-public/private Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. [WEDC] due to a total lack of due diligence on the part of WEDC’s legal counsel…
yet GBRE is just OSGC’s version of Ron Van Den Heuvel‘s “patented” GREEN BOX NA, LLC PYROLYSIS ‘Waste-To-Energy’ scheme… which was loaned $1.2 MILLION by WEDC due to a total lack of due diligence on the part of WEDC’s legal counsel.
WATCH RON VAN DEN HEUVEL MAKE HIS
PULP & PYROLYSIS ‘GREEN BOX NA’ PITCH
in his home town (kinda) of De Pere, WI at the April 15, 2014 City of De Pere Common Council Meeting asking for the City to issue Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC $125,000,000 in tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonds, as was also arranged for Green Box NA Michigan, LLC by Gov. Rick Snyder’s Michigan Strategic Fund, for a total of $250,000,000 [a quarter of a BILLION]:
But there’s this…
and this…
- September 20, 2016 Superseding Indictment [19 Counts], U.S. District Court, WI Eastern District, Case No. 16-CR-064, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. RONALD H. VAN DEN HEUVEL, KELLY YESSMAN – VAN DEN HEUVEL, and PAUL J. PIIKKILA [fmr. Horicon Bank Loan Officer and the Interim Controller of the Green Detroit Regional Center EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program that encouraged foreigners to invest in Ron Van Den Heuvel’s Green Box NA fraud scheme to obtain U.S. Visas from U.S. Customs & Immigration Services / USCIS]
Ron Van Den Heuvel and Kelly Yessman Van Den Heuvel’s trials were pushed back … to October 23.
According to the federal indictment, [Paul] Piikkila approved a series of loans for the Van Den Heuvels [from 2008 to 2009] when he was a loan officer with Appleton’s Horicon Bank location.
Bank management reportedly told Piikkila not to approve loans for the Van Den Heuvels so they were made out in other names.
Oneida Eye’s Publisher also asked OBC Treasurer Trish King at the April 23, 2017 GTC Annual Meeting reconvention why her FY2016 Report reprinted word-for-word & number-for-number OSGC’s Report from the FY2012 Annual Meeting Packet…
except the FY2012 Report contained a disclaimer noting that it was based on FY2010 data:
Please note this information is from FY2010. As of the date of printing, Oneida Seven Generations [Corp.] had not provided audited financial statements.
The FY2016 OBC Treasurer’s Report OMITTED that very important disclaimer and the OBC and Finance Department refused to simply admit that OSGC’s rosy FY2016 Report contained out-of-date data that was SEVEN YEARS OLD.
An intentional ‘material misrepresentation’ of a corporation in a financial report provided to the ONWI General Tribal Council, which is tantamount to FRAUD.
OSGC’s Report did not include the $5-6 MILLION LOSS on GREEN BAY RENEWABLE ENERGY LLC’s Waste Pyrolysis project in Green Bay…
nor was there any mention of the estimated $12-15 MILLION SECRET SETTLEMENT that OSGC Managing Agent Peter J. King III admitted he gave – WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM GTC – to Gaylen La Crosse / Michael Galich / Louis Stern / Eric Decator and Generation Clean Fuels/Arland Clean Fuels re: the plastics pyrolysis project that GTC prohibited OSGC from conducting anywhere within the boundaries of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin Reservation.
Add the $4-5 MILLION LOSS on Nature’s Way Tissue, Corp. as reprinted in the FY2016 Report.
SO FAR, OSGC HAS LOST $21–25 MILLION
on Ron-related Pulp & Pyrolysis ‘investments’…
that we (kinda) know of.
HERE’S HOW IT WENT DOWN…
AND WHO’LL GO DOWN FOR IT.
The ONEIDA NATION of Wisconsin has a LONG HISTORY of Following FRAUDS, IMPOSTERS, and SCOUNDRELS…
because that’s how it came to exist in the first place.
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:
1789 to 1822 : According to Wikipedia, Bureau of Indian Affairs
In 1789, the U.S. Congress placed Native American relations within the newly formed War Department. By 1806 the Congress had created a Superintendent of Indian Trade, or “Office of Indian Trade” within the War Department, who was charged with maintaining the factory trading network of the fur trade. The post was held by Thomas L. McKenney from 1816 until the abolition of the factory system in 1822.
The government licensed traders to have some control in Indian territories and gain a share of the lucrative trade.
1820 and 1821 : Con-artist Masonic Mohawk & Episcopal Missionary – Eleazer Williams – leads delegations of Oneidas from New York to settlements on Menominee tribal land in Wisconsin on what became the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin reservation.
Eleazer Williams claimed to be the ‘Lost Dauphin’ – the kidnapped son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette – and, thus, the rightful heir to the throne of France.
Some Oneida now believe the ‘delegation’ was actully made of members who had been shunned, disowned, expelled, and forced to leave the ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK’S ancestral area in keeping with ‘The Great Law of Peace’ for their attempts to take control over the Oneida people on behalf of ‘Christian’ fraudster Eleazer Williams in an attempt to convert the Oneidas to the religion of another nation (a ‘Christian’ nation / France / Freemasonry).
77
When the chiefs of the League decide to admit a foreign nation and an adoption is made, the chiefs shall inform the adopted nation that its admission is only temporary. They shall also say to the nation that it must never try to control, to interfere with or to injure the Five Nations, nor disregard the Great Peace or any of its rules or customs. In no way shall they cause disturbance or injury. Then shall the adopted nation disregard these instructions, their adoption will be annulled and they will be expelled.
The expulsion shall be in the following manner: The council shall appoint one of their War Chiefs to convey the message of annulment and he shall say:
“You, ………… (naming the nation), listen to me while I speak. I am here to inform you again of the will of the Five Nations Council. It was clearly made known to you at a former time. Now the chiefs of the Five Nations have decided to expel you and cast you out. We disown you now and annul your adoption. Therefore you must look for a path in which to go and lead away all your people. It was you, not we, who committed wrong and caused this sentence of annulment. So then go your own way and depart from the territory of the Five Nations and away from the League.”
03/11/1824 : According to Wikipedia, Bureau of Indian Affairs
The abolition of the factory system left a vacuum within the U.S. government regarding Native American relations. The Bureau of Indian Affairs was formed on March 11, 1824, by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, who created the agency as a division within his department, without authorization from the United States Congress. He appointed McKenney as the first head of the office, which went by several names. McKenney preferred to call it the “Indian Office”, whereas the current name was preferred by Calhoun.
In 1832 Congress established the position of Commissioner of Indian Affairs. In 1849 Indian Affairs was transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior. In 1869, Ely Samuel Parker was the first Native American to be appointed as commissioner of Indian affairs.
Located in Washington, D.C., the BIA is headed by a bureau director who reports to the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. The current director is Michael S. Black. The current assistant secretary (acting) is Lawrence S. Roberts, an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. On January 1, 2016, Roberts succeeded Kevin K. Washburn, an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, who served from October 9, 2012, to December 31, 2015.
Ron Van Den Heuvel
1915–1916 & 1919–1920 : According to the Brown County, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Department website, Henry Van Den Heuvel was Brown County Sheriff.
Henry’s grandson is Ronald Hewry Van Den Heuvel.
Ron Van Den Heuvel resided at 2303 Lost Dauphin Road, Lawrence, Wisconsin, until he and his wife Kelly Yessman Van Den Heuvel were evicted in 2019.
Artley Skenandore Jr.
1957–1960 : According to the Brown County, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Department website:
In 1957 with the election of Artley Skenandore [Sr.], Brown County became the first county to elect a full-blooded Indian to the position of sheriff.
Artley’s son is Artley Murray Skenandore, Jr. – former Oneida Nation of Wisconsin General Manager and a scheme partner with Ron Van Den Heuvel.
Art Skenandore Jr. is currently the Principal of Oneida Nation High School.
Sharad Tak
1974 : According to the 12/01/07 issue of The Washingtonian, ‘Living the American Dream,’ by Madhu Jain:
Many Indian-Americans came to Washington with a few dollars and big hopes. Thanks to hard work – and lucrative government contracting – some are millionaires, living large on the Potomac and McLean and making their presence felt in politics, business and the arts …
Rich Indian-Americans in Washington have made their fortunes in finance, management consulting, and, increasingly, information technology and cellular and Internet services. They live in faux chateaux that do justice to a Kubla Khan fantasy. Most live in Potomac, McLean, and Bethesda.
The desis, as many Americans of Indian origin refer to themselves—desi is a word used for people from South Asia—have arrived. And many are living the American dream. …
Hillary Clinton fundraiser with Maninder & Sharad Tak at their Bethesda, MD residence
Mahinder Tak, a radiation oncologist and retired US Army colonel, is another player on Washington’s cultural scene. Her home in a wooded area in Bethesda, where she lives with her entrepreneur husband, Sharad, houses arguably the largest personal collection of modern and contemporary Indian art in the United States. Last year Art & Antiques magazine listed her among the top 100 collectors of art in the country. …
Sharad Tak, the entrepreneur who lives in Bethesda, was the pioneer. In 1974, he lobbied for Indian-Americans to be considered minorities, enabling them to take advantage of incentives given to minority-owned businesses.
Tak’s company, ST Systems Corporation, provided programming and systems integration to agencies including NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration. He brought in other Indian-Americans to work with him, including Frank Islam[.]
“Sharad was my boss,” Islam says. “He inspired my entrepreneurship.” In 1991, Tak sold his company to Hughes Aircraft. A serial entrepreneur, he then ventured into television and communications and, more lately, paper mills.
Ann Van Den Heuvel Murphy
1977 to 1987 : According to LinkedIn, Ron Van Den Heuvel’s sister Ann M. Van Den Heuvel Murphy worked at family-owned VHC, Inc. for 10 years
Ann (Van Den Heuvel) Murphy began her career in her family’s business. VHC, Inc., has grown into a national company including Spirit Construction, Vos Electric, and VDH Electric. Their primary focus is in the Paper Industry, medical facilities, and Lambeau Field.
Ann M. Van Den Heuvel is married to Patrick Murphy, received an Honorary Degree from St. Norbert College in 2000, and was a Member of the Transition Team for incoming WI Gov. Scott McCallum.
• 1990: Owner, Murphy Development, Inc.
• 2001 to 2008: Member Credit Review, Board of Directors, M&I Bank of Northeast Wisconsin [now known as BMO Harris Bank]
• 2009: Consultant, Tak Investments, LLC, where Ron’s sister Ann:
Assists the owner [Sharad Tak] in decisions regarding investments.
NOTE: Tak Investments, LLC, which was registered on 02/27/92 and Dissolved w/ WDFI on 04/15/09 is a different entity than Tak Investments, Inc., though both are owned by Sharad K. Tak & family.
Sharad & Mahinder Tak and family also own(ed):
• ST Paper, LLC
• ST Paper II, LLC
• ST Paper Holdings, LLC
• ST Paper Holdings II, LLC
and Delaware/Foreign LLC’s:
• Tak Communications, Inc. reg’d 03/01/1985; Merged 02/27/89 (nonsurvivor)
• TAK-WGRZ, Inc. reg’d on 12/30/88; Merged 02/27/89 (survivor) & renamed Tak Communications, Inc.; Changed Reg’d Agent 05/16/91; Reinstated 01/11/94; Revoked Cert. of Authority 10/31/96
• Tak Communications, Inc. reg’d 03/01/2010; Registered Agent Suzanne Blank of Till Salzer & Blank Ltd; Principal Office: Sioux Falls, SD; Intent to Revoke filed on 08/17/15
According to the December 2, 2016 DECISION and ORDER signed by Chief Judge William C. Griesbach, Case No. 1:2014CV1203,
Tissue Technology LLC, Partners Concepts Development Inc, Oconto Falls Tissue Inc., and Tissue Products Technology Corp. v. Tak Investments LLC
BACKGROUND
This case is the second iteration of a dispute between the Plaintiffs, a group of entities controlled by Ronald Van den Heuvel, and Tak Investments, LLC, a Delaware company. The dispute arises out of Tak’s purchase of an Oconto Falls, Wisconsin, paper mill from the Plaintiffs. In a previous action, Case No. 12-CV-1305, the Plaintiffs (also known as the OFTI Group) sought to enforce a provision in the parties’ agreement that would require the Defendant to turn over “an undiluted 27% ownership interest of the highest class in [Tak] Investments” because the Plaintiffs had deemed four promissory notes cancelled. Upon motions for summary judgment, this court found for the Defendant on the ground that one of the four notes had been assigned to another party, thus precluding the ability of the Plaintiffs to deem all four notes cancelled. As such, the Plaintiffs had not fulfilled a condition precedent to enforcing the provision of the contract upon which they relied. However, the court noted that because the assignee “could reassign the fourth note back to OFTI [i.e., the Plaintiffs] there is nothing in the record to suggest that OFTI is permanently foreclosed from cancelling all four notes and thereby fulfilling the condition precedent.” …
This is exactly what has now happened. The Plaintiffs, having received an assignment of the fourth note, are now payees of all four notes and thus have the ability they lacked in the previous action, which is to “deem” (as the contract puts it) the notes to be cancelled. Accordingly, they believe they are entitled to the remedy of specific performance, that is, an order requiring Defendant Tak Investments, LLC to transfer a 27% interest in itself over to the Plaintiffs. Both sides have moved for summary judgment.
ANALYSIS
The Defendant’s first argument is very simple: it argues that it does not have the ability to convey any interest in itself to the Plaintiffs, or anyone else for that matter. Only owners can convey interests, and Tak Investments, LLC – the only defendant in this action – does not own itself. Instead, the LLC is owned by Sharad Tak and his wife [Mahinder Tak], and / or Tak Investments, Inc., none of whom are party to this action.
…[N]one of the statuatory provisions Plaintiffs cite stands for the principle that an LLC may convey something it does not possess, namely an ownership interest in itself. …
This is not merely an academic problem or an elevation of form or function; it is a recognition of the realities of ownership. When part of a company – or anything else, for that matter – transfers to someone, it is also necessarily transferred from someone. The percentage of ownership must always add up to 100%. And so if the company itself purported to transfer 27% of itself to Plaintiffs, from whom would it be taking that share? And on whose authority? These questions demonstrate the essence of the problem, which may be summarized succinctly: “A corporation does not own itself.” Hanley v. Kusper ….
[Footnote 2: It is not clear why the Plaintiffs have not sued Sharad Tak personally.] …
[Footnote 3: The payee was Tissue Products Technology Corporation, one of the Plaintiffs, but as a member of the OFTI Group it would essentially be paying itself.] …
[Footnote 4: If Tak Investments (LLC) was to be the maker of the notes, presumably it would have remained the maker even if one of the notes was assigned to a third party. The Plaintiffs do not explain why they would have assumed the role of maker simply by assigning a note to someone else. …] …
I conclude that, even if OFTI Group was obligated to pay itself principal and interest due under the four notes, its failure to do so does not excuse [Sharad] Tak and / or Tak Investments, LLC from transferring 27% of the company. … The Defendant has not explained why such an obligation would prevent the OFTI Group from cancelling the notes or relieve Tak of the obligation that he transfer part of the company. Payment of principal and interest is therefore not properly considered as a “condition precedent” to any other part of the agreement.
CONCLUSION
In sum, I conclude that Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment on their claim for specific performance should be denied. This does not mean, however, that Plaintiffs are entitled to no relief at all. As noted above, the complaint also seeks “such other relief as the court deems just and proper.” … The Plaintiffs have sought, in the alternative, damages for nonpayment of the four notes, which in their calculation would amount to some $29 million. The Defendant believes such a claim would be barred by the statute of limitations, and in any event it was not pled in the complaint. It is conceivable, however, that such a claim would relate back to the filing of this action in 2014[.] Even if collection on the notes is no longer available, some other legal or equitable remedy might be appropriate in light of the unusual facts of the case. Given these circumstances, and the underdeveloped record, I am unable to conclude that judgment should be entered in the Defendant’s favor on the entire case at this time.
The Defendant’s motion for summary judgment is therefore GRANTED, to the extent I conclude that specific performance is not a viable remedy against Tak Investments, LLC. The Plaintiff’s motion is DENIED for the same reason. …
SO ORDERED this 2nd day of December, 2016.
• SCHEDULED – ORAL ARGUMENTS on SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 at 9:00 am in front of Judge Jay Conley; Oconto Co. Case No. 14CV156, Tissue Technology LLC [Atty. Michael Ganzer, TSH&G] v. [Sharad Tak’s] ST Paper, LLC [Atty. Jonathan Smies, Godfrey & Kahn]
11/1981 : According to Daniel Hopsicker:
Wally Hilliard’s links to American intelligence go back (at least) to November of 1981, when his insurance company, Wisconsin Employer’s Group, was bought out by Myron Du Bain, a World War II OSS/CIA operative and the Chairman of Fireman’s Fund of San Francisco.
Myron du Bain
We discovered the connection in a trip to Green Bay several years ago.
But only recently did we learn that Myron Du Bain’s life-long ties to the CIA included two stints at the helm of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI)….
Wally Hilliard’s connection with Myron Du Bain may shed light on Hilliard’s curious metamorphosis after retiring to Florida in 1996.
Hilliard went from being a wealthy Green Bay WI insurance executive whose official corporate slogan was “Love God & Back the Pack” to fronting for clandestine operations bearing the almost unmistakable mark of the CIA.
02/17/82 : Green Bay Air Charter, Inc. registered w/ WDFI; Changes of Registered Agent on 11/25/87, and on 02/25/92 to Curtis L. Hartwig; Administratively Dissolved on 09/14/95
Abdul Latif Mahjoob
05/25/83 : Zafari’s Inc. registered w/ Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions [WDFI].
Changes of Registered Agent on 07/27/88, and on 10/08/93, Administrative Dissolution on 09/14/93.
Restored to Good Standing and changed Registered Agent to Saboor Zafari on 06/26/95.
Zafari’s, Inc. was renamed American Combustion Technologies Inc. / ACTI on 07/22/99.
On 09/13/99, ACTI was surrendered from Wisconsin to California jurisdiction where it continued to be operated by Latif Mahjoob / aka A. Latif Mahjoob / aka Abdul Latif Mahjoob.
Articles of Dissolution filed w/WDFI on 06/18/03.
Richard G. ‘Rick’ Hill
08/1984 to 08/1987 : New Oneida Business Committee term
- Chair: Purcell Powless
- Vice-Chair: Richard G. Hill
- Treasurer: Kathy Hughes
- Secretary: L. Gordon McLester
- Council Members:
Anthony Benson- David King
- Lois Powless
- Lloyd Powless
- Mark A. Powless
Raymond Theodore Van Den Heuvel
08/27/85 : VHC, Inc. is Registered w/ WDFI; Changes of Registered Agent on:
- 09/27/93
- 10/24/97
- 10/03/01
- 08/13/04
- 08/04/06
- 08/16/12
- 09/24/12 to David Van Den Heuvel
[Different entity than VHCI, INC. (FICTIONAL NAME) / VHC, INC., (CORPORATE NAME) that was recently registered w/WDFI on 03/11/16; Reg. Agent ‘Corporation Service Company,’ Madison, WI]
According to the January 2015 Obituary of Ray Van Den Heuvel:
[Ray] would start several electrical companies and construction firms, combining them in the holding company of VHC, Inc. …
Of note was the 2000 opening of the Ray Van Den Heuvel Family Campus Center at St. Norbert College and the 2002 opening of the Ray and Pat Van Den Heuvel Power Plant on the Bellin [Hospital] Campus.
Pat and Ray loved to travel with their family to Florida, Canada, out West, and Las Vegas. …
Ray is survived by his wife [Patricia Geurts], and eight children…
(wife Kelly Yessman / Kelly Van Den Heuvel)
(husband Patrick Murphy)
• Dave Van Den Heuvel (wife Sandy)
• Steve Van Den Heuvel (wife Bambi)
• Raymond Van Den Heuvel II (wife Julie)
(husband Guy Butch Piontek)
• Tim Van Den Heuvel (wife Britney)
(husband Craig Kassner)
1987 : According to Wikipedia’s ‘Huffman Aviation’ page:
Huffman Aviation Florida was established in 1972 as Venice Flying Service, and was reorganized in 1987 and renamed as Huffman Aviation.
- FL Div. of Corp. Sunbiz.org: HUFFMAN AVIATION, INC.
08/1987 to 08/1990 : New Oneida Business Committee term
- Chair: Richard G. Hill
- Vice-Chair: Deborah Doxtator
- Treasurer: Loretta Metoxen
- Secretary: Amelia Cornelius
- Council Members:
- Julie Barton
- Shirley Hill
- Russell Metoxen
- Lloyd Powless
- Mark N. Powless
07/27/88 : Zafari’s, Inc. restored to Good Standing and Change of Registered Agent w/ WDFI
1980’s – 1990’s : According to Law360.com, Paper mill seeks void of $17M IRS Deficiency:
Washington (March 11, 2015, 1:35 PM ET) — A Wisconsin holding company with stakes in various paper mill enterprises has told the U.S. Tax Court that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly served it with $17 million in deficiencies for the years 2004 to 2010 after wrongly disallowing deductions from bad debt held by an estranged family member.
[Van Den Heuvel] Family-owned VHC Inc. said that the company owned debt and not equity in relative Ron Van Den Heuvel‘s spinoff business, and that the IRS wrongly increased its taxable income during the period while disallowing deductions from the debt, which a series of bad deals had rendered illiquid.
VHC, which was first formed as a contracting firm by Ron’s [father] Raymond Van Den Heuvel, underwent “significant expansion” from the 1980s to the 1990s, prompting Ron to form his own company in 1997 and begin buying paper mill facilities and businesses, the petition said.
Though VHC declined Ron’s investment solicitations in his companies – saying doing so would conflict with its customer base – VHC began issuing debt in the form of promissory notes to Ron’s acquired companies for equipment and overhead costs, drawing from his experience as a sales representative for VHC along with potential funding from major banks and companies, including ENRON, which ultimately purchased a $5 million stake in the company in 1998, the petition said.
- Wikipedia: The ENRON Scandal
1990 : According to her LinkedIn profile, Ron Van Den Heuvel’s sister, Ann M. Murphy Co-Founded and is Owner of Murphy Development, Inc.
Co-founding corporate officer of Murphy Development, Inc., Northeast Wisconsin’s largest market-rate multifamily developer and property manager. Grew portfolio to 2,000 units under management. Directs the activities of financial analysts and property manager. Performs financial analysis and obtains financing (debt and equity) necessary to fund major real estate investments. Develops and implements policies to ensure investments are delivered consistent with performance objectives.
01/30/90 : Arian Engineering & Combustion Systems, Inc. [AECS] registered w/ the Illinois Sec. of State; Registered Agent & President A. Latif Mahjoob
Abdul Latif Mahjoob operates business under a variety of names, and each business takes credit for the same processes, equipment & operating facilities locations:
- American Combustion Technologies, Inc. / ACTI
- American Combustion Technologies of California, Inc. / also ACTI
- American Renewable Energy, Inc. / AREI
- American Renewable Technologies, Inc. / ARTI
- American Renewable Energy Corp. / AREC in Kansas City, MO; President, Director, Treasuer – Stuart Z. Hirschman; President – Eduart Z. Itiraclussas; Secretary – Irving M. Bush; Director – A. Latif Mahjoob
Other companies that take credit for the same processes, equipment & operating facilities locations as ACTI / AREI / ARTI include:
Richard ‘Rick’ Hill
08/1990 to 08/1993 : New Oneida Business Committee term
- Chair: Richard G. Hill
- Vice-Chair: Deborah Doxtator
- Treasurer: Loretta Metoxen
- Secretary: Amelia Cornelius
- Council Members:
- Julie Barton
- Shirley Hill
- Russell Metoxen
- Lloyd Powless
- Mark N. Powless
1991 : According to the 12/01/07 issue of The Washingtonian, ‘Living the American Dream,’ by Madhu Jain:
[Sharad] Tak’s company, ST Systems Corporation, provided programming and systems integration to agencies including NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration. He brought in other Indian-Americans to work with him, including Frank Islam[.]
“Sharad was my boss,” Islam says. “He inspired my entrepreneurship.” In 1991, Tak sold his company to Hughes Aircraft.
Eric R. Decator – Fmr. 1st Asst. Atty. Gen. of COLORADO
1991 to 1995 : Eric R. Decator served as First Assistant Attorney General for the State of COLORADO: Licensed to practice in COLORADO (1983); Illinois (1987); Pennsylvania (1989); California (1990); Missouri (1998)
See also: www.HAS-Capital.com/resources
Later owned Arland Clean Fuels, LLC, [ACF] with:
• Louis Stern
• Gaylen LaCrosse, and
• Michael Flaherty
a/k/a Generation Clean Fuels, LLC [GCF], and ACF Leasing; and ACF Services, and a lot of other companies with the name ‘Arland’ registered in Delaware on and around 05/16/12, including:
- Arland Energy Consulting, LLC registered in Delaware
- Arland Trading, LLC registered in Delaware
- Arland IP, LLC registered in Delaware
- Arland Clean Water, LLC registered in Delaware
- Arland Marine Power, LLC registered in Delaware
- Arland Solar Power, LLC registered in Delaware
- Arland Building Materials, LLC registered in Delaware
- Arland Strategic Beverage Systems, LLC registered in Delaware
In 2014 Atty. Eric Decator and the other ACF / GCF owners filed a lawsuit for $397.5 Million in Cook Co., IL, Case No. 14-L-2768, Generation Clean Fuels, ACF Leasing & ACF Services v. Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin/Oneida Nation of Wisconsin & Oneida Seven Generations Corp., Green Bay Renewable Energy LLC, et al.
According to the May 22, 2014 Complaint w/ Exhibit ‘Master Lease Agreement’ filed in U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Fort Meyers Division, Case No. 2:14-cv-283, Generation Clean Fuels LLC [Gaylen LaCrosse, Michael Flaherty, Louis Stern, Eric Decator] v. Veterans Capital Corp. [Joseph E. Wold Jr., President]:
Plaintiff, GENERATION CLEAN FUELS, LLC [GCF] by and through its undersigned attorneys, sues Defendant VETERANS CAPITAL CORP. [Veterans] and alleges as follows:
PARTIES
1. Plaintiff GCF, formerly known as Arland Clean Fuels, LLC, is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware with its principal place of business located in Cook County, Illinois.
2. The members of GCF include four individuals and a limited liability company.
3. Two of the individual members are residents of Cook County, Illinois [Louis Stern & Eric R. Decator].
4. Two of the individual members are residents of Door County, Wisconsin [Michael S. Flaherty and Gaylen LaCrosse].
5. The limited liability company member is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Illinois with its principal place of business located in Cook County, Illinois, all of whose members and managers are residents of Cook County, Ilinois.
6. Defendant Veterans Capital Corp. is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Florida with, on information and belief, its principal place of business located at 1385 Areca Cove, Naples, Florida.
According to the May 28, 2014 Order by Judge John E. Steele in U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Fort Meyers Division Case 2:14-cv-283, Generation Clean Fuels, LLC [Gaylen LaCrosse, Michael Flaherty, Louis Stern, Eric Decator] v. Veterans Capital Corp. [Joseph E. Wold Jr., President]:
ORDER
…Subject matter jurisdiction is premised on the presence of diversity of jurisdiction between the parties. … This requires complete diversity of citizenship….
Plaintiff Generation Clean Fuels, LLC identifies the members of its limited liabiiity company…, however, the citizenship of the members is not provided. Plaintiff alleges that one member is a limited liability company whose members are “residents” of Illinois, and that the remaining individual members are “residents” of Illinois and Wisconsin. … “In order to be a citizen of a State within the meaning of the delivery statute, a natural person must both be a citizen of the United States and be domiciled within the State.” … Pleading residency is not the equivalent of pleading domicile. … “A person’s domicile is the place of his true, fixed, and permanent home and principal establishment, and to which he has the intention of returning whenever he is absent therefrom.” …
[Generation Clean Fuels] has failed to properly allege the citizenship of its members, and therefore no diversity of jurisdiction is alleged. …
Complaint … is dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction without prejudice….
04/01/91 : Boldt/Spirit, Inc. registered w/ Georgia Sec. of State; Registered w/ WDFI on 03/24/92
07/25/91 : Boldt/Spirit, Inc. licensed w/ Florida Dept. of Business & Professional Regulation as Certified General Contractor; Licensee name: Nicholas John Stromer dba Boldt-Spirit Inc; Main Address: 118 Coleman Blvd, Savannah, GA, 31408
03/24/92 : Boldt/Spirit, Inc. registered w/ WDFI as a Foreign LLC; Principal Office: 118 Coleman Blvd, Savannah, Georgia
01/19/93 : Boldt/Spirit, Inc. renamed Spirit Construction Services, Inc. w/ WDFI; Changed Registered Agent on 04/10/03, and 08/16/12, and 05/01/14
Ernie Stevens Jr. – Nat’l Indian Gaming Association / NIGA Chair
08/1993 to 08/1996 : New Oneida Business Committee term
- Chair: Deborah Doxtator
- Vice-Chair: Loretta Metoxen
- Treasurer: Kathy Hughes
- Secretary: Julie Barton
Council Members:
- Shirley Hill
- Gary Jordan
- Russell Metoxen
- Sandra Ninham
- Ernest ‘Ernie’ Stevens Jr.
09/14/93 : Zafari’s, Inc. administratively Dissolved w/ WDFI; Restored to Good Standing on 10/08/93
09/27/93 : VHC, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI
10/08/93 : Zafari’s, Inc. restored to Good Standing w/ WDFI; Certificate of Reinstatement; Change of Registered Agent
11/22/1993 : Spirit Fabs, Inc. registered w/ WDFI; Change of Registered Agent on 12/09/2003 to David Van Den Heuvel
01/21/94 : Trout Creek, LLC registered w/ WDFI; Change of Registered Agent on 03/05/99 to John D. Schweiner; Articles of Dissolution filed on 05/09/05
See:
• Brown Co. Case No. 99CV1205, Hoffman & Associates Inc. v. John D. Schweiner & Trout Creek LLC
• Brown Co. Case No. 00CV1521, Robert T. Burrows v. John D. Schweiner, Carol J. Schweiner, and Trout Creek LLC
[Different entity than 06/26/07 : Trout Creek Investors, LLC registered w/ WDFI on 06/26/07; Registered Agent Artley Skenandore Jr.; Principal Office: 3973 Hidden Trail, Oneida, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 06/09/15]
05/23/94 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $500 contribution to Tommy Thompson; Employer: VOS Electric, owned by Ron Van Den Heuvel’s family.
According to the Exhibits of the June 1, 2015 Letter to Judge Thomas Walsh from Godfrey & Kahn‘s Atty. Jonathan Smies representing Dr. Marco Araujo in Brown Co.Case No. 15CV769, Marco Araujo, M.D. [Atty. Jonathan Smies of Godfrey & Kahn], Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. [WEDC], Cliffton Equities Inc. v. Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC [See the 05/20/15 Complaint]
• Exhibit A: October 2, 2014 Decision and Order of Judge Thomas Walsh in Brown Co. Case No. 13CV463
Kelly Lea Yessman Van Den Heuvel – Ronald’s wife & Co-Conspirator
Starting on page 22 of Exhibit B:
[Ron Van Den Heuvel:] My wife [Kelly Yessman Van Den Heuvel] and I have no checkbooks at any bank anyplace.
[Attorney Jonathan Smies of Godfrey & Kahn, on behalf of Plaintiff Dr. Marco Araujo:] So you’re testifying you do not have a checking account and your wife does not have a checking account at any –
[RVDH:] Or a savings account anywhere.
[G&K:] You have no – you have no bank account, and your wife has no bank account?
[RVDH:] No bank accounts.
[G&K:] How long has that been the case?
[RVDH:] Five years [since 2010].
[G&K:] So I’m curious. Why is it that you don’t have any bank accounts?
[Atty. John Petitjean of Hinkfuss, Sickel, Petitjean & Wieting, counsel for Defendant Ron Van Den Heuvel:] He’s here to answer questions about assets and liabilities, not why.
[G&K:] How do you go about paying your bills without a bank account?
[RVDH:] I have other people pay them, or I pay cash.
[G&K:] So do you maintain a store of cash somewhere in your house or –
[RVDH:] Nope.
[G&K:] Do you have any cash on you today?
[RVDH:] Fifty bucks maybe. I don’t know. Thirty bucks.
[Attorney Smies:] I thought I saw a hundred dollar bill in there.
[RVDH:] [The] gentleman I won this from decided to laminate it, so I can’t ever cash it. It’s useless. ‘To Ron Van Den Heuvel, from Chris Hartwig‘ [Link 1]. I lost the bet. And he laminated it so I could never cash it.
[G&K:] Oh. So other than that –
[Atty. Petitjean:] Wait. I have to write this down… ‘Laminate bet losses.‘
[G&K:] How do you know Chris Hartwig [Link 2]?
[Atty. Petitjean:] Counsel, we’re getting far afield.
[G&K:] Let’s go back then to this – the idea you pay cash. Are you paid wages in cash?
[RVDH:] No.
[G&K:] Where did you obtain the cash you have today in your wallet?
[RVDH:] Somebody gave me cash.
[G&K:] Who gives you cash?
[RVDH:] I have seven brothers and sisters. I have a lot of friends, a lot of them.
[G&K:] So these are birthday gifts? I don’t understand how – You solicit cash donations from friends and family?
[RVDH:] No.
[G&K:] Do you store – Do you have a safe in your house?
[RVDH:] No.
[G&K:] Do you store cash anywhere in your residence?
[RVDH:] No.
[G&K:] Do you store cash anywhere in an office you maintain?
[RVDH:] No.
[G&K:] Does your wife store cash in your house?
[RVDH:] She has some in her purse, I’m sure, but –
[G&K:] How often are you given cash by friends or family to meet your bills and other purchases that you need to make?
[RVDH:] Weekly.
[G&K:] And how much do you receive in cash weekly from these various individuals?
[RVDH:] I wouldn’t understand that right now. I wouldn’t know.
[G&K:] You don’t know how much you got last week?
[RVDH:] No. No, I wouldn’t be able to keep track of it. Maybe $1,200.
[G&K:] So you think maybe you received $1,200 in cash last week from – Who was that from?
[RVDH:] Two brothers.
[G&K:] And which of those brothers is that?
[RVDH:] Tim [Van Den Heuvel] and Steve [Van Den Heuvel].
[G&K:] How many brothers do you have again?
[RVDH:] Five.
[G&K:] Do Tim and Steve regularly give you cash?
[RVDH:] They have several times. They can only give me $10,000 in a year. It never goes over that.
[G&K:] You’re referring to the federal gift tax –
[RVDH:] Right.
[G&K:] – amount?
[Atty. Petitjean:] Bad news for your brothers.
I think it’s $13,000 now.[RVDH:] Is it? It doesn’t matter. I mean, everybody knows where I’m going and what I’m doing and –
[G&K:] Where are you going, and what are you doing?
[RVDH:] Building Green Box. We’ll close. I just don’t know when.
[G&K:] Do your brothers expect you to repay them these cash gifts. I guess you call them gifts given the federal income tax limit.
Original Green Box NA logo – Click for the 12/17/14 archive of www.GreenBoxNA.com
[RVDH:] They were given some shares, so they want to make sure Green Box is – for a lot of reasons. They want to clean up the environment, and they want it to do the jobs. So they have a lot of reasons to see it come through.
[G&K:] They have interest in Green Box NA, LLC, succeeding?
[RVDH:] No, they don’t.
[G&K:] Which Green Box entity do they have interest in?
[Ron Van Den Heuvel:] Certain family members and certain trust for their kids are in E.A.R.T.H.
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{ E.A.R.T.H. / EARTH = Environmental Advanced Reclamation Technology HQ, LLC –
– formerly Nature’s Choice Tissue Corp. –
renamed Reclamation Technology Systems, LLC (RTS) on 06/17/16 under management of Stephen A. Smith’s company GlenArbor Partners, Inc.}
____________
[G&K:] I see. You have members of your family and/or their trusts that have some interest in the E.A.R.T.H. entity?
[RVDH:] And a lot of friends.
[G&K:] And a lot of friends?
[RVDH:] Doc had shares in Green Box Green Bay.
[‘Doc’ is Plaintiff, MARCO ARAUJO, M.D. who unwisely ‘invested‘ in GREEN BOX NA GREEN BAY, LLC
…and who later SUED RON VAN DEN HEUVEL & GREEN BOX NA for FRAUD with guidance & counsel from
GODFREY & KAHN].
[G&K:] So you think when you go to your friends and family and ask for money –
[RVDH:] I don’t.
[G&K:] You’ve never asked friends or family to give you cash?
[RVDH:] I don’t.
[G&K:] Have you ever asked your friends or family to give you cash?
[RVDH:] No, they ask me how I’m doing, and I say, I could use a little help, but I’ll make it, and they give me a little help.
[G&K:] Do these conversations occur on a weekly basis?
[RVDH:] No, they stop by to see how I’m doing.
[G&K:] But earlier you said it is weekly you get cash from friends or family members.
[RVDH:] I have 60 different people that stop by, see how we’re doing, and put some money in my pocket.
[Atty. Petitjean:] Is 60 a hard number, or are you guessing?
[RVDH:] More than 60.
[G&K:] When you say –
[Atty. Petitjean:] So it’s a guess.
[RVDH:] No, it’s not a guess. It’s more than 60.
[G&K:] When you say “stop by,” do they come to your residence, they come to your business?
[RVDH:] Come to the business.
[G&K:] Do all of these people have some form of ownership interest in E.A.R.T.H. or some – one of these other entities in which you’re involved?
[RVDH:] Most do.
[G&K:] When you’re given cash as gifts from these individuals, is it your understanding it is cash for your personal use?
[RVDH:] That’s why they give it to me. I have two minor children.
[G&K:] How old are your kids?
[Atty. Petitjean:] Minor children.
[RVDH:] My minor children are 12.
[G&K:] Minor, okay, 12. And you have other older children?
[RVDH:] Forty-two, 40, 38, 33, and 11 grandchildren.
[G&K:] So the oldest you said 42? …So what day of the week typically are you getting these cash gifts from friends or family?
[RVDH:] It’s anytime. I do a tremendous amount of services for a tremendous amount of people.
[G&K:] What do you mean by services?
[RVDH:] I carry license, sign reports, fix any software anybody has, do anything for anybody.
[G&K:] So then are these payments compensation for your services?
[RVDH:] Never asked for anything.
[G&K:] You said you have roughly $50 with you here today, and you said you have no cash in your house. You’re not storing cash in your house; is that correct?
[RVDH:] Nothing right now.
[G&K:] When’s the last time you had cash in your house?
[RVDH:] Last week.
[G&K:] How much did you have?
[RVDH:] I don’t know. Maybe $600 on a Monday, paid a bunch of bills. Maybe $400 on Thursday. Maybe $500 more on Saturday. It depends.
[G&K:] How do you pay your bills in cash? Explain that process.
[RVDH:] You go to the WPS window, and you pay a bill in cash.
[G&K:] Fair enough for that. If you have a creditor or someone else you own money to that isn’t local, do you obtain a money order or some other form of payment with your cash?
[RVDH:] You can go to any bank, put cash in, get a cashier’s check, and send it. Anytime, anyplace.
[G&K:] Is that what you typically do to pay your bills that you need to send away?
[RVDH:] I can’t put it in an account because I don’t have one. I have to order it on the account or have somebody else pay the bill on my behalf, which has happened.
[G&K:] And who typically will pay bills on your behalf?
[RVDH:] Various people.
[G&K:] Can you give me a name at least?
[RVDH:] I’ve had Mike [Byrnes] pay a WPS bill. People pay bills. Dave Williquette paid bills for me. Now, if Dave come [to] me and said, Ron, I need a general contractor’s license in Iowa, I’d sign it for Dave. Wouldn’t charge him anything, but I’d sign it for him.
[G&K:] What authority do you have to sign a license to be a general contractor in Iowa?
[RVDH:] I passed the test there.
[G&K:] So you’re licensed in Iowa as –
[RVDH:] Forty-seven states as a general contractor, HVAC contractor, electrical contractor, pipe fitter, and millwright.
[G&K:] And you have licensing in 47 states?
[RVDH:] I have 47 licenses that are from California to Florida to Maine to Washington. We don’t have license in every single state because we don’t work in every single state. I don’t work in Hawaii. I don’t work in Alaska. I don’t work in South Dakota. I don’t work in New Mexico.
[G&K:] And when you say “work,” are these construction projects you’ve overseen as a general contractor?
[Atty. Petitjean:] Are you asking is Ron overseeing this individually?
[G&K:] Yeah.
[RVDH:] No, and you don’t have to. You just have to take out the license. A lot of people can’t pass tests. A lot of people can’t pass tests to be a doctor. They are not a doctor. They can’t practice.
[G&K:] But you’ve passed, it sounds like, a lot of tests.
[RVDH:] I’ve never failed one in my life.
[G&K:] How many have you taken?
[RVDH:] Forty-seven.
[G&K:] Forty-seven. Is any payment required to obtain these?
[RVDH:] Any what?
[G&K:] Is any payment required to obtain the licenses?
[RVDH:] Yes.
[G&K:] And how do you pay for that?
[RVDH:] People give me cash pay, and I pay for it in cash when I’m there. It’s not a lot of money, $200, $500.
[G&K:] It adds up, though, if you have 47 of them.
[RVDH:] It sure does.
[G&K:] So if on average it’s on a weekly basis you’re receiving cash, gifts from friends and family and in the last instance I think you said it was $1,200 cash gift from your two brothers; is that fair?
[RVDH:] Went grocery shopping. had to pay for some groceries, electric bill, and a few things got paid last month. At the start of last week I mean.
[G&K:] Is that the typical amount you receive as a gift every week, $1,200?
[RVDH:] Somebody might come by and Jim Rottier might come by and I don’t need anything. You don’t need anything? You’re doing alright? Yeah.
[G&K:] It’s always – It’s your testimony it’s always these other people asking you, taking the initiative, do you need anything. It’s never you asking anyone for cash?
[RVDH:] I’ve made 74 people in this town millionaires.
[Atty. Smies of G&K:] How did you do that?
[Ron Van Den Heuvel:] Gave them shares in companies I’ve owned, Vos [Electric Inc.], Spirit [Construction Services Inc.], Best Built [Inc.]. All kinds of people owe what they have due to my hard work. They want to do something for me? I accept it.
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[Atty. Smies of G&K:] Do you recall stating in a hearing just few days ago on – in the divorce case?
[Ron Van Den Heuvel:] Yes.
Jan Marie Summers Van Den Heuvel (Ron’s ex-wife)
[G&K:] Do you recall stating you had plans to ensure that you would get $50,000 paid on that property by today, the 15th of May?
[Atty. Petitjean of Hinkfuss, Sickel, Petitjean & Wieting:] Counsel, as to his assets and his liabilities, he’s already testified as to – that he owes his wife – ex-wife money. And he’s already testified that he does not have $50,000.
[G&K:] Do you know if that’s coming from one of these friends or family members that are –
[Atty. Petitjean:] Counsel, unless it’s a– unless you’re talking about whether he has $50,000, I’m instructing him not to answer.
[G&K:] Mr. Van Den Heuvel, do you remember saying you made 74 millionaires in the Green Bay area?
[RVDH:] I made what?
[G&K:] Seventy-four millionaires in this area.
[RVDH:] Yes.
[G&K:] Who are some of those people?
[Atty. Petitjean:] Counsel, unless it’s – it applies to Ron’s assets or liabilities, we’re just going through the phonebook again.
[G&K:] Well, I think his prior testimony was that it was these sorts of individuals that felt indebted to Mr. Van Den Heuvel and periodically offer him cash.
[Atty. Petitjean:] Do any of these people owe you money?
[Ron Van Den Heuvel:] No.
[Godfrey & Kahn:] Why don’t we take maybe ten minutes here for a break and regroup and see where we’re at.
12/02/94 : Spirit Fabs, Inc. filed Articles of Correction w/ WDFI
04/28/95 : April 28, 1995 Oneida Appeals Commission Decision in Docket # 95-EP-0004, Rick Holschuh v. Oneida Police Department & James Danforth, wherein Diane Danforth House appeared as OPD’s State Licensed Attorney [but she wasn’t, so she lied about it]
- April 28, 1995 Oneida Appeals Commission Decision in Docket #95-EP-0003, Timothy Huff v. Oneida Police Department & James Danforth, wherein Diane Danforth House appeared as OPD’s State Licensed Attorney [but, again, she wasn’t, so she just lied and said she was anyway]
06/26/95 : Zafari’s, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI to Saboor Zafari
09/14/95 : Green Bay Air Charter, Inc. adminstratively Dissolved w/ WDFI; Registered Agent Curtis L. Hartwig; Started on 02/17/82
1996 : According to the June 25, 2015, AGREED JUDGMENT, Judge Barbara B. Crabb; U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, Case No. 3:2014-cv-408, United States of America v. Patricia Hilliard, Wallace Hillard, Bank of America NA, Hilliard Limited Partnership, Daniel Hilliard and Andrew Hilliard as Trustees of the Wallace J. Hilliard Flint Trust, and Green Bay Air, Inc.
ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that:
1. Wallace Hilliard is indebted to the United States for the Form 1040 federal income taxes, penalties and additions to tax assessed against him for the 1996 tax year, in the aggregate amount of $2,258,402.04 as of May 29, 2015, plus interest and other additions to tax allowed by law accruing thereafter … until paid.
2. Wallace Hilliard is indebted to the United States for the Form 1040 federal income taxes, penalties and additions to tax assessed against him for the 1997 tax year, in the aggregate amount of $726,963.33 as of May 29, 2015, plus interest and other additions to tax allowed by law accruing thereafter under … until paid.
According to Daniel Hopsicker:
After retiring to Naples in 1996, Hilliard hobnobbed with an assortment of international ‘players” who are decidedly uncharacteristic of circles a retired-to Florida insurance executives might normally travel in.
A retired insurance executive from Green Bay Wisconsin, Hilliard appears to be the last person anyone would suspect of up-to-their-necks involvement in international intrigue, drug trafficking, or geo-political stratagems.
Aviation mechanic Dave Montgomery, known as “Jet Dave” at the Naples Airport, thinks that may have been the point. Montgomery witnessed a secretive meeting between Hilliard and the founder of Waste Management, garbage king Wayne Huizenga, conducted entirely inside a helicopter on the tarmac at Naples airport.
Huizenga, who at that time was also the owner of the Miami Dolphins, flew in on a chopper with a Dolphins helmet emblazoned on the side, Montgomery said. Hilliard went out to meet it, and got in.
Then the two men then sat inside the helicopter for almost an hour.
“And it was hot that day in Naples,” the aviation mechanic said. “And they just sat there, in the sun.”
Naples flight manager Danielle Clarke told us Hilliard didn’t act like someone who had retired. Naples was in the middle of the action. 9/11 hijackers Atta and Marwan flew there regularly.
“The man quickly purchased—and in very short order—a fleet of fifteen jets. He spent between $30 and $40 million on planes. He still (in 2003) has 20 very expensive airplanes left, including Lear 35s, and Gulfstreams.”
Clarke, a British aviatrix who came to Florida after her British pilot husband died, snorts at Hilliard’s attempt at portraying a “pious man.”
“Wally came in quite a bit, seemed very compassionate, made a lot of references to God,” she said. “You’d be talking about business; then all of a sudden he’d mention the Good Lord.”
She waved a hand dismissively. “It got to be a bit much.”
Especially in light of the fact that Hilliard’s taste in secretaries was particularly un-Godly. Summer (Hilliard’s personal secretary) was 5 foot 7, long blond hair, and a real looker, Danielle Clarke said.
“She wore exceedingly short skirts and very low cut tops,” Clarke remarked tartly.
“You struggled to find a bit of cloth on the woman!”
Also, at some point in there, 22-year old Summer Jeffries was busted for heroin at the airport.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
• Wired Magazine: Border Patrol seeks Hazmat teams for drugs smuggled in toxic waste
• New York Daily News: Texas police find 1,495 pounds of weed in human waste hauling truck
• Jamaica Observer: Two National Solid Waste Managment Authority garbage trucks with hidden guns & drugs vanish
Marc Hess
1996 to 2005 : Marc Hess was employed by WPS Energy Services, Inc. according to his Profile at www.TrillaCorpeConstruction.com
Later a Member of International Energy Partners registered in Caribou, Maine in 2006.
[See also: CBEnergy.us]
Owned MH Resources, LLC [reg’d w/ WDFI on 02/05/07; Notice of Administrative Dissolution mailed on 01/18/17 RTND UNDELIVERABLE; Remailed on 03/29/17]
Marc Hess also worked with OSGC’s majority-owned IEP Development, Inc. [reg’d w/ WDFI on 01/07/09]
Hess also served as the Chair of the Town of Ledgeview, WI.
In 2012 Hess took Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt to Santiago, Dominican Republic, lobbying for it to be Green Bay’s ‘Sister City’
…and gave Mayor Jim Schmitt tours of ‘energy projects’ like those MH Resources, IEP, OSGC, ACF/GCF, Abdul Latif Mahjoob‘s ACTI, and Ron Van Den Heuvel‘s EARTH & Green Box NA promoted to the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, the City of Green Bay, the State of Wisconsin, the U.S. Government, and other tribes and municipalities “throughout the United States,” as stated in Exhibit B of the 11/09/09 WI Dept. of Commerce Contract #LEG-FY10-19812 re: WI Dept. of Commerce [WIDoC]’s $2 Million loan for an electricity & syngas producing ‘energy project.’
[See 11/09/09 entry below for more details about IEP & ACTI & OSGC]
01/11/96 : January 11, 1996 Memo from Oneida Law Office Chief Counsel Gerald L. Hill & General Counsel Francis R. Skenandore
To Tribal Chair Deborah Doxtator, Vice-Chair Loretta Metoxen, General Manager Artley Skenandore & HRD Manager Z. Ron Skenandore
re: Diane Danforth [House]
This is to advise you that [Diane Danforth House] was relieved of all duties and responsibilities as an attorney employed by the Oneida Tribe [of Indians of Wisconsin / Oneida Nation of Wisconsin] on December 7, 1995. Ms. Danforth submitted a resignation which was accepted by this office. Ms. Danforth is not an attorney licenced to practice law in the State of Wisconsin.
Diane Danforth House fraudulently acted as the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s Police Department / ONWIPD’s State Licensed Attorney in various legal cases & court hearings, yet she was allowed to resign rather than being fired and held criminally liable for pretending to be an Officer of the Court.
This is to be added to the Memo, dated January 11, 1996, from Francis Skenandore and me regarding the above.
Any letterhead, circulatory materials, indexes, card filed, flow charts or otherwise that indicate that Diane Danforth is an attorney should be corrected or deleted.
02/02/96 : Re-Box Paper, Inc. registered w/ WDFI; later renamed Re-Box Packaging, Inc. on 04/09/97; reverted to Re-Box Paper, Inc. on 10/15/99; renamed Eco Fibre, Inc. on 03/28/05
[Different entity than one-word EcoFibre, Inc., but Ron Van Den Heuvel was the Registered Agent for both]
04/07/96 : Green Bay Press-Gazette, Page 4, ‘Golf course developer keeps fighting the tribe,’ By Don Langenkamp
HOBART – If any one tract of land in Brown County embodies the friction in cultures between the Oneida Tribe and non-Indians, it is the Thornberry Creek development. The 590-acre golf course and housing development in Hobart has been a battleground for the tribe and owner Jack Schweiner since 1992. And it still is, even though the nine-hole golf course is operating and Schweiner now has all necessary permits to allow construction of homes and 18 more golf holes to begin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the final permit in late February. The entire development is on original reservation land. Schweiner feels the tribe has put him through the regulatory wringer for several reasons: The size of his 312 home-sites, which average about one-half acre. Tribal leaders say their objections would have been mild if the lots averaged 2’2 acres. A half-acre, they say, creates too much density. But there’s the rub. Too much density to the tribe is just right for the Brown County Planning Commission, which said the smaller lots were necessary for sewer and water service. County planners don’t want to approve sewer service to a new development unless there is enough density to make it cost-efficient, county planner Ken Jaworski said.
The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin eventually purchased Thornberry Creek, but the Oneida Business Committee lied to General Tribal Council by falsely saying the final decision would come back to GTC for approval. It never did, and the OBC has never been honest about the true cost of the golf course, nor how much has been siphoned off by Tribal officials in freebies, gimmees, and fraudulent bookkeeping.
- Oneida Golf Enterprise Corporation’s Ladies Professional Golf Association Proposal to GTC regarding an $8.65 Million Loan to host the LPGA Tour at Thornberry Creek at Oneida, from the GTC FY2016 Budget Meeting Packet which was mailed via USPS to all Oneida Tribe members age 21 and over for the September 21, 2015 GTC Budget Meeting, which was continued on November 14, 2015, and Monday December 14, 2015
Click image for full PDF (11 pages):
06/03/96 : Artley Skenandore Jr. gave $100 contribution to WI Gov. Tommy Thompson; Employer Oneida Casino & Bingo [actual job title, ‘Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin General Manager’]
Cristina Servilla ‘Tina’ Delgado Danforth
08/1996 to 08/1999 : New Oneida Business Committee term
- Chair: Deborah Doxtator
- Vice-Chair: Gary Jordan
- Treasurer: Kathy Hughes
- Secretary: Julie Barton
- Council Members:
- Cristina Danforth
- Leland Danforth
- Shirley Hill
- Sandra Ninham
- Ernest Stevens Jr.
10/11/96 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $400 contribution to Barbara Lawton; Employer: VOS Electric
10/28/96 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $250 contribution to Nancy Levanetz; Employer: VOS Electric
11/29/96 : David J. Wolf’s JWR, Inc. registered w/ WDFI
• Sister company of NewWay Energy, which was included on Alliance Construction & Design LLC’s ‘Memberships & Partnerships’ flyer
12/04/96 : The Oneida Business Committee (OBC) adopted OBC Resolution 12-04-96-B, ‘Grant of [New] Corporate Charter to Oneida Seven Generations Corporation’ From the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin (ONWI) FY2012 & FY 2017 General Tribal Council Annual Meeting Packets:
In Fiscal Year 1996, the Nation formed [Oneida] Seven Generations Corporation. [Oneida] Seven Generations [Corp.] is a tribally chartered, tribally owned corporation. The function and purpose of the corporation is to promote and enhance business and economic diversification directly or as a holding company for real estate assets, management of related assets, or other business ventures of the Oneida Nation to develop long term income streams for the corporate stockholders.
12/11/96 : OBC adopted Oneida Seven Generations Corp. By-Laws, which Fmr. OBC Sec. Patty Hoeft said were the same ones still in effect as of 2013
12/20/96 : Spirit Fabs, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and on 01/07/02, and on 11/27/02, and on 12/09/03 to [Ron’s brother] David Van Den Heuvel
1997 : According to the June 25, 2015, AGREED JUDGMENT, Judge Barbara B. Crabb; U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, Case No. 3:2014-cv-408, United States of America v. Patricia Hilliard, Wallace Hillard, Bank of America NA, Hilliard Limited Partnership, Daniel Hilliard and Andrew Hilliard as Trustees of the Wallace J. Hilliard Flint Trust, and Green Bay Air, Inc.
ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that: …
2. Wallace Hilliard is indebted to the United States for the Form 1040 federal income taxes, penalties and additions to tax assessed against him for the 1997 tax year, in the aggregate amount of $726,963.33 as of May 29, 2015, plus interest and other additions to tax allowed by law accruing thereafter under … until paid.
03/17/97 : Hilliard Limited Partnership registered w/ WDFI; Registered Agent Neal Maccoux; Amendments on 09/06/05, and 10/01/08, and 06/23/15
03/21/97 : R&K Arkansas, LLC registered w/ WDFI on 3/21/97; Renamed PCDI Arkansas, LLC on 08/27/98, and renamed VHC Arkansas, LLC on 12/11/98; Changes of Registered Agent on 08/27/98, and on 12/11/98 to David Van Den Heuvel; Administratively Dissolved on 03/16/09
03/26/97 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $1,000 contribution to John Wilcox; Employer: VOS Electric
04/09/97 : Re-Box Paper, Inc. was renamed Re-Box Packaging, Inc.; reverted to Re-Box Paper, Inc. 10/15/99; renamed (2 words) Eco Fibre, Inc. on 03/28/05 [different than (1 word) EcoFibre, Inc. but Ron Van Den Heuvel was Registered Agent for both]
04/23/97 : Aqua 2MG, Inc., registered w/ WDFI; renamed Recovering Aqua Resources, Inc. one month later on 05/23/97; Changes of Registered Agent on 08/18/98, and 08/28/00, and 11/16/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved 06/12/12
[Different entity than Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies, Inc. [RARTI] registered w/ WDFI 02/07/01; Registered Agent Steven C. Peters; Principal Office: 2079-A Lawrence Dr., De Pere, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 08/11/10]
Ron Van Den Heuvel was an owner of RARI & RARTI, which marketed ‘nozzle’ technologies patented by Gaylen La Crosse, who is part-owner of Generation Clean Fuels, LLC / ACF Leasing / ACF Services.
05/13/97 : William C. Bain gave $500 contribution to Tommy Thompson; Employer VOS Electric
William C. ‘Bill’ Bain
is currently the
Vice-President
of VOS Electric, Inc.
Bill Bain’s wife is Cynthia Bain.
Bill Bain is also Ron Van Den Heuvel’s former brother-in-law.
Bill Bain was also a ‘business’ partner in Ron & Bill Investments, LLP.
Bill Bain was also one of Ron & wife Kelly Van Den Heuvel’s ‘straw borrowers’ in a bank fraud scheme that ran from 01/01/08 to 09/20/09.
The bank fraud began while Ron Van Den Heuvel was business fraud ‘partner’ / co-conspirator with another bank fraud ‘straw borrower’ – Steven C. Peters – and with Fmr. Oneida Nation in WI General Manager Artley Skenandore Jr., and ONWI-owned Oneida Seven Generations Corp. in one of the Ron’s many business fraud schemes, this one called …
Nature’s Way Tissue Corp.
Kelly Yessman Van Den Heuvel
The bank fraud scheme that began in 2008 with Steven Peters and Bill Bain, and even included the Van Den Heuvels’ foreign nannny, Julie Gumban, whose involvement Kelly Van Den Heuvel is considered particularly responsible…
continued in June 2013 using Ron & Kelly Van Den Heuvel’s son-in-law Patrick Hoffman and two Cadillac Escalades from Ron Van Den Heuvel’s business with the acronym ‘EARTH’ – now called Reclamation Technology Systems, LLC [RTS] – which the Van Den Heuvels’ had Hoffman use as collateral for multiple fraudulent loans.
Ron Van Den Heuvel with HP flunky Carly Fiorina stumping for Lyin’ Ted Cruz in De Pere WI. Ron told the Green Bay Press-Gazette he and Cruz share “Christian beliefs and values.” Pictured with Ron is his son-in-law, Patrick Hoffman, owner of The Creamery Café and bank fraud ‘straw borrower’ for his outlaw in-laws Ron & Kelly Van Den Heuvel. Also pictured is Ron’s daughter Kristie Hoffman, owner of Elements Spa & Salon in Howard, WI.
Stephen Smith Pres. & CEO of GlenArbor Partners Inc.; Registered Agent of Ecohub-USA LLC
The fraud scheme involved Ron’s various fronts including Green Box NA, LLC, and its ‘parent company’ Environmental Advanced Reclamation Technology HQ, LLC [EARTH]; formerly named Nature’s Choice Tissue, LLC; eventually renamed Reclamation Technology Systems, LLC [RTS] on 06/17/16 under management of Stephen A. Smith’s company GlenArbor Partners, Inc.
Steve Smith is a member of the Board of Managers of Chicago-based intelligence & investigation firm Prescient:
More info:
• September 20, 2016 Superseding Indictment [19 Counts], U.S. District Court, WI Eastern District, Case No. 16-CR-064, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. RONALD H. VAN DEN HEUVEL, KELLY YESSMAN – VAN DEN HEUVEL, and PAUL J. PIIKKILA [ the fmr. Horicon Bank Loan Officer and the Interim Controller of the Green Detroit Regional Center EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program that encouraged foreigners to invest in Ron Van Den Heuvel’s Green Box NA fraud scheme in order to obtain U.S. Visas from U.S. Customs & Immigration Services / USCIS ]
Neither a Straw Borrower nor a Straw Campaign Donor be.
05/23/97 : Aqua 2MG, Inc. renamed after one month to Recovering Aqua Resources, Inc. w/ WDFI; Changes of Registered Agent on 08/18/98, and 08/28/00, and 11/16/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved 06/12/12;
[Different entity than Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies, Inc. [RARTI] registered w/ WDFI 02/07/01; Registered Agent Steven C. Peters; Principal Office: 2079-A Lawrence Dr., De Pere, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 08/11/10]
Ron Van Den Heuvel was an owner of RARI & RARTI, which marketed ‘nozzle’ technologies patented by Gaylen La Crosse, who is part-owner of Generation Clean Fuels, LLC / ACF Leasing / ACF Services.
06/05/97 : Partners Concepts Development, Inc. registered w/ WDFI; Primary Address: 2077-A Lawrence Dr., De Pere, WI; Amendments filed on 12/02/98, and on 12/21/05; Changes of Registered Agent on 08/18/98, and on 09/12/00, and on 07/12/04, and on 12/06/04, and on 07/12/06, and on 05/21/09, and on 06/29/15 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel
Other ‘PCDI’ / ‘Partners Concepts’ ventures include:
• PCDI Arkansas, LLC [reg’d as R&K Arkansas, LLC w/ WDFI on 3/21/97; Renamed as PCDI Arkansas LLC on 08/27/98, and renamed VHC Arkansas, LLC on 12/11/98; Registered Agent David Van Den Heuvel]
• PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc. [reg’d w/ WDFI on 06/25/97; Renamed Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc. on 10/14/97]
• PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, LLC [reg’d w/ WDFI on 10/14/97; Changed Registered Agent to Ron Van Den Heuvel on 08/19/09; Dissolved on 10/24/05]
• Partners Concepts Forest Group, Inc. [reg’d w/ WDFI on 06/01/00; Renamed Custom Forest Products, Inc. on 08/24/00; Registered Agent Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved on 06/15/09]
• PCDI Michigan, LLC [reg’d w/ WDFI on 03/31/17; Registered Agent Christopher Jusko; Principal Office: 2077A Lawrence Dr, De Pere, WI]
06/25/97 : FILED – Complaint, Brown Co. Case No. 97CV522, Boldt Group, Inc. v. Ron Van Den Heuvel & Jan Van Den Heuvel [ex-wife]; Stipulation & Order issued 12/05/97
- PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc. registered w/ WDFI; Amendment filed to rename Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc., four months later on 10/14/97, and filed on 04/04/02; Changes of Registered Agent on 08/31/98, and 08/28/00, and 07/13/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09, and 04/10/12, and on 11/11/14 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel
[Different entity than PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, LLC which was reg’d w/ WDFI on 10/14/97; Dissolved on 10/24/05; Registered Agent Ron Van Den Heuvel]
09/09/97 : OBC adopted OBC Resolution 09-09-97-B, ‘Grant of Second Amended Corporate Charter to Oneida Seven Generations Corporation’
10/09/97 : William C. Bain gave $250 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer VOS Electric
10/14/97 : PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, LLC registered w/ WDFI; Change of Registered Agent on 08/18/98 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Articles of Dissolution filed on 10/24/05
- PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc. filed Amendment w/ WDFI to change name to Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc., and filed an Amendment on 04/04/02; Changes of Registered Agent on 08/31/98, and 08/28/00, and 07/13/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09, and 04/10/12, and on 11/11/14 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel
10/24/97 : VHC, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI
11/02/97 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $250 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer VOS Electric
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Businessmans’ support may have been against law; Ron Van Den Heuvel says he donated through others when he lived in Georgia
By Daniel Bice
November 2, 1997Businessman Ronald Van Den Heuvel says he donated money through Wisconsin residents to Gov. Tommy Thompson’s campaign for several years while living in Georgia — an apparent violation of state election laws.
In a recent interview, Van Den Heuvel was questioned about $10,000 in campaign donations that he and his wife made one day before the state approved a large issue of tax-free bonds for one of his businesses. Van Den Heuvel responded by saying he had given similar amounts in the past.
Those Wisconsin individuals, whom he did not name, then turned the money over to Thompson, he said. Van Den Heuvel, owner of VOS Electric in Green Bay and other businesses, said he moved to Wisconsin three years ago.
“I didn’t want to do it as a non-resident, which is fine,” he said. “You got to do some separate things if you’re a non-resident. I didn’t want to do that.”
Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the state Elections Board, said state law specifically bars people from laundering campaign donations or knowingly accepting laundered funds. Kennedy said it could be either a civil or criminal offense, depending on whether prosecutors believe they can prove the campaign money was given or received in intentional violation of the law.
Kevin Keane, spokesman for the governor, said the governor and his campaign were unaware of any laundered money. If Van Den Heuvel did pass money through others to Thompson, Keane said, the governor will return the money immediately once it is identified.
C. David Stellpflug, Van Den Heuvel’s lawyer, called the Journal Sentinel to say that his client was talking about giving money to political parties. But in his interview, Van Den Heuvel was critical of parties, specifically saying he did not give to the Republican National Committee.
“To me, parties — they kind of get in the way,” Van Den Heuvel said. “I like to know the person and what kind of person that person is.”
[NOTE: VHC Inc. Secretary Nancy Stellpflug is the wife of One Law Group/Stellpflug Law partner C. David Stellpflug]
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Former Wisconsin Governor & HHS Sec. Tommy Thompson
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: It pays to know Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson
By Steve Schultze
and Daniel Bice
November 2, 1997Like others before him, Ron Van Den Heuvel, a Green Bay-area entrepreneur, found the route to state largess with the help of Gov. Tommy G. Thompson.
Van Den Heuvel hit the jackpot in late September when an obscure state board awarded $24 million worth of tax-free bond financing to help him reopen an Oconto Falls tissue factory — the largest such approval this year and among the largest ever made by the state.
The award culminated nearly a year’s effort that included a formal application through the Commerce Department. But Van Den Heuvel worked informal channels to Thompson as well. And last May — the day before an initial financing award was made by the state — Van Den Heuvel and his wife donated a total of $10,000 to the governor’s campaign fund. Van Den Heuvel said he had been asked for the donation by Thompson’s fund-raiser in November 1996.
When asked by reporters last month about the campaign donations, Thompson moved quickly to return the money.
The subsidy will save Van Den Heuvel’s company at least $2 million in short-term financing costs, Van Den Heuvel said. The financing covers nearly half of the $52 million cost of renovating the Oconto Falls factory.
The circumstances of the case and others reviewed by the Journal Sentinel in an eight-month investigation suggest a trend in which donors and well-connected firms enjoy a close and mutually beneficial relationship with the Thompson administration.
“You don’t pay, you don’t play,” said a veteran lobbyist, speaking of state government generally, including the governor and legislators. …
For the series, the Journal Sentinel interviewed more than 120 people: Government officials, lobbyists, business executives and others, many with direct experience in how insiders do business with the Thompson administration. The newspaper also examined records from eight state agencies and created or expanded computer databases of Thompson’s telephone records, state contracts, campaign donations and campaign spending.
The investigation found that campaign donations often correlate with success in winning state contracts, direct aid and other favorable treatment. Road builders, utilities, investment bankers and other groups have found their way to the inside track with Thompson’s administration.
For example, executives of four top road-building companies that have won $218 million in state contracts since mid-1995 also have donated at least $119,000 to Thompson, according to state records.
State law bans state officials from personally gaining from their positions, from swapping state aid for campaign donations. Using surrogates to make such deals also would be illegal.
Allegations of influence peddling in the Thompson administration are the subject of an ongoing state Justice Department investigation. The investigation has focused on whether state favors have been granted in exchange for political donations. That probe started early this year with utility deals but has broadened to include other areas of state government, according to persons close to the case. The department declined to comment.
A Case Study
The Oconto Falls paper mill financing provides a case study on how influence works in the Thompson administration and who can help get deals done.
Last year, Van Den Heuvel’s Re-Box Packaging Co. hired investment banker P. Nicholas Hurtgen, a former top aide to Thompson and the brother-in-law of Thompson’s paid fund-raiser, Phil Prange. Hurtgen was hired as the project’s financial adviser, but he also helped open doors for Van Den Heuvel with the governor and other administration officials.
At a face-to-face meeting with Thompson in his Capitol office last January, the governor made a point of telling Van Den Heuvel that granting state aid wasn’t his call, but he encouraged him anyway. “I told him to work with (Commerce Secretary) Bill McCoshen. I’m almost positive of it.
He also said: “I encourage people, that’s my style,” Thompson added. ” ‘Sounds good! Let’s do it! Let’s get it done!’ That’s Tommy Thompson,” he said.
Van Den Heuvel says he recalled Thompson saying to him: “I think it’s a hell of an idea.”
Van Den Heuvel said that he and his wife, Jan, donated a total of $10,000 to the governor’s campaign account earlier this year — the checks were delivered May 15, one day before Re-Box Packaging won state approval for $9 million in tax-free bonds. That approval was intended for financing to build a De Pere factory for Re-Box.
Van Den Heuvel and two partners also each gave $500 to the governor three days before the state’s five-member Volume Cap Allocation Council voted on the financial aid. Three other partners gave a total of $2,100 between late April and June.
An hour after the newspaper asked Thompson about the donations, Thompson’s press secretary, Kevin Keane, said the Van Den Heuvels’ donations would be returned because “we are just not comfortable about” the timing of the cash gifts. Van Den Heuvel later confirmed that $10,000 of his donations were returned. Keane said the other donations might be returned.
Before using the $9 million in state financing, Van Den Heuvel decided to drop his aid application for the De Pere plant and apply for even more aid for PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue Inc., the tissue-mill project. The council that awarded the earlier sum readily agreed to authorize the $24 million in financing aid.
Commerce Department staffers who reviewed the Oconto proposal, however, declined to make any recommendation on the request, also noting the large sum, if approved, would “significantly impact” the amount of tax-free bonding authority available for other projects. Numerous other projects proposed by other firms were not funded by the council.
Van Den Heuvel made the project switch, he said, because the Oconto Falls mill offered the opportunity to get government financing aid for a much larger portion of that project’s overall costs than the $9 million financing offered him for the De Pere project.
Van Den Heuvel, Thompson and other administration officials say the project was approved on its merits and there was no link between the campaign cash and the state aid.
“None whatsoever,” Thompson said. “Absolutely none.”
The donations “wouldn’t have anything to do with” the state aid, Van Den Heuvel said.
Officials said the Oconto Falls mill will provide 160 jobs in an area hit hard by this year’s plant closure. The $24 million in financing aid, while large, was far less than the total of $70 million that Van Den Heuvel originally requested for the De Pere Re-Box project, state officials noted.
Commerce Secretary Bill McCoshen also stressed that the aid, while allocated by the state, actually comes from the federal government, and no state tax dollars are involved.
Under the financing plan, company executives also could pay themselves and other company employees bonuses and pay shareholders dividends with the tax-free bonds, Van Den Heuvel said. They would not have been able to do that with taxable bonds. …
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CLICK HERE TO WATCH Ron Van Den Heuvel make his PULP & PYROLYSIS pitch in his home town at the April 15, 2014 City of De Pere Common Council Meeting asking for the City to issue Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC $125,000,000 in tax-free industrial development revenue bonds, as was also arranged for Green Box NA Michigan, LLC by Gov. Rick Snyder’s Michigan Strategic Fund, for a total of $250,000,000 [a quarter of a Billion]
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The method for getting campaign money from firms interested in state help includes pleas made at opportune times.
In the Oconto Falls case, fund-raiser Prange called on Van Den Heuvel last November for a donation, a few months after Van Den Heuvel’s request for state aid had first been broached, according to Van Den Heuvel and state Commerce Department records. Prange was aware of Van Den Heuvel’s pending request for state financing aid when he asked for a donation, Van Den Heuvel said. Prange had approached him for donations in previous years.
“I made that $10,000 commitment to him in November (of 1996), OK?” said Van Den Heuvel. He claimed he’d been a longtime large donor to Thompson’s campaign, but the governor’s campaign finance records show just two other, smaller donations from Van Den Heuvel before the big donations were made last May.
Thompson insisted he never personally solicits donations and knows few details of how his campaign operation functions, despite his aggressive hands-on approach to campaigning and governing. But interviews with Thompson insiders, phone records and his own campaign records suggest the governor has taken a much more active role in his campaign money-raising machine. …
[L]obbyists for major firms and interest groups who do business with the state, and business executives interviewed by the newspaper, said the fund-raising events are sold as prime opportunities to bend the governor’s ear on state issues — often worth millions to major players in issues ranging from utility regulation to Indian gaming. The fund-raisers often include discussion of those issues. …
A second lobbyist said Thompson’s fund-raising machine “systematically and methodically” milked firms with state business for donations. “Everybody understands if you go and ask the government to do something, you are going to have to make contributions.”
Both lobbyists asked not to be named, saying they feared retribution for speaking out.
State phone records also showed top aides to the governor, with whom he regularly confers, made numerous calls to the Thompson campaign office and GOP fund-raisers.
Klauser, in his last three months as Thompson’s top aide, called Prange 19 times, his phone records show. And Commerce Secretary McCoshen, who oversees a wide range of state subsidy programs for businesses, including the Oconto Falls financing, called Prange and the governor’s campaign office 21 times since January 1995.
State phone records show a series of calls during the period Van Den Heuvel was negotiating for his state financing aid, including a string of calls linking Thompson, his campaign, top state officials and Hurtgen, Van Den Heuvel’s project manager.
Thompson acknowledged that he might have talked to Hurtgen, his former aide, about Van Den Heuvel’s request for state financing aid.
“Possibly could have,” Thompson said. “I don’t know.”
Hurtgen declined to comment. Matthews and McCoshen said their calls to Hurtgen were not related to the Van Den Heuvel project.
“I’ve been a supporter of Gov. Thompson for a long time. I happen to think he’s the best governor,” Van Den Heuvel said.
- Journal Times: Donations to Thompson’s campaign led to favors
Green Bay-area entrepreneur Ron Van Den Heuvel and his [ex-]wife [Jan Marie Summers Van Den Heuvel] donated a total of $10,000 to Thompson’s campaign fund last May a day before Van Den Heuvel won state approval for $9 million in tax-free bonds to build a De Pere factory.
Van Den Heuvel and two partners also each gave $500 to the governor three days before the state’s five-member Volume Cap Allocation Council voted on the financial aid.
Three other partners gave a total of $2,100 between late April and June.
An hour after the newspaper asked Thompson about the donations, Thompson’s press secretary, Kevin Keane, said the Van Den Heuvels’ donations would be returned because “we are just not comfortable about” the timing of the cash gifts.
Van Den Heuvel later told the paper that $10,000 of his donations were returned.
- Investigative Reporters & Editors: Moneyed Interests
A direct link between campaign contributions and favoritism is the Holy Grail of campaign finance reporting.
In the 1997 series “Money and Influence,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Steve Schultze and Daniel Bice connected campaign contributions to preferential treatment by Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson.
The two reporters examined records from eight state agencies, state contracts, campaign contributions and expenditures, and Thompson’s phone records. The eight-month investigation revealed a startling correlation between those who gave money to Thompson’s campaign and those who got lucrative state contracts.
..,Schultze and Bice found that Ron Van Den Heuvel, a Wisconsin businessman, donated $10,000 to Thompson’s campaign fund the day before a state agency awarded him $24 million in tax-free bond financing to build a paper-manufacturing plant. Van Den Heuvel says a Thompson fund raiser asked him for the donation. The newspaper’s inquiry forced Thompson to return the contribution.
Schultze and Bice say the Van Den Heuvel affair was not an isolated incident. “The [Van Den Heuvel] case and others reviewed by The Journal Sentinel in an eight-month investigation suggest a trend in which donors and well-connected firms enjoy a close and mutually beneficial relationship with the Thompson administration,” they wrote.
You can investigate that claim for yourself by downloading current Wisconsin campaign finance data from the CFIC or by searching the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Web site at https://www.wisdc.org/.
Another strength of using campaign finance data is the ability to show how big money flows around the sometimes useless legal breakwaters that are meant to stem the tide.
03/28/98 : Artley Skenandore Jr. gave $100 contribution to Phil Montgomery; Employer Oneida Nation
05/12/98 : William C. Bain gave $250 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer VOS Electric
05/20/98 : PCDI Financial Services, LLC registered w/ WDFI
Brandon Yellowbird Stevens
07/02/98 : FILED – July 2, 1998 Summons and Criminal Complaint, Brown Co. Case No. 98CF568, State of Wisconsin v. Brandon L. Yellowbird Stevens
Brandon Stevens was found Guilty:
Burglary-Building or Dwelling, Class C Felony…
Burglary-Building or Dwelling, Class C Felony…
Burglary-Building or Dwelling, Class C Felony…
08/18/98 : Partners Concepts Development, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again on 09/12/00, and 07/12/04, and 12/06/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09, and 06/29/15 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel; Amendments filed on 12/02/98, and on 12/21/05
- PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, LLC changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved on 10/24/05
- PCDI Financial Services, LLC changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI to Ron Van Den Heuvel
- Recovering Aqua Resources, Inc. [RARI] changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again on 08/28/00, and 11/16/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved 06/12/12
- [Different entity than Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies, Inc. [RARTI] registered w/ WDFI 02/07/01; Registered Agent Steven C. Peters; Principal Office: 2079-A Lawrence Dr., De Pere, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 08/11/10]
Ron Van Den Heuvel was an owner of RARI & RARTI, which marketed ‘nozzle’ technologies patented by Gaylen La Crosse, who is part-owner of Generation Clean Fuels, LLC / ACF Leasing / ACF Services.
08/27/98 : R&K Arkansas, LLC filed Amendment w/ WDFI to change name to PCDI Arkansas, LLC w/ WDFI, and changed name again to VHC Arkansas, LLC on 12/11/98; Change of Registered Agent on 08/27/98, and again on 12/11/98 to David Van Den Heuvel; Administratively Dissolved on 03/16/09
08/31/98 : Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again 08/28/00, and 07/13/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09, and 04/10/12, and on 11/11/14 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel; Amendments filed on 12/02/98, and on 12/21/05
[Different entity than PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, LLC which was reg’d w/ WDFI on 10/14/97; Dissolved on 10/24/05; Registered Agent Ron Van Den Heuvel]
09/03/98 : Artley Skenandore Jr. gave $45 contribution to Phil Montgomery; Employer Oneida Bingo & Casino
09/30/98 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $500 contribution to Phil Montgomery; Employer: VOS Electric
10/13/98 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $1,000 contribution to Nancy Mistele; Employer: VOS Electric
11/30/98 : Oneida Business Committee severed its Employment Agreement with Artley Skenandore Jr. as Oneida Tribal General Manager …
… after GTC voted to eliminate the position of ‘General Manager.’
12/02/98 : Partners Concepts Development, Inc. filed an Amendment w/ WDFI, and again on 12/21/05; Changes of Registered Agent on 08/18/98, and 09/12/00, and 07/12/04, and 12/06/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09, and on 06/29/15 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel
12/09/98 : Swakweko, LLC registered w/ WDFI by Art Skenandore Jr.
Changes of Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again on 01/06/05, and 01/24/06 to Artley Murray Skenandore Jr.; Principal Office: 3973 Hidden Trail, Oneida, WI
Owned in part by Former Oneida Tribal General Manager Artley Skenandore Jr., whose father had been Brown County, WI Sheriff.
Artley’s ‘special friend’ during this time [and his current wife] is Oneida Police Dept. Lt. Lisa Drew Skenandore / Lisa Skenandore who is cross-deputized with both the Brown County & Outagamie County Sheriffs’ Departments.
12/11/98 : PCDI Arkansas, LLC changed names again to VHC Arkansas, LLC, and changed Registered Agent to Ron’s brother David Van Den Heuvel
• Started as R&K Arkansas, LLC; Administratively Dissolved on 03/16/09
[ R & K = ‘Ron & Kelly’ ? ]
01/15/99 : Swakweko, LLC changes Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again on 01/06/05, and 01/24/06 to Artley Murray Skenandore Jr.; Principal Office: 3973 Hidden Trail, Oneida, WI
01/1999 : According to the August 8, 2005 Decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit – 403 F.3d 1050 [modified], Livid Holdings Ltd. v. Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.; Smith Barney Holdings Inc., BNY Clearing Servics LLC, successor in interest to Schroders & Co, Inc.; Andrew Van Der Vord; Robert Chamine; Michael Dura; Robert Hamecs; William Hurst; Leon Kalvaria; Ilan Kraufthal; John O’Donogue; Herc Segalas, Jed Sherwindt; James Stone; Fredering Talyor; Samuel Weinhoff:
Livid’s claims arise out of its December 1999 purchase of $10 million worth of shares in Purely Cotton, Inc. (“PCI”) stock. In January 1999, Schroders helped PCI arrange a private placement of $25 million worth of its stock. For this purpose, Schroders created a Confidential Offering Memorandum (“the Memorandum”), which outlined PCI’s operations, business plan, and financial position. After the distribution of the Memorandum to potential investors, Livid alleges that UAE Investments, Ltd. (“UAE”), a Gibralter-based company, agreed to purchase over 98% of the offering. The individual Defendants, who were directors and/or officers of Schroders, agreed to purchase the remaining stock. Livid alleges that there was never a contractual document requiring UAE to pay more than $2 million of the $25 million purchase price.
In September 1999, PCI asked Schroders for additional copies of the Memorandum in order to solicit additional investors. Livid alleges that before providing PCI with these extra copies, Defendant Van der Vord, the managing director at Schroders in charge of the offering, and his team amended the Memorandum by attaching the following notice:
This Memorandum was written in January 1999 and represents the original Offering Memorandum distributed to potential investors in the Company’s $25 million private equity fund raising. Subsequent to the writing and distribution of this document the Company may have undergone various changes including but not limited to management changes, ownership changes and business strategy changes. This document has not been updated or amended to reflect any events that have occurred since January 1999. As such, it does not reflect the fact that the above-mentioned $25 million private equity fund raising has been completed.
Livid’s claims against Defendants arise out of the last sentence of this notice. This sentence, Livid contends, implies that the proceeds of the initial $25 million sale had been received by PCI, but that the Memorandum had not yet been updated to reflect this additional capital. At the time this notice was written, however, UAE and the Defendants had actually paid less than $2 million to PCI. Livid alleges that additional payments on UAE’s balance were conditional on UAE’s approval of a PCI business plan and a new chief executive officer — meaning that UAE was not actually bound to pay for the PCI stock. Livid further alleges that all of the named Defendants bought stock through this initial offering on the same terms as UAE, and therefore knew that the sale was incomplete when the notice was attached to the Memorandum for the express purpose of attracting additional investors. Defendants do not contest that they had such knowledge. In addition, Livid alleges that Defendants had a motive to deceive potential investors because PCI had not yet paid Schroders for the services it provided in connection with the first fund-raising campaign. In essence, Livid contends that Defendants had a motive to try to bring additional capital into PCI — to increase the likelihood that it would be paid for past services rendered.
The district court dismissed each of Livid’s claims with prejudice. With respect to the federal claim, the district court found that Livid failed to plead adequately that the notice statement was a material misrepresentation, upon which it reasonably relied in purchasing PCI stock. In addition, the district court found that Livid’s complaint did not satisfy the heightened pleading standards for scienter under the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (“PSLRA”). …
The district court based its dismissal of Livid’s state tort claims for fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation on its holding that Livid’s reliance on the notice’s statements was unreasonable. Under either tort claim, Washington law requires plaintiffs to show reasonable reliance. ESCA Corp. v. KPMG Peat Marwick, 135 Wash. 2d 820, 959 P.2d 651, 654 (1998) (negligent misrepresentation); Haberman, 744 P.2d at 1070 (fraudulent misrepresentation). Here again, because we find that the district court erred in determining, as a matter of law, that Livid failed to allege adequately reasonable reliance on the statements in the notice as to Livid’s federal securities claim, we must similarly reverse the district court’s decision as to Livid’s state tort claims.
CONCLUSION
Plaintiff’s complaint states a claim for federal securities fraud, state securities fraud, and state tort violations — even under the heightened pleading standards of the PSLRA. The case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
02/09/99 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $1,000 contribution to Sharren Rose; Employer: VOS Electric
03/05/99 : Trout Creek, LLC changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI to John D. Schweiner; Articles of Dissolution filed on 05/09/05
[Different entity than 06/26/07 : Trout Creek Investors, LLC registered w/ WDFI on 06/26/07; Registered Agent Artley Skenandore Jr.; Principal Office: 3973 Hidden Trail, Oneida, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 06/09/15]
04/06/99 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $4,000 contribution to Sharren Rose; Employer: VOS Electric
JWR, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI
05/03/99 : Zafari’s, Inc. restored to Good Standing w/ WDFI and filed Amendment changing name to American Combustion Technologies, Inc.; Registered Agent Saboor Zafari
05/06/99 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $500 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer: VOS Electric
SUMMER 1999 : According to Wikipedia’s ‘Huffman Aviation’ page:
Huffman Aviation was purchased by Dutchman Rudi Dekkers in 1999. At the time of purchase, the school had a fleet of 12 small aircraft. Huffman offered private pilot, instrument rating, Commercial pilot, Multi-Engine Ratings, and flight instructor training, but did not offer training on larger, jet aircraft.
More than 80% of the school’s students were foreign nationals, following a marketing campaign designed to attract overseas students It also suffered from a poor local reputation, as the Venice Gondolier ran continuing stories about the flight school’s troubles.
According to Daniel Hopsicker:
Almost immediately after its purchase in the summer of 1999 by Wallace J. Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers, the aviation facility became the center of a series of financial scams that included Ponzi schemes, pension fraud, international stock swindles, and fraudulent bankruptcies which have altogether looted more than $1 billion from the American economy.
Huffman Aviation, the flight training facility which housed both of the terrorist pilots who crashed passenger jets into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, has been operating as a continuing criminal enterprise, as defined by the Federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act.
07/22/99: Zafari’s Inc. officially renamed American Combustion Technologies Inc. [ACTI] w/ WDFI; Registered Agent Saboor Zafari
Gerald ‘Gerry’ Danforth
08/1999 to 08/2002 : New Oneida Business Committee term
- Chair: Gerald Danforth
- Vice-Chair: Cristina Danforth
- Treasurer: Judy Cornelius
- Secretary: Julie Barton
- Council Members:
- David Bischoff
- Vince DelaRosa
- Eugene Metoxen
- Paul Ninham
- Sandra Ninham
09/13/99 : American Combustion Technologies, Inc. [ACTI] surrendered from Wisconsin to California jurisdiction by Registered Agent Saboor Zafari.
• Started as Zafari’s, Inc. w/WDFI on 05/25/83
• Renamed American Combustion Technologies, Inc. [ACTI] on 07/22/99.
• Filed Articles of Dissolution on 06/13/03
• Different entity than American Combustion Technologies of California, Inc., but both went by initials ‘ACTI‘ and run by Abdul Latif Mahjoob
See also:
• American Renewable Energy, Inc. [AREI] and
• American Renewable Technologies, Inc. [ARTI]
among other companies that take credit for activities by Latif Mahjoob / A. Latif Mahjoob / Abdul Latif Mahjoob
09/15/99 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 99CV1205, Hoffman & Associates Inc. v. John D. Schweiner & Trout Creek LLC
• SETTLEMENT BEFORE TRIAL on 10/22/99
[Different entity than 06/26/07 : Trout Creek Investors, LLC registered w/ WDFI on 06/26/07; Registered Agent Artley Skenandore Jr.; Principal Office: 3973 Hidden Trail, Oneida, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 06/09/15]
10/15/99 : Re-Box Packaging, Inc. reverts its name back to Re-Box Paper, Inc. w/WDFI; later renamed (2 word) Eco Fibre, Inc. on 03/28/05 [different than (1 word) EcoFibre, Inc., but Ron Van Den Heuvel was the Registered Agent for both]
10/22/99 : SETTLEMENT BEFORE TRIAL – • Brown Co. Case No. 99CV1205, Hoffman & Associates Inc. v. John D. Schweiner & Trout Creek LLC
[Different entity than 06/26/07 : Trout Creek Investors, LLC registered w/ WDFI on 06/26/07; Registered Agent Artley Skenandore Jr.; Principal Office: 3973 Hidden Trail, Oneida, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 06/09/15]
Brandon Yellowbird Stevens
10/29/99 : FILED – October 29, 1999 Summons and Complaint, Brown Co. Case No. 99CM1808, State of Wisconsin v. Brandon L. Yellowbird Stevens
COUNT I: cause bodily harm to another, to-wit: T**** D******, by an act done with intent to cause bodily harm to that person and without the consent of the person so harmed; BATTERY, Misdemeanor[.] Furthermore, this incident … involves a DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OFFENSE.
…Brandon L. Stevens is a REPEATER, having been convicted within the past five years of the crime(s): On March 8, 1999, the defendant was convicted of three counts of Burglary, Felonies, in Brown County File No. 98CF568[.]
COUNT II: in a public or private place, engage in violent abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise disorderly conduct under circumstances in which the conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance; DISORDERLY CONDUCT, Misdemeanor[.] Furthermore, this incident … involves a DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OFFENSE.
…Complainant is an Assistant District Attorney with the Brown County District Attorney’s Office and knows of the above offense on information and belief based upon.
1. His review of the details of Officer Dakota House of the Oneida Police Department…; said details indicate that on October 29, 1999 at approximately 2:13 a.m., Officer House was dispatched to St. Mary’s Hospital in Green Bay in reference to a domestic violence complaint. Officer House…met with a female who identified herself as T**** D******. Officer House observed Ms. D****** lying in the hospital bed and that she was pregnant. He later learned that she was approximately eight months pregnant. Officer House observed that she had a redness under her left eye and he asked her what happened. At first she said that nothing happened but then admitted that her boyfriend, Brandon Stevens, and her got into an argument and that he shoved her. She admitted that he was drinking the night of the incident. She indicated that he shoved her. She indicated…that this shoving incident took place [at their residence] on October 28, 1999 at approximately 3:00 p.m. She then became uncooperative and would not give any further information to Officer House.
2. His review of a statement given by Rachel Baird to Officer House on October 29, 1999; in said statement, Ms. Baird indicated that she is a nurse on the maternity ward at St. Mary’s Hospital. She stated that on October 29, 1999, a twenty-two year old woman, later identified as T**** D******, was admitted to the Family Birthing Center from the Emergency Room with complaints of spotting and cramping. Baird stated that D****** is thirty-four weeks pregnant. D****** stated to Baird that there was something she needed to talk to her about. She informed Baird “My boyfriend hit me last night.” D****** then lifted up her short sleeved shirt and showed Ms. Baird bruised arms. Baird notices that D******’s arms were bruised with four to five finger sized bruises on each upper arm including the biceps and triceps. D****** stated that her boyfriend,…Brandon Stevens, grabbed her by the face, hit her head on the driveway, and pointed to the back left side of her head. She also stated her face was red and sore from where he grabbed her and pointed to the left side of her face on her cheekbone. Baird observed small quarter size reddend areas along with a possible bruise orginating from the corner of her eye and extending under her left eye. Baird asked if he had struck her anyplace else and D****** stated he hit her one or two times in the abdomen. It is noted that D****** is approximately eight months pregnant.
• Brandon Stevens was found Guilty of the crimes of Habitual Criminality & Domestic Battery on 03/21/00
11/18/99 : Securities & Exchange Commission, SPATIALIGHT, INC. S-3 Form on 11/18/99
Atty. Carl Artman
2000 : According to Denver Post: ‘COLORADO Attorney nominated for Indian Affairs post’
[Atty. Carl] Artman practiced law in Denver [, Colorado] from 2000 to 2002. He received an advanced law degree from the University of Denver law school in 2003. He was listed in 2002 as general counsel and vice president of business development at CorAccess Systems LLC in Denver.
[Fmr. Pres. George W.] Bush named Artman to the President’s Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and Universities in 2002. Earlier in his career, Artman served as legislative counsel for Rep. Michael Oxley, R-Ohio.
01/01/00 : Offense date, Outagamie Co. Case No. 03CF583, State of Wisconsin v. Dan Hawk, Felony C Theft-Movable Property >$2500.
• Named Registered Agent of Oneida Small Business, Inc. on 05/24/12 as Dan Hawk
• Named Registered Agent of Oneida Small Business, Inc. on 03/12/15 as Daniel Hawk
03/21/00 : March 21, 2000 Judgment of Conviction of Brandon L. Stevens, Brown Co. Case No. 99CM1808
1. BATTERY [968.075 Domestic Abuse Incident] [939.62(1){a} HABITUAL CRIMINALITY {Prison < = 1 Yr}]
2. DISORDERLY CONDUCT [968.075 Domestic Abuse Incident] [939.62(1){a} HABITUAL CRIMINALITY {Prison < = 1 Yr}]
04/04/00 : William C. Bain gave $250 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer VOS Electric
04/27/00 : Steven C. Peters gave $100 contribution to Scott McCallum; No Employer Identified
Steven Peters was an employee of Ron Van Den Heuvel at Oconto Falls Tissue Inc., became Registered Agent of Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies, Inc. [RARTI] on 02/07/01, and was also a Partner with Ron, Artley Skenandore Jr., and OSGC in Nature’s Way Tissue Corp. on 12/26/03.
Ron Van Den Heuvel was an owner of RARTI & RARI, which marketed ‘nozzle’ technologies patented by Gaylen La Crosse, who is part-owner of Generation Clean Fuels, LLC / ACF Leasing / ACF Services.
Steven C. Peters was also – like William C. ‘Bill’ Bain – a ‘straw borrower’ in Ron & Kelly Van Den Heuvel’s bank fraud scheme, to which Co-Conspirator Paul Piikkila has already pled guilty.
- January 27, 2013, Decision & Order of the Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission, various dockets, Steven Peters, Ronald Van Den Heuvel & Artley Skenandore Jr. v. Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue, re: Nature’s Way Tissue Corp.
Mr. Skenandore had no expertise in the paper industry. Nevertheless, he was made president. …
Second, as the quote from the accountant in the previous section shows, Mr. Peters and Mr. Skenandore had numerous meetings where the two decided to pay other obligations, and Mr. Skenandore admitted on the stand to ‘carrying over’ the withholding tax liability. Mr. Skenandore’s defense was that he relied on the parent company for expertise in the paper business, but that is unconvincing and does not excuse paying other creditors first.
The testimony was that Nature’s Way [Tissue Corp.] had money coming in from the parent company, just not enough to pay all of the creditors. Clearly, he and Mr. Peters determined which bills to pay out of the money that was coming in. …
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Department’s assessment to…Mr. Skenandore is affirmed [regarding withholding tax periods beginning December 1, 2006, and ending March 31, 2009].
- July 1, 2016 Paul Piikkila Plea Agreement in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin Case No. 16-CR-64, USA v. Paul Piikkila
September 20, 2016 Superseding Indictment [19 Counts], U.S. District Court, WI Eastern District, Case No. 16-CR-064, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. RONALD H. VAN DEN HEUVEL, KELLY YESSMAN VAN DEN HEUVEL and PAUL J. PIIKKILA [fmr. Horicon Bank Loan Officer and the Interim Controller of the Green Detroit Regional Center EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program that promoted the Green Box NA fraud to foreigners as a way to obtain U.S. Visas from U.S. Customs & Immigration Services / USCIS]
06/01/00 : Custom Paper Products, Inc. registered w/ WDFI; Changed Registered Agent on 06/17/02, and 09/23/04, and on 07/21/06, and on 05/21/09 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Administratively Dissolved on 11/07/12
- Partners Concepts Forest Group, Inc. registered w/ WDFI; Renamed Custom Forest Products, Inc. on 08/24/00; Registered Agent Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved on 06/15/09
06/03/00 : Re-Box Packaging, Inc. reverts name to Re-Box Paper, Inc. w/WDFI; later renamed Eco Fiber, Inc. on 03/28/05 [different than EcoFibre, Inc. but Ron Van Den Heuvel was the Registered Agent for both]
07/03/00 : According to Wikipedia’s ‘Huffman Aviation’ page:
The business gained further notoriety after the September 11th attacks, when it was revealed that Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi had both attended the school to learn how to fly small aircraft.
On July 3, 2000, both applied to the school; Atta claimed to be of royal Saudi descent and presented Marwan as his bodyguard.
In August, the school filed the necessary INS [Immigration & Naturalization Services] paperwork in order to allow both pilots to switch from ‘tourist’ Visas, to ‘student’, in order to allow them to enroll in the school’s piloting program. While they were allowed to apply, final verification did not reach the school until March 11, 2002, 6 months after both pilots had been killed in the attacks.
For a short while, during their time at the school, both Marwan and Atta lived with a company employee named Charlie Voss for a few days, paying him about $250 cash. After a week, Voss reportedly kicked them out of his house for insulting his wife.
07/25/00 : According to Daniel Hopsicker:
Compounding the sense of mystery and cover-up surrounding the terrorists’ stay in Venice is another unexplained fact:
Less than three weeks after Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi began flying lessons on July 3, 2000 at Huffman Aviation in Venice FL, Huffman owner Wally Hilliard‘s Learjet was swarmed by DEA agents brandishing submachine guns after it landed, on July 25, at Orlando Executive Airport.
The Lear, agents discovered, was carrying 43 lbs. of heroin, an amount known in the trade as “heavy weight.”
The Orlando Sentinel called it “the largest seizure of heroin in Central Florida history.”
In a virtually unprecedented action, the DEA argued that Hilliard was not merely an innocent aircraft owner. He hadn’t just been victimized and remained unaware while crafty drug traffickers chartered his plane.
Nuh-uh.
Hilliard lost the plane.
See also:
• Big Safari, the Kennedy Assassination, & the war for control of the Venice Airport
• FINALLY! Rudi Dekkers behind bars for Drug Trafficking
However, no charges were ever filed. In the case of someone who’s been the subject of a multiple agency task force, this is highly unusual. An executive who worked at Naples Airport, directly under Wally Hilliard, said, “You don’t get the FBI, US Customs, and the DEA, on your ass all at once for singing too loud in church.”
The suspicion among aviation observers in SW Florida was, and remains, that Dekkers was offered—and accepted—some kind of deal. Last week, in Houston, for an as-yet unknown reason Rudi Dekkers finally ran out of “get out of jail free” cards.
It had been a long run.
08/17/00 : Venture Partners of the Fox Valley, LLC is registered w/ WDFI; Registered Agent Matthew Olson, who is the son-in-law of William C. ‘Bill’ Bain and is a Partner with Artley Skenandore Jr. in Crosskeys Investors, LLC.
08/24/00 : Partners Concepts Forest Group, Inc. renamed Custom Forest Products, Inc. w/ WDFI; Registered Agent Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved on 06/15/09
08/28/00 : Recovering Aqua Resources, Inc. [RARI] changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again on 11/16/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved on 06/12/12
[Different entity than Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies, Inc. [RARTI] registered w/ WDFI 02/07/01; Registered Agent Steven C. Peters, 2079-A Lawrence Dr., De Pere, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 08/11/10]
Ron Van Den Heuvel was an owner of RARI & RARTI, which marketed ‘nozzle’ technologies patented by Gaylen La Crosse, who is part-owner of Generation Clean Fuels, LLC / ACF Leasing / ACF Services.
- Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again 07/13/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09, and 04/10/12, and on 11/11/14 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel
[Different entity than PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, LLC which was reg’d w/ WDFI on 10/14/97; Dissolved on 10/24/05; Registered Agent Ron Van Den Heuvel]
09/12/00 : Partners Concepts Development, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again on 07/12/04, and 12/06/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09, and 06/29/15 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel; Amendment filed on 12/21/05
10/09/00 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $100 contribution to Brent Weycker; Employer: VOS Electric
11/08/00 : Oneida Business Committee unanimously adopted OBC Resolution 11-08-00-B, ‘Dioxin & Persistent Organic Pollutants’
WHEREAS, the ability of our Native community to be protected from the effects of dioxin poisoning is critical to the future of our tribal nations and all life that sustains us, and…
WHEREAS, tribal communities and families continue to be disproportionately exposed to dioxin and other persistent organic pollutants. Many of our tribal members are more susceptible to these dangerous toxins due to land-based culture and subsistence practices, and…
WHEREAS, dioxin has been classified as a “known human carcinogen” with the “highest” level of certainty by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and acknowledged by the World Health Organization that dioxin exposure is linked to severe health effects…
NOW, THERE, BE IT RESOLVED: that the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin requests that the United States State Department pursue ending the production and release of Dioxin and other Persistent Organic Pollutants in the United States
JUST SAY ‘NO!‘ TO DIOXIN;
THE FATE OF NATIONS &
ALL GENERATIONS
ARE AT STAKE
11/27/00 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 00CV1521, Robert T. Burrows v. John D. Schweiner, Carol J. Schweiner, and Trout Creek LLC
• CONSOLIDATED on 04/03/01
[Different entity than Trout Creek Investors, LLC registered w/ WDFI on 06/26/07; Registered Agent Artley Skenandore Jr.,; Principal Office: 3973 Hidden Trail, Oneida, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 06/09/15]
12/28/00 : Evergreen Development, LLC registered w/ WDFI; Principal Address: 2079 A Lawrence Dr, De Pere, WI; Changes of Registered Agent on 12/14/09, and on 11/10/14 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Articles of Dissolution filed on 07/29/15
- Various Court Documents from Brown Co. Case No. 2008-CV-2265, Hilliard Limited Partnership v. Ron Van Den Heuvel & Evergreen Development [107 pages; zip file]
- According to Daniel Hopsicker:
In 1976 Senator Frank Church’s Committee grilled CIA General Counsel Lawrence Houston about the Agency’s questionable and illegal operation of proprietary airlines. Church was clear that he wanted the CIA to divest itself of what had grown into the largest airline in the world.
The CIA has never been the kind of Agency to take the heat if there’s anyone else around to throw under the bus. Lawrence Houston offered that the CIA had routinely used the U.S. Forest Service to provide cover for its covert activities. And, he said…there was more.
The U.S. Forest Service had been successfully infiltrated by CIA, confessed Houston. The CIA even shared an address with the Forest Service’s Air Research and Development unit in Alexandria, VA. He allowed that perhaps a re-think was in order. Mostly of the Forest Service.
Back then, it was open season on the CIA. Over little nit-picky things like brainwashing, or drugging American citizens without their knowledge, or assassination.
But the Agency had anticipated a move to clip its wings. It had quickly given away its clandestinely-owned air carriers, folding them into one of its lesser-known proprietary airlines, Evergreen International. Then it very publicly freed Evergreen from its state of indentured servitude, and set it up at Marana Air Base in Arizona, which the CIA owned.
It had already sheep-dipped a new fleet of planes through the U.S. Forest Service. One of those planes— 40 years later—has just been seized at an airport in Australia.
Something about 35 kilos of heroin.
Wikipedia: Evergreen International Aviation
Evergreen International Aviation, Inc. was a global aviation services company based in McMinnville, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1960, Evergreen was primarily known for commercial helicopter operations in agricultural and forestry applications. The airline division, Evergreen International Airlines, operated all-cargo Boeing 747 freighters. Evergreen ceased all aviation-related operations in 2013 due to financial challenges. …
Evergreen was part of the US Civil Reserve Air Fleet and the International Peace Operations Association. It was known to do work for the United States federal government, including fire suppression for the U.S. Forest Service, troop transportation in the Gulf War of 1991, as well as helicopter transportation for oil rig firefighters at the end of hostilities. The company provided aviation services for the Central Intelligence Agency as well, including transporting the Shah of Iran from Panama to the United States in 1980.[4] …
On November 8, 2013 Evergreen International Airlines, a subsidiary of Evergreen International Aviation, announced via a voicemail to their employees that all operations would cease effective November 29, 2013.[9]
In 2014, Evergreen declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy[10][11] and began a liquidation of assets, including its headquarters campus in McMinnville.[12]
- Wikipedia: Evergreen International Airlines
Evergreen International Airlines was a cargo airline based in McMinnville, Oregon, United States. It operated contract freight services, offering charters and scheduled flights, as well as wet lease services. It operated services for the U.S. military and the United States Postal Service, as well as ad hoc charter flights. Its crew base was at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York.
Evergreen also maintained a large aircraft maintenance and storage facility at the Pinal Air Park in Marana, Arizona that the company acquired from the CIA‘s Air America fleet.
The airline was established by Delford Smith (founder and owner) and began operations in 1960 as Evergreen Helicopters. It acquired the operating certificate of Johnson Flying Service and merged it with Intermountain Airlines from Pacific Corporation (a CIA front company) in 1975 to form Evergreen International Airlines. The holding company, Evergreen International Aviation, formed in 1979, wholly owns the airline. …
On December 31, 2013, Evergreen International Airlines filled a Chapter 7 petition in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware. The bankruptcy filing lists seven entities as submitting the Chapter 7 petition: Evergreen Aviation Ground Logistics Enterprise, Evergreen Defense and Security Services, Evergreen International Airlines, Evergreen International Aviation, Evergreen Systems Logistics, Evergreen Trade, and Supertanker Services.[10]
According to Daniel Hopsicker:
The CIA’s “former” airbase at Marana, Arizona holds the key to the mystery of how the Agency hides, or “sheep-dips,” its planes. When the base was privatized, top CIA aviation officers, including the Agency’s legendary George Doole, went to work there for Evergreen International.
The CIA’s far-flung aviation operations, which span the globe, continue to be run from there. Thousands of airplanes sit parked, waiting to be reactivated. Inside the largest hanger hangs a plaque dedicated to George Doole, who for decades was in charge of CIA’s aviation activities worldwide.Doole created and ran the worlds’ largest airline. They called it “Spook Air.”
He was so adept at the sleight of hand necessary to shuffle the ‘paper’ ownership of the CIA’s fleet of planes back and forth between a bewildering number of proprietary airlines that the true size of the CIA’s airline—then and now—will never be known.
When Richard Nixon appointed Richard Helms CIA Director in the early 70’s, Helms tasked a staffer with adding up and accounting for all the planes in Doole’s domain. After three months on the project the staffer gave up in exasperation.
The problem, he explained to Helms, was the speed and alacrity with which Doole changed airplane markings and tail numbers, and leased planes back and forth between various shell corporations.
Then came Watergate. In the aftermath of revelations about the CIA’s assassination and mind control programs, the Agency was under strong pressure to sell off the front companies used to hide their fleet of planes.
The subsequent privatization of government assets into private hands had the same result as it did in Russia 15 years later. The aviation wing of crony capitalism was born.
Soon retired Generals, like Richard Secord, became instant corporate CEO’s, running aircraft charter and aviation companies that continued doing the CIA’s bidding.
Today the tradition continues, with companies like World Jet and Donna Blue Aircraft replacing more familiar names like Air America, Southern Air, and Evergreen Airlines.
According to FAA registration records, this is where the Gulfstream’s sister airplane, SkyWay’s DC-9 (N900SA)— busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine in the Yucatan—came from. The plane was brought out of mothballs in 2002 to be put to work in the war on terror.
It was also from here, in the late 80’s—while SkyWay Chairman Glenn Kovar still worked for the U.S. Forest Service—that that innocuous Federal Agency—the home of Smokey the Bear!— was “gifted” with dozens of “surplus” military cargo airplanes.
The planes, to be used to fight fires in U.S. national parks, began turning up being used as cargo workhorses for Mexican and South American drug cartels, including, memorably, one C-130 that was found sitting on a runway at Mexico City’s international airport carrying a stunning billion dollars worth of cocaine.
And this was in the late 1980’s, when a billion dollars worth of cocaine was still worth…well, a billion dollars.
According to Wayne Madsen:
Those who murdered 9/11 author and former Iran-contra CIA contract pilot Phillip Marshall in the last days of January this year, were hoping to block Marshall’s investigation into the role that the Pinal Air Park / Marana Airfield outside of Tucson, Arizona played in the 9/11 attack. It is noteworthy that Pinal is the home to America’s “boneyard” of retired civilian aircraft, including Boeing passenger aircraft. Nearby Davis- Monthan Air Force Base is the home to the boneyard of retired military aircraft. In addition, the CIA and US Special Forces maintain operations at Pinal, the CIA through its contractor, Evergreen International.
The senior U.S. Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, Mark Fuller, the judge who sent former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman to prison on trumped up charges, is a major player in the 9/11 operation owing to his former ownership of Doss Aviation, the U.S. Air Force contractor that trained Egyptian Air Force Lt. Col. Mohammed Atta at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama and who also had contracts to train Saudi pilots. …
12/30/00 : PCDI Financial Services, LLC filed Articles of Dissolution of w/ WDFI; Registered Agent Ron Van Den Heuvel
2001 to 2008 : According to LinkedIn, Ron Van Den Heuvel’s sister – owner of Murphy Development, Inc. – Ann M. Murphy was a Member of Credit Review for the Board of Directors at M&I Bank of Northeast Wisconsin.
In 2009, Ann Murphy became a Consultant for Sharad Tak’s Tak Investments, LLC, where she:
Assists the owner in decisions regarding investments.
[NOTE: Tak Investments, LLC, was Dissolved w/ WDFI on April 15, 2009, and is a different entity than Tak Investments, Inc., although both are owned by Sharad K. Tak & family.]
01/08/01 : Crosskeys Investors, LLC registered w/ WDFI; Partners include Artley Skenandore Jr. and M [Matt Olson is the son-in-law of William C. Bain; Bill Bain is Ron’s ex-brother-in-law, and was one of Ron & Kelly Ven Den Heuvel’s bank fraud straw borrowers, and was also Ron’s business partner in Ron & Bill Investments and other ventures; William C. Bain makes many political contributions … but on whose behalf?]
02/07/01 : Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies, Inc. [RARTI] registered w/ WDFI; Registered Agent Steven C. Peters, 2079-A Lawrence Dr., De Pere, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 08/11/10
[Different entity than Aqua 2MG, Inc., registered w/ WDFI on 04/23/97 and renamed Recovering Aqua Resources, Inc. [RARI] one month later on 05/23/97; Registered Agent as of 05/21/09 Ron Van Den Heuvel; Dissolved 06/12/12]
Ron Van Den Heuvel was an owner of RARTI & RARI, which marketed ‘nozzle’ technologies patented by Gaylen La Crosse, who is part-owner of Generation Clean Fuels, LLC / ACF Leasing / ACF Services.
03/2001: According to the May 6, 2008 Court of Appeals of Wisconsin Published Decision, Case No. 08WIAPP85, Herbert J. Cuene, Jr. v. Wallace J. Hilliard
¶2 [Wallace J. ‘Wally’] Hilliard formed Florida Air Holdings, Inc., in March 2001, envisioning it as primarily a commuter airline operating in Florida. To operate as a commuter airline, the company needed a “Part 121” operating certificate from the United States Department of Transportation. To obtain the Part 121 certificate, Florida Air purchased the bankrupt Sunrise Airlines, Inc., to operate as a Florida Air subsidiary. Hilliard intended to obtain Florida Air’s Part 121 certificate by renewing Sunrise’s suspended certificate.
06/01/01 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $400 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer: VOS Electric
07/27/01 : REGISTERED w/ IL – EQUITY ASSET LEASING FUND, LLC
• Manager: Louis Stern
• Registered Agent: Eric R. Decator
[Different entity than EALF, LLC reg’d w/ IL on 04/18/06; and Equity Asset Capital, LLC reg’d w/ IL on 10/03/07; and Equity Asset Finance, LLC reg’d w/ IL on 08/30/12
See also: The LOUIS and FRANZISKA STERN FAMILY LLC, registered w/ IL 05/03/12]
08/17/01 : David J. Wolf’s JWR, Inc. restored to good standing w/ WDFI
Operation Northwoods for a New American Century…. You do the math.
09/11/01 : According to Law360.com: Paper mill seeks void of $17M IRS Deficiency
One such credit line came shortly before 2000, when VHC issued a line of credit to Ron’s cotton fiber plant for the installation of a key machine. It did so at the request of United Arab Emirates Investment Ltd., [UAEI] which had made an offer on the plant that would have far exceeded the amount of the company’s debt for the machine. However, UAEI withdrew from the deal at the last minute after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying the status of a Middle Eastern company in the U.S. at the time was too risky.
Around the same time, Enron, one of the debtor’s key backers, filed for bankruptcy.
“With the collapse of both deals, lenders began contacting petitioner about accelerating repayment of the loans to the debtor’s companies and calling in the guarantees of petitioner,” VHC said. VHC gave the company even more money following the two collapses to help the debtor get back on its feet, according to the petition.
NEVER FORGET : No plane hit 7 World Trade Center on 9/11
10/03/01 : VHC, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI
10/04/01 : William C. Bain gave $100 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer VOS Electric
10/17/01 : FILED –DIVORCE in RE the Marriage of Jan Marie Summers Van Den Heuvel and Ronald Henry Van Den Heuvel, Brown Co. Case No. 01FA1093; Click here for ongoing Court Record of Events
10/26/01 : IEP, Ltd. registered w/ WDFI; Change of Registered Agent to ‘C T Corp. Systems’ on 07/01/03; Revocation on 10/28/04
• Affiliated w/ International Energy Partners of Caribou, Maine; IEP Development, LLC; IEP Services; IEP Consulting Services
11/06/01 : United Recycling Technology Inc. [URTI] registered in the State of Nevada; Aram A. Sarkissian is President & Treasurer; A. Latif Mahjoob is Director & Secretary
11/30/01 : William C. Bain gave $200 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer VOS Electric
12/11/01 : Oconto Falls Tissue Technologies, Inc. reg’d w/ WDFI; renamed Tissue Products Technologies Corp. 02/04/02; Owned in part by Ron Van Den Heuvel
2002 : According to the Denver Post:
[Atty. Carl Artman] was listed in 2002 as general counsel and vice president of business development at CorAccess Systems LLC in Denver[, COLORADO]. [Pres. George W.] Bush named Artman to the President’s Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and Universities in 2002.
According to Daniel Hopsicker:
In the seven years since 9/11 Wally Hilliard has remained embroiled in controversy.
For example, in Jerry Falwell’s Lynchburg, VA in 2002 a previously-unknown company housed inside Hilliard’s Huffman Aviation in Venice managed to win a large government contract at Lynchburg’s Airport, under circumstances that left aviation observers there feeling queasy.
Several years earlier Hilliard had “loaned” Jerry Falwell $1 million to bailout his failing religious enterprise, a loan the televangelist never repaid.
When it won the big contract, Britannia had two employees and a bank balance of $500. Their main competitor had $45 million. In cash.
01/07/02 : Spirit Fabs, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and on 11/27/02, and on 12/09/03 to [Ron’s brother] David Van Den Heuvel
02/04/02 : Oconto Falls Tissue Technologies, Inc. renamed Tissue Products Technology Corp. w/ WDFI
The OBC voted to rescind OBC’s 03/29/00 action that removed Oneida Nation of Wisconsin enrollment as a requirement for the Oneida Law Office Chief Counsel position.
The Oneida Law Office Chief Counsel at that time was Rory Dilweg, son of then Brown Co. Judge Vivi Dilweg.
02/08/02 : According to the May 6, 2008 Court of Appeals of Wisconsin Published Decision, Case No. 08WIAPP85, Herbert J. Cuene, Jr. v. Wallace J. Hilliard
¶3 The [U.S.] Department of Transportation tentatively approved Sunrise [Airline]’s Part 121 renewal on February 8, 2002, and issued an order to show cause. The renewal would be finalized unless, within fourteen days of the order, someone came forward with cause for the Department to delay or deny approval.
¶4 [Wally] Hilliard also owned a company called Plane 1 Leasing Co., Inc., which owned and leased planes to other airlines. The Federal Aviation Administration had pending sanctions against Plane 1 for allegedly flying without proper authorization and informed the Department of the pending sanctions in response to the show cause order. On February 13, 2002, the Department declined to finalize Sunrise’s Part 121 certificate and requested an explanation from Hilliard about the FAA’s pending sanctions.
[Footnote: Hilliard initially disputed the allegations, asserting the plane lessees had the appropriate certificates, but later stipulated to $285,000 in sanctions after the United States attorney filed suit in April 2004.]
Click for info about Wally’s ‘ghost’ CIA narco-airlines in Florida & Wisconsin
¶5 Simultaneously, M&I Bank underwrote a $3.64 million loan to Florida Air for six airplanes intended to be the Florida Air fleet. M&I had liens on the planes and a personal guarantee from Hilliard securing the loan. Plane 1 and Huffman Aviation – another of Hilliard’s companies – also had loans from M&I totaling $4 million.
02/18/02 : William C. Bain gave $2,000 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer VOS Electric
04/04/02 : Oconto Falls Tissue, Inc., filed an Amendment w/ WDFI on 04/04/02; Changes of Registered Agent on 08/31/98, and 08/28/00, and 07/13/04, and 07/12/06, and 05/21/09, and 04/10/12, and on 11/11/14 to Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel
[Different entity than PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue, LLC which was reg’d w/ WDFI on 10/14/97; Dissolved on 10/24/05; Registered Agent Ron Van Den Heuvel]
04/26/02 : Securities & Exchange Commission, Amendment No. 2 to Form S-3, Registration Statement, SPATIALIGHT, INC.
05/08/02 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 02CV802, Paul R. Anderson v. Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel, Willian C. Bain, Jan Marie Summers Van Den Heuvel; Garnishees: VOS Electric Inc. Spirit Fabs, Spirit Construction Services Inc., Tami Schroeder, Marine Bancorp Inc., Evergreen Development LLC, The Chatterhouse LLC; [Dismissed Garnishees: David C. Willihnganz, VOS Construction Services Inc., VHC Inc., Tissue Products Technology Corp., Dale Stank, Ron & Bill Investments LLP, Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies Inc., Recovering Aqua Resources Inc. [RARTI], RVDH Development Corp., RVDH Inc., Purely Cotton Products Corp., Patriot Paper Services Inc., Partners Concepts Development Inc., Custom Paper Products Inc., Donajane Brasch, Best Built Inc., Jacqueline E. Bartels, James Bain, Beth Bain]
• SETTLEMENT BEFORE TRIAL on 07/18/03
05/13/02 : American Combustion Technologies of California, Inc. registered in the State of California by Abdul Latif Mahjoob
05/31/02 : (1 word) EcoFibre Inc. registered w/ WDFI; Dissolved on 03/23/05 [different than (2 words) Eco Fibre, Inc. but Ron Van Den Heuvel was Registered Agent for both]
06/04/02 : Ron Van Den Heuvel gave $500 contribution to Scott McCallum; Employer: VOS Electric
06/17/02 : Custom Paper Products, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/WDFI; Changed again on 09/23/04, and on 07/21/06, and on 05/21/09 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Administratively Dissolved on 11/07/12
07/29/02 : OBC named Atty. James Bittorf (non-Oneida) as Interim Oneida Law Office Chief Counsel w/ start date of 07/30/02
Cristina Danforth – Fmr. OBC Treas. & Chair; Board member of Native American Bank NA (NABNA); Pres. of Native American Finance Officers Assoc. (NAFOA)
08/2002 to 08/ 2005 : New Oneida Business Committee term
- Chair: Cristina Danforth
- Vice-Chair: Kathy Hughes
- Treasurer: Mercie Danforth
- Secretary: Julie Barton
- Council Members:
- Curtis Danforth
- Vince DelaRosa
- Brian Doxtator
- Patricia King
- Paul Ninham
09/06/02 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 02CV1489, Ursula A. Rathie v. Ronald Van Den Heuvel & Partners Concepts Development Inc.
• $220,982.32 MONEY JUDGMENT AGAINST RON VAN DEN HEUVEL
According to the April 15, 2019 VHC Inc. & Consolidated Subsidiaries Brief & Required Short Appendix [137 pages], U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Appellate Case No. 18-3718, VHC Inc. & Subsidiaries, Petitioner-Appellant v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent-Appellee
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- April 15, 2019 VHC Inc. & Consolidated Subsidiaries Separate Appendix [227 pages, 51 MB], U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Appellate Case No. 18-3718, VHC Inc. & Subsidiaries, Petitioner-Appellant v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent-Appellee
In 2002, one of Ron [Van Den Heuvel]’s commercial lenders, Associated Bank (“Associated”) was owed so much by Ron VDH and his companies that it commissioned a third-party consulting firm, Silverman Consulting, to review its debt portfolio with the Ron Entities. … Silverman’s assigned consultant, Craig Graff (“Graff”), discovered that Ron VDH had essentially played a shell game, fraudulently moving assets between companies, encumbering them multiple times, and misrepresenting assets and asset values. … Graff concluded that Associated’s loans to the Ron Entities were not collectible. … Associated was also VHC’s primary creditor at this time. …
[Footnote: Associated was not the Ron Entities’ only commercial lender. Other commercial lenders included, among others, Johnson Bank, Nicolet Bank, and Baylake Bank.]
Associated could not simply force the Ron Entities into bankruptcy. … If Associated forced the Ron Entities into bankruptcy, it could have caused VHC to go into bankruptcy as well. … Given the amounts that VHC was owed by the Ron Entities, if those businesses went bankrupt and VHC wrote off all of those debts in 2002, VHC would have been insolvent. … This would have put VHC in default of its own obligations at Associated, which would have forced Associated to write down so much of its debt portfolio that Associated’s own business may very well have been threatened. … Associated was desperate, and needed a creative solution to this problem; Graff provided one. Even though Associated recognized that the Ron Entities were separate from VHC, Graff understood that Associated could leverage its relationship with VHC to force VHC to pay the Ron Entities’ debts. … Although VHC’s balance sheet would have appeared insolvent without the Ron Entities’ receivables on its books, VHC had excellent cash flow. … Thus, VHC could provide a payment stream for the Ron Entities’ loans at Associated. … Associated had leverage over VHC because Associated was the lender for VHC’s lines of credit – which were essential to its ability to make payroll and pay current expenses, given that contractors are generally paid in arrears. … In 2002, Associated, on Graff’s advice, informed VHC that its lines of credit would not be renewed unless it signed a broad-based guarantee of the Ron Entities’ loans. … This guarantee would effectively cross-collateralize all of the Ron Entities’ debts with VHC’s debts, and would put VHC in default on its own obligations if Ron VDH allowed certain liens senior to Associated’s to arise, or even missed payments. … Further, the guarantee subordinated all of the Ron Entities’ debt with VHC to all of the Ron Entities’ debt with Associated. … Associated did not inform VHC of the fraudulent conduct by Ron VDH that had put the Ron Entities in this position.
[Footnote: Even though VHC was not aware of any fraud in 2002, VHC gradually became aware that Ron VDH “changed his companies a lot,” which was part of the reason that the promissory notes between VHC and Ron’s entities were somewhat confusing; new notes were sometimes issued to track debt that was now owed by a new entity. … Ron VDH’s fraudulent conduct became public knowledge when he was indicted prior to the trial of this case, and subsequently convicted of defrauding numerous lenders and investors in that case and a subsequent case filed after the trial of this matter. … Though not the subject of this litigation, Ron VDH is presently in jail for conduct similar to his conduct with respect to VHC.] …
Although VHC was reluctant to enter into such a guarantee, it had no choice. … Without its lines of credit, it would have gone out of business. … Moreover, although it tried, VHC was unable to find another lender who could extend it the credit it needed. … VHC agreed to Associated’s terms in September 2002. … At the time, VHC viewed its only option, other than bankruptcy, to be to agree to the guarantee. … VHC also believed it would likely not have to make payments on the guarantees because the Ron Entities would be able to cover their debts. … That proved incorrect. Over the next several years, VHC was forced to pay out over $39 million as a result of this guarantee, and $65 million all told as a result of payments made pursuant to guarantees subsequently required by other banks. … These payments included amounts paid directly to banks, advances to cover payments to other lenders, and for operating expenses in order to prevent liens from arising and throwing the Ron Entities’ loans at Associated into default. … These advances were documented with promissory notes, and interest was charged and accrued. …
VHC spent the years after 2002 trying to get out of this guarantee arrangement and paying guarantees on Ron VDH’s debts. … Even as VHC moved its debt to other local banks, though, it found that those other banks were also owed money by Ron VDH. … These banks, aware of Associated’s guarantee agreement, insisted on similar guarantee arrangements in relation to debts the Ron Entities had at those institutions. … VHC did not execute such guarantee agreements to provide Ron VDH with access to new credit, but found itself forced to guarantee numerous debts already owed. …
After the 2002 Associated guarantee, VHC wanted the Ron Entities to realize liquidity for two reasons – first, to pay back Associated so that VHC could get out from under its guarantees at Associated, and secondly, to pay VHC back. VHC therefore monitored the Ron Entities’ attempts to recognize various liquidity events, including sales contracts for paper, potential asset sales, and various credit events. …
Some small liquidity events were recognized – for example, Ron VDH’s Oconto Falls paper mill entered into an offtake agreement, whereby it agreed to sell all of its product to a paper distributor, guaranteeing it certain cash flow if it hit certain targets. … But the relatively small amounts of capital generated were not sufficient to render the Ron Entities profitable or result in significant reductions to their debt loads. … Ultimately, the Ron Entities sold their assets or were foreclosed by creditors, and VHC saw little repayment after 2004.
10/01/02 : Purely Cotton Products Corp. registered w/ WDFI; Change of Registered Agent on 04/05/05, and on 05/19/09 to Artley Skenandore Jr., and on 02/25/16 to Ron Van Den Heuvel
11/27/02 : Spirit Fabs, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and on 12/09/03 to [Ron’s brother] David Van Den Heuvel
Carl J. Artman
12/04/02 : Oneida Business Committee approves Oneida Law Office Chief Counsel contract for Atty. Carl Artman [served until 2005]
12/20/02 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 02CV2151, Andrew P. Hilliard v. Trout Creek LLC
• STIPULATION / ORDER Of DISMISSAL on 01/08/04
[Different entity than 06/26/07 : Trout Creek Investors, LLC registered w/ WDFI on 06/26/07; Registered Agent: Artley Skenandore Jr.; Principal Office: 3973 Hidden Trail, Oneida, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 06/09/15]
2003 : According to the Denver Post:
[Atty. Carl Artman] received an advanced law degree from the University of Denver [COLORADO] law school in 2003[.]
According to Law360.com, Paper mill seeks void of $17M IRS Deficiency:
Family-owned VHC Inc. said that the company owned debt and not equity in relative Ron Van Den Heuvel’s spinoff business, and that the IRS wrongly increased its taxable income during the period while disallowing deductions from the debt, which a series of bad deals had rendered illiquid. …
According to VHC, starting in 2003, the two companies began a series of “often heated” meetings for repayment plans. However, a series of bad deals prevented the payments for years, causing VHC to declare the deductions on each year’s returns.
02/04/03 : FILED – Outagamie Co. Case No. 03CV154, Voith Paper Inc. v. Raymond T. Van Den Heuvel, Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel, Re-Box Packaging Inc., Partners Concepts Development Inc., Spirit Construction Services Inc., Oconto Falls Tissue Inc., Partners Concepts Development LLC, Oconto Falls Tissue LLC, Tissue Products Technology Corp.; Other: Roger Hoffman
According to the Court Record of Events:
• 06/23/04 – Request for International Judicial Assistance from Atty. Ahrens – Approved by the Court in regard to depositions of different people
• 08/04/04 – Confidential Documents submitted as the Origianl Affidavit of Otto L. Heissenberger Jr.
• 08/06/04 – Brief in Support of Defendants’ Request for Clarification of Court’s July 26, 2014 Discovery Order Relating to the European Depositions
• 09/16/04 – SETTLEMENT BEFORE TRIAL
Pedro Fernandez a/k/a Pete Fernandez
03/11/03 : Source of Savings, Inc. registered w/ WDFI; Principal Office: 2079-A Lawrence Dr., De Pere, WI; Administratively Dissolved on 03/13/09; Registered Agent Pedro Fernandez
• Pedro ‘Pete’ Fernandez is married to Kimberly Susan Yessman, who is the sister of Ron Van Den Heuvel’s current wife, Kelly Lea Yessman]
- According to the May 10, 2016 OFFICIAL FORM 2020 List of Equity Secured Holders of Green Box NA Green Bay, LLC, signed by Stephen A. Smith of GlenArbor Partners, Inc.:
Pedro Fernandez – 1,000,000 Membership Units
11211 Prosperity Farms Road
Suite 303 C
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
According to www.GreenBox.com/AboutUs [Archive]:
Pete Fernandez
VP Sales & MarketingMr. Pete Fernandez, who is fluent in Spanish, has been Vice President and Marketing for over 25 years for companies such as Bacardi USA, Cruzan, Ltd. and Incubrand Spirits Group. During his tenure at Bacardi, and Cruzan he was instrumental in creating and running special events throughout the country. His unique and innovative sales and marketing technique allowed him to build relationships in the liquor industry that lasted the duration of his career. With his excelent reputation with all the top distributors around the country, he positioned himself against some of the major companies in the liquor industry, building brands to the point of acquisition.
03/24/03 : FILED – CLOSURE OF MORTGAGE, Brown Co. Case No. 03C505, F&M Bank Wisconsin v. Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel, Jan M. Van Den Heuvel, Capital Bank, Ron & Bill Investments LLP
04/10/03 : Spirit Construction Services, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI, and again on 08/16/12, and 05/01/14
05/02/03 : TRANSCRIPT OF JUDGMENT – Door Co. Case No. 03TJ9, Paul R. Anderson v. Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel
According to Court Record of Events:
• 05/02/03 – “Certified copy of judgment filed, no transcript, no proof of docketing in Brown Co. Norma Uecker entered and docketed judgment based on docket fee being paid, thought paperwork looked questionable.”
• 05/05/03 – “Clerk Ostrand called [Ross] Nova’s office [at Godfrey & Kahn], infomed them we need the transcript of judgment to verify proper docketing in Brown County and to complete our file.”
• 05/08/03 – “Clerk Ostrand made follow up call to Nova’s office. On 5-9-03 (?) they called indicating they have transcript and will be sending it.”
• 06/11/03 – “Satisfaction of judgment”
• $499,828.06 JUDGMENT AGAINST RON VAN DEN HEUVEL
05/12/03 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 03CV831, US Bank NA v. Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel, Jan Marie Summers Van Den Heuvel; Garnishees: James Bain, Beth Bain, Jacqueline E. Bartels, Best Built Inc, Donajane Brasch, The Chatterhouse LLC, Custom Paper Products Inc., Evergreen Development Inc., Marine Bancorp Inc., Partners Concepts Development Inc., Patriot Paper Services Inc., Patriot Services Inc., Purely Cotton Products Corp., RVDH Inc., RVDH Development Corporation, Recovering Aqua Resources Inc., Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies Inc. [RARTI], Ron & Bill Investments LLC, Tami Schroeder, Spirit Construction Services Inc., Spirit Fabs Inc., Dale Stank, Tissue Products Technology Corp., VHC Inc., VOS Construction Services Inc., Vos Electric Inc., David C. Willihnganz
[Counsel for Best Built Inc., Spirit Construction, Spirit Fabs Inc., VHC Inc., VOS Construction Services Inc., and Vos Electric Inc. is One Law Group/Stellpflug Law partner C. David Stellpflug who retired in January 2016. He is the husband of VHC, Inc. Secretary Nancy Stellpflug]
Atty. Mark Bartels of SC Acquisition Company, LLC, is the current ‘Registered Agent’ for One Law Group / Stellpflug Law]
05/16/03 : FILED – Dane Co. Case No. 03CV1487, Jorge Gomez v. Dan Hawk & Native American Insurance Co. Inc.
• Named Registered Agent of Oneida Small Business, Inc. on 05/24/12 as Dan Hawk
• Named Registered Agent of Oneida Small Business, Inc. on 03/12/15 as Daniel Hawk
05/22/03 : Custom Tissue, LLC registered w/ WDFI; Change of Registered Agent on 09/22/04, and on 09/23/05, and on 05/21/09 to Ron Van Den Heuvel; Administratively Dissolved on 11/07/12
06/13/03 : American Combustion Technologies, Inc. filed Articles of Dissolution w/ WDFI; Registered Agent Saboor Zafari; Started on 05/25/83
American Combustion Technologies, Inc. was surrendered from Wisconsin to California jurisdiction on 09/13/99, where it continued to be operated by Latif Mahjoob / A. Latif Mahjoob / Abdul Latif Mahjoob
07/01/03 : IEP, Ltd. changed Registered Agent to ‘C T Corp. Systems’ w/ WDFI
07/16/03 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 03CV1226, David J. Kaster & Leah M. Kaster v. Chatterhouse LLC, Maurice Ringhand, Theresa Ringhand, and Ronald Van Den Heuvel
• $93,839.66 MONEY JUDGMENT AGAINST CHATTERHOUSE, LLC
07/17/03 : July 17, 2003 Complaint, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Case No. 03-CV-669, Industrial Technology Ventures LP v. Partners Concepts Development Inc., Ronald Van Den Heuvel, Daniel Platkowski, Steven Peters, Kathleen Berg, James Kellam, Bernard Dahlin, and Tissue Products Technology Corp.
81. Upon information and belief, Ron Van Den Heuvel and Steven Peters, as Directors of [Partners Concepts Development Inc. / PCDI], and the Directors of [Tissue Products Technology Corp. / TPTC] are contemplating selling a majority ownership interest [in Custom Paper Products Inc. / CPPI] to the Oneida Nation [of Wisconsin / ONWI]. Such a sale would be unlawful and would result in obvious irreparable harm for which no adequate remedy at law exists.
82. The Plaintiff [Industrial Technology Ventures LP / ITV] seeks temporary and permanent injunctive relief prohibiting the sale of CPPI to the Oneida Nation [of WI / ONWI] based on the allegations set forth above and the resulting irreparable harm.
07/24/03 : OSGC subsidiary Glory, LLC registered w/ WDFI as a subsidiary of OSGC
07/28/03 : In Dane Co. Case No. 03CV1487, Jorge Gomez v. Dan Hawk & Native American Insurance Co. Inc., the Court denied Defendant Dan Hawk‘s Motion to Dismiss; the Court found Dan Hawk in contempt; the Court ordered Dan Hawk to cease & desist from soliciting in Native American Insurance Co., Inc., or any other business that does not have organization permit, including any solicitations via website NativeAmericanMutual.com.
Dan Hawk was ordered to provide written confirmation that solicitation has ceased; had Dan Hawk failed to comply with the order, the Court would have authorized issuance of a bench warrant or body attachment, and Dan Hawk would have remained in custody until compliance.
07/30/03 : In Dane Co. Case No. 03CV1487, Jorge Gomez v. Dan Hawk & Native American Insurance Co. Inc., the Court denied Defendant Dan Hawk‘s motion to dismiss and granted Plaintiff Gomez’s Contempt Petition; Defendant Dan Hawk was ordered to comply within 15 days or face bench warrant and/or body attachment.
08/22/03 : August 22, 2003 Notice of Voluntary Dismissal, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Case No. 03-CV-669, Industrial Technology Ventures LP v. Partners Concepts Development Inc., Ronald Van Den Heuvel, Daniel Platkowski, Steven Peters, Kathleen Berg, James Kellam, Bernard Dahlin, and Tissue Products Technology Corp.
09/23/03 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 03CV1631, Hurckman Mechanical Industries Inc. v. Care for All Ages Inc., Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel & Raymond Van Den Heuvel
10/16/03 : FILED – Brown Co. Case No. 03CV1780, Fox Bay LLC, 2545 Investments LLC & Tweet Garot Mechanical Inc. v. Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel, Raymond Van Den Heuvel, Evergreen Development LLC, Steven Peters, Oconto Falls Tissue Inc.; Garnishees: Chat LLC, Custom Paper Products Inc., Evergreen Development LLC, Nature’s Way Tissue Corp., PCDI Oconto Falls Tissue LLC, Partners Concepts Development Inc., R&B Inc., Patriot Paper Services Inc., Patriot Services Inc., Patriot Lighting Inc., PCDI Financial Services LLC, Penn Fiber LLC, Purely Cotton Products Corp., Recovering Aqua Resources Inc., VOS Electic Inc., R&B Investments LLC, RE-BOX Packaging LLC, Ron & Bill Investments LLC, Spirit Construction Services Inc., Tissue Prouducts Technology Corp., Recovering Aqua Resources Technologies Inc. [RARTI], and [Oneida Nation of Wisconsin / ONWI-owned] Bay Bank
• $50,082.18 MONEY JUDGMENT AGAINST RON VAN DEN HEUVEL on 07/16/04
• $550,020.86 MONEY JUDGMENT AGAINST EVERGREEN DEVELOPMENT, LLC on 12/15/04
11/03/03 : FILED – Outagamie Co. Case No. 03CF583, State of Wisconsin v. Dan Hawk, Felony C Theft-Movable Property >$2500
11/07/03 : Crossgate Partners, LLC Certificate of Existence registered w/ State of Georgia Sec. of State
12/02/03 : In Outagamie Co. Case No. 03CF583, the Court ordered that Dan Hawk was to have NO contact with the Oneida Nations Farm except for legal matters.
• Named Registered Agent of Oneida Small Business, Inc. on 05/24/12 as Dan Hawk
• Named Registered Agent of Oneida Small Business, Inc. on 03/12/15 as Daniel Hawk
12/04/03 : FILED – Intentional Tort Complaint, Brown Co. Case No. 03CV2079, Partners Concepts Development Inc. v. Paul R. Anderson; Third-party Defendants: Ronald H. Van Den Heuvel, Jan Marie Summers Van Den Heuvel
• DISMISSED on 02/09/05
12/09/03 : Spirit Fabs, Inc. changed Registered Agent w/ WDFI to Ron’s brother David Van Den Heuvel
12/26/03 : Nature’s Way Tissue Corp. registered w/ WDFI; Changed Registered Agent on 12/19/06, and 01/02/07, and 05/19/09 to Artley Skenandore Jr.; Dissolved on 05/09/12
According to the January 27, 2013, Decision & Order of the Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission, various dockets, Steven Peters, Ronald Van Den Heuvel & Artley Skenandore Jr. v. Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue, re: Nature’s Way Tissue Corp.:
2. Mr. Skenandore was involved in with Nature’s Way [Tissue Corp.] beginning in December of 2003. When Nature’s Way first entered into business, Nature’s Way entered into a Marketing Agreement with Georgia Pacific, as a minority business enterprise. …
4. Mr. Skenandore had no expertise in the paper industry. Nevertheless, he was made president.
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