There Will Be Roseblood
by
John Presco
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
I awoke on the morning of March 23, 2026 around 3:30 AM. I had a feeling of dread. There was a crash of an airliner. Trump is promising to invade Iran with troops, and wipe it off the map. I pick up my phone, and continued where I left off. I google….
ROSAMOND THE CUP BEARER
I gasped when this blog came up. I thought I had lost Drew Benton’s early AI Art that she did around 2000. What was haunting, I believe Drew read this post, and thus the attempt to put Rosamond in her name. Her driver’s license read…
DREW ROSAMOND TAYLOR BENTON
This made filling out her death certificate, troublesome. Rosamond had been misspelled…..ROSMOND. I saw Christine and Garth being united again on a official document. I was the only family member that responded. Two hid from the police. What went wrong? Drew was the Poster Child of one of California’s most powerful law firms. Robert Brevoort Buck put together the family Oil Trust. There was….
BAD BLOOD
I am very poor and scraped together the money for cremation. I asked Drew’s ex-boyfriend for Drew’s art and computer. He said he would send me the art, He never did. If my blood kin had told me Drew killed herself, by twenty stab wounds to her thighs – and jumping off her balcony – I would have raised more money. After declaring I am the executor, I would seal the apartment! The ex hauled everything out of there. He was desperate for a copy of the death certificate. When I got it, I disovered my niece died two hours later – of a heart attack! WTF! There are two times and two places listed. This guys mother – worked at that hospital? He claimed he did not know Drew’s parents were famous artists. Did he refuse to give me Drew Rosamond’s Art – after I told him?
The stock market shot up 1100 points after Trump said he was talking peace with Iran. This proved to be more bullshit. Oil has been running and ruining my families lives since 1982, after Christine and Garth formed a partnership with Lawrence Chazen, the righf-hand man of J. Paul Getty. He and Newsom were Tax Men.
I am tempted to publish the Police Report. There are pools of blood in Drew’s appartment and outside on her balcony. A decorative knife sits in one large pool. This is the knife my beloved niece used to deliver unto herself…..
BLOW AFTER AFTERL BLOW, AFTER BLOW, AFTER BLOW, AFTER BLOW
How can this be a SUICIDE ATTEMPT? Would you do this – in a frenzy to leave the planet? I got on Google after I read this HORROR STORY. A person who stabs themselves, stab themselves in the stomach and neck. The heart is also a target. This alleged attempt – FAILED! Drew then jumped off her three story balcony, and lived. She talked to people. The ambulance took her away. Around midnight the second daughter of the world famous artist CHRISTINE ROSAMOND BENTON
DIES!
A tube was put in her throat, WHEN? The first thing that came to my mind, is the rescue people thought they had come to pick up some DRUG TRASH. Drew only had her underwear on. Was she crying out in pain because her pelvis was shattered? Was she seen as…..ANOTHER PAIN IN THE ASS?
Yesterday I told an old friend, I believe One Battle After Another is
ABOUT ME
Today, I believe There Will Be Bad Blood is
ABOUT ME
I found There Will Be Blood – very annoying, There was a Preacher Man that was always MAD! I have been called a LUNATIC by people who read the religious aspects of this blog….
ROYAL ROSAMOND PRESS
Paul Thomas Anderson FLIRTS with religious subject matter in his FICTION MOVIES!
Paul……It’s time to give yourself up to….THE LORD, and make two movies…
ABOUT ME!
I am the Real Deal!
I AM
JOHN
There will be……..Justice and Retribution! We don’t live forever!
Repent?
5/17/2012
Drew Benton and the Rose Mouth Grail
Two months ago I met Vicki and Drew in a fanciful land on Everquest. I looked like a grey-haried Danish King whom I name Wolferose. This name is derived from my study of the name Hrothmund a character in Beowulf.
“Rosamund, Rosamond, Rosamunde, Rosemonde is of Teutonic origin,
having been formed from the Old male name Rhosmund, softened down
from Ruodmunt same as the Old and Middle high German name Hrothmond
(Icelandic Hrothmundr) old Gothis, Ratmund. Junius’ translation
Ruodmunt. “red mouth”. The name if from Ruod-munt for Rad-Mund “man
for counsel” councilor of Radmun, “protector in council”
Tolkein’s Ring Trilogy was inspired by the Icelandic Tales authored by, and about, my kindred.
Above is the artwork of my my niece who became an orphan in the world when her father, Garth Benton, died two weeks ago. Vicki has taken Rosamond’s daughter under her wing. She is a Foundling in Art Mundi. I am the Protector of the Grail Council known as the Rose of the World. The Sleeping Beauty – is awake!
Jan Hrothmund
Beowulf, Rosamond (Hrothmond) and the Rose Mouth Grail Message List
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Beowulf, Rosamond (Hrothmond) and the Rose Mouth Grail
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808728058/video/4798298
(Images: Cup-beaer, Wealhbeow, serving mead. Coat of arms. Beowulf
fighting dragon. Wolfhouse. Brendal’s mother.)
A movie version of the legend of Beowulf is due to be released in a
week or two. Today I found the definitive proof the name Rosamond
comes from the Hrothmond/Hrothmund, and is the source of the Hromund
who is the hero of the Icelandic saga,’Hromundr Gripsson’ that
inspired Tolkein. Some scholars suggest this saga is the source of
some aspects of the Arthurian legend, as well as a source of the
Lohengrin legend.
Hrothmund is the son of Wealhþeow who preformed the ceremony of the
mead cup, she the cup-bearer for the Danish kings. No one has been
able to define the meaning of her name, but it looks like it ends
with “beow” and might stand for mead made of honeycones. It is
suggested she is a servant or “slave”, but I see Maiden Server of
Mead. Perhaps she is a mead goddess.
Hrothgar wishes to adopt Beowulf, but Wealhbeow bids the king to not
forget Hrothulf, which looks like Hrotwulf “famous wolf”
or “redwolf”. Hrothgar has two sons, Hrethric and Hrothmund, the
latter being the source of the name Rosamond. Did Beowulf become
Hrothmund’s half-brother?
Hrothmund is said to mean “rose mouth”. This is meaning of the name
Rosenmund of which we see a coat of arms with two roses and a cross.
There is a Rosenmund Cup that is the centerpiece for the Gerberzunft
Guild in Basel. Did this cup ever SERVE mead to distinguished guests,
if only in a traditonal sence?
Beowulf was written by a farmer named Rolf. Is it possible he is my
ancestor and lived in Wolfhouse where the Roesmonts dwelt?
http://www.gerbernzunft.ch/index.php?id=81
My family name, Rosamond, will forever be associated with the Beowulf
legend that depicts a usurption by Hroðulf, i.e. Hrólfr Kraki.
Here is the source of the name Rosamund found in “The Etymology of
the Principal Christian Names of Great …
By Richard Stephen Charnock
Rosamund, Rosamond, Rosamunde, Rosemonde is of Teutonic origin,
having been formed from the Old male name Rhosmund, softened down
from Ruodmunt same as the Old and Middle high German name Hrothmond
(Icelandic Hrothmundr) old Gothis, Ratmund. Junius’ translation
Ruodmunt. “red mouth”. The name if from Ruod-munt for Rad-Mund “man
for counsel” councilor of Radmun, “protector in council””
Jon Presco
Copyright 2007
10/6/2021
Investigate Buck Oil Spill
I am going to gather a team of Environmentalist to investigate the old oil spill of the SS Frank H. Buck, and the new oil spill. This investigation should be funded by the Buck Foundation Institute. We need scientists at Lands End to look for oil residue.
Above are scenes from the movie The Sandpiper starring my cousin, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, who plays an artist. Liz looks very much like my late sister, Christine Rosemond Benton, whose partner in the first Rosamond Gallery in Carmel, was Oil Man, Lawrence Chazen. There needs to be a study on how many billions of dollars the California Coast generates. The cabin in the Sandpiper was moved.
‘It is there pretty much forever’: Huntington Beach oil spill may permanently affect birds (msn.com)
John Presco
7/11/2025
Buck and The Fox
Posted on June 24, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Story of Rosamond
by
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
“Pick you own damn oranges! We’re pulling up stakes, and getting the hell out of Carmel, pronto! You got too many water problems! declared Frank Rosamond, head of the Rosamond clan of California, who was not happy about the death of his cousin, Rena-Christina Victoria Roozemonde.
Capturing Beauty
by
John Presco
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
I found proof Robert Buck is the son of Frank Buck, who over timbered the trees around Springfield where I live. This is huge! I got the New John Steinbeck Story. I am certain Robert is the guy who gabe me a hard look as I stood next to my mother at the funeral reception – and refused to shake my hand. Rosemary told me he was a very rich and powerful man. He went to Hastings and I must have
BLOWN HIS BOAT OUT OF THE WATER
with my legal filing, and uncanny ability to figure out…..the truth!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Del Monte Aviation & Buck Inst.
Posted on February 18, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
I have long wondered why the law firm of Buck handled the Rosamond Probate for ten years – and didn’t charge the estate – a dime! Did Alan Fox take up the tab? Did he want to prevent any of Rosamond’s Family from published a bio and, author a movie script? Alan may be dead.
Frank Buck co-founded Beverley Hills. Consider the Clampetts. I have long wondered if Christine Rosamond knew too much.
John Presco
Booth-Kelly Lumber Company In Springfield
Posted on June 26, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Story of Rosamond
by
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
“Hi Dan. Ten years ago we talked in your office about the white equestrian statue outside your office. According the ongoing Kesey Square Myth, this horseman may come alive in the night, and drag Kesey statue over to Springfield – with your assistance. Is this true?”
I have known Dan Egan since I moved to Springfield eleven years ago. Recently, we discussed his prophecy that Springfield would soon own the statue of Ken now located in Eugene. Or, did Neil Laudati tell me this? There is a Trojan Horse, here? I have found the hidden Mr. Burns. In theory, I own the history of Springfield. Helen is my friend. I have talked about running for Mayor. I will beautify this lumber town. I own the real story of a lone poor man taking on the powerful and rich man with a bevy of attorneys, who depicted my famous sister as a deranged and dangerous lunatic, thus her legacy had to taken over by sane outsiders!
“Mr. Buck is a prominent Mason, a Knight Templar and Odd Fellow, and a member of various clubs, including the Bohemian, of San Francisco; the Pacific-Union of the same city, the San Francisco Gold and Country Club, the Claremont Country Club, of Oakland, California, and the Sutter Club, of Sacramento, California.”
From Frank would come the largest family trust on earth that is worth a billion dollars. Because there was alcoholism in the family, it was founded to combat this disease, and help the poor people of Marin. Maybe we can get Springfield in on this action, because Buck bucks, built this town – and Beverly Hills!
Subterranean L.A.: The Urban Oil Fields
Acres of ancient oil deposits played a fundamental role in the rapid growth of Los Angeles
Cheryl Preston | July 16, 2013 | 5 min read
Union 76 Refinery at Night, about 1950, Will Connell. Gelatin silver print, 18 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 1/4 in. Lent by Stephen White, Collection II. Artwork © Will Connell
The best-known legends surrounding the early days of the City of Angels involve water and Hollywood, with both intersecting dramatically in the film Chinatown. However, as the exhibition Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990 reveals through a collection of luminous photographs and historical notes, the oil industry was one of the major engines of innovation that played a fundamental though perhaps overlooked role in the rapid growth of Los Angeles.
As a native of Southern California, this realization intrigued me. I suppose I’ve always been aware of the presence of the oil business in L.A., but only out of the corner of my eye. The skeletal derricks and stalwart pumpjacks on hillsides and city streets—ordinarily bizarre sights—blend into the scenery of everyday life here, becoming so familiar they’re often ignored.
The fact is that since the 1890s the city has been literally and figuratively built upon acres of ancient oil deposits deep beneath its shifting surface. The first successful L.A. oil well was drilled in 1892 by Edward Doheny, who tapped the Los Angeles City Oil Field on the site of a present-day swimming pool center in Echo Park, setting off an oil and population boom.
Oil wells in Los Angeles, 1905. Photo: born1945 on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
9/5/2011
Lawrence Chazen and Family Partnership
“Meet my mortal enemy, Lawrence Chazen. He was Garth Benton’s good buddy and Vic’s private lender. Vic described Chazen as “a top financial advisor for the Getty family.” Chazen was investigated by Andrew Cuomo of HUD for loan sharking, he threatening to take the home from a black grandmother in Oakland where I grew up. I went to school with her grandchildren. As fate would have it you can see this woman’s son, Willie Aiken, in Mark’s High School football team photo. This article appeared in the Examiner in 1995 and hence I tried to warn people these crooks were collapsing our economy. I am a true prophet.”
As I type, President Obama is asking oil companies to end their tax havens, and pay more taxes. Chazen is the Director of Noble-Swiss, and Noble-Cayman. He is an expert at setting up tax shelters. He did this for the Getty Oil family who are buying up all the images on the internet.
After Grarth and Christine Benton formed a family partnership with Vic and Vicki, they formed a partnership with Lawrence Chazen in the first Rosamond Gallery in Carmel – where the family partnership prints were sold! Vic and Vicki got nothing! Chazen was the biggest creditor in the Probate, and the Bankruptcy Christine filed after filing for divorce. I filed a claim larger then Chazen’s so I could keep my families Artistic Legacy in the family, because it was being sold to an outsider – who lied to me about the family prints, she saying she had nothing to do with them.
The image of the four black girls is titled ‘Lena and Her Sisters’ . Lena was our black maid who treated us like her own children. The movie ‘The Help’ is about these anonymous bonds that Christine honored in 1986.
Victor’s best friends in high school sat atop the pyramid building in San Francisco as CEOs of TransAmerica Title, and were dismissed because of involvement in realestate loan scams. Chazen is a partner with most members of the Getty family, as well as the Pelosi’s, and Newsoms, in the PlumpJack. This is a family-like affair. This is the real history of a world famous artist, that many rich and powerful people do not want you to see. This is why Artist Anonymous was born – and unborn!
I have seen the light! I am the poor Bohemian Artist who has met his beloved Muse! And, we will set you free!
Jon Presco
Copyright 2011
I am a member in good standing of the State Bar of California and an attorney
on record for 50% interest in Shannon Rosamond. In my 16 years as a member of
the State Bar California, I have never experienced a more deliberate fraud on
any court or more reckless and calculated attempt to fraudulently take control
of a probate estate at the exclusion of the lawful heirs and total manipulation
of a tester’s intent that the present efforts of Attorney’s Robin Beare,
Lawrence J. Chazen and Garth Benton, the descendants former spouse.”
“Over the specific argument of Ms. Beare, Judge Silver refused to appoint Mr.
Chazen. Neither Ms. Beare nor Mr. Chazen disclosed to the court the very
critical fact that Mr. Chazen has the largest single creditor’s claim against
the estate and is a former business partner and business associate of Garth
Benton who the court had removed as Special Administer just moments before.”
Newsom’s annual income from 1996 to 2001 topped $439,000 per year, according to tax returns he provided. Most of it came in wages and dividends from the same Getty-backed concerns.
— Newsom’s 2000 income ballooned to more than $1.3 million thanks to an $844,000 profit he made on the sale of a Pacific Heights house he bought with Getty’s help, the returns show.
— A Getty trust paid Newsom $169,000 for investment advice from 1997-2000, Newsom said.
— When the family-owned Getty Images photographic business took its stock public in 1996, Newsom was in on the initial public offering, buying $10,000 worth. Since then, he has made $60,900 profit on trades of the stock, the tax returns show.
Trustee: Lawrence J. Chazen
Larry Chazen grew up in Iowa. He was educated at the University of Colorado where he earned a B.A. in Accounting and Law degree. His career focus has been as an investment manager and advisor. Larry is both a CPA and a member of the California Bar and, since 1994, has served on the Board of Noble Corporation – a Fortune 500 company. He is an owner of the Carmel Restaurant Group, which includes Grasing’s and Kurt’s Carmel Chop House restaurants. Larry and his wife Cece (who grew up in Pacific Grove) live in Carmel and have three children and two grandchildren. Larry enjoys hiking and travel.
Oil Executive Makes Art Movie
Posted on July 20, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
I just discovered that Robert Buck has been on the Board of the Jeffers Tor House Foundation for many years. I assume Lacy Williams Buck is his daughter, she too on the board. What this tells me, is, Robert Buck understands historic family legacies. Why then did his law firm utterly destroy my family legacy, and its star, Christine Rosamond Benton. Before they did this, they destroyed my niece, Shannon Rosamond. I am sure Robert Buck and his partner, Sydney Morris, know Lawrence Chazen, and Robin Beare, who suggested my niece be KEPT IN JAIL, instead of being in HER GALLERY selling Rosamond prints. Morris blesses the desire of ‘The Caretakers’ to write a biography and make a movie. Robert Buck’s book ‘When You Close Your Eyes’ denigrates and demonizes my late sister. Only Charles Dickens, or Victor Hugo, could do The Real Rosamond Story – JUSTICE!
I see Shannon down in a Carmel dungeon, or, locked in a tower, while Lacy Buck prances freely about strengthening THE BUCK FAMILY HOLD on California History. Note the Steinbeck Studies that should include the fruit orchards that Frank Buck owned. I think Beryl Buck had not intention of funding the worship of a poet – and his home – outside Marin County. Just as Heisinger, Morris and Buck installed outsider, Stacey Pierrot in the Rosamond Gallery, Bob Buck has put a giant feather in his kindred’s hat, she getting to walk about the Tor home – as if she owned it. Latinos picked the pears and fruit off Buck trees. Was there stoop-labor involved?
The chances that Bob Buck DID NOT KNOW a film was in the works about a famous Carmel Artist, is very slim! Bob’s law firm was just around the corner from the Rosamond gallery on Dolores. Did Robert Buck swing by with his rich friends to say hello to Stacey Pierrot, and show off HIS GOOD WORK? Does Bob know about me, that evil poor guy? If Chazen had become executor, would he have made a movie? Did the Buck Foundation attack me, and try to destroy me – too?
“By September 2000, however, plans were underway for a biography of Decedent, which Petitioner hoped might create interest in her work. The book was published in 2002. Although the book did not spur the hoped-for interest in Decedent’s life and work, efforts continued to market the concept of a screenplay based upon Decedent’s life. Petitioner hoping that this might be brought to fruition, elected to keep the estate open. However, it is the Petitioner’s belief the likelihood of an increased interest in Decedents work is negligible, and the time has come to close the estate.”
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-supervisors-lack-faith-in-trust-Buck-fund-2866958.php
A demand by San Francisco interests for money from Marin County’s celebrated Buck Trust is rekindling a fiery dispute over a philanthropist’s fortune.
Vocal activists, joined by members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, have accused the Marin Community Foundation of neglecting the poor and mishandling the $1.2 billion trust — one of the nation’s largest charitable funds — that grew out of a 1975 bequest by wealthy Ross matron Beryl Buck.
Among their demands are distribution of the money throughout the region and a multimillion-dollar grant to empower Latinos.”
Proceeds from the book and movie will not be going to Christine’s daughters. I offer proof that my evil sister, Vicki Presco, did change the locks on the door of our sister’s home, and handed Shannon a key. I saw this. Here is part of a poem, from the Tor house contest. I just talked to someone at the SF Board of Supervisors! This is feathering one’s nest – with popping wine corks!
As night thickens, we slip
into lawn chairs, pour
a glass of merlot.
As night thickens, we slip
into lawn chairs, pour
a glass of merlot.
ENTER………The Evil Witch of the Sea! The Sea Hag!
http://www.dma-mry.com/About%20Us.html
http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20160306/NEWS/160309870
About half of the Marin Community Foundation’s $1.7 billion in assets is money from the original Beryl Buck endowment; the rest is donor-advised funds. In addition to managing the Buck Trust’s assets, the foundation administers charitable funds for more than 450 people, families and businesses. These giving accounts are known as “donor-advised funds” because the donors consult with the foundation regarding how their money should be spent.
The Oil Justice Foundation
Posted on July 20, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
Above is what amounts to the Legal Love Bond, between the Getty family, and the Presco family. I use the word “Love” as in Love of Oil, and, Love of Art. How about Love of Litigation? As you will read in the following post……if you have not been involved in any family litigation, you are not a member of our family. Garth and Christine Benton were close with Ann and Gordon. Garth spent months in the Getty mansion painting a mural. My niece, Shannon Rosamond, helped paint the Getty Villa murals. It is her attorney, Phil Stimic who composed the above legal document.
I talked to Phil on the phone ten years ago. He didn’t have a clue he was up against BIG OIL! His client is made out to be unsteady, even insane, as coo-coo at Paul Getty in the Coll article. This shit will make you crazy. I, and a thousand artists, took buses to Sacramento to pass the law that my ex-brother-in-law took advantage of when he sued his Getty buddies. I knew attorneys for ‘Bay Area Lawyers For The Arts’. They looked at my innovative Penzoil can.
California Lawyers for the Arts (CLA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1974 to provide legal services to artists and members of the creative arts community.[1] The first Executive Director was Hamish Sandison, who was a recent graduate of Boalt Hall at University of California, Berkeley and is now a solicitor in London, England, specializing in law and technology. In 1987, Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts (BALA) joined forces with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts-Los Angeles (VLA) to form California Lawyers for the Arts as a statewide organization. CLA is part of an informal network of “Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts” programs that serve artists through state-based organizations throughout the United States.[2]
CLA has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, and the organization serves more than 11,000 artists annually.[3] CLA has nearly 1,800 paid members, including artists and arts organizations of all disciplines and cultural backgrounds, attorneys, accountants, and teachers.
I am proposing the Buck Foundation include a Institute that studies, and combats Oil Injustice. Our addiction to oil – is out of control! The power that Oil Attorneys have – is a GIANT that treads on ‘The Poor of the World’. This GIANT is coming to own ‘The Art of the World’. When you see what Getty friend and partner, Lawrence Chazen did to my neice, the adult heir of her famous artistic mother, then there is no doubt Big Oil is extremely abusive, and will destroy anyone that gets in their way.
Bruce Lee Linvingston told me their lawsuit against Bar Hours, was thwarted because of Gavin Newson a partner of Chazen in PlumpJack, that Alcohol Justice attempted to thwart, decrease their influence and hold over the little people who suffer. I suggest AJ look to opeud addiction in the Getty family, to launch a crusade against heroin use.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Big oil companies are devastating communities across the world. Their operations have forced people from their land, polluted the environment, and led to widespread human rights violations. This has certainly been the case with BP and other oil companies who started operating in the Casanare region of Colombia in the early 1990’s. There is evidence of kidnapping, torture, murder and disappearances. According to the Colombia Human Rights Data Analysis Group, an estimated 9,000 people were murdered and 3,000 have disappeared in Casanare over the past two decades. One of those kidnapped was Gilberto Torres, who is bringing a case for compensation against BP and other oil companies in the High Court in London with the help of law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn (DPG) in the UK and Francisco Ramirez Cuellar in Colombia.
The aim of the Oil Justice Project – a collaboration between War on Want, Deighton Pierce Glynn and the Colombian NGO COSPACC – is to tell the stories of the victims of ‘Big Oil’ and where corporate crimes have been committed to hold these companies to account. To highlight the human rights abuses in Colombia, the Oil Justice Project is welcoming Gilberto Torres on a UK-wide speaker tour from 11 – 23 October 2015. Gilberto Torres is a former trade unionist with Union Sindical Obrera, representing workers in the oil industry. He was abducted and tortured by paramilitaries in 1992 and now lives in exile. Gilberto believes his abduction was ordered and assisted by Ocensa, a joint venture pipeline company part-owned and operated by BP.
http://billmoyers.com/content/californias-fracking-boom-already-gone-bust/
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/50539/noble_ceos_sudden_resignation_renews_driller_merger_talk
The unexpected resignation of Noble Corp.’s (NE) chief executive Thursday night has sent the company’s shares soaring and jump-started speculation that the offshore driller is considering a merger with a rival.
CEO Mark Jackson’s departure was announced in a short statement by the company, offering no details as to why he was leaving after less than a year on the job. Lawrence Chazen, a Noble board member, told Dow Jones Newswires the CEO was resigning for “personal reasons” unrelated to a potential takeover, adding that the move came as a surprise. The company’s stock rose 3.1% to $50.98 in trading Friday morning, far outstripping its peers and indicating that the market was not convinced that “personal reasons” were the only force at work.
“We don’t buy it – we don’t think Mark would just bolt from (a) sweet CEO job on short notice,” Dan Pickering of Tudor Pickering Energy wrote in a note to clients.
Without a concrete explanation for the resignation, traders and analysts settled on Jackson’s longtime aversion to a merger or takeover involving Noble and another driller. Two of Noble’s U.S. rivals agreed to merge in July, and earlier this week, offshore driller shares rose on talk of a three-way deal involving Noble and Norwegian drillers Seadrill (SDRL.OS) and Awilco ASA (AWO.OS).
Artist Garth Benton says that if Gordon and Ann Getty didn’t want his mural in their mansion any more, it would have been easy to detach it from the wall.
Instead, he said, they painted over the $500,000 mural, violating a rarely used California law barring the destruction of fine art.
Mr. Benton responded by filing a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court. A Getty family spokesman said experts are working to restore the painting.
The world renowned artist wants damages for the ruined painting, plus his lawyers’ fees paid. Mr. Benton also wants punitive damages, which by state law would go to a California charitable or educational activity involving fine arts.
Getty family spokesman Larry Kamer confirmed that Mr. Benton’s mural had been painted over with “some other kind of paint,” not by a commissioned artist.
“Because Mrs. Getty has dedicated much of her life to the restoration and preservation of fine art, she is now working with experts to remove the paint from the mural and restore it to its original condition,” Mr. Kamer said.
The couple could not be reached for comment. Mr. Getty is the son of J. Paul Getty, who was one of the richest men in the world a generation ago.
Gordon Getty and his wife are fixtures in San Francisco high society; he splits his time between being a composer and a philanthropist.
“This case arises out of famed art collectors Ann Getty and Gordon Getty’s . . . intentional destruction of works of fine art, created by the well-known mural artist, Garth Benton,” states the lawsuit, which was filed last week.
The garden-style mural, which is three metres tall and 12 metres wide, was installed in the Gettys’ mansion in 1986. Mr. Benton, who lives in Alabama, said the mural was completed, then attached to the wall of the mansion.
A picture of the mural accompanying the complaint shows a painting of a balcony overlooking a field, with a monkey in the corner being fed by a young girl.
Mr. Benton says he called the Gettys in March, hoping to get a photograph of the work for listing in a new catalogue.
The lawsuit states: “Within the following week, Benton was advised by an assistant to the Gettys that the work had been painted over.”
Oil Wells along the Coast Ventura, CA
Oil Wells in Ocean North of Ventura, CA
Lawrence Chazen Creates Swiss Tax Haven
Posted on September 24, 2011by Royal Rosamond Press
There are several books that connect the Knights Templar with Swiss Banking. My nemesis has helped set up Noble Energy in the Cayman Islands, and in Switzerland from where the Rougemont-Rosamond family hail. A un-named group has purchased Chateau Rougemont. I suspect Oil Men from Texas. Where is the Sinclair linage from Jesus when you need it? I hope the Holy Blood Grail Alliance elects a Messiah to save us from these evil men. The home of my ancestors is being advertized as the best offshore banking city for your money.Lawrence Chazen was my father’s privated lender, and a partner in the first Rosamond gallery in Carmel. Credit Suisse Group is associated with Noble and UBS bank that is in trouble due to two billion dollar trading losss by rogue trader.
Now that I have proven Bubba Jesus is not riding shotgun in some neo-Confederte’s big-wheeled truck, he off to shoot some wild hogs and drink a cold six pack, maybe he will come and save the collapsing world economy that will result in the starvation of millions.
Jon Presco
The Marin Community Foundation: An experiment in philanthropy
Robert B. Buck, President and Principal Owner
Bob Buck is the President and principal owner of Del Monte Aviation. Mr. Buck acquired and redeveloped Monterey’s fifty year old Del Monte Aviation in early 1996, using his more than five thousand pilot hours as a guide.
Mr. Buck’s development of Del Monte Aviation followed many years of activity in real estate development, agribusiness and oil production. He is a founding partner of the Carmel law firm of Heisinger, Buck and Morris. Mr. Buck is active in charitable endeavors, now serving as Vice Chairman of the Buck Institute in Marin County, California, a medical research facility specializing in the problems of aging.
He was the founding president of the Frank and Eva Buck Foundation, which grants college scholarships in Northern California and has been on the Board of the Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel for many years.
Robert Buck owns the law firm that stepped into to be the Special Executor of Rosamond’s creative legacy after Vicki Presco refused to serve. Robert is connected to the Buck Trust and Institute that is right out of a science fiction novel in regards for searching for the Fountain of Youth. Robert also owns Del Monte Aviation that flies in professional golfers to play at Pebble Beach. This beats anything Thomas Pynchon could dream up. ‘Inherit Vice’ should have been like ‘Chinatown’. Pynchon is in the Presco Family Tree. I married his ex-wife.
Critics argue this is an unnecessary expense, and that the money would be better spent on the needy of Marin—as Mrs. Buck wished. Dr. Peters responds to this critique in his characteristically careful and politically sensitive manner: “Do I need a special master to tell me whether or not I need to make sure that Dr. and Mrs. Buck’s money as to their will is spent appropriately?” He asks. “No, I don’t need that.” But, he adds: “Justice Strankman is a most thoughtful, intellectual partner to have. He’s a real resource to think through the issues. He and the court have been most supportive of our reach well beyond Dr. and Mrs. Buck’s family and played a key role in supporting our efforts to attract other donors…”
All told, the Buck Trust has doled out more than $1 billion. After 25 years of stewardship by the Marin Community Foundation, it is time to ask how successful it has been in meeting the Bucks’ challenge of providing help for the needy.
Buck Oil Spill and The Wendlings
Posted on February 4, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Phil and Penny Knight are handing parts of Eugene over to Science. The People do not want more Science. We want what is ours. We want our share. People Science is what we want, and demand! Screw DBOX and their Illusion Box Simulator. We want – LAND! Free Land! We want filthy rich people to give us – FREE LAND! We want FREE EDUCATION!
I will being contacting Kamalah Harris and see if she wants to give a speech on Franklin Street.
Seer Jon
The New Wendling Colony
Posted on August 3, 2017by Royal Rosamond Press
Frank H. Buck’s Big Oil Spill
Posted on August 1, 2017by Royal Rosamond Press
Who paid for the clean-up? Did Robert Buck hide the history of his ancestor? How many seabirds were shot dead in Marin County? Who paid for the shotgun shells?
Jon Presco
San Francisco Bay, 1937
Not much is known about the immediate environmental effects of San Francisco Bay’s worst oil spill. That’s mainly because it took place in the late 1930s, when we just weren’t paying much attention to ecological issues.
But what we do know about the incident is that the passenger ship President Coolidge rammed the oil tanker Frank H. Buck at Lands End just outside the Golden Gate Bridge on March 6, 1937, and that the Buck then spilled about 2.73 million gallons of crude oil into the water — either immediately, or after storms thwarted halting efforts to pump remaining oil out of the ruined ship’s cargo tanks.
According to witnesses of the day, more than 20,000 birds died of oil contamination in the days after the collision. Rehabilitation efforts were nonexistent, and members of the SPCA patrolled local beaches with shotguns to put ailing birds out of their misery.
Frank H. Buck, who is president of the Frank H. Buck Company, a prominent fruit growing and shipping concern of San Francisco, is descended from ancestors who have been outstanding figures in the history of California in the days gone past. He was born on a ranch near Vacaville, Solano county, California, September 23, 1887, and is a son of Frank H. and Annie E. (Stevenson) Buck.
The Buck family is of English origin. Leonard W. Buck, the grandfather of Frank H., was a first lieutenant in the Union Army during the Civil war, and served as state senator from Solano county in 1891-93. Frank H. Buck, the father of the immediate subject of this biography, was his son, and was born June 8, 1859. He was the founder of the fruit growing and shipping business, in 1886, which is now under the management of his son. On the maternal side of Mr. Buck’s family, the Stevenson family is Scotch. Andrew M. Stevenson, his grandfather, was a lieutenant colonel in a Kentucky regiment during the Mexican war, and after the close of hostilities he settled in Vacaville, California, where he engaged in cattle raising. With his brother, George Bushrod Stevenson, he constructed the Vaca Valley & Clear Lake Railroad, which is now a part of the Southern Pacific railway system. He was state senator from Solano county about 1855. He was a first cousin of Adlai Stevenson, vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897. Annie E. (Stevenson) Buck, mother of Frank H. Buck, was born January 20, 1861.
With the class of 1903, Mr. Buck graduated from the high school in Vacaville, and then took up his advanced studies at the University of California, from which he received the Bachelor of Letters degree in 1908. He then entered upon the study of law at Harvard, and in 1911 this famed institution conferred upon him the Bachelor of Laws degree. He was admitted to the California state bar in November, 1911, and from 1912 to 1917 he maintained a law office in the city of San Francisco. He actually resided in this city during his first year in the practice, but since has made his home in Piedmont, although he retains his old legal residence in Vacaville. In 1916, he became manager in charge of the interests of the Buck estate, his father having passed away in that year. The latter started the business of this organization in 1886, and it was incorporated in 1902. The purpose of the concern is the growing and shipping of decidnous fruit. Frank H. Buck was elected president at his father’s death. In 1919, he became a director in the Associated Oil Company and was made a member of its executive committee in 1922. In 1916 he became a director in the Belridge Oil Company; in 1916 a director in the Booth Kelly Lumber Company; and in 1918 a director in the West Coast Oil Company. He is also interested in the Tidewater Associated Oil Company, and in various banking and kindred associations. He is president of the California Growers and Shippers Protective League, and is vice president of the American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association. He has attained an influential position among the growers and shippers of fruit in California, and he is known as a business man who follows a careful and intelligent course in any activity which he may undertake.
Mr. Buck was married first in 1911, and by this union became the father of four children, namely: Frank H., Jr., Margaret Anne, C. Brevoort, and Elias Z., now (1931) being nineteen, eighteen, sixteen, and fourteen years of age, respectively. All of the children reside with their father at 17 Sotelo avenue in Piedmont, Mr. Buck was married secondly in Alameda, California, to Eva Benson, a daughter of Martin Benson and born May 18, 1899. Her mother is deceased. Mrs. Buck has a fine interest in various affairs of public nature. She is a director of the Women’s Athletic Club of Oakland, California, and also a director of the Baby Hospital Association in the same city.
The democratic party has been Mr. Buck’s choice of political affiliation. He is a member of the executive committee of the state central committee, and was a delegate to the 1928 democratic convention. He was a write in candidate for congressman from the third district in 1930, with democratic endorsement, as there were no party nominees at this election. He worships in the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the Theta Delta Chi collegiate fraternity, and from 1919 to 1923 he was president of the grand lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His name is also on the membership rolls of the Sutter Club of Sacramento; the Bohemian, Pacific Union, and Commonwealth Clubs of San Francisco; the Claremont Country and Athens Athletic Clubs of Oakland; and the Mount Diablo Country Club, He has given generously of his time and means to many enterprises of public nature in the bay district, and throughout his career has followed a thoroughly public spirited course of action. When the United States was engaged in war with Germany, he gave notable service locally. He was a member of the San Francisco legal advisory board; of the Vacaville council of defense; and of the prune advisory board under the food administration.
From:
The History of San Francisco, California
Lewis Francis Byington, Supervising Editor
Oscar Lewis, Associate Editor
The S. J. Clark Publishing Company
Chicago-San Francisco 1931
I Own Brevoort History
Posted on July 8, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Capturing Beauty
In 2000, I heard the Rosamond Probate finally had a valid and real Executor – after Shannon and her attorney got rid of Garth Benton – and Larry Chazen! Sydney Morris returned my call.
“I heard you sister was a real piece of work!” said the law partner of of Robert Brevoort Buck who put together the Buck Foundation. I was shocked! Why did he say this? Was he testing to see WHO’S SIDE I was on in the Posthumous Benton Divorce, where everyone that bankrupted Rosamond – is given a second chance! Why??????
When you read Tom Snyder’s ‘When You Close You Eyes’ you get an explanation. You see, several men really tried to help my sister be – more successful than she already was! But, she fought them all the way. She is described as not being able to function because she was a crazed and violent drunk out to hurt people. Did Robin Beare, Garth’s divorce attorney offer evidence of this – before Rosamond was “killed” by a fake rogue wave?
So, I assumed Robin and Sydney had spoken and compared notes. Then Morris mentions this book he just read, about a man who murders his wife by the sea, and says it was a suicide.
“Have you read ‘Murder By Suicide?” Buck’s partner asks! And I get it. He is suggesting my only interest in Rosamond death – was to expolit her and get money! This can not be Garth’s motive, because………? I still can’t find that book! Did Morris – invent it?
I began to wonder if this had something to do with Christine’s autobiography that Vicki showed me. The famous artist’s version of events – has been disappeared. Why? Did Christine say evil things about Garth – who she was divorcing? Did Robin show her story to a judge and say Drew Benton must be spared the accusation Rosamond made – that all father’s incest their daughters – starting with Garth? That make’s some sense, until you read Snyder said this accusation was made -and Drew Benton is reading it -along with her friends – who got to be shocked to know Drew had such a crazy and violent mother – who might have hurt Drew!
The title of my autobiography should be ‘Deadly Divorce Warmed Over’. If Morris&Buck got my motives – right – don’t you think I could have published at least one Exploitation Bio? How many have Team Garth put on the market? Thanks to me their evil movie was not made!
I wish I had money to go to the memorial for Joe Marra being held in the Village on July 14. My friend Christine Wandel is going to be there. Both are/were pillars of Village History – as was Henry Brevoort! Above are the paintings of James Brevoort.
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Brevoort of the Village
Posted on July 27, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
Today is Chris’s birthday. She is all that is left of Greenwich Village that Henry Brevoort founded. She has lived in New York’s Village for forty years. Broadway All is the Godfather of her daughter, Julie. She dated Joe Marra who owned the Night Owl, and accompanied her friend, Bill Graham, to see the Tower of Power. There are America’s first libraries. Here we are my fine reading and writing friends. We cared so much! We built this city!
Happy Birthday, Chris!
Jon Gregory
In 1834,Henry Brevoort built a mansion at 24 5thAvenue, at the northwest corner of 9th Street. Mr. Brevoort was descended from Dutch settlers and since 1701, his earlier ancestors had retained their farm, stretching from 5th Avenue to the Bowery and extending north of 14th Street. He was a lifelong friend of Washington Irving, with whom he corresponded by letters for over 50 years. His son, James Carson Brevoort, was a world famous collector of rare books and coins and was very involved with the Astor Library.J. Carson Brevoort also studied with his uncle, James Renwick. Mr. Renwick built the house at 21 5th Avenue, which would become the home of Mark Twain. According to Nathan Silver’s book Lost New York, the Brevoort House was probably designed by the firm of Ithiel Town and A.J. Davis. Its classic Greek Revivalelements made it a model for later homes in the City.
I Own Robert Breevort Buck’s History
Posted on June 14, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
I own Robert Breevort Buck’s family history! I took it! I am using it. I copyrighted it! I told Sydney Morris that I began my biography of Christine and I in 1992. He, his law firm, Stacey Pierrot, Tom Snyder, and Julie Lynch did not honor my copyright. These people tried to weaken and destroy me by luring my SEVENETEEN year old CHILD out of my life. Add the history of John Wilson, Henry Breevort, and Washington Irving, then you have half the history of America!
Here is my niece, Christine Rosamond Benton’s adult named Heir in her Will. Drew Benton is the other named Heir. She was eight when her mother died. Patrice and Heather Hanson, never knew Christine, or, talked to her. My sister did not know they existed. The Hansons have done massive damage to Rosamond’s estate, and our Creative Family Legacy. Executor, Sydney Morris sold our legacy to Stacey Pierrot so that she could write a book, and produce a movie, inorder to generate a waning interest in Rosamond’s Art. She failed to do this. This opens a Legal Door for me to produce a movie, book, or T.V. series to generate MONIES for my nieces who are in a state of emergency! I get to use the Buck family History to this end! Here is Shannon;
“Bosco & Pepper is my cat . Vicki’s in assisted care she had been contacting me ,never left a message for six months . Then when she did , it sounded as if she had a stroke!! Long story short . I left messages to Shamus that if without a response , see you in24! So I arrived true to my word as always. Drew answered the door . That was September of last year. And I was blessed to have her for Christmas. Tried to spoil her on her birthday. I can barely continue texting cause tears of joy are streaming cause my heart has ached so long . Im here with her now. I wanted to explain to you before , that I was always aware of your support and fight for the innocent. I apologize if you had perceived it for something other than gratitude. Remember you were my hero and cool uncle ! At six you introduced me to George Carlin and at 30+ I was privileged enough to , on my bday his last performed show. You should always know I saw your love and support in written word , and I want to thank you . I believe petty things are the only thing keeping Rosamond’s from embracing life. We may be crazy but how many people can trace their family back to 540 approx. Where Royal would go from Ventura or Oxnard open first general store Then TO F”””ing Oklahoma. And proof census Showing all woman keep picking men who are half of what they deserve , medical transcriber husband part time construction. Right
She isn’t present , I mean I had a vision back in 95 about her being in a purgatory . I wasn’t even aware of what that word actually really meant. But that’s what it’s like , she acknowledges you BUT YOU DO NOT FEEL HER PRESENCE . It’s very strange and a bit unsettling .”
John Presco
Copyright 2019
Heisinger Buck & Morris
John Van Trump Brevoort
Posted on August 13, 2017by Royal Rosamond Press
There is something very strange about this name; John van Trump Brevoort who was born in Paris and is listed as a “real estate agent” There is a John Brevoort connected to the Brady family and much property in Harlem. Did the Brevoort family attempt to elude paying taxes on the sale of property they owned? This may be a family tradition. Note that the names of the parents is not recorded. Is John illegitimate? Do the Brevoort’s alas recognize the Trumps who come to America and become famous New York realtors?
Jon Presco
Bonds With The Blue Angel
Posted on April 25, 2019by Royal Rosamond Press
In 1988 I had a Rose Reading. The woman reader saw me sitting on a hill looking down on these children on a playground.
“You were trying to heal them all.”
When I met my neighbor, Sandra, and when she told me she lived in the orphanage I would go by when I took a walk in the Oakland Hills, I saw what the Seer saw. I used to take a rest at the orphanage, and meditate on their, and my fate. There was always talk about the four Presco children being put in a orphanage.
I almost died of Whooping cough when I was eleven. I was sent to LA to visit my relative and came down with this rare illness. My aunt Lillian told me about the time I came outside looking for her and Uncle Dick. I was blue, and my finger contorted. Dick put me upside down on his knee and pounded on my back to get the flem out. This is when I began to see white auras around my kindred.
Above I am placing an angel coin in the tomb of my ancestor. It was given to me by a sister in recovery to honor my sister Christine. I wanted her sobriety to be out of reach of the parasites who were sold our Family Recovery.
John ‘The Seer’
Bonding With A Blue Angel
Bohemian Nation of Washington Woodstock
Posted on September 5, 2017by Royal Rosamond Press
Henry Brevoort, and Sir Walter Scott, corresponded. They discussed the writing of Washington Irving. Scott wrote about Woodstock and Fair Rosamond who is the subject of the castle Singer built on an island. Churchill grew up in Blenheim Palace were Rosamond’s Labyrinth was located. A lake was named after her. Here is The Fair Lady of the Rose and Lake.
The artist, Marcel Duchamp, climbed atop the arch in Washington Square, and declared Washington Square a sovereign nation. On this day I found the New Bohemian Nation of Washington Woodstock, named after Washington Irving, and a generation known as The Woodstock Nation of Flower Children who will be forever known as….
THE ROSE OF THE WORLD
Washington Woodstock will be a Sanctuary for all children who have demonstrated Literary and Artistic Gifts, and find themselves being bullied and harassed. I suggest a Art and Poetry event take place in Washington Woodstock Square for The Dreamers’.
Consuelo Vanderbuilt, and Jennie Jerome, were the daughters of American Millionairs who married into the royal family that lived at Blenheim, and had to be familiar with the Legends of Rosamond. These are the Beautiful American Daughters of Wall Street. Let there be a sanctuary and new understanding of how sane business people conduct business, and themselves in The Bohemian Renaissance.
“In 1817, Washington Irving spent several days with his literary idol, Sir Walter Scott, at Abbotsford, Scott’s stately home near Melrose, Scotland. At the time, Scott was known more for his romantic poetry than his novels, though at the time of Irving’s visit, Scott was reviewing the proofs of his historical novel Rob Roy, part of his popular Waverley series.”
On this day, let the Knight Templars of Rougemont pour out of the Arch of Washington Woodstock, and form a Rouge Line along 14th. Street, from river to river.
Haters of Democracy……………You will not pass! We will crush the fake reports of Breitbart with real history. We will make America and England great again!
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Woodstock Manor was destroyed in the English Civil War (1642-51). But a description of it came into the hands of Sir Walter Scott, the great Scottish novelist, and he included it in his 1826 novel Woodstock or The Cavalier.
The original hunting lodge at Woodstock in Henry I’s day became Rosamund’s Bower, or Rosamund’s Labyrinth, in Henry II’s day, as legend would have it (this legend was completely debunked very much later in history, along with the idea that Eleanor of Aquitaine killed the fair Rosamund, though Henry II did have a deep and long-lasting affair with Rosamund Clifford); Henry II did make the original hunting lodge into a very elaborate country estate for his fair Rosamund; then…
Blenheim Palace was built on the site of the original hunting lodge and Rosamund’s Labyrinth, and was completed in 1724. It’s now a World Heritage Site, and one remarkable building.
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The Unique Challenge of the Buck Trust
Nearly 40 years ago, in 1986, SFF faced the biggest and most unique challenge in our history. The value of a gift—the Buck Trust—had skyrocketed overnight, and the donor intended for all grants from her trust to go to nonprofits in Marin County. We found ourselves in the uncomfortable position of granting tens of millions of dollars each year (far more than we granted to all other counties combined) to the wealthiest county in the Bay Area.
Under tremendous pressure from community organizations outside of Marin County, SFF lawfully petitioned to revise the terms of the trust in order to distribute grants throughout the Bay Area based on where needs were greatest. In 1986, we lost our petition, and the Buck Trust was transferred out of SFF to establish the Marin Community Foundation (MCF). Today, SFF and MCF are united in our efforts and partnerships to address racial equity and economic inclusion in Marin County and throughout the Bay Area.
As we celebrate our 75th anniversary this year, we look back with great empathy for everyone who was involved in and impacted by this case: the nonprofits and communities they served, the generous donors who wanted to invest in the places and causes they cared about most, and the SFF team that was faced with uniquely uncomfortable decisions.
We also reflect on this part of our history knowing that SFF would not face such a challenge today for a number of reasons. First, we work with donors to fully explore the implications of any gift restrictions, both in the present and in anticipation of the future. Second, rather than focusing on concern over “philanthropic saturation,” we partner with donors to find intersections between their philanthropic interests and our commitment to meeting the greatest needs in our Bay Area region. Third, whenever possible, SFF immediately sells any gifts of stock. Finally, we have a fund committee today that strictly adheres to donor intent and, as often as possible, finds intersections between donor intent and meeting the needs of our community.
The Buck Trust helped make us a stronger and more committed community and philanthropic partner, working with donors to fulfill their charitable vision while at the same time helping advance racial and economic equity in the Bay Area. Learn more about the donor experience at SFF.
The Buck Trust: A Deeper Dive
While no one can predict the future, early philanthropists correctly guessed they would need a mechanism to allow charitable dollars to evolve with the times. Frederick Harris Goff, founder of the Cleveland Foundation, the nation’s oldest community foundation, described the role of the community foundation as one that would not only give “a man the assurance that his property will be used for the purposes he intends … it will always be of the widest possible service to the community in which he lives.”
This notion was put to the test in the 1980s in the landmark case of the Buck Trust.
In 1975, former nurse Beryl Hamilton Buck died in Ross, California. A longtime resident of Marin County who had no children, Buck set up a trust with SFF based on her late husband Leonard Buck’s financial interests, which included a 7% stake in the Kern County-based Belridge Oil Co. This gift was estimated to be worth around $7.6 million at the time, all of which was to be granted to nonprofit causes in Marin County.
But after the 1970s energy crisis, oil prices skyrocketed, and in December 1979, Shell Oil Co. purchased Belridge for $3.65 billion. Overnight, this huge acquisition increased the value of the Buck Trust to about $260 million (equivalent to more than $1 billion today. The current value of Buck Family Fund assets is $800 million). And the valuation continued to escalate: by the early 1980s, the trust’s value had grown to $360 million. With the Buck Trust, SFF had become the 11th largest foundation in the United States.
All of this meant a windfall of roughly $30 million per year, all to be spent in Marin County.
Did you know?
Once the value of the Buck Trust became clear, SFF began fending off what Paley termed “carpetbaggers … people from all over the country who suddenly want to bring their talents to the people of Marin.” The New York State Symphony director tried to move his orchestra to Marin, for instance, despite being unaware that the county already had a symphony and being unclear on where Marin was located.
In 1980, as now, Marin County had the lowest unemployment rate in the Bay Area, the lowest number of Medicare enrollees, and the lowest number of people living below the poverty line. Marin was home to 7% of the Bay Area‘s population, and more than 92% of its residents were white. SFF’s Marin County grants represented three times the amount we were spending in all other Bay Area counties combined, and it was also roughly the same amount that Marin County was spending annually for all of its mental health, social service and welfare programs.
Despite the longstanding legal doctrine of cy pres, there was no precedent for such a large and sudden windfall in the history of American philanthropy. SFF director Martin Paley and the foundation staff realized their response to this unique situation would stand as a landmark.
In July and August 1979, SFF organized a series of five meetings with 85 community leaders throughout Marin County to hear directly what the community needed in terms of programs and services. We held another round of meetings—open to the public—throughout Marin in March 1981. “It was a basic, fundamental belief in the importance of the people to be involved in their own future and not to sit back and feel that because [SFF] had the money, [we] also had the wisdom,” Paley said. “The wisdom was in the community. And we sought to find that wisdom and bring it forth and then feed it back to the community in programs and grants.”
Paley also traveled the country speaking with experts to gain a better understanding of the ethics of the unique situation. The Distribution Committee spent three years contemplating the complex issues at stake while funding bold projects in the county, including many nonprofit programs and government projects.
“As you can imagine, with a community such as Marin, it’s not easy to spend $30 million in a year,” Paley said. A member of SFF’s Distribution Committee during the Buck Trust era put it more bluntly: “We’ll be able to spend money in Marin until every last rut in the county’s roads is filled.”
“We worked like the dickens, we tried, and then we began to wonder, is this the way that Mrs. Buck would have done it if she had been alive?” Paley said. “She was a prudent woman. She might have thought that was more money than could be wisely used in Marin and would have perhaps put other conditions on our bequests. And that’s where we began to run into some interesting times with the court.”
Oil! is an American novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration‘s Teapot Dome scandal and takes place in Southern California. It is a social and political satire skewering the human foibles of all its characters.
The main character is James Arnold Ross Jr., nicknamed Bunny, son of an oil tycoon. Bunny’s sympathetic feelings toward oilfield workers and socialists provoke arguments with his father throughout the story. The beginning of the novel served as a loose inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson‘s 2007 film There Will Be Blood.
Characters
History, production, and operations
Oil was discovered in the northern Los Angeles basin in 1893, not far from the city center, and development of the Los Angeles City Oil Field was fast. By 1895, that field was producing over half of the oil in the state, and drillers began looking for even more new oil prospects around the basin, attempting to match the enormous finds taking place simultaneously just over the Tehachapis in Kern County.[11] In July 1900, W.W. Orcutt drilled into the Wolfskill zone of the Repetto Sands, about 2,500 feet (760 m) below ground surface, discovering the Beverly Hills Field.[4] While the oil was of reasonably good quality—it was light, with a high API gravity between 33 and 60, although with a high sulfur content—development was slow, since the Wolfskill find was relatively small, and other fields in the Los Angeles basin were growing almost as fast as operators could drill new wells.
I am composing another message to Governors Newsom. I’m going for a grand funeral and burial for my niece, Drew Benton. I want the grave of Carl Janke and family EXAMINED to see if any remains are there – which I doubt. I suspect they are under the Bay tree, or, under the Westside Highway. After THE HOLE is dug, then Drew’s remains will be put on a train and brought to Redwood City, and, the daughter of Christine and Garth Bento will be put in THE HOLE. I will give a sermon as Prophet of the New Radio Church of God.
I am now going to make an appeal to all the partners of PlumpJack to pay for this, because I am a pauper. We will burry a pauper who is in the Getty family tree, via Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. Lawrence Chazen tried to become the executor of Drew and Shannon’s estate. Be careful for what you wish for!
Hey! I got a great idea. We will have a fundraiser for the Union Cemetery where all The Swells adopt a Pauper’s Grave! It will be the social event of the century! How about – a Masque Ball?
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Members of Gavin Newsom’s wine, restaurant, bar, resort and real estate partnerships since 1991:
Kevin & Bronwyn Brunner, John Burton, Casey and Michelle Cadwell, Bob and Barbara Callan, Frank Caufield, Donna Chazen, Lawrence Chazen, Joe & Victoria Cotchett, Michael & Hilary Decesare, Philip DeLimur, Don Dianda, Gretchen Dianda, Edward Everett, Richard Freemon, James Fuller, Stanlee Gatti, Robert Gerry, Andrew Getty, Ann Getty, Anna Getty, Chris Getty, Gordon Getty, Mark Getty, Peter Getty, Ronald Getty, Tara Getty, William “Billy” Getty, Robert Goldberg, Florianne Gordon, Stu Gordon, Gordon Goletto, David Goodman, Arthur Groza, Richard & Martha Guggenhime, Tony and Anthony Guilfoyle, Shelly Guyer, James & Shea Halligan, Bob & Jill Hamer, Erin Howard, Thomas Huntington, Isolep Enterprises (Paul and Nancy Pelosi family personal investment company), Peter Jacobi, Gaye Jenkins, Jeffrey Kanbar, Chad Kawai, David Lamonde, John Larson, Rob Lavoie, Leavitt/Weaver interior designers, Marc Leland, Maryon Davies Lewis, Anne McCutcheon, Chris McCutcheon, Ross McGowan, Rich McNally, Robert & Carole McNeil, Paul Mohun, Robert Mohun, Jeff Morin, Sara Moughan, Terry Moughan, Brian Mueth, Bob Naify, Marshall Naify, John Nees, Barbara Newsom, Brennan Newsom, Catherine & David Newsom, Gavin Newsom, Patrick Newsom,
Tessa Newsom, William Newsom, John O’Hara, Jack Owsley, Pacific Design, Matt Pelosi, Robynne Piggott, James Samuel Powers, Elizabeth Rice, Jeremy Scherer, Paul Scherer, Gary Schnitzer, Steve & Theresa Selover, Steve Siino, Trevor Traina, Chris Vietor, Francesca Vietor, Kenneth Weeman, Nicki West, Justin & Aridne Williams, Kevin Williams, Thomas & Kiyoko Woodhouse.
E-mail the writers at cfinnie@sfchronicle.com, rgordon@sfchronicle.com and lwilliams@sfchronicle.com.
Belmont Historical Society Minutes
Posted on July 19, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here are the minutes of the BHS. Posted July 19,2024 at 6:16 A.M.
http://belmonthistoricalsociety.com/sites/default/files/BHS_6-9-90.pdf
Capturing Beauty
by
John Presco
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
At no time in my five day discussion with the BHS on Facebook, did they tell me where Carl Janke and his wife were buried so I might visit their graves, something a billion Earthlings have done over the centuries, thus they defeated the purpose of cemeteries. Here is a real record of human beings getting permission to desecrate graves, and dishonor…..THE DEAD! They never dreamed they would be caught. They never had a vision of JUSTICE……arriving, one day! I can not resist employing the image above to DEMONSTRATE the real drama these people created.
I am kin to Puritan Leader, John Wilson. Cuddle by the fire, and listen to ancient tales – of the dead! You do understand the process of burial, with names on tombstones, is for the benefit of the Loved Ones? Being deprived of this, in a conspiracy – is really being played down by the Belmont City Council and the Mayor of Belmont who I made aware of this travesty on numerous occasions. The City Leaders are supposed to keep records. To not do this – is illegal! Will they use my dark reaction as a defense? How many gravestones were moved. There is just one – with three people in it. Where is the missing stone? Is Denny Lawhern talking about an old pioneer graveyard – that was IN THE WAY of a freeway? The cemetery still exists – under a thousand tons of concrete? And, the only thing the BHS can do is ask for a JANKE plaques be placed on “the fabulous Bay tree”? Is this, the title of the book and movie that – Satan made? Will God’s Justice – prevail? I want to read more discussion! How about you?
“She suggested that a plaque be placed on the fabulous Bay tree in Twin Pines Park. This is to be discussed.“
‘Denny Lawhern discussed documentation of grave site location and proof that the grave stones were removed to prevent vandalism during routing of new freeway 280. The cemetery still exists & bodies are still there . “
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
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BELMONT HIS~ORICAL SOCIETY
MINUTES
SATURDAY JUNE 9,1990
The meeting was called to order at 9:30 am by President Tom Seivert.
PRESENT:Rose Ozwirk, Ellie Woodard, Doris Vannier, Eve Sterry, Tom
Seivert,Barbara Johnson, Denn y Lawhern, Bert Johnson, Russ Estep,
Hally Rogers, Trish le Edwards,Hartley Laughead.
OLD BUSINESS:
- SECRETARY ‘S REPORT. Read and ap p roved.
2.TREASURER’S REPORT. Read and approved. Barbara Johnson presented
Financi a l Statement. Balance on hand May 31, 1990 … $1,977.02.
Russ Estep a sked if Ruth Parri s h’s du es are paid and they are up
to da t e. Tom Seivert is unab le t o get ahold of Fran Fa rme r conce rni ng an
upda t e of membership. Ellie Woodard has membe rship information
from Anna Scott f or Fran Farmer . Eve Sterry had discussion of Robert ‘s Rules of Order and distributed copy of Con s titution and by laws of Belmont Historical Societ y
Back t o the Agenda ..
1 . Report on Art and Wine Festival. Trish le Edwards reported the
people were delighted with the Room, so ld 4 pams, Donations of$20.35,
3 new members,42 Heritage Books. Total was $315. 35. Many wanted
these as gifts for children & housewarming gifts fo r neighbors .
Hartley to get more Pointers to The Past pams from AAUW. Denny
est imated over 1,000 people visit ed t h e room & 300 signed the
Guest Book. - No progress report on Belmont, As We Remember It. Anna Sco tt did
not attend the meeting. We have $250 available through a grant . It
must be used by August. Denny sugg e sted Anna Scott may need help.
Ell ie Woodard said first few pages ar e set up and plans are t o put
it on a disc when printed and available for future copies . - Eve Sterry read report on Heritage and Newsletter and h a d copies
available. Discussed infor mation on missprint of Belmont Community
Catalog which had been corrected. Tom Seivert discussed la st Board
Meeting where it was decided our Society was created primarily because we were asked to form a group by Parks and Rec. & Jim Mc Laughli
since a place was needed fo r Histrical Belmont Pictures .
Eve Sterry said she is resigning her post as Editor of the Newsletter,
if it isn’t true to history. Trish leEdwards said the Newsletter
mu s t represent views of group at large. Eve Sterry said,”Please
accept my resignation. 11 Tom Seivert accepted r esignation.
Denny Lawhern discussed documentation of grave site location and
proof that the grave stones were removed~to prevent vandalism during
routing of new freeway 280. The cemetery still exists & bodies are
still there . Records are at San Ma teo County Historical So c iety.
Doris Vannier reported that the History of Be lmo n t was b rought up
long before gravesite subject. In 1972 Doris Vannier & Ju anita Doyle
had wo rked with a group at The Belmon t Congregati on al Church & attempted to get together a Belmont History Group. Finally , Tom Seivert
was able to take over as head and made some thi ng of it. Eve Sterry
asked that it be put in the recor d that the placeme n t of grave stones
was made by ou r Society. She sugge sted that a plaque be placed on
the fabulous Bay ~ree in Twin Pines Park. Th i s is to be di scussed. - Ell ie Woodard reported on photographs from Mrs . D. Bl ank . Carlmon
Camera made negative for reproductions. There ar e now 142 it e ms in in
tory a nd new things ar e coming in. Deed o f gifts hav e been given
to a ll, c opy to donor , info on file and als o in b i nder.
Bert ,Johnson, a s Docent on Wednesday ,talked to Ea rl Miller and
identified people in picture of dog racing track . Russ Estep mentioned picture o f Florence Vannie r on Firetruc k & his ph oto of S . F .
Bay from Belmont hi lls showing Red Rock Hill. Doris Vannier has
picture of sister Flor ence, whe n 6 years old,during dedication of
cabi n in Golden Gate Park for Ca lifornia Pionee r s . Bill Kn owl and is
hol din g her hand. Ellie will have pictur e copied . Tom Seivert mentioned picture of people in grandstand at dog track from Earl Miller .
Doris Vannier sa id there were more people at the dog track than l ived
i n Belmont. There were thousands. Eve St e rr y discussed Hi s torical Bay
Tree in the Pa rk . Doris Vannier told of Carl Janke & wife being buried
there bef ore being moved to Union Cemetery in R.C. Denny suggested
further discussion & permission from City Council . Tom suggested that
this was a good idea and should be put on the agend a fo r new business - No repo rt on membership,since Fran Farmer did not attend. Denny
suggested we mu st contact Fran Fa rmer and get information by next mt g
6 . Tom Seivert r eported on display of California Express Comp any
envelopes & Historical Belmont postals at Belmont Library , which
ac companied talk on Belmont’s First Library . 20-30 p e ople attended
including a professor from S . F. State Col l ege & person involve d
wi th first Library in Belmont. Plans were made to have Gordon Seely
of S .F. State to speak to group. Intermission: Time for coffee & ” Fabu lous Lemon Squares” from
Redwo od City Heri tage Cook book, served by Trish le Edwards and Barba r
John s on.
NEW BUSINESS:
Russ Estep men tioned Mt . Vernon and trail down to River and tombstones. May be d one in a simil ar sty le here . To be discussed next meEing . Ell ie Wooda rd discussed St ationery & had it done with instructions from Park & Rec., u s ing picture of Manor Hous e by Artist ConnieMorgan.
Cost is $1 00. to sell at $3.00 each. Russ Estep moved that we
complete this this pro ject, Ros e Ozwirk 2nd . It was voted to purchase additional supplies . Barbara Johnson, as Tr easurer to pay e xpE ses . Trish to do copy work .. Voted approval.- Tom Seivert discussed Council Mtg. Tue s . June 12,1990 concern ing
Pres e rvation Survey. MvK ent Seavy , histo r y Pr o fessor f rom Monterey
will be working on p roject. There is $6 ,0 00. 0 0 avail able t o do the
Study. Volunteer s will be needed to get information & do cuments
from Co unty Cour thouse .
Doris Vannier discussed work done to trace information on El Camino
Re al Mission Bells done b y Russ Estep & Juanita Doyle . Russ said
t here were three in Belmont ; one at train station and one no rt h &
one s o uth . Discussion about Belmont train s t ation sign. Ruth Barrett Ross
Parrish has the sign and wants to know when someone can pick it up. - Victor ian Da ys i n the Park will be August 25 & 2 6 , Sat. & Sun. 10; :
5:30pm, reported by chai r person, Barba ra J ohnson . Plans were made to
dressup a nd a sign up sheet was passed.
page 3 of 3 pages. Eve Sterry said $66 worth of books were sold last time . Plans to set
up booth on Fri, August 24. Suggestions for photos, artifacts and
‘Hands On’, participatory Activities. - Plans were made for changing of meeting time to 2nd Thurs . eve .
7-8:30 p.m.Sept., Jan.,March and June, starting in Sept . to see how
it works.
Eve Sterry discussed the number of Newsle tters per year,& plans to
get one out by Sept. Doris Vannier suggested a follow-up with phone
calls. Doris Vannier suggested we ask for a duplicate key to Restroom - Denny Lawhern discussed display of tools as new acquisition. Also
picture of early Baseball team present ed by Betty Slay and Sea Scout
di spl ay,” Porthole of the-Past”, with porthole from the Barge-1959-1990
He also showed displa y of col o r e d photos of older building s in Belman
Doris Vannie Ddiscussed residents of ea r ly h omes.
Eve Sterry, as Corresponding Sec re t ary, r ead l e t t er from Belmont
Libr a rian, Linda Chiochios, with a positive comment regarding the
Historical Program & mentioned the natural partnership o f the Librar:
& the Historical Society.
Denny plans to put a mail slot on t he door for delive r y p urposes when
the room is closed . Denny sugge sted a noth er Preservation project witl
the cemetery a t Adel a ide & Chr i s t ia n Dri ve . It has b ee n there since
depression times du r ing the 1920′ s with 200 graves an d wooden markeJ
for poor people.
5 . Summer Concerts and Shakespeare Days were discussed and the suggestion was made to have the room during this peri od of Park Activiti es .
Plans were made to request another sign for directions to museum .
Trish reported on research of activities on Park during summer. Since
the room is a community effort , it should be open at peak hours . Eve
Sterry and Denny moved we accept as a group the plan to keep open
wheneve r the staff is available.
Under OTHER BUSINESS: Barbara Johnson requested permission to buy a
coffee pot for the room.Moved a nd Ell i e Woodard 2nd, al~a pproved .
Barbara Johnson suggested that any bills be turned in to her·.
Tom Seivert mentioned work projects Denny has completed, such a s the
lectern & cupboard. Eve Sterry mentioned the Guest Book, and Hartly·Lat
ead mentioned the chest of drawers & findings from the Tannery .
The meeting was adjourned at 11:50 a .m .
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE BELMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY WILL BE HELD IN
THE EVENING ON THE SECOND THURSDAY OF SEPTEMBER: 9/13/90 at 7:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted ,
Hally Rogers, Secreta.l!’.yr.
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
The Ballad of Mattie and Hattie
Posted on December 31, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
I found the name Charles Aikens in Ed Howard’s Oakland History.
James E Aikens is 80 Years old. James’s phone numbers include (510) 832-5610. James’s possible relatives include Walter T Aikens, Rickie W Aikens, Clyde L Aikens, Charles E Aikens, Saundra Ann Aikens, Walter T Aikens, Mattie Aikens, Linda B Boyette and Lee E Aikens.
Dear Friend; I found mention of a Charles Aikens on your page. He may be kin to my facebook friend, Darryl Aikens whose grandmother lost he home due to the predatory loan practices on my late father’s private lender, Lawrence Chazen, who was a partner in my late sister’s art gallery in Carmel. My father was convicted of loan sharking just before he died in 1994. You brother, Melvin, was going to drive me out to where my parents are buried at the Presidio. Small world.
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“I am a member in good standing of the State Bar of California and an attorney
on record for 50% interest in Shannon Rosamond. In my 16 years as a member of
the State Bar California, I have never experienced a more deliberate fraud on
any court or more reckless and calculated attempt to fraudulently take control
of a probate estate at the exclusion of the lawful heirs and total manipulation
of a tester’s intent that the present efforts of Attorney’s Robin Beare,
Lawrence J. Chazen and Garth Benton, the descendants former spouse.”
“Over the specific argument of Ms. Beare, Judge Silver refused to appoint Mr.
Chazen. Neither Ms. Beare nor Mr. Chazen disclosed to the court the very
critical fact that Mr. Chazen has the largest single creditor’s claim against
the estate and is a former business partner and business associate of Garth
Benton who the court had removed as Special Administer just moments before.”We are asking you who are connected to Oakland, West Oakland and McClymonds to look at the names on the list below and email or send a letter with the correct spelling and contact information back to us so that we may get in touch with them. We have only first names for some of the people and may have misspelled others and need contact information for all listed.
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Take a look at the names of the people whom we have filmed for the West Oakland Stories of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
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Charles Aikens
When I heard Bob Dylan sing the ‘Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll. I felt every cell in my body being altered, forever. I knew the Revolution was on. I heard that the Civil Rights Movement was now joined by white folks. I knew Dylan was a Jew, a Messenger, a Sage who had a way with words that were Biblical! Woodie Guthrie was a Socialist and sang some of the mostly Godly songs ever written. Consider Bernie Sanders and his faith being tested by Debbie Wasserman, in a sickening betrayal of an alliance that Bernie took part in, and was arrested. We are talking about Socialism. You got a problem with that? I’m not pushing Socialism! I’m pushing Justice.
I did not know four of my great grandfathers were Socialist Forty-Eighters who fought the Habsburg Landlords and the Papal Army they led in battle against the greatest Revolution the world…
When I heard Bob Dylan sing the ‘Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll. I felt every cell in my body being altered, forever. I knew the Revolution was on. I heard that the Civil Rights Movement was now joined by white folks. I knew Dylan was a Jew, a Messenger, a Sage who had a way with words that were Biblical! Woodie Guthrie was a Socialist and sang some of the mostly Godly songs ever written. Consider Bernie Sanders and his faith being tested by Debbie Wasserman, in a sickening betrayal of an alliance that Bernie took part in, and was arrested. We are talking about Socialism. You got a problem with that? I’m not pushing Socialism! I’m pushing Justice.
I did not know four of my great grandfathers were Socialist Forty-Eighters who fought the Habsburg Landlords and the Papal Army they led in battle against the greatest Revolution the world has never known, for it led to the Freeing of the Slaves in ‘The Land of the Free’.
Whenever I and my two sister would visit our father, Vic Presco, he would sit us down at his kitchen table and have us go thru back issues of a Real Estate paper, looking for homeowners who were Defaulting on their home loans, then, put their name on a post card. Desperate, they would call up Captain Vic for a loan. He had private lenders lurking in the background. One of them was Lawrence Chazen, who went after Mattie Aikens’ home that she was going to proudly leave her offspring. Very few black folks own such a legacy. I believe Mattie’s home was in good part of Oakland, near where we grew up.
Here is Christine in the Getty home, and Chazen at the Rosamond gallery after Christine was dead. On the wall is her painting of ‘Lena and her Sisters’. Lena was our black maid and second mother. She would take Christine home with her for an overnight with her sisters who lived together. They were from the South.
In 1994 my father was convicted of Loan Sharking after he took a woman’s house. I do not know the color of her skin. This color was a great concern to Donald Trump and his father because their bond was based upon being Real Estate Predatorship. They believed black people did not deserve homes, should never have been set free, and, thus they were doing America a service by taking these homes away from the Rightful Owners.
When Mattie’s Oakland home got slightly knocked off its foundation, and she went looking for a loan to fix the problem, there was a another rumbling. A shock wave went through the Predator Nation. Mattie and Willie did not know what was about to hit them, and, how visible they were. The Hyenas were coming for the kill of the Lions.
The line “A beef that got out of control” is a scream, because this means the Zebra broke lose from the jaws of the ferocious meat eaters – for a little while! Chazen was a partner in both Rosamond Carmel galleries. He owns a fancy Carmel restrurant, and owns shares in the oil wells off the coast of Israel. He is a executive for Noble Oil, and helped them relocate to Switzerland so they don’t have to pay taxes. Chazen did the same for his pal, Gordon Getty, whom he is in partnership with in PlumpJack.
When I read Chazen say; “I hope it doesn’t come to this, but it probably will!” I laughed! It was already a done deal – from the get! These Hyenas see the Real Estate Market as their personal bank. They see most homeowners as a means to make a withdrawal. Everyone is trying to keep up with the Jone’s and are maxing out their credit cards, then taking out a second mortgage. There are a thousand glowing eyes in the night, watching every hunk of beef that moves.
When Michael Harkins and I began our investigation in to how my sister – really died – I discovered Chazen had formed a partnership with Garth and Christine after Vic formed a partnership with his daughters. When I told my father this, the look on his face was classic. Here was a very greedy man who was just double-crossed by his greedy daughter. He was determined to get even, but, my sister was dead. Not for a second did he consider how I felt, because………….I wasn’t a player?
Game on!
Team Mattie & Willie were up against Team PlumpJack, and Team Oliver & Larry knew it. To let anyone – GO – was not good sport to them. They would look bad in front of their peers. We’re talking about a Feeding Frenzy!
Captain Vic owned to classic Chris-Craft that he docked in Martinez. Vic is hard at work as a Loan Shark in his Lafayette home. He smuggled his Mexican wife over the border in a marijuana shipment. He had ties to the Mexican Mafia. This is a mean man.
Jon Presco
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/the-fall-of-debbie-wasserman-schultz/493019/
Members of Gavin Newsom’s wine, restaurant, bar, resort and real estate partnerships since 1991:
Kevin & Bronwyn Brunner, John Burton, Casey and Michelle Cadwell, Bob and Barbara Callan, Frank Caufield, Donna Chazen, Lawrence Chazen, Joe & Victoria Cotchett, Michael & Hilary Decesare, Philip DeLimur, Don Dianda, Gretchen Dianda, Edward Everett, Richard Freemon, James Fuller, Stanlee Gatti, Robert Gerry, Andrew Getty, Ann Getty, Anna Getty, Chris Getty, Gordon Getty, Mark Getty, Peter Getty, Ronald Getty, Tara Getty, William “Billy” Getty, Robert Goldberg,Florianne Gordon, Stu Gordon, Gordon Goletto, David Goodman, Arthur Groza, Richard & Martha Guggenhime, Tony and Anthony Guilfoyle, Shelly Guyer, James & Shea Halligan, Bob & Jill Hamer, Erin Howard, Thomas Huntington, Isolep Enterprises (Paul and Nancy Pelosi family personal investment company), Peter Jacobi, Gaye Jenkins, Jeffrey Kanbar, Chad Kawai, David Lamonde, John Larson, Rob Lavoie, Leavitt/Weaver interior designers, Marc Leland, Maryon Davies Lewis, Anne McCutcheon, Chris McCutcheon, Ross McGowan, Rich McNally, Robert & Carole McNeil, Paul Mohun, Robert Mohun, Jeff Morin, Sara Moughan, Terry Moughan, Brian Mueth, Bob Naify, Marshall Naify, John Nees, Barbara Newsom, Brennan Newsom, Catherine & David Newsom, Gavin Newsom, Patrick Newsom,
Tessa Newsom, William Newsom, John O’Hara, Jack Owsley, Pacific Design, Matt Pelosi, Robynne Piggott, James Samuel Powers, Elizabeth Rice, Jeremy Scherer, Paul Scherer, Gary Schnitzer, Steve & Theresa Selover, Steve Siino, Trevor Traina, Chris Vietor, Francesca Vietor, Kenneth Weeman, Nicki West, Justin & Aridne Williams, Kevin Williams, Thomas & Kiyoko Woodhouse.
William Zanzinger, who at twenty-four years
Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres
With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him
And high office relations in the politics of Maryland
Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders
And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was snarling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonesome_Death_of_Hattie_Carroll
Zantzinger continued to collect rents, raise rents, and even successfully prosecute his putative tenants for back rent.[1] In June 1991, Zantzinger was initially charged with a single count of “deceptive trade practices.”[1] After some delay, Zantzinger pleaded guilty to 50 misdemeanor counts of unfair and deceptive trade practices.[17] He was sentenced to 19 months in prison and a $50,000 fine.[18] Some of his prison sentence was served in a work releaseprogram.[19]
In 2001, Zantzinger discussed the song with Howard Sounes for Down the Highway, the Life of Bob Dylan. He dismissed the song as a “total lie” and claimed “It’s actually had no effect upon my life”, but expressed scorn for Dylan, saying, “He’s a no-account son of a bitch, he’s just like a scum of a scum bag of the earth, I should have sued him and put him in jail.
In 1993, one of Aikens’ daughters recommended a contractor, Charles Jamerson of Fremont, because he had done some work for her boss. He, in turn, recommended Oliver as someone who could make the financing arrangements for him to begin work, Mattie Aikens said.
On Sept. 10, 1993, Oliver came to the house and spread dozens of loan documents across the brown kitchen table for Aikens and her son to sign. Oliver and Wilbert Aikens sat at the table, while Mattie mostly walked around the kitchen between signings.
Wilbert said he did recall the balloon payment being briefly discussed – but he was not left with the impression that the house would be jeopardized.
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Mattie Aikens v. First Capital Finance: As alleged in court documents (24), Mattie Aikens is a 79-year old African-American widow and a resident of Oakland, California. Mrs. Aikens alleged that before becoming involved in the loan which is the subject of this litigation, she owned her home free and clear except for a $23,000 first deed of trust. She alleged that her income consisted of social security and a small pension. According to Mrs. Aikens, she has a minimal education and was not well versed in financial matters.http://shierkatz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Aikens.pdf
Mrs. Aikens alleged that she decided in early 1993 to fix the foundation to her house which was damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. She contacted a contractor who toured her house. According to Mrs. Aikens’ court complaint, after the contractor reviewed her home, the project expanded from only foundation repair to include an entire house remodel, including turning the downstairs garage into living quarters. She alleges that the contractor led her to First Capital Finance (First Capital), a mortgage brokerage company, in order to arrange the financing for the work. First Capital required a co-signer for the loan. According to court documents, the contractor estimated that the work would cost $88,073.
Mrs. Aikens and two of her sons signed a home repair contract with the contractor which Mrs. Aikens now alleges did not comply with many aspects of the law governing home improvement contracts. She also alleges that the contract failed to include required notices about certain homeowners’ rights to a mechanics lien release and their right to require the contractor to provide a performance bond.
Mrs. Aikens’ legal complaint states that First Capital proposed a 30-year fixed loan in a gross amount of $121,600 to be paid out over seven years, with monthly payments of $1,464.90 and a final balloon payment of $120,080. The proposed interest rate was 14.25 percent and the transaction fee would have been $15,791. Mrs. Aikens alleges that after an appraisal was completed, which was part of the loan proposal, there were a series of changes made to the work contract. According to court documents, those changes were not properly signed off by all of the parties to the original work order, as the law requires. Mrs. Aikens alleges that eventually, the lender drew up a promissory note which was for a principal amount of $160,750 at an interest rate of 13.5 percent for eleven months with a final balloon payment of $162,172 due in the twelfth month. Monthly payments on the note were $1,841.25, increasing Mrs. Aikens’ total monthly indebtedness to $2,291.25 (25). Mrs. Aikens’ alleges that the principal included $17,480 in fees to First Capital and of this amount, $16,075 was taken by First Capital as a “loan origination fee.”
Mrs. Aikens and her son Wilbert allege that a First Capital representative, Mr. Oliver, had assured them they shouldn’t worry about the balloon payment because the contract would be “re-written” at the end of the first year. According to court documents, he told them that when that happened, their payments would go down and they would have a regular 30-year loan. They allege that based upon this oral representation, they signed the loan documents. The loan documents, however, did not contain this assurance. According to court documents, when the first 12 months had passed, First Capital offered Mrs. Aikens and her son, Wilbert, not a conventional 30-year loan but another balloon payment loan for a total new debt of $240,000.
Mrs. Aikens alleged that in the end, the work the contractor performed was substandard at best. According to court documents, the Aikens’ home roof leaks worse than it did originally. The downstairs walls are covered in mildew caused by poor drainage and/or the leaky roof. There is no working electricity in the living room and hallway. The house continues to slope in large areas caused by the foundation problems. Mrs. Aikens alleged that balconies were removed from in front of French windows, and were never replaced, creating hazardous conditions.
According to court documents, Mrs. Aikens and Wilbert attempted to refinance the First Capital loan with her senior lienholder, American Savings. According to Mrs. Aikens, they obtained approval on a 30-year finance of the First Capital loan. Court documents allege, however, that before the close of escrow the contractor made a demand on the American Savings escrow, claiming he hadn’t been paid for $18,000 of work on the Aikens home. He then filed a mechanics lien. Court documents allege that these actions effectively ended Mrs. Aikens’ hopes of refinancing the First Capital loan with one by American Savings.
The court documents allege that when the family refused to enter into a new agreement with First Capital, the property went into foreclosure. Mrs. Aikens filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy to stop the foreclosure sale. Mrs. Aikens home was sold through a trustee’s sale. When Mrs. Aikens was about to be evicted from her home, her story made the front page of the San Francisco Examiner (26). Mrs. Aikens’ plight immediately drew the interest of concerned regulators who prompted investigations into the origins of Mrs. Aikens case. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) commenced an immediate investigation into First Capital based upon allegations of violations of the Fair Housing Act made by Mrs. Aikens. That investigation is ongoing.
On April 10, 1998, First Capital (also known as Homeowners Resources Corporation) and its principals, Charles Oliver and Cynthia Cecil Oliver, filed a complaint for damages against several news organizations and Consumers Union alleging defamation in the form of libel and slander. Consumers Union denies these allegations (27).
HAS the party of Lincoln just nominated a racist to be president? We shouldn’t toss around such accusations lightly, so I’ve looked back over more than 40 years of Donald Trump’s career to see what the record says.
One early red flag arose in 1973, when President Richard Nixon’s Justice Department — not exactly the radicals of the day — sued Trump and his father, Fred Trump, for systematically discriminating against blacks in housing rentals.
I’ve waded through 1,021 pages of documents from that legal battle, and they are devastating. Donald Trump was then president of the family real estate firm, and the government amassed overwhelming evidence that the company had a policy of discriminating against blacks, including those serving in the military.
To prove the discrimination, blacks were repeatedly dispatched as testers to Trump apartment buildings to inquire about vacancies, and white testers were sent soon after. Repeatedly, the black person was told that nothing was available, while the white tester was shown apartments for immediate rental.
A former building superintendent working for the Trumps explained that he was told to code any application by a black person with the letter C, for colored, apparently so the office would know to reject it. A Trump rental agent said the Trumps wanted to rent only to “Jews and executives,” and discouraged renting to blacks.
Donald Trump furiously fought the civil rights suit in the courts and the media, but the Trumps eventually settled on terms that were widely regarded as a victory for the government. Three years later, the government sued the Trumps again, for continuing to discriminate.
In fairness, those suits date from long ago, and the discriminatory policies were probably put in place not by Donald Trump but by his father. Fred Trump appears to have been arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927; Woody Guthrie, who lived in a Trump property in the 1950s, lambasted Fred Trump in recently discovered papers for stirring racial hatred.
Yet even if Donald Trump inherited his firm’s discriminatory policies, he allied himself decisively in the 1970s housing battle against the civil rights movement.
Another revealing moment came in 1989, when New York City was convulsed by the “Central Park jogger” case, a rape and beating of a young white woman. Five black and Latino teenagers were arrested.
First Alliance Mortgage Co. Cases: Five lawsuits were filed in the San Francisco Bay Area against First Alliance Mortgage Co. since August 1996. These suits include significant private attorney general causes of action for unlawful and unfair business practices. Some of the alleged practices include misrepresenting the nature and terms of loans, not providing borrowers with required disclosures and documentation, rushing borrowers through the loan closing process, and deliberately covering up disclosure information while directing borrowers to the signature line on documents. Some borrowers allege that First Alliance induced them to sign separate mandatory arbitration agreements which would bar their access to having a court of law decide any dispute with between these borrowers and the company. They say that they did not know they were signing such an agreement and that they did not intend to enter into any such arrangement with First Alliance. So far, the courts have refused to enforce these agreements in four instances.
Several of the lawsuits have been filed on behalf of indigent elders. In some cases, plaintiffs suffered from physical and mental disabilities. In many cases, borrowers allege they did not meet their borrowing objectives, were placed in loans far in excess of what they requested, and paid loan origination fees far in excess of what they were told.
The remedy requested is injunctive relief as well as disgorgement of illicit profits. If successful, the litigation seeks to recover disgorgement of the total volume of loan origination fees (or between $20 and $30 million dollars per year) for four years. Currently, these cases are in litigation.
On May 6, 1998, The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) filed a motion to join the lawsuits. “AARP takes very seriously these abusive financial practices aimed at the most economically vulnerable homeowners,” said Nina Simon, an attorney with AARP Foundation Litigation. “The Association is ready to take legal action against those lenders who prey on older homeowners,” she added. AARP charges that First Alliance Mortgage Co., one of the largest subprime lenders, targets the most vulnerable homeowners and charges fees eight to ten times those of mainstream banks or savings and loans. According to AARP, the victims, typically older homeowners, often end up losing the equity in their home and have no way to replenish their lost “nest egg.”
Litigation is but one avenue to pursue to seek redress for those wronged by unscrupulous lending practices. Homeowners with serious cases of home equity lending fraud and abuse are finding more help as more lawyers become proficient in managing the complexities of these cases. Cases involving home equity lending fraud and abuse have taken on a higher profile as the public has become more aware and outraged about lending practices that exceed the bounds of what is acceptable even though in some cases, those practices may not be illegal.
TRAINING, EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY
1997-04-13 04:00:00 PDT OAKLAND — When the roof started leaking and the foundation started slipping on Mattie Aikens’ home of 37 years, she knew it was finally time to scrape together some money to make the necessary improvements.
So she did what she thought was best: She took out a loan and looked forward to living in her home for many more years.
It may have been the worst decision of her life.
Now, with her roof still dripping and her two-story house in the Oakland hills in far worse condition than before, the 78-year-old widow is about to evicted.
After Aikens was unable to come up with a stunningly large single payment on the loan – more than $160,000 – within a one-year deadline, the lender foreclosed. At least two other similar cases involved loans arranged by the same company.
“They stole my house,” Aikens said. “And I paid them to steal it.”
She was told she wouldn’t have to worry, Aikens recalls, when she put her shaky signature on a formal-looking financial agreement filled with sophisticated phrases. But she is filled with worry as her April 24 eviction looms.
“This disturbs me awful bad, baby. I be in tears. I be in tears all the time,” she said recently as she stood outside the home where she raised her 10 children, and where many of her 57 grandchildren and great-grandchildren regularly visit her. “I’ve never harmed one person in my life. And now look what’s happened to me.”
What happened to her – and to dozens of other seniors in the area, according to an Oakland housing counselor – is that they signed intricate loan documents to fix their homes, often after being wooed by brokers who told them they could repay them with low monthly payments.
Many of the loans have “balloon payments,” when the entire balance of the loan is due after years – or just months – of low payments. But that important detail was not adequately explained to them, Aikens and others say – and if it had been, they would not have agreed to the deal.
Court documents show that the same company – First Capital Finance in Hayward, a partnership run by Robert Cox, Charles H. Oliver Jr. and Cynthia Cecil Oliver – has made at least two other loans following the same formula. The firm has since folded, and its owner, Cox, pleaded guilty to six counts of grand theft. He is serving time at Folsom State Prison for defrauding investors.
The cases both involve single, elderly women with no experience in such transactions and living on modest fixed incomes. Both said in court documents that they were not told of the balloon payments and were devastated when faced with foreclosure.
Seniors are often targeted because their homes are valuable and they are not educated about the terminology of loan transactions, say lawyers and consumer advocates. In many cases, the mortgages are almost paid off. Aikens owed just $5,000 on her home and was living off the $1,000 a month she received from Social Security and her late husband’s pension.
Aikens said the contractor never even finished the job, leaving her home in such disrepair that some rooms have no electricity – and the roof still leaks.
“This is the archetypal story of an elderly, minority widow being taken advantage of to extreme levels,” said Paul Daly, assistant manager of a San Ramon bank, who tried unsuccessfully to help bail Aikens out of her financial woes.
“It is evident that the contractor and lender were, and are, intent on foreclosing and subsequently taking over the property due to the level of equity of the property,” he wrote in an internal memo sent to another bank official while investigating the situation.
Son cosigned loan<
Aikens’ loan was handled by Charles H. Oliver Jr. of First Capital Finance – who has since started another company,Homeowners Resources Corp., also in Hayward.
Oliver refused to discuss details of Aikens’ situation – or any connection with First Capital Finance – because of confidentiality restrictions, other than to say the transaction was legitimate.
“There was full knowledge and disclosure, but it is an unfortunate situation,” he said.
He also said Aikens’ eldest son, Wilbert, cosigned on the $160,000 loan, and should have been fully aware of the agreement.
Reviewing Aikens’ truth-in-lending disclosure statement, Daly said there were telltale signs that the loan was troublesome.
The document, one of about 30 prepared in the loan process, reveals an unusually high annual percentage rate of 25.5 percent – “pretty much highway robbery,” Daly said, explaining that a normal rate is typically around 10 percent.
Another problem: The $162,172.21 balloon payment due in the 12th month was more than the original loan. In fact, much of the first 11 monthly payments of $1,841.25 went toward a $17,652.44 loan processing fee.
Other elderly hit by similar deals<
Oakland attorney Christine Noma – who represents the two other women who signed similar loan agreements with First Capital Finance – said some brokers prey on the elderly, knowing that most are unfamiliar with real estate deals.
When she questioned Cox, the First Capital Finance president, in a deposition last year, he conceded that one elderly borrower could not repay the loan without refinancing – or “she could win the lottery.”
“But was it your collective opinion that (the widow) did not have the income to save the money herself to pay off the balloon (payment)?” Noma asked.
“That is a given,” Cox replied.
Noma is concerned about the psychological impact for victims of such deals.
“The real damage is that elderly women are becoming homeless when they were once financially independent and living in their own house,” she said. “Suddenly, they are robbed of their independence … and are left struggling when they should be enjoying the last years of their lives.”
Unscrupulous loan brokers can pick targets by searching public records, pulling deeds and seeing who owns valuable homes that are nearly paid off, said Ray Leon, housing counseling supervisor for the Oakland Community and Economic Development agencies. They also can see whether a widow is the sole owner and can arrange to visit to see if repairs are needed.
“We’ve seen cases where these loans are arranged and the borrower barely has $50 or $100 left over to live off of,” Leon said.
“In other words, brokers are expecting foreclosure when making the loan,” said Robin Yamate of the Oakland-based Legal Assistance for Seniors. “And the seniors do not realize this.
“It’s really difficult to undo these deals because these are sophisticated lenders, and it’s very difficult for us to prove that the senior did not understand when they signed a disclosure statement that says they did,” she said.
The Aikens home<
Mattie Aikens, a lean woman who wears her hair neatly pinned up beneath a scarf, said she would not have signed had she been aware of the details. Her husband, Walter, whom she married when she was 13, handled the finances until he died in 1987. After the couple came to California from Missisippi in 1933, Mattie worked in the fields and at canneries while Walter was employed as a warehouseman.
Everyone in the family agrees that by 1993 the home – built in 1910 – needed repairs. The roof leaked, and they believed some remodeling would make it easier for Aikens to handle household chores.
In 1993, one of Aikens’ daughters recommended a contractor, Charles Jamerson of Fremont, because he had done some work for her boss. He, in turn, recommended Oliver as someone who could make the financing arrangements for him to begin work, Mattie Aikens said.
On Sept. 10, 1993, Oliver came to the house and spread dozens of loan documents across the brown kitchen table for Aikens and her son to sign. Oliver and Wilbert Aikens sat at the table, while Mattie mostly walked around the kitchen between signings.
Wilbert said he did recall the balloon payment being briefly discussed – but he was not left with the impression that the house would be jeopardized.
“(Oliver) explained we would pay for the year, and then just before the end of the year, before the balloon was due, the contract would be rewritten and he would try to get the payments lowered,” Wilbert said. “Everything seemed on the up and up.”
To make it even easier, Oliver said he would arrange to oversee the payments to Jamerson himself, Aikens and her son said.
After 90 minutes, Oliver collected the papers in his briefcase, clicked it shut and was out the door with a smile and a handshake.
Jamerson’s construction left much to be desired, Mattie Aikens and her children said. Much remains unfinished, and the Aikens family has not heard from him since September 1994. Jamerson did not return a reporter’s repeated calls to his office seeking comment.
It was raining that September, Wilbert Aikens explained, and the family understood that some delay was necessary – even though some walls of the home were gone and left wide open while Mattie Aikens and three of her children continued to live there.
The weather cleared, but Jamerson did not return, saying that he needed more money to continue the work, Wilbert Aikens said.
Aikens and her children approached several lawyers with their case, asking for help – but the cost of retaining them was prohibitive.
“I can’t believe what he did to my house,” said Mattie Aikens, sitting in her dining room, which has side doors hanging from a splintered frame. “There was nothing wrong with those doors, but he took them down and then put them up like that.”
In the kitchen behind her, drawers are crooked and the linoleum curves over uneven flooring. Botched electrical work has left two rooms and the front hallway without power. Leaks in the roof and the foundation cause greenish-black mildew to crawl up the walls of downstairs rooms.
Aikens became even more depressed after learning that Jamerson had filed a lien, thus preventing any refinancing. Ultimately, that led to eviction papers being hand-delivered to her March 28 – by Oliver himself.
“I couldn’t believe he could do that to me,” she said.
“If I have to move, I’ll just collapse. I don’t know if I can stand it.” <
Writers In Conflicting Treatment
Posted on June 2, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
1997 U.S. Dist LEXIS 19867 December 5, 1997, Decided December 5 1997, Filed; December 10, 1997, Entered in Civil Docket DISPOSITION: (*1) Plaintiffs’ motion to withdraw from Court to DENIED and December 8, 1997 hearing on this matter VACATED. COUNSEL: For MATTIE AIKENS, WILBERT AIKENS, Plaintiffs: John Poppin, San Francisco, CA. For MATTIE AIKENS, WILBERT AIKENS, Plaintiffs: Matthew J. Shier, Poppin & Shier, San Francisco, CA. For MATTIE AIKENS, WILBERT AIKENS, Plaintiffs: John H. Erickson, Alice M. Beasley, Guerrero, Beatrice Liu, Erickson Beasley Hewitt Wilson, Oakland, CA. JUDGES: THELTON E. HENDERSON CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. JUDGE OPINIONBY: THELTON E. HENDERSON OPINION: ORDER Plaintiffs in the above-captioned matter have moved this Court to withdraw from Bankruptcy Court to District Court the adversary proceeding currently pending before the Bankruptcy Court in Case No. 97-04422 AN. The motion has been briefed fully, and is heard on December 8 , 1997. The Court finds the issue to be however, and hereby DENIES plaintiffs’ motion. On June 10, 1997, plaintiffs filed a Alameda County Superior Court alleging eighteen state law causes of Certain of these defendants, the “Chazen defendants removed the matter to , which was already presiding over plaintiff Mattie Aikens’ Chapter 13 petition. On September 17, 1997, Bankruptcy Judge Newsome indicated during a status would remand the preceding back to state court within thirty days unless the allow a jury trial to proceed in Bankruptcy Court, or (2) filed a district court. prepared to stipulate to trying the case before a jury in the Bankruptcy Court, the “Oliver defendants” did not so agree. On October 8, 1997, plaintiffs filed a motion before the Bankruptcy Judge to certify the matter to District Court for a jury trial. Simultaneously, plaintiffs also filed in proceeding from Bankruptcy Court. On October 15 , 1997, the Chazen defendants filed a motion to ‘ first complaint in Bankruptcy Court, in which the Oliver defendants joined. On , 1997, Judge Newsome, before whom the motion for certification and motion to motions off calendar, because he felt that this Court was the appropriate Court to determine those issues: Plaintiffs w
kruptcy Court, deny defendants’ motion to dismiss, and set the matter for jury trial in this Court. Plaintiffs seem to have filed this lawsuit they chose the California to be the forum. If this case cannot be tried by jury in Bankruptcy Court desire) because the Oliver stipulate, it plaintifft’ chosen forum — for BLR. 9015-2(b) applies only to proceedings that previously have been referred from pursuant to B.L.R. 5011- 1. When the Bankruptcy Court determines that a matter that began in state court and was removed to Bankruptcy Court is not properly before the Bankruptcy Court, the matter must be remanded back to state court. See B.L.R. 9015(2)(f). Accordingly, and for good cause shown, plaintiffs motion is DENIED, and the December 8 , 1997 hearing on this matter is VACATED. If the determines (*4) that it cannot preside over a jury trial in this matter under 28 Us.e. 157(e), the matter must be remanded to state court for further proceedings, during which defendants’ motion to dismiss may be converted to a state law demurrer. IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED 12/5/97 THEL TON E. HENDERSON, CHIEF JUDGE
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Stealing Oakland’s History
Posted on December 31, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
I asked for Ed Howard’s permission to post this on my blog. He gave it. Three years ago I made plans to go to Oakland and see his film on Oakland history. Melvin Howard was going to drive me out to the Presidio to visit my parents graves, and then go look at a mural a black artist was working on. Something came up, and I did not go. I have contributed to Ed’s funding efforts.
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WE OAKLAND BLACK ELDERS ARE IN SUPPORT OF ICE CUBE’s “A CONTRACT WITH BLACK AMERICA”ICE CUBE has started “A CONTRACT WITH BLACK AMERICA” to give us a platform to unify Black people and it certainly flows with the (West Oakland Stories Positive Feeling Movement) WOSPFM Organization. “TRICK-A-NIGGER” – Black people, all the other races in America knows about this statement except you, why do you think so many of the other races of people come to our communities to start their businesses? It’s time for Black people to stop being the “TRICK” and start calling the “TRICKSTER” out in our communities.
BELOW IS FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE WITH THE TRICK A NIGGER GAME: The businessmen, owners of Oakland’s “OUR TV” Station, Mr. Leonard Stephens and Mr. Andre Alporter tried to steal the West Oakland Stories (WOS) film from us. They lost the court battle and still has not given us all the tape/film footage up to this day. There is a warrant out for them but the police will not serve the warrant. They are a classic example of too many of our own business people’s attitude with our people. “TRICKSTER’S” ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”
The Slave System (SS) just loves the TRICKSTERS and let them keep operating even when they are convicted in the courts of law for stealing in our community. The SS have no interest in removing them from our community. (STAND UP!)The West Oakland Stories of the 1940s, 50s and 60s film will help get us back in the mood to stand up. “No Negative Speak” (NNS) with each other. http://westoaklandstories.org/
It’s time for Black people to stop being the “TRICK” and start calling the “TRICKSTER” out in our community. When you have something that is really good for Black people, you can bet the Slave System will create opposition to your efforts, and the opposition can come from some of our own Black people. Let’s start by you SHARE, FACEBOOK LIKE, EMAIL, TWITTER, etc. friends know that we are ready to come together “NOW” and do something about our condition. If you are such a person “LIKE” “SHARE” AND “POST” We are Doer’s and not just a Talker. Copyright © 2020, West Oakland Stories Positive Feeling Movement Org. Motto: “NO NEGATIVE SPEAK” with each other.
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