Bond nfo to Georgia to BFI Ruckleshaus
This will Part II of the Bond paper I recently published entitled "BOND INFO- incl Georgia & Washington & much more 3-6-2011".
The following is how Georgia further connects bonding and other fraud et al to Washington State. A common denominator and a major player being William Ruckleshaus.
Ruckleshaus is former director of EPA and former head of the FBI.
William, "Bill" Ruckleshaus is/was an attorney for Perkins Coie law firm in Washington State, as is/was Mary Ruckleshaus.
Perkins Coie Law Firm is retained by REALVEST/SONAS, the CEO of REALVEST/SONAS being Paul Christiansen.
One of Paul Christiansen's projects, among numerous in as many locations, is PACIFIC CREST DEVELOPMENT, LLC, which was managed, poorly, by Matthew Allen Doney, all this information is available through numerous court records as public information in Lewis County Washington, Pacific County Washington., Vancouver and Tacoma WA Federal Bankruptcy Courts as well.
Many lawsuits were filed regarding the above named parties, but not limited to, wherein each county profited hugely by investing through the Court Registry Investment System (CRIS) having obtained COMMITTEE ON SECURITIES IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURES numbers (CUSIP's), filing PUBLIC DEBT FORMS 1522/400 et al, and then investing into the d Dallas/Houston Texas FEDERAL RESERVE, as evidenced by numerous Federal Judges standing orders, also available on the web as public record.
This further connects judge/attorney Douglas Edward Goelz, a private attorney, the City of Long Beach Washington Attorney, and Seaview, Washington Sewer District attorney, showing a profitable vested interest from Sewer bonds to CUSIP to REALVEST to Ruckleshaus and each to the banks through Bank of Pacific (BoP), also in Long Beach Washington and elsewhere, as further evidenced by Public records through Pacific County Washington Superior Court case; Bank of Pacific vs. Matthew Doney, Matthew Doney Construction et al, that case claiming fraud against Doney for about 657k, wherein Douglas Goelz was the attorney for BoP, and Pacific County Planning Commissioner, Robert B. Snow was appointed receiver in the receivership, and whose initials RBS, appear on the project map drawn by RBS for Matthew Doney's PACIFIC CREST 1 DEVELOPMENT PROJECT through REALVEST/SONAS, which also resulted in a bankruptcy in Tacoma Washington, Perkins Coie Law Firm as the attorneys for the case, but not before PC1D,LLC split off to STRUCTURAL INVESTMENTS & PLANNING ,LLC, I-XII, an Arizona Company also resulting in bankruptcy in Phoenix Arizona.
Quite the investment cases going on with this good ole' boys club in Pacific County Washington. Now it appears to get knee deep in, well you know.
According to the following article ( See: "Problems/Violations") BFI, for which Ruckleshaus was also a director, BFI "admitted to the following: 270 civil penalties, administrative orders, permit or license suspensions and revocations, as well as bond forfeiture actions, 10 misdemeanor or felony convictions and pleas; 24 court decrees or settlement orders and one pending court case. (10) (It must be noted that this is merely covers the period from 1981-1991.)
Further, note the list of "Anti-Trust/Miscellaneous Violations"
See the second entry "Conservation Management ". Interesting how Paul Christiansen is directly connected to Nature Conservancy and that entity is also located in Georgia.
BFI is referred to below as "major waste traffickers" (See Merger Mania and Executive Bonanza )
and " BFI also succumbed to its inability to live up to its own hype. In July, 1999, in a $9.4 billion sale, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based Allied Waste Industries swallowed giant BFI, ingesting enormous debt.(47) ", .
Scottsdale, Arizona also happens to be the last known whereabouts of Matthew Doney, apparently hiding from Pacific County after losing a 60k lawsuit he filed against the county when they finally red flagged his PC1D,LLC project after years of community residents complaining about permit and environmental violations.
Perhaps Ruckleshaus inadvertently overlooked the ongoing violations in Pacific County Washington. as well as the herein below numerous listed nationwide violations.
As this article is being written, numerous dump trucks are removing sand from Public land on the Pacific coast, by/through Wirkala Construction, and previously Lindstrom & Sons Construction, each allowed permits through Department of Community Development, dredging a fish bearing stream, knowing that "Pit Style Excavation" is not allowed, but instead, in fact, IS being allowed.
This Sand removal is directly below Matthew Doney's/REALVEST PC1D, LLC project and adjacent to more of STRUCTURAL INVESTMENTS & PLANNING, LLC/ REALVEST/SONAS property still tied up in Bankruptcy, but the trucks haul regardless.
All this parallels the same violations listed below, all that differs is the state and date the infractions occurred.
Land fill applies, as who knows where the sand end ups, sometimes in Cranberry bogs belonging to relatives of a county commissioner, taken from land the public pays for, that may or may not also be taken from Conservation areas, profited by the Truck companies, overlooked by Pacific County and Washington State Officials, polluting the air with thick clouds of diesel fumes about every twenty seconds from trucks that shake the ground, crack foundations, break window seals, disrupt the peaceable and quiet, but between Goelz, Doney, Christiansen, DCD, protected by Perkins Coie and/or Ruckleshaus et al, they all profit any which way they can, perhaps either from bribes, greasing palms, investing in Bonds, CUSIP and CRIS accounts through the local member banks of the Houston/Dallas Texas Federal Reserve, and by writing grants through the Department of Transportation for Redevelopment Projects, and quietly overlooked by Judges making/taking/raking in their share but unknowingly may be under investigation for their bad behavior.
The following article goes together with the recently sent article entitled "BOND INFO- incl Georgia & Washington & much more 3-6-2011".
It seems to be an epidemic and these dirty rotten scoundrels have no conscience as to the detriment they cause to earth and nature.
It won't be long before this "muck pile" buries all these disregarding the laws of nature and the laws of God, both of which supersede the laws of man, for which these men also have no regard nor respect.
All God given inherent rights reserved in perpetuity.
All names incorporated herein above were lawfully obtained via public court records, public testimony, permit applications, news articles, including the following, first hand witness/victim and/or other published authorized biographies.
[below bold mine for emphasis except the left column dates]
;Jeanette Audrey; [Triplett]
Environmental Background Information Center (EBIC)
Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI)
(Acquired by Allied Waste Industries in 1999)
Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) has the distinction of being the first garbage company to expand across North America.(1) BFI was the vision of Tom Fatjo, a shrewd businessman who turned his small garbage business in Houston into the BFI of today. It all started in the 1960's when Fatjo, unhappy with his local garbage hauler, started his own company, launching BFI into the garbage world and the New York Stock Exchange.(2)
In order for BFI to grow and succeed, the plan was simple: achieve domination of a major portion of the national waste flow; the key to profits being control of disposal capacity through landfill banks. City by city, hauler by hauler, BFI acquired companies. From Louisiana to Canada, BFI gave local haulers deals they could not pass up. They offered larger salaries, the option of staying on with the company, and BFI stock. The common method of acquisition consisted of independent haulers taking stock in BFI in exchange for control of their companies. The lure of riches was too good to pass up and company after company sold out to BFI. (3)
From 1969 to 1970, the company grew rapidly, and overtook twenty different markets. In these acquisitions, there were five companies owned by Harry Phillips, a garbage hauler who had markets in Memphis, Houston, and Puerto Rico. Phillips was later hired as the expanding company's Chief Executive Officer. (4) BFI entered markets throughout the 1970's from San Francisco to Boston. In 1971, BFI combined with the National Disposal group of companies to gain access to the markets of Chicago. BFI also obtained a liquid waste facility, chemical plants, and Consolidated Fibers, Inc.(CFI), one of the three largest scrap paper dealers in the U.S. (5) In 1976, Fatjo left the company to form an investment consulting firm known as Criterion Capital Corporation. BFI's sales went from $28 million in 1969 to $308 million in 1977. By 1980, BFI boasted operations and subsidiary companies in a majority of U.S. states, along with overseas operations in Canada, Australia, the U.K., Puerto Rico, Western Europe and the Middle East. (6)
In 1983, BFI moved into the hazardous waste disposal industry with its acquisition of CECOS and NEWCO, companies with troubled pasts. (7)This time their acquisition strategy backfired as CECOS was plagued with numerous problems, foremost among them, their hazardous waste disposal sites in Niagara Falls, Williamsburg OH, and Baton Rouge, LA. (8) By the end of the 1980's, CECOS had dragged BFI's earnings down and Phillips offered his job to Bill Ruckelshaus, a BFI director and two time head of the Environmental Protection Agency. This move was viewed by commentators as an attempt by BFI to boost declining stock value by currying favor with Wall Street and to reverse the company's tarnished environmental image. (9) At the time of Ruckelshaus' ascension, one news story asked, "Can Mr. Clean Clean Up Browning Ferris?"
Problems/Violations
BFI and its subsidiaries have a long checkered past when it comes to both polluting the environment and dealing fairly with competition. BFI's violations range from illegal disposal of hazardous wastes to price fixing/anti-trust violations; and, state officials have pled guilty to accepting bribes from BFI. Recently, BFI compiled a ten-year history of their company and presented it to Pennsylvania's DER in response to questions about the company's integrity with regards to a proposed 154-acre landfill in Berks county. They admitted to the following: 270 civil penalties, administrative orders, permit or license suspensions and revocations, as well as bond forfeiture actions, 10 misdemeanor or felony convictions and pleas; 24 court decrees or settlement orders and one pending court case. (10) (It must be noted that this is merely covers the period from 1981-1991.) In addition, BFI and subsidiaries have disclosed more than $75.5 million in fines and settlements from 1972-1994. (11) This is by no means a comprehensive list. Complete data concerning fines on numerous violations are simply unavailable. This data serves to illustrate the scope BFI's violations and its history of disregard for the law.
Anti-Trust/Miscellaneous Violations
BFI's violations in this respect tend to center on illegal attempts to take over/monopolize individual markets by forcing out competitors. In more than one instance, BFI and/or state officials involved with their permits or applications have plead guilty to, or paid penalties to settle charges of bribery.
- 1984: $3 million settlement to avoid inclusion in list of defendants being sued by NJ for price fixing and bribery of state officials. (12)
- Approximately $6 million out of court settlement with Conservation Management concerning a lawsuit by Conservation which alleged that BFI had bribed a Texas state senator who was to help defeat Conservation's landfill application. (13)
- 1985: $130,000 settlement with state of Georgia, concerning charges of price fixing, bid rigging and customer allocation designed to undercut competitors. (14)
- 1987:Guilty plea and $1 million fine to the Dept. of Justice for price fixing and customer allocation conspiracy with WMI in Ohio and Michigan. (15)
- 1988: $350,000 settlement with the state of Ohio, in Toledo to settle price fixing charges. (16)
- $6.5 million civil court judgment in Burlington Vt., for anti-trust activities including predatory pricing.(17)
- 1989:A New Jersey grand jury indicted John A. Pinto (BFI regional vice president,1975-1981) for customer allocation and coercion in price fixing scheme from 1970-1984. In 1989, Pinto plead guilty and paid a $50,00 fine. Pinto continued to receive $125,000/year until 1984 when he retired. "As set forth in testimony before the New York State Assembly Committee, Pinto clearly had ties to organized crime, and was appointed by and reported directly to, John Drury, BFI's president." (18)
- 1990: $30.5 million out of court settlement resulting from a class action lawsuit brought by customers against BFI and WMI alleging price fixing and customer allocation. (19)
- 1994: $4.2 million fine in Kane County. IL, for price fixing. (20)
- 1995: Texas state employee with The Natural Resource Conservation Commission pleads guilty to accepting a bribe from BFI in exchange for a favorable permit ruling. (21)
- 1996: Settlement reached by BFI and WMI with Justice Dept. in Memphis Tenn., Georgia, Iowa and Louisiana for illegal contracts and other anti-trust violations. BFI agreed to stop the practices and no penalties were assessed. Concerning BFI's practices, the Justice Dept said, "BFI intentionally used restrictive contracts to inhibit competition and enhance its power over commercial customers" (22)
- 1998: BFI reached an agreement with the US Dept. of Labor. The company was cited for gender discrimination against 11 women who had applied for positions as truck drivers. The agreement included $213,754 in back wages and guaranteed employment for the women.(23)
- BFI reached a $682,000 settlement with the Solid Waste Authority in Contra Costa County Ca., considerably less than the fines of $1.5 million originally proposed by the Waste Authority.(24)
- BFI was sued by the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission in Pittsburgh Pa. The suit alleges that BFI discriminated against a job applicant because of his age, and that the company hired a younger, less qualified applicant.(25)
- BFI was fined $331,000 for missed pickups in Jefferson Parish, La.(26)
- 1999: BFI paid Daughtery Township Pa, $800,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in federal court. The township had accused BFI of avoiding tax payments by illegally altering the manner in which it calculated gross receipts for a landfill. (27)
Environmental Violations
The Clarion Ledger, (Jackson Miss.) had this to say about BFI after concluding a ten month investigative report into environmental problems resulting from the company's waste disposal practices: "BFI's purring Cadillac could be more hearse than limousine" and "BFI and its analogs offer essential services. BFI's role is not at issue: its performance is." 28 (italics added)
- 1976: $200,000 statutory civil penalty in Texas for selling toxic waste sludge as oil to be applied to state roads. (29)
- 1985: $64,200 in fines paid to EPA for groundwater monitoring violations at Missoula, Montana hazardous waste landfill. (30)
- 1987: $23,000 in penalties for accepting inadequately protected radioactive waste at Beatty, Nev.(31)
- $25,000 fine for an illegal landfill expansion in Randolph, Mass.(32)
- $200,000 for various violations at solid and bio-medical waste facility in Crescent Acres, LA. (33)
- $104,000 in Hutchins Texas for failure to renew leachate discharge permit at solid waste landfill.(34)
- 1988: $41,870 in penalties paid to State of Illinois and EPA for contamination of groundwater.(35)
- $150,000 in Randolph Mass. for land filling more waste than permitted. (36)
- $2.5 million in penalties paid to state and EPA for over 2,500 violations in Livingston, La., hazardous waste landfill. (37)
- 1990: $3.525 million in penalties paid in a plea bargain arrangement where BFI pleaded guilty to discharging hazardous waste into drinking water supplies in Williamsburg Ohio.(38)
- $1.55 million for over 1,400 violations at hazardous waste landfill in Calcasieu, La.(39)
- $659,000 in penalties to EPA for for failure to obey post closure monitoring requirements of solid waste landfill in South Brunswick NJ.(40)
- 1989: $280,00 for non hygienic operating conditions at Crescent Acres, La., Solid/Medical Waste facility. (41)
- 1993: $1.1 million settlement with state of California for the bay area's worst sediment spill ever, which resulted from a BFI landfill and severely damaged two streams. (42)
- 1996: Part of $11 million settlement in Johnson County KS., to clean up Doepke-Holliday landfill that had been used from 1950-1970 to store waste from homes, pesticides plants, oil refineries etc.(43)
- 1997: $5+million in fines and restitution in West Chester, PA for illegal disposal of wastewater treatment sludge from 1989-1992. Previously, BFI had pled guilty to a 23-count indictment charging them with conspiracy, mail fraud, and Clean Water Act charges involving the illegal disposal of the sludge at five plants in Pennsylvania and Delaware by BFI Services West Chester waste hauling operation. BFI was ordered not only to pay $3 million, but restitution of $6.4 million to four wastewater treatment plants, as well as $1.5 million to organizations that handle environmental concerns of the PA/DE region.(44)
- 1998: $1.5 million in penalties paid by BFI for violations of the Clean Water Act in Washington D.C. by its Maryland subsidiary. BFI admitted three criminal violations stemming from the release of wastewater contaminated with improperly treated medical waste. BFI corporate spokeswoman, Barbara Brescian said the company settled, "in the interest of putting this two year old situation behind us. BFI vigorously maintains our subsidiary committed no wrong."(45)
Merger Mania and Executive Bonanza
1999 was a dramatic year for the major waste traffickers. The fruit of the recurring failure of the waste=profit equation on which the industry is built was even larger mega-corporations and riches for senior executives. (46) As WMI succumbed to take over by USA Waste after repeated scrapes with the law and shareholder revolt, BFI also succumbed to its inability to live up to its own hype. In July, 1999, in a $9.4 billion sale, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based Allied Waste Industries swallowed giant BFI, ingesting enormous debt.(47) The scale of which locks this industry leader into the same old model of aggressively seeking to extract maximum profit in the shortest time from the environmentally most backward and socially oppressive means of managing wastes.
Little wonder Allied/BFI joined WMI in ganging up on Virginia whose General Assembly had passed "right to say no" laws limiting their import of out of state trash. In January, 2000, a federal judge ruled in the waste giants' favor, continuing to uphold the dubious notion that trash is an article of commerce like any other and thus protected by the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.(48)
Organizing Tips
Check out our Generic Strategy Guide
Determine if your state has a "bad boy" law which prevents companies with felony convictions from opening landfills or other waste disposal operations.
Share Allied-BFI's background, (particularly its legal and environmental compliance history ) with media sources and encourage them to look into this.
With regards to landfills, determine the approved capacity of the landfill and attempt to determine if BFI is exceeding landfill capacity. (This seems to happen at BFI landfills fairly often: keep dumping while waiting for a landfill expansion permission or just overfill approved capacity.)
References
1. Crooks, Harold. Giants of Garbage. (Toronto: James Loimer,1993) p. 37.
2.Browning-Ferris Industries: A Corporate Profile. Citizens Clearinghouse For Hazardous Wastes, Will Collette, Brian Patterson, Brian Lipsett. July 1987, p. 1.
3.Crooks, Giants, p. 38.
4.Crooks, Giants, p. 38.
5.Crooks, Giants, p. 40
6.ibid, p.50, 58-59
7.ibid, p.59
8.ibid, p.59
9. ibid, p.59
10.Brown, Andrea S. "BFI, the Waste Disposal company has long record of fines, suits, penalties." Lancaster New Era, 7/27/92
11.Form C Compliance History: Browning Ferris Industries Inc. and Subsidiaries, filed with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Environmental Resources, Bureau of Solid Waste Management, July 1, 1992.
12..Cumberland Farms, et. al vs. Browning Ferris Industries, Plaintiff's Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment, US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, No. 87-3717, p.62, also see Chapter 7 "Derelict Conduct? Captive Markets and Class Action," in Crooks, Giants of Garbage., pages 146-166 for details about the largest private anti-trust lawsuit ever launched against the waste management majors.
13. ibid, p..66
14. ibid, pp.24-28.
15. ibid, p. 13.
16. ibid, p.13
17. ibid, p.69
18. ibid, p.61-62
19. Zuckerman, Laura, "Trash Talk:BFI," The Hutchinson News, 9/22/96. p. 13
20.Yip, Pamela, "Browning Ferris Hit with Anti-trust Ruling," The Houston Chronicle, 2/ 24/94.
21. The Dallas Morning News, "Ex-Panel Employee Given Probation" 7/1/95
22.. Conner, Charles, "BFI Sued Here on Monopoly Charges," Commercial Appeal 2/ 16/96, p.1
23. Turner, Missy. "Browning-Ferris Comes to Terms with Labor Department," The San Antonio Business Journal, 7/24/98
24. Schevitz, Tanya, "Free pickup for Garbage Customers Hit by Strike," The San Francisco Chronicle, 10/24/98
25. McKay, Jim. "Waste Hauler Sued by EEOC," Pittsburgh Post Gazette 10/1/98.
26. Pompilio, Natalie, " Council OK's Waste Contract in Jeff; Recycling Costs Up 7cents a Month," The Times Picayune, 11/19/98
27. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 1/13/99
28. Crooks, Giants pp.53-54
29. ibid, p.54
30. Form C Compliance History: Browning Ferris Industries Inc. and Subsidiaries, filed with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Environmental Resources, Bureau of Solid Waste Management, July 1, 1992 p.60.
31. Barette, Partial List of Fines and Convictions Imposed on BFI and Filials. 1995.
32. Form C Compliance History: Browning Ferris Industries Inc. and Subsidiaries, filed with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Environmental Resources, Bureau of Solid Waste Management, July 1, 1992. p. 65.
33. .ibid, p.66
34. Barette, Partial List of Fines and Convictions Imposed on BFI and Filials. 1995.
35..Form C Compliance History: Browning Ferris Industries Inc. and Subsidiaries, filed with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. OF environmental Resources, Bureau of Solid Waste Management, July 1, 1992. p. 73
36. ibid, p. 77
37. ibid, p. 124
38. ibid, pp. 47 and 126.
39. ibid, p. 127
40. Barette, Partial List of Fines and Convictions Imposed on BFI and Filials. 1995.
41. Form C Compliance History: Browning Ferris Industries Inc. and Subsidiaries, filed with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Environmental Resources, Bureau of Solid Waste Management, July 1, 1992 p.86
42. . "1.1 Million Settlement in Sediment Spill," The San Francisco Chronicle, 10/21/93.
43. "Companies Agree to Clean Kansas Site", Waste Treatment Technology News: " No. 7, Vol. 12, April 1, 1996
44. Enviro-Bytes, The Environmental Protection Agency. "West Chester, PA company pays fines in disposal scam." Mid-Atlantic Region July 25, 1997.
45. Miller, Bill. "Firm to Pay $1.5 Million For Pollution Violations: Medical Waste Flowed Into Sewers," Washington Post, 6/2/98.
46. "A Year Best Forgotten," Waste News, 12/20/99 and Duff, Susanna, "Parachutes of Gold," 8/21/00
47. Brown., Bob, "Allied's stock tumbles," Waste News, 11/15/99
48. Duff, Susanna, "Judge Strikes Va. Import laws," Waste News, 2/7/00
