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Deadbeat Report: Part II
Water LIFE Commentary By Michael Heller In case you missed the last installment of this sad saga, Capts. Robert Moore & Bob Boudreau, Water LIFE Magazine and the Kids Cup have all been ‘stiffed’ by someone associated with “The Preserve” project in Charlotte Harbor. Stiffed to the tune of over $6,000 and we’re trying to find out by who and why. In our most recent attempt to get to the bottom of the finger pointing (it’s not my debt ... it’s HIS debt) we spent a morning on the internet looking at the Florida Corporation’s Commission website, trying to find out who is the condo project called The Preserve. In the past, someone said they paid someone else who was supposed to pay us, but the bottom line is we never got the money. So who’s to blame? To date we have had people at Forelands, The Preserve, Charlotte Harbor Development LLC, Dream Resorts, and SunCoast Vacations all deny any responsibility. We have seen this attitude in the past; big business reasons they will let the little guys hang. ‘Little guys can’t afford to sue,’ is their thinking. Problem is, they’re right, so unless a lawyer volunteers his time all we can do is complain... but we will do so, loudly and continually until we get paid. On the internet there is no Sun Coast Vacations company, but Dream Resorts revealed Mr Pat Gerrard and Thomas Smith, as officers and the name of Murray Baker is also on the paperwork. I love the internet.
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It’s so informative. Interestingly, there are a number of names which kept coming up associated with these companies when we browsed deeper into the state’s Corporation Commission website. We saw that Ms. Carol Dunn (addresses in Arcadia, Lake Suzy and Port Charlotte) filed the first corporate papers for Charlotte Harbor Development Ltd. in February of 2002. All the other corporations came after that. When we called her, a lady with an attitude on the phone told us Ms. Dunn was no longer associated with that company, but her husband Ronald Oskey<?> was now the man in charge. But as luck would have it, Ronald was “in a meeting” right then, and never did call us back. Before the woman on the other end hung up on us she mentioned that it was Charlotte Development Corp. not Charlotte Harbor Development LLC, that was building the multi-million dollar Preserve project. That was another new name to us, so we checked it out immediately. On the internet, the address for Charlotte Development Corp. coincidently coincided with the address that Carol Dunn had used when she filed the corporate papers for Charlotte Harbor Development LLC – 3191 B Harbor Blvd, Port Charlotte – an office building behind a medical complex. Carol Dunn was also the name listed on the corporate filing papers for Charlotte Development Corp. Also of interest was the fact that the com-
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The project apparently has plenty of money for construction and a storefront in Fishermenʼs Village so why donʼt they pay all their bills?
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pany used Jed Pal’s Englewood address as their business location. Jed is also on the board of Charlotte Harbor Development Ltd and he’s the person who contracted with all of us. Other names we came across at Charlotte Harbor Development LTD were, Marc Beshears, of Naples, Gordon “Murray” Baker, of Englewood, Patrick O'Regan, of Greenhills and Thomas Smith of Skelmori Florida. Could that be the same Thomas Smith and Murray Baker from Dream Resorts? Another coincidence! It only stands to reason that there is at least one responsible person involved who doesn’t know anything about this. I hope someone tells him/her what’s going on and he/she gives us a call.
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