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British invasion By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor

Key home to British transplants Monetary volatility in Europe has businesses turning to American lenders for capital.

If small business owners come next, Siesta Key could see an economic surge.

ONLINE EXTRA Kaplan: Ponzi scheme cost him $22 million After being criminally accused in late January by Regions Bank of orchestrating a $10 million check kiting scheme, prominent Sarasota real estate investor, developer and entrepreneur Marvin Kaplan is speaking out.

Kaplan says in a 46-page counterclaim filed Wednesday in the 12th Circuit Court in Sarasota that Regions wrongly defamed him and that he lost $22 million in a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Larry Starr, a longtime Sarasota and Longboat Key tourism entrepreneur, and the owners of Fayettville, N.C.-based Smith Advertising & Associates.

Starr denied Kaplan’s claim.

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If you ask Sheila Lewis what she misses about her native England, she says she doesn’t miss the dreary weather one bit before admitting to missing pubs and the countryside.

Her husband, Mike Lewis, worked in factories for quarter

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of a century before the couple moved in 2005 to Siesta Key from Cardiff, Wales. Now, part of his job requires him to lead groups weaving canals and mangroves under sunshine that pushes temperatures well into the 90s during summer.

The beckoning of America’s 2011 No. 1 beach, as chosen by coastal researcher Stephen Leatherman, is certainly a big perk for Britons looking for milder weather, but an already thriving community of English business owners is another

beacon for chaps from across the pond. If the effects of being ranked America’s finest beach continue to reverberate and the European economy continues to suffer, there could be some

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By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor

OUR TOWN + Double graduation Out-of-Door Academy will be graduating two classes from the lower school this year.

Because the Uihlein Campus in Lakewood Ranch is expanding, the upper school campus will now be sixth through 12th grade, and the Siesta Key lower school campus will be pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The sixth-grade class will have its graduation ceremony at 9 a.m. June 1, and the fifth-grade class will have its ceremony at 11 a.m. June 1. Both ceremonies will take place at Siesta Key Chapel.

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Marc Grimaud will have to find a balance between new and old as the new owner of Café Gabbiano, in Siesta Key Village.

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Café Gabbiano under new ownership Marc Grimaud is done with the paperwork for his purchase of Café Gabbiano.

Now, he’s ready to immerse himself in the iconic Siesta Key restaurant.

As Marc Grimaud sits in the private room at the back of Café Gabbiano, low light splashes off hundreds of red wine bottles on the surrounding walls. It looks like Grimaud is in a vineyard cabin in Cyprus rather than the back corner of the Davidson’s Drugs complex in Siesta Key Village, a place he has been visiting

since he and his parents purchased a house here four years ago.

When Grimaud was a senior at Central Connecticut University, he bought a snowplow and started his first business. Now the 30-year-old, who turned down opportunities for advancement at a $20 million production com-

pany in Los Angeles, will take over the Italian restaurant that has been in Siesta Village for nearly a decade.

“I always wanted to own my own business,” Grimaud says. “I just never knew what it would be.”

For his foray into the restaurant world, Grimaud plans to tap

into his background as facility manager for a 60-acre banquet hall in Connecticut. After visiting Siesta Key, he and his wife, Laura, decided that the small-town feel was perfect for the family they plan to start.

“My mother-in-law lives in Ellenton, my father-in-law lives West Palm Beach and my parents visit (Sarasota) every three

SEE GRIMAUD / PAGE 2A

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Sheila and Mike Lewis stand under the towering wall of bicycles the couple rents out as owners of Siesta Sports Rentals.

INVASION / FROM 1A new businesses sprouting up, explains Keith Redding of Key Solutions Real Estate Group.

Key Solutions earlier this year opened a new office on Siesta partly to meet Europeans at this transition.

The Lewises own Siesta Sports Rentals in the Davidson Drugs complex on the south end of Siesta, which they have run since buying the store in 2005. The British family, which also includes a son and daughter, vacationed in Sarasota for almost 20 years before following through with their plan to buy a business here.

“We always went to Lido until another Brit told us about Siesta,” Sheila Lewis says.

In 2004, Mike Lewis strolled into Siesta Key Bicycle Rentals on Midnight Pass Road, intending to rent a bike while his wife and kids hung out by at the pool at Gulf & Bay Club. Lewis ended up starting a much larger transaction when he discovered the owner, another U.K. native, wanted to sell the business.

“It was, like, spooky,” says Sheila Lewis. The couple had made the decision to start searching for a business to buy to start their lives on Siesta.

After six months of filing financial documents, the family became Siesta Key residents and they found common company among British transplants who owned businesses ranging from hair salons to motels.

“It was an easy transition,”

Sheila Lewis says. “We settled in straight away.”

One draw that attracts local British commercial activity is an investment visa, know as the E-2, which allows U.K. investors to work and live in the U.S. Many of the British business owners on Siesta have used that as a means to turn an annual vacation into a new life, says Mike Lewis while cranking away at the oily tire of one of the rental scooters.

And the Lewis family makes sure to note that although British camaraderie eased the transition into American life, they certainly don’t discriminate when it comes to friends.

“We’ve got a lot of good American friends as well,” Sheila says smiling. “We don’t just stick with the British.”

months,” Grimaud says. “And we wanted to be closer to family.” For now, his immediate family is apart as his wife packs their belongings in Redondo Beach, Calif.

Café Gabbiano, known for its made-to-order Italian dishes and stocking more than 220 different wines, had the solid foundation with which Grimaud wanted to begin. Peter Migliaccio, the previous owner and Grimauds’ family friend, wanted to sell the business to someone who would continue the tradition he established over a 42-year career as a restaurateur.

“It was just a really good fit,” Grimaud says.

Although the core of Café Gabbiano will not change, Grimaud will add his own flavor to the operational side of the business. In June, the restaurant will start selling “Sunset Baskets” filled with appetizers and a bottle of wine for those who want to spend a romantic dinner on the sands of Siesta Key beach.

“I don’t like being stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over,” he says. “I like change.”

So Grimaud, a sommelier, gathered some employees for a wine-themed brainstorming session after finishing paper work for the financial side of the business. Out of the twohour meeting sprang a wine-

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pairing menu that will change every two months.

Grimaud is doing a bit more rugged work today than analyzing wine. He has the sleeves of his white, fitted shirt rolled up while he installs a line window to connect wait staff with chefs at his restaurant.

“I’m here every day,” he says.

The presence of Peter and Susan Migliaccio, who started Café Gabbiano in 2003, is as much a part of a customer’s experience as the fresh ingredients, Grimaud says. “Peter and Susan know the names, families and usual orders of a lot of customers,” he says. “I want to make sure people will get the same experience.”

To that end, Grimaud has been flying to Sarasota for the last two months to learn how Peter Migliaccio runs the restaurant and interacts with customers.

“It’s kind of a bittersweet transition,” he says. “(Customers) say they will miss Peter and Susan but they’ll still be around — just on the other side of the bar (as customers).”

Although Grimaud says he misses friends and co-workers from his time in Los Angeles working for Deluxe Digital Studios, he goes to work happy every day at the restaurant.

“I used to think money was the big motivator,” Grimaud says. “But it’s not about the money, it’s about finding something you’re passionate about and enjoying it.”

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I don’t like being stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over. I like change.

— Marc Grimaud

CLASS OF 2012 CONGRATULATES THE Class of 2012 College Acceptances

Members of the Class of 2012 were admitted to over 300 different colleges and universities throughout the United States. A sampling of those schools is as follows:

Amherst College Auburn University Babson College Baldwin Wallace College Bard College Bates College Boston University Bowdoin College Bryn Mawr College Butler University Carleton College Clemson University Colgate University College of Charleston College of Wooster Colorado College Colorado State U. Columbia University Cornell University Davidson College Denison College

DePaul University DePauw University Dickinson College Drexel University Eckerd College Emory University Florida Atlantic U. FAU (Honors College) Florida Gulf Coast U. Fordham University Florida State U. Furman University Georgia Institute of Tech.

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Lake Forest College Lehigh University Louisiana State U. Loyola College Loyola University Merrimack College Miami University Michigan State U. Mt. Allison U. (Canada) Mt. Holyoke College New College of Fl. Northeastern U. Occidental College Pratt Institute Purdue University Rhodes College Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) RIT RPI Scripps College

Simmons College Smith College SMU St. Anselm College St. Bonaventure U. St. Lawrence U. Stetson University Syracuse University Temple University Trinity College Trinity University Tulane University University of Alabama University of Colorado University of Delaware University of Florida University of Hawaii University of Miami U. of Rhode Island U. of Richmond University of San Diego

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explosive situation By Alex Mahadevan | News Editor

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Pyrotechnician gears up for Fourth of July.

Craig Merrill works for Westlake Produce Co., in Winter Haven, during most of the year.

But when the Fourth of July rolls around, he trades apples for ammunition as the pyrotechnician behind the Siesta Key Beach fireworks show. With about 1,500 pounds of explosives in tow, Merrill is ready to set the Siesta night sky a blaze for the 10th time. In an interview with the Pelican Press, he shed some light on his explosive background.

How did you get involved with the show on Siesta Key? I was an assistant to a good friend of mine who has been doing fireworks for close to 20 years. He brought me with him to Siesta Key 11 years ago to help him, and three years later I had enough training to be the lead technician on this show. I have been offered other shows for the Fourth of July in years past, but my family and I love coming to Siesta Key. We bring our children and usually spend the week durCourtesy of Craig Merrill ing the holiday and make a Craig Merrill is the pyrotechnivacation out of it. The peo- cian behind the explosions that ple of Siesta Key, the Siesta will fill the Fourth of July night Key Chamber of Commerce sky over Siesta Beach. He members and staff make it a poses with Siesta Key Chamber pleasure to come and spend of Commerce member Aimee Holmes. some time.

How about pyrotechnics in that echoes along the beach. general?

Dragon’s Eggs are small shells I have been doing pyrotech- that explode into stars with nics for 11 years with the past a loud crack. The launching eight as a lead technician. tubes are connected with I’ve been involved in shows high-speed fuses that create a ranging from wedding recep- rapid-fire effect.)

tions to the Orange Bowl New What’s the hardest part Year’s game — from Tampa Bay Rays games to New Year’s of preparing for the Siesta Key fireworks show? Is it any Eve in Jacksonville.

different than the average What’s your favorite effect? show?

Crossettes and kamuros The beautiful sand of Siesta are my personal favorites. Key beach is the hardest part (Crossettes consist of a star of the Fourth of July show. For that spreads in four direc- most shows you have a hard tions and is usually fired in surface to work on and carrysuccession creating a criss- ing heavy equipment in the cross pattern in the sky. Ka- sand makes it much more muro, which means “boy’s difficult.

haircut” in JapaHow long does it take nese, resembles a you to plan the Siesta bowl haircut as it fireworks show? bursts in different There are months of directions with preparation. It starts a thick trail of with “scripting” the glittering silver show, then the shells or gold.)

are made and packed would What for the show, and finally you guess the fawe pull permits. Devorite effect of the signers and office perSiesta Beach ausonnel in Zambelli dience is?

Fireworks’ Boca Raton I would guess office perform most of that beach authis preparation.

diences like saHow did you come lutes or multiA TNT plunger up with the TNT shot cakes called was used to start plunger idea? How “Dragon’s Eggs.” the 2011 Siesta about other ideas for (Salutes are an Key Fourth of July audible expe- fireworks display. A “devices” to start fireworks shows? rience rather raffle to operate it The chamber had than a visible was crucial in raisbeen struggling to effect creating ing the funds for get enough funds to a booming pop the show.

pay for the show. My family and friends love coming to Siesta Key to celebrate the Fourth of July, and the people of Siesta Key and members of the chamber treat us so well I couldn’t bear the idea that they couldn’t afford the show anymore. So, we brainstormed and came up with the idea as an additional way to raise funds. We didn’t really know it would generate as much excitement as it has.

How do you pick the music?

It is based on the script and which celebration.

Do you consider yourself an artist?

(Laughs) I’ve thought of that before. Zambelli Fireworks tells me how to set the show up, although I do get to give it some of my own touch, which makes me somewhat of an artist. I do think I’m more of a performer than an artist.

Do you get nervous before a show?

Oh, yes. What makes me the most nervous is that there are more than 100,000 people watching the show. I’m nervous thinking about whether or not spectators truly love it and will come back the next year.

By the numbers 10 — number of fireworks shows on Siesta Key Craig Merrill has done 1 — number of shows Craig Merrill missed in the last decade. The reason: the June 7, 2006, birth of his daughter, Charli. “I told my wife she’d be fine without me and I’d be home on July 5. Guess who won?”

1,000 — number of shells 450 — number of shots 1,500 pounds — amount of explosive material 1.5 to 6 inches — shell size $30,000 — approximate cost of fireworks 100 to 450 feet — height of shots 18 hours — time to set up, fire the show, tear down and clean up Figures provided by Craig Merrill

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Jon Thaxton at bay for now After 12 years representing District 5 on the Sarasota County Commission, Jon Thaxton carefully contemplates his next step.

Sarasota County Commissioner Jon Thaxton has a tendency to plan ahead.

He took out a GMAC loan to buy a 360 Chevy Nova Super Sport before he was old enough to drive.

He fought the Florida Department of Transportation’s plan to cut Interstate-75 through virgin lands before he could even vote.

And he bought his first home at 18 before he was married.

And Thaxton’s meticulous forward planning carried over into his County Commission duties — and made the ruling by the Florida Supreme Court toppling his plans for a fourth term a significant hurdle.

Before the court ruling on term limits, Thaxton had mapped the remainder of his career out with a final term in the commission, a few years of real-estate consulting and retirement, which would include a summer home in a cooler climate. Now he’s juggling 60-hour workweeks and swarms of reporters aching to know what’s next.

But in true Thaxton style, the gears in his head are spinning, and he promises to let the public know when he settles on a decision for his next career move.

“The ruling threw my life into disarray,” Thaxton says. “It would be imprudent for me to make a decision, that big, so soon.”

The media aren’t the only ones hounding Thaxton about his next move.

“I would bet I get stopped by at least three people in my Palmer Ranch Publix to ask me about it,” he says.

Good thing he is an avid fisherman and hunter — this evening he will be cooking fresh-caught redfish for his wife.

“I do the cooking,” Thaxton says. “The only time she cooks is for Sunday breakfast.”

Whether he’s yanking 200-pound tarpon out of the Gulf of Mexico in a kayak or bagging a Thanksgiving turkey, Thaxton never separates hunting from nature. The awards he won last year, including recognition of leadership from the Coalition of Business Associations and a Lifetime Achievement award from the Venice Audubon Society, form an interesting juxtaposition on his office walls.

His youth in Osprey was filled with days of hunting and nights of camping — without a tent, of course. But when he took an ecology class at Venice High with teacher Bill Wimbish, he learned why he could find hogs near a particular type of brush or why one species of fish lingers where freshwater and saltwater meet.

“It was like everything fell into

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Jon Thaxton will vacate his position in the Sarasota County Commission at the end of this term. He’ll be working 60 hours a week and pondering his future until then.

Fast facts Jon Thaxton Position: Sarasota County Commissioner, District 5 Hometown: Osprey Age: 54 Siblings: 5 Background: Real estate Pet peeves: The word “dignitaries”; and when new buildings are branded with plaques bearing commissioners’ names.

Fielding position: First baseman. Although Thaxton loved playing outfield, when he started growing taller, he became an effective first baseman reaching for throws from other fielders. place,” he says.

This environmental focus coupled with a pro-business mindset has helped him form intimate bonds with Sarasota County residents since he was elected to the County Commission in 2000. However, he will not challenge the court’s decision, he said.

But Thaxton’s approachability and residents’ close watch on the commission, which turn Publix, Economy Tackle and his church into de facto public forums, exemplify the importance of experience in the commission, he says.

“If you are derelict, you will be voted out of office,” Thaxton says. “I don’t care how long you’ve been in office, and I don’t care how much money you can raise — you’re toast.”

DISTRICT 5 CANDIDATES Three candidates have announced campaigns for the District 5 seat that will open in November after Commissioner Jon Thaxton’s term ends. The filling deadline is Friday, June 8.

• Charles Hines, attorney, Republican • William Brian Slider, businessman, Republican • Vanessa Carusone, North Port city commissioner 2002-2010, restaurant owner, Republican

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+ Prominent Siesta lot again for sale The 1.9-acre of land north of the Old Salty Dog in Siesta Key Village is for sale for $1,475,000 just two months after RSL Siesta Key Development purchased the lot for $725,500.

Mark Smith, an area architect and president of the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, said the uptick in real-estate action on Siesta could be a sign that housing prices are near the lowest they will get, following the recession.

+ County seeks vendors for crosswalk lighting Sarasota County is trying to gather a group of vendors to demonstrate LED lighting for a potential project to install bollard fixtures on the seven crosswalks in Siesta Key Village. So far, there has been one response from three companies contacted, according to a Ryan Montague, with Sarasota County Traffic Engineering and Operations.

The demo is intended to help county officials decide on the specifications lighting units would need to light the crosswalks efficiently.

The firms are not competing for a bid, just demonstrating their products.

A subsidiary of Sarasota-based Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc., called EvoLucia Lighting, was the responding firm. Montague said he plans to contact the remaining two firms through email and phone calls to follow up on the request.

+ Crunch time for school storm prep Sarasota County School district officials have a “tight window” to update contact lists in preparation

Meetings &agendas  Siesta Key Village Association monthly meeting — 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday, June 5, Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar, Room F, 5615 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key  Sarasota County Commission regular meeting — 9 a.m.

Tuesday, June 5, R.L. Anderson Administration Building, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice  Sarasota High School design charrette: public forum — 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, Conference Room, Sarasota County Technical Institute, 4748 Beneva Road, Sarasota  Sarasota High School design charrette: work session — 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7, Conference Room, Sarasota County Technical Institute, 4748 Beneva Road, Sarasota  Siesta Key Association monthly meeting — 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 7, St. Boniface Episcopal, Room F, 5615 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key

for the 2012 hurricane season, said Sarasota County Schools manager of safety and security Darrell Reyka.

The school year in Sarasota County ends June 4, four days after the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, for all students and staff working 186 days of the year. The end of the semester is usually when staff turnover occurs, making it the logical time to refresh contact lists used for hurricane season procedures.

Schools could be done with contact list updates as early as the first week in June, Reyka explained.

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Architects reveal design for new library Harvard Jolly Inc. unveiled conceptual renderings of the new Gulf Gate Library Thursday, May 24.

LeVar Burton, former host of the children’s educational show, “Reading Rainbow,” would have probably been delighted at the youth turnout at the unveiling of the design for the new Gulf Gate Library.

More than 20 members of the Gulf Gate Teen Advisory Board, a group that organizes events such as a recent “Hunger Games” party and “Quidditch” matches (from “Harry Potter”) at the library, filed in to check out the renderings. The teens, aged 12 to 19, browsed the six easels and commented on designs their opinions helped, in part, to craft.

“We finally feel like our voices are being heard,” said Caleb Hill, 19, while waiting for space to clear in front of the library drawings.

Coleman Knott, project manager for the $7.5 million library renovation, explained in a phone interview that space became such a problem at the current Gulf Gate Library there were several instances in which lecture audiences had to be capped to stay within fire safety codes.

But the county and companies involved held two public meetings this year to make sure the library, which has served as a community center for Gulf Gate residents, is as close to patron specifications as possible.

The next open house is scheduled for Aug. 8, but Knott said there would likely be another meeting scheduled LBK - now 2010and - then I to update the between public on the project’s progress.

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Timeline 1973 — Gulf Gate library opens on Gateway Avenue in response to the busy bookmobile in the parking lot of the Gulf Gate Mall.

It was originally called the Betty Service Branch Library, named after a local librarian.

1978 — Library moves to two storefronts on Gateway Avenue, with Marian Butler as the one full-time librarian.

Courtesy of Harvard Jolly Inc.

The first set of conceptual designs for the new Gulf Gate Public Library includes a drive-thru book-return lane.

A timely trophy

Architects unveiled conceptual plans for the new Gulf Gate Library the same week directors, librarians, staff and volunteers of the Sarasota County Library System gathered at the Sarasota County Commission chambers to receive praise for winning the 2012 Library of the Year Award.

The award, which was presented by the Florida Library Association the weekend of April 18, in Orlando, is given to library systems that stand out creatively and operationally. ble the size of the previous building, although there were concerned looks at first glimpse of the large structure.

“It was so cozy,” said library regular June Haas about the nook her book club meets in at the old library.

“But I heard they’re putting in a copper ceiling,” she explained, “just like the old library.”

Large pads of paper flanked the renderings at the open house for participants who wanted to share comments publicly. Only three comments had been left by the end of the evening, but their specificity shows how much residents care about the library.

“Large scale collections — please don’t place these books on the lower

shelf. Hard to reach for older patrons,” said the first note.

Now, Public Works will begin estimating specific costs of the project.

This includes exploring minor details like the color and style of carpeting for each room.

“At one point, (those involved in the project) considered using stained wood on the outside of the building,” Knott said. “But operational costs down the road were too great.”

Mechanical and electrical engineers, heating-and-air specialists and architects will come together for a meeting the first week in June to consider public opinions and analyze the efficiency of the design, Knott said. “Everyone is starting to

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The rapid growth in popularity of e-books, which pushed the portion of Americans using tablets or e-readers from 10% to 19% over the latest holiday, shows how quickly reading technology is advancing, something Knott wants to be reflected in a modern and flexible design.

“Libraries are so much more than people thought they could be,” Knott said.

“They’ve morphed into something more than a place to go to check out books.”

Sarasota County is still looking for rental properties to house the library’s collections during the construction.

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Harvard Jolly Inc., of St. Petersburg, was chosen to design the new Gulf Gate library. Readers may recognize the name, because the architecture firm is or was involved with several projected, current or recently finished publically financed projects in the area.

Here are a few prominent examples: Project Square footage Booker High School 240,000 392,707 Charlotte High School Sarasota High School n/a 366,600 Lemon Bay High School Here’s how the preliminary designs Harvard Jolly unveiled compare to its other library projects: Library Square footage Gulf Gate Library 25,800 Cagan Crossings Community Library 30,000 Clearwater Main Library 92,000 Fort Myers Public Beach Library 30,650 Leesburg Public Library 42,000 Broward College Library 72,000 Oldsmar Public Library 19,800 Town ’N’ Country Commons 43,000 Spanish River Library and Community Center 43,000

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City manager list revealed The eight city manager candidates presented to city commissioners Wednesday, May 30, include three Florida city managers.

A list of 104 Sarasota city manager candidates has been whittled to eight. The Sarasota City Commission will now be charged with making its final selection in July.

Search consultant Colin Baenziger, of Wellington-based Colin Baenziger & Associates, and his team have spent the last four months analyzing candidates and gathering data on the finalists. The data, contained in 8-inch thick binders, was shipped Wednesday, May 30, to City Hall for Sarasota city commissioners to review.

The binders revealed the following: Three city managers in the list are current city managers in Florida, and none of the eight chosen is a local candidate.

The Florida city manager choices include Daytona Beach City Manager James Chisholm; West Palm Beach City Administrator Edward “Ed” Mitchell; and Casselberry City Manager Barbara Lipscomb.

Rounding out the list of other current city manager choices are Oak Park, Ill., City Manager Thomas Barwin; McKinney, Texas, Deputy City Manager Rick Chaffin; Marine City, Mich., City Manager John Gabor; Mercer County, N.J., City Manager Andrew Mair; and Michael Hein, director of Emergency Management & Homeland Security for Pima County, Ariz. Hein, though, is the former city manager of Tucson, Ariz.

City manager experience was not a requirement for candidates.

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Don’t fall for steelworker’s sob You have to be dreading the next five months. We are.

We’re dreading the incessant, negative political attack ads, the malicious lies and distortions. Republicans and Democrats alike will engage in this. This practice is as old as the republic.

It’s still annoying.

The ads that are the most galling at the moment are the Barack Obama steelworker ads, portraying Mitt Romney, his Bain Capital and capitalism as “vampire(s),” “job destroyers” and the destroyers of “thousands of people’s lives.”

Romney, Bain and capitalism are horrible evildoers, Obama and his message spinners proclaim, because, in the course of buying, selling and operating businesses, Romney and his company shut down money-losing steel mills and eliminated jobs.

The fact Obama and his hack jobbers are demonizing Romney and Bain for these outcomes is a deliberate distortion of an economic and business reality that has existed since trade began before Christ. It’s as simple as this: Market forces never tolerate the misallocation and inefficient use of resources.

Market forces always destroy the least efficient. That is, with one exception — when politicians intervene and prop up the losers

(i.e. GM, Chrysler, the U.S. sugar industry, Solyndra and on and on).

Did Romney and Bain destroy those steel workers’ lives? No. The steel workers themselves and the inept owners and managers who preceded Bain are the real culprits.

They failed to innovate with ever-changing market forces. They failed to or were unable to stay competitive.

If Obama and his handlers were honest with American voters, they would acknowledge what Obama should have learned at Harvard — that is, the term the famous 1940s Harvard economist, Joseph Schumpeter, coined: “creative destruction.” Wrote Schumpeter in 1942: “The history of the productive apparatus of a typical farm, from the beginnings of the ratioalization of crop rotation, plowing and fattening to the mechanized thing of today — linking up with elevators and railroads — is a history of revolutions. So is the history of productive apparatus of the iron and steel industry …

“The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroy-

ing the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. It is what capitalism consists in and what every capitalist concern has got to live in.”

Everyone who has ever worked in a private business knows this. If you want to stay employed, you must remain efficient and indispensable; your firm’s management must be forward thinking and invest to innovate and remain efficient and competitive.

When the Obama ads present the forlorn, laid-off steelworker, the man who looks worn and tired, Obama’s distorters want you to feel sorry for this symbol of a life destroyed by capitalism. They want you to see him as a victim.

But if you understand the reality of market forces, you might look at this symbolic character another way: Of course, he’s out of work. He and his employers didn’t do what they should have done.

When Romney and Bain came in and risked their and their shareholders’ capital, they didn’t come in with the intent to destroy lives. You can bet they came in with the intent to do what you as a shareholder would expect: Make your investment grow.

Wish, we will, for political ads that tell the truth. This one doesn’t.

OPINION: MY VIEW

Civility and compromise bring fairer solutions I thought the editorial opinI personally have blamed the ion contained in the “Our View” downfall of the civilized world column last week provided a on allowing young men to wear commonsense approach to baseball caps indoors, especially solving not only the sound issues in restaurants. However, in the currently being debated in the Si- case of problem solving or just esta Key Village but most political discourse, I problems that come think it has more to do along in life. It would be with the necessity of nice if we would act like both sides to win at any responsible adults and cost, including demondiscuss the problems at izing the opponents. hand to find solutions Real-life examples that are acceptable to all of what I am describconcerned. ing can be seen and We could also try living heard on a daily basis by the Golden Rule: “Do on talk radio and the JOHN unto others as you would politically biased GUDRITZ two have them do unto you” cable “news” chanor just “Do the right nels, MSNBC and Fox thing.” As the song says, “What a News. There is nothing “fair and wonderful world this would be.” balanced” being expressed over The reality is, we, as a socithe airwaves from any of those ety, have changed over the last news sources. And, worse yet, decade or two and not for the the modus operandi of the combetter, in my opinion. Civility mentators on these programs is has become a rare commodity. to attack the people on the other The ability to be able to sit down side of the issue as being not and calmly debate and discuss only wrong in their position but different sides of issues or probalso as self-serving, unpatriotic lems seems to have been lost or and sometimes just plain stupid. forgotten.

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watching and listening to these mean-spirited media sources on a daily basis than to more polite, mainstream news programs, it is no wonder that the discourteous behaviors on these shows have rubbed off on the viewers and listeners. It is also unfortunate that this uncivil behavior has spread beyond political debates to everyday issues like noise ordinances within the village or alcohol consumption on the beach.

In order for the residents in the Village, the restaurant owners, the drinkers and the nondrinkers on the beach to “get along,” we all need to believe that our concerns are being acknowledged, and not just dismissed, by those on the other side of the issue. It is when one side does not feel like they are being heard that frustration builds and more dramatic actions are taken sometimes just out of spite. When this happens, the opportunity for finding a fair solution for all parties is hindered by a breakdown in communication.

To achieve a sensible solution to any problem, both sides must be willing to do something that many people have come to believe is an unreasonable act — compromise.

Although compromising is currently seen in this country as being weak and giving up one’s principles, it is normally how things get done in a democracy.

And democracies are stronger and more respected as a governing body when both sides of an issue believe that their concerns have had the opportunity to be heard and considered.

As we move forward to find ways to make life on Siesta Key and in the Village better for all who call it home or a just a favorite vacation destination, let’s try to incorporate more civility in our debates and discussions.

Compromising with the opposition should be expected in any good faith negotiations.

Let’s turn off talk radio and the cable political channels and try to treat those people among us with opposite points of view with respect. I think we would be surprised how much we could accomplish.

John Gudritz is the co-owner of an investment management firm. He and his wife have been coming to Siesta Key since the 1970s and have been property owners and seasonal residents since 2008.

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BEV MARSH Siesta Key resident Bev Marsh only took a few tap lessons as a child. So, it may seem a bit odd that the nurse from Ohio would fall head-over-heels for ballroom dancing later on in life. It’s a passion she has enjoyed for the last 20 years.

Marsh met her husband, James, in Ohio. He was doing his residency the same place she was working as a nurse. In the summer of 1979, the couple moved to Siesta Key, and James Marsh set up his plastic surgery practice.

They married at the Longboat Island Chapel the same year. For eight years, Marsh worked along side her husband helping him run this practice. In 1988, the couple had their son, Christopher, and Marsh left the practice to become a full-time mom.

One night, Marsh went dancing with some of her girlfriends when a man approached her wanting to know if she was a dancer. “I said, ‘Well, I’m dancing right now,’� Marsh said.

He offered her complimentary ballroom dancing lessons. Right away, she was hooked. She joined Ballroom Sarasota and began her training with owner and instructor John Moldthan.

After 15 years at Ballroom Sarasota, she took a hiatus from ballroom dancing but found she

couldn’t stay off the dance floor long. Within a year, Marsh had two new dance partners.

The first of her new dance partners was Thomas Mielnicki, a Polish immigrant living in New York and a former U.S. America Smooth Champion (Americanstyle waltz, tango, foxtrot and Viennese waltz). Mielnicki was competing professionally when he took Marsh on as his student and partner; soon they were traveling the East Coast, competing in the pro-am division. In November 2008, the two made it to the finals in the largest proam competition, the American Smooth Division Ohio Star Ball, giving them a top-six U.S. ranking.

Two years later, while Marsh was at a competition in Atlanta, Michael Neil, of Boca Raton, approached her. He wanted to know if Marsh had an American Rhythm partner. Marsh had only competed in American Smooth dances, and Mielnicki had yet to learn the American Rhythm dance. Marsh decided to add to her ballroom repertoire and began learning and competing with Neil, dancing the cha-cha, rhumba, swing, bolero and mambo. She still competes with both partners.

Because Mielnicki is only in town every few weeks, Marsh

Bev Marsh has lived on Siesta Key for 31 years and has been tearing up the ballroom dance floors for 20 years.

works most often with Neil, competing in the nine-dance division (both American Smooth and American Rhythm).

For years, her friends never understood what she was doing during her Wednesday “dance day.� But then the television show, “Dancing with the Stars,� became popular. “After it came on, my friends looked at me and said, ‘You do all those dances?’ and I said, ‘I’ve been doing them for like 12 years now and you’re just noticing?’ They had no idea.

They had just heard me talk about it,� said Marsh.

Marsh jokes that in her household there are two “widows.�

Her husband makes her a “golf widow� and she makes him a “dance window.� “Everyone needs a passion. My husband’s is his golf, mine is my dancing and my son’s is his surfing,� Marsh said.

Although the moves, the dresses and the competitions are all part of Marsh’s reasons to keep dancing, she appreciates another noticeable benefit. “I think that dancing keeps you young in so many ways,� she says. “It forces you to use your body. It keeps your mind sharp by learning choreography and thinking about things. I’m afraid almost to stop dancing.� — Rachel S. O’Hara

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8:46 a.m. — 4800 block of Higel Avenue. Vehicular Burglary. A video game console was stolen when two unlocked vehicles were reportedly burglarized while a family slept.

The man who reported the crime stated that his daughter had woken up at 4 a.m., which was an abnormal happening, but did not investigate what had awoken her.

The man’s wife took one vehicle to work, preventing police from dusting for fingerpr ints, but prints found on the remaining vehicle were submitted to the crime lab for analysis.

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4:30 p.m. — 5200 block of Ocean Boulevard. Criminal Mischief. Twenty people between the ages of 25 and 30, all wearing blue shirts that read “Rhinos Quarter Century and Low Key Crawl” were watching a sports event in a Siesta Key bar. Management found a crack in the screen of the main flat-screen television in the group’s vicinity. The crowd, which management described as “mostly males and rowdy,” denied wrongdoing then left the bar. Police do not have any leads.

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1:15 a.m. — 5200 block of Ocean Boulevard. Criminal Mischief. The manager of a Siesta Key Village bar reported a man broke the window of a nearby establishment after being ejected for causing a disturbance. Police pursued the suspect into another bar where he denied wrongdoing.

After officers noticed his hand was bleeding, the man claimed he injured it at work earlier that day.

Road. Suspicious Incident. A man attempting to sell a computer through an online auction site reported suspicious activity from a potential buyer. The seller received a text message stating the buyer had submitted a payment to an Internet payment site but discovered it was false. Police suspect the buyer was attempting to scam the seller out of the computer without paying.

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5:18 p.m. — 5300 block of Ocean Boulevard. Disturbance. A maintenance supervisor at a Siesta Key resort observed a former employee using the establishment’s hot tub. The man was issued a trespassing warrant and left without incident.

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10:23 p.m. — 200 block of Avenida Madera. Petit Theft. An employee of an Italian restaurant never returned from a delivery valued at $90. Police attempted to call the employee’s cell phone, to no avail. The address and phone number of the intended recipient of the delivery were not found.

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Economic and Property Damages Settlement Providing Money to Individuals and Businesses If you have economic loss or property damage because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, you could get money from a class action settlement with BP Exploration & Production Inc. and BP America Production Company (“BP”). Go to DeepwaterHorizonSettlements.com for more information, including information on how to file a claim.

Who is included in the economic & ProPerty damages settlement?

The Economic and Property Damages (“E&PD”) Settlement Class includes people, businesses, and other entities in the states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, and certain counties in Texas and Florida, that were harmed by the oil spill.

The website DeepwaterHorizonSettlements.com has detailed descriptions and maps to help you determine whether a geographic location may be included in the E&PD Settlement. Additionally, you can call 1-866-992-6174 or e-mail questions@ DeepwaterHorizonEconomicSettlement.com to find out if a geographic location is included.

What does the economic & ProPerty damages settlement Provide?

The E&PD Settlement makes payments for the following types of claims: (1) Seafood Compensation, (2) Economic Damage, (3) Loss of Subsistence, (4) Vessel Physical Damage, (5) Vessels of Opportunity Charter Payment, (6) Coastal Real Property Damage, (7) Wetlands Real Property Damage, and (8) Real Property Sales Damage. There is no limit on the total dollar amount of the E&PD Settlement; all qualified claims will be paid.

hoW to get Benefits from the economic & ProPerty damages settlement You need to submit a Claim Form to request a payment. You can get a copy of the various Claim Forms by visiting the website or by calling 1-866-9926174. Claims can be submitted online or by mail. If you have questions about how to file your claim, you should call the toll-free number for assistance.

The deadline to submit most E&PD claims will be April 22, 2014 or six months after the E&PD Settlement becomes effective (that is, after the Court grants “final approval” and any appeals are resolved), whichever is later. There will be an earlier deadline to submit E&PD Seafood Compensation claims. The earlier deadline to submit Seafood Compensation claims will be 30 days after final approval of the Settlement by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (regardless of appeals).

Actual claim filing deadlines will be posted on the website as they become available. Valid claims will be paid as they are approved, beginning shortly after the Court-Supervised Settlement Program commences. It is highly recommended that E&PD Settlement Class Members complete and submit their claim forms promptly. Please read the Medical Benefits Settlement notice because you may also be eligible for benefits from that settlement.

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The Court will hold a hearing on November 8, 2012 to consider whether to approve the E&PD Settlement. You or your own lawyer may ask to appear and speak at the hearing at your own cost. The Court will also consider Class Counsel fees, costs, and expenses including an interim payment of $75 million and additional awards equal to 6% of class claims and benefits paid. Class Counsel fees, costs and expenses under the Economic and Property Damages Settlement Agreement and the Medical Benefits Settlement Agreement jointly cannot exceed $600 million. Class members’ payments will not be reduced if the Court approves the payment of Class Counsel fees, costs, and expenses because BP will separately pay these attorney fees, costs, and expenses.

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The Medical Class includes (1) clean-up workers and (2) certain people who resided in specific geographic areas in coastal and wetlands areas along the Gulf Coast during specific periods in 2010. The website DeepwaterHorizonSettlements. com has detailed descriptions and maps to help you determine whether a geographic location may be included in one of these zones. Additionally, you can call 1-866-992-6174 or e-mail info@ DeepwaterHorizonMedicalSettlement.com to find out if a geographic location is included.

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hoW to get Benefits from the medical Benefits settlement You need to submit a Claim Form to request benefits. You can get a copy of the Claim Form

by visiting the website or by calling 1-866-9926174. Claims can be submitted by mail. If you have questions about how to file your claim, you should call the toll-free number for assistance.

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your other oPtions If you do not want to be legally bound by the Medical Benefits Settlement, you must Opt Out or exclude yourself by October 1, 2012 or you won’t be able to sue BP over certain medical claims. If you stay in the Medical Benefits Settlement, you may object to it by August 31, 2012. The Detailed Notice explains how to exclude yourself or object.

The Court will hold a hearing on November 8, 2012 to consider whether to approve the Medical Benefits Settlement. You or your own lawyer may ask to appear and speak at the hearing at your own cost. Class Counsel will ask the Court to consider an award of fees, costs, and expenses of 6% of the value of the benefits actually provided under the Medical Benefits Settlement Agreement.

Class Counsel fees, costs, and expenses under the Medical Benefits Settlement Agreement and the Economic and Property Damages Settlement Agreement jointly cannot exceed $600 million.

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Adults, children and dogs were decked out in red, white and blue for the annual downtown Sarasota Memorial Day parade and ceremony Monday, May 28. The parade went down Main Street from the corner of Main and Osprey Avenue all the way down to J.D. Hamel Park, where the ceremony took place.

The theme for this year’s parade was “A Nation Forever Grateful,” and the parade paid special tribute to the heroic men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

At the ceremony, a variety of people spoke, including Mayor Suzanne Atwell, Congressman Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, and Scott Bill, a local builder whose son, Brian, a Navy SEAL, died in August in Afghanistan.

Jake, 6, wore an American flag in his collar.

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Walt’s Fish Market opens Chickee Bar Walt’s Fish Market has been in operation for more than 50 years, but, until now, beer and wine were the only alcoholic drinks on the menu. On Sunday, May 27, the four-generation seafood market and eatery celebrated its liquor license and held a

grand-opening party in honor of the newest Walt’s addition, the Chickee Bar — an outdoor tiki bar offering a variety of special drinks.

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Royal Palm Harbor home sells for $935,000 The following residential realestate transactions took place between May 14 and May 18.

A home in Royal Palm Harbor tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Edith Mehiel, Sarasota, sold her home at 1240 Northport Drive to Jill Taffet and Janine Gevas, Sarasota, for $935,000. Built in 1959, it has three bedrooms, twoand-a-half baths, a pool and 2,400 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $833,000 in 2000.

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Steven and Deborah Grossman, Nokomis, sold their home at 1287 Whitehall Place to Paul and Diana Wilkinson, Sarasota, for $740,000. Built in 1972, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,762 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $985,000 in 2004.

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This home at 560 Commonwealth Place in Siesta’s Bayside Waterside East has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,096 square feet of living area. It sold for $640,000.

Commonwealth Place to Frank and Diane Conforti, of Towavo, N.J., for $640,000. Built in 1972, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,096 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $598,500 in 2002.

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Bruce and Janice Winbun, of Noblesville, Ind., sold their Unit 607 condominium at 5920 Midnight Pass Road to Charles and Karen Overbey, of Girard, Ill., for $515,000. Built in 1971, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,352 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $123,500 in 1988.

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Thomas and Pamela Remijas, of Western Springs, Ill., for $375,000.

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Roy Nelson, of Stratford, Conn., sold his Unit 304 condominium at 8730 Midnight Pass Road to Ralph Bouma Jr., trustee, Sarasota, for $330,000. Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,365 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $210,000 in 1993.

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Lisa Fouraker sold her home at 611 Avenida De Mayo to Jeffrey Schell, of Williamsburg, Va., for $385,000. Built in 1947, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,003 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $710,000 in 2006.

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Kevin and Kathleen Stallworth sold their Unit 15 condominium at 5860 Midnight Pass Road to

Zbynek Knoll, Sarasota, sold the Unit 207 condominium at 8900 Blind Pass Road to Katerina Kellnerova, Sarasota, for $342,500.

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William Boland, of N. Olmsted, Ohio, sold his Unit 112 condominium at 9000 Blind Pass Road to Gerald and Mary Schaefer, of Rochester, N.Y., for $322,300. Built

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High Low 96 (1959) 57 (1981) 95 (2012) 55 (1971) 94 (2012) 58 (1931) 94 (2012) 55 (1979) 95 (1953) 52 (1979) 98 (1953) 59 (1942) 95 (1989) 57 (1935)

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ANOTHER PONZI? by the Business Review Staff

Lori Sax

Sarasota real estate investor Marvin Kaplan says in a countersuit that Regions Bank’s allegations that he was orchestrating a check kiting scheme were a systematic campaign by the bank to defame his character to mask lax banking procedures at Regions Bank.

Kaplan alleges how he was scammed Sarasota real estate investor Marvin Kaplan has lost about $22 million in what his attorney alleges to be a Ponzi scheme involving Sarasota entrepreneur Larry Starr.

After being criminally accused in late January by Regions Bank of orchestrating a $10 million check kiting scheme, prominent Sarasota real estate investor, developer and entrepreneur Marvin Kaplan is speaking out.

Kaplan says in a 46-page counterclaim filed Wednesday in the 12th Circuit Court in Sarasota he orchestrated nothing.

Kaplan alleges, with specific chronological details, that Larry Starr, a longtime Sarasota and Longboat Key tourism entrepreneur and one-time Business Review entrepreneur of the year, along with the owners of Fayettville, N.C.based Smith Advertising & Associates conspired in a Ponzi scheme that duped Kaplan.

And that scheme unraveled in January, Kaplan’s counterclaim alleges, when Regions Bank mishandled Kaplan’s checks, ultimately costing Kaplan a loss of about $22 million in four days.

What’s more, Kaplan’s counterclaim says the Starr-Smith Advertising scheme is likely to have fleeced investors in multiple states out of as much as $400 million.

Kaplan’s counterclaim also takes aim at Regions Bank, accusing the bank of systematically defaming Kaplan, of invasion of privacy and negligent misrepresentation when the bank publicly accused Kaplan of check kiting. This was done, Kaplan alleges, to divert attention away from the bank’s faulty check-handling

procedures, procedures that ultimately led Kaplan’s lawyer to uncovering the alleged Ponzi scheme.

The three counts leveled against Regions in Kaplan’s counterclaim were among 22 counts total he filed against Starr; Smith Advertising; its owners, Gary, Todd and Lucy Smith; Wells Fargo Bank; Bridgeview Bank in Illinois; the Florida Bankers Association; and Regions Bank security official Robert Nicholas Shaw. The counts ranged from fraud, racketeering, improper handling of checks, mail fraud and misappropriation of funds.

Editor’s Note …

On the following pages, the Business Review presents Kaplan’s counterclaim in its entirety. Kaplan’s attorney, Jon Parrish, a partner in the Naples law firm of Parrish, Lawhon and Yarnell, prepared the counterclaim after more than 80 hours of piecing together the chronology and events of Kaplan’s involvement with Starr, Smith Advertising and its owners.

The narrative that follows is Parrish’s version of what occurred, based on discussions with his client, Kaplan, and Parrish’s research of bank records and other information. Kaplan declined to speak to the Business Review on advice of his lawyer.

All accusations and statements in the narrative are those made by Kaplan and his attorney in Kaplan’s counterclaim.

Neither Gary, Todd nor Lucy B. Smith could be reached for comment. See the accompanying box on page 15 for Starr’s response.

Linda Carlson and Robert Nicholas Shaw of Regions Bank could not be reached for comment.

Mel Campbell, a spokesman for Regions Bank, said the bank does not comment on pending litigation.

Kathy Harrison, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo, said the bank would be unable to respond until after its attorneys review Kaplan’s claims.

Bridgeview Bank did not return the Business Review’s call for comment. The Florida Bankers Association did not respond before press time.

The Facts, as alleged in the counterclaim The Pitch

In or around August, 2009, Kaplan relocated his business operations to an executive office suite in downtown Sarasota, owned and managed by longtime Sarasota entrepreneur and real estate investor Larry Starr.

Prior to that August, Kaplan did not otherwise know Starr and had only met him on one other occasion.

Shortly after Kaplan had moved into the office suites, Starr approached him and began to pitch an investment oppor-

tunity. As Starr explained, the opportunity involved the Smiths and their company, Smith Advertising & Associates.

Starr represented that he knew it was safe to invest with SAA and the Smiths because he was a long-term friend of the Smiths, had a 20-year history with them and was also a successful investor with them.

Starr explained that the Smiths and SAA wanted Kaplan or his companies to provide financing to them to allow them to take advantage of certain early payment discounts on private printing contracts.

According to Starr, the Smiths and SAA needed the financing because SAA was a successful and expanding company that needed capital to take advantage of discounts that it was offered on such contracts.

Starr explained that SAA’s business was to act as a kind of middleman or broker between printers and entities that sought printing services for their advertising needs. He explained that customers would order print material from SAA and that SAA would then, in turn, enter into contracts with printing vendors to produce the materials, with a profit to SAA on the transaction.

Once the materials were printed, SAA would obtain them from the printer, deliver them to the customer and, in 30 days, receive payment, which it would use to pay the vendors, keeping a percentage for itself.

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Starr explained that because the print vendors preferred to receive payment for their services up front, they routinely offered SAA early payment discounts of about 10% of the total cost of the contract if SAA would pay for the printing work in advance.

Starr explained that, while the Smiths and SAA could not afford to fund all of these large pre-payments alone, they were able to do so in partnership with investors.

Starr explained that the Smiths and SAA were requesting that investors advance half of the required early payment amount for any given print contract and that the Smiths and/or SAA would advance the other half.

According to Starr, this money would be paid immediately to the vendor to obtain the 10% discount.

The investor would immediately receive his share of the 10% discount via a check from SAA. The investor would also receive a promissory note or notes guaranteed by G. Smith and T. Smith and one or more checks representing the return of the principal. These checks were to be cashed after the 30-day period had expired and SAA had received payment from the customer.

The investor would then wait the 30 days until SAA received the payment back from the customer and then the investor would deposit the checks (with the 10% return) into his accounts.

Starr said that this investment offered no real risk because the customers were all governmental or quasi-governmental agencies and always paid their bills. He also represented that the Smiths and SAA had been in the publishing business for more that 30 years, had a distinguished list of clientele that included a large number of governmental tourist agencies and quasi-governmental agencies, that he had invested a large sum of money with the Smiths and SAA himself and had always received the promised returns.

Starr then offered to introduce Kaplan to the Smiths and SAA.

The unknown reality

Kaplan’s counterclaim further states: Although Kaplan and his investment companies were not aware of it at the time, Kaplan’s counterclaim alleges that Starr, the Smiths and SAA, along with the conscious and knowing support of Bridgeview — all referred to in the counterclaim as “the conspirators” — orchestrated and developed a Ponzi-type scheme designed to defraud Kaplan, his investment companies and others.

The investment that was pitched was a fiction. It did not really exist and was designed to fraudulently induce Kaplan, the investment companies and many others to give money to the conspirators.

The conspirators would then take some or all of the money or compensation for themselves, constantly cycling and floating what remained among many victims to maintain the illusion that the fictional investments were paying off and to induce still more investment into the scheme.

Bridgeview, an Illinois bank, was directly complicit in this scheme, allowing the other conspirators to utilize it as a repository and accounting system for the fraud for what is believed to be many years in exchange for compensation.

Bridgeview and its employees were direct and knowing participants in the scheme with knowledge of the activities and directly participating in the fraud by actively transferring money between accounts, floating checks to facilitate the fraud and by inducing investors to wire funds by manipulating and false statements.

Says Kaplan’s counterclaim: All of Starr’s, the Smiths’ and SAA’s statements to Kaplan and the investment companies were false, and they knew them to be false, as all were direct participants in the fraud and received undisclosed compensation and kickbacks for bringing money into the scheme.

Unbeknown to Kaplan and the investment companies, the counterclaim says, Starr was an experienced con art-

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companies in play and keeping the principal in their own hands, by causing the marks to believe that their money was constantly growing.

At the same time, the conspirators would also pitch new contracts, constantly inducing investors like Kaplan and the investment companies to invest more “new” money as the paper profits on the old money seemed to grow.

Investors who would leave or briefly stop would be paid, using the money supplied by the constant influx of new money and new marks. This increased the credibility of the scheme and induced more re-investment.

The conspirators continuously stole a large portion of the invested money, leaving only enough to fund fluctuations in investment and cloak the fraud.

The object of the scheme was to increase the amount of new money invested as that increased the amount the conspirators could steal or siphon off without revealing the scheme.

It is believed that this scheme was widespread, operating over many states and with many investors like Kaplan and the investment companies. It was a massive Ponzi scheme involving perhaps $400 million or more.

LARRY STARR’S RESPONSE: ‘I’M A VICTIM TOO’

Kaplan’s Initial ‘Investment’

File

According to Marvin Kaplan’s counterclaim, longtime Sarasota businessman Larry Starr approached Kaplan in 2009 about participating in an investment opportunity that generated 10% returns each month.

Informed of the allegations and counts against him in Marvin Kaplan’s countersuit, Sarasota entrepreneur Larry Starr issued the following statement Wednesday afternoon prior to press time: “I am reluctant to talk about a lawsuit I haven’t seen.

“Marvin dealt with the Smiths directly over a period of years, and whatever decisions he made to invest, he made on his own after talking with the Smiths.

“If the lawsuit is trying to say I’m responsible for his losses with the Smiths, that is simply not true.

“I am a victim of the Smiths just as Marvin is.

“In fact, Marvin just called me and told me the suit was coming. He told me

ist who had previously been convicted in Vermont for engaging in a mail fraud scheme with his father.

That conviction was overturned, but Kaplan’s counterclaim says the factual findings of the court at the time demonstrate that Starr attempted to and succeeded in defrauding the U.S. Post Office of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Later, Starr moved to Florida and obtained a position on the Sarasota Tourism Convention and Visitors Bureau (STCVB). While there, he had contact with the Smiths and SAA and served on the board of STCVB at a time when it dismissed and terminated further business dealings with the Smiths and SAA. Contrary to Starr’s misrepresentations to Kaplan and the investment companies, Starr, in collusion with the Smiths and SAA, would target individuals like him and his companies and offer them the bogus investment outlined above in to steal money.

Starr knew that the printing contracts and the customers that the conspirators said that they had did not actually exist.

he didn’t want to name me in it and was very uncomfortable having done so, as he didn’t think I had done anything wrong.

“He explained that he is involved in a complicated lawsuit, and only did so on the advice of his lawyers.”

Kaplan’s version

Asked to verify Starr’s comments, Kaplan said: “I did not say that I didn’t think he was involved. I said I hope everything comes out OK for him, and I hope it’s not as it appears.

“I said, ‘Larry, I don’t know, and I’m taking the advice of counsel.

“I feel bad about suing him.”

It is believed, the counterclaim says, that Starr either participated in developing or developed the fraudulent scheme himself, using his knowledge of the industry as a base and then creating exaggerated contracts to take in money for the scheme.

SAA may have had some much smaller real business, however the conspirators used this small base to fabricate contracts with customers and vendors that looked real but were actually forgeries and which often were many times larger than any real contract could or would be.

The conspirators lured Kaplan, the investment companies and many others to invest money under the scheme and then to increase their investments more and more, using the aforementioned misrepresentations, all the while siphoning off large amounts for their own use and benefit.

As each subsequent bogus contract would come due to be paid, the conspirators would present new contracts to their “marks” to replace the old ones, keeping investors like Kaplan and the investment

The counterclaim goes on to say: Unaware of the fact that he would be caught in a Ponzi scheme, Kaplan agreed to and did discuss investing with the Smiths and SAA. In those discussions, the Smiths and SAA reiterated all that Starr had told Kaplan and confirmed the arrangement was as Starr had explained it.

In reliance upon all of these false and fraudulent representations by the conspirators, Kaplan agreed to invest personally an initial sum of $50,000 in or about August 2009.

Of course, this initial investment appeared to go as planned and as promised by the conspirators, who sought to get more money from Kaplan.

As a result of the apparent success, Kaplan caused his investment companies to begin investing with the Smiths and SAA. Over a period of several months, the investment companies participated in more and more contracts with the Smiths and SAA, all the time believing they were receiving the promised returns and that things were going as the conspirators had promised.

Over this time, the Smiths and SAA continued to offer more and more investments and to renew the old ones, urging Kaplan through the investment companies to take new contracts upon the expiration of each prior contract, leaving the principal sum to “ride” from contract to contract.

Because of this, instead of depositing the checks when they were due at the end of the 30 days, the investment companies would hold them (if they had not expired) or discard them, and Smith and SAA would issue new ones (if they had expired) on new contracts.

Over time, as the investment companies began to realize more and more paper returns, the Smiths and SAA would consistently urge Kaplan to reinvest both the returns that the investment companies had made as well as new money into the deals.

By November 2011, the investment companies had more than $7 million collectively invested and/or re-invested with the Smiths and SAA.

Upping the Ante

Kaplan’s counterclaim goes on to state: For several months leading to November, the investment companies had not added any “new” money to their deals, preferring to let the “investments” grow without putting in new capital.

Because the Ponzi scheme relied upon the influx of new money and growth to survive, T. Smith contacted Kaplan and presented a “new” idea to try to get Kaplan and the investment companies to make additional infusions.

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KAPLAN from page 16 T. Smith explained to Kaplan and the investment companies that he had developed a new and better method to earn even larger returns, stating that he had found a way to bunch printers together in multiple contract deals and to time the payments that were to be received from customers in such a way that he could obtain discounts in shorter time frames, some in as little as 24 hours, thus substantially increasing the rate of return.

However, T. Smith and SAA added that, because they were multiple contract deals, the investment would have to be larger.

To participate in these larger contracts, the investment companies would therefore have to invest more new money.

This new scheme was also complete fiction. However, unaware of this fact and based upon all the perceived prior successes, Kaplan and the investment companies agreed to the new arrangement and infused substantial additional capital into the Ponzi scheme.

The new or “Second” scheme differed somewhat from the first.

Under it, the investment companies would agree to a smaller number of larger, consolidated deals for the same type of pre-payment discounts.

However, according to T. Smith and SAA, SAA would obtain the same 10% discounts from the vendors immediately before it expected the customer to pay and only needed “bridge” funds for a short time.

As a result, the investment companies were to wire funds from their bank accounts to SAA’s account at Bridgeview.

The Smiths and SAA would Fedex down the contracts and checks for these new transactions, to be received by the investment companies on the day they sent the wire(s) to the Bridgeview account. The contracts would provide for the deposit of the checks shortly thereafter, supposedly after SAA had received the customer payment.

Because these new transactions were so large, involving wires of more than $250,000, the investment companies were forced to establish a new banking relationship with Regions Bank because the previous lender would not do wires greater than that.

As a result, each of the investment companies opened an account with Regions Bank in November 2011.

As of that time, the investment companies had no prior banking or credit relationship with Regions, and Kaplan only had a small personal checking account at the bank with his wife.

Under the second arrangement, the contracts with SAA and the Smiths were grouped into two to three main groupings, and the investment companies would make new investments every few days.

The timing of the deals was such that the investment companies would wire up funds for each successive deal as Regions would advise Kaplan’s investment companies that the checks from the prior deal had cleared, and the money was in the bank to wire.

From November 2011 through Jan. 20, the investment companies continued to invest and re-invest in these contracts and, through the infusion of new capital and the returns, their total investment grew to approximately $22 million.

The Final Days The First Deal

Kaplan’s counterclaim further states: On Jan. 19, the investment companies agreed to invest funds in one of these bridge deals with T. Smith and SAA, with each of the four investment companies investing separate funds in separate contracts.

On the morning of Jan. 20, four of Kaplan’s investment companies wired $9.7 million from accounts at Regions to SAA’s account at Bridgeview.

In particular: • R1A invested $6.6 million in 13 contracts.

• TNE invested $1,6 millioin in three contracts .

• MKI invested $1.1 million in three contracts.

• BNK invested $400,000 in one contract.

THE PLAYERS • Marvin Kaplan — An entrepreneur involved in a wide range of businesses, Kaplan has owned car dealerships and invested in commercial real estate in Florida and New York. He previously owned nearly 20 Dunkin’ Donuts stores on the Gulf Coast. He is a close, longtime business associate of Florida Sen. Mike Bennett.

• Larry Starr — Starr acquired a resort property rental firm, Longboat Accommodations, in the late 1980s.

He later sold that business to ResortQuest International and headed up that company’s operations along the West Coast of Florida. Starr also has run several commercial real estate businesses, most recently becoming the franchise owner of the Sarasota-Manatee office of Sperry Van Ness.

Smith Advertising & Associates Inc. (SAA) — Founded in 1974 in Fayetteville, N.C., by three partners as Cain, Allen, Smith, it went on to become Smith Advertising & Associates. In 2002, the company opened its Raleigh office, and eventually did business in Hilton Head, S.C., and Sarasota. The agency closed its headquarters March 6, according to reports in the Fayetteville Observer, in According to the contracts, the money was to be repaid later that day, and the investment companies received checks for repayment by Federal Express that morning, as well as checks for the payment of interest and certain incentive checks.

In particular: • R1A received $7,395,125.

• TNE received $1,760,000.

• MKI received $1,124,000.

• BNK received $443,375.

The investment companies deposited the checks on Jan. 20.

The Second Deal

According to the counterclaim: After the checks from the first deal were deposited in Kaplan’s companies’ accounts, T. Smith and SAA immediately requested that the investment companies invest in another “bridge” deal to occur on Jan. 23, and the investment companies agreed to do so. Again, each of the four investment companies agreed to invest separate funds in separate contracts, providing that the funds from the previous deal had cleared.

On the morning of Jan. 23, Kaplan, on behalf of the investment companies, reviewed the accounts with Regions and found that Regions had cleared all of the previously deposited checks.

Believing that the investment companies had been repaid for the prior transaction because Regions had so represented, the investment companies wired $10.45 million to SAA’s account at Bridgeview.

In particular: • R1A invested $7 million in 14 contracts.

• TNE invested $1.8 million in three contracts.

• MKI invested $1.25 million in three contracts.

• BNK invested $500,000 in one contract.

According to the contracts, the money was to be repaid later that day, and the investment companies received checks for repayment by Federal Express that morning, as well as checks for the payment of interest and certain incentive checks.

In particular: • R1A received $8,044,660.

• TNE received $2,009,700.

• MKI received $1,395,000.

• BNK received $556,675.

The Third Deal

According to the counterclaim: On Jan 23, T. Smith and SAA again requested that the investment companies invest in a third bridge deal to occur on Jan. 24, and the investment companies

the wake of widespread allegations of fraud in Florida, North Carolina and other states.

• Gary T. Smith — In 1974, Gary Smith was one of the three founders of Cain, Allen, Smith, which would go on to become Smith Advertising & Associates. He was the CEO of the firm.

• G. Todd Smith — Son of Gary Smith, Todd Smith was vice president and chief operating officer of Smith Advertising & Associates in Fayetteville, N.C. • Lucy B. Smith — Wife of Gary T. Smith and an officer in Smith Advertising & Associates Inc. • Linda Carlson — former manager of Sarasota Regions Bank branch where Kaplan made his deposits.

• Robert Nicholas Shaw — Regions Bank vice president of security, according to his business card. He sent an alert to the Florida Bankers Association alleging Kaplan engaged in check kiting.

• Bridgeview Bancorp — An Illinois bank holding company. It was the bank from which SAA sent checks back to Kaplan after the investment/printing deals were completed.

agreed to do so.

The investment companies deposited the checks from the second deal into their Regions accounts. However, Regions placed a hold on the checks and declined to credit them that day.

As a result, the investment companies advised T. Smith and SAA that they did not have sufficient funds to invest in the third deal.

At this point, T. Smith and SAA suggested that because the third deal was so time sensitive, rather than wait for the second set of checks to clear, they could simply stop payment on those checks relating to the return of principal from the second deal and use those funds, supposedly still in the Bridgeview account, to do the third deal.

Because the total investment amount for the third deal was $500,000 less than the total amount of the principal returned with the second set of checks, R1A’s contribution was $500,000 less.

T. Smith and SAA agreed to wire back $500,000 to the R1A account at Regions to account for the difference.

Because the investment companies still believed that they had funds in their own accounts, they agreed to this procedure, and T. Smith wired $500,000 to R1A and, presumably, stopped payment on the principal checks from the second deal on Jan. 24.

On Jan. 24, the investment companies invested in the third deal in the aforementioned manner, the total sum of $9.95 million left at Bridgeview to invest.

In particular: • R1A invested $6.5 million in 12 contracts.

• TNE invested $2 million in four contracts.

• MKI invested $1.45 million in four contracts.

According to the contracts, the money was to be repaid later that day, and the investment companies received checks for repayment, as well as checks for the payment of interest and certain incentive checks. However, the checks for the third deal were not deposited Jan. 24 as planned because Kaplan was unable to get to the bank.

The Fourth Deal

Kaplan’s counterclaim further states: On Jan. 24, still believing that the investment companies had been repaid for the first transaction because Regions had so represented, R1A wired an additional $2 million to SAA’s account at Bridgeview for a smaller fourth deal that had been discussed with T. Smith and SAA..

The parties agreed that under this smaller fourth deal, R1A would send $2 million for contracts valued at $2.25

million, and that the $225,000 plus a $25,000 incentive bonus would just be deducted from the money sent up rather than checks be sent down for that from SAA. R1A invested the $2 million in five contracts.

According to the contracts for the smaller fourth deal, the money was to be repaid on Jan. 25.

A hole in the dike

According to the counterclaim: Late in the day Jan. 24, T. Smith and SAA called Kaplan. T. Smith advised Kaplan that Bridgeview had frozen all of SAA’s accounts after T. Smith had issued the stop payment on the checks from the second deal.

He told Kaplan that neither he nor SAA could move any money in or out of the Bridgeview accounts.

He advised Kaplan to wait while he took action to correct the problem.

Kaplan agreed.

The next morning, Jan. 25, Kaplan and the investment companies received a call from Linda Carlson, manager of the Regions Bank branch where Kaplan had deposited the funds from the first deal.

Carlson advised Kaplan and the investment companies that the funds that had been deposited Jan. 20 had not cleared and that the checks were being returned.

Kaplan and the investment companies were shocked to learn this, because Regions previously had represented that the funds from these checks had cleared.

Kaplan and the investment companies immediately inquired of Carlson why the checks had been returned and were told that the checks were returned “Refer to Maker,” not “Insufficient Funds” or some reason that would indicate that there was a problem with funds availability.

Kaplan immediately contacted T. Smith and SAA, the maker, and was advised that the problem was the same as the one he had informed Kaplan of the night before — that Bridgeview had wrongfully placed a hold on all of the SAA accounts. He advised that he was working on the problem and asked Kaplan and the investment companies to be patient.

At this point, T. Smith began to express concern to Kaplan about his fears of what would happen if this problem became public knowledge to his customers or his vendors.

T. Smith advised that he could not tell whether he was getting payments from customers because he could not see his account and that, if they discovered he was having a problem, they would hold payments still longer, destroying his business and reputation. In addition, his vendors would cease production and cease to work with him.

He stressed that Kaplan should keep this quiet, or SAA would be unable to repay Kaplan, the investment companies or anyone else.

What Kaplan and the investment companies were unaware of was that the Smiths and SAA were buying time to try to correct what was, basically, a hole in the dike that could lead to the collapse of the entire criminal enterprise and the greater Ponzi scheme.

They were buying time in an effort to keep the greater Ponzi scheme alive by correcting whatever problem existed and perpetuating the scheme.

The Smiths and SAA thought that they could get sufficient money from other investors to pay the investment companies off and allow the Ponzi scheme to continue.

What they told Kaplan and the investment companies was they just needed to straighten out their customer payment situation and get Kaplan’s companies their money.

Moreover, Kaplan believing that funds were available to the Smiths and SAA and just on hold, took no action because the “Refer to Maker” designation led him to believe that funds were available and would be released at some point.

Regions jumps in

According to the counterclaim: Later that day, Kaplan received a call

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CHARGES ALLEGED IN KAPLAN LAWSUIT Naples attorney Jon Parrish filed the following charges on behalf of Sarasota real estate investor Marvin Kaplan and four of his companies in a 46-page countersuit.

Whom Kaplan is suing:

• Regions Bank • Robert Nicholas Shaw (of Regions Bank); • The Florida Bankers Association, Inc. • Bridgeview Bancorp, Inc., Bridgeview, Ill. • Wells Fargo, N.A. • Charles “Larry” Starr III • Smith Advertising & Associates, Inc. (SAA) • Gary T. Smith • G. Todd Smith

The charges:

• Count I: Fraud — The Investment Companies v. Starr, T. Smith and SAA • Count II: Conspiracy to defraud — The Investment Companies v. Starr, T. Smith, G. Smith, L. Smith, Bridgeview and SAA • Count III: Negligent Misrepresentation — The Investment Companies v.

Starr, T. Smith and SAA • Count IV: Racketeering (Violation of 18 U.S.C. 1962 and 1964) — The Investment Companies v. Starr, T. Smith, G. Smith, L. Smith, Bridgeview and SAA • Count V: Mail and wire fraud (Florida Statutes 772.103 and 772.104) — The Investment Companies v. Starr, T. Smith, G. Smith, L. Smith, Bridgeview and SAA • Count VI: Depriving the right to money and misappropriation of funds (Florida Statute 772.11) — The Investment Companies v. T. Smith, G. Smith, L. Smith and SAA • Count VII: Improper use of funds — The Investment Companies v. T. Smith,

from Robert Nicholas Shaw, who professed to be the head of security at Regions Bank. Shaw wanted to know what was happening.

Kaplan told him what he knew, and Shaw asked to speak with T. Smith and SAA. Kaplan arranged a telephone conference with himself, Shaw and T. Smith.

Kaplan said Shaw became very belligerent with T. Smith and threatened him, telling him that he needed to straighten out the situation right away. Shaw claimed that he was an ex-FBI agent and that he would report the matter to the Secret Service if the money was not returned immediately.

T. Smith and SAA advised that they were not sure what was going on and were working on it.

After the call with Shaw, Smith and SAA contacted Kaplan and the investment companies, asking for time to straighten out the banking problems.

Still unaware of the Ponzi scheme, believing that Smith and SAA had real customers and vendors when they did not and believing that the checks had not been returned due to insufficient funds because they said “refer to maker,” Kaplan advised that he was willing to work with the Smiths and SAA and be patient but that the Regions Bank problem needed to be resolved.

New checks from a new bank

Kaplan’s counterclaim further states: In response to the concern about Regions, T. Smith and SAA advised Kaplan and the investment companies that they would issue a new set of checks for the first and second deals drawn on a bank account at Wells Fargo and have those checks sent down by a special air flight that day.

T. Smith and SAA did, indeed, send a special courier flight with a replacement set of checks, which arrived late in the day on Jan. 25.

The replacement set of checks was only for the contracts entered into in the second deal and not the first deal.

G. Smith, L. Smith, Bridgeview and SAA • Count VIII: Deceptive and unfair trade practices — The Investment Companies v. T. Smith, G. Smith, L. Smith, Bridgeview and SAA • Count IX: Action to collect payment (Florida Statute 68.065) — The Investment Companies v. SAA • Count X: Breach of Contract — The Investment Companies v. SAA, T. Smith and G. Smith • Count XI: Breach of U.C.C. 4-302(a) — The Investment Companies v.

Bridgeview • Count XII: Breach of U.C.C. 4-302(a) —The Investment Companies v. Wells Fargo • Count XIII: Improper handling of checks; breach of 12 C.F.R. Part 229 —The Investment Companies v.

Bridgeview • Count XIV: Improper handling of checks; breach of 12 C.F.R. Part 229 —The Investment Companies v. Wells Fargo • Count XV: Negligence — The Investment Companies v. Bridgeview • Count XVI: Negligence — The Investment Companies v. Wells Fargo • Count XVII: Fraud — The Investment Companies v. Bridgeview • Count XVIII: Negligent Misrepresentation — The Investment Companies v.

Bridgeview • Count XIX: Defamation Per Se — Kaplan and the investment companies v. Regions, FBA and Shaw Count XX: Invasion of Privacy — Kaplan and the Investment Companies v.

Regions, FBA and Shaw • Count XXI: Negligence/Negligent Misrepresentation — The Investment Companies v. Regions

Kaplan and the investment companies deposited the replacement checks that same evening on Jan. 25. Regions extended its operating hours to allow the checks to be deposited late.

The returned checks

According to the counterclaim: On or about Jan. 26, the investment companies received formal written notice from Regions of the return of 28 checks that had been returned by Bridgeview with the designation “Refer to Maker” as Carlson had previously reported.

The next day, Friday, Jan. 27, the investment companies received written notice from Regions of the return of a second set of 32 checks from the second deal that had been returned by Bridgeview, also with the designation “Refer to Maker.”

Some of the checks in the second set were checks that Kaplan and the investment companies believed had been stopped by Smith to invest in the third deal.

However, none of the returned checks bore any indication that funds were not available to SAA. Nor did they provide any basis to cause Kaplan and the investment companies to take any action or disregard what they were being told by T. Smith and SAA. On Jan. 30, the following Monday, Kaplan received another call from Shaw at Regions.

Shaw advised Kaplan and the investment companies that the third set of checks, drawn on Wells Fargo, had not cleared.

Unbeknown to Kaplan and the investment companies at the time, on that same day, Regions had already filed a lawsuit against Kaplan and was seeking ex-parte relief that included Wells Fargo, the new bank, as a party.

Nor were Kaplan and the investment companies aware that Shaw and Regions had begun what the counterclaim alleges to be “a campaign of systematic defamation against them.”

On or about Jan. 31, the investment

companies received written notice from Regions Bank of the return of 21 checks that had been returned by Wells Fargo and which Shaw had reported, all but one also with the designation “Refer to Maker.”

Only one check was returned with the designation “NSF” for insufficient funds.

Kaplan contacted T. Smith and SAA because the designation “Refer to Maker” directed him to do so and was advised that Wells Fargo had frozen SAA’s accounts there as a result of the interference by Regions and that was the reason the latest set of checks had bounced.

This interference was confirmed when Kaplan sought to use money he had transferred to Wells Fargo for an unrelated business transaction and was advised that all of the accounts of his or his businesses had been frozen, including the Lighthouse Point account from which the transaction was to occur.

Regions’ attacks on Kaplan

According to the counterclaim: On or around Jan. 30, the same day the third set of checks was returned by Wells Fargo, Shaw and Regions began to engage in a campaign of defamation, lies and deceit against Kaplan, designed to discredit him, destroy his reputation and distract attention from Regions’ own failure to follow correct banking procedure, which caused the investment companies to lose millions of dollars.

Despite no evidence or backing, Shaw and other representatives of Regions Bank began to tell other third parties, including Wells Fargo, the Florida Bankers Association and the public that Kaplan and his wife had engaged in criminal conduct, illegal activities and were “check kiters.”

This accusation was blatantly false and was made with absolutely no knowledge or support by Shaw, acting in his capacity as an employee of Regions, according to the counterclaim.

Shaw falsely accused Kaplan and his wife of a criminal act in an alert bulletin sent to the Florida Banker’s Association, including in that alert Kaplan and his wife’s social security numbers, accusing them of fraud, check kiting and criminal conduct and falsely warranting the information to be true and correct when it was absolutely false, the counterclaim states.

Shaw, Regions and their attorneys also sued Kaplan individually without actually bringing a claim against him and repeated the false accusations of check kiting and fraud.

The Kaplan counterclaim states Shaw and Regions were perfectly well aware that there was no basis to suggest that Kaplan and SAA or T. Smith were coordinating a kite or that either Mr. or Mrs. Kaplan was engaged in any fraud.

Shaw and Regions sought only to discredit Kaplan in an effort to distract attention from the fact that, had they followed their own procedures or proper banking practice, the investment companies owned by Kaplan would not have lost millions of dollars to the conspirators because they would have known that the first checks had not cleared Bridgeview and would not have invested, and potentially lost, the additional funds, according to Kaplan’s counterclaim.

It also appears that Shaw and Regions reported Kaplan to the Secret Service and law enforcement for a crime that did not occur, says Kaplan’s counterclaim.

As a result of Shaw and Regions Bank’s conduct, all of Kaplan’s banking accounts, as well as those of any business he was associated with, were frozen at Wells Fargo and Regions, and he has been unable to maintain a banking relationship anywhere for himself or any of his companies.

The Dike Bursts

According to Kaplan’s counterclaim: In the weeks following the filing of Regions’ lawsuit against Kaplan, Kaplan and the investment companies sought to obtain the return of their money from the conspirators, still not knowing of the Ponzi scheme.

The Smiths and SAA continually reassured Kaplan and the investment com-

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panies that they and Regions would be repaid as money came in from the customers.

The Smiths and SAA also continued to stress the need to keep silent to preserve the customer and vendor relationships that would allow the money to be returned. Kaplan and the investment companies tried to comply.

But as the story that had begun with Regions and Shaw’s claims against Kaplan started to reach the public through press accounts, the Smiths and SAA began to make inconsistent comments to the press, indicating that the entire matter was somehow Kaplan’s fault when it clearly was not.

As a result of this and that time was going by with no repayment and repayment dates were consistently missed, Kaplan began to investigate by contacting SAA’s claimed vendors to verify contracts.

Kaplan discovered that the contracts offered by the conspirators were completely fictional and that neither the vendor nor the customer contracts actually existed and that the entire investment was a scam.

It also became apparent to him that the conspirators were trying to cover up the Ponzi scheme by attempting to pay back the investment companies with money raised from other victims.

This was not acceptable to Kaplan, and he and the investment companies immediately asked to meet with the Secret Service and the Tampa district attorney to report all that they knew.

Editor’s Postscript

In an interview Tuesday with the Business Review, Kaplan’s attorney, Jon Parrish, said Kaplan has recovered only about $800,000 since the investment scheme collapsed in late January and early February.

Parrish, who has represented Kaplan on many of his prior real estate investments, said he had been aware of Kaplan’s involvement in the Starr-Smith Advertising scheme prior to Kaplan’s difficulties. But he said he started growing increasingly suspicious of its legitimacy in late January when instead of sending millions of dollars back to Kaplan’s companies, the Smiths sent only $800,000. “(Todd) Smith began to never fulfill his promises on time,” Parrish says.

Then in late January, after the accusations of check kiting started and payments from the Smiths stopped, everything came to a head. Kaplan was in Parrish’ office.

“Marvin is a very loyal person,” Parrish said. “He was even going back and forth then” on whether he was being duped.

Parrish said he then picked up a copy of an invoice from one of the alleged vendors with which the Smiths were doing business.

“The graphics on the invoice looked kind of weird and hokey,” Parrish recalls.

“So I looked up the firm online. The invoice logo was different from the company logo online. So I called the customer.

“He laughed at me when I told him the amount on the invoice,” Parrish said.

“When I asked why he laughed, he said, ‘I would remember an invoice that big. It exceeds my whole revenues we have in a year.’”

Parrish said he called a second vendor.

“The guy starts laughing,” Parrish said.

“He gave me the same exact answer as the first one. I turned to Marvin and said they are all bogus.”

Asked how Kaplan, a sophisticated investor and businessman, did not have suspicions early on that the investment scheme was the proverbial “too good to be true,” Parrish, who has handled similar fraud litigation before, said: “That’s not how it works in the real world. People don’t (question that) when they are getting paid. You get blinded. And the people who do these crimes are some of the most likable people you meet in your life.

“Marvin is a very gentle, loyal kind of person,” Parrish said. “He’s not a suspicious person.” Parrish said that as the scheme began to unravel after two years, Kaplan “sat in front of me, shaking his head, saying, ‘I just can’t see it.’”

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“It’s not just about the figure,” Ofra Friedman explains about her work. “It communicates the essence — the core of us.”

On the Wire

Ofra Friedman is not only good with her hands; she’s good at hands — and feet, for that matter. The Israeli-born sculptor turns sheets of steel-wire mesh into full-fledged, human-like works of art.

Two transparent, faceless bodies perch on all fours. The larger female body cradles the smaller under her life-like muscular

body. One leg is extended, slightly reaching behind. The figures are three-dimensional and so lifelike, it would not be surprising to

learn models posed while the artist delicately molded every part of them, including fingers and toes, with a sheet of wire mesh.

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Bradenton resident Ofra Freidman’s sculpture is stationary but exudes movement. It is abstract, but, in a way, based on reality. Her other sculptures follow suit; each shape carrying a particular flow, each of her works evoking a particular feeling. And, as with most art, the emotion conjured is dependent on the viewer’s take.

The piece described is called “Time Fraction,” and it is currently featured in Ringling College of Art and Design’s Selby Gallery, as part of the Florida Artist Group juried exhibition that runs through June 1.

And although “Time Fraction” could be representative of Freidman’s daughter, Noa, recently married and moving away from home. But Friedman says the context isn’t important.

“I usually don’t like to feed the viewer with what a piece means,” says Friedman. “What led me to create is not as important to me as the feeling that the piece gives you.”

Friedman has been dabbling in mixed-media and making wire-mesh sculptures for the past 10 years. She made her first sculpture at age 18. It was a self-portrait of clay that led her to take her first art class during which she made her second sculpture. The second sculpture depicted a pair of detailed hands — her career epiphany.

“I felt that (art) was something that I’ve always done. It was almost like discovering an ability that I had (all along),” she says.

In response to that sculpture, her teacher invited her to study in Paris. Freidman decided not

to, and it turned out to be a wise decision.

“If I took that step, it would have changed my life … I wouldn’t have met my husband,” says Friedman. She met her husband, Aharon, while performing Israeli folk dances.

After the completion of his graduate studies, her physicist husband moved them to Canada, and, then, to the U.S., where they have lived for the past 27 years. Freidman continued her studies all over the country, in everything from interior design to Afro-American dance. But she was always the most attracted to 3-D art.

Friedman’s real love was sculpture, and she found herself working with stone, casting and mixed-media. It was on a trip to Israel that she met a wire-mesh artist named Shulamit Hartal.

Friedman took a few workshops from the artist and discovered her passion for wire-mesh.

“She developed her own technique that is different from any artist I have seen in the U.S., and I was inspired by her,” says Friedman of Hartal.

Upon returning to the U.S., Friedman formed her own style.

Since then, she has received all types of honors for her artistic method; most recently, she won first place at the Winthrop Arts Festival in Riverview.

Friedman still has creative ties to her home country — she buys large rolls of inexpensive, flexible wire mesh from Israel because she cannot find it in the U.S. “I always get questions at the airport and always have some

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Ofra Friedman’s “Time Fraction,” a steel-and-copper wire mesh sculpture, is on display at Selby Gallery. problems,” she laughs.

Her creations start as a 3-by3-foot piece of mesh on which she sketches. She pulls it into

different shapes and directions using ceramic tools and her imagination. Surprisingly, she has never used a human model,

but, occasionally, she studies human anatomy to ensure the hands and feet are just right. It makes sense, because it was a sculpture of hands that made her realize art was inside her — part of her core.

Freidman creates the majority of her work indoors, at her home in Bradenton. Her mornings are spent doing administration: planning for exhibitions, contests and even the curation of shows. She sculpts in the evening.

“I usually work until about 2 a.m. I’m very much a night owl,” she says.

Because her work is big, 10 feet tall in one case (ironic, considering Friedman’s petite frame), some of it is fragmented in separate mesh pieces stemming from plexiglass. Some pieces are mixed-media and involve welding. Others are collaborations with other artists.

But, for the most part, the subjects of her work remain consistent: large-scale metal trees and human figures. They have a natural feel reminiscent of their creator.

Her works are featured in Sarasota and beyond; at a chiropractor’s home in Clearwater and as far north as North Carolina, where she has three pieces on display at Polk State College.

The piece featured in Selby Gallery is unique in that she typically prefers to exhibit her work outdoors.

“I’m very attracted to outdoor sculpture because I want to improve (and enhance) the environment through my art,” she says.

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+Woman’s Exchange gives grants Woman’s Exchange is a win-win type of place. Although one might pick up a quirky lamp, unique side table or collectible glassware, others might be granted funding or a scholarship to fuel their arts-related project. It is that time of year, when Woman’s Exchange hosts its awards event honoring its 250 volunteers and awards candidates with the money raised through the non-profit organization’s operation. In total, $330,000 in grants and scholarships will be awarded Thursday, June 7.

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Student winners of the “Write a Play” program celebrate.

+ Students awarded for being dramatic Saturday, May 12, Florida Studio Theatre actors performed award-winning plays to an audience full of playwrights. But these weren’t your average coffee-sipping, pen-wielding, experienced adults, they were all students from first to 12th grade — the future pros of the industry. These students wrote plays as part of the “Write a Play” program at Florida

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Studio Theatre. It is an inschool arts program to inspire students to tap into their creativity. The playwrights were present to see their plays performed by professional actors, and they took home awards at the end. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky emceed the award ceremony; students received medals in addition to a three-show subscription series to FST.

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The Key Chorale wrapped up its season Sunday, May 27, with the Jacobites Pipe Band. The group dedicated its performance of Ola Gjeilo’s “The Ground” to the memory of Conductor Emeritus Dr. Daniel Moe, who died Thursday, May 24.

It seems appropriate that the group also announced its 2012-13 season, “Vast Voyages,” before Key Chorale takes off on its own adventure — a tour of Ireland and Scotland. “Vast Voyages” comes with the tagline: “Boldly going where we have not gone before.”

During next season, the group will perform five works from 1791, the last year of Mozart’s life, in collaboration with the Sarasota Orchestra.

“Cirque des Voix”will again feature the collaboration between Circus Sarasota and Sarasota Young Voices.

A performance titled, “The Vast Eternal Sky,” will combine work from modern composers Maurice Duruflé and Ola Gjeilo. And a final performance of James Whitbourn’s “Annelies” will be recorded for a public TV.

+ Musical comedy centers on the other side of the hill The musical “Assisted Living” is coming to Sarasota, and it seems like it could be a hit for those who like to laugh in the face of aging. Southwest Florida songwriters Rick Compton and Betsy Bennett joined forces to create a comedic musical about growing old.

They’ve been taking this musical up and down Florida and, starting July 10, they will begin a weekly, open-ended run of performances at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre.

“It does not have Depends jokes,”

THEATER >> ‘Fanny Brice: America’s Funny Girl’ Marya Grandy is thrilling as Fanny Brice in the musical biography that just opened at the Asolo Repertory Theatre. Written and directed by David H. Bell, the show is loaded with optical goodies. The set design

by Brian Sidney Bainbridge replicates the backstage space of a theater in 1936. It also employs a screen on which black- andwhite film reels from different periods in Brice’s life accompany flashbacks, as well as, varying sumptuous curtains that swoosh down to frame highlights of famous shows she performed.

The costume design by Virgil C. Johnson is colorfully stunning, ranging from tailored suits and coats to spangly flapper dresses to the outrageous costumes Brice wore for performances. The production is fast-paced and peppered with songs from Brice’s repertoire.

Grandy is fabulous in the part, loaded with chutzpah and looking like she was born for it, with her lithe, reed-like body, expressive face reminiscent of Brice and her incredible pair of lungs. Her comic timing is perfect as she barks out lines such as, “At least when Nicky had his hand in my

Compton assures. “It’s the view of the aging process from inside of it.”

The musical centers on a sales tour of a fictional community called Pelican Roost and features two actors portraying 18 characters.

With song titles such as, “Help I’ve Fallen For You (and I Can’t Get Up),” the performance embraces the humor of aging in a light-hearted manner.

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Besides her most famous songs, “Second Hand Rose,” “My Man, I Love Him So” and “Rose of Washington Square,” there were several I’d never heard and was pleased to do so: “Lovey Joe” and “Aggravatin’ Man” included.

Unlike the well-known movie starring Barbra Streisand, “Funny Girl,” which centered on her con-man husband — Nicky Arnstein — this play focuses more on Brice’s marriage to “I’m a producer, not a crook — there’s a subtle difference” Rose.

The story follows her from her Vaudeville beginning, to Tin Pan Alley and on to Broadway, the Ziegfeld Follies, a fling with Hollywood, and, finally, to her long-running radio broadcast, “The Baby Snooks Show.”

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Summer movie preview ‘YOUR SISTER’S SISTER’

‘COMPLIANCE’

In this offbeat comedy starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass, tequila plays a pivotal role in bringing two people up-close-and-personal. When a third party arrives, things get complicated and seriously funny.

Directed by “Humpday’s” Lynn Shelton. (JUNE 15)

‘SAVAGES’

Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone is back in action directing a ferocious thriller about “greed, violence, the border, drugs, relationships and the values of people” (in his own words). After having seen the trailer — that about nails it. Super-cool cast including John Travolta, Salma Hayek and Benicio Del Toro, for starters. (JULY 6)

‘THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES’

What started out as a documentary about billionaire David Siegel and his wife building the largest private house in America (90,000 square feet) ends up being a commentary on the state of the union.

This riches-to-rags piece directed

by Lauren Greenfield garnered her a Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. (JULY 6)

A “re-coming of age” story about a washed up, alcoholic Western

“Starring Meryl Streep” is all the information one really needs to catch this film. Tommy Lee Jones plays Streep’s husband, who reluctantly agrees to a weekend of therapy in an attempt to save their not-so-perfect marriage. Steve Carell plays their therapist. This senior

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Sometimes, a killer cast can cramp a film’s style; but who cares when it includes Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Ben

Daniel Auteuil stars in, and directs, a story about the strengths and weaknesses of human nature set in pre-World War II France.

When the well digger’s 18-year-old daughter becomes pregnant by a fighter pilot, his parents refuse to acknowledge the illegitimate child. The dynamics change drastically when the pilot goes missing in action. (JULY 20)

“Hope Springs” rom-com looks like a must-see given the cast of characters. Directed by David Frankel who “had a ball” working with Streep on “The Devil Wears Prada.” (AUG. 10)

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This year’s Oscar winner for Best Actor, Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”), teams up with Best Actress winner, Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”), in this French slice-of-life picture being compared to “The Big Chill.” An annual vacation for a group of friends is overshadowed by one’s involvement in a serious accident. Previous pretenses become null and void as the group faces reality.

Directed by French heartthrob actor, Guillaume Canet. (AUG. 24)

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Foster? An ensemble piece set in exotic locations; stories of love and infidelities are intertwined by way of split-screen format. Directed by Fernando Meirelles, who worked with Weisz on “The Constant Gardener,” for which she won an Oscar. (AUG. 3)

Based on a true event, this psychological thriller explores how people respond to authority.

A prank phone caller, posing as a cop, accuses a clerk of stealing money from a customer. The incident spins out of control, resulting in the dehumanization and humiliation of the innocent victim.

Sounds pretty riveting. Directed by Craig Zobel and staring Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker and Pat Healy.

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A Major Production Here’s how Victor Meyrich came to the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

It was 1969. Meyrich, a graduate of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), was working backstage for a theater company in Memphis, Tenn., that was going bankrupt.

Actress Polly Holliday, who would later go on to play a tough-talking waitress on the 1970s sitcom, “Alice,” had just wrapped a show at the same Memphis theater.

Upon learning that his employer was going belly-up, Meyrich, then 26, planned to return to his native New York to work for legendary theater producer Joe Papp.

Holliday, however, suggested he go to Sarasota, where she had just landed a role in the musical, “Oh, What a Lovely War,” at the Asolo Rep. The timing was perfect.

The Asolo Rep needed a technical director, and Meyrich needed a job.

The theater company was still trying to find its identity, operating out of a building Meyrich now refers to as “the prehistoric Asolo.”

The scene shop was a fraction of the size it is today and located on a dirt road off 12th Street. Technology, by today’s standards, was primitive.

Meyrich remembers operating the theater’s dimmer lights with a broomstick and prop shopping with a Polaroid camera.

“By the time you took a picture of a prop, mailed it to the set designer and waited for him to call you back, the prop would be gone,” Meyrich says. “Today we take a picture with our iPhone, email it to the designer and buy it on the spot.”

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DID YOU KNOW Victor Meyrich wrote the original architectural program for the current FSU Center for the Performing Arts. He also oversaw the design of the new Koski Production Center. like this, most of which you’ll probably never hear because Meyrich, 69, is not the storyteller-type.

“I’ve done this kind of work for as long as I can remember,” Meyrich says. “In middle school I ran the A/V department. They gave me the keys to the building so I could move equipment in and out for shows. I was 11 years old with the keys to my school.”

Meyrich is still that dependable.

For 43 seasons he’s worked as the Asolo Rep’s stalwart production manager, an achievement that was recognized last weekend at the Florida Professional Theatres Association’s annual audition conference in Vero Beach.

On May 19, Meyrich received the Victor “Vic” Meyrich Award for Excellence in and Dedication to Professional Theatre in the Area of Technical and Production Work — a wordy title for a direct guy.

The statewide organization, which usually only honors artistic leadership, had not only selected Meyer as the recipient of its first technical theater award, it chose to name the honor after him.

The reticent 69-year-old was visibly touched by the gesture.

Asolo Rep production manager Victor Meyrich is sitting pretty these days, thanks to statewide recognition for his work and a new million-dollar production center.

“I’m not aware of anyone else honoring those of us in technical theater,” Meyrich says. “The guys who put the show together backstage are usually not even mentioned (in the playbill). It’s an honor, but for me, the real satisfaction comes from walking away with a production done on time and on budget.”

A carpenter by trade, Meyrich likens his job to the work of a general contractor. As production manager, he’s responsible for overseeing the technical operation of the entire theater, which in season can mean managing a crew of 20 to 40 people.

He divides his time between two offices: one at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts and the other at the new Koski Production Center on Tallevast Road, which, at a whopping 36,000 square feet, is a dream space for Meyrich, who once built the set for Universal Studios’ “Earthquake” in a cramped Sarasota warehouse with poor air conditioning.

“He’s amazingly capable and creative,” says managing director Linda DiGabriele, who has worked with Meyrich for 35 years. “He’s kept up with technology at every level and consistently made sure that the product on stage is what everybody has envisioned.”

Meyrich is decidedly less flowery when it comes to articulating his success.

“I don’t micro-manage,” he says.

“I’m a big believer in letting people do their job. I find people have a higher standard of quality when they take ownership over what they do. At the end of the day, it’s all about having faith in people. I’m just a resource.”

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“I’m in no hurry to retire,” says Asolo Rep production manager Victor Meyrich, who this year celebrated his 43rd season with the company. “I have a great stake in this whole operation.”

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A BELLE CANTO SHRIMP AND PASTA PASSACAGLIA Yields: 2 large servings, 4 small servings Start to finish: 45 minutes

Ingredients: 8 ounces of penne (preferably organic whole wheat) 1 pound raw shrimp (peeled and deveined) 1/4 cup olive oil (just enough so the veggies don’t stick to the pan)

1 green pepper and 1 yellow pepper cut in strips 1 cup sliced mushrooms 3 cloves minced garlic 2 large, chopped tomatoes 1 cup picante sauce (you can substitute salsa spiced to your taste) 1 tablespoon dried basil

PREPARATION: • Cook the pasta al dente. Drain, then set aside.

• Lightly sauté the peppers, mushrooms and garlic.

• Add the chopped tomatoes, picante sauce and basil; and simmer until the tomatoes break down (about five minutes.)

• Add the shrimp to the sauce and cook until done.

• Add the pasta to the sauce.

• Sprinkle a little Parmesan cheese on each portion and serve with a green salad.

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Elizabeth Goldstein prefers making simple, low-fat foods at home. has to be a multi-tasker.

“Actually, playing the organ is a bit more challenging than cooking,” she admits. “I usually get it all to the table at about the same time. With the organ, you are at the mercy of a mechanical device — like when I developed a cipher (i.e., an out of control note that gets stuck and plays continuously without the control of the organist) on Easter Sunday.

Fortunately, there are few ciphers in Goldstein’s kitchen. She not only multi-tasks for parties, she also delegates.

“I used to do the whole thing,” she says. “Then I got smart and let other good cooks share some of their favorite dishes. Belle Canto, the terrific women’s vocal ensemble I direct, recently completed our third season with some great

‘firsts.’ So, we toasted the success at a potluck dinner at my house.

I made my favorite shrimp, pasta and vegetable dish as my maincourse contribution (see recipe above). The other ‘Belles’ brought everything from homemade sausage and lentil soup to sushi. We ate fabulously.”

The truth is, Goldstein is such a good cook that she seeks the unusual when she goes out.

“I want to eat something out that I can’t or won’t make at home,” she says. “Therefore, I go for Moroccan, Greek or French cuisine. I cook at home very simply — fish,

roasted vegetables and tofu. My husband had high cholesterol and I had to learn to cook foods that tasted good but weren’t high in fat.

We ate lots of seafood and chicken and very little red meat. I still cook and eat that way.”

And her comfort food?

“That’s so easy,” she smiles and slavers. “Chocolate! Dark chocolate! I recently visited my son in New York and discovered Vosges Haut-Chocolat on Madison Avenue. Chocolate laced with wasabi. Chocolate truffles dusted with curry power. Hot, dark chocolate to drink.”

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How does she mix it up, musically, while she’s cooking? She doesn’t.

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Multi-tasking? Yes. Burn the food?

Usually not.”

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“My favorite word is ‘flavorful,’” she tells us. And that carries over to the music she programs for her Belle Canto concerts and church services, too. There is a variety in music — from a tittle of Tchaikovsky to an iota of gospel — “but no hot spice.” So, although she’s often pushing her choral groups beyond what they think they can do, she never goes beyond good taste.

“You want to be sure a meal has color and variety,” she says. “It’s the same for (music) programming.

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Must present coupon. Dine In Only.

Excluding Tax and Gratuity. Not Valid with any other offer or on gift card purchases.

Must present coupon. Dine In Only.

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DAILY!

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