Scandal shadows Mat-Su gas entrepreneur
PALMER — Bob Fowler has come home to pioneer a new energy boom in coal bed methane.
He holds a Bachelor of Palmer 1962 of the High School of the State and left for years, but it has maintained ties in Alaska, as well as long-term linkages with Palmer families.
These local roots and reputation served him well: his company is relatively young, Fowler Oil & Gas Corp., was last autumn, the first visitors for permission from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough to drill for methane.
It has not borne the heat of the tower of the public protest, beaten with another company in the same idea, a few years ago.
But Fowler’s Business Track Record of the last year, a ruin of dollars of loans from several standards, bankruptcy and admire a continuous connection to San Francisco a corruption case, including accusations of his company pots-de - wine paid to an official of the city.
The company is now the government of the old computer Sales Inc, which expired Fowler as chief executive. Based out of Seattle, the company sells computer hardware, software and services.
Cases of corruption, has emerged during the 2003 calendar year, one brought by the city of San Francisco. This case, the question remains unanswered, and inviting them to an investigation by the FBI led to the criminal conviction of a city for the Construction supervision obstruction of justice official, e-mail and wire fraud fraud to the Commission. In civil suit, the city raised Fowler’s and other companies, the payment of commissions to office buildings to disembark city. The appeal Fowler also accused of “stealing” money from San Francisco, money from the city of Fowler accused of sending to accounts offshore in the Caribbean.
In several interviews, Fowler said he has never been a crime, because there is nothing wrong, and he thinks it is unfair for the newspaper “Daily News” for its past. He said, in the case of San Francisco, he was the victim of an employee rogue states.
As in the case of bankruptcy, insolvency can happen a lot of people, “he said.” The big question is whether you have made a commitment, crimes on the road. And all had their day in court ventilieren to these issues, both for the company and for me personally. And I have been confirmed. ”
THE SCANDAL
The return of history has landed on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003.
Regulation last amended a year ago, the city of the 35-page complaint, Civil Superior Court in California against Fowler’s old company, and others, as well as criminal proceedings against the use of the city formally submits the case of this way:
Fowler’s Computer Sales government signed three contracts with the City of Construction supervision division at the end of 2000 and 2001, the streamlining of buildings.
Marcus O. Armstrong, sharing advanced technology officer, had recommended that the city hire Fowler’s. Armstrong Monarch Enterprises Inc. set up commissions for distribution of government computers and other businesses.
In four instalments between 19 and September 3, 2000 in April 2001, the company pays Monarch Fowler’s total of $ 239,638, after Monarch false invoices for the work is never finished.
Armstrong was established in June 2003 and pleaded guilty a month later.
Fowler and his company never completed the projects of San Francisco, the city of complaint.
Instead, the city said, “Fowler began GCSI arrested funds and the flight from San Francisco to his own advantage. Fowler … began at that time, for its GCSI and the fortune of bank accounts off-shore.
The “steal” Fowler’s parties for the settlement of the city of 240,000 dollars in false invoices for Monarch “work”, and then via the monarch of money to a tax Skimming in the head after the plea agreement Armstrong in July 2003.
The Baltic Sea is classified Bank Bank Ltd to the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Fowler Baltic Bank bought for $ 1.3 million in March 2000, after a sworn statement he submitted to his staff in the event of bankruptcy. In the document, he said he had “planned, the investment bank as a company car or for private investment and business.”
The issue of allegations he stole money from San Francisco, Fowler said: “It is absolutely untrue, and they have no evidence.”
Fowler was also named as a defendant in the framework of civil law, as is his company, but it seems technically part of the case is not for now.
The city is trying to serve him with court documents Fowler, but was never really able to do, at least in part because he has lived in a Gated Community, according to Matt Dorsey, a spokesman for the city attorney . “It has not been pursued, if not delivered … a technical point of view, he was never in the jurisdiction,” says Kristine Poplawski, a city lawyer involved in the case.
Fowler, the question, why the name of the city remains in the complaint, Poplawski said, it is easier to leave the defendant, the name of a complaint to delete it.
Although cases of civilian remains open, it is not clear whether San Francisco is their complaint against Fowler.
A lawyer in private with the fall of the city, said Fowler’s bankruptcy had prevented the city of further civil action against him. The question of whether the proceedings against him to go ahead, if the event of bankruptcy, closed, Nancy Fineman lawyer said he could not say.
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