Conflicts Of Interests?

April 26, 2008 by bobfrank.

I have been accused of conflicts of interest concerning the trumpets working group project by David Berman, Patti Shock and Mike Dixon. Those are knowingly false statements.

These are the very last people in SCA to attempt to claim conflicts of interest by anyone else! They are clearly trying to change the subject from conversations about their failed leadership and poor direction of a Trumpets Working Group that only produced one viable lease candidate for consideration by the Board!

It is also a waste of everyone’s time for them to attempt to cast the blame or suspicions for their failure on anyone else. We must not let these individuals get away with trying to cover-up their failures by hiding behind the hard work of the committee members–who were simply following the directions they had received. (For more about that, review the files included below.)

So, to be perfectly clear about their outrageous claims of my possible conflict of interest, I will say again that I previously attended a Vegas Valley Angels Small Business Seminar a few years ago. I recall that Mr. Bill Goff was a speaker at that event. I did not have any kind of business or personal relationship with Mr. Goff at that or any subsequent time. I have only commented that Mr. Goff impressed me some years ago as someone to respect as a highly successful Las Vegas businessman. I did not know that he was submitting a proposal for the lease, and it would not have meant anything–if I had heard something. I met Goff in person for the first time at the TWG tasting event at his Boulevard Cafe. There was/is absolutely no conflict of interests.

Unfortunately, individuals like Shock, Berman and Dixon are the kind of people who would attempt to distort that simple seminar event encounter a few years ago into claiming I have a “conflict of interest” concerning my role as a Director on the restaurant lease negotiations.

Rubbish! This is not worthy of further conversation by any person with common sense, or a sense of fair play.

Bob Frank, SCA CAI Director

For those who want to delve into some of the many emails and files concerning the Trumpets Working Group, and its long-term leadership problems, and its true conflicts of interest by Shock and Berman, here are just a few of the relevant files for review.

dixon_email_24apr081.pdf
bod-transcript_24apr08_trumpets.pdf
frank_response-to-db_25apr08.pdf
26nov07_email-to-shock.pdf
berman_blog_conflicts_25apr08.pdf
db_discloses_bias.pdf
berman_knows_shock-1997.pdf
db_meets_shock_oct99.pdf
disclosure_emails_twg.pdf
luvruleshendersonoverview.pdf
emails_between_dixon-and-frank_23feb08.pdf
petschaurer_disclosure.pdf
matson_report_8apr08.pdf
shock_violates_law.pdf
shock_email_25apr08.pdf
tasting_schedule.pdf
twg_email_shockberman_conflict.pdf
waldman_to_stevenson_10mar08.pdf
db_friendship_with_shock_1998.pdf

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