Popular Bank to Remain in Commercial US Mainland Market
But Confirms No Longer in Equipment Leasing

"Popular Community Bank (PCB), remains committed to enabling commercial lending and has materially further enhanced its capabilities through the addition of several new highly experienced commercial banker," a spokesperson for the bank told Leasing News.

"While PCB continuously evaluates its diverse lines of business and product offerings, it was ultimately determined that reengagement in the equipment leasing business was not in line with the bank’s immediate strategic objectives. This could change in the future."

"PCB’s commitment to its customers and communities that we serve has never been stronger, as we continue to provide a broad array of loans and banking services throughout our geographic footprint - 93 branches in five states (CA, NY, NJ, IL and FL).

"Mr. Richard Carrión will continue to serve as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Popular, Inc. In the event that Mr. Carrión is elected IOC President, he will remain with the Company as Board Chairman and the Board of Directors will appoint a new President and Chief Executive Officer.

“Popular, Inc.’s Board fully supports his endeavor. Mr. Carrión has led the growth and development of Popular, Inc. for more than 30 years. At the same time, he has been a member of the IOC since 1990 and has played key roles at the organization during his time there.

"Furthermore, PCB has been in the U.S. mainland for over 50 years. There has been no announcement made that discusses an exit. PCB continues to invest in its communities, renovating branches, hiring, introducing new services - including mobile banking for businesses and consumers. The bank also invested in a rebranding initiative to continue to attract clients."

"For more facts on Popular’s corporate strategy, (information presented on Investor Day from Q1 2013) it can be found here: https://www.popularcommunitybank.com/us/presentations-webcasts

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June Update --Leasing Schemes’ Court Cases
by Christopher Menkin

• HL Leasing
• IFC Credit--Rudy Trebels
• NorVergence
• Operation Lease Fleece
• Sheldon Player—Equipment Acquisition Resources
  
  

 

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HL Leasing, Fresno, Palm Desert, California

John Otto, the alleged perpetrator of the Ponzi scheme, where money was lent by investors for a rate of return for leases that did not exist, committed suicide. Corporate officers were taken to a class action suit in Fresno where a jury ruled for a judgment against Heritage Leasing, MAC dba Heritage Leasing, Kathleen Otto (wife of John where bookkeeping was maintained at their house in Palm Desert (and Air Fred (small airline where they leased planes) for $114.5 million, plus $46.5 million against both Dan Ramirez and Andy Fernandez; $720,000 on top of that against Dan Ramirez.

Ara Jabagchourian and Aron K. Liang of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP and Donald Fischbach of Dowling, Aaron & Keeler, Inc. began search for the assets. At this time Appellate briefs have been filed for Kathleen Otto's case. Ramirez has not his brief yet. He has "sold" his home to his wife even though Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy had a lien on it. Kathleen Otto has sold her vehicles and transferred real estate before she filed personal bankruptcy.

Leasing News continues to receive emails from victims who lost retirement, savings for college for their kids, their life savings, as well as were forced to seriously downsize their lifestyle.

Previous Stories:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/heritage_leasing.htm

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IFC Credit--Rudy Trebels

There are six court cases open regarding Rudy Trebels and IFC Credit Corporation. Readers tell me he is still playing golf in Florida, as well as vendors and lessees email Leasing News asking about doing business with him, finding stories written about him in the internet.

An Omnibus Claims Objection Procedure was made on May 23, 2013 for the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy of IFC Credit Corporation field on July 27, 2009, seeking all claims:

"Upon the Motion ('Motion') of David P. Leibowitz ('Trustee'), chapter 7 trustee for the estate of IFC Credit Corporation ('Debtor') and the following substantively consolidated entities: (a) Augusta Mill Acquisition LLC; (b) Augusta Real Estate Owner, LLC; (c) First Portland Corporation; (d) FP Holdings, Inc.; (e) FPC Leasing, LLC; (f) IFC Capital Funding III, LLC; (g) IFC Capital Funding VII, LLC; and (h) Pioneer Capital Corporation of Texas (collectively, the "SubCon Entities"), for an order establishing omnibus claims procedures, after due and proper notice, for cause shown, and statements made on the record, the Court being advised in the premises of the Motion..."
Omnibus Claims Objection Procedure PDF

In the only civil case, brought by CoActiv Capital Partners on September 30, 2009, suit is for over $2 million against IFC Credit Corporation, Morton Grove, Illinois, one of their funding groups, and the two main principals, claiming the officers committed fraud as individuals, specifically not paying off leases when the lessee terminated early, and knowing that the company was "essential insolvent" for almost a year. Since Element Financial has purchased CoActive Capital Partners where this will remain in the bankruptcy court is not known.

Omnibus Claims Objection Procedure:
.leasingnews.org/PDF/OmnibusClaimsObectionProcedure_632013.pdf

Rudy Trebels Saga
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/trebels.html

Previous stories:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/IFC_stories.htm

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NorVergence

The Aberdeen Kid Yahoo blog has diminished.

No change since filing of bankruptcy and no information on case in Lake Charles, Louisiana regarding Thomas N. Salzano, the mastermind behind the 10,629 leases with over 50 bank and leasing companies. It keeps being postponed.

Previous Stories:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Novergence_main.htm

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Operation Lease Fleece--Sentencing

Mark McQuitty of CapitalWerks was sentenced for 24 months starting 12 noon, March 21, 2013, plus three years’ probation and other stipulations (1). He was given a Greyhound bus ticket and took a ride with other "low risk" prisoners to Reeves II Federal Penitentiary, Pecos, Texas.

Reeves I,II,III ---population 4,400

Prison records show McQuitty as inmate 45507-112 51-White-M to get out 12-15-2014 (Could not find a “mugshot.”) Reportedly 47.2% is drug relational, and they have an excellent 18month alcohol and drug rehabilitation program.
http://www.bop.gov/about/facts.jsp#15

McQuitty blamed his problems on alcohol, he had four DUI's, and reportedly was anxious to get on first both with the sentencing after pleading and then anxious to start serving his time so he could get out.

ISystems President Chant Vartanian signed a plea agreement with the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, represented by Jennifer L. Waier, Assistant Attorney General, who has been the lead on all the "Fleece" cases. He was sentenced to one day and served his time, now out of jail:

"JUDGMENT AND COMMITMENT by Judge Cormac J. Carney as to Defendant Chant Vartanian (1), Count(s) 1, Committed on Count 1 of the 3-Count Indictment to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a term of 1 day, which the Court deems has been served in full. Pay $100 special assessment. Pay total fine of $6,000. 3 years supervised release under terms and conditions of US Probation Office and General Orders 05-02 and 01-05. Count(s) 2, 3, Government's motion, all remaining counts ordered dismissed. (mt) (Entered: 10/17/2012)" (2)

Sarkus Vartanian, vice-president of ISystems Technology and Solutions, brother of Chant indictment was dismissed without prejudice. Reportedly he told assistant US Deputy Attorney Jennifer L. Waier he had cancer (it was never verified, according to court records and attorneys involved).

It seems after the original plea agreements, the next series fought a plea agreement, several wanting jury trials, as does the one waiting now:

Ziya Arik, CapitalWerks/Preferred Lease, sentencing before Judge Cormac J. Carney was continued again to October 1, 2013 for a trial. Reportedly one of the toughest salesmen who was rough on customers, competing with Brian Acosta, CLP, for accounts. There were many complaints about his “performance.”

It appears the “Orange County Weekly” blames U.S. District court Judge Cormac J. Carney “light sentencings.” (3)

 

In Operation Fleece the sentencing has been light, even for the two with the longest terms, Adam Zuckerman 37 months Jim Raeder 12 months half-way house, one day jail (equals time served). Michael Scott Grayson got one day of probation although stole $1 million, according to the Orange County Weekly.[**Note: Carney officially sentenced Grayson to one day in prison, and then immediately considered it served.] (3)

"Even Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer L. Waier--the prosecutor on Grayson's case and a person not known for advocating tough punishments if she can reach a quick plea bargain that saves her from trial work--argued in her sentencing brief that the interests of justice required that the businessman's huge theft demanded at least a "low end" guideline punishment of 30 months in a federal prison." (3)

In my experience, the judge usually goes with the recommendation of the prosecuting attorney, who in these cases seem to give up against those fighting the charge. According to various attorneys over the course of events, it is the dollar figure that also factors into the sentencing, and most important, the creditors, lessors, banks, financing companies never showed up in the sentencing. They did in the Zuckerman case as well as Raeder, who is still not popular in Colorado where he was living (many telephone calls to Leasing News from his "fans.")

The long waiting, evidently at the direction of Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer L. Waier may be considered a punishment, as they could not work in their profession (nor can they after being sentenced ever get involved in leasing, financing, or the like occupation) as well as those sentenced are all now felons---- and all on probation, most for three years.

In addition, in the “Operation Lease Fleece,” they did not have “victims,” but business owners who participated in the deception of “sales/leasebacks” and/or equipment that did not exist. In reality, they were part of the scam. Not complaining they were not named, due to all the work that would be involved, but the point is the victims were the funders stupid enough to deal with Mark McQuitty and Jim Raeder. But then, there are many like them that funders know about today that they still do business with…

Moreover, if the funders really were concerned, they would have gotten more involved in the cases, including sentencing, instead of just writing it off and going back to business (that’s my opinion.) It seems the almighty buck overrules doing business with people you should not be doing business with.

Leasing News will do a full wrap-up after the case is finalized, although the various sentences are in the collection.

Following the various “Operation Lease Fleece” cases since the beginning, more than any other news media, I give Judge Carney high marks for his patience, ethics, and skill in the entire proceedings.

Kit Menkin, editor/publisher

(1) McQuitty Other Stipulations:
http://www.leasingnews.org/PDF/mcquity_other_stipulations.pdf

(2) Vartanian Sentence
http://www.leasingnews.org/PDF/VartanianSentence_632013.pdf

(3) OC Weekly Criticizes Judge Carney ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/04/michael_scott_grayson_verizon.php

Operation Lease Fleece Stories
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Lease_Fleece.htm

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Sheldon Player—Equipment Acquisition Resources

(Sheldon Player in Wyoming)

The Trustee continues to settle claims with the latest May 15, 2013 settlement for Nowlin Excavation to pay $4,000. The bankruptcy was filed 10/23/2009. Sheldon Player has not been arrested for fraud or any other charges. He reportedly has a lot of cash and continues gambling through beautiful escorts he takes to mostly riverboat gambling casinos.

Why he is not in jail, you got me

Previous Stories:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Sheldon_Player.htm

 

 

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Creating a LinkedIn and Facebook page
Career Crossroad---By Emily Fitzpatrick/RII

Question: I am creating a LinkedIn Page and Facebook Page and I do not want to insinuate that I am looking for a new career opportunity. Do you have any suggestions?

Answer: There are “good,” “bad,” and “look out for” on social media sites.

These opinions vary, and it also depends on your purpose. Often these social media sites only allow one name, meaning is your intent personal or business? If your goal is to create a professional presence, be careful about what you share and post. If anyone has an existing pages scrub your page and get rid of any questionable posts or pictures. Be forewarned the first thing employers, or potential employers DO look at: your Facebook page, second other professional social media pages, first perhaps being LinkedIn. You can make you Facebook private to family and friends, and I suggest that, as well as test it from time to time by having the password not saved and logging in to Facebook under another email name. If you are using Facebook for “business,” good for you!

Employers and potential employers are aware that LinkedIn is utilized to generate sales leads, network with other like-minded professionals and keep abreast of industry trends. It is an excellent source to network. Many companies use also to contact those in the industry and try to lure them to work for them.

In developing your page, include the following:

• An abbreviated version of your resume highlighting your accomplishments / achievements

• Your education & certification

• Any associations (professional) that you are affiliated with

• References or Letters of Reference from previous employers or clients

• Use a professional photo (I can’t tell you how many photo’s turn professionals off, especially real “cute” ons.

I recommend:

• Being an OPEN Networker - this allows you to accept messages (known as “InMails”) from anyone, this way others can reach you easily & you have the option to respond or not

• Very Important: Including your contact information: Under the section of how to contact (InMail) include your email and phone number – without this many users of the FREE Version cannot connect with you (over 90% are FREE users)

Remember you are creating a social presence - one that, virtually, can be viewed globally!

Take the take to develop your page in the most professional manner possible.

The following information is from LinkedIn:
76.9% of the LinkedIn users said the professional network helped them research people and companies
68.6% says LinkedIn helped them reconnect with past business and associates
49.7% Build new networking relationships with individuals who may influence potential customers
44.5% Increase face-to-face networking effectiveness

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Cobra Capital Joins Funder, Story Credit,
Funder Looking for New Broker business Lists

Cobra Capital LLC Darien, Illinois Dale R. Kluga, President dale@cobrallc.com Office:630-985-3500 Fax: 630-985-3567 www.cobrallc.com ELFA (Footnote)

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Nationwide

$50,000 - $1MM $250,000 average transaction.

Y

N

Y

N

N

A -Accepts Broker Business | B -Requires Broker be Licensed | C -Sub-Broker Program | D -"Private label Program" | E - Also "in house" salesmen

Footnote:

*Sub-Broker Program - yes, but only with full disclosure of all broker names

Minimum Lease Size: $50,000
Lease Size Range: $50,000 to $500,000
Credit Profile: A Quality, B Quality, Start-ups
Term: 1 to 5 Years
Geography: Nationwide
Lease Types: Operating Lease, Direct/Finance Lease, Single Investor Lease
Prohibitions: No trains, planes, boats or restaurants

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Leasing 102
by Mr. Terry Winders, CLP

Vendor Support Agreements

Usually when a vendor has a high margin and fells strongly about a poor credit risk they will offer recourse to encourage the lessor to fund the transaction. Recourse is a very complex issue and therefore requires proper documentation. There are many types of recourse such as; full recourse, limited recourse, dealer participating non-recourse, and rent to lease/own programs, and remarketing agreements.

Full recourse is a term that means the seller of the equipment guarantees the performance of the lessee, and if the lessee defaults, is prepared to cover the loss of the funding source. Full recourse allows some transactions that would normally be turned down to be acceptable, but the recourse document needs to be carefully drafted. The agreement must cover many points to establish where, and when, the responsibilities of both parties are effective. For instance, when does the vendor cover the loss, and most important how much? Is the recourse to cover all recovery costs or just the net present value of the unpaid lease payments? If late charges are unpaid are they included in the payoff? Who pays for the recovery costs and if a replevin action is necessary who pays the attorney and court costs. Plus who makes the decision on when to pull the plug? In addition, once the equipment is in the possession of the vendor, and it takes some time to remarket, is the balance paid to the lessor upon re-possession or after it is remarketed. If after remarketing, how long is the remarketing going to take and should a time frame be attached?

Good communication about the scope of the recourse is necessary to make sure both parties to the agreement are fully aware of what part each plays, and who has the power to make decisions.

The days of self-help repossession are long gone and it takes a replevin action to get the legal right to go after the equipment. Some States still allow self-help repossession but the risk it represents, if not done correctly, make it a very poor approach. If a Lessee voluntarily surrenders the equipment even then a legal statement, defining the lessee's request you take the equipment with acceptance of continuing responsibilities, needs to be signed to have the right to obtain recover a loss.

Collection costs have raised the bar on the value of recourse today, because if the lessee defaults, the expense of repossession and remarketing add so much to the balance that if it is done correctly, and explained completely, most vendors shy away from it. The equipment must carry a high resale value to make recourse work and a tight reign on delinquency is necessary to avoid letting time slip away. Done with poor documentation a disagreement will always arise with the vendor and it will destroy a good vendor relationship.

Recourse can work if the transaction is a direct finance lease for the lessor so the only consideration is the unpaid balance and the recover costs. If the transaction is a true lease with tax lease considerations then the payoff is larger and makes it almost impossible to come out clean if a default occurs. The best way to reduce the risk is with a security deposit or increased payments in the early years to reduce the balance as soon as possible.

Once in a while the vendor will offer “Limited Recourse” to cover the first two years, or one third of the lease term, to help the lessee prove his ability to pay the lease payments. This is a lessor decision but it still required that you properly document the agreement so if a default occurs, both parties understand their responsibility.

A popular recourse arrangement is one were the vendor receives a commission on each transaction but it is held in reserve against any losses. It is called a dealer participating non- recourse arrangement. A dollar amount, or a percentage of the outstanding portfolio, is assigned so that at the end of each year any funds in the account over the selected amount can be paid out to the vendor. The incentive to the vendor is that with few or no losses he gets the full commission. This puts the vendor in the decision tract on what limited credits are acceptable. If the losses are small then the reserve handles the loss and both the lessor and the vendor are covered. However, a proper document is required just like a full recourse agreement to establish timing and cost allocations.

Rent to lease/own programs place the vendors recourse on a short time frame and the lessee's payment on an elevated payment schedule to cover the risk. These are not done for poor credits but for startups and lessees with short histories. An example is to subtract the wholesale value of the equipment after six months of use from the selling cost. Then create a rent period for six months at a lease payment that will reduce the balance to the wholesale value. The vendor is on full recourse for the six months and then a non-recourse finance or lease program for a longer period of time is offered at a much lower payment amount. The theory is that if the lessee could make the higher payments for six months then the lower payments should be OK and by that time a good equity has been placed into the equipment lowering the risk to the lessor.

The last effort for support is to ask the vendor for remarketing. If they agree an agreement should be drafted to spell out all of the issues such as: commissions paid for the remarketing effort, time in inventory, get ready charges, insurance, advertising costs, and storage. If the commission is not at an equal par with those paid for normal inventory you can expect your equipment to be stored and probably take a very long term to sell.

Conclusion:

Vendor support is a good program under the correct set of circumstances but should not be thought of as a way of shifting the burden of risk. Lessors are better equipped to make credit and equipment judgments and sometimes good intentions can lead to loss business because usually bad credits will mean a high degree of loss for someone--- and as my mentor in the business said: “Life is too short to do business with companies of low character.”

Mr. Terry Winders, CLP, has been a teacher, consultant, expert witness for the leasing industry for thirty-five years and can be reached at WindersConsulting@yahoo.com or 502-649-0448

He invites your questions and queries.

Previous #102 Columns:
www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Leasing_102/Index.htm

Mr. Terry Winders available as Expert Witness. 35 years as a professional instructor to the top equipment leasing and finance companies in the United States, author of several books, including DVD's, as well as weekly columnist to Leasing News. He also performs audits of leasing companies as an expert on documentation, and has acted as an expert witness on leasing for litigation in legal and tax disputes, including before the IRS. He also has taught the senior bank examiners, how to review a bank leasing department, for the Federal Reserve in Washington D.C. and has trained the examiners for the FDIC on how to prepare a lease portfolio for sale. Mr. Winders received his Master of Business Administration and his Bachelor of Science degrees from the College of Notre Dame. 502.649.0448/WindersConsulting@yahoo.com

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Regional Banks Step in to Lend as Larger Banks Slide
By Robb Soukup and Robert Clark
SNL Financial

(Edited for length)

Lending slid at most of the nation's largest banks, despite many of those institutions having room to grow loans and claims from smaller competitors that the mega-banks are driving pricing wars in bids to win new credits. Bank of America Corp., for example, saw annualized linked-quarter loan growth decline 3.75%, and Citigroup Inc. reported a 4.75% slide for the same period. Capital One Financial Corp. reported a more substantial slump of 15.72% in loan growth. Capital One CFO Gary Perlin attributed the quarterly decrease to seasonal factors during a May 22 investor presentation.

The greatest declines in the industry, though, occurred at some smaller institutions. Guaranty Financial MHC reported that loan growth fell 83.23% during the quarter. Flagstar Bancorp Inc. saw annualized linked-quarter loan decline of 79.09%. The company, which has struggled with capital and regulatory issues, recently installed a new CEO.

Some of the banks and thrifts with the highest capacity to lend grew loans aggressively during the first quarter.

Miami Lakes, Fla.-based BankUnited Inc. was the largest of institutions with the highest lending capacity, measured by loans as a percentage of assets, according to SNL data, although that may change quickly. The company, whose reported loans were 45.87% of its total assets, grew loans 19.55% during the quarter, compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. BankUnited Chairman, President and CEO John Kanas touted the success of the company's organic growth efforts during a Bloomberg TV interview and also said the company is poised to accelerate that growth now that it has entered the New York market. Kanas estimated that the company already had $200 million in its N.Y.-based loan pipeline after just six weeks of operation.

Kanas had previously said during the company's first-quarter earnings call that the company expects its four locations in New York to match the loan growth of its Florida branch network. "We will start to see tangible evidence of the growth of this franchise in New York by the end of this quarter, without fail," Kanas said during the call, adding "the prospects for growth of loan assets in Florida and New York are stronger than ever."

Another Fla.-based franchise, Bond Street Holdings Inc., was also able to make considerable use of its lending capacity, notching annualized quarter-over-quarter loan growth of 35.31%. The company, whose loans totaled 44.12% of its assets, has plenty of powder left to deploy. At the end of the quarter, the company reported that tangible common equity was 20.96% of tangible assets.

Atlanta-based CertusHoldings Inc.'s 59.32% loan growth was the highest among companies with the most capacity to lend. At the other end of the spectrum, Omaha, Neb.-based Lauritzen Corp. saw loans fall 20.25%, and Greenwood Village, Colo.-based National Bank Holdings Corp. reported a 16.09% drop in loan growth from the preceding quarter.

Wisconsin Banks Raise Capital, but one not enough
---Bank of Kenosha Fails

The two branches of Banks of Wisconsin, which did business as Bank of Kenosha, Kenosha, Wisconsin, were closed with North Shore Bank, FSB, Brookfield, Wisconsin, to assume all of the deposits. The acquisition of Banks of Wisconsin is their second purchase. September 17, 2010, they acquired Maritime Savings Bank, West Allis, Wisconsin, acquiring $177.6 million in assets and $350.5 million in deposits.

The Bank of Kenosha was established June 26, 2000 and had two offices in Kenosha with 41 full time employees as of March 31, 2013. Year-end 2007, the bank had 71 full time employees.

"With a population of 99,738 as of November 2011, Kenosha is the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. Kenosha is also the fourth-largest city on the western shore of Lake Michigan, preceded by Chicago, Milwaukee, and Green Bay. Kenosha lies on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, 35 miles (56 km) south of Milwaukee and 50 miles north of Chicago.

"The 1902 Rambler was also the first automobile to incorporate a steering wheel, rather than use the then-common tiller-controlled steering. In 1916 Jeffery was purchased by auto executive Charles W. Nash and became Nash Motors. In May 1954, Nash acquired Detroit-based Hudson and the new firm was named American Motors Corporation...Snap-on Tools world headquarters are located in Kenosha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha,_Wisconsin

There are several banks in the Kenosha area were "saved" with the injection of capital as the real estate bubble hit all community banks here. Biztimes.com reports:

"In 2010, a group of existing Southport (bank in Kenosha) shareholders injected $4 million of equity into the bank. Angel investor Guy Cecchini, the uncle of founding shareholder Jim Cicchini, chipped in $10 million...The Johnson family invested $235 million of private funds into Johnson Bank (Racine) in February, while the Lubar family announced plans to invest $20 million in ISB parent Ixonia Bancshares in April..."
http://www.biztimes.com/article/20120611/MAGAZINE03/120609801/

June 21,2012 ISB Community Bank, Ixonia, received $12 million: "Members of the Lubar family added $16.5 million in badly needed capital to the bank, and the remaining $4.5 million came from existing shareholders, employees, and some new investors."
http://www.wdtimes.com/news/article_17dab8f2-bbb9-11e1-af4a-0019bb2963f4.html

Following a FDIC consent order for Bank of Kenosha to increase its financial strength, Gary R Hutchins, President & Chief Executive Officer, in 2010 hit the bricks and was raised more than $4 million in new capital.

"Hutchins noted that Kenosha County has been one of the fastest-growing areas in the state, and Banks of Wisconsin, as a local bank, made construction and real estate loans to help fuel the growth.

" 'Some of our customers have been affected by the downturn in the economy and we have been working with them to help get them through these tough times," Hutchins said. "We remain confident that our local economy will recover from this downturn just like it has from other difficult times in the past.'

"In an interview Friday, Hutchins said his bank also was hit by troubled loan 'participations,' in which the bank joined with other banks to finance construction projects, including a condominium development in Florida."
http://www.jsonline.com/business/83088157.html

Real Estate was the number one problem with non-current loans and defaults. Unfortunately non-current loans hit $23.1 million year-end 2010 and charge offs grew from $4 million in 2009, to $4.8 million in 2010, to $5.5 million in 2011, resulting in lower non-current loans by the dollars charged off, but also reducing profit and equity.

(in millions, unless otherwise)

Non-Current Loans
2006 $730,000
2007 $3.2
2008 $3.7
2009 $13.7
2010 $23.1
2011 $19.3
2012 $12.6
3/31 $12.5

Charge Offs
2006 $12,000 ($6,000 commercial/indusrial,$3,000 1-4 family, $3,000 individual.)
2007 $365,000 ($322,000 commercial/indust., $30,000 indiv.,-$1,000 1-4 fam.)
2008 $993,000 ($964,000 nonfarm/nonres.,$27,000 commercial, $3,000 individual.-$1,000 1-4 family)
2009 $4.0 ($2.1 construction/land, $970,000 commercial, $506,000 multi-family,$385,000 1-4 family, $27,000 individual.
2010 $4.8 ($1.6 construction/land, $1.6 commercial/ind., $588,000 1-4 family, $530,000 nonfarm-nonres, $451,000 multi-family, $18,000 indiv.)
2011 $5.5 ($1.4 1-4 family, $1.2 multi-family, $951,000 commercial/ind.,$769,00 nonfarm/nonres.,$20,000 individ.)
2012 $2.3 ($1.1 multifamly,$587,000 1-4 family, $17,000 indivd., $6,000 commercial, -$14,000 nonfarm/nonres.)
3/31 $10,000 ($16,000 commercial-industrial, -$5,000 nonfarm/nonres.,-$1,000 1-4 family.)

Construction and Land, 1-4 family multiple residential, Multiple Family Residential, Non-Farm Non-Residential loans.

As noted, non-current and charges offs reduced profit and equity:

(in millions, unless otherwise)

Profit
2006 $1.4
2007 $1.2
2008 -$355,000
2009 -$5.8
2010 -$3.6
2011 -$8.1
2012 -$2.2
3/31 -$588,000

Net Equity
2006 $16.3
2007 $18.1
2008 $18.4
2009 $13.2
2010 $14.1
2011 $7.0
2012 $3.4
3/31 $2.9

A strong indication of the real estate market is evident in the following---

Single-family new house construction building permits:
1997: 136 buildings, average cost: $104,500
1998: 175 buildings, average cost: $113,700
1999: 237 buildings, average cost: $115,700
2000: 233 buildings, average cost: $105,400
2001: 209 buildings, average cost: $119,700
2002: 227 buildings, average cost: $120,200
2004: 326 buildings, average cost: $165,400
2005: 375 buildings, average cost: $163,600
2006: 358 buildings, average cost: $175,500
2007: 295 buildings, average cost: $186,100
2008: 144 buildings, average cost: $190,300
2009: 98 buildings, average cost: $162,900
2010: 65 buildings, average cost: $157,700
2011: 36 buildings, average cost: $184,100
http://www.city-data.com/city/Kenosha-Wisconsin.html

March 31, 2013: Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio 2.67%

As of March 31, 2012, Banks of Wisconsin had approximately $134.0 million in total assets and $127.6 million in total deposits. In addition to assuming all of the deposits of the failed bank, North Shore Bank, FSB agreed to purchase approximately $97.4 million of the failed bank's assets. The FDIC will retain the remaining assets for later disposition.

The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $26.3 million.

Bank of Kenosha was the 14th FDIC-insured institution to fail in the nation this year, and the first in Wisconsin. The last FDIC-insured institution closed in the state was Legacy Bank, Milwaukee, on March 11, 2011.
http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2013/pr13046.html

List of Bank Failures:
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html

Bank Beat:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Bank_Beat.htm

 

 

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Letter of Credit’s Interpretation Limited to
Face of the Letter of Credit
By Tom McCurnin
Leasing News Legal News Editor

Court of Appeals Correctly Follows Law to Only Look at the
Four Corners of the Letter of Credit

There’s an American idiom, which loosely paraphrased says “not to lock the barn door after the cattle are gone.” Applied to documenting deals, it’s pretty ineffective to complain about the language in a deal 4 years after it’s been inked. A Kentucky Bank and a shopping center owner should have probably looked that idiom up before doing this deal involving a Letter of Credit.

I use Letters of Credit on dicey deals all the time. Many lessees simply don’t have the credit to support the lease of a large capital item, and in some instances the capital item may not have the resale value after protracted litigation, foreclosure and resale. It is for this reason that many lessors use Letters of Credit (“L/C”) to as credit enhancements for shaky deals, residuals, or buyouts.

Today’s case is Louisville Mall Associates, LP v. Wood Center Properties, LLC, 361 S.W.3d 323 (Ky. Ct. App. 2012). Banks rarely issue L/Cs for more than a year, but credit deals are generally more than a year. So, as a compromise, the Bank is required to send a notification that it won’t renew the L/C. The failure to the renew the L/C is generally a condition of default. The notification is generally sent about 60 days before expiration, so the Bank pretty much knows that they have 60 days of exposure and the creditor will probably draw against the L/C—that is of course, if the Bank actually sends out the notification.

The Bank failed to send out the notification, and the L/C allegedly expired, and soon after the expiration, the borrower defaulted and presumably thought it could safely do so, because the L/C was presumably gone. Alas, no one knew that the Bank failed to send out the proper notice. The Creditor drew against the L/C, the Bank realized its error, but the fact was that without the notification, the L/C was still in play.

The other issue was the magic language required to be placed on the L/C. Most L/Cs have specific language which simply states “if you give Bank the following pieces of paper that say the following things then the Bank will pay the creditor the stated amount on the L/C without regard to the terms of the underlying agreement with the borrower.” Thus, the Bank is not expected, nor entitled, to look beyond the L/C and the attached pieces of paper to determine whether the statements they contain are true. Typically, the L/C requires the creditor drawing on the L/C to submit a draft, an invoice, and a certification that the amount is owing. Here, the Debtor argued that the Court should look to documents outside the four corners of the L/C to determine if the magic language was sufficient.

Here, the Creditor supplied the necessary magic language on the draft, and the lower court held that (1) The L/C had not expired because there was no notice of expiration, so it was automatically renewed; and (2) the Creditor supplied the magic language required on the draft.

On appeal, the Court of Appeal affirmed holding that only the language in the four corners of the L/C mattered.

The lessons for the equipment lessor here are to consider using Letters of Credit as credit enhancements for bad deals. In the world of leasing they can collateralize a balloon payment or a residual. But if the lessor decides to use a Letter of Credit, the terms of the Letter of Credit must be complete in and of themselves, and a Court will not be able to look at other documents outside the Letter of Credit to decide whether or not to enjoin the payment of the Letter of Credit.

This way, the Creditor will know exactly what it is agreeing to and what has to be on the Draft.

Tom McCurnin is a partner at Barton, Klugman & Oetting in Los Angeles, California.

Tom McCurnin
Barton, Klugman & Oetting
350 South Grand Ave.
Suite 2200
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Direct Phone: (213) 617-6129
Cell (213) 268-8291
Email: tmccurnin@bkolaw.com
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Previous Tom McCurnin Articles:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/leasing_cases.html

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Channel Partners Construction Deals Last 30 Days

Top Stories May 28-May 30
(You May Have Missed)

Here are the top stories opened by readers:

(1) Another Equipment Lessor Gets Sued
for Stealing Trade Secrets By Tom McCurnin
http://leasingnews.org/archives/May2013/5_28.htm#stealing_secrets

(2) Balboa Capital Continues Accelerated Growth,
Adds 70 Employees and Additional Office Location
http://leasingnews.org/archives/May2013/5_30.htm#balboa_growth

(3) Archives---May 30, 2000
-- Rick Wilbur shares a recent experience --
http://leasingnews.org/archives/May2013/5_30.htm#archive

(4) "The List" April, 2013
--- Mergers, Acquisitions & Changes
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"—
http://leasingnews.org/archives/May2013/5_28.htm#list_april

(5) Leasing 102 by Mr. Terry Winders, CLP
Leasing Term Confusion
http://leasingnews.org/archives/May2013/5_28.htm#confusion

(7) Sears-Roebuck Joins "Why Not Lease It?"
by Kit Menkin
http://leasingnews.org/archives/May2013/5_28.htm#sears

(8) New Hires---Promotions
http://leasingnews.org/archives/May2013/5_30.htm#hires

(9) Amelia Earhart's plane found?
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/29/amelia-earhart-plane-found-sonar-images-may-have-pinpointed-wreck/

(10) How to Text from Your Computer/Tablet
http://leasingnews.org/archives/May2013/5_28.htm#text

 

 

 

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Two Promoters of Tax Fraud Scheme Who Sought Millions
in Fraudulent Tax Refunds Sentenced 96 & 87 Months

SANTA ANA– Arturo Villarreal-Alba, of Whittier, was sentenced to 96 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release following imprisonment for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and mail fraud. Restitution will be determined at a hearing on August 30, 2013 before U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton Tucker.

On October 2, 2012, Arturo Villarreal-Alba, 44, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. in a fraudulent federal income tax return filing scheme which claimed false federal income tax refunds and pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a vehicle registration “title washing” scheme.

The investigation led to 55 people being indicted by a federal grand jury in the fall of 2011.

To date, the Operation Stolen Treasures investigation has resulted in 26 defendants pleading guilty to charges filed against them (seven defendants have been sentenced and the remaining 19 defendants are awaiting sentencing); 25 defendants are currently scheduled for trial beginning in June; and three defendants have been convicted at trial.

According to court documents, beginning around March 2009, Arturo Villarreal-Alba, an undocumented alien, began to participate, acting as a promoter, with others in a fraudulent OID (Original Issue Discount) scheme that filed false federal income tax returns with the IRS claiming hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, in false tax refunds.

The OID schemes conducted by Villarreal-Alba were conducted through two companies “Old Quest Foundation, Inc.” in Fontana and “De La Fuente Ramirez and Associates” (DLFRA) in Rancho Cucamonga, both of which became a subject of investigation conducted by Special Agents with IRS Criminal Investigation known as “Operation Stolen Treasures.”

Villarreal-Alba admitted that between 2009 and 2011, he participated in a vehicle “title-washing” scheme in which he falsely told victims that there was a “special program” wherein vehicles could be paid off and victims would end up owning one or more of the vehicles free and clear. Many victims purchased several vehicles by using their good credit to obtain loans from the car dealers. Rather than having the car loans paid, the victim’s signatures on DMV documents were forged to obtain clear title from the DMV, and then he and his co-schemers would either re-sell the vehicles to unsuspecting victims or obtain title liens on the vehicles from vehicle title loan companies.

According to his plea agreement, Villarreal-Alba admitted that he referred various customers to the OID scheme. Villarreal-Alba also admitted he caused at least two false 2009 OID-based federal income tax returns to be prepared and filed. On March 17, 2010, he caused the filing of a fraudulent tax return using fictitious federal income tax withholding in the amount of $668,000, which claimed a false tax refund of $452,572. He also caused a 2009 OID-based tax return claiming a $535,898 refund in 2010.

Villarreal-Alba used the U.S. mail system in the scheme by fraudulently receiving the “cleaned” pink slips from the DMV by mail. He admitted that he failed to file tax returns and report to the IRS between thousands of dollars in income he made 2009 and 2010 from the tax and vehicle title washing scheme.

Earlier, on May 17, 2013, Osman Norales, 35, of Rancho Cucamonga, the owner and founder of DLFRA, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton Tucker to 87 months imprisonment, three years of supervised release following imprisonment and ordered to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $512,471.

On February 22, 2013, after a two-week jury trial, Osman Norales and his fellow defendant, Genaro De La Fuente of De La Fuente and Associates (DLFRA), were convicted of orchestrating a tax fraud scheme that illegally sought millions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds. The case against Osman Norales and Genaro De La Fuente also stem from the Operation Stolen Treasures investigation.

The evidence at trial further showed that Norales fraudulently told clients they each could receive tax refunds of hundreds of thousands of dollars by accessing “secret government accounts” through a process that included the filing of IRS Forms 1099 OID. In exchange for the payments, he prepared and filed false income tax returns, which routinely sought hundreds of thousands of dollars – and sometimes millions of dollars – in income tax refunds.

The evidence presented during trial established that Osman Norales was involved with every facet of the fraudulent scheme, including recruiting customers and transmitting millions of dollars by filing false Forms 1099 OID to the IRS, including one tax refund in the amount of $815,000 and one in the amount of $760,000. Norales also charged clients up-front fees of approximately $2,500 and a portion of the false refund received by the client.

In addition to preparing and filing false tax returns for customers, Norales filed two false OID-based income tax returns for himself and his wife. On March 11, 2009, he filed a false 2008 OID-based income tax return for himself, which falsely reported $597,631 in federal income tax withheld and fraudulently claimed a $403,648 refund. Norales was notified by the IRS in a letter dated May 8, 2009 that his OID based tax return was frivolous.

In May 2009, Norales filed a false 2007 OID-based income tax return for himself, which falsely reported $109,984 in federal income tax withheld, fraudulently claiming a $100,916 refund. The evidence at trial showed that Norales mailed the 2007 OID based income tax return after he received the IRS notification.

On September 30, 2009, IRS special agents executed a search warrant at his business at which time Norales was interviewed by IRS special agents. While being interviewed, Norales lied when he told the agents that customers do not pay for his services and that he never gave or attended seminars. Evidence at trial established that Norales and other members of the conspiracy made presentations across the Southland and promoted the secret account theory and other frivolous arguments. Norales also attempted to thwart the investigation by responding to the IRS for customers with arguments that had no basis in the law. Norales also sent three threatening letters to the investigating special agents demanding payment of $20,000,000, then $25,000,000 and $35,000,000 to him in attempts to intimidate them. To thwart the investigation, he also instructed witnesses to lie to the grand jury during the grand jury investigation.

Norales further obstructed justice by fleeing to Texas after indictment and attempted to mislead the U.S. Magistrate Court during a detention hearing in May 2012 by providing materially false information during testimony.

The investigation of Arturo Villarreal-Alba, Osman Norales and other defendants in Operation Stolen Treasures are being conducted by IRS Criminal Investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. The California Highway Patrol-Task Force for Regional Auto Theft Prevention (CHP-TRAP) jointly investigated the vehicle title-washing scheme of Arturo Alba-Villarreal.

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Open Positions at Leasing Funders/Various Locations

You will find many jobs open in various leasing companies. Most are at the main office or a branch. The larger companies change listings and readers should click to them, as they change weekly, if not daily.

Leasing News invites other employers to list their "open positions." 
The listing is free.

Advantage Funding
http://www.advantagefund.com/employment.htm

AIG
http://www.aigcorporate.com/addresources/globalcareers.html

Altec
https://careers.altec.com/psc/P90HALT_APP/APPLICANT
/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?nocrumbs=yes&

Alter Moneta
http://www.altermoneta.com/careers/opportunities.html

Atlas Copco
http://www.atlascopco.com/us/careers/openjobs/

Ascentium Capital
http://ascentiumcapital.atsondemand.com/

Balboa Capital
http://www.balboacapital.com/about_us/careers.aspx

Bank of America
http://careers.bankofamerica.com/overview/overview.asp

Bank of Ozarks
https://bankozarks.applicantharbor.com/jobmainlist.php?a=m

Bank of the West
https://www.bankofthewest.com/about-us/careers/job-search.html
(type in state, and keyword leasing or category)

Channel Partners
http://www.channelpartners.com/careersearch.html

CIT Job Openings
http://sj.tbe.taleo.net/SJ1/ats/careers/

CSI Leasing
http://www.csileasing.com/ViewJobPostings.aspx

Data Sales
http://www.datasales.com/open_jobs.html

De Lage Landen Financial
https://tbe.taleo.net/NA4/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp

Direct Capital
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp

Farm Credit
http://www.farmcreditnetwork.com/careers/opportunities

Financial Pacific
http://www.finpac.com/careers.aspx

Fifth-Third Bank
https://cvg53.cvgs.net/Main/careerportal/JobAgent.cfm

GE Capital
www.ge.com/careers

GreatAmerica Leasing
http://jobs.greatamerica.com/

Home Savings Bank
http://www.home-savings-bank.com/careers.php

Huntington Bank
https://www.huntington.com/us/HNB3400.htm

Key Bank
Click here

Macrolease
http://leasingnews.org/hwanted_macrolease3.html

Marlin Business Services
https://www.marlinfinance.com/career-postings.asp

Madi$on Capital
http://www.madisoncapital.com/employment.

Meridian Bank
https://www.meridianbank.com/careers.html

Microfinancial/Timepayment
http://www.hirebridge.com/jobseeker2/Searchjobresults.asp?cid=5224

Northern California Farm Credit (office listings)
http://www.norcalfc.com/locations.html

Pacific Capital Companies
http://leasingnews.org//hwanted_pacificcap2.html

People's United Bank
https://www3.ultirecruit.com/PEO1003/JobBoard/ListJobs.aspx

PL Capital
http://www.plcapital.com/careers.asp

Prime Alliance Bank
http://www.primealliancebank.com/home/careers

Regions Bank
https://regions.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobsearch.ftl

Republic Financial
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA8/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp

Sterling Bank
https://www.synovus.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=m
External.showSearchInterface

Taycor Financial
http://www.taycor.com/about-taycor-financial/careers/

TCF Bank
https://tcfbank.taleo.net/careersection/corporate/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en

TD Bank
https://tderec.ijob.com/recruit/servlet/com.lawson.ijob.util.Login

US Bank 
(type position in blank space and/or state)
http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/careers/careers.cfm

Wells Fargo
https://employment.wellsfargo.com/psp/PSEA/APPLICANT

Zions Bank
https://zionsbancorp.taleo.net/careersection/

 

 

 

 

News Briefs----

 

Cheap leases offered to spur electric-car sales
http://durangoherald.com/article/20130602/NEWS04/130609996/-1/s

Why It's Riskier to Lend to East Coast Small Businesses
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-21/why-its-riskier-to-lend-to-east-coast-small-businesses

Mortgage rates soar; has refi window shut?
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/mortgage-analysis.aspx?ic_id=Top_Financial%20News%20Center_link_1

PacWest Completes Acquisition First California Financial Group
http://www.4-traders.com/news/PacWest-Bancorp-Announces-the-Completion-of-Its-Acquisition-of-First-California-Financial-Group--16920842/

GE Capital/Element Financial Establish Border Fleet Services Alliance
http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/05/31/4906823/ge-capital-and-element-financial.html

SQN Capital Management, LLC Announces SQN AIF IV, L.P.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sqn-capital-management-llc-announces-sqn-aif-iv-lp-breaks-escrow-209645591.html

Japan Output Gains as Tokyo Prices End Four-Year Slide
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-31/japan-output-exceeds-estimates-in-boost-for-abe-revival-campaign.html

Huge tax-reform proposal/eats Wall Street hedging operations
www.nypost.com/p/news/business/the_most_feared_man_on_wall_st

Dell board goes with Michael Dell's $24.4 billion deal
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2013/05/31/Dell-board-goes-with-Michael-Dells-244-billion-deal/UPI-27041370042475/

Japan’s wheat-import suspension worries state growers
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/

Seven & I Sees More Than Doubling North America Stores
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-02/seven-i-sees-more-than-doubling-north-america-stores.html

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SparkPeople--Live Healthier and Longer

Secret Weapon Ingredients-Healthy Foods That Go With Almost Anything
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Baseball Poem

Three Run Homers, or, Rupert Brooke Celebrates Baseball

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a three
Run homer when the team is pressed
Against the wall and quite distressed,
A homer that may at evening scare
A nighthawk circling in the air,
Or, 'neath the arc lights blazing bright,
Restore the score and set things right,
Rescue the pitcher and save the game,
And set the home team crowd aflame:
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only heroes knock in three.

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Sports Briefs----

McNabb: RGIII has too much going on
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/donovan-mcnabb-has-some-advice-for-robert-griffin-iii-whos-doing-too-much/2013/05/31/1dd7ec4c-ca37-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html

Kuchar wins Memorial; Woods finishes with largest deficit since 1996
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/golf/kuchar_wins_memorial

Ohio State prez apologizes for comments
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9335760/ohio-st-president-gordon-gee-apologizes-big-ten-comments-notre-dame-sec

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California Nuts Briefs---

 

Inside San Jose's largest homeless encampment, the Jungle
http://www.contracostatimes.com/bay-area-news/ci_23366229/inside-san-joses-largest-homeless-encampment-jungle

Albany city manager will step down
http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_23353558/albany-city-manager-will-step-down

Vineman Triathlon bearing plenty of fruit
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20130601/SPORTS/130

Teen swept over Yosemite falls
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Search-continues-for-Yosemite-visitor-19-4570053.php

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“Gimme that Wine”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJnQoi8DSE8

If Only the Grapes Were the Whole Story---Eric Asimov
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/dining/the-big-question-whats-in-wine.html?ref=dining&_r=0

Wineries Banking on Busier Tourist Season
http://www.winesandvines.com/template.cfm=news&content=117020

Costco Reports 8% Rise In Beverage Alcohol For First Three Quarters As Spirits Sales Lead Growth
http://www.shankennewsdaily.com/index.php/2013/05/31/5969/costco-reports-8-rise-in-beverage-alcohol-for-first-three-quarters-as-spirits-sales-lead-growth/

Sonoma County sees surge in new vineyard projects
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article350?Title=A-vineyard-renaissance

AUCTION NAPA VALLEY 2013
http://707.pressdemocrat.com/wineries

The Best Place in Canada for Wine Tourism
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/vacayca/okanagan

Free Mobile Wine Program
http://leasingnews.org/archives/Feb2010/2_26.htm#mobile

Wine Prices by vintage
http://www.winezap.com
http://www.wine-searcher.com/

US/International Wine Events
http://www.localwineevents.com/

Winery Atlas
http://www.carterhouse.com/atlas/\

Leasing News Wine & Spirits Page
http://two.leasingnews.org/Recommendations/wnensprts.htm

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http://www.californiamissions.com/cahistory/sancarlos.html
http://missions.bgmm.com/index.htm
    1781-Jack Jouett made a heroic 45-mile ride on horseback during the night of June 3-4, to warn Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson and the legislature that the British were coming. Jouett rode from a tavern in Louisa County to Charlottesville, VA, in about 6 ½ hours, arriving at Jefferson's home at dawn on June 4. Lieutenant Colonel Tarleton's British forces raided Charlottesville, but Jouett's warning gave the Americans time to escape. Jouett was born at Albermarle County, VA, December 7, 1754 and died at Bay, JY, in 1822 ( exact date not known ). 
http://www.ushistory.com/jouett.htm
    1800 - John Adams, the second president of the United States, becomes the first president to reside in Washington, D.C., when he takes up residence at Union Tavern in Georgetown. The city of Washington was created to replace Philadelphia as the nation's capital because of its geographical position in the center of the existing new republic. The states of Maryland and Virginia ceded land around the Potomac River to form the District of Columbia, and work began on Washington in 1791. French architect Charles L'Enfant designed the city's radical layout, full of dozens of circles, crisscross avenues, and plentiful parks.
    1808-birthday of Jefferson Davis, American statesman, US Senator, only president of the Confederate States of America. Imprisoned May 10, 1865-May 13, 1867, but never brought to trial, deprived of rights of citizenship after the Civil War. Davis was born at Todd County, KY, and died at New Orleans, LA, Dec. 6,1889. His citizenship was restored, posthumously, October 17,1978, when President Carter signed an Amnesty Bill. This bill, he said, “ officially completes the long process of reconciliation that has reunited our people following the tragic conflict between the states. “ Davis's birthday anniversary is observed in Florida, Kentucky, and South Carolina on this day, in Alabama on the first Monday in June and in Mississippi on the last Monday in May. Davis's birth anniversary is observed as Confederate Memorial Day in Tennessee. 
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    1851-First Baseball Uniforms: The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City donned the sport's first uniforms: straw hats, blue full-length trousers and white shirts.
    1856-Cullen Whipple of Providence, RI obtained a patent for a screw machine to make pointed screws. Prior to this invention, screws were blunt on their threaded ends, and it was necessary to bore a hole in order to insert them.
    1856-Gov. Johnson proclaimed San Francisco in a state of insurrection because of Committee of Vigilance activities, and ordered all persons subject to military duty to report to Maj.-Gen. William T. Sherman to quell the insurrection.
    1860 -The Great Camanche Tornado began its deadly trek near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and ended its journey over Lake Michigan. 175 people lost their lives and 329 were injured. The town of Camanche, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, was destroyed. Total damage was 945,000 dollars (note - 1860 dollars).
    1862-Haiti recognized as a nation by the United States.
    1862-Liberia recognized as a nation by the United States
    1863 - Gen. Lee, with 75,000 Confederates, launched a second invasion of the North. Lee led his troops into Maryland and then Pennsylvania, to meet the Army of the Potomac again, this time around a small town called Gettysburg.
    1864-Battle of Cold Harbor. Although Confederate General Robert E. Lee had placed his troops behind considerable breastworks, Union General Ulysses S. Grant launched an all-out attack on the Southern army. More than 7,000 Federal troops were killed within on-half hour of the battle on the first attack. General Lee won his last victory over Union forces, numbering 108,000 against this 59,000. 1500 Confederate troops were also killed. In an eight –minute period more men fell in an assault on entrenched Confederate troops than in any other like period of time. After a second unsuccessful attack, Grant's orders for a third assault were all but ignored. Grant had new and ill trained troops, and his battle plan was not carried out by his officers. Compounding this was the battlefield tradition held that the first commander who sought a truce in order to tend to the wounded was the loser. Grant refused to admit defeat by seeking such a truce and the wounded were left on the ground for three days following the battle. General Lee also refused to be the first to go after his wounded, and therefore thousands of wounded men from both sides died either from their wounds, hunger, thirst or exposure. Between May 7 and June 3, federal losses were 50,000 men, Confederate 32,000. The North could replace its losses fully, especially paying for troops, many of them immigrants from Europe, but the South could not.
(bottom half of http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun03.html )
http://saints.css.edu/mkelsey/cold.html
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/battles-campaigns/1864/640601-03b.html
    1877- Elizabeth Fires Lummis Ellet birthday; U.S. author and historian who used primary and direct research for her monumental three-volume Women of the American Revolution (1848), and the Pioneers of the American West (1852) as well as other books about women.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/dimenovels/authors/fleming.html
1884-the first national political convention of a major party president over by an African-American met in the Exposition Building, Chicago, IL. John Roy Lynch, an African-American politician who has served three terms as a congressman from Mississippi, was nominated for temporary chairman of the Republican Party by Henry Cabot Lodge. The nomination was supported by Theodore Roosevelt and George William Curtis, and was carried by a vote of 424 for Lynch a to 384 for Powell Clayton. The convention nominated James Gillespie Blaine for president and General John Alexander Logan for vice president. November 4 th Grover Cleveland was elected president of the United Sates and Thomas A. Hendricks was elected vice-president. The electoral vote was Cleveland, 219, James G. Blaine, Republican of Maine, 182. The popular vote was Cleveland, 4,911,017 and Blaine 4,848,224. A very interesting presidential election as it was fought mainly with attacks on the reputation of the rival candidates. The Republican candidate, James G. Blaine, on his basis of letters he had written, was accused of having profited from the Credit Moblier scandal involving the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. His opponents sang: “Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continual liar from the state of Maine.” The Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland, was accused of having fathered an illegitimate child, which in his forthright manner, he admitted. The turning point of the election was a remark made on October 9 by the Rev.. Samuel D. Burchard in New York, in the presence of Blaine, that the Democrats were the party of “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion.” Blaine did not disavow the remark, and the Irish-American Roman Catholics of New York were outraged. Cleveland carried the state by 1149 votes and thereby won the election. In 1888, President Grover Cleveland did not campaigning, saying it was beneath the dignity of the office of the president. Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate, brought the front porch campaign to its peak, and won. In 1892, Grover Cleveland campaigned and won the election as president along with Adlai E. Stevenson as vice-president. The electoral vote was 277 to Harrison's 145, and popular vote 5,554,414 to President Harrison's 5,190,802. The Populist Party won Electoral College votes, carrying Kansas, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada, 22 electoral votes and $1,027,329 for candidate James B. Weaver, perhaps the Ross Perot of his day.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/jrlynch.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226498182/
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    1880- Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly-invented "photophone.” The photophone functioned similarly to the telephone, except the photophone used light as a means of projecting the information, while the telephone relied on electricity. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun03.html
    1888 -- "Casey at the Bat" first appears in print, in the San Francisco Examiner. 
    1886 - Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. President to get married in the White House. He exchanged vows with his bride, Florence Folsom. His bride was 27 years younger than he. While he ran for a second term, he did not campaign, but stayed in the White House with his young bride. He lost. But he ran again in 1892, this time, he campaigned, and he won. The only president to lose his office and then win it back again.
    1904-birthday of Charles Drew-African American physician who discovered how to store blood plasma and who organized the blood bank system in the US and UK during WWII. Born at Washington, DC, he was killed in an automobile accident near Burlington, NC, April 1, 1950. 
http://dearborn.boston.k12.ma.us/gr7c.htm
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/drew_c.htm
    1906-birthday of African-American Josephine Baker, the very popular Parisian chanteuse known as "Le Jazz Hot," was a heroine of French resistance in WWII. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but moved to France because she was a black Lesbian and received better acceptance in Europe. She received Legion d'Honneur and the rarer Medaille de la Resistance from French President Charles de Gaulle for her work during World War II on behalf of France. She acted as a courier when she toured North Africa and other places as she sang and performed for Allied troops. She adopted 19 children, all from different nationalities. In later life when her money ran out and she was evicted from her home in France, Princess Grace of Monaco (formerly Grace Kelly of Philadelphia and Hollywood) gave her a villa in Monaco and financed her new act Josephine '75 to celebrate her 50 years in Paris. She died in her sleep after 14 performances. After WWII she had returned to the U.S. to try again but faced such racial discrimination for her act at the Stork Club that she returned to France where she was an honored entertainer and admired hero.
http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/
http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=eanwood.html
    1911-Birthday of Jean Harlow - the original blond sex-queen of Hollywood who was haunted by a chaotic private life. She died when when her mother, as an abiding by Christian Scientist, refused to send her to a hospital for kidney failure. Her kidneys had been injured by a former husband who then shot himself. Her persona in the movies was a wise- cracking blond bombshell with a heart of gold. 
http://www.jeanharlow.com/
    1911-birhday of trumpet player Yank Lawson, Trenton, Mo.
http://www.jazzhall.org/jazz.cgi?@LAWSONYANK
http://www.landing.com/profiles/yank.htm
    1916- Gloria Martin born- Seattle author and militant socialist-feminist who attempted to weld the two into one movement through Radical Women (1967). The working mother of eight, she fought for poor women, women of color, abortion rights, etc., in an unabashed manner that called for women to train and organize to get their needs taken care of. Died November 17, 1995
http://www.socialism.com/library/glormatr.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/115.html
    1920—John Lewis birthday
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/bios/jxlbio.htm
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/reviews/r0200_028.htm
    1921-- A cloudburst near Pikes Peak CO killed 120 people. Pueblo CO was flooded by a twenty-five foot crest of the Arkansas River, killing 70 persons. Fourteen inches of rain was reported at Boggs Flat, where a hard surface road through nearly level country was washed out to a depth of seven feet
    1926-birthday of Allen Ginsberg, Poet of the Beat Generation (“Howl”), born Newark, NY. Died April 5, 1997, New York, New York.
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ginsberg/home.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0603.html
    1916-the first Supreme Court justice was Jewish was sworn in, Louis Dembitz Brandeis of Boston, MA. He served until 1939.
http://www.library.brandeis.edu/SpecialCollections/SpecialEvents/Brandeis/
http://www.louisville.edu/library/law/brandeis/
    1927-birthday of tenor saxophonist Boots Randolph, Paducah,KY
http://www.bootsrandolph.com/
    1932-birthday of vocalist Dakota Staton, Pittsburgh, Pa
http://www.interstatecd.com/bio/biopage.P+++++7606.html
    1932-Lou Gehrig became the first American League player to hit four home runs in one game, doing so in a 20-13 New York Yankees victory over the Philadelphia Athletics. Gehrig hit his homers in four straight at bats and narrowly missed a fifth. His teammate, Tony Lazzeri, hit for the cycle.
    1936-Bestselling novelist Larry McMurtry is born on this day in Wichita Falls, Texas.
http://www.library.swt.edu/swwc/archives/writers/mcmurtry.html
http://www.cars101.com/McMurtry.html0
    1942 – In response to the surprise B-25 bomber attacks on Japan staged by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle in April 1942, the Japanese decided to capture Midway Island 1,000 miles northwest of Hawaii as a staging base to attack Hawaii itself. As part of their plan they deployed a small diversionary force to take several islands in the Aleutian’s chain of Alaska. Recently arrived as part of the garrison at the newly developed outpost of Dutch Harbor was Arkansas’ 206th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft). The unit was armed with obsolete 3-inch anti-aircraft guns and water-cooled .50 caliber machine guns. The morning of June 3rd found thick fog lying off the Alaskan coast. The Japanese launched a surprise aerial attack from two aircraft carriers, catching the defenders off-guard. However, within a few minutes the men of the 206th were in action, shooting down one enemy plane and putting up such a heavy rate of fire that Japanese pilots missed their targets while trying to dodge the Arkansan’s barrage. The Japanese attacked again the next day, causing some casualties but failing to put the harbor out of action. This was their last attack. The 206th remained as part of the garrison until it was reassigned to the European Theater in 1944
    1942- Curtis Mayfield, a driving force in black music as singer, writer, producer and record company owner, was born in Chicago. Mayfield formed the Impressions in the late 1950's with singer Jerry Butler. When their first single, "For Your Precious Love," was a huge hit in 1958, Butler left for a solo career and Mayfield joined him as a guitarist. Mayfield reformed the Impressions in 1961, and led the group during its greatest years. He wrote many of their hits, including their biggest, "It's All Right," in 1963. Mayfield left the Impressions in 1970 and formed his own record and publishing company, Curtom. He had the biggest hit of his career in 1972 with the soundtrack to the film "Superfly." It made number one on the Billboard chart. Mayfield was paralyzed in 1990 when a light standard fell on him before a concert. Died December 26, 1999.
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=150
http://www.warr.org/mayfield.html
    1944--*JOHNSON, ELDEN H. Medal of Honor Rank and organization: Private, U.S. Army, 15th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Valmontone, Italy, 3 June 1944. Entered service at: East Weymouth, Mass. Birth: Bivalue, N.J. G.O. No.: 38, 16 May 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. Pvt. Johnson elected to sacrifice his life in order that his comrades might extricate themselves from an ambush. Braving the massed fire of about 60 riflemen, 3 machineguns, and 3 tanks from positions only 25 yards distant, he stood erect and signaled his patrol leader to withdraw. The whole area was brightly illuminated by enemy flares. Then, despite 20mm. machineguns, machine pistol, and rifle fire directed at him, Pvt. Johnson advanced beyond the enemy in a slow deliberate walk. Firing his automatic rifle from the hip, he succeeded in distracting the enemy and enabled his 12 comrades to escape. Advancing to within 5 yards of a machinegun, emptying his weapon, Pvt. Johnson killed its crew. Standing in full view of the enemy he reloaded and turned on the riflemen to the left, firing directly into their positions. He either killed or wounded 4 of them. A burst of machinegun fire tore into Pvt. Johnson and he dropped to his knees. Fighting to the very last, he steadied himself on his knees and sent a final burst of fire crashing into another German. With that he slumped forward dead. Pvt. Johnson had willingly given his life in order that his comrades might live. These acts on the part of Pvt. Johnson were an inspiration to the entire command and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the armed forces .
    1945 - Captured maps of German minefields are distributed to all Allied governments, in Europe, by SHAEF. These maps are from the collection of approximately 4 tons of such maps captured by US 7th Army in Bavaria.
    1945--CHRISTIAN, HERBERT F. Medal of Honor Rank and organization: Private, U.S. Army, 15th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Valmontone, Italy, 2-3 June 1944. Entered service at: Steubenville, Ohio. Birth: Byersville, Ohio. G.O. No.: 43, 30 May 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. On 2-3 June 1944, at 1 a.m., Pvt. Christian elected to sacrifice his life in order that his comrades might extricate themselves from an ambush. Braving massed fire of about 60 riflemen, 3 machineguns, and 3 tanks from positions only 30 yards distant, he stood erect and signaled to the patrol to withdraw. The whole area was brightly illuminated by enemy flares. Although his right leg was severed above the knee by cannon fire, Pvt. Christian advanced on his left knee and the bloody stump of his right thigh, firing his submachinegun. Despite excruciating pain, Pvt. Christian continued on his self-assigned mission. He succeeded in distracting the enemy and enabled his 12 comrades to escape. He killed 3 enemy soldiers almost at once. Leaving a trail of blood behind him, he made his way forward 20 yards, halted at a point within 10 yards of the enemy, and despite intense fire killed a machine-pistol man. Reloading his weapon, he fired directly into the enemy position. The enemy appeared enraged at the success of his ruse, concentrated 20-mm. machinegun, machine-pistol and rifle fire on him, yet he refused to seek cover. Maintaining his erect position, Pvt. Christian fired his weapon to the very last. Just as he emptied his submachine gun, the enemy bullets found their mark and Pvt. Christian slumped forward dead. The courage and spirit of self-sacrifice displayed by this soldier were an inspiration to his comrades and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the armed forces. 
    1945---Top Hits
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
    1946 -- Supreme Court bans segregation on interstate buses.
The court rules that Negro passengers can not be forced to sit at the back of buses. In 1947, April 9-23, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsors an interstate bus ride to test the ruling — Bayard Rustin, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Igal Roodenko, Joseph Felmet get arrested and serve 30 days on a chain gang. This is a particularly dangerous period in the US: lynchings in the south approach 1918 levels as Negro G.I.s return, talk of getting the rights they fought for.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjor.htm
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG151-175/dg161irood.htm
    1949-the first Naval Academy graduate who was African-American was Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown of Washington, DC1952 – Hoping to make a come back, Frank Sinatra recorded the classic "Birth of the Blues" for Columbia Records. It would not be until he went to Capital Records and recorded with Nelson Riddle, among others, as Eddie Fisher was the pop idol of the day.
    1953---Top Hits
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
   1955 -- A car dealership in Lubbock, TX, holds a promotional autograph signing for two rising stars -- Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley.
    1956-Buddy Holly sees the John Wayne movie The Searchers and gains some song writing inspiration when Wayne utters the line "that'll be the day." 
    1957 - Pat Boone's "Love Letters In The Sand" hits #1. Today he is doing advertisements on TV in his robe and then in "walk in bathtubs."
    1959-Billboard Magazine splits its album chart into two separate sections: Best Selling Stereophonic LPs and Best Selling Monophonic LPs.
    1960- Clarence Gideon is arrested and charged with breaking into a poolroom in Florida. The appeal of Gideon's subsequent conviction led to the establishment of one of the chief principles of American criminal justice. Due to Gideon's perseverance, every criminal suspect is entitled to representation by a lawyer. Now incorporated into what are known as our Miranda rights-"You have the right to speak to an attorney. If you can't afford one, one will be provided for you"-this information must be announced by every officer while making an arrest.
When Florida decided to retry Gideon for the poolroom burglary in 1963, he had an experienced lawyer at his trial. The attorney easily poked holes in the prosecution's flimsy case, and Gideon was acquitted. New York Times writer Anthony Lewis wrote the stirring account of how one poor man changed the entire system in his 1965 book, Gideon's Trumpet, which later became a movie starring Henry Fonda.
    1961---Top Hits
Travelin' Man - Ricky Nelson
Daddy's Home - Shep & The Limelites
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Hello Walls - Faron Young
    1964 -- During a photo shoot for The Saturday Evening Post, an exhausted Ringo Starr collapses and is rushed to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with tonsillitis and pharyngitis. With the band scheduled to leave for a world tour in only 27 hours. producer George Martin and manager Brian Epstein agree on his replacement, session drummer Jimmy Nicol, who had already drummed on a Beatles covers album. Nicol is immediately rushed to the studio to rehearse six songs, and then joins the group on tour for eleven days. When John and Paul ask how he's doing on the tour, Nicol always replies with "It's getting better," which will eventually inspire the song "Getting Better" on Sgt. Pepper.
    1965-the first Astronaut to walk in space was Major Edward Higgins White, II, who opened the hatch of Gemini 4 at 3:42pm this day, stepped out into space at a 1230-mile altitude at 3:45pm and remained outside for 20 minutes until 4:05pm, attached to the craft by a 25-0foot tether. A hand-held 7.5 oxygen jet propulsion gun operated by pressure on a trigger gave him control over his movements. ( The first human to walk in space was cosmonaut Aleksie A. Leonov, who stepped out of the Vokshad 2 spacecraft on March 18, 1965).1968-Poor People's Campaign March on Washington, DC, begins.
http://www.kcsclc.org/about.html
    1967- Aretha Franklin scores her first No. 1 hit with "Respect." She quickly followed it up with six more Top 10 singles, including "Chain of Fools" and "A Natural Woman." Franklin, the daughter of a Detroit minister, grew up singing gospel. She signed with Columbia Records in her early 20s. However, Columbia ignored her gospel roots and recorded her singing show tunes with large orchestras. Franklin broke through when she switched to Atlantic Records and began singing gospel-influenced blues, or soul, winning her the sobriquet, "Lady Soul." A hit on the pop charts as well as the R&B lists, she became one of the most influential singers in contemporary music.
http://www.georgwa.demon.co.uk/aretha_franklin.htm
http://www.aristarec.com:80/aristaweb/ArethaFranklin/images/
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http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Aretha%20Franklin.html
    1967 - The Doors release "Light My Fire"
    1969---Top Hits
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins' Singers
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette
    1972-Sally Jan Priesand was ordained the first woman rabbi in the US. She became assistant rabbi at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, New York City, August 1, 1972.
    1972 - The Eagles release "Take It Easy"
    1972- Pink Floyd releases "Obscured By Clouds"
    1977---Top Hits
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I'm Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
    1978 - Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams combined their singing talents to reach the number one spot on the nation's pop music charts with "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late".
    1980 -A slow moving supercell thunderstorm produced 7 tornadoes in and around the Grand Island, Nebraska area in less than 3 hours. There was one tornado of F4 intensity and 3 were rated F3. 5 people were killed, 193 were injured, and total damage was 300 million dollars.
    1985- Apple Computer announced that chairman and cofounder Steve Jobs would no longer control the manufacturing and marketing of the Macintosh computer. The thirty-year-old Jobs had led the development team that designed the machine.
He would become very successful on his own, then came back to Apple and helped turn the company around.
http://www.geocities.com/franktau
    1985-a group headed by Tom Benson, Jr,. was approved to purchase the New Orleans Saints from John W. Mecom,Jr.1985 - "American Health" magazine released a survey that indicated 52 percent of doctors claimed that no one really should need to eat red meat more than once or twice a week, and 72 percent said that a vegetarian diet was a passing fad. Walking and running, plus working out was also considered a fad.
    1985---Top Hits
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Don't Call Him a Cowboy - Conway Twitty
    1989-Longest NL Night Game: The Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings at the Astrodome. The longest night game by time in National League history, it lasted seven hours, 22 minutes.
     1991 - To pay off his mounting back takes to the IRS, Willie Nelson releases a new album entitled Who'll Buy My Memories: The IRS Tapes.
    1995-The first West Point cadet who was a woman to graduate at the top of her class was 21-year old Rebecca Marier of New Orleans, LA, who was graduated from the United States Military Academy. She topped a class of 858 men and 130 women.
http://www.recordonline.com/westpoint/articles/women.html
    2003--- Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter is named the 11th captain in club history, The 28-year old joins Hal Chase (1912), Roger Peckinpaugh (1914-21), Babe Ruth (1922), Everett Scott (1922) Lou Gehrig (1935-41) Thurman Munson (1976-79)., Graig Nettles (1982-84),co-captains Willie Randolph and Ron Guidry. (1986-89) and Don Mattingly (1991-95).
    2003 --Slugger Sammy Sosa is ejected from the game during the first inning after he shatters his bat and the broken remains exposes cork. The Cub outfielder will be suspended by major league baseball for 8 games (will be reduced to 7) his offense.
     2010 - The day after he loses a perfect game on a blown call, Armando Galarrga presents the lineup card at home plate to Jim Joyce, the ump who made the infamous call. In a display of outstanding sportsmanship that is applauded nationwide, the two shake hands and when Galarraga walks away, the apologetic arbitrator pats the Venezuelan right-hander on the shoulder.