[TheForge] ABANA - statement to "the forge" leaves a lot unanswered

[Phlip]

You know, it might be worth paying him for his juggling of the numbers, if
that then led to prosecution for fraud- by his own hand.....

Phlip

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Dixon" <george.dixon@mindspring.com>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:06 AM
Subject: [TheForge] ABANA - statement to "the forge" leaves a lot unanswered


> "But, remember that
> ABANA has made all necessary reports available to the membership.  Any
> and ALL expenses incurred in additional reviews are the REQUESTING
> PARTY'S RESPONSIBILITY.
>
>     Also, since additional reviews are beyond the duties of the Treasurer
> of ABANA, my time in compiling information would be billed out to the
> requesting party.  I bill at $60.00 per hour.
>
>     If you have any requests for additional reviews, please contact me at
> P.O. Box 475; Sterling, AK 99672.
>
> William L. Hightower
> Treasurer for ABANA"
> -------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------
> "All the necessary reports"....does this mean enough information?  Or a
> legal and financial impediment to a review?
>
> This attempt at a preemptive , damage control conversation stopper comes
> from the same abana board member who "mislead" the abana membership on
> this very forum in the past.  Then ABANA Board member Hightower stated
> falsely that the '98 conference "did not make a dime for abana".  The
> ABANA Board accepted accounting for '98 that showed a five figure income
> for Abana...........no credibility issues here, eh?
>
> In an official, threatening letter from the ABANA Board, Secretary of
> Abana Kagle stated to me that this is an official abana site, (ergo Mr
> Hightower's falsehood of the past was made as an offical board member on
> an abana's offical site).
> As a related aside, I now hear from a sitting Board member that the
> ABANA Board was not informed of Secretary Kagel's legal action against
> an Abana member, taken on the Boards  behalf.........no credibility
> issues here, eh?
>
> Now this.
>
> The planning,  operation and finances of 2002 conference has already
> become a contentious issue.  The conference auction has as well.
> For the first time in a decade with no independent oversight, our board
> ran an event which (according to quotes of the director) was put
> together by competing Board factions, with no "break-even" number
> established for the accounting.
>
> ABANA's membership deserve full answers.......we get an offer to pay a
> sitting ABANA Board Treasurer by the hour.
>
> I have repeatedly asked Mr Hightower to verify the statement of fact by
> the publications committee chairman that the change of publishers and
> editors of the anvil's ring did save abana the claimed $25,000.  He
> refuses to answer.
>
> So, Will ABANA Treasurer Hightower, how many of your specified $60
> payments to you personally will it take to get the answer?
>
> George Dixon
>
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