ARS Week in Review inadvertently left off a few important stories
in this week's issue. Therefore this addition is being issued so
you can update your archives. This addendum contains several
behind-the-scenes stories about the lives of some of the most
popular ars posters.
BOULDER, COLORADO
According to authorities a new study of tax exempt organizations
has just been completed and has uncovered some major discrepancies
in Lawrence Wollersheim's reporting of FACTNet's assets and
fundraising activities.
Evidence was uncovered this week by our Colorado correspondent
proving that Wollersheim has been co-mingling his personal funds
and those of FACTNet, which is supposed to operate as a non-profit
tax exempt organization and which is not supposed to inure to the
benefit of any individual person.
Sources state that, practically speaking, Lawrence Wollersheim is
FACTNet. He is listed as the president of FACTNet, acts as the
managing agent of FACTNet, sets FACTNet's policy, has all of its
property at his apartment, exerts sole control of FACTNet's bank
accounts, decides who is appointed to the board of directors, who
the officers are, approves the content of what goes on the web
pages and does all their press releases, etc.
According to an IRS official, Non-profit corporations such as
FACTNet file annual returns with the IRS each year, giving the
details of their fund raising and expenditures. These forms are
referred to as form 990EZ. These forms are open to public review by
request to the IRS or from the non-profit corporation at its
principal place of business.
After receiving a lot of pressure earlier this year, Wollersheim
finally posted what he purports to be a copy of his form 990EZ on
FACTNet's web page. However, this is NOT the version which he
submitted to the IRS. Why did he forge a copy of FACTNet's 1996
990EZ? The form 990EZ which was submitted to the IRS for 1996 also
has attachments which are omitted from the version which
Wollersheim put up on FACTNet's web page.
Form 990EZ which was submitted to the IRS for 1996 lists the
following property as owned by FACTNet:
1. Printer
2. Computer parts
3. Scanner and sheet feed (which FACTNet sold)
4. Image software
5. CD ROM maker
6. Pentium computer (which FACTNet sold)
According to a former FACTNet official, Wollersheim, and his on
again off again girlfriend Karen Kent executed a Uniform Commercial
Code document from the 27th of August 1997. It is entitled:
"Financing Statement"
The return copy of the document goes to:
Lawrence Wollersheim
999 W. Moorehead Circle #B
Boulder, Co. 80303
Wollersheim is listed as the debtor. His address and social
security number (391-52-1026) is listed.
The secured party is listed as:
Karen Kent
106 Mt. Laurel Ct.
Aspen, Co. 81611.
Under number 4. the document states:
"4. The Financing Statement covers the following types or home of
property:
"All Computers 1 Dual Pentium 166, 1 Laptop Pentium 133,
1 Pentium 100-200
"All Monitors 1-21 inch 2 14 inch
"All Printers and CD Maker and Scanners 1 Epson, 2HP's
"All Software and Office at Home Equipment & Furniture
"1990 Jeep Cherokee Vin# 1JF4J76L6LL195078
"1 Pentium 100-200 s/n 4P38006"
It is signed by Lawrence Wollersheim.
CONCLUSION:
While we hesitate to jump to any conclusions, sources close to
FACTNet state that Wollersheim has used FACTNet's equipment to
secure himself a large personal loan of an unspecified amount.
We believe the public has a right to know how much money has he
received from Karen Kent, what he spent the money on, whether she
took a tax deduction as a "donation" and
how much has gone to pay his personal rent, food and
living expenses.
The IRS would sure like to know the answers to these questions too.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The following report was sent in by a well known ARS Central
Committee member. We can neither confirm nor deny this story at
this time, but instead will let you, the readers, be the judge.
This behind-the-scenes report concerns Margaret Huffstickler, who
has been an active participant on ars and IRC. Although she is a
minor personality on this newsgroup and on IRC, this information
was too good to pass up.
The child of a North Carolina couple, Margaret Huffstickler lives
in Washington, D.C. and is a close friend of Arnie Lerma, and his
girlfriend Victoria, who posts under the name of "Bagheera" and
whom he socializes with quite often (although he does not pay child
support to her).
Margaret and Arnie Lerma drove to Clearwater last March to picket
the Church of Scientology. Though Arnie initially arranged to share
a room with Steven Fishman, he chose rather to inhabit the room,
and bed of Margaret according to informed sources.
What makes Margaret an interesting personality is her profession.
An ardent anti-Scientologist, Margaret works as a "sensual massage
therapist", donning skimpy lingerie, walking her "clients" to her
bedroom where she gives them a full body massage ending with
ejaculation.
For extra money, Margaret plays the role of madam. She claims
$175.00/hourly, has a black book of regular clients and advertises
in two Washington DC adult XXX publications, Decadent City & Climax
Times. She is extremely proud of the photo review she received in
Climax Times last year.
When asked about the legality of her profession, she blows it off,
saying that some of her clients are employed in the DC police &
FBI.
Arnie, take note: Margaret's connections could be very important in
helping you track down just who put the LSD on your toothbrush.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
Keith Henson was recently spotted by one of our readers in Phoenix,
Arizona attending meetings at Alcor, the home of cryonics, known
for their deep freezing of corpses and decapitated human heads.
Apparently, this ritual gathering was attended by the Alcor
directors.
One Arizona poster, who is into UFOs, has been doing his homework
and learned that Mr. Henson has a very well known reputation in
some circles for being into quirky causes. His past projects and
activities include: participation in space travel societies,
cryonics, nano-technology and other oddball unproven
pseudo-scientific fads. For instance, in the 1970s Keith and his
wife used to get off on setting off explosions in the Arizona
desert.
ARS Week in Review - Addendum, learned this week that this
"explosive" chapter of Henson's life came to a close after a bitter
divorce in which he was accused by his wife of molesting his two
daughters. Keith rapidly blew Arizona to San Jose when the
allegations first emerged in the early 1980s.
Henson was recently confronted with the child molestation
accusation, but for once he was speechless and would not answer ANY
questions on the subject. A group of activists in Henson's
neighborhood are planning on picketing Henson's house and handing
out fliers to make sure that the young children in his neighborhood
are protected.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Finally, Robert Vaughn Young and his wife Stacy admitted this week
to be operating an illegal cat-house in Seattle and as a result
have been ordered by the Seattle Land Use Zoning Department to shut
it down as it is a gross violation of the Zoning code and a health
hazard to the neighborhood. Feeling that he is above the law,
Young vowed to fight this attempt to enforce the city zoning
statutes.
According to Young, though he and Stacy have had upwards of fifty
felines at their house at any given time, Young proclaimed that his
pussies don't stink - which is what he told the Seattle city
inspectors who paid them a visit based on complaints of the
neighbors. Apparently this lead to a misunderstanding and is what
instigated the call to the mental health people.
One resident, responding to Young's no-stink statements said, "I
don't care if you teach your cats to shower daily, there are 50 of
them living together and I don't care what he says, the place
smells pretty bad. They must have at least ten litter boxes in
their house to handle fifty cats and it smells downright disgusting
when you walk by and the door is open."
The Youngs never set up their cat-house legally to begin with and
thus created their own problems. Because their house stinks,
someone reported them. In this day and age the Youngs should have
taken safety measures when they started selling pussies and doing
business with strangers.
More next week...
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