RE: Who Is Jeff Berwick? Scam Artist or Businessman?
I am the founding partner of Galt's Gulch Chile, which has never been a scam, as the same tired old storyline outlines. If GGC was a scam, I would have bought a private island years ago when GGC had millions of dollars coming in for revenues. Our accounting files, bank files, hundreds of thousands of emails, maps, contracts, etc. all clearly outline that our revenues went to the project, until such time that Berwick's close colleague, Mario Del Real, and their cohorts, began stealing money from GGC, as well as from myself and from others via Del Real's scam project in Chile, near the Argentinian border. I've lost millions of dollars, my reputation, and numerous other similar projects that we were creating in 2014, from the actions of Berwick, Del Real, Lashlee, Josh Kirley and the self-proclaimed "rescuers" of GGC…who in reality were never anything more than a small group of corrupt people who intended to force a hostile takeover of GGC, after their smear campaign was launched. Thousands of pieces of evidence outline this folks. I sent George a great deal of information that clearly evidenced that Berwick's lies about GGC were indeed lies. I outlined a very long list of crimes committed by Berwick, and Berwick's close colleagues, convicted felon, EJ Lashlee, Mario Del Real, and others. George chose not to write about it, stating that he wanted "all" of GGC's information, which was a change from his initial agreement with me, to review and write about what I had to say about the accusations about me. That is, of course, his choice to request that, though I can not do that with all of the legal proceedings underway (and explained that to him as such) and it would take endless months for him, or readers, to go through the database of emails, maps, documents (most in Spanish), etc. I don't know what George's motivation is/was for stating that he was going to write about GGC, but I would like to believe it was altruistic in nature, because it really seems that true journalism is so very hard to find nowadays, with people who not only seek truth, but also are not afraid to endure unpopularity because of it. Cheers.
"I am the founding partner of Galt's Gulch Chile, which has never been a scam, as the same tired old storyline outlines. If GGC was a scam, I would have bought a private island years ago when GGC had millions of dollars coming in for revenues."
What revenues? You had either loans or contracts for a real estate project. GGC never had millions of revenue coming in.. Loans and payments for residential lots that were not even approved are not revenues. It was a your project, you were allegedly suppose to protect the capital invested in the project, it was far from revenues..
It is an affinity fraud. You scammed libertarians. You promised certain lot, "Founders Club" lot buyers that their purchase would be paid back in three years. Ditto with those who invest $250k in your "organic farm".. They would get paid back their investment in full plus profits from the "organic" farm.. (you would had been arrested by PDI or the Carabineros if you sold organic produced from a non certified organic farm)
https://dollarvigilante.com/storage/GGC%20Special%20Report%20-%20November%202013.pdf
Whether your intentions were good or malicious, your actions were criminal. You lost over $10 million in investors' money, not your money, not revenues, not Mario Del Real's money, Investors' money. You basically have a US $10 million plus loan that you need to repay, given you are the owner of Galt's Gulch Chile. (You should stop with the "Founding Partner" idiocy, it makes you look like a dolt, For property development companies, either you are a General Partner, Owner and CEO, or project manager)
The reason why Wendy McElroy and others went public in August 2014 with problems with GGC was because you were still hustling for new investors.
The horror stories from your mismanagement, hoarding all the money, refusing to show balance sheets, not telling investors in April 2014 you brought in the Del Real family as part of the board of trustees for GGC. You lost access to a Bank Account in Chile in January, used other people to either transferred or launder money. The imbroglio that GGC became didn't happened overnight.
You need to be in reality about your actions. There was no "millions in revenue" that went into Galt's Gulch Chile.. Even in your mind you had "millions of revenue" you had no accounting for it, no balance sheet to show to investors showing "millions in revenue" coming in, or how those "millions in revenue" was spent, like the couple of law firms you hired and fired in Chile..
This needs to be a blog posting. It really does. I'm following you now in hopes I can upvote it when it comes. If you want to hop in my latest blog to let me know you posted when you do I guarantee you will have my upvote.
I wish it would have been in many blogs long ago, but life at GGC has been difficult, at best, in repairing all that the GGC "rescue" team and Berwick stole or destroyed. I think within the next 2-3 weeks I can release a chronology of GGC, complete with evidence supporting all that is outlined. I don't know how to follow people, or find articles, or anything on here. I just learned of this article, so jumped into Steemit via the galtsgulch account that I set up in August, but never used. I'd most definitely would like everyone on here, and elsewhere to know about the history of GGC being released, so any pointers on doing so here would be appreciated. Cheers.
To follow someone click on their name and a little popup box appears with the among other things the word "follow".
The best help can probably be found in www.steemit.chat this is a seperate chat website devoted to steemit. So use the same name, but a different password.
There are a ton of channels, but starting in "general" is a good place.