Dr. Gary Karlin Michelson, Found Animals Foundation, Forbes billionaire, 20 Million Minds, Alya

Dr. Gary Karlin Michelson, Found Animals Foundation, Forbes billionaire, 20 Million Minds, Alya
Dr. Gary Karlin Michelson, Found Animals Foundation, Forbes billionaire, 20 Million Minds, Alya

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Dr Gary Michelson sues his best friend Neil Campbell - Replacement post

Dr. Gary Michelson sues his best friend Neil Campbell and Philip Powers

Dr. Gary Michelson was best friends with Neil D Campbell. They hung out together, vacationed together, lived the high life together. Neil Campbell did get Dr. Gary Michelson to invest in teak farms. Dr. Gary Michelson made a lot of money in the teak farms. Gary Michelson feels wronged for a personal reason and viciously turns on him. This is a recurring theme in Gary's life. If you are a female and refuse his advances, it can be even worse.

I personally feel Gary has some anger management issues. I once told him that a certain commissioner threw a water bottle at another commissioner in a commission meeting. I said that's why I suggest he not recommend her for a job. He said "what's wrong with that? I've thrown bottles at people before."

This is the case as I know it. I'm trying to find the legal docs but can't find them. Originally Gary went after his friend in civil court. I believe the protracted legal battle caused his friend to go bankrupt. He lost everything.

That was not good enough for Gary. He needs his pound of flesh. He supposedly used his influence, money and power to get the authorities to go after his friend for criminal fraud. In this case the deals were offshore and the teak farms were not in the US but Costa Rica. I'll try to find the docs. This case is very similar to Dave Loftus. Gary tried to get the police to charge and arrest Dave when Dave didn't commit a crime. Gary just found out that Dave would make a few pennies on the chips that he sold to Gary. Gary still paid a very low price for the microchips.

In this situation his friend was making money on teak farms. Gary asks to get involved to make money. He gets involved and makes money. Everyone is happy. His partner would tell him paraphrased "here's a teak farm for x number of dollars. Do you want to buy it?" Gary would say yes and the deal would happen.

Gary for example paid $75 for the farm that was worth $100. He instantly made money. He later found out that someone bought the farm for $72 and sold it to him for $75. Gary agreed to buy it at $75. The farm is now worth $150 and Gary has made even more money. Gary is upset that someone who is in the teak farm business made $3 on the deal. This is what the guy does for a living. He's a teak farm dealer. The teak dealer offers to buy back the farms for what Gary paid for them and Gary says no because Gary made a lot of money on the teak farms. Supposedly the teak farm dealer gave gifts to Gary's friend. This is what upset Gary besides a personal issue. Hell hath no fury like a Gary Michelson scorned. I didn't even do anything to upset him and he defames me while perjuring himself in court documents.
Gary also doesn't thoroughly investigate things before he gets involved. He didn't investigate Ed Boks at all. He believed everything he said. Gary didn't investigate TNR (trap neuter return) and supports it even though scientists and researchers have shown it does not work in the real world. Gary agreed to buy Loftus' chips and kiosks without doing any research. Gary should have asked how much are you paying for the chips? How much are you selling them to me? What is the wholesale cost of chips bought in high quantities? Please, show me physical proof that chips and kiosks are cost effective in saving animals. He didn't ask any of these questions. He just handed his checkbook to Dave. I'm not saying Gary has to micromanage all of his investments and finances. He just needs to have a little over sight. It's probably a good thing Gary is not on the Internet. He'd probably get taken by the Nigerian scams daily.

These are but a few examples of how Gary ends up in these situations. When Gary realizes HE may have made a poor decision, didn't do his due diligence before signing a deal, didn't get every penny in a deal, he tries to blame and destroy the other person. Gary agreed to buy chips, kiosks, hire Boks, buy teak farms....then regretted these things. He takes his anger out on the other person. His brown noser employees, moochy friends of course support him and his crazy notion that his poor decision is the fault of others. "You should sue them! They should be in jail! Can I have a $50,000 grant?" He claims he was ripped off when he went into all of these deals on his own free will with his eyes wide open. I will post the legal docs as soon as I find them. I see the case in lasuperiorcourt.org under criminal.

The article below best describes what happened. Glad I saved this to text. Sorry the formatting fell apart. Please, note that pro-Gary articles about this case are in small local magazines or the LA Business Journal. If you know anything about small local magazines and the LA Business Journal, their "editorials" are almost ads or favors to wealthy people. NY Times, LA Times, CNN haven't picked up this story.

Their Nevada corporation C & M Investment Group was formed 10/2007. It dissolved 12/6/10. I believe that's different than the date in the documents. Karlin Holdings Limited Partnership is still current, filed 1995. Karlin Asset Management Inc a California Corp is the general partner.

Surgeon Stumped By Teak Farming

Billionaire inventor accuses former friend of fraud.

http://labusinessjournal.www.clients.ellingtoncms.com/news/2010/feb/22/surgeon-stumped-teak-farming/


By Alexa Hyland
Monday, February 22, 2010

Spine surgeon and inventor Gary Michelson attained billionaire status five years ago after his successful lawsuit against a company that shortchanged him on licensing his surgical devices. Now he is heading back to court. This time he?s in a fight with a former best friend he alleges ripped him off over their investments in Costa Rican teak forests.

Michelson, a Brentwood resident, has become known for his charitable contributions and for living fairly modestly. He has three rescue dogs and drives a PT Cruiser.

Meanwhile, he accuses his former friend and a partner of diverting the teak money toward such things as superdeluxe cars, including a classic Corvette and a vintage Lancia.

Michelson?s attorney, Luke Dauchot, is asking the court to set a summer trial date for the suit, which was filed in 2007. Dauchot also represented Michelson in the licensing battle that netted him $1.35 billion in 2005.

?Wealthy people are often tempting targets for fraud,? said Dauchot, a partner in the downtown L.A. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. ?But I think it takes on an added level when you consider that this came from someone whom he considered to be certainly one of his best friends. There is that emotional component to it.?

Even before his landmark legal victory, Michelson was investing in Costa Rican teak farms with the goal of sustainable harvesting of the valuable hardwood. Over the years, he put in $32 million, according to the suit. The defendants claim the assets are still valuable, even in the down market. Michelson is seeking at least $20 million in damages.

He claims his friend, Neil Campbell, and a Costa Rica partner, Phillip Richard Powers, looted his money through a kickback scheme, and Powers stole from the partnership to buy pricey cars for himself and Campbell.

The suit states that Powers spent at least $1.2 million on exotic and vintage cars, including a McLaren Formula One car, a 1958 Corvette and a 1958 Lancia Aurelia.

In response to a pretrial request by Michelson?s attorneys, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Feb. 4 that Campbell breached his fiduciary duty to Michelson when he received kickbacks from Powers in the form of jewelry, furnishings, exotic cars and $1.2 million in cash. The judge granted Michelson $1.5 million in damages, which he is trying to recoup by asking a Florida federal court to impose a lien on Campbell?s $1.9 million home in Sarasota, Fla.

Michelson declined to comment for this article, referring questions to his attorney, Dauchot.
But in a 2007 interview with the Business Journal, Michelson gave some indication that he was having problems with people and money.

?I?ve been burned a couple times,? he said. ?I got lied to because I wasn?t scrutinizing enough. That?s when I realized I needed to hire staff.?

Dauchot wouldn?t confirm that the quote referenced the teak farm problem, but said he wouldn?t be uncomfortable seeing it in this article.

An attorney for Campbell did not return requests for comment, and attorneys for Powers declined to comment.

Powers, who is a U.S. citizen but has lived in Costa Rica since 1992, claims in court documents that he struck a deal with Michelson and Campbell that called for him to locate and acquire properties suitable for teak farming, and then maintain the farms. Powers also claims that Michelson and Campbell were free to accept or reject his offers to invest in the properties.

Michelson?s wealth is largely derived from the $1.35 billion settlement with medical device manufacturer Medtronic Inc., which helped him rank No. 23 on the Business Journal?s 2009 list of Wealthiest Angelenos with an estimated net worth of $1.44 billion. The hefty settlement involved patents for spinal devices that Michelson invented that make surgery easier and help patients heal better.
Medtronic had sued him for selling the devices to a competitor. He countersued, alleging the Minneapolis company had underpaid him. Michelson won a $510 million jury trial, and later got a settlement for even more money.

Teak farming time

According to legal documents, Campbell first suggested to Michelson in 1998 that the two invest $1 million together in a thousand-acre Costa Rican teak farm through one of Campbell?s friends, Powers. Campbell introduced Powers to Michelson at that time, while the three were vacationing near Castaic Lake.

When Campbell revived the talks in 1999, Michelson agreed and the two formed C&M Investment Group Ltd.; ?C? for Campbell and ?M? for Michelson.

At the time, Michelson considered Campbell one of his best friends ? the two attended each other?s weddings and often went on ski trips or other vacations together.

Campbell recommended that Michelson entrust the acquisition and operation of the farms to Powers, saying he was ?highly qualified to manage teak farms.? Powers allegedly promised 25 percent to 30 percent annual return on investment.

Michelson claims that over the next seven years, Powers would find properties ideal for teak farming, negotiate the price for the property and then advise C&M on the purchase price.

Michelson alleges Powers was entitled to as much as 6 percent commission on land sales. However, Powers claims there was no talk of commission, and that he was paid by including a markup in the sales price of the properties.

Michelson, however, alleges that one such markup was 870 percent.
In any case, Powers points out that ?C&M was free to accept or reject the proposed purchase price of each property ? and C&M also was free to terminate pending acquisitions if it thought the price was too high.?

Over those years, Powers purchased more than 147 properties in Costa Rica for C&M. The total was more than 23,000 acres ? 17,400 football fields, or about 35 square miles ? which would be about six times the size of Griffith Park.

Michelson claims he began asking Powers for records detailing how C&M?s money was being spent, including the actual purchase prices of the properties and Powers? fees. However, Michelson alleges that Powers refused to disclose any records and claimed that there was no evidence of how he paid for the properties because he had paid for them in cash.

Fraud uncovered

Once the suit was filed, Michelsons legal team began investigating Powers activities in Costa Rica. As a result, his attorneys uncovered a fraud on an even wider and more pernicious scale than originally understood, according to subsequent filings.

Michelson alleges that Campbell, who often traveled to Costa Rica, was conspiring with Powers to inflate the purchase prices of properties and that the two were keeping the excess money
Michelson alleges that bank records show Campbell received regular kickbacks from Powers in exchange for providing false reassurances to Michelson about the value of the land purchases and the legitimacy of Powers transactions. After discovering the alleged kickbacks, Michelson expanded the suit against Powers to include Campbell as a defendant.

Michelson alleges that Powers and Campbell systematically asked him to wire millions of dollars for fictitious operational expenses and instead used the money for their own personal gain, including the purchase of exotic and vintage cars.

The suit details the car purchases:
? In April 2005, Powers wired $100,000 to Maranello Motorsports, a Ferrari dealer in Australia.
? In May 2005, $65,230 was sent to Ed Lepelis, a New Jersey Corvette restorer, for a 1958 Corvette for Campbell.
? In May 2005, $450,000 was sent to McLaren Cars Ltd. for undetermined transactions.
? In May 2005, Powers allegedly sent $122,000 to an auction house in Monaco for a 1958 Lancia Aurelia, which he imported to Costa Rica in July 2005.
? In August 2005, $80,000 was allegedly sent to Scott Gibbons for a 1960 Ferrari 250 PF Cabriolet, and an additional $100,000 was sent to Gibbons the following month for the same car.

However, Powers claims in court documents that the ensuing litigation merely reflects Dr. Michelsons incredible avarice.

Michelsons attorney, Dauchot, said the case isnt about wealth or greed. He said Michelson is acting on principle; the $20 million sought represents a small percentage of Michelsons wealth. The case, he added, is based on Michelsons belief that he was betrayed by friends.

There is a sadness to this story,Dauchot said. If you look at the relationship between Gary Michelson and Neil Campbell, they were very good friends. These two individuals spent a lot of time together. They water-skied together.

Here's a recent article. Read the comment. "selling property for a profit. How is that fraud?" Exactly.

http://www.loscerritosnews.net/2013/06/20/neil-david-campbell-idaho-man-extradited-to-los-angeles-county-in-multi-million-dollar-fraud-case/
Brentwood Billionaire Sues Best ‘Friend’

Eye on Brentwood

By Herb Chase  |  July 10, 2010

Gary Michelson, a spine surgeon, inventor and prominent Brentwood philanthropist, has filed a lawsuit against
Neil Campbell, his former best friend and partner in a series of Costa Rica teak tree farm investments.
Michelson claims Campbell and Costa Rican partner Philip Powell looted his tree farm investments and he will be seeking $20 million in damages when the trial begins this summer unless a settlement is reached. Luke Dauchot, who is Michelson’s lawyer in the current case, also represented the Brentwood billionaire when he received a $1.35 billion settlement from Medtronic, Inc. in a dispute over spinal devices invented by Michelson.
Wholeshot
SoCal
12:52pm on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 
Where there is Smoke there 's Fire!
Teak will burn for a long time!!!!
This case deals with a lot more than teak farm land. It also deals with behind the scene commissions and exotic/collector car transfers to hide ill gotten gains!
Plantiff stands srong on this one!!!
Damnit Janet
Beverly Hills
6:41pm on Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 
It would have been nice if the writer took a look at the actual lawsuit. Michelson made money in all of the tree farm transactions. No one looted any money from him. This is Michelson's MO. He also falsely charged his last business partner with embezzling. The police refused to investigate because there was no embezzlement. Don't believe what Gary says just because he's a billionaire.





Name:  POWERS , PHILIP   RICHARD  
Case Number  LACBA409225-01Filed At Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center
Filing Date 03/21/2013Limited Jurisdiction

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