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Chance border visit surprises Mexican nationals attempting to cut through border fence
Traveling with three international media correspondents during one of his routine trips to survey the progress of the international border fence being erected along the California-Mexico border, Minuteman Project president Jim Gilchrist observed four Mexican nationals setting up what appeared to be a gasoline-powered metal cutting machine last week.
“The group was apparently preparing to cut through the old, unreinforced border fence in Campo, California ,” Gilchrist said.
Britt Craig of the Campo Minutemen organization, who routinely accompanies Gilchrist on the fence surveys, summoned nearby U.S. Border Patrol agents who said they would set up an observation point for that area of the fence. One agent surmised that the group was going to cut a hole in the fence large enough to drive a vehicle through laden with either illegal aliens or drugs, or both.
The Mexicans, in their early twenties or younger, retreated back into Mexico about 100 yards to a cluster of boulders, leaving the machinery under a tree about 30 feet from the border fence. There were large plastic bags stacked against one of the boulders. Gilchrist said none of the men appeared to be armed.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
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Jim Gilchrist sues illegal immigrant activists again The Minuteman Project founder said he wants to make a group of former fellow activists "as miserable as possible."
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/gilchrist-project-courtney-2377719-stewart-minuteman
BY CINDY CARCAMO
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist has filed another lawsuit against fellow activists, about two years after he dropped the first saying he wanted to refocus on immigration enforcement.
"We dropped it and thought they would just go on their way and they didn't," said Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo. "They pulled the shenanigans of suing me under my own corporate name."
Gilchrist's suit, filed in March under Minuteman Project Inc., names several former fellow activists, Barbara Coe, founder of California Coalition for Immigration Reform, Marvin Stewart, and Paul Sielski. Anti-illegal immigrant activist Deborah Courtney is for now excluded from the suit because she has filed for bankruptcy, but could later be included if a bankruptcy court permits her to be named as a defendant, court documents state.
The suit alleges that the group stole a donor database, about 20,000 of the organization's letterhead with Gilchrist's signature, and funds from corporate bank accounts, among other accusations.
Coe wouldn't comment for this story. Sielski, Stewart and Courtney, who have accused Gilchrist of embezzlement and fraud, said the suit is meant to be a smoke screen to confuse the public.
The lawsuit is just the latest maneuver in a string of back-and-forth suits that started in early 2007 between two groups that were once united and among the most vocal and powerful voices against illegal immigration. The infighting has left the Minuteman Project fractured, with both sides claiming they run the organization.
The trouble began in late 2006 when some group officials expressed concerns over fundraising and suspected irregular bookkeeping. Stewart and Courtney said Gilchrist couldn't address the suspected discrepancies so they and others voted him off the board of directors.
The major source of contention stems from whether Courtney, Coe, Stewart and others were executive board members as they've claimed or advisory members without the power to oust Gilchrist, as he contends. That's why Gilchrist claims that he is the rightful owner of the Minuteman Project and not them.
"They knew that all the time and they decided they would be governing board members and stole the bank accounts," Gilchrist said.
Courtney, Stewart, and Sielski contend they are the true Minuteman Project and that Stewart is the current president of the organization.
Courtney provided the Register with documents of registration of charitable organizations for the Minuteman Project Inc. in several states -- such as Oregon, Alabama and Michigan -- listing her as a "Secretary-Board Member.""He has sworn under penalty of perjury that I am a member of the board of directors," Courtney said about Gilchrist. "He was legally terminated. He should never have been allowed to file these lawsuits under the Minuteman Project."Courtney claims that Gilchrist has been embezzling money from the organization, spending donors' money to file lawsuits against the group.She claims Gilchrist dropped his first lawsuit against the group because he knew he was going to lose.
Stewart said he laments what's happened, stating that all he wanted was an audit of the Minuteman Project and transparency from Gilchrist.
"We never wanted it to get to this point right here," Stewart said. "It has truly been a black eye to those involved in the movement."
Contact the writer: ccarcamo@ocregister.com or 949-553-2906
Let's see how many Honest & Courageous US Citizens with integrity there are in California. Post your affirmation of a complaint to the CA DOJ AG on this Non-Profit matter. Because you see, someone needs to be corrected in the State House of Corrections.
California's Corporation Code
PART 3. NONPROFIT MUTUAL BENEFIT CORPORATIONS
Chapter 18. CRIMES & PENALTIES §8812. Any director of any corporation who concurs in any vote or act of the directors of the corporation or any of them, knowingly and with dishonest or fraudulent purpose, to make any distribution of assets, except in the case and in the manner allowed by this part, either with the design of defrauding creditors or members or of giving a false appearance to the value of the membership and thereby defrauding purchasers is guilty of a crime. Each such crime is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment in county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
§8813. (a) Every director or officer of any corporation is guilty of a crime if such director or officer knowingly concurs in making or publishing, either generally or privately, to members or other persons (1) any materially false report or statement as to the financial condition of the corporation, or (2) any willfully or fraudulently exaggerated report, prospectus, account or statement of operations, financial condition or prospects, or (3) any other paper intended to give, and having a tendency to give, a membership in such corporation a greater or lesser value than it really possesses.
(b) Every director or officer of any corporation is guilty of a crime who refuses to make or direct to be made any book entry or the posting of any notice required by law in the manner required by law.
(c) A violation of subdivision (a) or (b) of this section shall be punishable by imprisonment in state prison or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or both such fine and imprisonment.
§8814. (a) Every director, officer or agent of any corporation, who knowingly receives or acquires possession of any property of the corporation, otherwise than in payment of a just demand, and, with intent to defraud, omits to make, or to cause or direct to be made, a full and true entry thereof in the books or accounts of the corporation is guilty of a crime. (b) Every director, officer, agent or member of any corporation who, with intent to defraud, destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any of the books, papers, writings or securities belonging to the corporation or makes or concurs in omitting to make any material entry in any book of accounts or other record or document kept by the corporation is guilty of a crime.
(c) Each crime specified in this section is punishable by imprisonment in state prison, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not exceeding one year, or a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both such fine and imprisonment.
§8815. Every director, officer or agent of any corporation, or any person proposing to organize such a corporation who knowingly exhibits any false, forged or altered book, paper, voucher, security or other instrument of evidence to any public officer or board authorized by law to examine the organization of such corporation or to investigate its affairs, with intent to deceive such officer or board in respect thereto, is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not exceeding one year.
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