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Re: Super Power - Scientology Building Dedication Postponed - Indefinitely!!
A tempting thought but . . .
Did you happen to note the name of the other Scientologist in that 2006 Tampa Bay Times article who, along with Matt Feshbach, was full of praise for the Supah Powerz Mecca Flag bizzo? It was good ole Ron Pollack who, it is claimed, handed over $5 million to bring the wonders of the oiliness table to the planet.
Dunno when Ron Pollack became a Scilon, his completions record goes back to a life repair in 1978. With his connections and ability as an earner for the mob, I reckon, he would have been well on the way to whale status from the get go. He was certainly high profile by 2002 when he became Chairman of the Fundraising Committee for the New York Rescue Workers [STRIKE]Purple Towel Caper[/STRIKE] Detoxification Project.
Ron Pollack is a Harvard and Yale educated bankster who cut his teeth in the [STRIKE]criminal[/STRIKE] real estate financial derivatives world, first working in New York under Daniel Neidich at Goldman Sachs and then Richard Frary at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Next stop on his career path, according to his own CV, was the Feshbach Brothers, and we all know how that turned out. A month after slinking out the Feshbachs' back door in 1992, Ron Pollack formed Bulldog Capital Management, an equity hedge fund based in Clearwater clipping the ticket of his clients. Clients like Ben Kugler.
In 2004, Ron Pollack and Ben Kugler got together and formed a property development company promoting itself under the banner Triangle Development. Now, why would two men with exacly zero experience in the property development field get together and do this, I ask myself. One of the first things they did was borrow $18 million dollars from the Mercantile Bank and commence parcelling up 5 acres of land right next door to Scientology in Clearwater. There were a couple of other deals going on around the town while this was taking place, not the least of them being a land swap deal. It couldn't possibly be that Triangle Development was actually working for the cult, could it?
^^^ . . . here's the Triangle Crew, Ben Kugler is three in from the left in the front row, Ron Pollack next to him.
Anyhow, as befits Scientology's parade of dupes, buffoons and clowns, the property development on the five acres previously parcelled up fell through - spectacularly. After pleading with the Mercantile Bank for just one more chance to make things work, alas, the plug was finally pulled in 2008. According to their own statements, Ben Kugler and Ron Pollack lost millions while who knows how much their investors, most likely fellow Scientologists, also lost. The Mercantile Bank probably came out about even when the five acres were sold for just $10 million. Guess who bought the land . . . yep, you're right, Scientology!! Then again, it was 2008, the funny money rubber numbers financial derivatives tsunami was rolling in; perhaps cutting its losses and grabbing whatever cold hard cash it could seemed like a good deal to the bank. Certainly was a good deal for the cult.
Of course, Scientologists were clobbered by the 2008 GFC Banksters just as badly as us hapless wogs, probably more so actually. It was a bit odd to see at the time, though, an outright admission from Scientology that the tech does nothing to relieve a person from the vicissitudes of wog reality. In a staff recruitment poster the hapless copywriter said the only way to devoting 100 percent of your life to avoiding whole-track MEST games, financial problems, and the treadmill of being PTS to the middle class was to join staff . . .
Not sure what Ben Kluger is up to these days. He's worth a few bob, that's for sure. Ron Pollack appears to still have his sleeves rolled up in the capitalist casino where he's still playing the odds with some outfit going under the name Mascot Capital Management. Another of the principals from Triangle Development, Thomas Coates, has turned up in an interesting role: he's just been apppointed Chairman of the Clearwater Community Development Board. Oh, and guess who's running an outfit called Bulldog Capital Management in Clearwater these days . . . Kurt Feshbach.
TL/DR: Sure, Scientology manufactures an abundance of dupes, buffoons and clowns, but it also attracts some sharp operators who are more than pleased to find such a ready-made market place ripe for the plucking.
. . . <snip> . . . Here is a tasty bit about super-elite OT Matt Feshback, who donated millions to the SuperPower building so that he could do the rundown well over a decade before anyone else. He is out there at the orgs giving financial seminars these days, even though his companies (plural) went bust, he owes millions in taxes and he recently declared personal bankruptcy.
Tampa Bay Times said:. . . Matt Feshbach believes he has super powers. He senses danger faster than most people. He appreciates beauty more deeply than he used to. He says he outperforms his peers in the money management industry . . .
Scientology: The full hat of dupes, buffoons and clowns! . . . <snip> . . .
A tempting thought but . . .
Did you happen to note the name of the other Scientologist in that 2006 Tampa Bay Times article who, along with Matt Feshbach, was full of praise for the Supah Powerz Mecca Flag bizzo? It was good ole Ron Pollack who, it is claimed, handed over $5 million to bring the wonders of the oiliness table to the planet.
Dunno when Ron Pollack became a Scilon, his completions record goes back to a life repair in 1978. With his connections and ability as an earner for the mob, I reckon, he would have been well on the way to whale status from the get go. He was certainly high profile by 2002 when he became Chairman of the Fundraising Committee for the New York Rescue Workers [STRIKE]Purple Towel Caper[/STRIKE] Detoxification Project.
Ron Pollack is a Harvard and Yale educated bankster who cut his teeth in the [STRIKE]criminal[/STRIKE] real estate financial derivatives world, first working in New York under Daniel Neidich at Goldman Sachs and then Richard Frary at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Next stop on his career path, according to his own CV, was the Feshbach Brothers, and we all know how that turned out. A month after slinking out the Feshbachs' back door in 1992, Ron Pollack formed Bulldog Capital Management, an equity hedge fund based in Clearwater clipping the ticket of his clients. Clients like Ben Kugler.
In 2004, Ron Pollack and Ben Kugler got together and formed a property development company promoting itself under the banner Triangle Development. Now, why would two men with exacly zero experience in the property development field get together and do this, I ask myself. One of the first things they did was borrow $18 million dollars from the Mercantile Bank and commence parcelling up 5 acres of land right next door to Scientology in Clearwater. There were a couple of other deals going on around the town while this was taking place, not the least of them being a land swap deal. It couldn't possibly be that Triangle Development was actually working for the cult, could it?
^^^ . . . here's the Triangle Crew, Ben Kugler is three in from the left in the front row, Ron Pollack next to him.
Anyhow, as befits Scientology's parade of dupes, buffoons and clowns, the property development on the five acres previously parcelled up fell through - spectacularly. After pleading with the Mercantile Bank for just one more chance to make things work, alas, the plug was finally pulled in 2008. According to their own statements, Ben Kugler and Ron Pollack lost millions while who knows how much their investors, most likely fellow Scientologists, also lost. The Mercantile Bank probably came out about even when the five acres were sold for just $10 million. Guess who bought the land . . . yep, you're right, Scientology!! Then again, it was 2008, the funny money rubber numbers financial derivatives tsunami was rolling in; perhaps cutting its losses and grabbing whatever cold hard cash it could seemed like a good deal to the bank. Certainly was a good deal for the cult.
Of course, Scientologists were clobbered by the 2008 GFC Banksters just as badly as us hapless wogs, probably more so actually. It was a bit odd to see at the time, though, an outright admission from Scientology that the tech does nothing to relieve a person from the vicissitudes of wog reality. In a staff recruitment poster the hapless copywriter said the only way to devoting 100 percent of your life to avoiding whole-track MEST games, financial problems, and the treadmill of being PTS to the middle class was to join staff . . .
Not sure what Ben Kluger is up to these days. He's worth a few bob, that's for sure. Ron Pollack appears to still have his sleeves rolled up in the capitalist casino where he's still playing the odds with some outfit going under the name Mascot Capital Management. Another of the principals from Triangle Development, Thomas Coates, has turned up in an interesting role: he's just been apppointed Chairman of the Clearwater Community Development Board. Oh, and guess who's running an outfit called Bulldog Capital Management in Clearwater these days . . . Kurt Feshbach.
TL/DR: Sure, Scientology manufactures an abundance of dupes, buffoons and clowns, but it also attracts some sharp operators who are more than pleased to find such a ready-made market place ripe for the plucking.
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