By Jim Scarantino on August 4, 2010
BILL RICHARDSON’S DUE DILIGENCE ON GREEN2V, or “GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK IN SOLAR VALLEY.”
It took only a single personal meeting for New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to line up state government behind solar wannabe Green2v. He was armed with a “confidential backgrounder” describing the company’s plans to revolutionize the solar industry from top to [...]
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By Jim Scarantino on July 20, 2010
For a company that had already landed $1.5 billion in industrial revenue bonds from an Arizona city, solar start-up Green2V should have at least had a website. And the investment firm that procured that deal for the company, one would think, would have had more in the way of corporate offices than a couple of [...]
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By Jim Scarantino on July 18, 2010
“I HAVE RAISED A LOT OF MONEY FOR BILL THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. I WANT TO SEE HIM BACK IN WASHINGTON (REAL SOON).”
That was how Gil M. Olguin, Sr., J.D., wrapped up an e-mail to the chief of staff of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. Olguin was presenting himself as head of an investment firm behind [...]
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By Jim Scarantino on June 1, 2010
Sunny Promises Eclipsed by Reality of No Money
The huge new solar plant was going to be “fast-tracked.” The City of Rio Rancho would cobble funds from dozens of projects to build roads and sewers to serve a million square-foot plant that would employ 1,500. Eventually 3,000 people around the state would be employed by this [...]
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By Jim Scarantino on May 26, 2010
Mystery continues to surround GP3, the supposed source of half a billion dollars for industrial revenue bonds to back a proposed huge solar plant in Rio Rancho for a company called Green2V. We can help. We have a phone number and an e-mail contact. Curiously, the number belongs not only to a representative of GP3, [...]
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By Jim Scarantino on May 3, 2010
SENT FROM A UPS STORE TO A BUSINESS THAT HAS ITS CORPORATE OFFICES IN ANOTHER UPS STORE
How impressed would you be with a letter of credit from a company no one has heard of, which does not exist according to the California Secretary of State, which has no return address, or e-mail or phone contacts…signed [...]
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By Jim Scarantino on May 1, 2010
AND COMPANY PLEDGING TO BUY BONDS DOES NOT EXIST ACCORDING TO CALIFORNIA RECORDS,
UPDATED WITH NEW INFORMATION FROM LAS VEGAS, NV
Rio Rancho has stated its intention to issue $500 million in industrial revenue bonds on the basis of a letter of credit presented by a company with its headquarters in a UPS store in Las Vegas, [...]
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