Gringo Joe by JD Davis

Author:JD Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction/Christian/General
Publisher: Elm Hill
Published: 2018-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

NORTH OF HERE, INC.

It had taken Mel weeks to find it. While corporations are primarily used for tax and liability protection, they are also structured to hide the names of the people who actually own or benefit from the actions of the entity. While there may be layers of LLCs, S Corps, C Corps, and offshore shell corporations hiding the identities of corporate officers and board members, at the end of the day they’re people, and those people have names. She probably would have missed it if not for a paper she had written during her final year of law school.

As assigned by her professor, she had to write a treatise defending a Washington DC physician who had grown clinical marijuana for his cancer patients. Pot certainly has a dark side, but it’s a certified fact that it helps patients through the nausea and misery of chemotherapy. His crime was dispensing the drug three days prior to the passage of B21-0192, the Medical Marijuana Laboratory Testing Amendment Act of 2015.

As introduced, this bill gave the Department of Health the authority to establish independent testing laboratories to test medical marijuana and medical-marijuana-derived products. Because of this bill, the proponents of legalizing marijuana made the numerical sequence of 0192, synonymous with pot, and that was what caught Mel’s eye. Perhaps someone was trying to be cute or creative, but regardless, absorbed inside an IBC was a small corporation called, “January 92 LLC” or 0192 LLC. A few weeks earlier, while cleaning up some dead or suspended case files, she had come across an application to the Oregon Secretary of State. As stated by the applicant, the business class was real estate and land holdings. The name requested for the new corporation was “January 92 LLC” and it was signed by William Crivelli.

“What kind of land holding?” asked Joe.

“As best as I can figure, it appears that Mr. Crivelli has been buying or trying to buy Northern California and Southern Oregon farmland. He had either bought or tied up about 800 acres in Oregon when folks figured out they were sitting on Napa Valley north. Thanks in part to your parents, the valley exploded with wine fever, and the price of south-facing hillside property went through the roof. I think our pal, Bill, didn’t wish to be too leveraged and started looking for partners. Less than two years ago, 0192 LLC got absorbed into an international business corporation called North of Here, Inc. So far, I have struck out on any of its board members, but I’m working on it. At first I thought they wanted to plant vineyards or go into the cattle business, but Bill’s not a cowboy and they have yet to plant one vine. This whole thing just smells funny. Maybe it’s nothing, but I’m betting that Crivelli and his pals are up to no good and trying desperately to hide it.”

“Goodness, Mel, I’m surprised you have time to prosecute bad guys.”

“Yeah, speaking of bad guys, I have to go get ready for a press conference.

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