Litigation Against Cortes Regional Director Noba Anderson
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(started) January 17, 2019
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Latest update: Jan 30 2019
By now most of you have heard the news: 14 of our fellow Cortes residents filed a petition (Jan 2/3 2019) to initiate a lawsuit against our Regional Director, Noba Anderson.
The primary allegation made in this petition is that Noba Anderson solicited bribes and delivered kickbacks in return. A quote: Anderson took money from her constituents for personal gain and a number of those same constituents received gifts and grants in return. (Campbell River Mirror, Jan 7 2019). According to the signatories, this bribery took place in the late Spring of 2018; around that time a GoFundMe page was established by Lovena Harvey to ask the community for support for Noba after a family disaster. Noba's dad Bernie, an elderly man suffering from dementia who is now his daughter's ward, burned down his small cabin and was lucky to survive the fire; the cabin was completely destroyed, and so were all his possessions.
Money collected via the GoFundMe page was placed in a separate bank account in Bernie's name. Noba used it to cover part of the cost of adding a bedroom for Bernie to her house, so he could be warmer and better cared for while still having some privacy. 28 people contributed. Excluding a $1000 gift from a sibling who lives in Nelson, $2700 was raised locally to help Noba continue to house and care for Bernie under her own roof. The petitioners now allege that donors to this GoFundMe effort had connections to island organisations which at times receive GIA funds from SRD, and that Noba preferentially directed funding to these organisations in response to bribes received.
Historical Context
The Hall Tax Service Debate
Newspaper Articles:
Tideline Articles:
Private Investigator Hired by SRD:
Creative Solutions Risk Management Consulting
Craig Peterson
794-620 Helanton Road, Quathiaski Cove, BC V0P 1N0
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(full text, including amendment to add more names as of Jan 3)
(research by Roy L Hales)
SRD Press Release
List of Signatories to the Petition (persons making the allegation of bribery and corruption):
- Luke Daniel Douglas Lafleur,
- William John Cathcart,
- Kenny Bryan Carpenter Hanuse,
- Michael Edward Hansen,
- Jason Barry Jeffery,
- Bertha Louise Jeffery,
- Wendy Marie Lotnick,
- June Carol Barton,
- Thomas John Drew,
- Roderick Charles Gray Lee,
- Richard Patrick Boas,
- Mary M. Georgina Tallon,
- Helene Andree Aube,
- Edward Charles Milan
Scrutineers List for Oct 2018 Election
(Note that due to an error in communication, scrutineers Baron and Scholfield-Sweet were not informed that they had been appointed and did not serve at the polls on election day.)
List of Cortes Persons Named in the Petition as Participants in Alleged Bribery and Corruption:
- Mary Lavelle
- Ryan Harvey
- Lovena Harvey
- Kristen Schofield Sweet
- Grazyna Trzesicka
- Martha Abelson
- Josee Gagnon
- Victor Van Buskirk
- Barry Glickman
- Morgan Tams
- Corry Dow
- Amanda Glickman
List of Cortes Community Organisations Named in the Petition as Participants in Alleged Bribery and Corruption:
- SCCA -- Southern Cortes Community Association
- FOCI -- Friends of Cortes Island
- APC -- Advisory Planning Committee
- CISA -- Cortes Island Seafood Association
- CIMAS -- Cortes Island Museum and Archives Society
- CIBAT -- Cortes Island Business and Tourism
- CKTZ -- Cortes Community Radio
- ESS and Ham Radio Group
This incident in combination with other recent events on Cortes Island, raises some troubling questions for me.
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