July 17, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
John Holland
540.268.5693
Vicki Tobin
630.961.9292
Rockville Horse Slaughter Plant another Misfire for Sue Wallis
Chicago
(EWA) - Despite dozens of articles about the imminent opening of a
horse slaughter plant in Rockville, Missouri, EWA has learned that the
plant is not opening anytime in the foreseeable future.
The
announcement by Sue Wallis that the plant was undergoing renovation and
would be open in September turns out to have been as premature and
misleading as her earlier announcements in Wyoming and Mountain Grove,
MO.
Wallis
has not in fact purchased the plant, and cannot legally do so (had she
the resources) because its ownership is entangled in a complex web of
civil and criminal issues involving dubious deeds of trust through a
shell company called Six Bears, and criminal theft charges against its
Canadian operator Vincent Paletta.
Paletta
had already been charged with two counts of felony stealing by
deception when Wallis' announcement brought the plant to the attention
of Mountain Grove attorney Cynthia MacPherson. It was MacPherson who
uncovered the elaborate plan by the Palettas to protect the plant from
creditors.
On
behalf of one creditor, Elvin's Refrigeration, MacPherson has sued the
Palettas, asking the court to block all transfers of the property until
the ownership can be determined and creditors protected. The petition
claims the Palettas violated MUFTA (Missouri Uniform Financial
Transactions Act).
Elvin's
has also filed a Nonconsensual Common Law Lien against the plant's
owner charging that the Palettas fraudulently used bogus deeds of trust,
and even sued themselves through their shell companies to protect their
assets from creditors.
Although
Wallis and her Missouri attorney Dan Erdel did form two new companies
and have requested federal inspections, they do not own the plant for
which the request was made thus rendering the filing moot. Moreover,
records show that they have made no application to Missouri agencies for
the required permits.
Undeterred,
Wallis has already announced a plant in Oklahoma, where selling horse
meat or possessing horse meat for sale is illegal. This announcement too
has been widely reported as factual.
EWA has published a comprehensive report on the Gordian legal knot encasing the Rockville plant.
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