Seminole Lake Owner Arrested

On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 10:35:05 AM UTC-8, Rich Owen wrote:
ROBERT,

You might want to stop since no one is paying any attention to you. For all our friends, I’d ask not to add any more to this tread. This will be my last post to the troll.

Rich

Rich,

This is they guy YOU are doing business with (excerpt from one of the links https://kingofromania.com/2016/06/07...mihai-tanjala/ you obviously ignored):

* Prior to 1989, Tanjala is paid to ruin the lives of people who disagree with the government in Communist Romania.
* Immediately following the revolution, Tanjala and his buddies form a secret police unit which plays an instrumental role in crushing democracy during the Mineriad of 1990.
* Tanjala then joins a political party for fun and profit, mostly profit.
* Tanjala goes to the United States in 2003 where he befriends another Romanian crook and ultimately goes into business with him.
* All goes well until his fellow crooks snitch on Tanjala in 2008, causing him to flee Romania.
* Tanjala hightails it to the United States where he lives a great life, flying around with celebrities at his airfield that he bought for more than 2 million dollars.
* Tanjala is convicted in absentia and put on Interpol’s fugitive list.
* Tanjala then pays someone $50,000 to leave the United States without being arrested.
* Tanjala travels the Caribbean, working on his tan and enjoying the good life.
* After leaving the Cayman Islands and heading to Jamaica, a miracle happens and a border officer actually checks Interpol and finds out Tanjala is on the most wanted list.
* Tanjala gets sent back to Cayman where he tries to bribe his way out of trouble.
* This week, justice is served. Tanjala loses his case and is set to be extradited to Romania.

Tanjala told the Cayman judge that he feared for his life if he is sent to Romania to serve his 5-year jail sentence. Considering the huge numbers of people dying in Romanian jails, he might be right.

But even if he does die, the people of Romania will never get their 100 million euros back and Tanjala’s family is still living the good life in south Florida.

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I would expect that the people Tanjala defrauded will seek to regain what is rightfully theirs. This would include the Seminole-Lake Glider airfield and all of the equipment purchased with illegal funds.

Tom

Well, hopefully someone will step in and buy the operation and the money can go to the victims. I just hope that person is a glider pilot.

Until then, I’ll be there flying.

On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 11:57:16 AM UTC-8, flgliderpilot wrote:
Well, hopefully someone will step in and buy the operation and the money can go to the victims. I just hope that person is a glider pilot.

Until then, I’ll be there flying.

It is REALLY HARD to move an airfield overseas! It is in the best interests of Tanjala's victims to keep operating the facility - and generating revenue - while they are looking for a new buyer.

Tom

2G you are such a jerk.
I am one of the many celebrities that fly at Seminole and I enjoy the luxurious life style there.

Ernst

On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 6:58:15 PM UTC-8, Ernst wrote:
2G you are such a jerk.
I am one of the many celebrities that fly at Seminole and I enjoy the luxurious life style there.

Ernst

THANK YOU for the endorsement! I think you should also send emails to ALL of Tanjala's victims informing them how they are ALSO jerks. Why you're at it, send that DUMB JUDGE who deport Tanjala an email how he is STUPID JERK! And, then, you might want to hire a lawyer...

Tom

Tom would it make you happy if Seminole was shut down, Rich Owen and others were unemployed and destitute, the buildings were falling down with the runway grown up in weeds?

Then when the people of Romania finally reclaim “their� swproperty, it is worth less than a vibrant faculty with a dedicated staff and established customer base? That seems to be what you are advocating...

I’ve never been there and never met Rich, but I doubt he was looking to be in the middle of an international situation, and is just trying to do the best he can while the courts sort this out.

While Mihai might not be the most savory character I have ever known he is nonetheless the owner of record of SLGP. He existed and lived under his own name and no one was aiding and abetting him in any way, shape or form. The facility is open for business and when and if the people of Romania take ownership they can be proud of how well it has been maintained and run.

Now let's discuss something of greater importance. Who else thinks wrestling is phony?

Walt

What’s wrong with giving other soaring sites in the area business? Sounds like most people are doing that with Treasure Coast Soaring already..

A gliderport with offshore bank accounts! I find it very telling that Rich Owen refuses to address the core issues, other than pleading the 5th!

Rich, just go work for another gliderport before you end up in jail.

RICO Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizaton
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack...anizations_Act

On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 3:56:35 PM UTC-8, Richard Wilkening wrote:
Tom would it make you happy if Seminole was shut down, Rich Owen and others were unemployed and destitute, the buildings were falling down with the runway grown up in weeds?

Then when the people of Romania finally reclaim “their� swproperty, it is worth less than a vibrant faculty with a dedicated staff and established customer base? That seems to be what you are advocating...

I’ve never been there and never met Rich, but I doubt he was looking to be in the middle of an international situation, and is just trying to do the best he can while the courts sort this out.

Let's be clear he I am not ADVOCATING ANYTHING! I have no dog in the fight either way. What I read was a seeming denial by Rich Owen that anything untoward, let alone illegal, chain of events had occurred. A very simple internet search showed the truth to be exactly the opposite. Maybe Rich is very naive, so I felt it appropriate to put the facts out there and let the chips fall where they may. Rich could very well be in serious legal trouble, but that is not for me to say. If I were him I would hire a criminal attorney and find out.

What the rightful owners of Seminole-Lake a/p do is entirely up to them, not me. I have ALREADY stated that it is in their best interests to keep operating it; did you not read that?

Some people on RAS want to put their heads into the sand and pretend that things are not as they are. But one thing is very clear: Tanjala is a VERY BAD character, and I would have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with him.

Tom