SoleTurn on Tap Friday Night at Angry Buffalo

By Tony Farina

The rock band SoleTurn, featuring the new and re-imagined hits they famously deliver, will be on stage Friday night at Angry Buffalo, 2753 Wehrle Dr., Williamsville, from 7 to 10 p.m., outside if weather permits, inside if not.

In addition to their usual menu of crowd-pleasing new and old songs featuring their own special touch, vocal leader Vik Bhargava said SoleTurn will also play a few choice songs from the Oasis album that is currently the buzz in the music crowd everywhere as the famous English rock band has caught fire again.

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“They are a great group and they are together again, so it is our pleasure to do a few of their songs as part of our show Friday night at Angry Buffalo, a wonderful venue for us to perform for our fans,” said Bhargava who along with vocalist and bass player Zachary Michael lead SoleTurn which kicked off the season last March with a sold-out show at the legendary Sportsmen’s Tavern and have been going strong ever since.

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<p>quarterback Malik Willis is Most Likely Heading out of Green Bay This Offseason As the Veteran Quarterbacks Rookie Contract Has Expired Green Bay Has Reportedly Mulled Placing the Franchise Tag on Willis but No Decision Has Been Made</p>
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<p>its Being <a Href="https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/true-feelings-free-agency-malik-willis/">reported </a>that Willis Could Fetch over Million Per Year Despite the Fact That He Has Only Started 6 Games in His Entire Career Willis Has Spent His Career Sitting Behind Starter Jordan Love and Also Riding the Bench for the Tennessee Titans</p>
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<p>though He Has Appeared in a Limited Amount of Games Willis Has Flashed Serious Potential Specifically During His Time in Green Bay</p>
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<p>with the Titans He Was Rough Posting a 53 Completion Rate 494 Passer Rating Three Interceptions with Green Bay It Was a Completely Different Picture</p>
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<p>in 2024 He Posted a 1248 Passer Rating on 50+ Attempts the Highest Single season Mark in Nfl History at That Threshold in 2025 He Appeared in Four Games with One Start Going 857 Completion for 422 Yards and Three Touchdowns</p>
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<p>at 26 Years Old Coming off the Best Passer Rating Season in Nfl History Among Qualified Quarterbacks Heading into a Free Agent Class Thin at the Position Willis is Going to Get a Deal That Looks Aggressive on Paper</p>
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<h2 Class="wp-block-heading">what Teams Are Eyeing Malik Willis</h2>
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<p>the Pittsburgh Steelers Who Have an Unresolved Quarterback Situation with Aaron Rodgers at 42 Have Been Linked to Willis</p>
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<p>the Miami Dolphins Have Also Been Linked to Willis the Dolphins Gm Jon eric Sullivan Said About Willis at the Nfl Combine This Week</p>
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<p>i Think Id Be Lying to You Any Team That is in a Needy Qb Situation if They Tell You Theyre Not Talking About Malik Willis That Would Be a Lie a Lot of Like for the Human Being Hes a Great Kid</p>
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<p>although the Gm of the Dolphins Had Kind Words to Say About Willis Reporters Are Claiming That the Prospect of Him Landing in Miami is Diminishing by the Day</p>
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<p>wanting to Sign Willis and Actually Making It Happen Are Two Completely Different Things and the Dolphins As Everyone Knows or Should Know by Now Have to Overcome a Nasty Cap Situation That Will Keep Them from Being Big Spenders in Free Agency Even if They Were Inclined to Want To</p>
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<p>its Now Being Called a slim Possibility That Willis Actually Does End Up in Miami with the Most Likely Suitors Now Being the Pittsburgh Steelers</p>
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<h2 Class="wp-block-heading">a College Career to Remember</h2>
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<p>willis Arrived at Auburn in January 2017 over Two Seasons He Played in 15 Games Completing 11 of 14 Passes for 69 Yards and Rushing for 309 Yards and Two Touchdowns</p>
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<p>the Tigers Had Jarrett Stidham Ahead of Him and then a Quarterback Competition Between Bo Nix and Joey Gatewood That Willis Was Never Going to Win</p>
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<p>when It Became Clear the Path Forward in Auburn Wasnt Going to Open Up Willis Transferred He Landed at Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia Sat out 2019 Per Ncaa Transfer Rules and Waited</p>
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<p>when He Finally Played in 2020 the Wait Looked More Than Worth It</p>
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<p>in His First Collegiate Start at Western Kentucky Willis Rushed for 168 Yards and Three Touchdowns a Single game Record for a Liberty Quarterback Against Southern Miss That Same Season He Threw Six Touchdown Passes Tying a Program Record Set in 1984</p>
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<p>he Was Named Mvp of the Cure Bowl After Liberty Beat Coastal Carolina 37 34 for the Programs First ever Win over a Ranked Fbs Team He Won the Dudley Award That Year Given to the Best College Football Player in the State of Virginia</p>
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<p>willis Was Projected by Some Analysts As High As Second Overall He Slid to 86th the Third Quarterback Taken Behind Kenny Pickett at 20 and Desmond Ridder at 74</p>
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<p>where Do You Think Willis Will End Up Let Us Know in the Comments</p>
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“We have many irons in the fire right now,” said Bhargava, “including preparing to release our first album in the near future, or early spring. We have put heart and soul into the album and are hoping for a good response when it comes out.”

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">oakland Calif on June 9 2024 Someone Smashed the Window of Mario Juarezs Car with a Brick by June 14 Fbi Special Agent Duncan Haunold Told a Federal Magistrate Judge It Was an Assassination Attempt Orchestrated by the Duong Family the Recycling Executives Now Facing Decades in Federal Prison</span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">there Was Just One Problem the Evidence Collected the Night of the Shooting Evidence Sitting in Fbi Files Before Haunold Swore out His Affidavit Showed the Opposite of What He Told the Judge</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">that Lie and the Search Warrants It Helped Produce Are Now the Subject of a Franks Hearing Set for March 5 2026 Before Us District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers if the Defense Prevails the Evidence Seized in the June 2024 Raids Raids That Ended a Mayors Career and Produced a 31 page Indictment Could Be Thrown Out</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Hearing is in </span><a Href="https://frankreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/duong-indictment-.pdf"><i><span Style="font-weight: 400;">united States V Thao Et Al</span></i></a><span Style="font-weight: 400;"> Case No 425 cr 00003 ygr at Its Center is a Question Did an Fbi Agent Deceive a Magistrate to Get a Warrant</span>
<h2><b>what the Agent Told the Judge</b></h2>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">according to the Defense Motion Filed by David Trung Duongs Attorneys at Jones Day and Swanson Mcnamara Llp docket 119 Special Agent Haunolds June 2024 Affidavit Told the Following Story About the Shooting</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">on the Night of June 9 2024 Co conspirator 1 the Governments Name for Mario Juarez Was the Target of a suspected Targeted Shooting Due to His Cooperation in This Investigation </span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Affidavit Stated That the Assailants Were waiting for Co conspirator 1 to Return Home and May Have Attempted to Draw Him out of His Home Before They Opened Fire According to the Affidavit Co conspirator 1 Only returned Fire</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">agent Haunold Told the Magistrate He Believed the Shooting Was Targeted and May Have Been Coordinated by the Duong Family in an Attempt to Kill or Harm Co conspirator 1 to Prevent Him from Cooperating with the Investigation</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">this Was Not Filler This Was Not Background the Affidavit Explicitly Asserted Probable Cause to Believe That Andy and David Duong Had Violated 18 Usc 1512a the Federal Witness tampering Statute That Applies when a Defendant killed or Attempted to Kill Another Person with Intent to Prevent the Attendance or Testimony of Any Person in an Official Proceeding</span>
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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">this Was a Claim of Attempted Murder It Was Presented to a Magistrate Judge As Grounds to Raid the Homes of a Sitting Mayor a Vietnamese american Businessman His Son and Their Offices</span>
<h2><b>what the Evidence Actually Showed</b></h2>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Defenses Supporting Declaration docket 120 Filed by Attorney Neal J Stephens and Containing 23 Exhibits Paints a Radically Different Picture One Drawn Entirely from Evidence the Fbi Already Had</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">here is What Investigators Knew Before Agent Haunold Submitted His Affidavit on June 14 2024</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">juarez Told Oakland Police He Fired His 40 Caliber Handgun </span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">jaurezs Son Told Officers He Heard Four Initial Shots Coming from the Front of the House Where Juarez Was Standing </span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">a Neighbor Independently Confirmed Hearing Four Initial Shots </span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">officers Recovered Four 40 Caliber Shell Casings in Juarezs Front Yard</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">juarez Had Told Police the Sequence Went Like This Unknown Assailants Fired Twice at Him He Fired Four Times in Self defense and the Assailants Left and Returned Approximately Ten Minutes Later to Fire Again</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">but the Physical Evidence Said Something Else Four Shots Were Heard Initially Four Casings Were Found All Matching Juarezs Gun </span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">if Juarezs Story Were True There Should Have Been Six Sounds in the Initial Volley Two from the Attackers and Four from Him Instead Witnesses Heard Only Four the Initial Gunfire Was All Juarez</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">as David Duongs Attorneys Wrote in Their Reply Brief docket 162 the Available Evidence Suggested That in the Initial Round of Gunfire Co conspirator 1 Shot Four Times and the Supposed Assassin Not at All</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">you Dont Need a Ballistics Degree to See the Problem </span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Neighborhood Told a Different Story Too a Neighbor Reported Seeing two Mexican Males Hitting Juarezs Car with a Brick Prior to the Shooting Police Found a Red Brick Near Juarezs Car Which Had a Smashed Window with Red Dust Consistent with the Brick Juarez Himself Told Officers He Saw an Individual Inside His Vehicle</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">neighbors Told Investigators This Was a High crime Area There Had Been Prior Shootings the Suspects Were Described As Local to the Neighborhood People Seen at a Nearby Liquor Store This Was Not a Sophisticated Assassination It Looked Like a Smash and grab Gone Sideways when the Homeowner Came out Firing</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">defense Counsel Put It This Way in the Reply Brief sa Haunolds Declaration Does Not Claim That He or Any of His Colleagues Have Ever Encountered a Case Where an Alleged Hit Man Who Was Lying in Wait Allowed His Target to Get into His House and Arm Himself Before Attempting to Lure the Target out by Loudly Breaking Car Windows Thereby Drawing the Attention of the Entire Neighborhood Who Could then Witness the Shooting</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">no Competent Assassin Breaks Car Windows with a Brick and Waits for the Target to Get Inside Grab a Gun and Come out Shooting if the Duong Family Sent Hit Men They Sent the Worst Ones in the History of Organized Crime Men Who Arrived Smashed a Car Window Let the Target Arm Himself Took Zero Shots when the Target Opened Fire Fled Allegedly Came Back Missed Every Single Shot and then Vanished Without a Trace</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">or It Was a Car Burglary and Juarez a Man Known for Embellishment Violence and Self interest Fired at the Burglars and then Told the Fbi They Were Assassins</span>
<h2><b>the Shotspotter Problem</b></h2>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">here is Where the Governments Timeline Becomes Evidently False</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">shotspotter the Acoustic Gunfire Detection System Used by Oakland Police Recorded the Shooting the Reports Documented Four Gunshots at 952 Pm and Nine Additional Shots 15 Minutes Later at 1007 Pm Not Six Initial Shots As Juarez Claimed Four</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">according to the Defense Motion the Oakland Police Department Received the Shotspotter Data on June 15 2024 One Day After Agent Haunold Submitted the Affidavit for the Residential Search Warrants</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">but the Warrants Did Not End on June 14 Five Days Later on June 20 the Fbi Obtained Rollover Warrants Additional Warrants Extending the Search Authority Those Rollover Affidavits Continued to Allege That Co conspirator 1 Had Fired Only in Self defense They Did Not Disclose the Shotspotter Data</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Government Admits in Its Opposition Brief docket 151 That the Shotspotter Data was Not Analyzed Until Several Weeks Later According to the Government the Fbi Did Not Determine That Juarez Likely Fired First Until August or September 2024 More Than Two Months After the Raids That Destroyed a Mayors Career</span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Fbi Had Acoustic Data That Contradicted Its Star Witnesss Account of an Attempted Assassination Data That Arrived Before the Rollover Warrants Were Filed and Nobody Looked at It</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Defense Argues This is Not Exculpatory It is Evidence of Reckless Disregard You Have an Informant You Already Know is Motivated by Revenge You Have an Informant You Already Know is a Co conspirator in the Scheme Youre Investigating You Have an Informant Already Charged with Felony Fraud and when Data Arrives That Could Show He Lied About Being the Target of an Assassination Data Relevant to the Very Warrants Youre Seeking You Dont Look at It</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">in September 2024 Three Months After the Raids the Fbi Finally Re interviewed Juarez About the Shooting He Changed His Story He Now Said He Shot First After Someone Pointed a Gun at Him This Was a Different Account from What He Told Oakland Police on the Night of the Incident and Different from What the Fbi Told the Magistrate</span>
<h2><b>the Governments Defense</b></h2>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">in Its Opposition Brief the Government Offers Two Responses to the Shooting Problem</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">first It Says the Significance of the Evidence Was unclear at the Time That Four Initial Shots and Four 40 Caliber Casings in Juarezs Yard Didnt Necessarily Tell Haunold That Juarez Fired First</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">david Duongs Attorneys Had a Response to That in Fact the Significance is Unmistakable</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">and It Is Juarez Said the Attackers Shot Twice then He Shot Four Times Witnesses Heard Four Shots Total Casings from Juarezs Gun Accounted for All Four Either Juarez Was Lying or the Supposed Assassins Fired Silent Rounds</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">second the Government Argues the Shooting Was Included in the Affidavit Merely for context About Juarezs state of Mind and Potential Motives for Statements to Law Enforcement</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Defense Demolished This in Their Reply the Affidavit Didnt Present the Shooting As Context It Presented It As a Standalone Crime It Asserted Probable Cause That the Duongs Violated the Federal Witness tampering Statute Attempted Murder to Prevent Cooperation the Government Cannot Claim the Shooting Was a Cornerstone Allegation when Seeking the Warrant and then Recharacterize It As Background Context when Challenged</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">as the Defense Wrote this After the fact Characterization Cannot Be Squared with the Application Itself</span>
<h2><b>why the Shooting Mattered</b></h2>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">imagine You Are a Magistrate Judge You Receive a Warrant Application in a Bribery Case the Amounts Are Modest 0000 Split Between Campaign Mailers and Payments to a Mayors Boyfriend the Documentary Evidence Consists Largely of Text Messages Written by the Cooperating Witness Himself the Agent Tells You His Informant is Revenge motivated and Has a Criminal History</span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">now Add This Three Days After the Informant Started Cooperating Someone Tried to Murder Him the Agent Believes the Defendants Family Ordered the Hit</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">that Changes Everything a Bribery Case Becomes a Case Involving Potential Violence the Urgency to Search the Defendants Homes Escalates the Informants Credibility Paradoxically Increases if They Tried to Kill Him He Must Be Telling the Truth About Something Important</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">now Remove the Assassination Replace It with What Actually Happened a Car Burglary in a High crime Neighborhood Where the Informant Fired First</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Affidavit Reads Very Differently Instead of a Dangerous Cooperator Targeted for Death You Have a Man with a Pattern of Confrontation Exaggeration and Self serving Lies a Man Who Turned a Neighborhood Burglary into an Assassination Plot Because It Served His Narrative</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Magistrate Never Got to Make That Evaluation Agent Haunold Made It for Her</span>
<h2><b>no Evidence the Duongs Knew</b></h2>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">there is Another Detail the Government Has Never Addressed and the Defense Highlighted It in Their Reply</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">agent Haunold Told the Magistrate the Shooting Was Connected to the Case for Two Reasons It Was a targeted Attack and It Occurred Just Three Days After Juarezs First Meeting with the Fbi</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Timing Argument Implies That the Duongs or Someone Acting on Their Behalf Learned Juarez Was Cooperating and Moved to Silence Him but the Government Does Not Dispute That There Was No Evidence Anyone Other Than the Fbi Knew About Juarezs Cooperation at the Time of the Shooting</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">as the Defense Wrote the Government Does Not Dispute That Sa Haunold Had No Reason to Believe That the Duongs or Anyone Else Knew Co conspirator 1 Had Started Cooperating with Law Enforcement Shortly Before the Shooting</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">so the Fbis Theory Required Accepting Two Unsupported Propositions That the Shooting Was a Targeted Hit Despite Physical Evidence Suggesting a Car Burglary and That the Duongs Somehow Learned About Juarezs Secret Fbi Cooperation in Time to Organize an Assassination Within 72 Hours Despite No Evidence They Knew</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">agent Haunold Presented Both Propositions As Established Facts</span>
<h2><b>march 5 the Reckoning</b></h2>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">on March 5 2026 Judge Gonzalez Rogers </span><span Style="font-weight: 400;">will Decide Whether to Hold a Full Evidentiary Franks Hearing if She Does Agent Haunold Will Be Called to the Stand He Will Be Asked What He Knew About the Shooting Evidence Before He Submitted His Affidavit He Will Be Asked Why Shotspotter Data Wasnt Reviewed Before the Rollover Warrants Were Issued He Will Be Asked Why He Told a Magistrate That a Car Burglary Was an Assassination</span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Standard for a Franks Hearing is Not High the Defense Needs Only to Make a substantial Preliminary Showing That the Affidavit Contained Deliberate or Reckless Falsehoods They Do Not Need to Prove It by a Preponderance of the Evidence That Comes Later at the Hearing Itself</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Shooting Evidence Alone May Be Enough</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">if the Hearing is Granted and the Defense Prevails the June 2024 Search Warrants Could Be Voided the Evidence Seized in the Raids the Raids That Dominated Oakland Headlines Destroyed a Political Career and Preceded a Recall Election by Four Months Could Be Suppressed</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">and a Federal Bribery Case Built on the Word of a Serial Fraudster Who Bounced His Own Bribery Check Might Finally Be Seen for What It Is</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Fbi Raided a Mayors Home over a Car Burglary They Called an Assassination</span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Hearing is March 5 the Country Should Be Watching</span> — Vik Bhargava Fronts Soleturn

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Frank Report Received Tips About Rachel Grynberg</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">more Than One the Callers Spoke with Certainty They Called Her hurricane Rachel They Said She Had Inherited a Billion dollar Oil Empire and Used It to Wreck Companies and Careers in Courtrooms Across the Country</span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">we Looked into It</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">what We Found Was Not What We Were Told It Was More Complicated in Some Ways It Was More Troubling</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Tipster Sent Documents in Batches Dozens of Them We Read Them All We Went Through Every Case Every Deposition Transcript Every Court Filing</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">they Told a Long Story of Litigation but It Was Not Rachels Story It Was Her Fathers</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Filings Belonged to Jack Grynberg His Lawsuits His Battles His History</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">we Were Not Given a Single Case Filed by Rachel Grynberg Against Any Third Party After She Took Control of the Family Companies</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">not One</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the hurricane Rachel Story Did Not Check Out at Least Not Yet</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">but the Story Behind the Story How Rachel Grynberg Came to Control a Billion dollar Empire and What Happened to the Women Who Said Her Father Was a Sexual Predator is Worth Telling Because Nobody else Has Told It</span>
<h1><b>the Empire</b></h1>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Grynberg Fortune Begins with Jack</span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">jack Jakob Grynberg Was Born in 1932 in Brest Poland He Was Seven Years Old when the Nazis Invaded His Family Fled to Ukraine Returned to the Brest Ghetto Escaped Before It Was Liquidated in 1942 Hid in a Barn for Nearly Two Years and Spent the Final Months of the War in the Forests with Partisans After the War He Lived in a Displaced Persons Camp Made His Way to Palestine Fought in the Israeli War of Independence with the Irgun and Eventually Arrived in Denver Colorado in 1949 with Twenty seven Dollars in His Pocket</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">he Got the Only International Scholarship at the Colorado School of Mines Graduated in Two and a Half Years Earned a Masters in Petroleum Engineering Made His First Million by Thirty by Reworking a Gas Well That Amerada Hess Had Abandoned As Noncommercial He Was Right and They Were Wrong and That Set the Pattern for the Next Sixty Years</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">jack Grynbergs Great Discovery Was the Kashagan Field in Kazakhstan One of the Largest Oil Finds in the World in the Last Half Century Estimated to Hold Nine Billion Barrels of Recoverable Oil and Twenty five Trillion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas He Got There by Cultivating a Relationship with Nursultan Nazarbayev the President of Kazakhstan Who Let Him Call Him by His First Name a Signal of Closeness in That Culture That Opened Doors No American Oilman Had Ever Walked Through</span>

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<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Major Oil Companies Bp Shell Exxonmobil Conocophillips Came in Behind Grynberg and Then As Majors Tend to Do Tried to Cut Him Out Jack Sued Them All He Filed More Than Seventy Lawsuits Accusing Hundreds of Firms of Defrauding the Government of Mineral Royalties He Fought Bp Accused Exxon and Conoco of Participating in Bribery Schemes and Tangled with Foreign Governments from Grenada to Cameroon to Ecuador</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">a Federal Judge Wrote That Grynbergs litigation Exploits Verge on the Legendary a Law Professor Used the Grynberg Family As a Case Study in the Uc Irvine Law Review Alongside Sumner Redstone Two Aging Tycoons Who Held on Too Long and Watched Their Families Fight for What They Built the Professor Called It the king Lear Problem Shakespeare Would Have Recognized Jack Grynberg Immediately</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">jack Grynberg Was Not a Man Who Avoided Courtrooms He Lived in Them</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">in the 1990s He Placed His Companies Pricaspian Development Corporation Gadeco and Rsm Production Corporation in the Names of His Wife Celeste and Their Three Children Rachel Stephen and Miriam the Purpose As a Judge Later Found Was to Protect His Wealth from Creditors Estate Taxes and Kidnapping Threats the Understanding Jack Claimed Was That He Would Run the Companies Until the Day He Died</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">at Their Peak These Entities Held Hundreds of Millions in Cash Reserves Pulled Approximately 0 Million Per Year in Royalty Payments from Kazakhstan Alone and Controlled Exploration Projects Spanning Multiple Continents the Family Pocketed Roughly 0 Million over Twenty three Years While Jack Did the Work</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">then They Fired Him</span>
<h1><b>the Takeover</b></h1>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">by 2014 Jack Grynbergs Behavior Was Changing He Was in His Eighties His Children Would Later Testify That He Had Become Erratic Claiming to Own a Wyoming Oil Well Containing Thirty Billion Barrels more Than the Entire Nations Reserves Telling the President of Botswana He Had Two Billion Dollars in a Local Bank Trying to Buy One Hundred Million Dollars in Generators for a Nigerian Power Plant That Did Not Exist a Geriatric Psychiatrist Would Later Testify That Jack Had Dementia by 2014 and Was Sending Bank Information to a Gmail Address He Believed Belonged to a Brazilian Princess Who Had Been Dead for a Decade</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">in September 2015 the Pricaspian Board Voted to Remove Jack As an Authorized Signatory on the Companys Bank Accounts in February 2016 the Board Removed Him As President and Appointed Rachel and Stephen As Co interim Ceos in March 2016 They Removed Him from the Board Entirely</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">jack Fought Back He Filed Suit in Texas Claiming His Children Were Violating a Lifetime Agreement the Case Was Moved to Colorado a Jury Found There Was No Oral Contract Granting Him Lifetime Control a Judge Ruled He Was Not Entitled to a Penny in Back Pay for the Decades He Spent Building the Empire His Children Now Owned</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">rachel Led the Fight She is Now Ceo of Rsm Production Corporation and the Registered Agent for Gadeco Royalties Llc She and Her Siblings Control the Entire Apparatus the Kazakhstan Royalties the Domestic Exploration Rights the Cash Reserves and the Litigation Portfolio That Jack Spent a Lifetime Assembling</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">jack Grynberg Was Placed in a Care Facility He Died on October 11 2021 at the Age of Eighty nine</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">his Attorney Said Jacks Children Without Having Made Any Contributions to the Companies Had Received Approximately One Billion Dollars That He Alone Had Earned the Familys Lawyer Said They Were relieved to Have This Unfortunate and Painful Litigation Behind Them and That They Had Acted to Protect the Companies and Jack Grynbergs Legacy</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">whether the Children Were Right to Take the Companies from a Man with Dementia is a Fair Question the Courts Said Yes Reasonable People Can Disagree About Whether the Courts Got It Right or Whether the Children Could Have Found a Way to Protect Both the Companies and Their Fathers Dignity but Jack Grynberg Put Those Companies in His Childrens Names He Created the Legal Structure They Used to Remove Him That is Not in Dispute</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">what is in Dispute or Rather What Has Never Been Discussed at All is What Happened to the Women</span>
<h1><b>the Women</b></h1>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">in April 2015 One Year Before Rachel and Her Siblings Formally Ousted Their Father Candice Dee Smith Was Working As Jack Grynbergs Personal Assistant</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">smith Claimed in a Douglas County Lawsuit That Jack Had Bought Her a 0000 Home in Parker Colorado Furnished It and Let Her Live There for Free with Her Then husband and Five Children then the Bill Came Due According to the Lawsuit Grynberg Ushered Her into His Office Bathroom One Day and Told Her It Was time for You to Start Repaying Me for the House</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Lawsuit Alleged She Was Coerced into Sexual Contact Thirty five Times over Several Months</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;"><em>the Frank Report</em> Will Note What the Reader is Already Thinking Thirty five Times is Not One Moment of Coercion It is Not a Single Act of Force from Which a Victim Could Not Escape It is an Ongoing Arrangement over a Period of Months Smith Alleged Coercion and Coercion is Real a 0000 House and a Job Create Pressure That Should Not Be Minimized but the Allegation Also Raises Questions About the Line Between Coercion and Complicity That Smith Herself Would Have Had to Answer if the Case Went to Trial <em>the Frank Report</em> Does Not Know Whether It Did</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">smith Was Not the Only Woman to Make Allegations</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">maxine Yzaguirre Worked As a Receptionist at Grynberg Petroleum for Five Months in 2016 She Claimed Jack Gave Her Tasks Requiring Her to Bend over While He Stared That She Walked into His Office and Found Him in His Underwear on at Least Three Occasions That He Thrust Himself at Her and Asked if She Was Interested and That After She Rejected a Kiss He Reminded Her He Had Just Given Her a Bonus</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">roxanne Alvarez Maxines Sister Worked As a Temporary Assistant She Alleged Grynberg Took Her to His Home to Do Tasks While Staring Down Her Shirt on a Separate Occasion She Claimed He Lured Her into the Mens Locker Room at the Companys Denver Offices Kissed Her and Put His Hands Inside Her Bra She Pulled Away and Ran Alvarez Reported the Locker Room Incident to Police Grynberg Was Arrested in December 2016 and Charged with Felony Unlawful Sexual Contact the Denver Da Later Dropped the Charge Saying It Could Not Be Proven Beyond a Reasonable Doubt</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">alvarez Also Reported the Assault to Terence Burns the Companys Vice President According to the Lawsuit Burns Told Her to Stay Quiet and Not Put Their Jobs at Risk He Said Grynberg Had Done This Before</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">burns and Company Attorney Roger Jatco Were Named As Defendants for Allegedly Knowing About Jacks Conduct and Failing to Protect Employees</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">a Fourth Woman Suzanne Greene Did Not Join As a Plaintiff but Submitted a Sealed Affidavit She Said She Was Harassed in 1976 Just Weeks After Being Hired As Jacks Executive Secretary She Said He Asked Her to Show a Visiting Associate a Good Time then Later Came to Her Home Pinned Her to a Wall and Forcibly Kissed Her when She Pushed Him Off He Said but You Invited Me Over Greene Resigned in 1977 and Said She Did Not Go to Authorities Because She Did Not Think They Would Believe Her</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Allegations Span Forty Years the Pattern Described by Burns he Has Done Things Like This Before Suggests It Was Well Known Inside the Company</span>
<h1><b>the Question</b></h1>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;">here is What We Know About the Timeline</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">rachel Grynberg and Her Siblings Began Their Legal Campaign to Remove Their Father in 2015 2016 Their Theory Was That Jack Was Mentally Declining Making Irrational Decisions and Putting the Familys Billion dollar Empire at Risk</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">during That Exact Same Period 2015 and 2016 Four Women Were Alleging That Jack Grynberg Was Using the Same Company As a Vehicle for Sexual Predation One Woman Said She Was Coerced into Sex Dozens of Times Another Was Allegedly Assaulted in a Locker Room a Company Executive Acknowledged the Pattern and Told a Victim to Keep Quiet</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">the Familys Lawsuit to Seize the Companies and the Womens Lawsuit Were Proceeding Simultaneously in the Same Metropolitan Area Covered by the Same Newspaper</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">what Did Rachel Do for Those Women What Did Any of the Grynberg Children Do</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">we Do Not Know</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">it is Possible That the Grynberg Family Quietly Settled the Womens Claims Ensured They Were Compensated and Required Confidentiality As a Condition if So That Would Be a Responsible Resolution and by Its Nature We Would Never Know About It</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">it is Also Possible That the Family Took the Money Took the Companies and Left Those Women to Fight One of Denvers Wealthiest Families Alone</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;"><em>the Frank Report</em> Does Not Know Which of These is True No One in the Grynberg Family Has Ever Said a Word About Those Women Publicly Not Rachel Not Stephen Not Miriam in the Age of metoo a Billion dollar Family That Built Its Entire Legal Strategy Around the Argument That Their Patriarch Was Unfit Has Never Acknowledged the Women Who May Have Had the Most to Say About Just How Unfit He Was</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">maybe the Silence Means the Matter Was Handled Privately and Responsibly Maybe It Means Something Else</span>
<h1><b>what We Are Looking For</b></h1>
<span Style="font-weight: 400;"><em>the Frank Report</em> Received Tips Alleging That Rachel Grynberg Has Engaged in a Pattern of Aggressive Litigation and Destruction of Business Relationships Since Taking Control of the Grynberg Empire We Reviewed the Materials Those Tipsters Provided Most of It Documented Jack Grynbergs Legendary Litigation History Not Rachels What We Were Not Given Was a Single Case Filed by Rachel Grynberg Against Any Third Party Since She Took Control Not One</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">that Does Not Mean Such Cases Do Not Exist the Grynberg Family Operates Behind a Wall of Sealed Records and Corporate Privacy but Tips Dressed Up As Jacks Old Court Filings Do Not Get the Job Done if People Have Been Harmed by Rachel Grynbergs Stewardship of These Companies the Evidence Needs to Be Specific Case Numbers Jurisdictions Names</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">we Are Specifically Seeking Information on Two Fronts</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">first the Disposition of the Sexual Harassment and Assault Lawsuit Filed by Smith Yzaguirre and Alvarez in Douglas County Was It Settled on What Terms Did the Grynberg Family Companies Participate Were Non disclosure Agreements Signed</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">second the Current Status of Terence Burns and Roger Jatco Once the Grynberg Children Took Control Burns and Jatco Became Their Employees Burns Was Accused Under Oath of Telling a Victim to Stay Quiet Jatco Was Accused of Knowing About the Pattern and Doing Nothing Did Rachel Fire Them Did She Keep Them the Answer Tells You Something About What Kind of Company She Chose to Run</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">jack Grynberg Built His Fortune by Fighting Companies That Were Bigger Than He Was His Daughter Inherited That Fortune by Fighting the Man Who Built It Whether the Women Her Father Allegedly Victimized Were Taken Care of or Thrown Away is a Question the Family Has Never Answered</span>

<span Style="font-weight: 400;">we Invite Rachel Grynberg to Contact<em> the Frank Report</em> at Any Time with Her Perspective if She Took Care of Those Women She Should Say So if Confidentiality Agreements Prevent Her from Discussing the Terms a Simple Acknowledgment That Those Women Existed and That Their Experience Mattered Would Cost Nothing</span> — Zachary Michael the Multi Instrumentalist Wows the Audience

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