Let’s talk a bit more about Aaron Broussard’s “evidence of other crimes” involving the resort at Trout Point Nova Scotia and the use of SLAPP suits by his business associates in Canada.

After reading Drew Broach’s piece and the latest filing by the federal prosecutors in the bribery case involving disgraced former Parish President Aaron Broussard I came away with the distinct feeling I had seen the name of his original Louisiana based LLC set up to accept bribes from Parish contractors that went to buy real estate at the Trout Point resort, Nova Scotia Enterprises, LLC.  The connection is Broussard’s long time associate and part owner of the Lodge at Trout Point, Danny Abel but Abel’s name does not show up in the Team USA legal filing, rather we have a redacted list of the original investors.  There is some interesting things in the redacted ownership document that was presented to the court however and I bet Slabbed can shed some light on the names which were redacted from the court filing.

To set things up though I feel compelled to point out the Times Picayune trail blazed this topic, was SLAPP sued in Nova Scotia by Broussard’s property managers Charles Leary and Vaughn Perret who are Abel’s business partners that are based at the Lodge.  Val Bracy at Fox 8 also had a great report on the topic which was retracted earlier this year as part of the SLAPP suit settlement in Nova Scotia filed by Leary and Perret.  Through time I have also learned this same bunch has availed themselves of Canada’s defamation laws against several Canadian media outlets such as the Rural Delivery, which did an excellent expose on Leary, Abel and Perret’s attempted fleecing of the Atlantic Canada  Opportunities Agency among others.

I have also been SLAPP sued by this same bunch in Canada but continued to investigate the topic of Broussard’s use of a real estate development in Canada to launder the alleged bribes that were paid to him.  This litigation is currently awaiting a ruling by US District Court Judge Louis Guriola. They have also repeatedly threatened a new media journalist in the Town of Shelburne Nova Scotia for reporting on the court case they filed against me among other things for they simply do not want this topic discussed.  With the latest Federal Court filing in the case against Aaron Broussard I think everyone now understands why Charles Leary lied to the Times Picayune in January 2010 regarding their involvement with Aaron Broussard and why their story continually changes with each revelation.  More on that in a bit.

Let’s begin with a few pages of documents from that Team USA Court filing, specifically the exhibits as here are the initial owners of Nova Scotia Enterprises LLC, which according to Team Fed was a conduit to pay bribes to Aaron Broussard:

Yep, all the names were redacted sure but notice that one schmuck paid the same buy-in price for 3% as the others paid for 6%. Most interesting however on the last page was another “Class B” owner besides Aaron Broussard, getting a 4% slice of the freebie Class B shares. Very interesting indeed folks.

That is not all folks because there was another exhibit from Nova Scotia Enterprises that was very interesting in a spreadsheet of the money being contributed by the owners of Nova Scotia Enterprises for Broussard’s benefit. Remember this LLC according to Team Fed held Broussard’s real estate investments in Nova Scotia and we previously knew Broussard owned River Bend Lodge and Black Bear Cottage, two short term rental properties managed by Trout Point Lodge which is owned by Charles Leary, Vaughn Perret and Danny Abel. So lets take a look at Broussard’s “evergreen” take at roughly $50,000 per year:

This all sounded familiar to me but I couldn’t put my finger on it.  So I site searched Slabbed for Nova Scotia Enterprises and sure enough it showed up in a comment to this post about Broussard media shill Eric Paulsen among other goatherders.  That post was one of the ones Leary and Perret highlighted in their SLAPP suit defamation case in Nova Scotia against me and now I understand why:

From TJR:

http://thejeffersonreport.com/?p=1948

“The latest round of financial disclosure forms, which cover calendar year 2010, have been filed with the state and former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard is in the mix. In case you forgot, Broussard served an entire eight days last January before resigning amid questions about the business dealings of his top executives and his own curious interests.
… But not long after he stepped down, Broussard executed the first in a series of transactions involving a number of his long-held properties. It was kicked off with a 16.65 percent interest in a lot in East Kemptville, Nova Scotia, which was transferred to Kempt Wilderness Lodge for a value of $24,999 or less, based on the categories listed in the financial disclosure forms required by the Louisiana Ethics Board.
In May of 2010, a 50 percent interest in a nearby lot was transferred to Donald Zeringue for $100,000 or less. Then another 50 percent interest in an East Kemptville lot was transferred in October to Pravin Desai for more than $100,000. Two weeks later, a half interest in a residential property on West Esplanade Avenue in Kenner was transferred in an agreement to Bank of America for a final value of more than $100,000.”
Okay that Super 8 Motel at 2421 Clearview where Abel and Broussard are holed up in?

Owned by something called Desai Holding, LLC, per the JP Assessor online site:
“Parcel# Owner Location Description Assessment Action
3821969300 DESAI HOLDING LLC
2421 CLEARVIEW PWKY”

“This thing apparently works in pairs, a company in Nova Scotia and a counterpart company in LA:
All of the below is from the Nova Scotia corporate registry and the LA SOS:

1. La Ferme D’Acadie (NS) – Owned by P-A-L. Registered 6/25/98 (first registered 8/27/97 under name of La Ferme D’Acadie as a partnership). Inactive (stricken for failure to reply to notice).
2. La Ferme LTD (LA) – Owned by P-A-L. Registered 9/9/97. Active (but not in good standing for not filing annual report). Last renewed 4/6/10.

1. TP Ltd. (NS) – Owned by P-A-L. registered 12/14/98. Active, reinstated 4/5/11.
2. Scotia Point LLC (LA) – Owned by P-A-L. Registered 4/13/00. Active (but not in good standing for not filing annual report).

1. PUBLIC WORKS INVESTMENTS (NS) – Nature of business: “DEVELOPMENT OF RENTAL PROPERTY.” Partly owned by Broussard under his law firm’s name, partly by Karen Parker. No changes of ownership. By some miracle this registration did not get reported in the TP apparently. Registered 6/4/99. Inactive.
2. Public Works Inc. (LA) – Partly owned by Karen Parker, partly by her two sisters, but registered agent is at Broussard’s firm. Registered 1/10/97. Inactive, dissolved 6/23/08.

1. Kempt Wilderness Lodge Services (NS) – Nature of Business: “PROVIDING SECURITY, CARETAKING, BUSINESS MACHINE, ACCESS SERVICES TO WILDNERESS RENTAL PROPERTIES.” Partly owned under Broussard’s law firm’s address. Registered 10/20/03. Change of ownership 10/29/10. Active.

2. NOVA SCOTIA ENTERPRISES, L.L.C. (LA). Entirely owned under Broussard’s law firm’s address, but not under Broussard’s name. However the 6/9/02 TP reported it as: “Nova Scotia Enterprises , LLC, 3329 Florida Ave., Kenner, 70065, Aaron F. Broussard.” Registered 5/20/02. But the LA SOS shows no amendments on file. Odd, no? Active.

Basically, guess is, any (or some?) investors may have created a LA entity in a similar fashion.

Marie Krantz and Patrica Caldwell, counsel for all entities Broussard in New Scotland, appear below:

“ESTATE NOTICES”

“All persons having legal demands against any of the undernoted estates shall render the same, dulyattested, within six months from the date of the first advertisement hereof; and all persons indebted to the said estate are required to make immediate payment to the Personal Representative noted.”

“ESTATE OF:
Place of Residence of Deceased
Date of Grant of
Probate/Administration”:
“KRANTZ, Marie G.
Kenner, Louisiana, USA
October 8-2010 (Extra-Provincial)”

“Personal Representative
Executor (Ex) or
Administrator (Ad)”:
“Bryan G. Krantz (Ex)
85 Chateau LaTour
Kenner LA 70064
USA”

“Solicitor for Personal
Representative
Date of the First Insertion”:
“Patricia E. Caldwell, QC
101 Water Street, Suite 1B
Yarmouth NS B5A 4P4
November 3-2010 – (6m)”

(Page 9):

http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg1/2010/no0310.pdf

Here we have Broussard, Stoulig and Krantz all together in the same venture – Laketown, in Kenner (still, currently in the news as well), but the timing and the sound of it are familiar:

10/13/99 TP:

“KENNER LAKEFRONT ATTRACTS INVESTORS – NEW HOTEL, HOMES PLANNED FOR AREA
A decade ago, Kenner’s lakefront was mostly a barren strip of silt and riprap. But with the recent groundbreaking for a new hotel and impending construction of what could be one of Jefferson Parish’s most expensive subdivisions, the area is quickly becoming a destination for people who want to get back to the lake.

“We’d certainly like to see more people using Lake Pontchartrain, and we believe Laketown is one of the best places to do it,” said Carlton Dufrechou, executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation.

Kenner’s lakefront is attracting more attention these days because it is one of the few places in East Jefferson with room left for development, said Wade Ragas, director of a real estate research center at the University of New Orleans.

“It’s clearly investors saying, ‘We’re confident in the future of Jefferson Parish,’” Ragas said.

The revitalization began in 1990 when the Pontchartrain Center opened. In 1994, then-Mayor Aaron Broussard dubbed the area Laketown, and the Treasure Chest Casino docked there beside the old Williams Boulevard boat launch. The boat launch was refurbished, and two years later, with money from the casino, Kenner turned the barren West Peninsula shoreline into a neatly landscaped jetty with playgrounds, picnic pavilions and a fishing pier.

This past week, ground was broken for a 121-room, three-story Hilton Garden Inn hotel that will be built east of the Pontchartrain Center on land leased from the city. It took Kenner officials four years to get a hotel developer to agree to build in Laketown, and it took even longer for Jefferson Downs owner Marie Krantz to decide to build a gated community, Gabriel, at the site of the former racetrack.

In addition to the hotel and the subdivision, Kenner is applying for federal permission to fill in 41 more acres of Lake Pontchartrain to expand its lakefront park. And city officials are scouting for investors to build a sports complex with in-line and ice skating and a swimming pool west of the Pontchartrain Center.

The $9 million hotel will be finished next summer, said developer Bryan Dupepe Jr., and will be used by visitors to the casino and the Pontchartrain Center.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for the development team, investors and most importantly the city of Kenner,” Dupepe said “This hotel is just going to make this area flourish.”

Dupepe and his family own the Provincial Hotel in New Orleans and built the Fairfield Inn on 32nd Street in Kenner.

The Pontchartrain Center, which has 90 percent occupancy on the weekends and 60 percent on the weekdays, has long needed a hotel to house those who come to town for weekend trade shows, General Manager Jeffrey Trahan said.

“We have a lot of people who participate in our large consumer shows, such as craft shows, (who) have a need to spend the night or weekend here,” Trahan said.

The hotel developers have a 45-year lease with the city, with a 25-year renewal option. According to the lease, the city receives the greater of $50,000 a year in rent or a portion of gross room revenue: 1.5. percent the first and second years, 2.75 percent the third and 4 percent each subsequent year. After the lease expires, Kenner would own the building. Based on projections, the city would receive at least $120,000 a year by the fourth year.

Kenner sought a developer for a lakefront hotel for four years. In 1997, the city entered an agreement with a developer for an 180-room Sheraton Hotel, but that deal fell through. Mayor Louis Congemi said the main problem was finding a developer who would build a hotel without special commitments, such as special financing or tax breaks, from the city. That Dupepe and his investors wanted nothing from Kenner showed they were dedicated to the project, Congemi said.

That same dedication is obvious in the developers of Gabriel, an upscale 219-home development that is planned for the old Jefferson Downs site, Congemi said.

“Mrs. Krantz was willing to make an investment as a developer and as homeowner,” City Councilwoman Michele Branigan said. “She’s been great to the community.”

The racetrack closed in 1992, but an off-track betting parlor remains there.

Krantz wanted a development that wouldn’t clash with existing neighborhoods, said Lawrence Stoulig Jr., a consultant for the new development. She was approached with offers to buy the property from people who wanted to turn it into a theme park, water park and even a baseball stadium, but Krantz “never really embraced those type of developments,” Stoulig said.

Neither did neighbors who often called City Council members after hearing rumors that the land was going to be turned into a theme park, Branigan said.

“All anyone wanted to see was a residential development,” she said.

A feasibility study determined an upscale subdivision was the best fit for the neighborhood, Stoulig said.

The planned subdivision will have a mixture of residences, from “garden homes” on 7,000-square-foot lots to larger homes on lots of up to 24,000 square feet. Prices for the smaller lots will begin at $145,000, Stoulig said. Prices haven’t been set for the larger lots, he said.

All of the homes will have to conform to an architectural “Caribbean-like” style, and the gated community will be heavily landscaped and have several parks and paths, he said.

Although reservations for the lots are being taken, they won’t be sold until September, after the streets in the 90-acre development are built. The streets won’t be put in until the off-track betting parlor is relocated next spring. Then, the Jefferson Downs buildings will be torn down, Stoulig said.”

And even better here we have James E. Smith (Jim Smith), Stoulig, Krantz, and Broussard all together:

8/11/92 TP:

“MAYOR’S FRIEND TO OVERSEE PROPOSAL – MARTINEZ DENIES TIES LED TO JOB

New Orleans Aviation Board member Jimmie Martinez has been hired as a consultant by Jefferson Downs racetrack officials in their bid to bring riverboat gambling to Kenner.

Martinez, 47, chief administrative officer under Mayor Aaron Broussard for nearly six years before retiring in 1987, was hired last month to help racetrack officials put together a riverboat gambling proposal. He contributed $5,000 to Broussard ‘s unsuccessful 1991 campaign for governor, campaign finance reports show.

Kenner officials issued notices last month to determine who is interested in bringing riverboat gambling to the city.

So far, eight companies or individuals, including Jefferson Downs owner Marie Krantz , have shown interest in submitting a proposal. The proposals would spell out the company’s qualifications for leasing a site on the Mississippi River or Lake Pontchartrain for gambling, Broussard said.

Martinez, appointed to the Aviation Board in 1989, said his close ties with Broussard and other council members have nothing to do with the gambling consulting job.

“Marie needs me as a pencil person to write a proposal,” he said. “Marie knows the elected officials in the city, parish and state just as well as I do.”

Martinez, co-owner of Digital Imaging in Kenner and a former employee of Stoulig and Buckley accounting firm, said he frequently fills out proposals seeking work with local, state and national companies.

Jefferson Downs officials could not be reached for comment Monday. But Kenner officials said the selection process will ensure that no one, including Martinez, is shown favoritism.

Broussard said the city has hired New Orleans attorney Jim Smith to review all proposals. Smith drafted the riverboat gambling legislation and is working with the state Riverboat Gaming Commission to review proposals for the 15 licenses to be awarded statewide, Broussard said.

If the proposals meet minimum state requirements, they will be forwarded to the Riverboat Gaming Commission. Only after a company has undergone state scrutiny and received a riverboat gambling permit will local officials be involved in the process, Broussard said.

“People with no contacts are exactly on the same footing with Jimmie,” Broussard said.

Because of the limited number of gambling permits to be issued statewide, it is unlikely that more than one company interested in locating a boat in Kenner will receive a permit, Broussard said.”

So here are a couple more entities for ya, courtesy of the LA SOS:

“SNOW COUNTRY, L.L.C. Limited Liability Company NEW ORLEANS Active

Business: SNOW COUNTRY, L.L.C.
Charter Number: 35193021 K
Registration Date: 12/28/2001
Domicile Address
700 CAMP ST.
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130
Mailing Address
C/O STACI A. ROSENBERG
700 CAMP ST.
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130
Status
Status: Active
Annual Report Status: Not In Good Standing for failure to file Annual Report
File Date: 12/28/2001
Last Report Filed: 12/23/2009
Type: Limited Liability Company

Registered Agent(s)
Agent: STACI A. ROSENBERG
Address 1: 700 CAMP ST.
City, State, Zip: NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130
Appointment Date: 12/28/2001

Officer(s) Additional Officers: No
Officer: JAMES E. SMITH, JR.
Title: Member
Address 1: 700 CAMP ST.
City, State, Zip: NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

Amendments on File
No Amendments on file”

James E. Smith, Jr. also appears in one of the Nova Scotia companies (KWLS). The above gets added because the connotation of “snow country” ceryainly leads one to thik of the great white north – Canada.

“MGKNS PROPERTIES, L.L.C. Limited Liability Company KENNER Active

Business: MGKNS PROPERTIES, L.L.C.
Charter Number: 35965888 K
Registration Date: 6/23/2005
Domicile Address
#85 CHATEAU LATOUR
KENNER, LA 70065
Mailing Address
C/O BRYAN G. KRANTZ
#85 CHATEAU LATOUR
KENNER, LA 70065
Status
Status: Active
Annual Report Status: Not In Good Standing for failure to file Annual Report
File Date: 6/23/2005
Last Report Filed: 5/15/2009
Type: Limited Liability Company

Registered Agent(s)
Agent: BRYAN G. KRANTZ
Address 1: #85 CHATEAU LATOUR
City, State, Zip: KENNER, LA 70065
Appointment Date: 6/23/2005

Officer(s) Additional Officers: No
Officer: BRYAN G. KRANTZ
Title: Member
Address 1: #85 CHATEAU LATOUR
City, State, Zip: KENNER, LA 70065

Amendments on File
No Amendments on file”

Now, regarding the above, let’s just make a leap (if appropriate) and guess that MGK = Marie G. Krantz, and “NS” = Nova Scotia.

There is also something called:

“GABRIEL RESORTS, L.L.C. Limited Liability Company KENNER Inactive

Business: GABRIEL RESORTS, L.L.C.
Charter Number: 35431401 K
Registration Date: 2/20/2003
Domicile Address
#46 CHATEAU LATOUR DRIVE
KENNER, LA 70065
Mailing Address
#46 CHATEAU LATOUR DRIVE
KENNER, LA 70065
Status
Status: Inactive
Inactive Reason: Action by Secretary of State
File Date: 2/20/2003
Last Report Filed: N/A
Type: Limited Liability Company

Registered Agent(s)
Agent: DAVID R. SHERMAN
Address 1: ONE GALLERIA BLVD.
Address 2: SUITE 1100
City, State, Zip: METAIRIE, LA 70001
Appointment Date: 2/20/2003

Officer(s) Additional Officers: Yes
Officer: MARIE G. KRANTZ
Title: Member
Address 1: #46 CHATEAU LATOUR DRIVE
City, State, Zip: KENNER, LA 70065

Officer: BRYAN G. KRANTZ
Title: Member
Address 1: #85 CHATEAU LATOUR DRIVE
City, State, Zip: KENNER, LA 70065

Officer: MARIE G. KRANTZ GRANDCHILDREN’S TRUST
Title: Member
Address 1: ONE GALLERIA BLVD.
Address 2: SUITE 1100
City, State, Zip: METAIRIE, LA 70065

Amendments on File (1)
Description Date
Revoked 5/15/2008

The “MARIE G. KRANTZ GRANDCHILDREN’S TRUST” also has something called “The Courtyards of Gabriel” and the Succession of Marie G. Krantz’ has something called “Gabriel Construction LLC.”

And there is also this odd notice from the 10/10/03 TP:

“ODDS AND ENDS

Jefferson Parish Council actions Wednesday …

… Land swap: Agreed to give a 25,602-square-foot tract on the east side of the old Duncan Canal pump station in Kenner to the succession of Marie G. Krantz in exchange for a 16,580-square-foot tract on the north side of the Joseph S. Yenni Building in Elmwood. The pump station property is valued at $115,200, the Yenni Building property at $99,500.”

It is really scary to think:

Where did the Yenni Building land come from, and who owns or owned the land around it?

And, let’s all hope that land near the pumping stations had no role to play in the flooding that ultimately occurred, damaging so many innocent citizens. Let’s hope they did not flood just so some FOA (Friend Of Aaron) could profit. Who owned the Yenni Building land before, and who owns or owned the land around it?

And, let’s all hope that land near the pumping stations had no role to play in the flooding that ultimately occurred, damaging so many innocent citizens. Let’s hope they did not flood just so some FOA (Friend Of Aaron) could profit.

It’s all online, folks, all online.

and this

By the way, on the above there is something else:

The assessment for the Super-8 property – 2421 Clearview – is actually shown at “0″.

That’s right: ZERO.

As in Nada. Zip. Nill. Null. For a property that HAS A HOTEL ON IT.

Here it is in full:

“Parcel# Owner Location Description Assessment Action
3821969300 DESAI HOLDING LLC 2421 CLEARVIEW PWKY 0 ___ ”

Also: It’s a real hoot how these folks like to conclave together:

Right across from Mrs. Ktantz?

Why it’s fellow TrPt investor (allegedly, according to the self-rebuked Picayune):

“Parcel# Owner Location Description Assessment Action
0920015480 MUNIZ,EDMOND & PEGGY N 58 CHATEAU LA TOUR DR LOT 86 SQ 4 SEC 1 CHATEAU EST S 41720 ”

Also, that Gabriel property on the old Jefferson Downs location is on a grand avenue called…. Joe Yenni Boulevard. Nice touch, huh?

V aka Telemachus was featured prominently in Leary and Perret’s defamation case against me AND Fox 8 in Canada. I think we should all understand why based on the latest bombshell from Team USA. But that is not all because Nova Scotia Enterprises still stuck in my craw despite the Slabbed site searchs. Yes, I produced a detailed list of the property owners at the Trout Point Development last year and Slabbed connected Broussard activities in the East Kempt Nova Scotia area to his property managers Charles Leary and Vaughn Perret via the Billy Hills Trail Society but I know I saw that name Nova Scotia Enterprises someplace else.  Then I had the EUREKA moment and found it but to set it up we must visit with Timothy Gillespie at the South Coast Today out of Shelburne Canada and his story on the damages hearing in Charles Leary and Vaugn Perret’s defamation case against me, Southern Gothic because, “Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open”:

Perret would be considered knock-dead handsome in most circles, with his chisled bones, dark eyes, perfect coiffed, jet-black hair and thousand-dollar designer suit. He oozed Southern charm, when questioning his partner, co-plaintiff and witness, when addressing Justice Hood and when chatting amiably with the courtroom staff. He might be what Doris day – or Rock Hudson – would refer to as a “dreamboat.”

He appeared less dignified and emotionally wrought when thrusting a handful of papers at the judge as he suggested that his blogging nemesis had caused the recent death of a friend, or tried to entice the judge to look at photos of his fever blisters, or petulantly referred to a reporter in the room or, with lips appearing to quiver, told Justice Hood that he just could not testify with that reporter in the room about the affidavit he has submitted for the hearing. A cynical observer might think some exaggeration was at play.

I have an audio of the whole proceeding which is legal jackassery at its finest and that will appear on the Slabb in due course but notice how Perret did not want a reporter in the room to hear his testimony. The pair also complained to the Judge about the research I was doing into their case against Fox 8 and in a rare moment of sanity, Nova Scotia Judge Suzanne Hood reminded Leary and Perret the court records were public records even in Canada. I mention all this because I remembered Nova Scotia Enterprises LLC from documents I obtained from Leary and Perret’s SLAPP suit against Fox 8 in Nova Scotia and I have a document that names one of the owners of Nova Scotia Enterprises in the late Roy D’Aquila, Aaron Broussard’s former law partner who filed an affidavit for Leary and Perret in their defamation case against Fox 8. Worth noting is D’Aquila died of a heart attack within weeks of the Fox 8 case documents appearing on Slabbed:

So ol’ Roy was a member of NSE and surely Leary and Perret knew all about the company as this exhibit to their SLAPP defamation case against Fox 8 illustrates. I think we can figure out the other owners a couple of different ways, the first being by illustrating those local people that inserted themselves into Leary and Perret’s Canadian SLAPP suits against the US media:

• David Loeb
• Danny Abel
• Bennett Powell

And really this is just a start for there are others as well. 😉

So now that we know why Vaughn Perret is having fever blister problems and why their story has morphed through time from barely knowing Broussard to the oh yeah we forgot to mention we managed Broussard’s property in Nova Scotia that appeared in a post on the Trout Point Lodge blog (now deleted).  I contacted Leary and Perret’s publicist, Richard Brennan at the Toronto Star yesterday for comment since he played devil’s advocate for them last January in a phone conversation with me but he did not reply.  Since I am in litigation with Leary and Perret I can not contact them per my lawyer’s instructions but my previous attempts to solicit comment on the letter from D’Aquila to Leary and Perret yammering about those “lot assessments” aka member contributions also garnered no response so I’m content to let the documents and court filings in Broussard’s criminal case speak for themselves.

This is a multi part post, please stay tuned.

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