You need to write a book on this
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > There has always been McCown Tech since the early 19902.. It was the owner > of intellectual property (Patents, designs, trademarks etc) as well as the > owner of all critical production machinery. My wife and I own this 100% > > Beehive Telephone Company was started in 1963 by Art Brothers. He died a > couple of weeks ago. > I worked for Beehive Telephone off and on for about 30 years. Quit 4 times > fired twice. > > I actually came from Oregon Telephone. Art hired me to get him out of > trouble with the REA (now called RUS) in 1986 as he had used materials that > were not allowed under the loan program and they were denying him loan draw > downs. I was a central office installer and a REA contract inspector in > Oregon so I knew the proper way to do things. Art did nothing properly. > So I helped Art learn how to properly build a telephone company and get out > of trouble with the feds. (It was a mess, crappy PBX systems in semi > trailers in the desert as central offices). > > I had a hard time working for him and his wife de jour for any length of > time and went to Quincy Illinois, started MTC and manufactured airborne PBX > systems for head of state, corporate and military aircraft. Art kept trying > to get me to come back to Beehive. I did as a consultant and contractor > and eventually stayed in 1999. > > In 2003 I used the insurance settlement from a personal tragedy and started > the WISP Wireless Beehive with Art Brothers. 50/50 > > I started WB Manufacturing a couple of years later having developed some > antennas used by Wireless Beehive. > > In 2013, we sold to Digis. Art told his wife (7th wife, about 40 years his > junior, second Russian wife (6th if you don’t count common law)) that we > got $90M and I would not give him any. He was a character. Prevaricator > and confabulator without peer. She started to get paranoid I think (a > common trait amongst Russians). > > During Wispapalloza the fall of 2013, while I was in Vegas, Art, his wife > and her attorney rolled in and cleaned out a bunch of bank accounts. He > told all the employees he was dying of a brain tumor and was going to > travel the world. They engineered a takeover firing of myself, CFO, COO and > several others. Most of the employees I hired and gave equity to all sided > with the coup. (A regular paycheck is more powerful that integrity and > loyalty I guess. ) Brain tumor never reappeared... > > And then they started suing almost everyone that got fired. This has been > going on for a couple of years. > > So, no I was not about to continue to operate WB Manufacturing to the > benefit of a guy the was suing me. WBM is also subject to the lawsuit as > is my wife, the wife of the CFO, and a handful of other going concerns > they shut down the the frenzy of attempting to rain fire from the sky. > (Then even bought the mortgage of my factory building from Zions bank, told > me they were now my banker, declared me a risk and said I was in default due > to extraordinary risk and were going to foreclose. I was never late on a > payment, they even returned payments they had accepted and refused to take > any more payments... I have a TRO against them and a pending suit against > them on that too) > > MTC was in operation and was a going concern and owned all the IP and rights > to everything. So MTC just started selling what it already owned. WB > Manufacturing is in mothballs and has been for a long time pending > litigation and liquidation. > > Art has done this before. 21 years ago this month, he did almost the exact > same thing to his kids. Threw them out, sued them, and really never talked > to them since. > > He was a ward of the state growing up. Lived in 13 different foster > families. Learned to burn every bridge, take every advantage and make no > permanent friends. He has burned everyone that has spent more than a > handful of years with him and every business partner he ever had that had > skin in the game. I knew what he was like when I came back to Beehive in > 1999. That is the reason MTC solely owns the IP, critical production > equipment and all rights. It is also the reason I owned (I thought) my own > building... > > The 30 somethings (sycophants?) that he assigned to take the jobs that were > vacated are currently living high on being captains of business and > industry and trying to continue to show the old guys how difficult they can > make things for us. Tough guys, real hard ball players... > Hubris Writ Large. > > As long as they keep the Russian happy, they will probably have jobs... > > So, did that answer the question? > > > From: Rory Conaway > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2016 9:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown tech and beehive? > > > Are they 2 separate companies now? > > > > Rory Conaway • Triad Wireless • CEO > > 4226 S. 37th Street • Phoenix • AZ 85040 > > 602-426-0542 > > [email protected] > > www.triadwireless.net > > > > “I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.” > >
