Darden's other business activities would indicate that if he's a con artist, he's world-class because otherwise he would at least have been accused if not prosecuted if not convicted by now.
In the absence of such expectation, what this says to me is that Darden has the background required to look into the "con" that Rossi was accused of running in Italy and deciding whether it was indeed a "con" or whether Rossi was falsely accused. On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com>wrote: > http://www.rti.org/page.cfm/Corporate_Governance > > Tom is on the board of governors for RTI. > > About RTI > [image: International Development - Education] > [image: Energy Lab] > [image: Environment - Water quality - fish] > [image: Economic - Food & Agricultural Policy] > [image: Adv Tech - Microfabricated Mass Spectrometer] > [image: Adv Tech -] > RightLeft > > RTI International is one of the world’s leading research institutes, > dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into > practice. Our staff of more than 3,700 provides research and technical > services to governments and businesses in more than 75 countries in the > areas of health and pharmaceuticals, education and training, surveys and > statistics, advanced technology, international development, economic and > social policy, energy and the environment, and laboratory testing and > chemical analysis. > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Quite fascinating. Like Rossi, Tom Darden has been intimately involved >> in repurposing industrial contaminated waste as something useful. Kindred >> souls? Something more? Fellow con artists? You decide. >> >> "HISTORY >> >> In 1984, a group of investors including Tom Darden purchased four brick >> plants and merged them to form Cherokee Sanford Group (CSG), which grew to >> become the largest privately held brick manufacturer in North America. When >> we discovered petroleum-contaminated soil at one of the plant sites, the >> regulators suggested taking the impaired soil to a nearby landfill. As an >> alternative, CSG proposed mixing it with clean clay in the brick-making >> process. The combustion in the kilns burned up the fuel oil in the soil. >> From this beginning, CSG started a business of receiving contaminated clay >> from underground storage tank clean-ups. By 1990, CSG was the largest soil >> remediator in the mid-Atlantic region, eventually cleaning up nearly 15 >> million tons of contaminated material. >> >> Tom Darden and John Mazzarino formed the predecessor company of Cherokee >> in 1993 to focus exclusively on environmentally impaired assets. In 1994 >> they organized a risk management advisory affiliate and then formed >> Cherokee's first institutional capital (Fund I) in 1996. Cherokee formed a >> $250 million private equity fund (Fund II) in 1998, a $620 million fund >> (Fund III) in 2002, and its current, $1.2 billion fund (Fund IV) in 2005. >> " >> >> >> > >
