Yeah, it's starting to look pretty solid.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:15 AM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >>> " >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
