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Thursday, March 31, 2016

DID STEVEN INGERSOLL VIOLATE NO-CONTACT ORDER ISSUED BY JUDGE THOMAS L. LUDINGTON WHILE 'CONSULTING' WITH MARK NOSS PRIOR TO HIS 2015 TRIAL? Newly-Released Email Evidence Reveals 'Contact' Began In April 2014 And Continued Through March 2016.


So are we to assume that after receiving the Grand Traverse Academy money torch from Steven Ingersoll, Mark Noss and his Full Spectrum Management didn't really sever ties “with Smart Schools Management to protect the integrity of Grand Traverse Academy” as he publicly promised in his April 28, 2014 email? 
-WITNESS LIST? Those Are My Friends...And Long-Term Business Associates!

The story of Steven Ingersoll's continuing financial and business relationship with Mark Noss is getting more problematic.

Miss Fortune has uncovered evidence (and by 'evidence' I mean court documents that I used to write a series of stories last year!) that indicates Steven Ingersoll violated a no-contact order, issued January 21, 2015 by U. S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington, when he provided his so-called business management services to Full Spectrum Management, LLC honcho Mark Noss.

Ludington's order, barring Ingersoll from having “contact, whether directly or indirectly, with any witnesses identified by the Government in its witness lists”, denied Ingersoll's January 14, 2015 request to maintain contact with individuals he wished to exempt, including Mark Noss, Craig Johnston, Margo Abbott, Jim Comer, Bruce Christensen, and Patty Engler. 

In his January 14 response to the government's December 5, 2014 motion to modify the conditions of his bond, Ingersoll asked that he be allowed to maintain contact with those potential witness due to “a recurring professional and/or personal relationship”. 

Hmmm? Interesting. Even if Noss sent a proxy to meet with Ingersoll, that still qualifies as 'indirect' contact.

The feds got the bond modification ball rolling in late 2014. According to details presented in a December 19, 2014 bond revocation hearing, Ingersoll was directly involved in a scheme to serve subpoenas on witnesses in fraud co-defendant Roy Bradley's asbestos mishandling case. 


So, if Ingersoll did violate that no-contact order, I'm still puzzled as to what kind of expertise he could have provided to Mark Noss.

If you'd read the April 28, 2014 email Noss sent, introducing himself to the Grand Traverse Academy community, you would have thought he'd hit the ground running and never look back.

Like Lt. Joe Kenda says...my, my, my!

STEVEN INGERSOLL RESPONDS TO 'NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE', BUT ADMITS RECEIVING (AT LEAST) $300,000 FROM MARK NOSS...SORT OF! Steven Ingersoll Vows To "Testify To This Matter" Next Week In U. S. District Court.

If he does, he's got some mansplaining to do, too. 

Here's the defense response on behalf of Steven Ingersoll:

“On March 29, 2016, the Government filed a Supplemental Memorandum, alleging that Defendant Dr. Steven Ingersoll obstructed justice by failing to disclose the licensing fees of $12,500 per month ($150,000 per annum) to the probation office and to the Court when he provided his income statement and balance sheet last fall. 

Based on that alleged failure, the Government listed a number of accusations and speculations related to Dr. Ingersoll and others.

Rather than respond to these baseless accusations and speculations individually, Defendant draws the Court’s and the Government’s attention to the following information which rebuts the basic premise of the Supplemental Memorandum. 

First, the annual $150,000 licensing fee was disclosed in a note on the Balance Sheet next to the value for Dr. Ingersoll’s investment in SSI. 

Second, the actual payments Dr. Ingersoll received from Mark Noss were disclosed on the Income Statement as Schedule C income from SSB and SSI. To the extent the Court or the Government needs further clarification on this point, Dr. Ingersoll will testify to this matter next week.” 

It's the battle of the documents!

Wonder if MLive or the Record-Eagle will cover this? Not likely.

But here are some things I'd like to know in case any of you hotshots are reading this:


1) Although 'Integrated Visual Learning' is the foundation of much of Ingersoll's intellectual property, official U. S. Copyright Office records reveal Ingersoll and Mark Noss share the copyright for the original 1994 IVL process text.

Could this mean Noss shared in the $300,000 annual "curriculum" payments Ingersoll received during the years he ran the Grand Traverse Academy, and is he still giving Ingersoll his 'cut'? 

And, if so, is Noss taking the other $150,000 for himself?

“I have for years and continue to pay a proprietary fee for IVL’s Intellectual Properties that has allowed me to use it in my solely owned clinics, as well as more recently apply in in the GTA setting.”

2) Is Noss making additional payments to Ingersoll for those management services, including advice on 'regulation, compliance, and reporting', he described in his March 16, 2016 email response? 

“When I was awarded the management contract for GTA two years ago, I realized there was a tremendous amount of knowledge for me to acquire quickly. I have utilized Dr. Ingersoll’s 18 years of school management expertise as needed for the benefit of GTA. I assure you he has never had access to any of GTA’s accounts since FSM has become the management company. I have spoken to him for guidance with respect to regulation, compliance, and reporting, as well as the requirements of the State of MI, LSSU, and our bond issue. GTA has never been compromised and has only benefitted from this communication.” 

Setting aside the fact that relying on a convicted tax cheat for business management advice is nuts, how does Noss justify taking 9 percent of the Grand Traverse Academy's revenue ($850,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015) as his management fee if he needs 'help' from Steven Ingersoll?

3) Was Noss one of the five investors in the purported Steven Ingersoll $300,000 loan 'school project' described by Brad Habermehl? You remember: I and Steve are 2 of the five

Back on December 8, 2015, Habermehl admitted during his sentencing hearing testimony that he, Ingersoll and former Lake Superior State University Charter Office head Bruce Harger were three of the project's investors. Habermehl initially denied he knew any of the other three, before finally coughing up Harger's name.