Funds for Justice

 

The Association of Defrauded Investors invites you to join us in funding legal action to expose and oppose the Mt Burrell land-share scams runs by Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock and associates, that have left investors defrauded of over $1.5 million.

I am Gi Linda, one of 21 investors who paid the purchase price for a 640 acre property at Mt Burrell, NSW, Australia, intended for a land-share community. 

I was defrauded in this venture of my inheritance, others have lost their entire life savings. We have very little left to fight costly legal battles, so we have done our own research and I have been self-representing in the Local Court, QLD Federal Court and NSW Supreme Court in our quest for justice.

The aspiring "developers", Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock, misled investors with false assurances that we would be co-owners of the land with effective control over its management.

The land was not bought and registered in a Community Association, as promised, but was purchased using our funds by a private company, with Adrian Brennock as self-appointed director and sole shareholder, owning/controlling our land with a $1 share, while investors were issued fake shares in a fraudulent Trust.

Investors were also deceived about potential permissible land use. No development application was ever initiated and those who paid for the land were evicted without return of our funds. 

Two years later, after many empty promised of restitution, Darwin/Brennock have put the company in Voluntary Administration, falsely claiming insolvency, in a "phoenix move" to transfer the land to Mt Warning Eco Village Pty Ltd, another company under their control, while burning all who paid the purchase price of the property.

You can read about Darwin/Brennock's land-share "ethical investment opportunity" on our blog:

https://mountwarningecovillagescam.blogspot.com.au/

We have launched "Funds for Justice" to finance professional legal assistance to complete  litigation successfully. Please contact us directly for more details of the criminal and civil charges being advanced in the courts.

We thank all who are supporting us and deeply appreciate your stand against this fraudulent land-share venture that has already claimed many victims and affects the entire local community.

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Association of Defrauded Investors Legal Fund

Athena Blinked

 

By Gi Linda.

Athena, classical goddess of justice, is always depicted blindfold as a symbol of impartiality, but in a post-humane world what happens when the blindfold is removed and Athena blinks?
 


“Maggot!” Sitting before the bench in Murwillumbah Courthouse waiting for the Judge to enter I hear someone shout “Maggot! Fuck you maggot!”

Behind me is Adrian Brennock with Mark Darwin and Richard Moate. I have charged them with fraud in a private prosecution. On my left is their lawyer, Ian McKay.

I had filed the criminal charges after being defrauded of my inheritance by Brennock and the “Bully-Bully Boyz”, hoping for restitution, but the sword of injustice is double edged.

With the trial approaching in September, other defrauded investors wanted to join my prosecution with the same charges of fraud. We began consultation with a NSW private prosecutor and former Crown Prosecutor, who asked for anonymity because of his former collaboration with Brennock and the Boyz. I was advised to request adjournment of the hearing so that all claimants could be consolidated and additional charges of collusion added.

Unfortunately, the private prosecutor was unavailable for a personal meeting until October 17 when it was proposed that he would prosecute the charges on behalf of the Association of Defrauded Investors. He instructed a Sydney solicitor to email the court requesting adjournment.

The private prosecutor agreed to put together a team including a forensic accountant, private investigator, solicitor and paralegal, but he required the total estimated amount of the prosecution to be paid in advance before proceeding.

 
By then it was too late to file for adjournment in accordance with the practice notes. My application was immediately rejected by Brennock & co, who were waiting for me at the courthouse, confident that the charges dismissed for procedural breach.

When I arrived for the hearing on October 24, the Bully-Bully gang were crowded around the registry door, laughing and scoffing with delight in anticipation of my defeat. Adrian Brennock, in mock decorum greeted me loudly. I commented that the worst mistake of my entire life was trusting him. He growled, “Its going to get a lot worse for you, and we’re really enjoying it…”

I have been sleepless preparing evidence and I’ve been waiting for the hearing for five hours with Brennock and the Bully-Bully Boyz lurking outside the claustrophobic courtroom, cackling like a coven of hyenas. The Judge enters, everyone respectfully stands as I feel the piercing of long venomous knives in my back.  

My consciousness is momentarily hijacked by repugnant images of massive maggots with the face of Adrian Brennock filling the courthouse, slithering everywhere, coming to devour me. Brennock’s voice behind me is rasping with contempt, “Maggot! Fuck you Maggot...” he hissed at my back.

As expected, the Magistrate rejected the application for adjournment, summarily dismissed all charges and awarded compensation against me, which I declined to accept.

The heckling gang were waiting outside the courthouse to jeer with triumph. A police officer kindly opened a side door so I could leave without harassment. As he escorted me out he handed me some papers that Brennock & co had asked him to give me. They were the documents supporting my application to adjourn that I had passed directly to the Judge at the start of the hearing. One wonders how Brennock got them?

In response, the Association of Defrauded Investors is preparing to file fraud and larceny charges with multiple claimants using the professional services of a forensic accountant and private investigator. A criminal fraud investigation initiated by Qld police a year ago is expected to be completed by December. 

Defamation charges and injurious falsehood claims against me as a result of this blog exposing the Darwin/Brennock land-share scams are ongoing.

The Association of Defrauded Investors is also preparing to initiate civil charges to recover the land that we paid for. The 640 acre property, owned by the company controlled by Brennock with a single $1 share, was improperly placed in Voluntary Administration by Brennock in June, in an attempted "phoenix move" to transfer our land to another company controlled by Darwin/Brennock while they burn the purchase money creditors under cover of fake promises of partial return of funds to all defrauded investors. 

Darwin/Brennock/Dixon intend to acquire our land for $1 million over market value using loans and a mortgage over the supposedly insolvent company, designated as "vendor finance".

To cover the cost of professional assistance in our quest for justice we have set up a legal fund. Many thanks to those who have already pledged support, we deeply appreciate your help.

Support our Campaign:

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Truth will prevail!

Justice will prevail!

Winning the Blog Wars

By Gi Linda.

The "Battle of the Blogs" was won with a welcome victory for truth and justice in NSW Supreme Court on October 3rd, when Justice Lucy McCallum ruled in my favor and rejected an injurious falsehood claim by Mt Warning Eco Village demanding a gag on freedom of speech and removal by court order of the blog, "Mt Warning Eco Village - A Warning".

The BlogWars began when defrauded investors decided strategies to recover collective losses of more than $1.5 million that we suffered after investing in Mark Darwin's land-share scam in 2014-5. We were preparing legal action and decided to start a blog to document our experience and warn others who were being sucked into the same vortex of deception that had robbed us of our life savings.

Having professional skills in media and journalism I agreed to author the blog on behalf of the "Group of Investors Defrauded by Darwin".

The blog warns that Mount Warning Eco Village is the latest attempt by Darwin and Brennock to form a "Village Community" on environmentally protected land without development approval. Alluring marketing hides the reality of a project already marred by the deep footprints of a long trail of disenfranchised investors whose broken dreams and empty bank accounts have caused a lot of anger and a deep interest in vindication.  

The first failed attempt by Darwin and Brennock to form "Bhula Bhula Village Community" under the deceptive auspices of "Truthology", was from 2014-17 at 3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell. Investors were led to believe we would have an equitable interest in the land that we collectively purchased, but we were scammed when instead of purchasing the land through a legitimate Community Association, as promised, the property was bought using our money by a private company with Adrain Brennock as self-appointed sole director and sole shareholder, effectively owning and controlling the land we paid for by holding a $1 share. 

In retaliation for the blog and my news report exposing them, in December 2016 the "Bully-Bully-Boyz" blocked my access to the land, smashed my camp, destroyed my Garden and stole my mobile home and belongings.

The police were told by the "Bully-Bully-Boyz" that Adrian Brennock was owner of the Land and that I was a "trespasser". They requested and received police assistance, so I filed criminal charges of fraud and larceny as a private prosecution.

The defamer charges the defamed with defamation!

In attempts to menace and damage my professional reputation, Mark Darwin, as founder of the failed "Bhula Bhula Village Community" and "creator" of "Mount Warning Eco Village" fueled the Blog Wars with vicious ad hominem attacks and false reports of legal matters. 

At the same time as publicly slandering and publishing malicious lies about me, Darwin and Brennock also initiated a defamation case and an injurious falsehood case against me in NSW Supreme Court.

A first injunction requesting court orders to remove this blog was withdrawn after two hearings by Darwin/Brennock's barrister, Dauid Sibtain, for lack of evidence that development approval was in place prior to selling home-sites. 

A second  urgent interlocutory injunction by Darwin and the boyz requested a Duty Judge to make a summary judgement to gag free speech, but was referred back to Justice McCallum on the defamation list.

After eight hearings of this matter in Sydney Supreme Court, Justice Lucy McCallum announced her judgement rejecting the claim by Mt Warning Eco Village that this blog contains injurious falsehoods that have damaged the inchoate company's commercial interests. 

This decision was made only on the company's request for an interim gag order until a final hearing of evidence of injurious falsehood. It's not yet known whether the defeated plaintiffs will now withdraw the charges or continue the Blog Wars slugfest.
 
Defamation Case

Apart from the company's injurious falsehood litigation, the original defamation charges against myself and Nimbin GoodTimes are still ongoing with claims for damages of over $3 million regarding an article I authored that was published by the Nimbin GoodTimes in October 2016; "The Truth About Bhula Bhula" that reveals Darwin/Brennock's land-share scam at Mt Burrell. 

Nimbin GoodTimes editor Dob Dooley quickly capitulated to the intimidation of threatening litigation. In exchange for promises that Nimbin GoodTimes would not suffer any bad times, Dob Dooley deleted my article from the newspaper's online archive and threw me under the bus with promises to Darwin and the bully-bully boyz of an apologetic retraction and the gift of free full page ads in every issue for the next year.

Darwin loudly celebrated by publishing his Pyrrhic conquest of Dob Dooley on his vicious blog dedicated to a false narrative mutilating my reputation and misreporting legal proceedings. Darwin uses his malicious blog to promote a false reality, painting himself as a hero whose failures are transmorgified into incredible delusions of success.  

Following the court decision not to take down the blogs, the promised retraction and ad have not been published in the Nimbin GoodTimes, although the original article has been removed from the paper's online archive.

The deleted  Nimbin GoodTimes article is archived here: "The Truth About Bhula Bhula".

Underlying Darwin's mendacious blog, the scoffing of spamming comments and the manic "Bah-ha-ha" of threatening emails sent to opponents by his avatar, "Dummass Boofhead", there is a claim that my professional qualifications are fake. Until now I have ignored Darwin's taunts, insults and contemptuous threats. However, since his malicious attacks have escalated and the litigation is a public matter, as writer of the Nimbin GoodTimes article exposing the land-share scam, and principal author of the blog facing defamation and injurious falsehood litigation, to validate my credentials I have posted below a synopsis of my filmography:

Gi Linda FILMOGRAPHY

 

Gi Linda -- Gillian Linda Norman, nee Brown

Former BBC Reporter - Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker - Blog Author

After studying Psychology at Leeds University and Illustration at Harrow College of Art in the 1970s, Gillian combined work in news media with social justice activism producing audiovisuals and videos with the London Mennonite Center to support the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

   

With a career in media and social justice activism now spanning four decades and recognition in international documentary film festivals, Gi has produced educational and promotional videos, music videos and documentaries with human rights groups, environmental groups and NGOs, including UNICEF, UNESCO, FAO, Fundacion Natura, the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission and the Honduran Human Rights Committee.

During the 1970-80s, Gi was a freelance radio news reporter for  BBC Radio and LBC Radio in London, and a staff researcher/reporter on the Day One program with BBC TV in Manchester.

During the 1980-90s, Gill Brown was based in Washington DC, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Ecuador as a news reporter with BBC Radio, National Public Radio, CBC Radio and Univision, and as a freelance journalist she filed news reports on the conflict in Central America for the London Sunday Times and the Daily Express.  

Based in Nicaragua, Gi was first to break the news of CIA control of anti-Sandinista Contra rebels on BBC Radio World Service. She is a co-author of the book ‘La Revolucion en Nicaragua’ published by Zed Press. 

As producer/director/writer/photographer/editor, Gi’s documentaries ‘The Pentagon Republic’ and ‘Honduras the Undeclared War,’ produced with the Honduran Human Rights Committee, expose the CIA’s Contra war in Nicaragua and were broadcast internationally. ‘The Pentagon Republic’ was selected at Leipzig and Rome Film Festivals.

In Central America and South America,  Gill Brown produced social justice documentaries with Chilean journalist Edgardo Reyes, including:

‘Cruel Land’, exposing collaboration of American evangelicals with the CIA in eradication of Mayan communities in Guatemala in favor of corporate expansion.

'On the Street' for UNICEF shows the plight of street children in Guatemala.
'Weavers of the Rainbow' for UNESCO documents Mayan artisania in Guatemala.
 
With producer Edgardo Reyes, Gi won Best Documentary Award at New York’s Global Village Film Festival in 1984, as director/writer/photographer/editor of ‘The DarkLight of Dawn’, a documentary on Mayan ethnocide in Guatemala. ‘The DarkLight of Dawn’ is distributed by Icarus Films, NY, and was selected at Leipzig and Rome Film Festivals. A segment was broadcast on the US McNeil-Lehrer Newshour.

‘Solidaridad, Fe y Esperanza’, with the Vicaria de Solidaridad in Chile, shows the plight of the detained and disappeared during the dictatorship of General Pinochet, and was selected at Havana Film Festival and Rome Film Festival.

In Ecuador, Gi produced "Amigo Penacho", a multi-media series on environmental conservation for the Ecuadorian government. Documentaries for environmental protection groups include:

‘Los Ultimos Manglares’ that shows the destruction of the coastal mangrove forests by shrimp farms.
‘Chongon Colonche’ an environmental education documentary with Fundacion Natura.
‘Green Gold - Black Gold’ reveals the impact of oil exploitation on Ecuador’s Amazon tribes.

After producing promotional videos for the Galapagos Islands National Park and the Charles Darwin Research Station, Gi produced/presented a 32-part radio series, ‘Mystery of Mysteries’ with HCJB Radio, Ecuador on evolution v creationism.

During the 1990s, based in Cleveland, USA, Gi co-produced/presented a series of video documentaries on the creation v evolution debate with American Portrait Films, including 'The Grand Canyon Catastrophe' 'Raging Waters' and 'From a Frog to a Prince'.

Settling in Australia in 1994, Gillian was a radio presenter with Rhema FM in Nambour and Noosa Community Radio before marrying Trevor Norman. She was a contributor of articles to the online news-site rense.com, and produced a social justice documentary, ‘ShadowPlay - The Hidden Hand.’ 

 
'ShadowPlay - The Hidden Hand', revealing the hidden hand behind 9/11 and use of state-sponsored terrorism in the rise of a globalist Empire, was screened at Bloor Cinema in Toronto and 9/11 Truth Conferences in Vancouver and Sydney, but distribution was obstructed.

During 2012-14 Gi Linda produced a music video at the  Glenugie blockade of Metgasco’s fracking site, ‘Bad Gas!’, produced videos for Nimbin Hemp Embassy and was moderator of Mullum Forums and Byron Forums - discussion groups on global issues with local impact.

Gi is currently in development of a documentary: ‘Danger in Paradise - Fukushima’s Invisible Tendrils’. She is studying law and writing a book: "Lambs in WolfLand".

Shadowplay - The Hidden Hand 

Bad Gas!
Forbidden Weed

Darwin / Brennock Investment Scam -- A Warning!

By Concerned Neighbour -

I am a 'Mt Burrell local' and have watched what has gone on at 3222 Kyogle Road since 2014 when Darwin and Brennock set about getting the funds together to buy the land. I was appalled by Darwin's youtube video talking about our piece of paradise, calling it Hicksville and how they, with the help of likeminded people, would educate the locals, take over Sphinx Rock Cafe and serve real food, that they had grown on their land. 

3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell, NSW

A shanty town grew up at 3222 Kyogle Road. Fortunately the council became involved and the Land and Environment Court ordered all dwellings, except the original farmhouse, to be removed. What was once prime agricultural land is now in ruins. Everyone left after taking down their dwellings.

I have subsequently met several of the people who 'invested' their money in this illegal scheme and they are good people who believed the dream that Darwin and Brennock were selling. They have lost their 'investment' and for many that was all they had - everything gone.

New land, same lies

 Darwin and Brennock have now moved their scam to a property at Mebbin Springs (Mount Warning Eco Village). They have started with the same lies and schemes that I saw at Mt Burrell. More people are being conned and once again they will lose their money.

Don't listen to their lies!
Don't give them your money for nothing but heartache in return!

Bhula Bhula Community Disaster

By Melissa Hirsch - A Defrauded Investor -

My experience of the Bhula Bhula Community disaster:

I bought into Bhula Bhula (BB) in March 2015, fourteen weeks before the land was purchased. I was both excited and concerned… in retrospect I can see how naive and trusting I was.

As a single, middle-aged woman I was excited at the possibility of living in a community of like-minded people. It would be a combination of a social, support and information network with kids, families, intelligent conversation, a brain-trust… people who knew more or differently from me.

My concern was the gap between what was on paper and what was alluded to and ‘emphasised’ by the front men (the boyz).

So many of the 'stories' that were sold to us never eventuated… the community centre, the equality, transparency and honesty… even the contracts on paper that were constantly a ‘known’ within the community were not honoured.

One of the most important processes that was not actioned was the "Incorporated Association" through which investors would jointly own and control the land. The Association should have been the sole share holder in the company that owned the land. 

Instead, Adrian Brennock made himself the sole share holder, never registering the Association or those that paid for the land, though I do have emails from Mark Darwin informing us the "Association" was registered, and all the rest of the 'stories' about how we would become members before the land was purchased, etc, etc…
 

No matter how many times we asked, requested, demanded, nothing changed!

Emails, YouTube clips and conversations were full of contradictions and manipulations of the truth to cover their arses, but these were also purposeful, conscious manipulations to 'sell'. At first we thought the contradictions and changing ‘facts’ were mistakes, but its clear now how deliberate these were.

Whenever anyone asked questions, or asked to see the financial accounts they were ignored, then eventually verbally bullied and abused in person or through emails. The boyz send the most delightfully spiteful anonymous emails, full of venom and personal attacks. Their most recent pseudonym is "Dummass Boofhead"  or "FYJ Boofhead" (thats FYJ for "F*k You Jimmy" -- a phrase that amuses them no end).

There are at least 5 families who have lost their entire life savings to these people and many individuals have lost huge chunks of their earnings, over $1.5 million, all taken from those who earned and saved then purchased the land.
 

Here are some of the games these boyz have played: they have gone from one tax avoidance scheme to another, changing companies, foundation names and fronts, burning many people/companies/foundations/businesses. All because they can, because they exploit legal loopholes and betray the trust of honest, decent people.
 

Their next project is another Eco Village at Mt Burrell. Apparently they are sucking in more people and manipulating the truth and those in authority. If you think those of us included in this blog are just bitter, twisted losers, then talk to some Mt Burrell locals and hear them out… that way you can save your arses, your money and count your blessings that there are some moral and ethical people out there, willing to take a stand.

I recommend watching the YouTube clips….RECREATING THE VILLAGE #1 &#2…..so much of what is said is NOT TRUTH… those TRUTHOLOGY boyz… tut, tut!