Ripped Off

By Stuart Newman - A Defrauded Investor

Unfortunately everything on this Blog is true!

I say "unfortunately" because I am one of the members of this failed community. Very unfortunate for us. It has destroyed our lives. Now trapped in limbo, we are trying desperately to get our life savings back.

 My hope is in posting this that someone will read this before they fall victim to these scam artists. I say "scam artists" but I don't mean "artists" in any pretty way. The way they work is very ugly. Total con-men! 

Slick sales and the ability to lie directly to your face knowing all along that they plan to take your life savings and use it to buy themselves expensive toys and fund the expansion of their financial shit show.

Our community did not fail because of personality differences, it failed because it became obvious that the financials were being kept secret and that $600k was missing from our accounts. 

Records show it was taken by Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock and the small team of dumb asses that have been suckered in to follow them.

It also became obvious that they had hidden a town planners report that showed we would never be allowed to build our community there due to water catchment restrictions that they knew about all along.

Now they have crashed us into liquidation 2 days before we were to vote a new trustee and try to rescue ourselves. They have added $550k of fake creditors to the company -- all made-up expenses from their friends and family and other companies they control.

No valid attempt was ever made by them to sort this community out. Their plan is purely to make lots of money off the backs of families who are wanting to build community. 

And now they are doing it to another group of poor unsuspecting folks. My heart goes out to those folks.

As for Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock, Cherrie Stokes, Steve McSween, Richard Moate, Phillip Dixon: The words "Narcissistic Psychopaths" come to mind.

Please share this to anyone who may be thinking of "community" in the Mt Burrell, Uki, Nimbin area.

May justice prevail! 
May we find our way back to peace!

Creative Justice

The Association of Defrauded Investors has completed the goal of the crowdfunder "Fund$ for Justice" with deep thanks to those who are assisting us in financing legal action to expose and oppose the Mt Burrell land-share scams runs by Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock and accomplices that have left investors defrauded of over $1.5 million.

Truth and Justice will prevail with your help!

The Mt Burrell Land-Share Scam

From 2014-15, the co-founders of the proposed Mt Burrell "Village Communities", Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock, misled investors in a 640 acre property in Mt Burrell with false assurances that those who provided the purchase money for the property would be co-owners of the land with effective control over its management.

After receiving our funds the land was not bought and registered in a "Community Association", as promised, but was purchased 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 in 2016-17 without return of our funds.

Three investors lost inheritances, others have lost their entire life savings.
 
Two years after taking our money, despite 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.

We launched "Fund$ for Justice" to help complete litigation successfully by financing professional legal assistance to stop this scam and recover the property that was stolen from us. 


We exceeded our goal in one day, and we are now able to cover the cost of a forensic accountant and private investigator to complete a Brief of Evidence on behalf of the Association of Investors Defrauded by Darwin, who are bringing criminal charges of fraud, collusion in fraud, larceny and perjury against Darwin/Brennock and collaborators/accomplices.

In other litigation we are initiating recovery of the 640-acre property that was stolen from us by the so-called "Bully-Bully Boyz". Our land was placed by Brennock under control of a liquidator in an attempted "phoenix move" to transfer the asset to Mt Warning Eco Village Pty Ltd.

Please visit our Blog Archive to read more about the legal action in process, and our opposition to Darwin/Brennock's "ethical investment opportunities" where "Pre-DA home-sites" on environmentally protected land are offered in prospective "Community Landshare Villages" at Mt Burrell.

   
From "Bhula Bhula Village Community and "Mt Burrell Commercial Precinct" to "Mount Warning Eco Village", the deception that we expose and oppose has already claimed the hard-earned resources of many victims and continues to affect the entire local community.

We thank and deeply appreciate all supporters of Truth and Justice!