New pastures are becoming old hat for John Nutter, the Port of Port Angeles’ director of finance and administration.
The former Port Angeles police officer and one-time Olympic Medical Center finance director travels to new employment climes Dec. 1 when he starts as the new chief financial officer for Airborne Environmental Control Systems, he said this week.
The West Hurley, N.Y.-based company which develops cooling systems for high-heat military lasers and sensors, signed a lease effective May 1 for its new headquarters at the port-owned Suite E at 2007 South O St.
A shifty shit not worth shit...
Currently, know-nothing Nutter makes $125,000 a year at the Port - which is about a million dollars in Port Angeles money. Even though he says his new salary is still "being negotiated," I'm pretty sure that Nutter is pretty sure he'll be making scads (or at least oodles) more in his new position.
Port Angeles is like an over-full toilet bowl, only when you flush it, all the shit just swirls around and around, without ever going down the drain and away. I mean, Nutter, Karen Rogers and the recently mentioned Teresa Pierce were all in City Hall at one point. They've all swirled over to various spots at Olympic Medical Center, and Nutter has continued his shit smear to the Port (an even bigger, fuller toilet bowl) and is now - in the most conflict-of-interest-laden, smacks-of-a-backroom-sweetheart-deal way - moving over to a company that has, gosh, signed a lease with the Port.
The way the same old players keep getting swapped around and snatched up by various "entities," you'd think that Port Angeles was just teeming with highly educated, high caliber, highly qualified and experienced experts and professionals.
But gee, if that were the case, wouldn't the town be something other than the dreary, run-down, debt-ridden, drug den that it actually is? I mean, if all these people were really so good, wouldn't the town show the effects of their expertise?
Of course, all these crooks and cons are good at is at lying, sleazing, stealing and sweetheart deals that benefit just themselves. Given all the evidence to support that hypothesis, you'd have to be a Nutter to believe otherwise.
...And a piece of shit that at least makes people laugh.
Clallam County Criminal Cabal at its finest.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is another lease contract Binswanger needs to inform us about. Let's please get a new port commissioner, just to see if there is any sanity left in this town.
ReplyDeleteYou are kidding, right? Sanity? The closest you'll come might be inanity, if you're lucky. But sane people leave Port Angeles.
DeleteWhat we can do to the commissioners is what the bastards did to Dale Wilson. Start hitting them finanacially.
DeleteGo after the Team McAleer and hurt them Finanaciall. Go after the William Shore Pool to impact Steve Burke. I don’t know if Connie Bouvey has a real jib but I will find out.
Shit floats.
ReplyDeleteHow can they get away with this obvious sleaze?
ReplyDeleteRemember Colleen McAleer had to recuse herself from the vote on the lease (because the terms were not market terms but below market). That WAS the reason she blew the whistle on Jeff Robb. That WAS the reason she forced Ken O’Halleran to quit. That WAS how she gave Jim Hallett a heart-attack.
ReplyDeleteRemember last week’e claims on the PDN by fires business development director Bainswanger!
Binswanger's claims about CRTC and Burke's "shell game" comment in the presence of all Port commissioners are public record. WA State OAH Docket No.: 02-2017-GOV-00004
DeleteHow long was he at the port anyway? Seems like he moves around a lot.
ReplyDeleteBinswanger was at the Port for about four months. In December Binswanger discovered an egregious mistake by Goschen that likely cost the Port a $2M grant reimbursement for funds the Port spent on the CRTC. When Binswanger reported this error to Port senior staff and commissioners, commissioner Burke suggested they do a "shell game" to cover up Goschen's mistake. When Binswanger reported this wrongdoing to Port human resources manager Hairell, she informed Nutter, who in turn informed Goschen, who in turn fired Binswanger. Further, Binswanger's first career job was more than 22 years, his second was 2 years and, his most recent is more than ten years. Does this sound like he moves around a lot?!
DeleteDid I read that right? Nutter wants out so bad he doesn’t even know what the salary will be at the new job which doesn’t start until December?
ReplyDeleteHe was part of the Binswanger thread wasn’t he? Rat leaving a leaky ship?
Binswanger reported improper governmental action (blew the whistle) to Port human resources manager Hairell, to which Hairell reported to Nutter, to which Hairell reported to Goschen who in turn fired Binswanger. See RCW 42.41
DeleteThere's no mechanism here to measure or enforce any sort of accountability. The locals don't do it to themselves. The business community (such as it is) doesn't push for it via the COC or any other venue. And the state and feds drop in and then check out.
ReplyDeleteThis enables the scammers and flop artists who move on from one failed venture to the next - milking them for tax and grant dollars all the way. The details of these scams can be hidden or made hazy for voters, who again demand or enforce no accountability.
Port Angeles isn't a town. It isn't a community. It's a life support system for a few well placed and connected vampires. Nothing more.
Didn’t we just hear about this guy and claims of finanacial problems at the Port?
ReplyDeleteDo you think the folks at Airborne whatever should know about the issues?
Probably distancing himself from McAleer. I think he might have worked at the Port while McAleer was an employee/whistleblower. I have heard he isn’t a big fan but kept his mouth shut and did his job.
ReplyDeletenut·ter
ReplyDeleteˈnədər/
nounBritishinformal
noun: nutter; plural noun: nutters
a crazy or eccentric person.
The fact that same people keep playing the games..is just disgusting. The dumbest, least educated, least creative, and most self-serving (Hello Dan Gase) are the ones who think they would be king.
ReplyDeleteHe will fit in just fine. Couple over there plays loose with finances.
ReplyDeleteJust the latest scam by the same old hardened criminals.
ReplyDeleteThose bastards belong behind bars - they've been murdering the local economy over and over with their continuous theft and skimming. The Port being worse than the city or county, and that's saying something.
Love your GIF, because they're ALL pieces of shit!
ReplyDeleteI am not quite sure what it is but something seems odd here. How does he start working for a company on December 1, 2017 but they dont have to start paying rent to the Port until May 1, 2018? I thought they already occupied the space but they dont pay rent?
ReplyDeletethat's magic PORT finances, don't ya know?
DeleteHow does a cop become a Chief Finacial Officer?
ReplyDeleteAnd he's only 46 - though you wouldn't know it from looking at grandpa's picture up above. I guess scamming - er, I mean rising - through the ranks ages a person something fierce.
DeleteIf he is 46 why is a life-long government employee leaving the government sector with all their benefits and pensions for private industry?
DeleteIf he went in at 21, he would have 25 years in. He'd get a decent pension if that was all law enforcement work.
DeleteAnother suicide on the Tumwater bridge. Another fine day in Port Angeles!
ReplyDeleteRemember how Cherie Kidd took it upon herself as a PERSONAL MISSION to find a way to fund suicide barriers? Remember that? I'm sure you do, but Cherie clearly doesn't.
DeleteBut she is EVER SO PROUD ("It's a historic day in Port Angeles!") about slightly lowering, temporarily, the solid waste rates...Being that Cherie is a waste of space, clearly she feels comfortable with issues involving waste. Now, if we could only get her more involved, personally involved, with the issue of suicide...
She should involve herself by personally testing the cheap safety net.
DeleteYes, I remember that whole sad affair with Cherie Kidd trying to make political hay over the ongoing suicides at the 8th Street bridges.
DeleteWhat a pathetic excuse for a civic leader.
Sadly there was another jumper just this Wednesday. No comment from Cherie yet, or anyone at the City for that matter.
DeleteA bit off topic, but totally relevant to Port Angeles:
ReplyDelete" Sunday, October 1,
Lighter materials used to improve electric cars
Japanese firms are using the latest technologies to boost development and production of lighter, stronger materials for electric vehicles.
As carmakers around the world expand production of next generation eco-friendly vehicles, a major challenge is to make them lighter, to increase their travel distance per charge.
Kobe Steel says it will invest about 355 million dollars in its US plant to increase production of ultra-high tensile-strength steel by 60 percent.
The material is more than twice as strong as ordinary steel, helping carmakers produce vehicles with light and strong bodies.
Japan's leading paper maker Nippon Paper Industries has invested about 27 million dollars in a domestic plant that has begun producing cellulose nanofiber.
The new material is made from plant fiber and is strong but lighter than steel. The company plans to mix it with resin to produce door panels and car interiors."
Whoa Baby!!
Let's stitch the known pieces of this together, shall we? Pieces previously explored here, but not at the pathetic Peninsula Daily News.
Colleen McAleer struts all over this nation and abroad to convince anybody that will listen (amongst her well connected contacts in her little black book) to "invest" in the Port of Port Angeles Composites Recycling Technology Centre.
"At the Port, Colleen has spearheaded the Composite Recycling Technology Center, which has received tens of millions in private and public funding to create jobs in rural Washington.
In June 2015, at the request of Senator Maria Cantwell, Colleen testified before the US Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources about the composite program and it's beneficial economic, educational, and environmental impacts."
The other big news affecting the region is the Nippon Paper Industries mill in Port Angeles shutting down. In shutting down, the City's very economic viability is put into question, as the City starts to pare down it's payroll and services in order to deal with the loss of revenue from the mill's shut down.
So, Nippon Paper Industries shut down and sold off it's existing operations in which it had recently invested tens of million in upgrades, to pursue cellulose nanofiber, a new material made from plant fiber that is "strong but lighter than steel. The company plans to mix it with resin to produce door panels and car interiors."
At the same time, Coleen McAleer is convincing the local idiots to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to import toxic waste from hundreds of miles away, to try to create similar composite materials Nippon Paper Industries is creating out of plant fibre?
What The Fuck!!!!
Nippon Paper Industries, who just left Port Angeles, "plans to mix it with resin to produce door panels and car interiors." While Pixie Bob built a couple dozen pickle ball paddles.
Do you think Nippon knew it was pursuing composites, as the Port of Port Angeles created the CRTC?
If the local leadership were not such a bunch of closed mined simpletons, do you think they could have worked out a deal with Nippon to produce their plant based composites here?
Does anybody wonder WHY Nippon chose to sell and move, even as it was aware that the Port of Port Angeles was interested in composites technologies?
Here we have the most significant indictment of the failure of Port Angeles' so-called leadership.
THANK YOU. Awesome information. Thanks for passing this all along.
DeleteWow! This is really big. International scaled.
DeleteAnd Ms. McAleer dare show her face in this state?
Imagine the jobs if Nippon had stayed, converted to their composites operations, and built door panels and car interiors for the up-coming electric car industry.
DeleteImagine the tax revenue stream for the City.
But nope. They blew it.
What did Port Angeles do, to so completely screw up this obvious opportunity at “economic development”???
DeleteNippon already was the “ big industry” in town, already invested, already the dominant player. Already getting all kinds of concessions from the city, county, state, etc.
Already had contracts to have the materials, plant fibres, grown locally, to be delivered to their factory. Already had their own power plant built, on-site.
Nippon developed their own composites technology while the Port ran around trying to get people interested in composites. Right here, in Port Angeles.
And while Port Angeles was setting up their scam operations, Nippon was looking to sell off it’s facilities in Port Angeles.
We’re lead to believe NOBODY in Port Angeles was aware of Nippon’s developments in composites? If not, why not? Colleen was the “expert”, we were told. She testified before the US Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources about the composite program. She is the President of the Washington Business Alliance, whose mission is to promote business growth in Washington.
Why didn’t Nippon convert it’s own facilities in Port Angeles to this new operation? What convinced them selling and building new was the better choice, than staying where they already had so much invested?
How could there be a greater screw up, than this?
Port Angeles leadership likes to talk about innovation, and looking for the jobs of the future and the businesses that create them.
DeleteLooks like one of the biggest walked away last year.
Yeah, there are people who still think electric cars are never going to be any big deal. They really are out of touch with what is going on. Just a few days ago, GM announced they are going all electric:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/gm-going-all-electric-will-ditch-gas-diesel-powered-cars-n806806
"And pressures are growing overseas. Several countries, including Norway and India, now plan to ban internal combustion engines entirely. The U.K., France, Germany, and China are considering similar moves. China has just laid out new guidelines for alternative propulsion and is now the world’s biggest market for electrified vehicles."
Nippon is going with the future economy, leaving Port Angeles to continue floundering in the past.
This is more than the usual scams.
Deletehere is something fun from their web page http://airborneecs.com/contact/
ReplyDeleteAirborne Environmental Control Systems
28 Pine Street
West Hurley, NY 12491
Now google earth or mapquest that address and you see a home. If you look on the Ulster County Assessors office webpage you find it is a single family residence
http://imo.ulstercountyny.gov/propdetail.aspx?swis=512800&printkey=03801000070191000000
So is Airborne Environmental Control Systems a Legitimate Business or a one-man garage operation? Maybe that's why NutJob doesn't know his salary yet. Maybe that's why they don't have to pay rent yet.
Who knows its only an internet search.
And THANK YOU as well. This is also awesome and interesting information. It's the kind of thing you MIGHT think, say, a local newspaper MIGHT do if...
DeleteNaw. But thank you!
If you start piecing things together it sounds like the Airborne company is very small and hoping to grow.
Delete1. The ability to relocate so easily across the country without affecting operations and sales (if any exist)
2. The garage-based location in New York.
3. The free rent from the Port of Port Angeles.
4. The “need” for a CFO and then hiring someone like Nutter without an actual known salary.
Kind of makes me want to drive by Suite E at 2007 South O Street and see how big that facility is that will house the 150 employees Colleen McAleer has promised. It also makes me wonder if the Port is paying for all the signage and tenant improvements for Suite E.
Just searched the NY Business Entity Database, and there is no corporation, LLC, or other entity by that name.
DeleteThe nearest name is "Airborne Environmental Consulting Group", but that expired in 2011.
Highly suspect.
The Washington Business License Service of the DOR reports no such business entity, no such trade name, and no such tax account in Washington, ever. This despite having done business here.
DeleteSo it is not even a real company. It is just some person illegally pretending to be a company.
But what's one more criminal in PA, eh?
Delaware LLC registered last year. A WA LLC organized in May of this year. Nothing suggests there was anything in NYC, as reported by our local news outlets.
DeleteThanks, I went back and dug deeper. There is a Delaware for-profit LLC named "Airborne ECS LLC", filed 7/15/2016. No registered trade name or other tax info. So the alleged name of "Airborne Environmental Control Systems" does NOT exist, and is NOT a business entity. Use of fake names reasonably lends itself to nefarious activities.
DeleteLikewise, this Delaware LLC registered as a foreign LLC in Washington on May 11, 2017. UBI 604-126-114. Sole governing person Bill Lee. Plus it filed for a tax account with DOR, but claimed to be a "non-revenue" entity. Meaning it claims to have no taxable transactions.
How can a real for-profit operating company have no reportable revenue at all? Does it really have nothing at all in a bank account? The Port aids & abets by waiving all rent, but this doesn't answer the question of how an alleged business company can have no reportable business whatsoever. Even if you're gearing up, you have expenses that must be paid. Plus something for Nut-job Nutter. So where is the B&O taxable revenue? Or is this just another "shell" company that the Port ordered Mr. Binswager to pencil-whip?
Even with these alleged filings, this is STILL a total scam, down to the co-conspirators at the PDN refusing to do any basic fact-checking, and continuing their Propaganda Daily Networking.
Pieces Of Shit one and all.
Thank you Fucking Colleen McAleer!
DeleteAnd there are those who think it is just malcontents with unjustified concerns that we're all being screwed by those in power, here?
ReplyDeleteWe know why you'll read it here, first, folks!
Why we love this blog! Thank you intelligent readers!
DeleteIt is too bad no one is pursuing this in a more open forum.
ReplyDeleteIt is too bad Clallam citizens prefer to bend over and take it.
DeleteWhat a sick, dysfunctional town!
ReplyDeletetown? You mean county.
DeleteAnd I'm having to go out of town for a sudden family situation, so you'll all be on your own for a few days. Let's all look forward to Cherie's big upcoming dancing debut. See you soon...
ReplyDeleteHi Crypt Kicker - I just posted this in response to the most recent PDN CRTC piece. In case they delete it, I'm posting here so you can have a record of it. Here it is:
DeleteTo whom it may concern:
I believe it is vitally important for Clallam County citizens to know some truths about the Port of Port Angeles and its support of the CRTC from a person who has first hand knowledge.
Fact: The Port was awarded a $2M reimbursable grant from the US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to offset funds the Port spent building out the Port owned CRTC building. (EDA Project Number: 07 01 07214). One of the conditions of that reimbursable grant was that the Port charge “fair commercial rental value.” While working at the Port, among other things, I was tasked with oversight of the Port’s business with the CRTC including working toward a long-term lease with the CRTC that would meet EDA approval. During this work, I discovered Port Executive Director Karen Goschen had executed a Memorandum of Understanding that committed the Port to a ten year lease with the CRTC at a rental rate below fair market value.
Fact: At a Port commission meeting on January 09, 2017, I brought to the attention of the commission the fair market rental deficiency in the agreements with the CRTC Ms. Goshen executed on behalf of the Port and the negative ramifications it may have in regard to the $2M reimbursable EDA grant. In response to my report to the commission, Commissioner Burke commented that the Port could play a “shell game” with the money.
Fact: On January 23, 2017, I met with Port Human Resources manager Holly Hairell and informed her that I wanted to take action regarding Ms. Goschen’s insistence I be complicit in this unethical action about the CRTC and EDA.
Fact: After I informed Ms. Hairell about Ms. Goschen’s insistence I be complicit in the unethical action about the CRTC and EDA on January 23, 2017, Ms. Hairell called Mr. Nutter and informed him of our meeting who then reported this to Ms. Goschen, who in turn placed me on paid administrative leave effective immediately.
Fact: Several days after placing me on paid administrative leave, Mr. Nutter served me papers on behalf of the Port alleging I was Insubordinate and of unsatisfactory conduct. Ultimately, Ms. Goschen dismissed me for this purported insubordination and unsatisfactory conduct.
Fact: The Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings conducted a hearing in April and May of this year and despite an overwhelming preponderance of evidence proving the Port retaliated against me for reporting improper governmental action, Administrative Law Judge Lisa Dublin inexplicably ruled that the Port did not retaliate against me. (OAH Docket number: 02-2017-GOV-0004)
On page 8 of ALJ Dublin’s July 17, 2017, Final Order, in subsections 4.15. and 4.16., she states in part: 4.15. “At the Port commission meeting on January 9, 2017, Mr. Binswanger brought to the attention of the commission what he determined to be a financial discrepancy of approximately $79,000.00…” “Ms. Goschen and Finance & Administration Director John Nutter recalled Commissioner Burke commenting that the Port could play a “shell game” with the money.” “Commissioners Burke, Beauvais, and McAleer did not recall any such statement.”; 4.16. “Based on the totality of the circumstances, I resolve conflicting testimony in favor of Ms. Goschen and Mr. Nutter, finding that Commissioner Burke suggested playing a shell game to account for the financial discrepancy.”
On page 15 of ALJ Dublin’s July 17, 2017, Final Order, in subsection 5.9, she states in part: “In the present case, over the course of his communication with Ms. Hairell on January 23, 2017 in person…Mr. Binswanger reported alleged improper governmental activity, i.e. filed a whistleblower claim, relative to the CRTC lease and the EDA…”
Continued...
DeleteFact: On August 16, 2017, I filed a Petition for Judicial Review with Thurston County Superior Court. (Case number 17-2-04663-34)
In closing, it is my hope that this post will not be removed and Clallam County citizens will become aware of this vitally important information. As of late last week, I was informed by the EDA that the Port has neglected to request at least 40% of the grant awarded to it. A question as to why the Port has not requested these funds should be asked.
I recognize that there will be Port supporters that believe I am writing this because I am disgruntled. I also recognize that the Port will go to almost any lengths to make me out to be the “bad guy”; they’ve done a good job at manipulating facts to harm my credibility and to interfere with my business endeavors thus far. The truth is, I am understandably unhappy about the way the Port has treated me and behaved, and I am also deeply disturbed none of the commissioners or senior staff (except for me) objected to commissioner Burke’s suggestion that the Port do a “shell game” with public funds. In my humble opinion, there is never ever an appropriate circumstance to suggest let alone to do a “shell game” with funds one is a fiduciary for. *Merriam-Webster’s definition of a “shell game” is in part: “Fraud; especially: a swindle involving the substitution of something of little or no value for a valuable item.” Dictionary.com’s definition of a “shell game” is in part: “any deceit, swindle, fraud, or the like.” Google’s definition of a “shell game” is in part: “a deceptive and evasive action or ploy…” TheFreeDictionary.com’s definition of a shell game is in part: “any swindle or fraud”.
Quite simply, the behavior of the Port is not surprising to me based on what I know about its history but nonetheless, it is wrong. At this time, it appears Clallam County citizens have been deprived of another $800,000.00! It also appears Clallam County citizens may not be aware of what Ms. Goschen testified was $8.2M in public funds spent on the CRTC endeavor thus far….an endeavor that has purportedly earned a whopping $28,000.00 and employs 17 people! Just imagine how far $8,200,000.00+ could go to create actual living wage jobs for Clallam County citizens if these funds were entrusted to honest and competent business persons?
On the many signs placed around our county for incumbent commissioner McAleer, the slogan reads in part: “Integrity”, “Vision” and, “Experience”. I ask the voters and citizens of Clallam County to consider the facts I have laid out, and to ask yourselves if this commissioner, or the other commissioners and Port staff that seemed to be complicit in one of the commissioners suggesting the Port do a “shell game” with the public’s money, have shown “integrity”? Or, “vision”? Other than a vision for squandering millions of dollars of the public's money for headlines? Or, “Experience”? Other than experience in patting themselves on the back for their great “vision”.
Sincerely at the citizens of Clallam County’s service,
Daniel Binswanger
PS - I have shared all pertinent and factual information related to this matter with PDN reporters, who thus far have neglected to follow up with me in any way. As of this writing, I remain available to share my experience and the truth that surrounds it with the PDN or other concerned citizens.
Thanks again CK! We need to call the local pieces of shit "pieces of shit" much more often.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to flush most of this shit down the drain, and the rest should be picked up carefully in a doggie bag and tossed out.
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