Voce Update

In an email purported to be from a group of former Voce executives and employee's, we learn this:
"Voce was purchased in early January by SunCal Midwest, LLC, represented by Anthony Roselli, Brian Richards and Tom Malanca. The intent of the purchase was for SunCal Midwest to maintain and grow the core Voce business, using its connections with enterprise customers. As of the transaction, the company had working capital and tangible assets on hand, and a list of liabilities that were disclosed and agreed to. The new owners have thus far failed to meet their end of the deal, including paying employees and vendors. All prior executives of Voce have resigned or were shut out by the new owners after the sale. "
"In the meantime, former employees and advisers to the company are reviewing whether or not the matter should be turned over to the appropriate authorities. If you would like further information regarding our efforts, please e-mail this address and we will reach out to you on an individual basis." Bold emphasis is ours, for obvious reasons. Whether or not what? And why would I email back an unidentified person already in possession of my email address and who knows what else? The LA Times did a story, but prefer to focus on the loss of concierge service for some urbane sophisticates, rather than the seriousness of the potential crime. Meanwhile our own efforts reveal the following; SunCal, the company mentioned above, is based in Chicago, with an office in this historic building. Not much else known, but we're working on that through connections there. Porting the number over, the critical safety component of getting out of this mess, is still an ordeal dependent on setting up new service, getting a new phone and chip, etc. Locally, it seems prudent to file a complaint with the State Attorney General, but navigating that website is another timesucking venture. From all we can piece together today, the folks holding the money in this fiasco knew this was coming, got more customers on board, screwed vendors and employees, set about double billing and bilking the customers and then bailed out in their golden parachutes while the plane crashed and burned. We trust karma and fate will meet up with these folks eventually, but we'd sure like to see it sooner than later, in a Federal Court that actually prosecutes for the people, instead of the more likely scenario as we've seen in recent cases of corporate corruption. To criminals like this, Enron didn't send a warning, it showed them scams they hadn't thought of yet. The weekend wasn't all bad. At least there was some daylight left for a nice Sunday afternoon ride in the woods, Ghana advanced to the semi-finals in the Cup of Nations and apparently a lot of New Yorker's got all happy about something. Onward.