Just days before Mark Noss began sending hefty (and secret) payments to Steven Ingersoll in April 2014, something really crappy happened.
Allegedly.
According to a complaint filed April 12, 2021, in Grand Traverse County Circuit Court, a sewage back-up occurred in 2014, followed by a second in 2018, at 328 Munson Avenue, a property owned by Noss and his wife that houses Full Spectrum Eyecare.
Although flush with cash after signing a contract in March 2014 to manage the Grand Traverse Academy, a charter school that paid him $850,000 in a management fee the first full year (ending June 30, 2015), Noss is claiming nearly $8,000 in "lost income".
In the complaint, Noss alleges the 2014 back-up occurred due to a "defect" in the city's sewage disposal system. Noss maintains that another back-up occurred around May 24, 2018 as a result of an April 23, 2018 incident the city "failed to repair, correct or remedy".
The City of Traverse City denied previous claims made by Noss to recover nearly $50,000 in damages, loss and attorney fees (doesn't this dude have insurance?), spurring the civil lawsuit.
Traverse City has 21 days to respond.
Maybe Noss should have sent his IVL friend less money, and he would have had enough to buy proper insurance for his building? Maybe it was their own IVL manure that caused the clog and backup?
ReplyDeleteWith over $850,000 in income from his management company, man, he must have really been shelling out the money to Ingersoll? Wonder how chummy they are today?
ReplyDeleteThey are thick as thieves.
DeleteI believe you, Miss Fortune. Enough people hope that they would have a "parting of ways" and maybe even have disdain for each other, but you're probably right that they're still "thick as thieves". Thieves is definitely the appropriate word in either case as we know they are shady, crooked and have robbed the taxpayers with their schemes and curriculum.
DeleteDave Whiteford did one lousy job on that building. Rife with problems. Always was.
ReplyDeleteMark Noss...are you reading this blog?
DeleteNoss needed to pay his high-end tailor, who used to go to the office for fittings and fabric selection. Guys who owe a lot, but don't have a lot are always playing a bad shell game.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the government could do a "fitting" for Noss? It would be cheaper except for being on the taxpayer dime.
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