CAPITALISM: A LOVE-ME-SOME-OF-THAT STORY! MICHAEL MOORE (Mr. “Beginning in a few months, at the end of 2018, we’re going to begin issuing annual reports. We’re going to actually publish on the website not only the 990s, but also the quarterly financial statements. You’ll be able to look at what the bank has, and what we have, and you’ll be able to see everything. That’s the way it’s going to be from now on.”) ANNOUNCES GOVERNMENT BAILOUT; KEN LAY ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE!

 

Oh, 'tis a privilege to have lived long enough to see Michael Moore transmute from an activist to an ersatz businessman crowing about a government bailout.

Moore, who never delivered the in-depth financial information he promised in 2018 regarding the Traverse City Film Festival, has scored a nearly $1.0 million federal grant with the help of his boyhood friend, Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee.

The unfinished business of the TCFF will now go the way of its former Festival Director--swept under the rug.

Stay tuned: the two women once described by Moore as responsible for "turning the festival around and repairing the damage done by a previous iteration of festival management" are long gone, cut loose by Moore, leaving him to flap and crow all by himself.

"WHITE FEMALE OWNED BUSINESS" After His February 19, 2019 Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Petition On Behalf Of "Full Spectrum Management, LLC", Mark Noss Received Nearly $200,000 In Paycheck Protection Program Funds By Claiming His 'Mark D. Noss O.D., LLC' A Female-Owned Business

I guess Uncle Sugar was just itching to dole out money to the likes of Mark Noss.

Although the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued guidance barring applicants "presently involved in a bankruptcy" from qualifying for the PPP loan program, that legal prohibition didn't stop Mark Noss...or someone operating on his behalf.

Publicly-available information reveals "Mark D. Noss, O. D., LLC " obtained two PPP loans: an $83,5000 loan received in April 2020 and a second loan ($99,120 in February 2021), both through Huntington National Bank.

In the application, the company claimed to be a "White female owned business" that employed at least 13 people during the "applicable loan period".

However, Noss appears to acknowledge that he indeed was the "boss" of the operation, as seen in an April 30, 2019 "Certificate of Termination of Assumed Name", retiring "Grayling Eye Care".

As shown below, Noss signed as "Owner/Member" of  "Mark D. Noss, O.D., LLC":

 

Looks like it's FOIA time!