Venoco, state tangle over oil royalties
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 2nd, 2011 / Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Venoco, state tangle over oil royalties
[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NYSE:VQ” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”02-06-2011″ enddate=”02-12-2011″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Venoco faces allegations from the State Lands Commission that it underpaid the state $9.5 million for the oil pumped from Platform Holly off the Goleta coast. The claims came in a lawsuit filed Nov. 16 by the State Lands Commission in Santa Barbara Superior Court. It Read More →
State fund files RICO claim against Select Staffing
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 18th, 2011 / Top Stories / 3 Comments
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated and corrected at 1:45 p.m. on Nov. 21. Scroll to the bottom for the correction.] The State Compensation Insurance Fund and the region’s biggest private company are taking off the gloves in a fight over a $50 million fraud judgment. At issue is whether an $80 million dividend paid Read More →
Bank sues developer of Atascadero project over $6.2M default
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, October 28th, 2011 / Law & Goverment, Real Estate, Top Stories / Comments Off on Bank sues developer of Atascadero project over $6.2M default
The Santa Barbara developer pushing to build one of the biggest retail projects on the Central Coast faces a lawsuit from its lender alleging that it has defaulted on $6.2 million in debt. The Rottman Group submitted a joint application with Walmart in 2006 to build a retail complex on the north side of Atascadero Read More →
Solar penny stock firm faces lawsuit
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, October 21st, 2011 / Law & Goverment, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Solar penny stock firm faces lawsuit
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Vitesse slashes work force, faces lawsuit
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, October 7th, 2011 / Banking & Finance, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Vitesse slashes work force, faces lawsuit
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Banco BuenaVentura investors go after company’s remains
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, September 23rd, 2011 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Law & Goverment, Top Stories / Comments Off on Banco BuenaVentura investors go after company’s remains
Investors in now defunct Banco BuenaVentura are claiming the bank’s founder and his son defied orders from federal banking regulators and siphoned off investor money to pay for beachside condominiums and charted jet rides before regulators demanded that the bank liquidate in 2009. The allegations emerged in a lawsuit against the onetime Oxnard bank filed Read More →
Allergan squeezes ex-employee inventor
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, September 16th, 2011 / Law & Goverment, Top Stories / Comments Off on Allergan squeezes ex-employee inventor
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