It's been a rough year for Milton "Skip" Ohlsen III. A year ago I wrote how the Democratic operative and owner of St. Louis political consulting firm Global Management Solutions had gotten into hot water with his creditors. At the time, Ohlsen was masquerading as an ultimate-fighting promoter with a production company called Genesis MMA. (That's MMA as in "mixed martial arts".) After staging a few somewhat successful fights in 2007, Genesis MMA went belly-up last year leaving investors, creditor
golf.about.comAndrew Moss, a Hawaii based sports agent, has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge for embezzling from a local golf sponsor. United States Attorney Catherine Hanaway announced the guilty plea today.Moss represented Edwardsville golfer Scott Yancy III, who gained notoriety a few year's back as a contestant on a Golf Channel reality show titled Big Break II. According to charges filed in the case, Yancy met a sponsor at a charity golf tournament in St. Louis, who agreed to provide m
Robert Douglas Hartmann pleaded guilty to bank and mail fraud charges stemming from his now defunct real-estate firm DHP Investments, U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway announced today.Hartmann's DHP Investments was once involved in the rehab of hundreds of homes and buildings in the metro area -- particularly in parts of south St. Louis. The firm went belly-up in late 2005 leaving dozens of investors in the lurch and pockmarking the city with scores of ramshackle projects tied up with clouded and
Unreal chats with some lovely ladies and gets the scoop from Jay Farrar-endorsed candidate Mark Smith (who's perfectly lovely too); plus, Bill Haas gets a love letter and Unreal heads to court