Jan. 16, 2012
Attention:
General James F. Amos
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Major General Vaughn A. Ary
Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant
Marine Corps Public Affairs
re: Ex-Marine uses Marine Corps oath to defraud grandmother
Following excerpted from full article:
Whiting, Shaer, and their associates already have taken possession of money and real property belonging to Mrs. I___d which represents the bulk of her retirement income earned during 26 years with General Electric. Mrs. I___d, a grandmother in her 60s, states she has lost her entire savings and retirement because of the actions of Shaer and Whiting and now works two physically demanding jobs while she and her husband struggle to continue their business and open YowNow. Following a reference from Frank Whiting to the I___ds suggesting they contract work with Sheri Pate. Pate received about $7000 of Mrs. I___d's retirement money. Whiting, Pate, Shaer,and their associates Alex Vaughan, Andrew Meyer and Brian Misner have received tens of thousands of dollars from Mrs. I___d.
Whiting's associate, Brian Misner, an IT tech at Corle Building Systems, Inc. of Imler, Pennsylvania, took more than $8,000 directly from Mrs. I___d's bank account, using it to buy thousands of dollars of software, server space, and real property such as computer components, all now under the control and direction of Frank Whiting. Misner, an ex-Marine who uses the fantasy name MarineOne in virtual world role-play, ingratiated himself to the I___ds and gained access to Mrs. I___d's bank account by swearing on his Marine Corps oath that he would always be loyal to them and never betray them. Misner was working in a part-time CTO role with the I___ds, with the goal of leaving Corle Building Systems and joining Vonira full-time after the opening of the virtual world YowNow.
"When it was revealed that Brian Misner was actively involved in the plot against us, we asked him to return our property and my wife's money, which he knew came directly from her retirement savings," said I___d. "He refused, claiming that since Mrs. I___d had authorized him to use her account it was not stealing and he was entitled to keep everything."
The I___ds have repeatedly asked Misner to honor his oath of undying loyalty he swore to them on the honor of the Marine Corps and do the right thing. In response he stopped communicating directly with them, but continues to attack them online, once again invoking the Marine Corps and masking his identity behind the fantasy name MarineOne, even as he continues to use R___ I___d's real-name in his attacks. In documents uncovered by us, Whiting is now directing Misner and others in the continued development of the I___ds' virtual world project, using the property paid for by Mrs. I___d. In the last few weeks the I___ds made repeated pleas to Misner asking that he think of the reputation of the Marine Corps and return Mrs. I___d's property and retirement money without forcing her to go public about his actions, and his violation of the oath he swore to them on the United States Marine Corps. He never responded.
"I am a Vietnam Veteran," said Mrs. I___d. "I remember walking down an American street in my hospital uniform when a man walked up and spit on me and called me a baby killer. 'My God,' I told him. 'I'm a nurse.' I served my country and took care of a lot of injured Marines. Now I am in my 60s, flat broke and washing dishes and mopping floors in a deli to keep from being homeless. I paid my dues and I deserve better than to have my life savings stolen by a United States Marine."
Brian Misner stole more than $8,000 from a grandmother's retirement fund. He gained her trust based largely on his self-pronounced reputation as an ex-US Marine. During the time he was supposedly helping with her company he not only looted her retirement fund, but he conspired to steal her intellectual property, attacked her other business ventures to boost his own claims, and brought in Andrew Meyer, falsifying and grossly exaggerating Meyer's technical skills and then working closely with Meyer to steal and use for their personal profit real property, software, and intellectual property valued at well more than $100,000.
Brian Misner was a dismal failure as a CTO. I had to step in repeatedly and correct his problems and failures and get the project back on track. In the end he was CTO in title only and I was handling all these duties. Jim Shaer admitted that I was CTO and Brian Misner was merely following my directions. We had other serious problems with Brian Misner. He was caught hacking into my corporate e-mails. When confronted with this he admitted it, but claimed he had only accidentally opened and read my communications and had not meant to.
Brian Misner works as an IT tech at Corle Building Systems in Imler, Pennsylvania. He is employed by John Corle. Misner has proved no more loyal to John Corle than he was to us. He admitted working on our project while on his job at Corle, joking that his position as an IT manager gave him a lot of freedom to hide his activities. He spoke constantly about how much he hated his job there and how he could not wait to quit and go to work full-time for us.
March 5th, 2011, Brian Misner told John Corle he was taking a three day weekend "to take care of some things." He bragged that Corle did not know he had left the state of Pennsylvania. At this time he actually flew to Oregon to attend a luncheon and several dinner parties with us and others working on our project.
Items stolen together and separately by Brian Misner and Andrew Meyer include:
1. 3DS Max 2012 ~ $4,000
2. Photoshop CS5 Extended ~ $1,000
3. Unity 3D License ~ $1,500
4. Misc. Plug-Ins ~ $200
5. Computer Monitor and Stand ~ $459
6. Servers, one actually used to house her stolen intellectual property ~ $1,000
7. TrueBones Avatar Animation Program ~ $400
8. Misc. other items and expenses ~ $1,000+
9. Custom designed avatar and associated processes ~ $100,000
10. Demo for marketing, testing and validating processes ~ $20,000
