Mixing Business with Porn and Charity: John M Carr and Steve Crow
December 23, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Many will now know that American citizen John M Carr is co-director, along with “Porn King” Steve Crow, of Eden Digital Ltd, a NZ registered company that sponsored and bank-rolled the recent “Boobs on Bikes” porn sleaze promo on Queen Street, Auckland, and its three-day follow-up Erotica Lifestyles Expo held at the ASB Showgrounds in Auckland (25-27 September 2009). Busty porn stars, including one billed as having the biggest augmented breasts in the world, were funded by Mr Carr’s company to travel to New Zealand from all over the US, to expose themselves on our city streets and promote hardcore porn.
Liquidators receive complaints regarding Steve Crow’s Erotica Lifestyles Expo 2009 operated by Eden Digital Ltd.
December 16, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
The Liquidator of four companies directed by Steve Crow, Lloyd J Hayward of Meltzer Mason Heath, received complaints from creditors regarding Erotica Lifestyles Expo 2009 operated by Eden Digital Ltd, a porn company directed by Crow and US based tax consultant and property developer John Malcolm Carr. Mr Carr is Principal of Carr Consulting P.A. (Professional Association) based in the US, which owns four NZ registered companies that he directs. The Expo promoting hard core porn & sleaze was held at the ASB Auckland Showgrounds from 25-27 September 2009.
Lloyd J. Haward, in his 6 monthly Liquidator’s Report on Malibu Media (formerly Erotica Expo Ltd) dated 30/11/09 , records that the complaints from creditors were “referred to the National Enforcement Unit at the Ministry of Economic Development.” This is where the Society, which is not a creditor, has lodged its formal complains against the actions of company directors Crow and Carr. Read more
Carr Consulting P.A. Porn Company Director John M. Carr and his Companies’ US shareholder connections unmasked
December 14, 2009 by admin
Filed under Pornography
The Society’s latest Newsletter (Issue 110, Dec. 2009), among other things, addresses the questions:
Who is funding the New Zealand porn industry linked to “porn entrepreneur” Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow? Who is company director John Malcolm Carr, an American citizen who is Principal of Carr Consulting P.A. (Professional Association) and who co-directs porn company Eden Digital Ltd and its mother company CVC Group Ltd along with “NZ Porn King” Mr Crow? Is there a porn money trail leading from the US to Godzone? Why are unsecured creditors of four porn companies formerly directed by Steve Crow, currently in liquidation as widely reported, unable to be paid? Why was the NZ porn industry linked to an apparently fictitious US shareholder identity – “Cuchara Inc, San Antonio, Texas” – a defuct Texas corporation – entered on the NZ Companies Office Register for nine years by company director John Malcolm Carr? [Until 16/12/09 "Cuchara Inc" was listed as owning 4 NZ registered companies Mr Carr currently directs: Velocity Partners Ltd, First Virtual Deposit & Nominee Co. Ltd, PJ Digital Ltd and Shelf Company No 10 Ltd that owns a 3 million dollar property at Pakiri Beach, Wellsford]. Why is the National Enforcement Unit of the NZ Companies Office (NEU) currently investigating companies directed by Mr Carr and Mr Crow? Why is the Overseas Investment Office currently investigating the purchase of a $3,000,000 “sensitive” coastal property at Pakiri Beach on 4 October 2005 by the NZ registered company Shelf Company No 10 Ltd - directed by John M. Carr and owned 100% until 16/12/09 by “Cuchara Inc” (San Antonio, Texas)? What matters relating to shareholder “Cuchara Inc” are currently being investigated and pursued with John M Carr by the NEU?
The following diagram taken from the Society’s December Newsletter (available in PDF format from this website), is available in high-resolution PDF format here. [N.B. Just two days after the December SPCS Newsletter was published on our website Mr John M Carr changed all four company shareholdings of "Cuchara Inc" to "Carr Consulting P.A." and changed its address from 22588 Scenic Loop Rd, San Antonio, TX 78230-2253, US to 14/31 Greenlane Rd, Remuera, Auckland. WHY?].
$420,000+ p.a. (estimate) to fund salaries of Censors Bill Hastings and Nicola McCully for 2009/10
October 8, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Censor, Pornography
After over 15 years being paid big bucks by the tax-payer to watch hardcore adult porn, the perversions of child sex offenders and rapists, and gratuitous violence, Chief Censor Bill Hastings and his deputy Nicola McCully – want a further 3 years in the “dirty job” watching more objectionable content, 80% of which is hardcore adult porn. What do these two censors have in common besides massive salaries ? Read more
Porn King Steve Crow, Vixen Direct Ltd, Phoenix Companies and Criminal Sanctions
October 3, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
The Companies Act 1993 defines a phoenix company as being, in relation to a failed company, a company that at any time before or within five years after the commencement of the liquidation of a failed company, is known by a name that is also a pre-liquidation name of a failed company or is a similar name. When phoenix company arrangements are established in which the new company created bears a similar name, similar assets and similar management structure to a failed company, the purposes of such companies are usually part of a scheme either to circumvent obligations to creditors of the failed company (avoid debts owed) or to mislead the public into believing they are dealing with the same entity as previous, possibly as part of an attempt to mislead creditors of the previous company.
Steve Crow and salacious, sordid, tawdry and boring porn sleaze (Erotica Expo) versus Triumphs of human imagination that "raise the human spirit" (World of Wearable Art).
September 26, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography, Sexual Dysfunction
Editorial: A sight to raise the human spirit (The Dominion Post Last 26/09/2009)
OPINION: Two impresarios featured in the news this week: [Stephen Peter Crow and Suzie Moncrieff]
One panders to salacious instincts; the other lifts the human spirit. One is pornographer Steve Crow, the other is World of WearableArt founder Suzie Moncrieff. No prizes for guessing which is which.
Fortunately for Wellington, Mr Crow chose Auckland for his latest Boobs on Bikes parade a publicity stunt that no longer even has the virtue of being novel. Read more
ASB Showgrounds host Porn Promo Sleaze and Steve Crow’s Insolvent Erotica Expo
September 25, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography, Sexual Dysfunction
The Society has raised serious concerns directly with ASB Showgrounds CEO Mark Frankham and his management team over their decision to allow the venue to be hired by an insolvent hardcore porn promo company – Erotica Expo Ltd – that was placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009 under the name Malibu Media Ltd. In a hostile move designed to stiffle freedom of expression, its former director Porn King Steve Crow threatens to throw any person out of the porn sleaze ASB venue who dares to record any image using a camera, video or pxt phone; and threatens to strip them of any electronic device film/memory card, should such images be recorded. The Society’s letter has yet to be answered by the management board which the Society has been informed has met to consider its concerns and will do so again on Monday next week. Management will be aware that it is a serious breach of the Companies Act 1993 for a company director to attempt to carry on trading when his company is in liquidation and/or use the name of an unregistered company for the purposes of trading. The Society’s letter to ASB Showground management is set out below.
ASB Showgrounds, Erotica Expo Ltd in Liquidation & Role of Porn King Steve Crow
September 22, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under HIV/AIDS STIs, Pornography, Sexual Dysfunction
The ASB Showgrounds in Auckland has allowed a failed hardcore porn company that has been declared insolvent and consequently placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009, to organise a three-day porn promotion sleaze event where all cameras, videos and ptx phones are banned.
(see: http://www.bvents.com/event/166191-erotica-lifestyles-expo ).
Any person[s] found within the venue taking video or still images will immediately be thrown out from the porn fest says big boss Porn King Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and all images recorded will be forcibly removed.
The Society is asking: Why has ASB Showgrounds management allowed a company in liquidation to enter into such an arrangement? Some media commentators predict it will attract no more than a few hundred people with a sexual dysfunction or those seeking titillation from porn sleaze and extravagantly priced sex toys or seeking AIDS for the impotent or promiscuous.
Liquidator, Lloyd Hayward of Accountants Meltzer Mason and Heath, in his report dated 3 June 2009 and available on the Companies website, states that Malibu Media Ltd (In Liq) (formerly Erotica Expo Ltd) owes unsecured creditors and shareholders $145,665 and $18,649 to IRD. He reports that the company Steve Crow directed failed mainly because of very poor attendances at the most recent Erotica Lifestyles Expos held in Wellington and Christchurch (see Co. No. 1275425 www.companies.govt.nz). These debts together with those of three other porn companies that were directed by Steve Crow, all of which have been placed into liquidation, amount to over 1.3 million dollars. The Liquidator has confirmed that there is nothing left for creditors.
Currently there is no registered company by the name “Erotica Expo Ltd”. Crow changed the name of the company he directed – Erotica Expo Ltd (Co. No.1275425) – to Malibu Media Ltd, on 1 May 2009, one month before it was placed in liquidation; no doubt to try and hide the financial failure being linked to the brand name “Erotica Expo Ltd” which he continues to use in breach of the Companies Act 1993.
Complaint lodged with Commerce Commission over false advertising of Erotica Lifestyles Expo by Steve Crow. Cancelled event tickets still on sale.
September 18, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
The Complaint sent to the Commerce Commission dated 18 September states:
In an article published on Monday 14th September 2009 in the Taranaki Daily News and published on the Stuff News Website, it was reported that “Boobs on Bikes and the Erotica Lifestyles Expo are NOT coming to New Plymouth this year following a public backlash.” [Emphasis added].
(See: http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/2864885/Backlash-ends-sexpo-plans)
Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow – aka “Porn King”), described as “Erotica’s owner and porn mogul”, is quoted as stating “from Auckland” the day before the report was published, that “with all the controversy we’ve been copping and all the negatives from everywhere, it’s not happening now.” The negatives highlighted in the article involve his double-crossing of RSA members. The reporter asked him why he was advertising the former RSA clubrooms as the venue for a money-making strip venue, when he’d given his word to the people of New Plymouth that it would never be used for promoting the sex industry. That promise was given to over 100 people at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and reported on in the Taranaki Daily News last month.
Negative backlash ends Steve Crow’s New Plymouth Sleaze Porn Promo 2009. Erotica Expo Lifestyles & Boobs on Bikes Dead
September 15, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Backlash Ends Sexpo Plans
Lyn Humphreys – Taranaki Daily News
15 September 2009
Boobs on Bikes and the Erotica Lifestyles Expo are not coming to New Plymouth this year following a public backlash.
“It was going to happen but with all the controversy we’ve been copping and all the negatives from everywhere, it’s not happening now,” Erotica’s owner and porn mogul Steve Crow said from Auckland yesterday.
Steve Crow and his Inglewood brother, David Crow, bought the New Plymouth and Districts RSA at Strandon and also bailed out the debt-ridden club last year.
The two are planning an extensive development for the site, named the Te Ara project.
Amid negative reaction, Steve Crow last month promised the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce that the site would not be converted into a brothel, strip club, adult shop or “anything at all to do with the sex industry”.
But Mr Crow’s Erotica lifestyles expo website advertises a three-day expo at New Plymouth’s Te Ara at 434 Devon St East for $20 a head in November. When contacted by the Taranaki Daily News yesterday, Mr Crow admitted that the expo, which would have been at Te Ara, included strip shows.
However, recent bad publicity and a public backlash from New Plymouth people have caused him to pull the pin.
“I just think it’s going to backfire if we do,” Mr Crow said.
Porn King Steve Crow abandons Ellerslie porn epicentre. New erotica residential perch and all company offices moved to Albany
September 14, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Today Porn King company director Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) registered on the Companies website a change in his residential address to 27 Northwood Avenue, Albany [North Shore City 0632], “effective 1 August 2009” . (This new director’s residential address is now listed for all four companies he directs: HWGA Co Ltd, CVC Group Ltd, Eden Digital Ltd and Vixen Publications Ltd). Steve Crow’s previous residential address was recorded as 45 Stanhope Road, Ellerslie, and amazingly all four of his cuurent registered companies plus four now in liquidation, had this same address listed as their respective registered company office for many years. Apparently all hardcore porn operations – Steve Crow’s specialty – involving distribution, production, importing, talent auditions, photo shoots etc – were being delivered for years from the comforts of his own cosy residence at 45 Stanhope Road, Ellerslie – and this from a man who tells the media he has no interest whatsoever in the XXX material that earns him a living. This is the same man who went up against the Health Minister Hon. Annette King and the Waikato Hospital Board arguing that he had a right to film a wannabe porn star “Nikki” giving birth in a public hospital and use the film footage of the baby’s birth in one of his hardcore porn films. He demanded that a tax-payer funded facilty support his porn shoot.
Albany residents will be truly transfixed to learn that the Porn King has moved all four of his porn company registered offices to 2/18b Triton Drive, Albany, [Rosedale, Auckland 0632] having moved from 45 Stanhope Rd, Ellerslie. (addres change for Vixen Publications Ltd is effective from 21 September 2009). This is huge news on a par with news that Steve Crow is funding porn star “Chelsea Charms” to bring her augmented super mammary assets to Auckland for a street porn sleaze promo erotica expo circus parade. It is stunning! The hardcore porn epicenter of New Zealand has now moved from 45 Stanhope Road to Albany and the King of Porn/Porn guru is now in residence in a salubrious single residential location in Albany. With four of his porn companies currently in liquidation this momentous news of a residential mega-shift in sleaze perch for Mr Crow will be of huge interest to many in the adult entertainment business and to his company’s many creditors.
Creditor fury over debt-ridden directors David and Steve Crow of Buildwise Ltd (In Liq) and 435 Devon St Ltd
September 13, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Creditor fury at Crow show. By Rob Maetzig – Taranaki Daily News 29/08/09
A group of businessmen are furious the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce helped allow a debt-ridden man to be involved in a presentation on a major commercial development project for New Plymouth.
David Crow is the director of Buildwise Ltd, an Inglewood building company that has been placed into liquidation owing several hundred thousand dollars to at least 57 creditors, most from Taranaki. On Wednesday night he fronted up with his brother Steve at a Taranaki Chamber of Commerce function to give a presentation on multi-million dollar development plans for the New Plymouth RSA property.
The pair bought the premises for $1.9 million in July last year and are planning a $20 million commercial development called the Te Ara Complex. This has infuriated several business owners who are owed large amounts of money by Buildwise.
Porn King Steve Crow Double Crosses RSA Members over Erotica Lifestyles Expo venue – RSA stalwarts ‘turn in their graves’
September 12, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Porn King Steve Crow was a guest speaker at the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Business After 5 function at the New Plymouth RSA on Wednesday 26th August 2009. It appears that he failed to tell the whole truth when he told more than 100 people in attendance that the RSA Strandon Clubrooms at 435 Devon Street East, purchased by a company of which he is the major shareholder (50%) and was co-director of up until his resignation on 12 November 2008, would never be used for “anything at all to do with the sex industry”. However, since the 27th of August he has been advertising the “Te Ara Centre” (the new title he has given to the RSA Clubrooms), as the venue for his forthcoming three day Sleaze Porn Promo Show in November, which he markets as Erotica Lifestyles Expo via a website. His risible claims of honest transparency with RSA members and the business community were quoted in the Taranaki Daily News:
“Let’s firstly put a few rumours to bed, and then explain what our plans are for this beautiful site. What we are not doing is converting the place into a brothel, or a strip club, or an adult shop, or anything at all to do with the sex industry… And the Crows are also not taking all the money out of the project. Now that’s a real joke. The fact is we’ve already put a lot of money into this project, and we have committed a lot more.”
Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow), his brother David Bruce Crow and wife Carolyn Rose Crow, are all part of a business partnership – 435 Devon Limited (Co. No. 1951732) – that bought the RSA’s property for $1.9 million when both men were directors.
Porn King Steve Crow, David Crow, Vixen Digital Ltd, Crow Holdings Ltd, name changes, liquidation, strike-outs, failure and financial impotence
September 11, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Vixen Digital Limited (Co. No. 812698) was incorporated on 31 May 1996 with “Porn King” Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and his brother David Bruce Crow as directors. It remained a registered company until it was struck off the Register of Companies on 23 January 1998. David Crow resigned as director on 26 June 1997 and the company was struck off when Steve Crow was the sole director. About ten months before it was struck off and three months before David Crow resigned, the company name was changed to “Vixen Old Ltd”. (This was no doubt an attempt to preserve the ‘integrity’ of the company name Vixen Direct Ltd).
Crow Holdings Limited (Co. No. 594846) directed by Steve Crow owned 50% of Vixen Digital Ltd shares when it was struck off and Ezisoft Computer Systems Ltd (ESC) owned the remaining 50%. ESC had two directors at the time – David Crow and his wife Carolyn Rose Crow who is a major shareholder. Vixen Digital Ltd company directors – the Crow brothers – failed to register any Annual Returns over the period that the company was registered and failed to register any Certificate of shareholder(s), based on Companies Office records.
Crow Holdings Ltd was placed into liquidation on February 2000 and struck of the register of Companies on 8 March 2001, both actions taking place when Stephen Crow was its sole director.
Company Directors Porn King Steve Crow and Dermott Malley, Porn Industry, Truth Weekly Tabloid, share transfer and company liquidation
September 6, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Porn King Steve Crow was appointed co-director on 8 December 2005 of a company directed by Dermott Malley, and Linzi Frances Malley – Computer Shopper (NZ) Ltd (Co. No. 514464) – that is now in liquidation. According to the Liquidator’s Report dated 28 May 2009, it owes $163,550 to Second Ranking Preferential Creditor – the IRD – and $262,528 to over 40 unsecured creditors, with other debts yet to be assessed.
Dermott Malley and his wife were directors of the company from 14 May 1992 to 1 September 2006 and Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) served with them as co-director for 11 months before becoming sole director after they resigned. Under Crow’s leadership the company became insolvent and Crow recommended to shareholders, that it be placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009. The Company is 100% owned by CVC Group Ltd (Co. No. 1738154), of which Crow is currently one of three directors and Dermott Malley is a former director (see below).
Porn King Steve Crow’s Business Relationship Meltdown: Erotica Lifestyles Expo support companies go bust
September 3, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
“…major cost over-runs… combined with lower than expected attendances [and] the break-up of the business relationship of the company directors, meant that the directors withdrew their continuing support.” Liquidator’s Report (Meltzer Mason Heath).
From Remuera real estate with love – to liquidated porn sleaze companies……
Porn King Steve Crow: More complaints raised over Shareholding Records
September 1, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Steve Crow, Shareholding Records involving Les Obstacles de L’Amour Ltd and its shareholder Tantrums China White Ltd directed by Ms Fiona Elizabeth McLean Gibb – Stephen Peter Crow’s ex-partner.
The Society has submitted more complaints to the National Enforcement Unit concerning company director Steve Crow. The following summary deals with one example of his poor shareholding records.
Porn King Steve Crow moves company operations from 45 Stanhope Road, Ellerslie to 2/18B Triton Drive, Albany, Auckland.
August 29, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
On Thursday 27 August 2009 at 16:57:19 Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow, aka “Porn King”) formally notified the Registrar of Companies, via an on-line entry on the Companies website, that he is changing the registered office and address for service of HWGA Co Ltd (Co. No. 661946), of which he is sole director, from 45 Stanhope Road, Ellerslie, Auckland to 2/18B Triton Drive, Albany, Auckland, effective 3 September 2009.
He has filed the same notifications with respect to Sidefx Ltd (Co. No. 1391203) of which he is sole director; Eden Digital Ltd (Co. No. 2122974), which he co-directs with multimillionaire property developer and tax accountant John Malcolm Carr; and CVC Group Ltd (Co. No. 1738154), which he co-directs with John Malcolm Carr and accountant Shirish Daddaram Vagal. Read more
CVC Group Ltd director Mr John Malcolm Carr and the Companies Act 1993
August 21, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Concerns have been raised by the Society with the National Enforcement Unit (Report dated 19/08/09) over information registered on the Companies Office website by CVC Group Ltd director John Malcolm Carr relating to a number of companies he directs. Mr Carr has close links with fellow CVC Group Ltd director Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow aka “NZ Porn King”)
CVC Group Ltd directors alleged offences against Companies Act 1993
August 21, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
The following concerns have been raised by the Society with the National Enforcement Unit concerning CVC Group Ltd (Co. No.1738154) directed by Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow – aka “Mr Porn King” or “Mr Porn NZ”), “multi-millionaire property developer and tax accountant” John Malcolm Carr of 14/31 Greenlane Rd East, Auckland City and Shirish Dattaram Vagal of 306 Bucklands Beach Rd, Bucklands Beach, Auckland (Society Report dated 10/08/09).
“Porn King” Steve Crow now sole director of HWGA Co Ltd
August 21, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
The following issues relating to “Porn King” Company Director Steve Crow and HWGA Co Ltd have been brought to the attention of the National Enforcement Unit by the Society (Report dated 20/08/09). It now has only one director: Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and would appear from its adopted Constitution to be unable to function properly.
Dermott Malley and NZ Truth Topless Model
July 27, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Tabloid paper NZ Truth… Editor-in-chief Dermott Malley said: “Sex will always sell in the media but NZ Truth readers want more – more ….entertainment… investigative stories… [etc.]“. The topless model has … become a poster in the centre of the paper’s liftout magazine [pp. 19-24]. “The huge [colour] poster will bring readers the most alluring and exotic models from around the world,” Malley said.
- NZPA 18 March 2009 [Go to link for full article]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2274104/End-of-era-for-page-3-girl
http://www.attn.co.nz/57_1507.htm
Examples of titillating entertainment ‘journalism’ in NZ Truth, the Society is critical of, include the sensationalising of Porn King Steve Crow’s triumphs in sleaze porno promotion.
Porn King Steve Crow, 435 Devon Ltd, Buildwise Ltd (In liq), RSA Strandon Clubrooms and the Companies Act 1993.
July 27, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
27 July, 2007
On 11 June 2007 the company 435 Devon Ltd (Co. No. 1951732) was incorporated. and registered with the Companies Office with David Bruce Crow as sole director. Its registered office was recorded as 418 Bedford Rd North, R.D.6 Inglewood. The Companies Office records based on details filed on-line by David Crow show that his brother Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow aka “Porn King” or “Mr Porn”) was appointed a director on 25 February 2008 and then resigned on 12 November 2008. Read more
Porn King Steve Crow and brother David Crow – Companies in liquidation – New Plymouth RSA has jitters and seeks to protect its assets.
July 25, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
RSA moves to protect assets
By Leighton Keith – Taranaki Daily News
New Plymouth’s RSA is taking steps to protect its assets after companies owned by the men [Stephen Peter Crow and David Bruce Crow] who bailed out the financially troubled organisation have gone broke.
Auckland businessman Steve Crow and his brother David, of Inglewood, bought the Strandon clubrooms for $1.9 million in July 2008, as part of a rescue package to save the organisation which was in danger of going broke. [The property is owned by 435 Devon Ltd (Co. No. 1951732), which is jointly owned by Steve Crow (5,000 shares), David Crow (1,000 shares) and David's wife, Carolyn Rose Crow (4,000 shares). The Company is directed by David Crow. Steve was a director until he resigned on 12 November 2008].
Since then a softening in the porn industry has seen several of Steve Crow’s companies [Z4K74D Ltd formerly Vixen Direct Ltd; Malibu Media Ltd, formerly Erotica Expo Ltd; Eden Media Ltd; Les Obstacles de L'Amour Ltd] go into liquidation and earlier this month David’s building company, Buildwise Ltd, was placed in liquidation.
[See "Contractors hit as Builder (David Bruce Crow) goes Bust Taranaki Daily News 4 July 2009]
The brothers intended to put a $20 million development on the site.
[For more on this failed porn company director and his brother go to....
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/2669384/RSA-moves-to-protect-assets ]
Twenty-eight further alleged breaches of the Companies Act 1993 by Porn Company Director Steve Crow
July 20, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Announcement, Pornography
Media Release 22 July 2009
The Society has filed a further 28 complaints against Company Director Stephen Peter Crow with the Legal Team of the Companies Office and the Enforcement Unit. It alleges he has committed 28 breaches of the Companies Act 1993 as a director of CVC Group Ltd and sole director of Vixen Publications Ltd in his use on official company documents of the company name “Eden Digital Ltd” (Co No.2122974 – formerly Vixen TV Ltd,) which was incorporated on 23 April 2008 and first registered as “Eden Digital Ltd” following a name change on 26 March 2009. Read more
Steve Crow’s ‘Sergeant at Arms’ resigns as Company Director
July 17, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Press Release 16 July 2009
This morning Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) – NZ “Porn King” – had his former wife, Senior Police Sergeant Gaylene Sharon Rogers, resign as co-director of HWGA Co Ltd (Co. No 661946), according to the Companies Office on-line records. This leaves HWGA Co Ltd, which has its registered office at 45 Stanhope Rd, Ellerslie, Auckland, with only one director – Steve Crow. Read more
Steve Crow, Porn and Companies Act Offences
July 15, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Crime, Pornography
Media Release 15 July 2009
No. 1 Story http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/07/15/steve-crow-porn-companies-act-offences/
The Society has today filed 16 complaints against Porn Company Director Steve Crow with both the Legal Team of the Companies Office and the National Enforcement Unit, pertaining to 16 breaches of the Companies Act 1993. These alleged offences relate to his use on official documents of the company name “Eden Digital Ltd” over a period of five years, before such an entity was ever registered with the Companies Office.
The name “Eden Digital Ltd” was first registered on 26 March 2009 out of a name change of a former company – Vixen TV Ltd – of which Crow was the sole director. Crow has boasted to media that “Eden Digital Ltd” has arisen like a phoenix from the ashes of two of his other companies that have been placed into liquidation – Vixen Direct Ltd and Erotica Expo Ltd – and that they continue to trade as the newly formed company.
Good News: Steve Crow – his porn empire shrivels
July 10, 2009 by SPCS
Filed under Pornography
Media Release: 11 July 2009 (updated)
No. 1 Story http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/07/13/update-on-steve-crow-and-porn-empire-collapse/
“I’m quite happy for you to call me a pornographer [and] a sleazeball, whatever you want to call me. But keep it factual.” Steve Crow (Quoted in NZ Listener 2004).
FOUR of Steve Crow’s porn companies of which he was sole director have gone belly up. Critics of his hard-core putrid porn promotion will be crowing loudly, but creditors, including about 30 New Zealand companies, will not be. The shrivelling of his now anaemic porno empire has left him impotent he claims to recompense any of his many unsecured creditors who are owed at least $714,000. In addition his companies owe at least $323,753 to the IRD. The debt will probably increase once the final liquidator’s reports are completed.
Crow says ‘I don’t have any obligation to recompense creditors of the liquidated companies” (Dominion Post 8/07/09). On TV One’s Close Up “Porn Industry Going Bust?” – he tried to downplay the debts, saying that most of the money was owed to creditors outside New Zealand who were still acting benevolently towards him. Surrounded by busty porn stars and with his new girfriend Rachel Whitewell at his side, his message was – its business or bust!
Lloyd J. Hayward of accountants Meltzer Mason Heath is the liquidator appointed for all of his three failed companies.
The first company, Vixen Direct Ltd, an importer and distributor of hard-core porno sleaze, had its name changed by Crow on 1 May 2009 to Z4K74D Ltd (Co. No. 514464), just before the liquidator was appointed on 27 May 2009. Read more
Landmark Court Decision on Misuse of Internet in Workplace. Dismissal by Company of Employee Upheld.
October 11, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Censor, Censorship & New Technology, Moral Values, Pornography
Media Release 11 October 2008
The Society is delighted that the Employment Court in Wellington has recently issued a robust landmark decision that defends the rights of employers to enforce any company rules they have prohibiting their employees from accessing, downloading, uploading, saving, requesting, transmitting, storing or purposely viewing sexual, pornographic, obscene, racist, profane or other offensive and inappropriate material, using the workplace internet or intranet. The Court’s decision overturns a determination of the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) issued last year that was extensively covered in the media and featured in July 2007 on John Campbell’s TV3 Nightline programme.
“Employers have always had a right to dismiss employees who breach company policies relating to conduct in the workplace,” says Society Executive Director David Lane. “However, this Court decision, Arthur D Riley & Co Limited v Jessica Sharon Wood (WC 18/08; WRC 25/07) issued by Judge CM Shaw on 8 October 2008, underlines in case law, for the first time I am aware of, the rights of employers to tie their company policies to their own community/workplace standards in relation to objectonable/pornographic or offensive content, without relying on the liberal and flaky definition of what constitutes offensive and obscene content issued regularly by the Chief Censor’s Office – the so-called enlightened ‘objective view’. Of course companies must set out fair and reasonable procedures that allow an employer to effectively deal with breaches of conduct in the use of the internet, clearly define inappropriate content and notify and warn employees of the consequences of all misconduct.”
Employment Court Judge Coral M Shaw has overturned an earlier determination that was issued by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) that upheld a wrongful dismissal claim by a Wellington woman Miss Jessica Sharon Wood against her employer Arthur D Riley & Co Lts (ADR). The substantial financial compensation awarded her by the ERA, made against ADR, has now been negated by the Employment Court which has ruled that all of it (paid in full by ADR into the Court, pending appeal result) – 75% of her lost wages from 18 September 2006 to January 2007 and $9,000 damages for humiliation – must be returned with interest to the plaintiff (ADR). The Court has reversed the decision of the ERA by now reserving costs in favour of the plaintiff, which has 28 days from the date of the Court’s decision, 8 October, to submit its claims against Miss Wood.
The Society Director David Lane praises Mr Garth Mickell, Director of a private electricity and water metering business, Arthur D Riley & Co Ltd (ADR), the plaintiff, for challenging the appallingly incompetent and flawed decision issued last year by Mr Denis Asher of the ERA.
In an email dated 10 October Mickell wrote to the Society:
“First thank you for your support, and advise. Attached for your reference is the employment court determination. We are thankful that commonsense has prevailed, and there is now the ability of places of work to be able to determine their level of morality and ethics, without influence from central government.”
To reiterate: employers now have a right, recognised by the Employment Court, to enforce company policy relating to what they consider constitutes objectionable/pornographic or offensive content without having to get an “objective” determination from the Chief Censor’s Office. Employers can also determine what constitutes “serious misconduct” relating to such material without having to have the liberal Chief Censor’s Office effectively negate the fair and reasonable community standards they seek to uphold in the workplace.
Praise for Censor’s Ban on “Cradle of Filth” T-shirt
July 1, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Censor, Moral Values, Porn Link to Rape, Pornography
SPCS Press Release 1 July 2008
John Mills, President of the Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc, (SPCS) has hailed as “bold, morally courageous and legally sound”, the classification decision issued to him today by the Chief Censor’s Office, that permanently bans a T-shirt he argued was “grossly objectionable due to its obscene content” and “completely vilifies the central figure of Christianity”. The Censor’s Office agreed with Mr Mills, an elder at the Kapiti Christian Centre, that the T-shirt, worn and flaunted in a large public gathering on the Kapiti Coast and a part-image (censored) of which was published in the Kapiti Observer newspaper, should be classified “objectionable”.
