John M Carr and B.B.S. Land & Property Development Inc.

John M Carr is President and Director of B.B.S. Land & Property Develpment Inc. (Tax ID 17424831992) which was incorporated in Texas on 11 December 1987 and is currently “in good standing not for dissolution or withdrawal through May 17, 2010″. The registered agent of this active domestic for profit corporation is recorded on the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA) Records as Christina De Russo who gives her address as 22588 Scenic Loop Rd, San Antonio TX 78255. However, this is the very same address given by Mr John Malcolm Carr in his role as co-director with President Angelica G. Carr of B.B.S. Charities, Inc. (Tax ID 30114169250: Employer ID 74-257-9109), a tax exempt entity of which he is treasurer, secretary and registered agent (see www.bbscharities.org and refs below).

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Checketts McKay Law, John M Carr, Steve Crow and Liquidated Porn

A hardcore porn company directed by NZ “Porn King” Steve Crow that owed unsecured creditors $262,528 and the IRD $163,550 when put into liquidation on 27 May 2009, has been unable to pay unsecured creditor Checketts McKay Law of Cromwell (Alan Bevin McKay of 35 The Mall, Cromwell 9342) for legal sevices rendered. It was listed by the Liquidators, Chartered Accountants Meltzer Mason Heath, as one of 50 odd unsecured creditors who would receive nothing from the failed porn company. Mr Alan McKay is currently the Attorney who acts for San Antonio Texas-based company director John M. Carr whose companies are the subject of ongoing investigations by the National Enforcement Unit (N.E.U.) of the NZ Companies Office. John M Carr co-directs porn companies Eden Digital Ltd and CVC Group Ltd with Steve Crow. Among his many colourful business interests Crow owns 50% of the shares in 435 Devon Limited that owns the former troubled RSA Clubrooms in New Plymouth. Read more

Changes to prohibition of company directors

Companies Office Announcement:

One of the responsibilities of the National Enforcement Unit, Ministry of Economic Development (NEU) is to assess and investigate candidates for prohibition under Section 385 of the Companies Act 1993.

That is, directors and managers of companies which have failed in the last five years due, at least in part, to mismanagement may be prohibited.  The NEU prepares a report on the candidate and makes a recommendation to the Registrar of Companies.

For more go to: http://www.companies.govt.nz/cms/customer-support/news-and-public-notices/whats-new/regular-maintenance-window-to-change

Carr Consulting P.A. – John M Carr and his Gaggle of US Companies

According to its Chief Executive/Chief Compliance Officer John M Carr, Carr Consulting P.A. (formerly Cuchara Inc), an active Florida registered “domestic for profit ” corporation, has its headquarters at 22588 Scenic Loop Rd, San Antonio TX 78255-2253, employs between 25 and 100 people, has a current website (www.carrconsultingpa.com), is owned privately, has an annual revenue of between one and ten million US dollars and a San Antonio phone contact number of +1-210-694-7884. Its links to the sleazy hard core porn industry in New Zealand, particularly companies directed by “NZ Porn King” Steve Crow and John M Carr, and multi-million dollar property developments, is of vital interest to the Society, NZ public and the government agencies currently investigating his convoluted web of companies.

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RSA diggers blame pornographer Steve Crow for closure of clubrooms

The Last Post has sounded for the battle-scarred New Plymouth RSA club.

The Taranaki Daily News (Wed.10 Feb) has reported that RSA club members are “agreed that what had started the friction [that had led to the closure of the clubrooms] was Steve Crow’s role as a pornographer and his intentions to advertise erotica on a billboard at the RSA site.” 

“Under orders from its national executive, the debt-plagued club which has proudly served old soldiers and their families for more than 90 years ceased trading at midnight on Monday.

It now looks extremely unlikely the Devon St East clubrooms will re-open – and already, fellow chartered club the New Plymouth Club has taken over, offering all 1000 RSA members full access to its Gill St premises.”

For more on the damaging impact of porn see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3309941/Last-post-for-the-RSA

John M Carr – Steve Crow and 149,900 Eden Digital Ltd porn XXX shares

On Sunday 31 January 2010, the directors of hardcore porn company Eden Digital Limited issued 149,900 shares to porn mother company – CVC Group Limited – which already owned it. The CVC Group now owns all 150,000 shares. “Porn King” Steve Crow and John M Carr are directors of both companies. They have not supplied to the Registrar of Companies a share issue certificate signed by both directors of Eden Digital. It certainly does not appear on the Companies Office website as of 19 February 2009. The Companies Act 1993 states:

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John M Carr – Cheyenne Insurance Co. (NZ) Ltd $5.5 M property bonanza

New Zealand Companies Office records show that on 9 November 2004 John M Carr, company director residing in the United States of America, acquired all 50,000 shares in Cheyenne Insurance Company (NZ) Limited of which he had been sole director since 24 May 1991 (It was incorporated on 28/09/90). Prior to the share transfer and as far back as at least 17 April 2001, Angelica Carr held 49,999 shares and BBS Employment Plans Inc., a Florida registered corporation with John M Carr as Principal and Director, held the remaining one share (the latter corporation was dissolved in 1994).

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John M Carr – Carr Consulting P.A. and Cromwell NZ property sales

John Malcolm Carr is founding co-director of the New-Zealand registered company Carrlandazz Holdings Ltd which is 50% owned by PJ Digital Ltd which he directs and whose owner is Florida-registered corporation Carr Consulting P.A. John M Carr is both Principal and registered agent for Carr Consulting P.A., a professional association authorised by Florida State law only to render financial planning advice to clients in Florida. The beneficial shareholder of Carr Consulting P.A. appears to be John M Carr. Carrlandazz Holdings Ltd (Co. No. 1241246), incorporated on 19 July 2002, has since then purchased property in Cromwell and subsequently sold off 29 sections (listed below) for a considerable profit – of which it took 50%. Its parent company PJ Digital Limited and ultimately its parent Carr Consulting P.A. benefited from the land grab and sales.

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John M Carr – Carr Consulting P.A. and Fraud Examination

Fraud: “Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain” (Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English).

John M Carr was once a director and 99% owner of the New Zealand registered company “Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Limited”. It was struck of the Register of Companies in 2005 by the Registrar of Companies because its directors failed to file annual returns (see below). He was also director two other such companies that have been struck off the register due to his failure to file annual returns (see below).

Mr Carr states on his website that he has gained certification (CFE) as a Fraud Examiner, USA (www.carr.co.nz/ ). Read more

John M Carr, Cornish Point Development Limited, tax and property

John Malcolm Carr who holds both New Zealand and United States citizenship owns Cornish Point Development Limited (Co. No. 841571, Incorp. 24/02/97) which is the listed proprietor of at least seven New Zealand properties. The tax residency status of John M Carr has become a critical issue in the ongoing investigations by various NZ agencies, as it has become clear that he is involved through his companies in major property development – a number of which are owned by a Florida-based corporation of which he is both Principal and registered agent. (One automatically has New Zealand Tax Residency status if one resides in the country for more than 183 days over any 12-month period). His Attorney, Alan Bevin McKay, of Checketts McKay Law Limited, Cromwell, was the agent who acted for him and the company he directs – Shelf Company No. 10 Ltd – in the purchase of a 3 million dollar property – 92 M Greenwood Rd, Pakiri, near Wellsford - on 4 October 2005. Another company Mr Carr directs – Kinetiq Ltd – which is owned by the Florida corporation, owns two Auckland properties, one a luxury accomodation unit on Waiheke Island.

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Buildwise Limited (In Liq) No funds available for unsecured credtors

Buildwise Limited (Co. No. 714048), directed by David Bruce Crow of Inglewood, was placed into voluntary liquidation on 3 July 2009 owing a minimum of 60 known unsecured creditors, as of 7 July 2009, hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Liquidator’s latest report, dated 11 February 2010 states: “It is unlikely that there will be funds available for distribution to unsecured creditors.” For the period to 3 January 2010 payments of $9,637 have been made from assets realised, including $7,522.50 to the Liquidator for his services.

David Crow, brother of “Porn King” Steve Crow, is director of 435 Devon Limited which purchased the RSA property and clubrooms at 435 Devon Street, in 2008 for $1.9 million. David Crow owns 10% of the company shares, his wife Catolyn owns 40% and his bother Steve owns 50%. David Crow of 418 Bedford Road North, Inglewood 4386 is also director and owner of Ezisoft Computer Systems Limited (Co. No. 302576, incorporated 3 July 1966). This company is one of the many unsecured creditors of Buildwise Limited.

John M Carr – His Company "Strike Bowl Queenstown Ltd" Struck off

Yesterday the Registrar of Companies struck Strike Bowl Queenstown Ltd (Co. No. 1384447) off the New Zealand Register of Companies. The IRD had lodged an objection within the 20-working day time limit following the public notification of his intention to remove it on 18 October 2007. It appears that the IRD has either succeeded in sorting out the matters of tax owed by Mr Carr’s company, or, as we suspect is more likely, has just given up pursuing the debt as the company director cannot be contacted by the National Enforcement Unit of the Companies Office at any known New Zealand address, including his so-called “residential address” 14/31 Greenlane Road, Remuera, Auckland” and the company’s “registered office” – a “virtual office” at “Unit 13, 33-35 Apollo Drive, Mairangi Bay, Auckland”. Strike Bowl Queenstown Ltd was incorporated by John Malcolm Carr on 28 Aug. 2003 and the last Annual Return he filed was dated 31 July 2006. The Society believes that the integrity of the Register and the Companies Office’s enforcement agency – the National Enforcement Unit – is open to question when false, out-of-date and misleading information is allowed to go unchecked.

John M Carr – Campaign Treasurer for Orange County (FL) Mayoral candidate Milfred Fernandez and District Commissioner Tony Ortiz

John M Carr, co-director with “Porn King” Steve Crow of New Zealand registered porn company Eden Digital Ltd and its NZ ‘mother company’ CVC Group Ltd,  is currently serving as campaign treasurer for mayoral candidate Milfred Fernandez in her 2010 Orange County election campaign in Florida. He was also the campaign treasurer from Jan. 2007 to Feb. 2008 for Antonio (“Tony”) L. Ortiz, a distinguished former law enforcement officer, who narrowly won the election for Orange County’s Commissioner seat for District 2. The Society has filed a number of complaints with the Registrar of Companies concerning the New Zealand registered companies Mr John Malcolm Carr, “resident” of 14/31 Greenlane Road, Remuera, Auckland, NZ  – directs. These include NZ companies wholly owned by Florida-based Carr Consulting P.A. of which Mr Carr is Principal and registered agent.

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John M Carr & more defunct NZ Petroleum Exploration Ltd Shareholders

John M Carr has been a director of New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Limited [NZPEL] (Co. No. 21102, Incorp. 3 July 1968) since 9 November 1994 and according to the latest Financial Report (Year ending 31 March 2007) holds 21,000 ordinary shares in the company. (The 2008 and 2009 Reports have not yet been registered with the NZ Companies Office). The largest current shareholder of this company (known as Triton Oil NZ Ltd prior to 16 December 1996) is Triton Energy Corporation, a defunct entity, that is recorded in the 2010 Annual Return as holding 5,752,130 of NZPEL’s 19,200,688 shares. The sixth largest parcel of NZPEL shares is currently listed as held by another defunct corporation Triton Energy Limited which was purchased by Amerada Hess Corporation in August 2001 which then changed its name to Hess Corporation on 8 May 2006.

A careful examination of the share listing on the 2010 Annual Report for New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Limited [NZPEL] and its latest Financial Report for the Year ended 31 March 2007, registered online with the NZ Companies Office 21 January 2010, reveals disturbing evidence of breaches of the Companies Act 1993 by the company directors.

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John M Carr and the defunct Triton Energy Corporation shareholder

John M Carr incorporated Triton Energy Corporation [TEC] on August 10, 2006 in the State of Florida and it is currently listed as “active” in State records. He is director, principal and registered agent of this “Domestic For Profit” corporation that has its principal business address at 1621 Hillcrest St, Orlando, FL 32803 – the same location where he claims Carr Consulting P.A., which he also directs, is busy rendering financial planning advice to Floridians in Florida. (Carr Consultancy P.A. [Professional Association] owns four New Zealand registered companies directed by John M Carr involved in property and with links to the hardcore porn industry). Read more

Companies Office foul up: 4 key docs registered 3 years late

The Society raised concerns with the Registrar of Companies, Mr Neville Harris, in a letter dated 19 January 2010 over the absence of 4 key shareholder consent documents from the Companies Office website, relating to 435 Devon Street Limited, a company incorporated by David Bruce Crow on 11 June 2007 and directed in 2008 by David and his brother “Porn King” Steve Crow. On 27 January 2010 another complaint was raised with the Office and today all 4 documents suddenly appeared on the website with the date of upload/registration entered as 9:39:04 am, 11 June 2007.  The Society’s letter to the Office (copied below) dated 28 January highlights its concern over this situation involving a Companies Office foul up. It also raises concerns over the appointment record of Stephen Peter Crow as a director, who now owns 50% of the company directed by his brother David.

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Carr Consulting P.A. and John M Carr.

FORMAL COMPLAINT TO REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES & MINISTER OF COMMERCE:
Re Company Director John Malcolm Carr

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Reputation hostage to weak company law – Dominion Post

Quote from Editorial 20 January 2010, p. B4

“… But something is awry when one office in the Salvation Army’s Auckland building can be home to 2496 companies. And something else is wrong when New Zealand can be dragged into an international arms smuggling incident because one of those companies – SP Trading [Ltd] – was used to lease a plane detained at Bangkok Airport in December [2009]with 35 tons of missles and explosives on board…. The purpose of company law is to facilitate business. It is not to facilitate tax avoidance here or overseas or gun running or money laundering by shadowy figures overseas to give their dubious activities a patina of respectability by attaching a New Zealand PO box number to them…. [Critics of the Companies Office registration system, including the Society, consider that] more vigorous enforcement of existing law [is needed], the Government should get on with it. New Zealand’s reputation is at stake.”

Steve Crow and David Crow 435 Devon Limited

FORMAL COMPLAINT TO REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES:

RE: Company Directors David Bruce Crow and Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow

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Criminal Offence for Company director to knowingly supply false information to Companies Office.

An Auckland company director could face five years’ jail for supplying false information to the Companies Office, according to Roger Wallis, a partner in law firm Chapman Tripp, as reported in today’s Dominion Post (13 Jan.P. A5). Rules need to be enforced he said. Mr Wallis identified an Auckland company that he said had clearly breached Section 377 of the Companies Act 1993 prohibiting the making of false statements by both the director and the person incorporating the company. Read more

Carr Consulting P.A. and offences against NZ Companies Act 1993

Commerce Minister Simon Power should discuss with officials the registration of companies with overseas directors such as John M Carr, after the recent flare up of controversy over New Zealand hardcore porn companies John Carr co- directs with “NZ Porn King” Steve Crow – which are all linked to a Florida registered professional association (P.A.) shareholder Carr Consulting P.A. Investigators should be looking at flaws in the New Zealand companies registration system that allowed a Texas-based NZ company director, John Malcolm Carr, with US and NZ citizenship, to falsely represent the shareholding of four NZ companies he directs (including Velocity Partners Ltd) and get away with it, using a false corporation name “Cuchara Inc” from 14 March 2000 until 16 December 2009.

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Companies Act 1993 and Enforcement Issues

Potentially dangerous gaps in New Zealand’s company registration system have been revealed as an investigation continues by the Society into the operations of a number of NZ registered companies owned by a US-registered corporation, as well as the activities of its Principal and registered agent who directs the NZ companies. A NZ-based co-director of one of his other companies is also under investigation.

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Carr Consulting P.A., John M. Carr and his NZ Residential Addresses

Since 2006 Mr John M. Carr, who holds both US and NZ citizenship, has been recording his residential address on the NZ Companies Office website as 14/31 Greenlane Road, Remuera, Auckland. On 16 December 2009 he entered the same address, for the first time, as the registered office for “Carr Consulting P.A.” (Professional Association) – a Florida For Profit Corporation  of which he is both Principal and registered agent. It owns four NZ registered companies he directs (Velocity Partners Ltd, First Virtual Deposit & Nominee Co. Ltd, PJ Digital Ltd and Shelf Company No. 10 Ltd), as well as one that was struck off the register in 2005 (Cromwell 24 Hr Challenge Ltd).

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Carr Consulting P.A. and two Auckland properties owned by Kinetiq Ltd

A lot of interest has been generated following the publication of the Society’s summary diagram on the US corporation Carr Consulting P.A. in our December Newsletter (see below). We’ve been asked for details on the two North Shore, Auckland properties owned by Kinetiq Ltd, directed by John Malcolm Carr and owned by Velocity Partners Ltd. The latter is owned by Carr Consulting P.A. We are very happy to oblige and provide this publicly listed information. The two properties are:

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US (Florida) corporation – Carr Consulting P.A. – owns PJ Digital Ltd which owns two funky Auckland unit title properties

After viewing the Society’s copyrighted diagram on Carr Consulting P.A. in our December Newsletter (see below), a kindly gentleman has sought clarification from us as to the New Zealand property ownership of PJ Digital Ltd (Co. No. 1141073. Incorporated 28/06/00), directed by John Malcolm Carr. We are very happy to oblige and provide this publicly listed information. The two properties are: Read more

John M Carr and the peripatetic, puzzling, pliable, P.A. shareholder

Late on Wednesday evening 16 December, company director John Malcolm  Carr changed the registered name of the listed shareholder of four New Zealand registered companies he directs, from “Cuchara Inc” to “Carr Consulting P.A.”  By doing so he confirmed the Society’s contention (see Dec. Newsletter) that he had been using an incorrect US-based corporation shareholder name for about nine years in his annual returns.  The Society is correct to have asserted that all the shares are in fact held by a professional association  (P.A.) authorised to render financial planning advice and related services in Florida through Better Business Services Inc, which Carr directs from his office in the US. Read more

Twenty-eight further alleged breaches of the Companies Act 1993 by Porn Company Director Steve Crow

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

BIG NEWS Report: Barnardos asks kids about smacking, and lies about the research”… Why? In order to promote their VoteYes Campaign?

Barnardos have been interviewing New Zealand children by phone to see what they think about getting smacked. The question they asked:

Do you think that adults who are taken to court for hitting a child should be let off if they say they were disciplining the child?”

……. The kids had to push 1 if they should be let off 2 if they think they should not be let off, 3 if they don’t know and 4 to hear the question again. Just over half said they should not be let off. Many probably didn’t understand what ” let off” meant- ……..Nor is it clear whether “adults” included strangers.

They interviewed stressed kids who called the What’s Up hotline, a hotline for kids to talk about anything they wish, including abuse. While the kid was waiting to speak to a real person, they were given an automated message with the above question. That’s a little like asking turkeys on the 15 December whether they are looking forward to Christmas. There was only a 10% valid response rate. Read more

Simon Barnett Explains the Referendum in 90 Seconds

Did Green MP Sue Bradford con the gullible into believing that her ‘anti-smacking’ legislation was needed to end Child Abuse?

A Growing list of child homicides in New Zealand suggests that the repeal of section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961 has had no positive impact whatsoever on reducting the incidence of child abuse and child homicides in New Zealand. If anything the problem has become worse. The legislation, championed by Green MP Sue Bradford, that criminalises every parent that uses any form of force “for the purpose of correction” must be repealed. The latest shocking report of yet another child homicide must cause all decent-minded citizens to cry out “Enough is enough! We must fix this disasterous problem!” Read more

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