Unlawful acceptance of donation in 2010 mayoralty campaign – 22 month jail sentence

May 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment

A high profile mayoralty candidate who accepted a campaign donation in exchange for an offer of ‘political favours’ – filed a “no contest plea” to eight criminal charges, including: receiving unlawful compensation for official acts, accepting illegal campaign contributions and filing a false campaign financial report (it was co-signed by the candidate’s treasurer). The candidate, who was recorded on video accepting the donation from an undercover enforcement agent posing as a businessman seeking “access” favours, has been sentenced to a 22.4 month jail term, fined, and required to do 200 hours of community service on release from incarceration.

Is this a case of  “entrapment” involving an innocent scapegoat, as claimed? Should donations to political candidates entitle donors “access” to donation recipients? What community standards should we seek to uphold in creating laws relating to political campaign contributions? Where does the fine line exist between the “letter” and the “spirit” of the law relating to these compliance matters? [Read more...]

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Eden Digital Ltd liquidation follows liquidation of Payroll Solution Services Ltd

November 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The Commissioner of the Inland Revenue made an application dated 20 June 2011, to place Payroll Solution Services Ltd (Co. No. 1382579), directed by John M Carr CPA (see photo:  http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg) in liquidation. The application was heard by High Court at Auckland on 5 August 2011 (CIV-2011- 404-3727). The failed company, owned by Cherokee Holdings Ltd, which is also directed by John M Carr, was placed into liquidation by the High Court pursuant to s. 241(2)(c) of the Companies Act 1993 on 2 September 2011. It The was incorporated in August 2003 to provide “services to a few large clients“, according to John M Carr, as noted in the liquidator’s report dated 5 October 2011. The Liquidator, Craig Alexander Sanson, also reported:

“We were advised that the company provided services exclusively to companies related to the director [John M Carr]. The company ceased to trade in April 2011…. [Emphasis added]

“The director advised that a large payroll client ran into difficulty when they lost a customer and suffered cash flow problems. The client was unable to pay the company [Payroll Solution Services] and subsequently the company has insufficient cash flow to meet its tax obligations. The company was liquidated on the petition of the Inland Revenue Department. [Emphasis added]

“The director advised that as at liquidation date the company held no realisable assets.”

The liquidator will no doubt want to identity the “large payroll client” John Malcolm Carr CPA refers to here that he claims lost a “customer” leading to its failure to pay for services rendered it by Payroll Solution Services Ltd, thereby causing the latter to have “insufficient cash flow to meet its tax obligations”?

Let us examine some of the possibilities:

1. PJ Digital Ltd 

This is a NZ registered company which John M Carr owns and directs. and which owns a property in Freemans Bay, Central Auckland. It owns the domain name belex.co.nz and is owner of Belex Carding Co – a wool scouring machinery operation – located in Central Otago (see ref. 1). The accounts for PJ Digital Ltd were serviced exclusively by Payroll Solution Services Ltd (In liq) directed by John M Carr, up until about April 2011 when the latter ceased trading (according to Mr Carr).

PJ Digital Ltd owns the trade mark to the business Pacific Alpacas (www.pacificalpacas.com) of which John M Carr is principal agent (see ref. 2). It was through this business  that John M Carr sought unsuccessfully to sell a shipping container load of about 10,000 kgs of scoured alpaca fibre worth about $100,000, to a US customer in 2011. The deal fell through about the time John M Carr told the liquidator that Payroll Solution Services Ltd ceased trading (April 2011).

The raw fibre was sourced by John M Carr and his agents from 121 New Zealand suppliers and the US order was cancelled by the customer just prior to the consignment being shipped. The fibre  has subsequently been sold off to other buyers after Payroll Solution Services Ltd is supposed to have ceased to trade (April 2011, according to Carr). 

John M Carr first notified his NZ alpaca fibre suppliers on 2 June 2011 that the US customer had reneged on the 10,000 kg purchase.  As a result he says he was forced to find alternative buyers for the container load of fibre and he informed all fibre suppliers on 29 December 2011 via his website www.pacificalpacas.com that he hoped to have all his creditors paid in full by the end of the first quarter of 2012.  He told them that the value of the original fibre stock was $99,000, but this would probably reduce to about $94,000 when it was all finally sold. He informed them that invoices were still being issued in January 2012 to customers buying the remaining fibre.

So why has Payroll Solution Services, Ltd. directed by John M Carr, been unable to pay its creditor – IRD?

As noted, he told the liquidator it was because “the company had insufficient cash flow to meet its tax obligations… and ceased to trade in April 2011″.

If he was trying to somehow shift the responsibility away from himself as director of Payroll Solution Services Ltd and onto PJ Digital Ltd, (a possible candidate as the “large payroll client”); this makes no sense as he owns and directs the latter company. If PJ Digital Ltd was ultimately responsible for the failed sale agreement involving $100,000 worth of fibre, could this failure in itself be blamed for its lack of “cash flow” leading to the liquidation of Payroll Solution Services Ltd?

This suggestion seems implausible if the following claims made by John M Carr after April 2011, are true…

Despite having informed the liquidator that Payroll Solution Services Ltd had ceased to trade in April 2011, John M Carr had written to alpaca fibre suppliers on 2 June 2011 stating:

“The worst day of this project was Wednesday May 11th 2011…. Since then, we have sold 40% of the stock he [the US buyer who reneged] had committed to buy, have 10% on firm offer, but to five different customers at prices that were better or equal to our original budget in US dollars…

“We will provide an accounting for the prices that we have achieved by the end of June now that we have some visibility as to all the costs and realised prices for 50% of the fibre.

“Payment will be by Direct Credit. Please complete the attached form…”

In a letter to the Fibre Pool dated 4th July 2001, John M Carr wrote:

“We have sold, or got commitment for $77,000 of fibre. We have total stock valued at $99,000 – about $5,000 less than US commitment…

“We have received payment for $22,000 of the fibre as of June 30th 2011. We have sales receivable of $52,000 … and we have 6 bales … worth approximately $22,000.

“I would like to do another collection [of fibre] in the North Island in late September [2011] once the majority of the funds have been paid out.”

The domain name “pacificalpacas.com,” used by Mr John M Carr to communicate with “all participating [NZ fibre] growers” and to market his business in NZ, was registered with Godaddy.com on 2 November 2010. It is owned by a US-registered corporation Better Business Services, Inc. – PO Box 780637 San Antonio, Texas – a corporation owned and directed by John M Carr.

This brings us to the second potential “large payroll client” that John M Carr may well have been pointing the liquidator to as the culprit that caused Payroll Solution Services Ltd to be be unable to pay its taxes and consequently be put into liquidation.

2. Better Business Services, Inc.

This corporation is registered in the state of Texas (Taxpayer No. 17422888796 File No. 0067876000 SOS Reg. date 7 November 1983). It is also registered to do business in the state of Florida and John M Carr is its registered agent and principal (FEI/EIN No. 742288879. Doc. No. Po3291. Date filed 9/06/1984).

The domain name pacificalpacas.com is found at at IP address 184.172.4.10 along with the domain names: johnmcarr.com  bbs.co.nz and bbstax.com – and all are owned by Better Business Services, Inc./John M Carr. This strongly suggests that the John M Carr’s Pacific Alpacas business is owned or at least part-owned by Better Business Services, Inc./John Carr.

According to what John M Carr reported to the liquidator, the NZ registered company Payroll Solution Services, Ltd had no employees or assets at the time it was put into liquidation on 2 September 2011, four months after he claimed all trading operations had ceased in April 2011.

The Liquidators have since analysed the books and records of the company and have identified a claim against the director John M Carr. They state in their second report dated 26 April 2012:

“We have made demand for this claim and expect to receive a response within the next month.”

Who has made this demand?

Perhaps John M Carr has structured his convoluted company network such that the hardcore porn businesses owned by Better Business Services Inc. are all serviced by Payroll Solution Services Ltd (In liq). If so the “large payroll services client” that caused the demise Payroll Solution Services Ltd may have been Better Business Services, Inc. To put it crudely Mr John M Carr may have engineered his own downfall himself using himself as the agent!

3. Payroll Solution Services, Inc. – An “active” corporation formed in the State of Florida (FEI/EIN 742650806. Doc. No. L42315 filed on 1/10/90). Principal address: 1621 Hillcrest St, Orlando FL 32803-4809 US. Mailing address: P.O. Box 780637 San Antonio TX 78278-0637 – the business address for John M Carr, who is registered agent, principal and director of the corporation.

New Zealand and US tax authorities will no doubt be very keen to establish the true nature of the relationship, if any, between Payroll Solution Services, Inc (Florida), and the NZ registered company Payroll Solution Services Ltd (In liq). The latter as noted, is fully owned by NZ-registered Cherokee Holdings Ltd, directed by John M Carr. (Cherokee Holdings Ltd is owned by The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Ltd).

Perhaps Payroll Solution Services Inc. (Florida) was the client of  Payroll Solution Services Ltd (In liq) that failed to pay its bills for services rendered by Mr John M Carr!

4. Eden Digital Ltd (In Liq) - directed by John M Carr from 23 April 2008 to 13 September 2011. (It specialises in the marketing of hard core pornography and held the licence for Erotica Lifestyles Expo. One of its former directors, Steve Crow, was banned in 2010 from being a company director for four years).

Three months after John M Carr resigned as director of Eden Digital Ltd (In Liq), the company was put into voluntary liquidation on 22 November 2011, by the actions of its shareholder - CVC Group Ltd – which has John M Carr as its sole director. The Liquidator’s first report filed on 23 November 2011, records that Eden Digital Ltd (In Liq) “has suffered cash flow problems over the last 24 months“.

Was the “large payroll client” that caused the collapse of Payroll Solution Services Ltd in fact John M Carr’s Eden Digital Ltd?

This failed hardcore porn company does seem to fit the bill and tick all the boxes with respect to its cash flow problems which have become almost legendary due to wide media coverage of its financial meltdown and the link between its director John M Carr and his “business partner” – banned company director Steve Crow.

Listed among the 22 unsecured creditors of Eden Digital Ltd (In Liq) in the Liquidator’s first report filed on 23 November 2011 are two companies owned and directed by John M Carr: PJ Digital Ltd P.O. Box 2864 Remuera, Auckland; and Better Business Services, Inc., PO Box 780637 San Antonio, USA.

Better Business Services, Inc. owns the domain names of a number of hard core porn websites linked to Eden Digital. The debt Eden Digital Ltd owes PJ Digital Ltd may relate to the use of its accomodation units in Freemans Bay, Auckland, owned by the latter, and used by Eden Digital staff and/or porn star imports performing in Erotica Lifestyle Expo events.

According to John M Carr, the “large payroll client” of Payroll Solution Services Ltd, that caused the latter’s demise, “ran into difficulty when they lost a customer and suffered cash flow problems”.

Is it possible that Eden Digital Ltd had a customer unable to clear a debt, causing it to suffer cash flow problems? Many businesses face similar difficulties in hard economic times. One only needs to look at the list of 22 unsecured creditors in the first Liquidation Report on Eden Digital to find evidence of this!

Significant  Points to Note:

Better Business Services, Inc., a foreign-registered corporation, owns the Pacific Alpacas website and PJ Digital Ltd a NZ-registered company, owns the Pacific Alpacas business trade mark. Both companies are owned and directed by John M Carr. The NZ-registered company  Payroll Solution Services, Ltd., (In Liq), directed by John M Carr, appears to have provided payroll services to the Pacific Alpacas business owned by John M Carr.

The company’s inability to pay its tax leading to its liquidation, came about because of “cash flow problems”, according to John M Carr, due to a “large payroll client” having its own cash flow problems. That “large payroll client” of Payroll Solution Services Ltd was most likely Eden Digital Ltd (In Liq), directed by John M Carr. Eden Digital Ltd has among its unsecured creditors PJ Digital Ltd and Better Business Services, both owned and directed by John M Carr.

Here we have the creation of a potential classic tax-avoidance loop involving the Pacific Alpacas business, Better Business Services, Inc. and PJ Digitsl Ltd, AND their owner who holds both US and New Zealand citizenship.

This arrangement can be illustrated by a parallel case set up by Mr John M Carr involving four companies he has directed for over ten years: PJ Digital Ltd, First Virtual Deposit & Nominee Company Ltd, Shelf Company No. 10 and Velocity Partners Ltd. According to NZ Company Office Records (www.companies.govt.nz), all four were owned up until 31 March 2010, by a US-registered company of which John M Carr was director and principal, called Carr Consulting P.A. (formerly named Cuchara Inc. up until 1999).

John M Carr was convicted in the Auckland District Court on 15 October 2010 for offences he had committed under the Financial Reporting Act 1993, relating to these four NZ-registered companies. He had failed to disclose to the Ministry of Economic Development that they were all foreign-owned entities and failed to file the required annual financial returns (see ref. 4).

On 20 April 2010, prior to this court case and facing ongoing investigations by the National Enforcement Office of the Ministry of Economic Development, John M Carr recorded on-line the transfer of the ownership of all four companies from John M Carr (Carr Consulting P.A.) to himself. Prior to this share transfer change, no doubt effected just prior to the end of the 2009/2010 tax year (31 March 2010), all four companies were owned by an overseas foreign entity (Carr Consulting P.A. owned by John M Carr) and under the Financial Reporting Act 1993, the director (John M Carr) of all four had been required to file Financial accounts with the Companies Office for all four. As noted, John M Carr failed to do so and was convicted in the Auckland District Court under s. 19 & 39 of the Act on 6 charges for failing to submit financial statements for these four companies. He was sentenced on 15 October 2010.

Over the period prior to March/April 2010 – the date of the share transfer – Carr Consulting P.A. (a US -registered entity) was owned by a NZ-registered company directed by John M Carr – Cheyenne Insurance Company (NZ) Limited (Co. No. 478505) which he owns. The four-fold tax-back loop he created raises serious questions for the IRD and IRS. On 27 October 2010, just days after his convictions, Mr Carr changed the name of his company Cheyenne Insurance Company (NZ) Ltd to Cheyenne Investment Company (NZ) Ltd. It had never been involved in any insurance work in New Zealand, but rather was heavily involved in property development.

Conclusion: The liquidation of Eden Digital Ltd and Payroll Solution Services Ltd have at least one common factor – the involvement of company director John Malcolm Carr. The convoluted company and business connections outlined above involving Mr John M Carr providing payroll services to his own companies, will no doubt be of considerable interest to liquidators of both companies, and creditors, the media and the New Zealand public.

References

1. Wool getting around world on word-of-mouth

Otago Daily Times 29 March 2008. Story by Marjorie Cook

http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/luggate/2471/wool-getting-around-world-word-mouth?page=0%2C1

Geoff Taylor of Wanaka, sold his Belex wool Business to John M Carr in February 2008.

The domain name belex.co.nz is owned by PJ Digital Ltd, which is owned by John M Carr, PO Box 28684 Remuera, Auckland 1541

See the website www.belex.co.nz as at 25 May 2010

Go to: http://web.archive.org/web/20100525170005/http://www.belex.co.nz/

2. See Intellectual Property Office Records: Search Trade Marks

http://www.iponz.govt.nz/app/Extra/IP/TM/Qbe.aspx?sid=634756213555085133

http://www.iponz.govt.nz/app/Extra/Case/Browse.aspx?sid=634756213555085133

3. American director misses court date. Story by Michael Field. 12 August 2008.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/4017695/American-director-misses-court-date

Businessman fined $6000 for ‘ironic’ breach of FRA. 15 October 2010

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/131903/businessman-fined-6000-ironic-breach-fra

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Eden Digital Ltd, former holder of Erotica Lifestyles Expo license: – in liquidation

November 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Eden Digital Ltd, a company that sold and distributed hardcore pornography in New Zealand for over three years and until recently was directed by US investor John Malcolm Carr CPA, was placed into liquidation yesterday, 22 November 2011, under s. 241(2)(a) of the Companies Act 1993.

See: US-based critic of economy [John M Carr CPA: (see photo http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg ) has lots more to say

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=154653

The majority of the estimated total deficit of Eden Digital Ltd (Co. No. 2122974), $434,000, is owed to the NZ Inland Revenue Department: $147,000 in GST/PAYE (IRD is a preferential creditor) and  $148,000 owed to IRD (unsecured creditor). A total of $295,000 is therefore owed to IRD.

In addition, trade creditors (unsecured) are owed $119,000 and $20,000 is owed in wages/entitlements to the companyy's former employees. (see Liquidator’s first report published today on the Companies Office website (www.companies.govt.nz).

The report records the reasons provided by the director Mr John M Carr CPA for Eden Digital being put into into liquidation and they include:

(1) the company was in default with its financiers and demand was made on the company due to that default, (2) the company has been supported financially by related entities [all directed by John M Carr CPA] and recently their financial support was withdrawn (3) the business was recently sold and such proceeds were applied to the security holders including CVC Group Ltd directed by John M Carr CPA (see below) (4) with no remaining assets the company was unable to trade and as a result its only shareholder [CVC Group Ltd, directed by John M Carr CPA] had no option but to place the company into receivership, (5) Eden Digital Ltd that held the licence for Erotica Lifestyles Expo, cancelled the license which meant that this aspect of its business could not continue.

The Waikato Times reported on 18 November 2011 that the Hamilton City Council “had been approached by Eden Digital Media [sic] to book Claudelands [event venue] for the [Erotica Lifestyles] expo in March [2012]“.

Fortunately for the Council, its councillors voted yesterday against allowing this hardcore porn fest using council facilities, given the fact that Eden Digital Ltd was probably insolvent throughout much of the period of time that its officers entered into negotiations with the Hamilton City Council. The Liquidator will be examining such matters to determine whether or not the company director John M Carr may have committed offences under the Companies Act 1993 (eg. trading whie insolvent)..

The majority of councillors (9 to 1) took the view that it was “inappropriate” to use the Claudelands venue for the staging of porn related activities as proposed by David Bruce Crow. They voted against the Arena being used for this proposed event.

David Bruce Crow, has been reported as acting as “spokesperson” for Esprit Events Ltd (Co. No. 3648912), another company directed by John M Carr and only recently incorporated on 10 November 2011. David Crow made an approach to the Hamilton City Council seeking the use of the Claudelands event venue for the sexpo, but without success. Concerned over the moral welfare of the community, councillors voted against the proposed use of the events venue to stage and promote porn 9 to 1.

Secured creditors of Eden Digital Ltd include its shareholder, CVC Group Ltd, directed by John M Carr, Vision rentals Ltd, Solutions Group Receivables, Konica Minolta Business Solutions and Harper Collins Publishers.

Unsecured creditors include Inland Revenue; Ezisoft Computer Systems Ltd directed by David Bruce Crow and owned by his wife Carolyn Rose Crow; NZX Media Ltd, co-directed by David Bruce Crow; PJ Digital Ltd, owned and directed by John Malcolm Carr; Florida US -based Better Business Services, Inc., owned and directed by John Malcolm Carr; and the ASB Showgrounds, Epsom, Auckland – the former longtime venue for Erotica Lifestyles Expo.

All unsecured creditors are unlikely to receive anything according to the Liquidator, Grant Bruce Reynolds of Reynolds & Associates Ltd, Insolvency Practitioners of Penrose,  Auckland.

Update: Liquidatation Notice – NZ Herald Thursday 24 November 2011. The failed company was put into liquidation puruant to section 241(2)(a) of the Companies Act 1993.

Reference

The Bob Dey Property Report (the week to 27 November 2011)

Voluntary liquidation: Steve Crow-related Eden Digital sells business, closes

http://www.propbd.co.nz/afa.asp?idWebPage=8338&idBobDeyProperty_Articles=17011&SID=1061986009

Company: Eden Digital Ltd
Directors: Raymond Simpson, Mt Eden
Liquidation: 22 November
Solvent: No
Liquidators: Grant Reynolds (Reynolds & Associates Ltd)
Other details: The company held the licence for the Erotica Lifestyle Expo, but the licence was cancelled because of defaults. The business was recently sold. Mr Simpson is a director of Bodyrock Promotions (NZ) Ltd (removed from register 2004) & Digital Matrix Ltd (removed from register 2004). Former directors are Steve Crow, Ellerslie, & John Carr, now of Cromwell. Mr Crow – best known for running the Boobs on Bikes parade down Queen St – put Malibu Media Limited (ex-Erotica Expo Ltd) & Z4K74D Ltd (ex-Vixen Direct Ltd) into liquidation in 2009. He told the liquidators wholesale adult products company Vixen Direct was hit by piracy & parallel importing over the past 2 years, while attendances for the last 2 Erotica expos in Christchurch & Wellington were down by 50%, hitting sales. Mr Crow’s Eden Media Ltd was wound up on 21 May, Brass Magazine Ltd in August 2008, Les Obstacles de l’Amour Ltd 2006. Mr Crow is a director of CVC Group Ltd, HWGA Co Ltd, Sidefx Ltd & Vixen Publications Ltd.
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Naked Ambition – TVNZ doco

November 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The new director of hardcore porn company Eden Digital Ltd, who has replaced American investor John Malcolm Carr, effective 13 September 2011, is Raymond (“Ray”) Sydney Corben Simpson – a resident of Mt Eden, Auckland (see www.companies.govt.nz).

See: US-based critic of economy [John M Carr CPA] has lots more to say

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=154653

see Photo of John M Carr http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg

(John M Carr CPA remains sole director of CVC Group Ltd which owns Eden Digital Ltd and he is a “business partner” of Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow. Carr directs and owns Payroll Solution Services Ltd, which was put into liquidation on the petition of the Inland Revenue Department on 2 September 2011 by the High Court of Auckland pursuant to s. 241(2)(c) of the Companies Act 1993, as well as about 30 other NZ companies. As at liquidation, Carr has advised the liquidators that Payroll Solution Services “held no realisable assets” It “provided services exclusively to companies related to the director” and “ceased to trade in April 2011″).

Ray Smith was Production Manager for the hardcore porn film directed by Steve Crow entitled “RIPE” – featuring 22-year old “Nikki” (not her real name), a three-and-a-half pregnant “wannabe porn star”.  The making of this video was dealt with in graphic detail on the 43 minute TV documentary “Naked Ambition” (recorded on 30 January 2003 and screened on TVNZ Channel One in May 2003);  produced by Creme Media (now owned by Greenstone Pictures, Auckland).

It featured Steve Crow – referred to as “Porn King” and owner at that time of Vixen Direct – a hardcore porn distribution company. It included several scenes with Raymond Simpson together with Steve Crow involved in the filming of the pregnant “Nikki” having sex with two men – co-stars “William a “stripper” aged 24 years and “Andy” a self-declared “exhibitionist” and printer by occupation aged 39 years. Both men were recruited by Crow to take part in his film project. The programme noted that both co-stars were filmed having sex a number of times with ”Nikki” over several days, commencing 10 minutes after meeting her “co-stars”.

There was considerable controversy in 2002 when Crow’s plan to use public hospital facilities to film “Nikki” giving birth – in order to include the footage in his porn film, became public knowledge via the media. Critics were incensed by the intended exploitation of the soon-to-be-born child who they claimed would forever be dubbed “the porn baby”. Crow argued that “Nikki” had a right to have the birth filmed and have it included in the film featuring her. It was all about “freedom of expression” he argued. [Read more...]

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John M Carr, charity, 50 cal guns, tax, alpacas and porn IP connections

September 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The IP address 198.211.217.131 is managed by a Private Customer of TelWest Services, Austin, Texas – John Malcolm Carr CPA of San Antonio, Texas (see photo: http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg). This US citizen, who is sole director of two NZ registered hardcore porn companies – CVC Group Ltd and Eden Digital Ltd [Update: the latter in liquidation as of 22/11/11], as well as many other NZ companies, can be traced on the internet under his TelWest Code – Private Customer Code TW20f0F6YsujM. The I.P. address 198.211.217.131 has a DNS server address: 127.0.0.1#53

See: US-based critic of economy [John M Carr CPA] has lots more to say

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=154653

Linked to the IP address 198.211.217.131 is the domain name johnmcarr.com which curiously contains his ‘Curriculum Vitae’ - with its most recent entry dated 1 April 2006 recording his purchase of Brass Magazine NZ Ltd. However, over the five years since that date, his – no doubt prolific – business activities etc remain unnaccounted for! [The IP address for johnmcarr.com has now moved to 184.172.4.10 as at 22 April 2012]

Mr John M Carr’s personal website “Profile” claims: “He has a 200 acre farm in rural New Zealand, running to the ocean and 11 miles of white sand beaches [sic] and is being developed as an agri-forestry venture.”  However, the Overseas Investment Office has been unable to trace any evidence for such an acquisition by him or the companies he directs or has directed.

Mr John M Carr’s  tax/book-keeping consultancy domain names: bbs.co.nz and bbstax.com were until recently, also located at IP 198.211.217.131 Now they have moved to IP address 184.172.4.10 as at 22 April 2012.

Of interest to the Society are the number of domain names including Adult industry appellations such as: “NZXgirls.com”, “downunderescorts.com”, “hotkiwis.com” and “allaboutporn.com” that are also found at this same IP address 198.211.217.131 – domain names that are still owned by Mr John M Carr/Better Business Services, Inc. (John M Carr is principal and owner of BBS Inc). His on-line gun toting business – www.50calguns.com - owned by Carr Business Services, Inc is also located at this same IP address:

See. http://web.archive.org/web/20110129060526/http://50calguns.com/

29 January 2011

The domain name “pacificalpacas.com” is also registered with Godaddy.com by John Carr’s Better Business Services and is found at at IP 198.211.217.131 as well as an apparently  defunct charity bbscharities.org which provides tax free status to all charitable contributions from US donors (bbscharities.org has Domain ID: D107134495-LROR and Admin ID: CR36314243).

See: http://web.archive.org/web/20110625062642/http://bbscharities.org/

25 June 2011

[Update: The domain  name pacificalpacas.com has now moved to IP address 184.172.4.10 as at 22/04/12, along with Mr Carr's domain names bbs.co.nz bbstax.com and trampersfriend.co.nz. The latter is owned by his company PJ Digital Ltd].

A defunct US charity,  a 50 cal guns website, an alpaca fibre ‘export’ website and porn stars/escorts downunder websites may seem very strange and bizarre bed-fellows, but such is the broad vision of  this US-based investor. He has managed somehow to remain well under the radar while his hardcore porn business side-kick – now a banned company director – parades the ‘industry’ to the NZ public via “Boobs on Bikes” : pursuing personal titillation and profit (an advertised star of the forthcoming Boobs on Bikes/Erotica Lifestyles Expo is an import from John M Carr’s home city of San Antonio,  Texas). [Read more...]

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Porn: all in the family – an ‘industry’ not worth crowing about

June 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment

HWGA Company Ltd owns 40% of CVC Group Ltd which in turn owns the hardcore porn promoting company Eden Digital Ltd that was involved last year in the Boobs of Bikes city street events staged in Auckland and Hamilton.  Prior to being personally served a four year banning order by the Ministry of Economic Development on 14 May 2010 (effective from 16 April 2010), Mr Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow, was a director of all these three companies which are involved in the hardcore porn industry, as well directing four other companies that were put into liquidation.

On 26 May 2011, Steve Crow, currently a banned company director, used a company key for HWGA Company Ltd and went on line on the Companies Office website (www.companies.govt.nz) and entered his sister Leanne Marie Osborn of 9 Richmond Street, Fizroy, New Plymouth, as a 50% shareholder of the company. She is a director of the company, appointed on 15 May 2010, the day after her brother Steve resigned as director, following his receipt of the banning order. [Read more...]

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Steve Crow – Eden Digital Ltd and US porn sources

April 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The Dominion Post reports today:  “[Stephen Peter] Crow, who is desperate not to carry a conviction as it would bar him from entering the United States where much of his pornography is obtained: said “I plead not guilty” [before Judge Russell Johnson in the Auckland District Court yesterday].

Crow’s “not guilty” plea was entered in relation to the Ministry of Economic Development’s allegation that he breached a banning Order imposed on him by the Registrar of Companies (served personally on him on 14 May 2010), preventing him for four years under s. 385 of the Companies Act 1993 from directing, managing or promoting a company in Australasia.

The Ministry has highlighted Crow’s promotion and management last year, of  the NZ-based porn distribution company Eden Digital Ltd, now directed soley by John M Carr CPA, a San Antonio United States-based businessman and investor, as an example of Crow’s breach of the Order. (Mr John Malcolm Carr is owner, principal and registered agent of Better Business Services Inc. a US-registered corporation that owns a number of websites marketing and promoting hard core porn).

Crow told the Judge Russell Johnson yesterday that he would agree to plead guilty to the charge, but only if he was granted a “discharge without conviction” under s. 106 of the Sentencing Act 2002. The Judge naturally refused this ‘deal’ pointing out to Crow what most informed people already know, that such a discharge, if granted, is always conditional on the accused entering a guilty plea.

The Judge therefore declined the discharge application and indicated that if Crow pleaded guilty he would impose a fine. As noted, Crow refused to admit guilt and chose to enter a “not guilty” plea – forcing the matter to a defended hearing. This has been set down for three days commencing 12 September 2011.

If a person is convicted of a breach of s. 385 of the Act, a custodial sentence  of up to five years jail or a fine of up to $200,000 can be imposed by the Court.

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Porn magnate Steve Crow loses court battle – NZPA

April 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment

“Boobs on Bikes organiser Steve Crow had his application to be discharged without conviction for allegedly breaching a ban on managing companies thrown out in Auckland District Court today…….

[The charge relates to his alleged management of the hardcore porn distribution company Eden Digital Ltd which currently has John M Carr CPA, a San Antonio US-based businessman and investor, as its sole director. Prior to the four-year banning order imposed on Crow on 16 April 2010, Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow co-directed this company with John Malcolm Carr CPA and Shirish D Vagal].

“Judge Johnson indicated he would impose a fine should Crow plead guilty, but Crow said he wished to have a defended hearing.

“This has been scheduled for September 12 and expected to take three days.”

- NZPA – Full story link: 27 April 2011

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10721825

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Steve Crow faces defended hearing over his alleged breach of banning order

April 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow represented himself when he appeared in Courtroon 11 of the Auckland District Court at 10 am this morning facing a charge under the Companies Act 1993, brought against him by the Ministry of Economic Development.

He was charged with acting as a company director while under a four year banning order imposed on him by the Registrar of Companies under s. 385 of the Companies Act – a ban that took effect on 16 April 2010. It is alleged that he breached the ban after he organised and led the 2010 “Boobs on Bikes” parade.

His former company Eden Digital Ltd, now directed by John M Carr CPA - a San Antonio US-based businessman and investor, was also named as an organiser of the porn promotion parade (which has always served to promote the Erotica Lifestyles Expo - run by Eden Digital Ltd – that is held a few days after the parade).

Crow told the court he was not a director of the pornography distribution company Eden Digital Ltd and he was part of the parade because of his experience with the “freedom of expression” event. (Eden Digital Ltd is fully owned by CVC Group Ltd, directed by John Malcolm Carr CPA).

Crow pleaded “not guilty” to the charge of breaching the banning order imposed under s. 385 of the Companies Act. A defended hearing is set for 12 September 2011.

See: Charge ‘attack on Boobs on Bikes’ [claims Steve Crow] by Ian Steward

“A prosecution of porn king Steve Crow is a veiled attempt to shut down his Boobs on Bikes parade, the pornographer has told a court.”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4932200/Charge-attack-on-Boobs-on-Bikes [Read more...]

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Porn tycoon Steve Crow pleads not guilty – TV ONE NEWS – 5 April

April 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment

“Controversial businessman Steve [Stephen Peter] Crow has pleaded not guilty to a charge of breaching a ban on managing companies in court in Auckland this afternoon [April 5, 2011].

“The Ministry of Economic Development imposed the four-year ban last year, following the collapse of several companies linked to Crow, best known as the organiser of Auckland’s Boobs on Bikes parade.

“The ministry alleges Crow was involved in the management and promotion of Eden Digital Ltd, the company that runs several firms with links to the sex industry, including the annual Erotica expo, and adult entertainment company Vixen. [Eden Digital Ltd currently has only one listed director, John M Carr CPA, whose US-registered corporation Better Business Services, Inc owns the domain namesof a number of hard core porn websites].

“Crow says he is only a shareholder in Eden Digital. [However, based on the most recent Annual Return on the NZ Companies Office website, registered on 11 June 2010, ALL Eden Digital's shares (150,000) are owned by CVC Group Ltd directed by John Malcolm Carr CPA].

“An Auckland District Court judge today set a date for a full [defended] hearing in September [12, 13 and 14 September].” [Crow's indication of sentence hearing was set down for 27 April at 10 am at the Auckland District Court. This will be his last opportunity to plead guilty prior to the defended hearing].

Source: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/porn-tycoon-pleads-not-guilty-4102067

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