JT Foundation/Oliver Williams Research
Originally posted by lev+Oct 1 2004, 05:34 PM--><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-virtualgirl@Oct 1 2004, 04:17 AM
There is one thing that has been eating at me......why would a timetraveller need a lawyer like Haber?? I have gone on the sunbiz site and looked at a list of clients that he is acting agent for as far as corporations.? There is ALOT!!? Seems really high priced to me.? I would think any lawyer would suffice.? All lawyers are bound to client confidentiality and that is all he needed.? To keep his family's identity hidden.? Correct me if I'm wrong Paul.? Your the expert.
Part of me really wants to believe but something just stinks. Seems like an awful lot of muscle.
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::.. Mr. Haber is actually the attorney for the JT Foundation not the TTer himself :: The real question - who are the member of this "Foundation?" :: Is it really Boomer's family? Is it Boomer himself? Is it really to raise money for little Boomer? :: Maybe he realized the money making opportunity his Sci. Fi. soap created three years later? ..::.. I got a huge scoop of Rocky Road Ice cream for anyone that can tell us exactly who the members of the JT Foundation are ..::.. Anyone want to up the anti? ..::
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Well, here's the thing: it suggests that either there is some money behind it, or that the organizers are speculating that there will be or might be money down the road. The "Foundation" (what an scifi kind of a title for it, eh?) appears to have been set up as a way to channel an expected windfall, such as the profits of a multimedia phenom, to use the hepcat lingo of the infotainment biz.
But wait a minute: three years after the fact? Coffeemugs and Tshirts? Vanity press publishing? Muscle, perhaps, but not much brain. We're not talking a major Hollywood effort here, folks, or major money clientele. More like idle speculation done on contingency basis, perhaps as a favor to a friend or family member.
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A pretty flimsy front operation to keep tabs on a project that seems to peter out occasionally, only to revive itself unexpectedly. You have to remember that we didn't hear anything about the book or Foundation until the blog/forum voices starting digging back into the Titor story in the Fall of last year. When questions were raised in Anomalies, a distinct groan went up, especially when a request was made to dredge the Titor stuff up out of archives.
A serious marketing venture would not get off to such a creaky start with such a stupid delay. The time to cash in on Titor was in 2001; I'm afraid to say that the most opportune moment would have been mid-September of that year. That's what a savvy infotainment org would have jumped on, to use the jive talk of the hiphop dudes in the biz.
My impression of the situation is that a lawyer familiar with the business elements of publishing and marketing is helping out a close friend or relative, has agreed to do the paperwork as a favor; or for some other reason has agreed to be used as an agent or shill to set up a legit front, as they say in, uh, Vegas I guess.
