Corruption in van buren co. arkansas to protect cen ark and jay jon corporations

General Mineral Rights Discussion
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I purchased 220 acres of land of land in Van Buren Co. Arkansas in 2000, 110 acres mineral rights should have went with the surface, according to the deeds. My grantor and I did not discuss mineral rights at point of purchase, it was before a rumor of CNG in this area. My grantor provided me with a fee simple warranty deed, with no prior mineral reservations, upon closing. I was contacted in 2003 by a leasing agent to lease my mineral rights, I advised him at that time I did not know if I owned the minerals because my grantor and I did not discuss. The leasing agent researched, and called me back in a few weeks and advised I owned all 220 acres of minerals, which was incorrect, but I still do own 110 acres of mineral rights by the laws of the federal and state government. I leased them for $25.00 an acre for 10 years, the lease would have expired by now but would be held by production. My land man advised me in 2005 or 2006 the minerals belonged to myself, he worked for a major operator in the area. When I was starting to try to verify, title ownership, I went back and looked at the deeds, from my grantors grantor. He and wife received 110 acres of minerals with the 220 acres of surface. The man and wife then put the minerals into a corporation named Cen Ark, this was in 1994, in 1995, the man and wife sold the surface to my grantor. The man and wife warranted title to the surface as man and wife, with a fee simple deed. A company named Tri Con Construction Inc purchased, in 1995, from the man and wife, and they warranted title as man and wife, in the deeds. I purchased the surface in 2000 with no discussion of minerals with Tri Con. In 11-2004, the man and wife took minerals out of corporation, and put back into their personal names, and since they had warranted title personally, as soon as the deed was recorded the minerals ownership went immediately to the current surface holder, which was myself. Not only did the man and wife do this with my 110 acres of minerals but with over 6000 acres of mineral rights in this county. There also was no reservation of minerals in the deeds from my grantors grantor. The law that applies is after acquired title. In the last 2 sales there are no reservations were in the deeds. The operator determined I owned the minerals and started paying me royalties, and did for approx. 2 years. I had to sue my grantors grantor to gain clear title, he had leased the same minerals to another operator that I had leased to in 2003, but I actually owned no minerals until 11-2004 when the man and wife put the minerals back into personal names. But I did after that time,the operator when I sued the man and wife that they had leased to sued them for breach of warranty, because they had signed a lease with a warranty of minerals title clause in it. That operator also sued me for clouding the title, but the minerals belonged to me by law. I went to a pre trial hearing, and the judge ruled in my favor, that our argument was convincing, and it truly was after acquired title and the mineral rights belonged to myself. Approx 2 weeks later, the judge, I think after he was comprimised, by a major operator allowed some subpoenas to be submitted by my grantors that absolutely had nothing to do with the deeds of record just here say. My attorney told me when I hired him, a operator in this case, was his largest client, and that if I got crossways with them he would have to bow out, but he didnt. We went to trial and it was a staged act all the lawyers knew what was up and my lawyer told me the judge had called him before trial, and also the bankers lawyer had called him that previously was the man and wife’s partner.My 2 key witnesses were not called to the stand. The trial was a complete sham, I knew it at trial. Of course I lost, based upon reformation of the deeds, and that the man and wife had different intent, when they recorded in 2004, or made a mistake. The law has no excuses for ignorance. The law of reformation states that the courts do not have the authority to impose reformation, on a party to the deeds that did not agree as to the contract, which myself and one person before me certainly did not. So reformation was imposed in 2 cases that I know of. I have been asked by the operators why would we care who owns the minerals, I have the answer, the operators had paid the man, wife, and banker lease monies on this 6000 that the operators knew they would not get back, and that the leases these 3 people would be worthless, if the courts awarded minerals to the correct mineral owners, and the operators would have had to release for premium prices, because the public knew at this time what the leases were going for. It would have cost the operators huge money, for the minerals to go to myself and the other holders of a portion of this 6000 acres, so what they did is bribe the Judge, that was bankrupt 3 years ago. The judge is receiving all kinds of perks from this operator. No elected official in the state would help me, and I think they are all benefitting from these companies stealing rightful owners mineral rights so they benefit personally, as lame duck corrupt politicians. From State senator, governor, attorney general, Judicial Discipline and Disibility Commission, and Arkansas Bar Assn. The federal justice department advised me it was the attorney generals job to look into this, he turned me down 6 or 7 times, so did the governor whose son conveniently has a job by a CNG operator. I appealed to appeallate courts, and the Judge I got just happened to be from West Helena Arkansas, same as my so called judge, a very small town, and both had law offices in that city, some coincidence. My oil and has attorney deliberately did not advise me of the correct steps to take to get my case reviewed by the supreme court. I was corrupted out of my rightful mineral rights in Atkansas, along with a lot of other people that don’t even know they own their mineral rights, as a part of this 6000 acres. Yes the man, wife, and banker knew they had made a fatal mistake by recording the deeds into their personal names in 2004, they tried to sell the 6000 acres of minerals after that date, and had a buyer until the buyer ran title, and it was found out these people no longer owned minerals in this county. I never knew this level of corruption existed, in our state, I do now, and the operators brought it with them, by sheer greed of elected officials, at the expense of their constiuents. This article is of my personal opinion. S

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What an awful story. It's very sad when you cannot get ANYONE in a state to take you seriously, because at one level or another, it's all corrupt. Did you ever contact the news?? Are there any large legal associations for land rights that would be interested in your case?

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Yes sir I called KATV Channel 7 in our area, and tried to get them to do a story on it, in a program they have called 7 on your side. The man, all but ridiculed me that I was the one that was wrong, since it had gone through 2 courts with the same result. I think they were influenced also, by these power brokers, that are rotten to the core. I also contacted the Arkansas Times a political discussion magazine, they would not publish it. Sir, they all should be in orange jump suits with numbers on the back, right along side of Bernard Madoff. I was a large customer of the banker, and he was involved in stealing from my family, and legacy. As soon as the appeallate judgement was rendered the operator stopped my royalties at a major operator in this area, that I had drawn royalties on for approx. 2 years, with their own landman telling me years ago the minerals belonged to my family. I have contacted all legal associations in the state and they are involved in this corruption. I now am trying to publicize it, but the people in Arkansas, don't want to touch it. These operators in my opinion own the Arkansas State Government. Most people that own minerals within the 6000 acres don't even know they do in Van Buren Co. , one of the poorest counties in our state. The rich, a very corrupt judge on the take, the operator is providing the judge with monies for an upscale housing, new vehicles, and paying his son's college tuition, I think at LSU, with the promise of a career upon graduation, he is even bragging about it in the community. I begged help, from Mark Pryor our senator, the Governor, Mike Beebe, whose son has a job in the CNG business surprise, surprise, attorney general Dustin McDaniel, who I thought was an acquaintance friend and Judicial Disciplinary and Disability Committee who said the judge had done nothing wrong essentially, the Arkansas Bar Association, who said the lawyers did nothing wrong, and the judge called my lawyer right before trial which is illegal. The bankers lawyer called my lawyer, before trial, and did not know each other prior to this case. Elected officials and operators are involved in stealing from their constituents, and mineral lease holders for their own personal benefit. Most of politicians are in their lame duck sessions and could not get elected dog catcher if they run for office again, and they know it. Sir, it is very sad that this goes on by businesses and politicians in our great country. It's about greed, and not doing the right thing, because of the dollar, and beating the little man, out of what he has earned and worked hard for.

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Yes sir I called KATV Channel 7 in our area, and tried to get them to do a story on it, in a program they have called 7 on your side. The man, all but ridiculed me that I was the one that was wrong, since it had gone through 2 courts with the same result. I think they were influenced also, by these power brokers, that are rotten to the core. I also contacted the Arkansas Times a political discussion magazine, they would not publish it. Sir, they all should be in orange jump suits with numbers on the back, right along side of Bernard Madoff. I was a large customer of the banker, and he was involved in stealing from my family, and legacy. As soon as the appeallate judgement was rendered the operator stopped my royalties at a major operator in this area, that I had drawn royalties on for approx. 2 years, with their own landman telling me years ago the minerals belonged to my family. I have contacted all legal associations in the state and they are involved in this corruption. I now am trying to publicize it, but the people in Arkansas, don't want to touch it. These operators in my opinion own the Arkansas State Government. Most people that own minerals within the 6000 acres don't even know they do in Van Buren Co. , one of the poorest counties in our state. The rich, a very corrupt judge on the take, the operator is providing the judge with monies for an upscale housing, new vehicles, and paying his son's college tuition, I think at LSU, with the promise of a career upon graduation, he is even bragging about it in the community. I begged help, from Mark Pryor our senator, the Governor, Mike Beebe, whose son has a job in the CNG business surprise, surprise, attorney general Dustin McDaniel, who I thought was an acquaintance friend and Judicial Disciplinary and Disability Committee who said the judge had done nothing wrong essentially, the Arkansas Bar Association, who said the lawyers did nothing wrong, and the judge called my lawyer right before trial which is illegal. The bankers lawyer called my lawyer, before trial, and did not know each other prior to this case. Elected officials and operators are involved in stealing from their constituents, and mineral lease holders for their own personal benefit. Most of politicians are in their lame duck sessions and could not get elected dog catcher if they run for office again, and they know it. Sir, it is very sad that this goes on by businesses and politicians in our great country. It's about greed, and not doing the right thing, because of the dollar, and beating the little man, out of what he has earned and worked hard for.

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Both operators in my case were involved in this conspiracy. Both of them, would have lost tons of money had I won. Their leases would have been worthless, they would have had to sue the defendant in this case, because he had warranted title to minerals he clearly did not own. The likely outcome of those lawsuits likely would be that the defendant would have filed bankruptcy, and these 2 operators would have lost their lease monies paid to defendant. Also, these 2 operators would have had to release all, or most, of this 6000 acres of minerals, which would have been millions of dollars. So all they had to do is make sure my family, and Mauldin family lost their legitimate claims to their minerals. Then their leases were solid, no having to release, and their monies paid for leases, would not have to be challenged, which they probably would not have, received a dime of their money back. I would say both of operators, had a major reason for us 2 challengers to lose their legitimate mineral rights. The wells are registered in oil and gas commission production data, with Cen Ark and Jay Jon Corporations are listed on active wells, it would be easy to find out who surface holder is, and write most of them informing them, indeed they do own their minerals, if they go to a federal court venue. That would be a good Christmas present, and totally unexpected. I would expect this corruption in Louisiana, but not Arkansas. I have chosen, to fight this to the end of my life, to expose this dirt, of top elected officials in our state. Arkansas is rotten, in our government, and elected high level officials. From our State Senator down the line. The judge is this case is a criminal. This information is of my opinion. $200,000 to $350,000 is being paid each and every month to the defendants family, and they do not own the minerals by law, they own the minerals, solely due to corruption. Please vote, and think before you vote, all of Arkansas's politicians, at high levels, have a major conflict of interest, for their own personal gain. They are grossly abusing their power.

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Did you have a title insurance policy when you bought the property?

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Due to the corruption you might consider finding an attorney who is licensed in Arkansas but is from / lives out of state. I doubt your minerals were insured by title insurance it it is possible. Ifso, the responsibility is on your title company. You really need to find an expert who is not a part of the corrupt system in Arkansas to review the facts and see what options you have.

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In Arkansas, title companies will not warrant or defend mineral rights.

Thanks for your input.

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This coming week I am going to notify the Arkansas oil and gas commission of the 3 lawyers that colluded, to defraud me of my minerals, along with the names of the 2 operators, involved in my case. This commission does not get involved in claims of mineral ownership, but I do think they will like to hear the names and companies involved, and that they disrupted my pay of royalties, by every law in the book I own. 2 of the lawyers work with this commission on a regular basis, for their respective operators, this is going to expose the wrong done to my and the Mauldin family. I will pursue this until I get it before the supreme court. My lawyer is solely responsible for misleading us, and did not even tell us about the appeallate review, process, then when the appeallate verdict was rendered he abandoned me, all the while knowing, if I changed lawyers, I could not receive a appeallate review. This is going to be exposed to this commission, I sincerely hope their reputations, are going to be badly tarnished.They need to be, these kind of lawyers do not need a license. To top it off I paid these sorry people over 20 K and they were all the while working against me. People in Van Buren Co. AR if CEN ARK OR JAY JON , you think owns the minerals under your surface, rethink it, you do, but take it to a federal court, the state is bought. Someone is being paid huge money and it only belongs to them by corruption only,and it was to the benefit of the operators that the man and wife retained the minerals, and the true owners not to have them. I think most attorneys would take this on a contingency basis, because, as my oil and gas attorney told me early on in my case, it is a slam dunk, no brainer.

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Again, I think you need to find alternative legal representation outside of Arkansas (but licensed there) to review your case and options. The oil and gas commission will gladly accept your complaints, but to expect them to do anything about it is another story. Maybe you will get lucky.

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Yes sir I totally agree, I am going to take your advice and do everything I can to get my case in front of the supreme court. we will see if they can buy 7 judges. I can only fight for my family, but if others find out about about their opportunity to own their minerals, I will encourage them to pursue. there is a family drawing a huge check each and every month from the 2 operators in my case, that don’t own little if any of the mineral acres. They know it too. They are just stealing from others by the protection of corruption. I will continue my fight to expose it it. Our state government is involved in this from head to toe. Huckabee would not even cover it on his show. HE knows it’s rotten, he just wants to run for president, it’s all about self self serving themselves.Don’t want to step on the fat cat bankers toes, for fear of losing campaign contributions.

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Have you heard of anyone else being taken advantage of by these companies in your area? You might start talking to some other landowners who purchased property similar to yours. I do believe there is strength in numbers.

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Yes sir, I have a friend named Mr. Mauldin, that lost his case very similar to mine, with the same corrupt attorney lawyer I used, and he also had the same judge. He got tired of it and washed his hands of it. That’s what they are hoping I will do, but I won’t. I feel most of the people that truly own these minerals do not even know they do. They have not done the research Mr. Mauldin and I have. There is no question, he and I own our mineral rights, and were corrupted out of them, and a family is benefitting from them only because of corruption, at mine and others sacrificial loss, due to these self serving politicians, and corrupt companies.The companies that are receiving royalties payments wrongly are CEN ARK and JAY JON. The land owners in Van Buren County, AR need to go to the court house and look to see who holds their mineral interests, if it shows one of these 2 companies, there is a very high percentage chance that your family owns the minerals, if you hire an out of state attorney, with a license to practice in Arkansas, and that does not have a conflict or represent any of the operators.It in most cases would be well worth the legal fees to pursue, some may work for a percentage of royalties.

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Mr Kitchen, I have found out there is basically nothing I can do to the operators, this week in Arkansas the Governor asked for Lt. Governors resignation, he did not do a tenth of the corruption our governor did, with his corruption involving the oil and gas companies. he is an embarrassment to our state along with his other political cronies, that supported one of his constituents being stolen from, for the benefit of the oil and gas companies. I own quite a bit of land in several counties that the major operator is in. I am not going to let them back on my properties if they do not make restitution for what they stole from me. We will see if the greedy Governor can help them with that one. Arkansas is a corrupt place to do business right now, we need a house cleaning. land and mineral owners do not need to support anyone who BeeBe endorses. Birds of a feather stick together. I am considering other options I may have, to expose this mess, and be compensated for my losses. 6000 acres of mineral rights went to people that by law don’t even own them, in the state of Arkansas. All of our elected state officials involved in this should be impeached, and sent to federal prison. At this point I can only pray this gets out strong enough, that the people come unglued about it. The state was involved in stealing over 6000 acres of mineral rights, from the people of Van Buren Co. AR.The beneficiaries of this corruption is the fat cat banker, all the politicians with personal favors done for them, to get the politicians to endorse this illegal activity, and of course SWN and Chesapeake operators, the lawyers involved, no telling what they were paid, to throw the case, the judges lifestyle has improved dramatically, for his criminal behavior, and false verdict. We live in a corrupt state, it’s embarrassing, at what goes on here. Mr. Darr is a saint compared to his higher held office positions, in the state, they are all corrupt politicians. They need the coverage Chris Christie, in NJ is getting, this is just as bad if not worse.

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Is there a way you can deed your assets over to a trust or other kind of corporation that you form in another state where the laws of the other state may protect your assets from being completely subject to Arkansas courts / jurisdiction?

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I haven’t thought about that one I will look into it, and let you know what I find out. You know Mr. kitchens, Van Buren Co. Arkansas is one of the poorest, less educated counties in our state. Yes I lost 110 acres of minerals rights by every law in the land, I owned due to corruption. What really makes me sick, I was afforded a good education, and am not poor, but these politicians took advantage of the poor and uneducated. It is unpardonable behavior, that they will answer for some day some way. I do not see how they can look at themselves in the mirror each morning. These people receiving benefit of the 6000 acres, they also know they legally do not own them, only by corruption. Our state is paying a huge price in our reputation, of allowing our elected officials to take bribes from these operators for themselves, at the expense, of the poor and uneducated. I am not one to judge, they got by with it for now. These people have no moral consious. The people need to stand for themselves, it’s the only way, we can get these crooks out of office. As far as the operators, they have nice men that deal with me in Arkansas, but their management is corrupt. Since this happened they will not even let their people return my calls, and I have done nothing by stand up, for what previously legally belonged to my family. There may be nothing that happens as a result of this case, but I want to challenge all mineral owners that reads this, I am just a common Arkansan that has made a honest living, and these operators came in here with their lawyers and stole from my family, and my legacy. With a corrupt Judge, lawyers, and law firms, corrupt politicians from State senator, governor on down, the senator ran an ad yesterday for re election, claiming to be for the middle class, another lie. he is for the ulra rich, and operators, I wonder how much money they have given to his reelection effort. There needs to be more Mr. Kitchens, this story is true, and if they will do it to me they will to you too. Mineral owners need to have a say with our elected officials, there are more of us than operators. Arkansas is corrupt, and badly. Like Mr. kitchens says there are strengths in numbers, this is probably happening in every CNG producing state. I am not one to quit easily,they may as well held me up with a gun, no law applied that was used.

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You need to connect with the right people to move forward with your issue. I will be meeting with attorney soon and will discuss your case further and see what he may recommend.

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Thank you sir, I am not going to quit until I have absolutely no options available.I appreciate your kind support.

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Mr. Kitchen,

I have found out by a mal practice attorney, that my lawyer definitely committed mal-practice. By misleading me on purpose, and not calling my 2 key witnesses, and not introducing deposition testimony, from my brother, and 1 of my grantors. My lawyer told me during trail he could not use the deposition testimony when I asked him about it. Another mistruth. Which if he had called to stand, would have made it harder for them to commit corruption, but I still would have lost, that was a done deal agreed upon before trial. His rulings had no legal basis, and was mostly here say. The absolute truth was in the deeds. It was all a set up deal with the 2 operators, the judge, with the states blessing. Maggio, and another judge, that is a friend or buddy, of Maggio neither have an opponent in his race for appeallate court. That is just not his good fortune, that is to keep the crook to hold up the operators interest, because he will perform for a price. The other judge is buddies with Maggio,she hasn't an opponent either, I just wonder, they are both Republican. Looks like the democratic crooks took care of the operators, by helping them not to have democratic opposition for these 2 seats. The operators are controlling our corrupt politicians so much, I think they are now controlling who they want to win, so they will serve to the benefit of the operators. I have as an option, of filing a lawsuit against my previous council, if I do so it could reopen the whole can of worms and become a class action suit, if others that are a part of this 6000 acres, that they lost, participate. I am well within limitations to file the suit. The mal-practice can be very easily proven. I have emails that incriminate him. These 2 law firms are out of Ft. Smith Arkansas. I would think long and hard before I hired an oil and gas attorney out of Ft. Smith. They are all in co hoots with the operators and screw the small client. At least these 2 firms are poison to the public, and have good reviews, they are not as they seem, they will take your money all the while, working against you. There should be laws to put these people in jail. The family that received all the minerals and receive approx. 250K a month, one of their sons previously worked for CHK, as a land man. Snowden's son knew in 2007 their family had committed after acquired title. I think all he did was go lease the lands that already had a lease on them from SWN, and put CHK on the lease, and told CHK these properties had not been leased, gave his family the lease proceeds, on leases that did not belong to their family, and I think he knew it at the time. He did not lease my land until 2007, I leased to SWN in 2003. I think he pulled a good one on CHK and then the illegitimate leases have help up in court. Needless to say he no longer works for CHK. They did not monitor what he was up to. If you lie with snakes your going to get bit. Then CHK turns around and makes the mistake of hiring him, and he was looking out for family business thru false leases, to get the lease monies on all this land that was already under lease, to other operators. CHLK resulted to corruption on me, to make up for the corruption imposed by their own employee. They were not looking at his work very closely and got burned. But the Snowden family is still receiving the benefit of his corruptive work, and so is CHK and SWN, that was the result of a corrupt judge and very crooked lawyers, including my own who has committed mal-practice. The 2 operators just kept the leases in place as they were, I am sure. CHK was suing the Snowden's in my case because of breach of warranty in the mineral lease, so CHK knew at the time I was the true owner of the minerals, and they had been suckered by the Snowden's. But what they have is illegal leases by the state and federal laws, but are upheld by a corrupt judge and the State of Arkansas. Just a rubber stamp judgement from a crooked judge on the take, with absolutely no legal basis. Not one law he used was applicable to this case. His name is Michael Maggio. SWN and CHK would have had to sue the Snowden's for all these lease contract breachs, on this over 6000 acres of minerals, and lose their lease monies, because the Snowden's would have likely filed bankruptcy. SWN would have had to do the same. Then they would have had to re lease to the rightful owners of the minerals, at outlandish prices, because production had began at this time. So 6000 acres of minerals were lost, due to a corrupt family, and operators, and corrupt attorneys and the state stood by watched and approved, because they were getting personal perks. All I know is they underestimated, the situation, thinking it would be easy to pull off, so far it has been easy for them, but who knows what the future holds. I will not quit until, I have exhausted every effort, to get compensated for my losses, which is a large number. I will research every law, and disclose all the corruption I can find. Its sad when you pay a ton of state taxes, and the elected crooks steal your income to pay the taxes.The Democratic party in our state is mostly a bunch of self serving opportunist. By the way this corrupt Judge is running unopposed for the appeallate courts, I think that is by political design also, to keep him in there so the operators don't lose their boy, of corruption. I am continuing my fight for my rights, as a citizen, and family in a current corrupt state at present. I want to get along with my operators, but if they are involved in taking your personal property, that their own land man said I owned, and I drew royalties on those minerals for 2 years, it is not going to be real easy to get by with at my house. They must think their constituents are not very bright, and I am not, but this is pretty easy reading. My case loss caused over 6000 acres of minerals to go to the Snowden family, and they probably corrupted CHK, and CHK was involved in corrupting me, the true mineral owner by every law in the book. I will let you know if and when other things come about. These statements are of my personal opinion. I feel badly that my case caused many people in our state to lose their own property, because my case set the laws as fact for other people that own minerals in Van Buren Co. These politicians have grossly abused their power, and need to be ran out of the state, after impeachment. They are not serving Arkansans, they are serving them crooked selves, and self interest, and could care less about the little man. This is my opinion also. The media will not touch this, I think every last word of it is very true, and they are going to miss a huge opportunity at a good story. I am in process of doing my best to get 60 minutes to come to our state, and expose this mess. Chris Christy will look like a saint, compared to this mess, if they do. I am not giving up, if I have to hire council for the mal-practice it will be out of this state. I have banned these 2 operators, from accessing my properties, for further gas exploration, in the way of pipe lines, pads, over ground water, or any other surface activity, that a contract would be needed for. I own a couple sections of land in hot gas play areas, and have 1 pumping station on my land. They may not need on my land any more, but unless they do something to compensate me for my losses, it will never happen, not even in the generations to come. This has put a very sour taste in our families mouth. I pray none of you ever have to experience being bullied, by these people, and the reason they can, they have bought everyone that can help the true land and mineral owner. A appeallate court judge at present is running for supreme court position, that is good buddies with Michael Maggio. Its possible her having no competition, is a result, of CNG companies, being favorable to her, for her favor after the election, they are both Republican, and the Democrat's have power right now, so they simply made sure a democrat did not run for their seat, to protect the operators, corruption machine. I bet a lot of these politicians receive financial benefits, or favors, from the operators after they go out of office. I could be wrong and hope I am, but Maggio I feel certain is, so he can inject poison, in the Arkansas populace, for self serving benefits of the operators, and the politicians stay on the pay roll of the operators. Them 2 Judges not having opposition is very suspicious, that they are a shoe in for office. Maggio could not be elected in a fair election to dog catcher. He has been friends of corruption, for years. The supreme court candidate was working hard to win her seat, and that stopped. The Democrats I feel have not put up a candidate, for these 2 seats, so they personally will benefit, even after they leave office. Because the operators will still be able to purchase favor from the judge or judges. I could be wrong about the female but it does not look right. I found it interesting about 3 months ago the Governor cut the ribbon at a SWN gas station, in my home town, it all adds up. It doesn't taste good either. Just my opinion, of what could be going down. Arkansas politicians and operators are a close knit group. Its all about corruptive money, that these politicians cant resist, at the expense of mostly common people, and constituents.

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Your situation is very complex and you are fully aware of the obstacles that you are up against. It sounds like your new lawyer is optimistic about going through the procedures to take it on though, is that correct? I really hope they are not going to waste your time or money. Hopefully you can identify other owners who are in the same situation as you and therefore carry more weight to court for your cause. Lawyers are like a big fraternity in most states (in my opinion). But sometimes you have those who are more concerned with upholding the law rather than take money for a cause they know to be impossible or know that they will never get anywhere because they are friends with everyone that will represent the defendants.