BEWARE VAVA U MORMON CHURCH LEADER PAEA LAVULAVU By Trevor Jefferson BELOW IS THE EMAIL I SENT TO VAVA U ATTORNEY SIONE TO I MOANA TAUFEATAEU IN ORDER TO HELP PAEA LAVALAVU WHEN THE FRIVOLOUS CASE THAT SCAMMER JONATHAN TRAISTER BROUGHT AGAINST HIM I ALSO PAID ALL OF PAEA S LEGAL FEES FOR HIM AS HE HAD NO MONEY HOW DID MORMON CHURCH LEADER PAEA REWARD ME? HE GAVE SCAMMER JONATHAN TRAISTER THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS THAT I LOANED HIM SO THAT JONATHAN WOULD STOP HARASSING HIM & HE SIGNED OVER THE CORPORATION THAT I HAD PAID FOR AND ALLOWED HIM TO BE THE DIRECTOR OF UNTIL I RETURNED TO TONGA.. TO SCAMMER JONATHAN TRAISTER! BEWARE OF PAEA LAVULAVU, HE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED!!!!! Dear Sione, Below is a summary of my dealings with Jonathan Traister which should help you defend Paea Lavulavu as well as Hilary and I if need be from these unfounded and frivolous charges: Jonathan Traister contacted me via email around TWO YEARS AGO at my www.thebiblicalchristiancommunity.com website (I have currently pulled this site off-line until this nonsense is over so Jonathan cannot slander the site). His email was filled with incoherent rants about the New World Order and the American government trying to kill everyone, etc, and in his email he said that he was amazed at my website, agreed with my beliefs and wanted to live in Christian community with my family. He even offered to purchase a 1,000+ acre ranch in Ensenada, Mexico for my family to come and live on for free with his family. I rejected this offer and figured the guy was some sort of nut-job. OBVIOUSLY if I was trying to scam him I would have accepted this offer of free land and not held to my belief that I could only partner with like-
minded Christians. About six months later Jonathan emailed me again, sounding much more logical and coherent and this time asked if he and his family could to join The Biblical Christian community I had advertised on the www.ic.org website, saying that he agreed with the website, my beliefs, my statement of faith, etc. I agreed to consider the possibility and over the next few months we exchanged hundreds of emails and had many phone conversations. Ultimately Jonathan decided that he and his family were being called by God (Jonathan claims to hear from God all the time and many of these revelations are bizarre and turn out to be wrong) to relocate to Tonga and on multiple occasions he asked me if he could just send 50,000 Pa anga or more into my personal account in order to get a visa, etc. I refused these offers (a thief or money launderer would have accepted them for sure) and instead helped him set up a business account (under the name G.I.I.C.) with Yvette Paea at the WestPac branch in Vava u, where he wired around TOP 45,000 into. I also helped him get his one-way flight permit to Tonga, set him up with a cheap rental house belonging to Salesi Paea, sent him many of the books I had written and the like, all free of charge. OBVIOUSLY if I was a scammer I would not have helped him set up his own personal account or sent him free books, etc. I would have taken him for everything he had and accepted his naïve offer to wire money to me straight away. It drives me nuts that Nesha and Gordon are on this kick to convince everyone I am a bad man and a scammer, because as I have told people many times, if I was even half as bad as they say I am I could easily make a million dollars in less than three months and just disappear to Cuba! It s one of the easiest things in the world to make a ton of money illegally and by doing the wrong things and that I am not a rich man and just live a quiet life with Hilary and the children is proof that I am not doing anything illegal. It s an absolute insult to my intelligence that anyone would think I would be a criminal and not rich! Once Jonathan and his wife and three sons arrived in Tonga in September, 2009 and after leaving Salesi s short-term rental home, they stayed at a rental house belonging to Henk and Sandra (e-owners of the Adventure Backpackers business) but almost instantly desired to leave as they felt they were paying way too much for such an accommodation, seeing as it was small and had some issues with the plumbing. Upon hearing this I offered to show Jonathan and his wife Alison an ocean view home I held the tenancy agreement on, in Talau Fanga, near Mt. Talau belonging to the La autaha family. After viewing and inspecting the house Alison said she felt like she was at home there and said she wanted to work out an agreement on the property. I agreed to give Jonathan 50% ownership in my tenancy agreement in exchange for him renovating it to a better standard and spending at least TOP 20,000 on such renovations. I also agreed to let he and Alison and the boys live in the house rent-free until September 1, 2010 at which point they could either pay me TOP 1,400 per month in rent or we could sell the tenancy agreement and split the profits 50/50. Jonathan and Alison agreed to this happily (However once Jonathan decides to sue me he tries to reneg from this agreement and demand a higher price of the sale profits which I refused. Ultimately he ended up stealing personal items of mine and just allowing another family to move into the house. I served him with a written notice of eviction in October of 2010 but to this day I have not received one seniti in rent and now the Tongan
Landlord thinks the property is only his and I am probably going to have to sue the Landlord in order to get control of the property again.) and spent the next couple months living there happily.obviously if I was trying to scam Jonathan I would not have allowed him to live in one of the homes I hold a tenancy agreement on rent free, nor would I have continued to pay bills for him while he was in America I would have just sold it to another ex-pat and fled. It is Jonathan who has basically defrauded me out of my rights on the Talau property and I should be suing him for theft! While the Traister s were living in my Talau rental home they spent a great deal of time with Hilary, the children and I. We attended church together at New Life in Toula and they came over to my house two nights a week for Bible studies as well. Jonathan and Alison had decided that they wanted to live in Christian community with my family and Jonathan s main goal was to acquire the perfect property to set this community up on. I discussed many property options with him, including my Fofoa island property and some other outer island options, however it wasn t until he saw a property I had wanted for the past two years on Koloa island that he got excited and decided that was the property he wanted to own a percentage of and live on, in community with my family. The Koloa island property was owned by Sione Latu and had been signed up by me as a real estate listing on the www.investintonga.com website some two years earlier after meeting with Sione s sister, Hainite McLean (maiden name Hainite Latu) of Vaipua. I had been instructed from the beginning that Sione and Hainite would only lease the property on a 50% income sharing basis and only for a price of at least USD $400,000 as well as monthly payments of around TOP 1,000 or more for a mere 20 year lease. Obviously this was an enormous price and while I was sceptical I would ever find someone to pay this amount I was bound and determined to try, and did believe that, in my personal opinion, this was the best single property connected to the mainland (Koloa island is connected to Vava u Tahi by a landbridge) in all of Vava u. In early 2009 I showed the property to a real estate client couple from England who loved the property and truly wanted to acquire it. They were prepared to offer USD $200,000 for 50% rights but no more and really wanted 100% rights and at least a 50 year term which Hainite told me was out of the question. Ultimately no lease was given as the offer was not good enough according to Hainite. I had many other clients who were interested and either emailed or phoned me about this property but none willing to pay such a high price and therefore the property was still on the market when Jonathan Traister arrived in Tonga. I had been planning to try and acquire this Koloa island property myself since around late 2008 when I was developing the www.thebiblicalchristiancommunity.com website as I thought it was the perfect community property whereby Christians could live off the land in peace and quiet. However I did not want to spend all the money I had to my name acquiring a piece of raw land, nor did I want to take on such a huge project alone. I finally had the website completely finished and on-line in early April of 2010 and I started to email with other like-minded Christians I knew around the world about this Koloa island property and my plans to acquire it as the site of the community. Many families and individuals were interested in relocating to Tonga to live in
The Biblical Christian Community but all wanted to see me acquire the land and erect some buildings first, which I was not keen to do without some guaranteed help, so to speak. It didn t take me long to decide that the best course of action for the community was for me to have a deal in place to acquire the Koloa land but to not go through with the purchase until I knew I had some other people involved and contributing funds, hopefully enough so that I could even make some money off the deal which I could use to erect a school and the like on the land. Basically, this concept is akin to a boy finding a ruby ball for sale for 10 Pa anga and wanting it but deciding not to buy it unless he can find someone else to pay for a share of it ultimately the boy finds two friends who will pay 6 Pa anga for a 1/3 share of the ball (they would each have the ball for 2 days a week) and collects the 12 Pa anga from them, goes and buys the ball for 10 Pa anga, lets his friends have the ball for 2 days a week and makes 2 Pa anga off the deal. This is the same concept, just on a much larger financial scale and there is absolutely nothing illegal about it! It s just smart business. In September of 2009 I told Hainite that I wanted to acquire her brother s Koloa property and she said that she would love for my family and I to be the ones to have the property. I then contacted her brother via email and expressed my interest in the property and shortly thereafter flew to Tongatapu to meet with him in person. After meeting me in person he agreed to lease (sell me a tenancy agreement) the property to me and to wait until I was ready to pay, which I told him may take a few months but which I hoped would be ASAP. I could have paid for the property immediately and later sold a percentage to Jonathan and Ken (our 3 rd partner) but I did not want to take the risk, seeing as they may back out, etc. I decided it would be wise to just hold my option to buy and promise from Sione that he would wait for me to pay, rather than take a risk and pay for the whole property before I was sure Jonathan and Ken would indeed pay for a percentage of the land. While in Vava u and after viewing the Koloa property many times, Jonathan assured me that he wanted to acquire a percentage of the Koloa property so that he and his family could live in The Biblical Christian Community of mine, described on my www.thebiblicalchristiancommunity.com website. His wife Alison also loved the Koloa property and was in agreement with Jonathan to acquire a percentage of it, however she stated that rather than living in a Christian community as stated on my website, perhaps we should all acquire the property and then sell off small lots at huge mark-up prices, make a lot of money and have an eco-community instead. I was not interested in that idea at all and let Jonathan know that and he agreed with me. OBVIOUSLY if all I was after was Jonathan s money there is no way I would risk losing it by disagreeing with his wife aqnd saying I would not be partners with them unless they agreed to the things on my Christian website, I would have just agreed to anything they said and gone for the money! Shortly thereafter, Alison, who was quite sick with advanced breast cancer (Jonathan never wanted her to receive normal medical treatment as he strangely thought that all sickness was equated to sin and inflicted by devils and that if he merely claimed Alison was healed she would be) felt like she was close to death and decided she needed to go see a doctor in the United States. Jonathan, who was afraid of going back to America as he was extremely paranoid and thought the government might arrest him at the airport and throw him in a concentration camp,
had Alison go back to America all by herself while he and his three boys stayed in Vava u. While Alison was in America my wife Hilary cooked meals for Jonathan and his boys free of charge until Jonathan offered to pay her at least a little something and she happily accepted. I saw Jonathan probably every day as well and we had many long talks and the like. Shortly thereafter, I received a phone call from Jonathan out of the blue saying that Alison was dying and he and the boys needed to fly back to America right away. I went to their house (my Talau Fanga rental) immediately and he handed me the keys, a bag containing around TOP 24,000 in cash and asked me if I could take care of everything, make sure his bills were paid, etc. I said yes and gave him a hug as he was leaving. While he was in America Hilary and I paid all his bills, had his house painted, kept the grass cut, etc. OBVIOUSLY if I was a scammer I would not have paid any of Jonathan s bills, etc, I would have taken all the cash in the bag, sold the house to another ex-pat and left. While Jonathan was in America, his wife Alison passed away and we exchanged many emails about this and other life issues. Jonathan then explained to me that he was considering marrying a divorced woman who had a living husband and I explained to him that I could not agree with such as I took Matthew 5: 32, Matt 19: 9, Mark 10: 12, Luke 16: 18 and Romans 7: 2-3 very seriously, and that if he did such I would not acquire any property with him or live in community with him. We exchanged some very heated emails and he agreed to read the book I authored on this issue of divorce and remarriage and to consider it. Ultimately I told Jonathan I was going to pray that this woman just took herself out of his life and a couple days later that is exactly what happened. OBVIOUSLY there is no way in the world that I would have risked arguing with Jonathan so vehemently about a Biblical issue if I was after his money, I would have just gone along with whatever he said. That I held to my principles and beliefs and flat out said I would not be a partner with him and would not live in a community with him is proof positive this whole endeavour was a Biblical issue for me and not about money. Jonathan and I continued to exchange many emails about life, the Bible and various real estate opportunities. At one point I was a little fed up with Nesha and Gordon and the whole Tongan scene and told Jonathan that I was seriously considering relocating to Fiji and that I knew of a good property there we could purchase together. Jonathan agreed that he would meet me in Fiji to look at properties if I wanted but when we told this to Ken, our third partner, he explained that he would not live in Fiji and only wanted to live in community in Tonga. We all therefore decided that the Koloa property was best and we might as well go through with acquiring it. OBVIOUSLY if I was a scammer there is no way I would have even brought up anything negative about Tonga or asked Jonathan to consider going to Fiji with me and looking for community land there as I would not have made any commission on a Fiji deal and it actually would have cost me a lot of money. That I brought up this Fiji thing is more proof that this whole thing for me was about a Biblical community and not about money! While Jonathan was still in the states, Ken and his family came to live with Jonathan for a time to get to know him better (they had only spoken on the phone and emailed up to this time). While they were all living together, they contacted me on a daily basis and we all decided to definitely
acquire the Koloa land and also worked on the documents they would sign as well as partnership agreements and letters for immigration such as business plans (which I wrote for them), reference letters, etc. Ultimately Jonathan agreed to pay TOP 170,000 for 42.5% of the Koloa land which we were going to divide into (40) 30 pole lots meaning he would receive (17) 30 pole lots. Ken also agreed to pay TOP 120,000 for 15% of the land and 15% of other things I owed but later Jonathan claimed Ken wanted 30% of the land which I said was fine, meaning Ken would receive (12) 30 pole lots. The remaining (11) 30 pole lots would be mine. Jonathan asked many times how much I was going to pay for the land while Ken never seemed to care. I always replied that it was none of his business and that I would try to pay as little as possible and would even trade other things I owned rather than spend cash if possible. Jonathan and Ken both agreed to proceed without knowing what I would pay and they even signed the Buyer s Agent contract saying that ALL the money they were sending was mine to do with as I pleased and was a commission. They also signed a partnership contract, which, like the Buyer s Agent contract, stated that they could not sue me or cause me to be sued for any reason. Ultimately Jonathan ended up sending three wires to Hilary and Paea s business accounts as he wanted to later take over these accounts and use them for businesses in the future, however he most definitely knew these were Hilary and Paea s accounts and that the funds were mine to be used as I deemed fit, per the signed contracts. Ken knew the same and wired into two accounts. Jonathan s three wires totalled TOP 170,786.44 which at that time was equivalent to around USD $88,000 and is now equivalent to around USD $92,000 so I am not sure why he is suing for the USD $84,000 amount. The extra TOP above the TOP 170,000 Jonathan agreed to pay for the42.5% of the Koloa land was to re-imburse me for fees I had paid to get business licenses, immigration help from Dana Stephenson in Nuku alofa, etc., and actually was too little. Ken Stein sent two wires that totalled TOP 112,068.49 which at that time was only equivalent to around USD $57,000 and is still worth under USD $61,000 so I have no idea where Jonathan is getting his USD $64,000 figure. Ken actually meant to send more but there was some misunderstanding with his American bank. OBVIOUSLY Jonathan only has claim to his wires and therefore only has claim to an amount up to TOP 170,786.44. He cannot possibly lay claim to Ken s wires as those came from ken s personal bank account and were never Jonathan s. It is also extremely obvious that Jonathan has no case to claim I stole any funds from him as he freely sent these funds to Hilary and Paea s WestPac accounts and even signed the Buyer s Agent contract claiming these funds were mine to do with as I pleased. Had he wanted these funds to remain in his hands, he would have wired them to his own account at ANZ! In fact, because Ken sent less money than he had agreed to send, Jonathan told me I could deduct funds out of his personal business account at the ANZ in Tonga. I did so by taking TOP 11,500 out of his ANZ account as I had a signed Power of Attorney document from him saying that I had access to his account while he was outside Tonga. OBVIOUSLY since Jonathan had his own personal business account at ANZ, had he wanted to send funds to himself or that would not be touched he would not have sent wires to Paea and Hilary s WestPac business accounts. Also, it s clear that Jonathan knew I was withdrawing the funds from the WestPac accounts and that he had no problem with it as he even authroized more funds to be deducted from his
personal ANZ business account! Also, had I been a scammer s I would have taken everything out of his ANZ account, not only TOP 11,500! Once the funds had arrived in the WestPac business accounts, Hilary and Paea made some withdrawls and would have withdrew all of the funds had it not been for some nosey bank tellers and Paea getting nervous that the bank tellers would spread the word around Vava u that he had lots of money. I therefore physically took the deducted funds on the plane to Nukua lofa and also withdrew all the remaining funds once I got there. I then met with the owner, spouse and heir of the Koloa property as well as attorney Sione Vuna Fa otusia at ANZ bank, paid the agreed upon price for the land, had the tenancy agreement signed by all parties, put it the name of the corporation that I had set up (with Paea as Director because the head of M.L.C.I. told my attorney Dana Stephenson that individuals without visas could no longer be the Director or shareholder in a corporation) and stamped by attorney Fa otusia and then walked out of the bank with the remaining funds in cash to pay off others associated with this deal and to keep what I felt like as my commission. Also while Jonathan was in America two real estate clients contacted me with interest in buying our 50/50 Talau home but also said they wanted a business to come with it. I emailed Jonathan and told him that I think it would be a good investment to acquire the Mahi Mahi Curry business and include it with the Talau house in a sale to one of these clients. Jonathan agreed and give me the go-ahead and said he would invest TOP 20,000 of his own money which he had left in a bag with me when he flew back to America. I then spend my time and money flying with the palangi lease holder (who I had to pay for as well as he had no money) to Tongatapu to meet the owner. However upon meeting the owner I realize that she does not want to do any deal that would benefit the palangi leaseholder and actually has been trying to throw him off the premises for some time. I drive the palangi back to the airport, pay for his return airfare and then return to book myself a hotel in Tongatapu so I can stay and talk with the Tongan land owner. After talking with her she agrees to any deal I have drawn up and to lease the building to me on even more favorable terms than she had done in the past. However, seeing as the current palangi leaseholder still has a legal claim to the property I emailed Jonathan and said I decided not to go through with the purchase as it could have been a legal hassle. Jonathan was happy with this and not upset in the least. I later mentioned a new option that I think would also be beneficial to acquire to add to our Talau house which consists of two shops in town and has the same price as the last option. Jonathan agreed to this (Later he pretended to have never understood the deal but still said that everything was fine and we are 50/50 partners on those deals) and I acquired those shops with the TOP 20,000 in the bag Jonathan left with me. OBVIOUSLY since Jonathan is not suing for these funds f back, he does not consider me guilty of obtaining funds by false pretences on these deals which makes no sense. If I was a scammer, would I do one scam deal and one legitimate deal? No. The real reason Jonathan is not mentioning these funds is because it shows he trusted me fully, did a deal with me that he does not feel was obtained o via false pretences, and mostly because the amount is small and he cannot prove it ever even existed. He just wants the big money back because he has buyer s remorse on the Koloa property! While I am in Nuku alofa Hilary calls me and says she has spoken to my Aunt and Grandmother
and that my Grandmother may not live much longer as she is having severe issues with her heart and breathing. Hilary also explains that my Grandma has asked that we leave Tonga to be with her so she can see Hilary, the children and I one last time. After hearing this I immediately decide that we need to fly out of Tonga and I book our airline tickets and departure date for June 8 th. After I acquire the Koloa land in the name of a Tongan Corporation I paid 100% for and set up and which I told Jonathan that he could not be a shareholder or the Director in until he had a visa, Jonathan is thrilled with the deal and sends many happy emails. He starts to re-formulate his return to Tonga as he has been trying to return since January 2010 and finally books his return for June 8 th. I tell him about my Grandmother and that I had just bought our departure tickets for the same day and that we will probably see each other at the airport. Jonathan is sad that we will not be in Tonga and we are still in a state of shock and rush-preparedness for our journey to be with my ailing Grandmother. OBVIOUSLY if I am trying to scam Jonathan an I would not tell him that I am leaving ahead of time, nor where I am going. Doing so is more proof that I was not scamming him and was planning to come back to Tonga and run the community with him as a partner. As the weeks pass by with Jonathan in Vava u and us in North America, Jonathan and I email daily and everything is going well other than the fact he keeps trying to find out exactly how much cash I paid for the property and what, if any, items I traded, etc. I constantly reminded him that I always told him that info would be kept private and was none of his business he seems to understand. I also explain to him that I left around TOP 130,000 in Hilary s ANZ bank account (I actually deposited TOP 140,000 but then transferred TOP 7,500 to Paea and planned to transfer TOP 2,000 for the lease fees on the Koloa land to Mr. Latu but ended up transferring the full TOP 4,000) and that I would like that money with me in North America to help my Grandmother and with family expenses. Jonathan says that he can transfer funds to me from his gold account in Switzerland in exchange for me giving him the same amount from Hilary s account. He constantly refers to the money in Hilary s ANZ account as my money (later of course he claims this is his money and gets the NRBT to freeze these funds illegally) and wants to help me. I tell him not to worry about it just yet and that there is no hurry. OBVIOUSLY I would not have left TOP 140,000 in Hilary s ANZ bank account if I was a scammer, I would have flown out of the country with all of our funds. This is proof positive that I planned to return to Tonga and run a Christian community there! Shortly thereafter Jonathan sends me an email saying that God spoke to him and that in order to have a community and be partners I need to change my www.thebiblicalchristiancommunity.com website and statement of faith I wrote years ago and which Jonathan had already agreed to in the past. I replied that I would rather die than go against my conscience, my God and His word and that if Jonathan is going to demand such that it would be better for me to just step aside as we agreed before and accept a fair buy-out and let him have the land and run a new community himself. Jonathan agrees to this and asks me to send him a buy-out offer. We haggle over a fair buy-out amount and things get pretty contentious, though the whole time Jonathan still says the funds in Hilary s account are mine
and continues to offer to wire funds to me. Again, I tell him not to worry and ask if we can just work out the buy-out first. OBVIOUSLY if I was scamming Jonathan I would have taken him up on his very first offer to wire funds to me and to exchange his gold funds for the funds in Hilary s account! That I did not do this and just kept trying to work towards a fair buy-out is more proof positive that I was not scamming Jonathan and only and always had good intentions. It is also extremely obvious that AFTER all the funds he and Ken had sent to the WestPac accounts and after the land had been acquired in the corporation s name in which Paea was the Director and Shareholder (until we all had visas) and after I had taken out an additional TOP 11,500 from his GIIC account which I had POA on and after the cash in his bag had been spent on two shops we invested in together (which he had now already claimed he didn t know about and wanted a refund), he still said the funds in Hilary s account were mine and still offered to wire money to me! OBVIOUSLY this is i proof positive that Jonathan has no case to claim that I owe him anything or stole anything or that the funds in Hilary s account are his. It was only after he met Nesha and Gordon and was convinced I was a bad guy and later found out that the land didn t t cost anywhere near the TOP 400,000 market value we had all assigned to it that he wanted his money back! This is no different than someone who buys a car from a car dealer for $10,000 and then gets mad when he finds out the dealer only paid $2,000 for it and made a big profit. This is just buyer s remorse and that s it! While all of the above is going on, the Tongan landowner of the Koloa land contacts me in Canada and reminds me that TOP 4,000 is due for the first year's lease fees or the land will be forfeited. I respond that I had forgotten and thought the fees did not start until later but that I would take care of it promptly. I then contacted Jonathan and explained the situation to him which he understood and said that he would pay his percentage of, but never did. I end up paying the entire land fee out of my pocket and the land stays in the corporations name. OBVIOUSLY I would not have paid any of the lease fees for this land once I was outside Tonga if I was a scammer, I would have ignored the request and just kept the money to myself! Jonathan and I continue emailing about a buy-out offer and I send him three buy-out options and he chooses number three which basically asks for CAD $90,500+-but asks me to wait until he tinkers with it a bit. Shortly after Jonathan sends me an email saying that God spoke to him again and told him that while he has rich parents who support him when needed, that I (Trevor) am not in the same position and that I am counting on him to make things right. Jonathan then sends another strange email telling me to rejoice for my redemption is coming, etc, which sounds strange and makes no sense to me. Shortly thereafter Jonathan sends me a revised buy-out offer, offering me NOTHING now, possibly something in 3-5 years if he is able to sub-lease lots on the land at a huge profit and even asks me to deduct an amount from the money he will wire me on the Hilary s ANZ bank deal for some items he says he bought for me while he was in America that I never agreed to! I replied to Jonathan s offer by saying it was financial rape and by explaining that my offers were not even fair to me and overly beneficial to him but that I would agree to them just to be done with the bad situation. I also explained that if Jonathan continued to play games and try to
financially rape me that I would simply sub-lease the land to one of two contacts I knew who were interested. This I admit I should not have done as I would not have actually done that and was just trying to motivate him to make a fair buy-out offer and I think this scared him. After this Jonathan emailed me some emails flipping out about my threat to sub-lease the land and so I sent him a forth buy-out offer which basically would have given him all rights to my 27.5% percentage of the Koloa land, my 50% percentage of the Talau home, and much more for just CAD $70,000+-. I did not receive a reply at all. About three weeks go by without Jonathan emailing and with me hearing reports from Vava u that he has been hanging out with Gordon and Nesha, then out of the blue Jonathan emails me and threatens me by saying that if I don t put all the funds in Hilary s ANZ account into Jonathan s ANZ account that he will sue me. Again, as I said above, even after the land deal was done and all the money was gone from the WestPac accounts and TOP 130,000+ was in Hilary s ANZ account, etc, Jonathan had said and admitted many times that those funds were mine and not his but after hanging out with Nesha and Gordon for three weeks he tries to blackmail me into putting all our funds into his account and claims they are his funds and I stole them! If anything perhaps I should be counter suing him for extortion! The following is the conclusion portion of an email I sent to Jonathan and many members of his family, which explains my thoughts on this case: Jonathan, from f where I stand (and where a judge would sit apparently) it seems extremely clear that you were an unstable young man who contacted me a while back with wild dreams, re- contacted me with toned down ones begging to come to Tonga with my blessing to join my (not our or your ) Biblical Christian Community, got to Tonga and loved it, saw the land I had picked for the community long ago and been saving up to acquire and coveted it, tricked me into believing that you were sincere about the word of God and studying it and that you would never go against the statement of faith in deed if not in personal belief, etc,.. and then after I acquired the property demanded to know everything about my personal finances (which you had agreed in the past were none of your business and agreed that I did not need to reveal them), demanded a larger percentage of the Talau home (in violation of our agreement), pretended not to know anything about the other business deals even though you said everything was fine just a couple weeks before, demanded a full refund of the business deals though you were not entitled to such, offered me a financial rape buy-out offer that included me being in debt, refused to pay for the land fees, the t corporation oration fees or just about anything, and then... capped all this off with slandering me, cavorting around with two ex-pats who threatened me and made fun of my Christian beliefs, and refusing to reply to me! Shame on you and may God judge between me and thee! Well, that s about all!
Peace and Blessings, Trevor PAEA DEFENSE POINTS: 1.) He only did what I told him and most definitely did not do anything with the INTENT to defraud anyone or do anything illegal. there was no wrong intent in Paea whatsoever. 2.) Paea opened business bank accounts with Hilary which is entirely legal. 3.) Paea obtained tourist licenses for these businesses in his tax number which is entirely legal. 4.) Paea, along with Hilary allowed Jonathan and Ken to wire funds into their business accounts, based on the legal Buyer s Agent contract Jonathan and Ken signed, which is entirely legal. 5.) Paea, along with Hilary withdrew the funds in the business accounts as the legal document Jonathan and Ken signed stated the funds were mine (Paea, ( Hilary and Trevor) and to be used as we deemed fit, therefore Paea and Hilary deducting these funds from their own accounts was entirely legal. Just the thought of someone not being able to deduct funds from their own account is insane! I have sent funds to someone in trust before but EVERY TIME I would have had that person sign a contract saying the funds were to be held in trust Jonathan has no such contract, in fact, he has the opposite, a contract stating the funds are mine! 6.) I then used the funds f to pay for the Koloa land, bills, my travel expenses, etc, and pocketed the remaining funds as my commission which I was entirely able to do legally, per the signed contract. 7.) There is no money laundering if there is no obtaining funds by false pretences which there was not. Jonathan and Ken s signed document proves they were sending those funds to be used by me as I see fit and certifying they could not sue Paea, Hilary or I, or cause suit to be brought againt Paea, Hilary or I. That one document, not to mention the others and emails proves there was no obtaining funds by false pretences and therefore no money laundering whatsoever. 8.) The bank wire receipts prove that two of the wires and a good portion of the funds wired to Hilary s accounts were sent by our third business partner Ken Stein and not by Jonathan, therefore he has no claim to these funds and cannot sue for anything more than the TOP 170,786.44 he wired! 9.) The emails prove that Jonathan knew and admitted the funds in Hilary s ANZ account were ours and not his, that he offered to exchange funds from his giold account in Switzerland for them and that he therefore is now lying by claiming we stole from him or that Hilary s funds are his.
In conclusion I hope Paea easily wins his case, that all charges are a dropped against Hilary and I and maybe even that you recommend to the judge, crown prosecutor and police that Jonathan be charged with filing a false police report, conspiracy to commit fraud, extortion, etc., and that your fees be covered (if this happens you keep them 100% as you deserve them, I d just like to see Jonathan get disciplined for doing this to Paea and us. ALSO, please inform me of what happens at your earliest convenience and let me know if anything more if happening to Hilary and I in regards to arrest warrant(s), Interpol Red Notice(s), further charges, another case, etc. We want to be able to come back to Tonga but certainly don t plan to until all of this nonsense is done. ALSO, please keep your ear to the ground about any civil charges as I imagine if Jonathan loses this case he may try to sue me civilly for full control of the Koloa land, etc. In that instance I would want to hire you (and send another Western Union payment) to defend us (if needed I m not sure what happens in a civil case where the defendant(s) don t show and am guessing Jonathan would win an in absentia case against us this way) and to counter sue him for full rights to the Talau house (as he never paid rent and then let l another family move in without telling me or having them pay me rent, etc) and to simply ask the judge to order Jonathan to pay his 42.5% percentage of the lease fees paid and corporation fees paid and then to simply order the tenancy agreement to be sold ASAP and for Jonathan to receve 42.5% of the money, Ken to receive 30% and me to receive 27.5% I do not want to fleece Jonathan and think a court ordered sale with the proceeds divided according to the LLP contract we signed would be fair and just!