Jonathan Nolan threatens legal action over Starwalker
If you appeared on Australian television with a mountain of unbelievable claims, spent the next few months watching these claims unravel one by one as they were publicly debunked and then found yourself exposed online and then on national television, what would your natural reaction be?
I’d imagine you’d probably accept that you were caught out and try to move on quietly move on with life disassociating yourself from the scandal as much as possible.
If you’re Jonathan Nolan however, despite everything that has happened thus far surrounding the Starwalker scandal, you don’t admit to anything and threaten to launch defamation action.
After all, you’re clearly the victim here.
A Current Affair ran a story last night on the Starwalker tv show hoax and Jonathan Nolan. Although it doesn’t introduce any new information about Starwalker since the SMH report a few weeks ago, it’s a nice summary of the hoax so far.
At the very end of the report is the interesting comment that Jonathan Nolan is considering defamation action in relation to Starwalker. This confirmed by a blog entry on Nolan’s ‘Inherited Tigers‘ blog.
Despite numerous communications in relation to the risk of defamation should they (the police) rely on the tissue of lies about me perpetrated by a disgruntled alleged ex-employee and a group of sociopaths on one of the worst websites on the internet, the cyberbullying, defamation and general persecution of me (and others I might add) has now reached proportions that will only be redressed by thorough, detailed and ongoing legal action in defamation.
I presume the alleged ex-employee is none other then Robert Brand who claims that Nolan owes him $200,000 plus four weeks pay.
The group of sociopaths he refers to is most likely the crew at Zgeek. Nolan has a legal history with Zgeek which started when his mate Greg Smith decided to sue Zgeek for forty million dollars (not a typo).
Nolan has previously taken Zgeek to court for defamation but lost.
To prove defamation Jonathan Nolan will have to show that
a. There were any investors in Starwalker to begin with. Nolan has claimed from the start that the entire $100 million in costs were paid upfront by mysterious unnamed investors. These investors were allegedly first from Russia and then from the Middle East.
b. Robert Brand was never hired as an associate producer and isn’t owed $200,000 due to cancellation of Starwalker and four weeks pay for work he did on the show.
c. Stephen Hawking was involved in Starwalker despite Hawking’s personal assistant, J. Croasdell stating “Please note that Prof. Hawking does not have any involvement with the reality TV show ‘Starwalker’“.
d. Starwalker was never cancelled.
e. Jonathan Nolan was never struck of the Roll of Legal Practitioners in 2002 for ‘specific and serious misconduct’, despite what the legal transcript says.
f. Polkadot PR did publish the initial press release for Starwalker despite Dionne Taylor of Polkadot PR stating ‘I definitely didn’t write this‘.
g. Red Vision (a UK based special effects company) were co-producers of Starwalker despite Red Vision Managing Director, Dave Mousley stating “We are, as I have stated, involved as Vfx producers, but not as CO- PRODUCERS of the show“.
h. That two space flights were booked on the Soyuz/STARSEM launch vehicle in Russia despite Chief Operating Officer of Starsem, Victor Nikolaev stating “Starsem isn’t involved in manned space programs“.
Either all of the above is false, or Jonathan Nolan is lying through his teeth in claiming that the above points are all just a “tissue of lies about me“.
Either way it seems we won’t be finding out anytime soon, for now Nolan is remaining tight lipped.
Until the conclusion of the defamation proceedings and other investigations I will not be making any further private or public remarks, other than to say I am being defamed, allegations against me and about me are untrue and indeed disgraceful.
Personally I think we’ve kind of long gone past the benefit of the doubt stage, there’s simply just too much third party damning evidence against Nolan for anyone to take him seriously.
I for one can’t wait to buy some popcorn and watch this unfold. Especially if Channel 9 and A Current Affair are dragged into the tangled web of Nolan and the his lawsuits.
One can only wonder just how far Nolan will go to prove his alleged innocence in all of this. I mean it’s not like he was the executive producer of Starwalker or anything right?
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April 28th, 2010 at 1:12 pm Spoon king(Quote)
Probably going to pay for the court costs with the money he scammed off people.
These guys love their defamation cases don’t they? Can someone check and see what the world record is for the most defamation cases made by a single company? Because these guys might be close to breaking it.
April 28th, 2010 at 2:12 pm Slots(Quote)
Despite Nolan claiming “I will not be making any further private or public remarks”, read the comment from “drae2dream” on the following forum link, and tell that’s NOT Nolan:
http://the-riotact.com/?p=20746
April 28th, 2010 at 3:02 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
That could be Nolan but I doubt it. If it was a brand new account maybe but ‘dare2dream’ has a commenting history that goes back further then Nov 2009 and seems to be about random unrelated issues so who knows.
April 28th, 2010 at 5:42 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
I am the person that Nolan is complaining about – he hired me and did not pay me. I have a contact that he claims does not exist. I will publish it shortly on my website at http://echoesofapollo.com so keep an eye out for that.
Well, I hate to say it Mr Nolan, but I hold the proof to all of the above and it is seriously sad that my family has been hurt so badly.
Nolan claims that he reported me to the police weeks ago and now he is claiming that he is following up on why the police did not act. The threats and lies are amazing.
I am the main person exposing the guy, but he has not had hs lawyers contact me – not once. If he was innocent and had the money that a highly paid producer would have, he would do something to stop me exposing the lies.
Was Jonathan Lying about anything – here is an email from him – you tell me if the show was cancelled – his address censored:
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From: Jonathan [mailto:xxx@xxx]
Sent: Friday, 12 February 2010 7:58 PM
To: Mischa Perez
Subject: Starwalker – show as it stands is CANCELLED.
I have spoken to the financial partners, and based on the costs quoted out of the UK to get the show PR fixed etc. the financial partners aren’t prepared to do that in its current form.
The show IP etc. is going to the primary financial partners, and the show as it is currently will be CANCELLED.
This isn’t actually the end of the show, it seems, but it ends my involvement and yours too. The partnership is going to be dissolved and some other permutation reformed.
April 28th, 2010 at 6:28 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
Hey Robert thanks for stopping by again.
I love how Nolan promises the world, hires you, drops the show and makes you redundant, claims everything you said about the ordeal is lies and then decided he’s the victim and is going to sue you for defamation.
I’d love to hear how the Nolan lawyer meetings go;
‘Waaaaaaah the internets is defaming me!’
‘Hmm that’s a pretty serious accusation. Is any of what is written about you true?’
‘Well yes but that’s not the point, it’s defaaaaaaaaaaaaamaaaaation!’
To be fair he’s pocketed the money from Starwalker entries, shut down the show, gone into hiding and now just publishes the odd potshot at people on his blog from an undisclosed location.
…it’s a pretty solid plan to clear his name and I know it’s the first thing I’d do if I found myself in a similar situation.
I dunno, that email looks pretty alleged to me. I’m sure we’re just misunderstanding it’s context.
Look forward to reading about the contract mate
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April 28th, 2010 at 6:42 pm Gekisou(Quote)
Hi, I worked as an actor for JN called Sweet Cyanide (if anyone saw that, I apologize). I can tell you, he never paid a single actor or crew member.
In fact, he claimed he would get a loan to pay us and it never happened. I have contacted some of the actors and crew and if he thinks he can claim he is being wronged. We can prove that he isn’t and that he IS a lying dirtbag.
April 28th, 2010 at 7:05 pm Slots(Quote)
Regarding Nolan and “dare2dream”. Nolan is a Canberra resident, so it’s entirely likely that he already had a RiotACT account. And just as a kicker, I give you the following sentence from Nolan’s original Starwalker press release:
“anyone from any background can dare to dream and try out to become an Astronaut.”
Coincidence? That someone talks about defamation, cyber bullying and police inaction (Just like on Nolan’s blog), using a username lifted from a Staralker press release?
If it’s not Nolan, it’s somebody very close to him.
April 28th, 2010 at 7:16 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Dreaming about being paid is about all I will ever get until the courts act, but he probably has nothing.
Here is another snip-it from his emails:
Nolan says: The upshot- the show as it is at present is gone, the financial controller Dr. Al-Ahmad is at prayers tonight so I am speaking to him Monday night Australian time and then the show will be officially put on “hiatus” publicly whilst we are all paid off and it’s wrapped up for now.
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Did he mention that I was to be paid off??? I think so. He later claims I had no contract – He was very keen to pay me when there was no contract?? Anyway a copy of that will be on my website on the weekend!
Nice to comment here and be so welcome. Regards, Robert
April 28th, 2010 at 7:30 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
P.S. There is probably a segment on “Today Tonight” yet to come, but they may drop the segment since ACA did it first. They even tried to interview Nolan at his door, but he refused.
April 28th, 2010 at 7:39 pm Gekisou(Quote)
No, the TT ads for tonight doesn’t seem to mention the Starwalker thing. I plan on maybe calling up TT and asking them to make this into a story. JN needs to go down.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:27 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
Wow, I can safely say I have never seen Sweet Cyanide, though no doubt it is one of the films Nolan claims has influenced popular culture.
Never paid anyone? Sounds about right. I know people who worked with Nolan and have never been paid a cent, maybe they worked with you on Sweet Cyanide.
Did you ever deal with Smith while on the cyanide project? I have met the man before and personally found him to be an arrogant nincompoop with credentials as solid as a bag of wet hair, he came off as totally dishonest and seemed to think he was a big player in the film industry. Just wondering if you found him to be the same or if I am just nuts.
To Robert, I sincerely hope you get compensated for the work that you did for the starwalker show. It seems Nolan has finally conned someone who won’t back down to his threats of legal action or personal harm (which I have heard from some people he is fond of making, though never heard them firsthand of course).
April 28th, 2010 at 10:16 pm Gekisou(Quote)
Unfortunately, I never had the ‘pleasure’ of meeting Smith though I did receive an email from him regarding payment for our work on the movie.
All of us except the female lead are from Canberra (well, I’m Singaporean but work in Canberra), she was from Sydney. And it was a shame we didn’t make a bigger deal about it then. If you bother looking for reviews of Sweet Cyanide, you will see that all the bad ones were the true ones.
What shocked me was that he blamed the bad editing he did on the youtube generation and that he was trying to match it.
No one edits that badly!
April 28th, 2010 at 10:38 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
Wow, he really is nuts, can’t blame Youtube for sheer incompetence. Hope you get better acting jobs in the future, and get paid for them.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:59 pm Gekisou(Quote)
Ha… as a matter a fact, I have a semi-regular acting job which pays well and my face is never seen so it kinda works out. LOL
But I usually work behind the camera, not in front of it.
April 29th, 2010 at 12:13 am Steel Hydra(Quote)
Oh cool, what do you usually work on when behind the camera? Just out of curiosity, when you did cyanide, were you or any of the actors given contracts and was payment supposed to be upfront, on completion or was it going to be deferred/profit shares?
April 29th, 2010 at 10:16 am Slots(Quote)
From what I’ve heard from others involved in Sweet Cyanide, there were contracts, but there was only one copy of each contract, which Nolan kept, so the actors/crew have been left with no proof of what they were promised.
At the time of release, Nolan and Smith were saying that Sweet Cyanide had a distribution deal in place and was the first in a slate of twelve already-funded films. Beyond a couple of self-funded screenings, Sweet Cyanide has never been released anywhere, and all mention of the “slate” of films has disappeared from the Pisces All Media website.
Here’s a press release on Sweet Cyanide from the time, that mentions the alleged “distribution deals”:
http://www.seekingmedia.com.au/news.php?newsid=203&g=-1
April 29th, 2010 at 11:46 am Gekisou(Quote)
Thanx Slots… that is pretty accurate. JN did keep the original contracts but I asked for a copy. One of my mates, who got me on the project (I will not say who), unfortunately did not keep a copy of his contract. I think most of the others did…
JN also had a lot of email contacts with the actors and crew when we started to question why we were not paid (it was defer payment) and I have backed up all the copies so I have the proof.
Sweet Cyanide did get screened at ‘Dendy’s’ in Canberra but it must have done really badly and then JN claimed he was suing Dendy’s or something like that which I could not find any proof on.
@Steel Hydra: Sorry, can’t tell you what I work on. Privacy thing and all that.
April 29th, 2010 at 12:35 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
No worries mate.
From what I have seen of Nolan and Smith’s work, the fact they claim to have 12 feature films fully funded and ready to go is the biggest load of shit I have heard. Unless the budgets of these films are $1 each (which seems to be the standard Pisces Media project cost).
Let me guess, he wants to sue dendy’s (a now non existent theater) because they didn’t promote his film? Their screens didn’t magically fix the obviously shitty editing and visual quality of the film?
Well, He’s been struck off from practicing law in Aus, lets see of he and Smith can be black listed with the AFC.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:49 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Gekisou,
It’s not an NDA with the Russians, is it?
I heard Sweet Cyanide was screened in the NT as well, in Darwin. I saw a little stuff on the web about that some time ago.
I also recall seeing that Fortunate Sons was due to be screened at one of the Australian embassies, but don’t know if that occured. Mind you, if Nolan’s claims about his film being banned in the US are true … what am I saying!?! … Nothing that man says is true!
It is good to see that this con man has been exposed, and that there will be a permanent record of his lies and behaviour that will enable anyone facing this prize pillock to disregard what he says in short order.
It will also mean that his days as a serial litigant are numbered, as anyone who faces this clown in court will have access to all of this information and history.
I am certain that this sickly leopard won’t change it’s spots and we can expect to see more of his (under a variety of different names (Dare2Dream @ RiotACT, anyone?) coming out of the woodwork to defend his warped views.
It will be a good day when this goes to court and Nolan has to explain his actions in front of a judge. I can see it now, a Lionel Hutz-style trial, with a series of surprize witnesses, with each witness being more surprizing than the last.
May 1st, 2010 at 7:05 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
Any more updates on the Starwalker fruad?
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:19 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Not as far as I know. Robert Brand hasn’t posted the supposed contract yet, must be busy like myself
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May 2nd, 2010 at 10:42 am Slots(Quote)
Contract is now up on the Facebook group:
Facebook link
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:14 am Gekisou(Quote)
Its on Facebook so he should be putting it up here soon… hopefully.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:57 pm Gary(Quote)
The Sunday Canberra Times had a nice story on Nolan and his dodgy dealings.
http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af281/Gary_Johnston/Starwalker/canberra-times02.jpg
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:57 pm Gekisou(Quote)
Yeah, I forwarded emails to the reporter with the contract, the conversations between cast and crew and with JN. However, I found out on Sat night that none of them made it thru. Shame but not much that can be done now.
May 4th, 2010 at 2:50 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
That article is quite enlightening. I find it amusing that Jonathan is posing on RiotACT as “Dare2Dream”, and been publically “outed” for doing so. I also find it a little worrysome that he continues to overestimate his ability to persuade others to such a degree, and the transparency of his attempts.
Reading through that article raised a question for me, which others may well want to consider:
If Jonathan is a serial deadbeat, as the article implies, what is the most likely consequence of his actions this time, given his punishment last time?
I would suggest it is likely that anyone in this situation may be looking at a conviction and possibly even jail time.
Given the harm that has been done to Mr Brand and his family, I have no sympathy for this fellow.
May 4th, 2010 at 2:41 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
Great article. I feel sorry for the cast of Cyanide, and having been witness to Nolan’s filming style, haphazard is the nicest way to describe it, I would personally use the phrase “talentless hack” but that’s just me.
May 4th, 2010 at 2:56 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
All,
Sorry, but my time is not my own at the moment and although the contract is up on facebook, it is not yet up on my site. I will try ever so hard, but I am about to get paid for the first time in 5 months thanks to Nolan – I have been working a month in a new job and I literally have zero time to myself.
None the less, the contract is on public display, although limited. Happy to send a copy to ozsoapbox if they wish to contact me: rb@rbrand.com
I would like to tell you that it has come to my attention that Nolan/ or one of his companies or entities may be under a “sale and seizure” order with the sherrif’s department for earlier misdeeds, but poeple need to confirm that themselves. He claims that nothing is in his/company’s name so they can’t touch him. Since he has been trading in what appears to be an insolvent state, then the appropriate department will be called to check on his status within the law of a being sole trader.
CentreLink or the ACT equivalent should be notified incase he is claiming things illegally, but I will leave that for some enterprizing person to carry out.
Yes I engaged with a person called “dare2dream” – they claimed to have been bullied by people like me and although it is claimed that they may be Nolan or a friend, I was forced by ethics to act as they said that my attacks on Nolan was hurting them. I have decided that it really has to go to the police to end this promptly so noone is hurt.
I have no time and Nolan might have slipped through my fingers if not for “dare2dream”, but I have not pushed through the barriers to making a complaint to the fraud section of the federal police and the matter is no longer in my hands. it is not me against Nolan, it is now a matter for a higher referee.
I will have to work hard to provide the material that they need and i don’t have the time and money really to be doing this at this time, but ethics are ethics. I can’t stand anyone being hurt by all of this no matter which side that they are on. It ends and ends with the police, the courts and the government taking care of what it failed to stop many times before.
It is only this week that I received the final piece of evidence to do this. I tried to report this to the police before and it seemed all to hard to get them to take action because noone else complained except an ex-empolyee who needs to go to court to get a settlement. I was seen as having a vested interest in hurting the guy.
None the less after the press and A Current Affairs did their own research, they are treating it differently this time. You see he prmarily used names of people from overseas as his targets for his stories – Red Vision UK, Hawking and so on. They did not make a complaint.
It is very good to know that Today Tonight will run the story soon. They filmed this before the SMH / Age article, but failed to show it. It will be on your TV int eh coming weeks. If the police do not act soon, I will go ahead with telling this story to international TV groups such as 60 minutes and 20/20 as this affected so many US citizens in one way or another. They can do their own research and record their own stories. It will not be me against anyone. While ever Nolan keeps telling lies, I will be on his back until the police decide.
His lie of me being an “alleged employee” is clearly out in the open and there can be no dispute. i even have another person with a Nolan document who will swear that the signature belongs to Nolan. Because Nolan sent the document to me via email, if it ever goes to court, ISP documents will confirm the origin of the document. The stupidity of a person claiming that I had no contract with them cannot be believed when all i had to do was to show it.
Bottom line – Nolan, don’t answer to me anymore – it is all lies – answer to the police, the government and the courts because your lies will not matter with them – in fact it will only make things worse.
You should never have taken me on – it seems that you have a long list of people that you have bullied and scammed. It will end with me as far as your TV personna is concerned. Your ability to do anything in the film or TV industry is dead in the water because of your lies and scams starting before I arrived. The bullying will end with me too. I will not be bullied and lie to by the likes of you.
Talk to the police, take out an injunction against Today Tonight or whatever – I am no longer on the front line. I will simply provide evidence if the police need it. Just stop lying or I will have to respond and you know I will – I keep my promises.
May 4th, 2010 at 11:19 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
Congrats on getting paid Rob (even though it is not from the person who should be paying), and it sucks you got hurt with this scam.
I will be keeping my eyes peeled for the upcoming Today Tonight segment. Will be interesting to see if he says he’ll sue them too.
May 5th, 2010 at 1:01 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Geez!
Today Tonight as well! I can’t wait to see the next entry on “Inherited Tigers” about that! LOL!
So, zGeek, FilmNet, SMH, ACA and TT, The Canberra Times and the alleged employees of Nolan are all going to get called names
Sociopaths again, most likely
And still Dare2Dream will defend Nolan.
Priceless!
May 5th, 2010 at 1:13 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Actually, TT will have an interesting angle. You see, Nolan was an “instand expert” for Channel 7 on a couple of different segments.
Well before Starwalker, he was touting “Bank Beaters” or some such other name for a “company” that he ran and he got called upon as an “expert”. I suspect, cashing in on those initial “FTIA” or whatever.
Both of those were TT pieces too from memory.
The other was for his webiste, Hottest On TV, his “Ray Martin hatesite”, where he made claims about how well his site was polling, and was left with the other “instant experts” trying to find a way of strategically not endorsing it, and not being associated with him
May 5th, 2010 at 11:50 am robertbrand(Quote)
So will Nolan complain it is simply “not Cricket”?
It will be interesting to see what names he calls the police. It is not me batting against him now – dare2dream convinced me it had to change. I have retired from the game “100 not out” (cricket term for our overseas readers). The new referees are not the audience, but the police and government organisations. The sides have changed and the new batsman is Nolan. Let’s see if he gets “out for a duck” (zero score). Knowing him it will be “LBW” – Libel Beats Work – He would rather try and sue before he lifted a finger to make something “real”.
As for dare2dream:
Bottom line is dare2dream who has appeared on other websites defending Nolan and complaining that I was cyber-bullying, is no friend of Nolan because they if they were, they tricked me into going to the police before I was ready.
Last time it was too soon – the police wanted more. This time it was too early as I have no time, but their claim that I was hurting them caused me to go to the police by tugging on my “ethics” string. Was this what they were after? I don’t know – it seems that they have “gone to ground”.
If they had known even the slightest thing about me they should have realised I could not see them suffer if they were real. I guess that they were plain stupid to consider that I would defend hurting anyone in any way and the police was the only option. If they had been real i would have thought that they would be back telling me I had done the right thing.
I am now suspiscious that it was Nolan or an ex- “alleged” friend. Good one guys. Hiding behind secret identities and making up stories seems to be your way of doing work and underpins your morality. Come out in the open and get real! How is your foot, because you or your “friend” seems to have shot you in the foot.
As for TT, I will let you know how factual it was – they did their own research. I got interviewed and answered the questions. Nolan declined to be interviewed so I guess he know that he had no answers. Innocent people don’t mind answering questions.
As far as ACA, they did not get answers much – they mainly asked hard questions and made it sound ridiculous – otherwise it was a fair coverage.
May 5th, 2010 at 12:00 pm robertbrand(Quote)
There are other international TV shows that would like to hear about this, but I have no plans to talk to them unless the police fail to act or Nolan makes any more outbursts. He needs to apologise and make any form of restitution that he can before I consider letting him off the hook.
I hear that the sheriff has knocked at his door to sieze and sell goods to raise money to pay others after a court case involving non payment of bills (TV show) – but like all low life, I hear that nothing is in his name. He lives well enough while others suffer.
Are you on the dole Nolan? I guess the tax department needs to know that you may have had earnings from premium SMS locally and internationally – oh but I am sure you told them about that. Is CentreLink involved? I hope not.
One thing I can tell you – don’t come after me – I will not be doing the reporting. There are plenty here that will.
May 5th, 2010 at 4:25 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Something has cropped up, which is amusing about this whole affair.
The Russians want to use Darwin to launch rockets (the non-passenger carrying kind, that is).
http://www.news.com.au/technology/russians-eye-darwin-for-space-launches/story-e6frfro0-1225862563133
Nolan, obviously isn’t involved in this, but the timing is fantastic
May 5th, 2010 at 6:06 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
Wow Robert you sound like a man on a (space) mission! Thanks for the updates and sharing your side of the story in more detail.
Personally I’d love to see Nolan launch legal action against someone just for the hilarity factor. I can’t imagine it getting anywhere as anything Nolan has claimed re. Starwalker has been shot down in flames with documented proof.
I think at this stage Nolan’s just banding about legal action as a deterrent more then anything. It seems to be working out really well for him.
I know you’re busy but if anything new develops I for one would appreciate hearing about it. I’ll certainly keep my own ear to the ground (and watch out for the Today Tonight story too. Did they give you any indication as to when the story will run?
As for dare2dream, I’m thinking that perhaps this is Greg Smith? He seems to have gone awfully quiet lately. I was under the impression that Smith and Nolan stuck together like shit in a blanket.
May 5th, 2010 at 7:51 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Smith may not be clean in all of this over the eyars, but in Starwalker he was little more than a patsy from what I can see. Smith was surprised as hell when he realise that he had been conned by an email from Nolan showing the fake Starsem boking on Soyuz. This was obviously designed to trick the internal staff of Starwalker. I did not see this until after the show was “cancelled” or in Nolan-speak “allegedly” cancelled. I would have spotted this as a fake in an instant because Starsem does not book flights for people, but Greg thought it was real. Last I heard from Greg, he was finally getting the idea that he too would never get paid by Nolan. He was still living in hope that the financiers were real. Smith is no friend of Nolan anymore. Smith gave me the Starsem evidence.
If Nolan’s financiers are real and he is getting paid to do what he has done and he says that he is as exec producer, then he has lied to the sheriff’s dept and probably to the ATO and possibly Centrelink or its ACT equivalent. Is he telling them about his comic book earnings? I wonder? If he is not getting paid for all his labour, then he needs to tell the truth. If he is he needs to tell the government. He is lying to someone or both
My thoughts? Nolan is broke and his financiers are a fantasy. He told the ACA reporters that he was selling the show for $100M and the ACA show might cause the deal to fall through and they would get sued. Now you can’t copyright an idea and Nolan knows that because he did the same to the ISU students who came to him. He has fake tickets and who would buy them? The idea is worthless and if he had tickets, that is all he could sell if he could find a buyer. Basically his threat was just that a poorly thought out threat that was obviously a lie.
Nolan claims I did not get paid because the financiers were unhappy with me. I told him the law states that I have a contract with him and I could not care less what a financier thought. He needed to be incharge of funds to pay people as the contract was with his company. I suspect that bankrupcy is a his only way out, but the police may take a harsher view of his actions. As I said, it is now someone else’s problem, not mine. Nolan and his fake friends have themselves to blame for this. It really backfired on him due to dare2dream’s actions if dare2dream was a friend. He owes over $1.5M to contractors including Smith.
May 5th, 2010 at 8:00 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I am thinking that fzgk, on the same forum might be Greg Smith. I suspect Nolan is dare2dream.
May 6th, 2010 at 1:03 am Slots(Quote)
I actually think fgzk is unrelated to this, just someone playing devil’s advocate. You do get that on RiotACT a fair bit.
May 6th, 2010 at 2:12 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
My apologies. I posted that before Robert’s latest piece showed up. Guess Smith isn’t fgzk after all.
My bad.
May 6th, 2010 at 9:49 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Who knows who is who around here. I am one of the few who is prepared to be named. Another is someone I know that can be traced by his own admission and someone I respect.
I have nothing to hide and don’t mind being responsible for the things that I say. fgzk is probably a person worried that although karma has gotten Nolan fair and square, the approach may have been bullying.
I can assure him it was not. There were two processes in place: One: was being a group that formed a repository for documentation of what Nolan said/did and that has been vital in getting the police evidence that it was or eventually became a fraud. Two: Their was a group opinion that the group would at least get it all out in the open so others would know.
I recently asked the Facebook group what they expected would happen once those objectives had been met. The group was full of angry individuals that still wanted Nolan stopped because he would not stop – he kept insisting that this travesty of a show was still on and more “would-be” astronauts would be recruited (I have the emails). There was no purpose and no ability to do anything and Nolan was powering up the Starwalker show to hurt more people’s dreams.
I certainly had the evidence and the strength to carry this through as someone Nolan was focusing on. I did and they watched – No vendetta, no hate.
I personally feel sorry for what I see as a pathetic individual who has no feelings for the people he hurts – I have not seen anything that I would call a conscience and he has been doing this for years evidently, knowingly hurting people at every turn.
Is he possibly a psychopath? I don’t know, but when I looked up the definition in Wikipedia: “a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct, masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal”. – I would question the “outwardly normal” part, but the rest fits.
Hey Nolan, if the hat fits……
May 7th, 2010 at 1:22 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I guess the real value of the facebook page has been proven, with all that information being available to help people dispell the lies that he has been putting out there.
Nolan attempted to have the facebook page taken down, and like he has in so many other cases, failed. Facebook is a large company and not too easily intimindated
As for a personality disorder. Yeah. Definitely. He has displayed a complete lack of empathy, no remorse and he seems to completely underestimate the intelligence of the people he is dealing with – he just can’t fathom that people aren’t buying his lies. Therefore the problem ***must*** be someone else, such as a conspiracy to get him – rather than his own failings, as a businessman, a lawyer and as a person. Nolan keeps wrongly calling everyone who challenges him “sociopaths”, and I can’t help but think that somewhere, someone a little more qualified has applied that label to him.
The way Nolan has used his crude knowledge of the law to bludgeon others has worked in his favour for years, but he is coming unstuck. People know about him, and that knowledge is now freely available on the web, from multiple sources. Additionally, he has attracted the attention of Channel 9, earned the ire of Channel 7, been blasted by the SMH and the Canberra Times and rumour has it that another reputable broadcaster overseas is looking at doing a story.
I would guess from his previous rack record that nobody will get paid for Starwalker. Any money earned will probably be in an account that’s not in his name (sound familiar?) and he’ll not be able to pay what the courts order him to. Any undertaking that he agrees to (such as the payments due from Sweet Cyanide) will not be honoured, so I am guessing that the courts will send him to prison instead. I hope that people are covered by the Victims of Crime Act in this case.
May 7th, 2010 at 1:55 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
I don’t know about being a sociopath (haven’t had any personal interaction or otherwise to make that call) but I’ve commented previously on the lack of exit strategy from the whole Starwalker franchise.
I mean ok, you go to extroadinary lengths to establish a scam, then make outrageous claims that are easily debunked, appear on national television, facebook, twitter, blogs etc. etc.
All for what, some premium SMS revenue?
I really just don’t get what the end game to all of this was? If Nolan had a gameplan in his head all along he’s done a good job of totally obscuring it by his actions to date.
This in itself could be a sign of mental illness but I’m hardly an expert.
May 7th, 2010 at 10:46 am Robert Brand(Quote)
He thought that someone would bite and pay the money for the show and then he could start making it and others would jump on board and he would get the money via the backdoor.
It did not happen.
He has no money and no network would touch it. He had no financiers and then he seems to have gotten some money from the SMS. He has pushed on and was gettingt eh SMS back on line (according to him) and he had to be stopped before it started all over again. What appears to have been an unfinanced bid to make a show at other’s expense, degraded into a grab for SMS money.
Now here is an interesting pointt – He paid many thousands of dollars to an associate in the US for a document on space contacts at a time when he refused to pay his court ordered bills. He either had money that he was hiding from the court representatives or he earned plenty from SMS.
Either way, if his books were straight, there is a new bit of the puzzle taking place – more evidence as to the guy’s snubbing of the laws of our land.
The more we dig, the more we find!
May 7th, 2010 at 11:15 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
I know Smith was Nolan’s lapdog for a long time, and I am not sure I am buying the fact he is no longer friends with him. Smith being a dishonest man himself, I would not be surprised if this was nothing but a show for the public and he is still working with Nolan behind the scenes, maybe funneling the SMS money somewhere, who knows.
May 9th, 2010 at 3:06 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I don’t think that Smith is innocent at all. After Sweet Cyanide, Fortunate Sons, that crap 9/11 book and now Starwalker. He would have had to know that there was no backing.
Nolan claimed use of “Multi-million dollar locations” for Sweet Cyanide, for Fortunate Sons he claimed he had access to high end production facilities (we have seen the results of that, ending that lie!), the identity of Nolan’s mysterious author was proven to be fake, and was probably Nolan. The non-existance of Nolan’s PA – Smith was a party to that as well.
He was in on it from the start. Those two are as thick as (non-co-incidentally) thieves.
May 9th, 2010 at 11:07 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
High end production facilities? That must be Nolan speak for his study, a crappy mic on a broom stick, and an out of date PC using Windows Movie Maker. I have seen student films with better production value…of course this must be a conspiracy of the big studios giving them good equipment to make Nolan look bad…
I also heard on the grapevine, not sure if it’s true, but apparently Smith is persona non Grata in Rome or Italy or some such.
May 9th, 2010 at 11:38 pm Slots(Quote)
Hydra, you can’t just tease us with that last bit about Rome. Details, please
May 9th, 2010 at 11:57 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
ACA already said Nolan had gone into hiding. I wouldn’t be surprised if he skipped the country too.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:16 am Steel Hydra(Quote)
Well, I don’t have any hard facts, but apparently a couple of years ago he was arrested (or some such) for working in Rome/Italy without a proper Visa, not once, but twice. As a result he was made Persona Non Grata and kicked out. But again, I am unsure if it is true, and I guess I should be careful how much I say about these guys, don’t wanna get slammed with a “defamation” case now do I?
May 10th, 2010 at 2:19 am Steel Hydra(Quote)
Hmm, I wonder if he is still married, or if his wife finally caught whiff of the foul stench that emanates from his business practices and ditched him. I know his first wife divorced him, for reasons I am not aware of.
It would be amusing if he put all of his assets in her name to protect them from being seized and she decided to kick his ass to the curb. That would be karmic justice.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:41 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
lol I read persona non grata as ‘having run away to’.
Better brush up on my ye olde latin hey.
May 10th, 2010 at 9:36 am Robert Brand(Quote)
Hard to say what he will do now that the police are involved – I don’t think he will run. He has no assets and probably no money this time. He was a fool to challenge me on pay issues – I don’t tolerate fools that think they can make a living starving others. Hurting my family was not a thing I take lightly. Pay is basic and if you contract someone and it is their pay to put food on the table for their family and you never had the money to honour that, you are a scumbag, first class.
I don’t think he can hide from the police as I suspect he is resorting to Centrelink for food on his plate but that rumour could be wrong. Hard to pay for storage and move if you have no money to pay them too.
Sure, he might be being shafted by others too for his misdeeds. We will never hear about that, but it is probably safe to say that he has his head down and more trouble than just a disgruntled “alleged” exemployee and a few horrible Facebook members. He and his friends have left us alone since I posted the police report info.
Still have almost 2 weeks to go before I can check on fraud group progress. It will be an intersting exercise. I don’t know whether they will contact him before the designated time.
One interesting thing is that Greg Smith always thought Nolan had “family” money. I still think that Smith was a gullible person who just never knew until now that things were wrong to the extent they were. I think he left for one of two reasons. One was I insisted on seeing the books and the tickets and he could not say “no” to me and at my last meeting with him h agreed that he would get Nolan to do that. He knew Nolan would never let me and he left knowing it was all going bad. Two; he found out that he may have been getting shafted by Nolan.
It is likely he was a patsy and knew something was up as it was always dodgy with Nolan. He probably got very embarrassed in court and that was his wakeup call when he realised that Nolan had no financiers (for real). Until then I don’t think he realised a thing for sure. I believe that he abandoned his duty of care in the things he did with Nolan rather than being a ringleader or mastermind.
May 10th, 2010 at 11:52 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
I am less inclined to give Smith any benefit of the doubt in this matter. He knew Nolan’s past, he’s seen him run these “ventures” before and knows that Jonathan will lie through his teeth for all kinds of reasons.
Nolan’s Personal Assistant is a good example. This PA does not exist. “She” never has. Smith and Nolan know each other far too well, and work too close together for Smith to be ignorant of her non-existance. Smith had to be in on that.
There are a couple of reasons why I believe that Smith knew about the whole damned scheme.
The first was that was that Smith was only too happy to appear in court against zGeek, believing he was going to get a part of a $42.5 million dollar payout, which quicky evaporated when Nolan couldn’t prove he had investors, let alone prove that he had lost investors due to some posts on zGeek.
The second was that even after that fiasco resulting in them being exposed as not having backers, Smith was still on the scene for Starwalker, at Nolan’s side. They were still both trying to convince people Starwalker was real. That was afterwards.
Smith knew Nolan didn’t have backers for “The Merchant of Death”. It goes well beyond any reasonable balance of probability that Smith did not know. He could not avoid knowing. Anyone that gullible would not be running SMS scams, they would use the funding being sent to them from an ex-Nigerian President with an “unfortunate” cash flow problem to make films.
When you asked Smith about the fake letter from the Russians, I would guess that Smith didn’t have the guts to tell you that it was a scam, and pretended to be as shocked as you were to buy the time he needed to do a runner.
May 11th, 2010 at 12:00 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
With the amount of acting that goes on between these two you’d imagine they’d have no need to hire any actors…
May 11th, 2010 at 2:57 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Actors have to be believable, don’t they?
May 11th, 2010 at 3:38 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Touche!
May 11th, 2010 at 2:29 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
I suggest that the only way Smith could demonstrate good faith would be to provide you with additional information, such as info on how the profits from the show were to be distributed.
He would also have a heap of additional correspondence, and would even know the identities of Nolan’s mysterious backers, or at least have the names Nolan made up for the occasion. If Nolan used real names, they could be contacted and Nolan’s claims verified. If Nolan used fake names, then Nolan’s claims could be disproven.
He would also have extensive knowledge of Nolan’s other ventures, which he could provide to assist your case with the Police.
You could ask Smith to provide such info. Any NDA that Nolan made anyone sign wouldn’t be worth the paper it was written on because there is sufficient grounds to suspect that you are the victim of fraud. If Smith really wanted to prove his good intentions, he should not hessitiate to assist you.
Or has he gone to ground and not been answering emails?
May 11th, 2010 at 3:41 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
We have the names of the supposed backers and they are fake. We have a letter from the company concerned and they confirm that they have no association with Starwalker of Nolan.
Smith provided the email for Starsem that showed that fake. I still think that he was shocked that he got scammed by the fake finance. He was never a partner of Nolan on Starwalker and only had the ops budget – the side that spends the money. He never had access to the full set of books and you may be right – he did a runner when it became obvious that Nolan had lied about the financiers on the zGeek case.
He still did not think it was fake on Starwalker, but may have suspected that it was shonky. I will simply leave it as is – we don’t need more data and Smith supplied a fair bit of the evidence.
He is no mastermind – not that I would want to use “Mastermind” in any respect when talking about nolan. I am expecting Smith to be available around this weekend for comment. Smith is helping.
May 11th, 2010 at 3:51 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
Thanks for the updates Robert, sounds like things are moving along biskly in the background.
Can’t wait to hear what the end result of all of this is.
May 11th, 2010 at 7:49 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
That is good news. I am glad then that Smith is helping.
May 12th, 2010 at 8:13 am Robert Brand(Quote)
I am treating Smith as a hostile witness non the less – I have also told him trust is earnedand he is such a long, long way from being trusted – if ever.
None the less he has helped cripple Nolan and that is a small plus in his favour. There is no way he is clean on other things even if he was a total dupe, he had a duty of care that he abandonned. Whether he can be so stupid as to believe Nolan, well that needs to be seen. Certainly I know that many people thought he was the ringleader and they got that wrong, so anything is possible.
May 15th, 2010 at 8:19 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
Any new news on this issue?
May 16th, 2010 at 8:45 am Robert Brand(Quote)
Nothing yet. The outstanding issues ae:
Today Tonight show still to air – recorded before all the other press, but they left it go until the ACA show aired.
Police investigation in progress – it may not have started as they often have to clear other work before they get to this, but I am promised a progress report by the 30th of the month.
Fair Trading investigation. Yet to be started.
Possible US, UK TV current affairs shows on this, especially the UK where there was UK involvement with Nolan’s friends.
Possible police instigated court case with a public presecutor. This may included people who knowingly supported Nolan within the company if they knew he was doing corrupt things. It may also include people that provided support after the fact knowing that he did things corruptly during the show.
It has come to my attention that there maybe a woman that is a lawyer that may have overstepped the boundaries if she was acting for Nolan and given the fact that I have heard that she was representing Nolan by writing to anothr person about a matter.
If it was her as “dare2dream” then her possible appearance on another news board may be an issue for her. It may not have been her, but the evidence is stacking up and the ISP can clearly identify the post and the IP address, etc. I do not know it is was her, but dare2dream did cause me to go police because of their statements.
I thought that somehow I was hurting a member of the general public because the Nolan affair was stretching out too long. If dare2dream was a counsel for Nolan then by saying what they said, it would not have been acting in the best interests of the client and was knowingly engaged with me who is clearly involved in the case and not declaring their involvement.
I expect that such activities under an assumed name would be a violation of the rules of engagement with me personally. If not, no damage done. Nolan will be brought to justice one way or another.
The fact that dare2dream has gone to ground once I mentioned that I reported Nolan to the police (because of their statements) was what makes me suspicious – they did not come back and thank me for doing this or say another word on the matter. An unassociated person would have said something!
Legal case once I have the funds to go after the guy if the police either let him off or the court action is too weak – Since my another company was involved in my contract, I will have the suport of their funds too to take this all the way even though it has become clear that the guy has hideen his money or has none.
I now know he started Starwalker when there was a court ruling(s?) against him to pay others. He paid a guy in the US significant money for a report for Starwalker and at the same time was telling the sheriff that he had no money! The guy needs to declare bankrupcy. He currently owes $1.5M to people around the world.
He will answer for his deeds as will all those that help him avoid justice knowing that he broke the law.
May 17th, 2010 at 9:19 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
Thanks for the update. I can’t believe that he could convince a lawyer (I nearly said “another” lawyer) to act for him!
Surely no reputable lawyer would go and make matters worse for their client by trolling like that. I suspect that Dare2Dream was another bit of “pure Nolan” at work.
May 21st, 2010 at 1:02 pm Gekisou(Quote)
Still nothing on Today Tonight unforunately. I usually get the ads an hour or so before the general public but still nothing there to show that they are screening the story at all.
Also, TT has not replied to an email I sent them a few weeks ago offering to give them more information on the Nolan story from the Sweet Cyanide days. Why, I can’t say.
If I see anything, I promise to update here immediately. As it is, nothing so far unfortunately.
I have to say, I am surprise at the amount of info that has come out since the StarWalker expose. I am impressed and good on you Robert, doing what me and most of the cast and crew of Sweet Cyanide couldn’t. Maybe some justice will come out of this.
I also wonder if Mary is still married to Jonathan. She is a lovely lady when I met her at the time of Sweet Cyanide and has lovely kids and I hate to think that they were dragged through this horrible thing.
I can’t wait to see what more updates will happen here.
May 21st, 2010 at 5:50 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I see Jonathan claims that he will be returning to Australia shortly on his blog “Inherited Tigers”. Hopefully he is coming back to answer questions. Truthfully.
If he has money to travel overseas, hopefully he’ll have the money to pay Robert what he owes him.
May 21st, 2010 at 7:48 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Do you really believe that he is overseas? If he is it is evidence of not paying his bills if it is business related or else it is also proof if he paid for it himself.
Either it is a lie or someone else had better have bought him the tickets as the sheriff needs to know about this. I’m betting it’s a lie.
May 21st, 2010 at 8:00 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Don’t hold your breath about Today Tonight. They knew ACA was about to run the segment and they let it slide.
I am netting that they don’t run it unless something breaks about Nolan. Even a whiff of him starting the thing up again would do that.
Come on Nolan. I dare you to tell the world that you have finance or even show significant funds in a bank account without showing the name. Cover up the account details and prove it was not all lies.
Today I reported him to the SPAA for using those letters after his name in emails – he has not been a member since 2006-7. The guy is lying all the time and can’t help himself. He gets caught because he forgets what lies he has already told.
May 21st, 2010 at 8:16 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
There will be some comments sent from my iPhone appearing here shortly – references to SPAA refer to Screen Producers Association of Australia.
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:36 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Pretend lawyer….
Pretend financial advisor….
Pretend producer….
What is it with this guy and his desire to use post-nominals to which he is not entitled?
As for being overseas, no, I don’t really believe it
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:53 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
Some time back you mentioned that Smith thought that Nolan had “family money”. Nolan himself claims that he comes from a long line of distinguished artists and writers.
Despite him trying to cash in on the confusion (caused by his name)every now and then, I am pretty sure he’s not referring to Christopher and Jonathan Nolan (the REAL film producers).
Anyone here got a clue to whom Nolan is referring?
I figure that this claim is yet another load of BS, and like the unwarranted use of the post-nominals, just another device to help him add another layer of credibility as he runs his scams.
May 22nd, 2010 at 4:39 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
The guy went on national television to promote his scam.
I’d say Nolan’s well capable of trying to cash in on the Nolan name.
May 25th, 2010 at 12:37 am Steel Hydra(Quote)
Might be that his folks are rich or well off, and is waiting for his inheritance cash to come a rolling in. Of which not one cent would be given to those he owns money I would imagine.
May 25th, 2010 at 11:05 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I really doubt that there really is any “family money” or that he is from “a long line of distinguished artists and writers”. I suspect it’s just another layer of the “Onion of Nolan Lies”.
This guy was DESPERATE for credibility and will borrow and steal it from anyone or anywhere.
How much did he tout himself as an “Award Winning Producer”?
How often has he claimed to be “controversial”?
How often did he name-drop people that were not even involved with Starwalker?
How often has he done that in the past with other projects?
I would argue that other than debt, there is no money, there was no money and there never will be any money when it comes to any project with Jonathan P. Nolan’s name attached to it.
May 28th, 2010 at 7:13 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Well,
It’s been just over a month since Mr Nolan was on TV and exposed across the nation. it seems he’s claiming to be back for Kentucky and got himself some kind of backing.
Apparently all of us “nay-sayers” are in for it now…
Yawn!
May 28th, 2010 at 9:09 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
backing for what? The cancelled show or a new venture?
May 29th, 2010 at 7:59 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Not a clue. I guess it is meant to be a kind of threat.
I think his blog should be called paper tigers, not inherited tigers
May 29th, 2010 at 8:09 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
I actually went over and had a look at Inherited Tigers to see if that’s where he had published the information. Kinda got lost amongst all the Lost finale stuff he’s put up everywhere.
Nolan seems to have taken the recent Lost finale rather personally.
(no pun intended).
May 31st, 2010 at 1:41 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Yep. That kinda shows a fractured mind, don’t it?
It’s just a show.
Mind you, the pictures he put up for the draft storyline (aka the LOST Bible) are an improvement over the crap he did for Harry Lime
June 6th, 2010 at 2:13 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Before he ran the Starwalker scam, Jonathan was touting a project where Pisces All Media would create “habitats”…
You can read the full page here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S3ClsIbmTfkJ:www.piscesallmedia.com/golden/index_files/Page400.htm+%22Pisces+All+Media%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au
Interesting to see that the Pisces All Media website is gone now…
June 6th, 2010 at 2:18 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
This part is also quite amusing
Now, while the Starwalker scam was based on somebody else’s idea, the fact that Jonathan was looking at this a few years ago indictes that his claim that he was considering something “like” Starwalker prior to the involvement of those three graduates a little credence.
June 8th, 2010 at 3:46 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Deinitely sounds a bit ‘Truman Show’ doesn’t it.
Nolan and his Pisces Media seem to have some serious delusions of grandeur going on, although it was already apparently obvious. One look at the Sunrise Starwalker interview showed that.
Wonder where things are now, or what Nolan’s next move will be. Maybe he’ll get an honest job and just move on, although it sounds like Robert’s far from done with him.
June 8th, 2010 at 5:52 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I thought that Robert had been a bit quiet lately. I thought that he may have given up and decided to move on. People like Nolan are time and resource vampires.
He may still be involved in the Facebook page, but I quit that some time ago and don’t check it, so am not sure.
June 8th, 2010 at 7:02 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
If he’s instigated any legal action or the police are involved could be just a painfully slow process. Civil cases are notoriously long.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what, if anything, further happens.
June 8th, 2010 at 8:58 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
I’m here – working long hours in an industry that leaves me little time for anything else thanks to Nolan as I had to fall back to working in telecommunications.
Still struggling with finances – but I am here and on Facebook although the Facebook team has all stopped talking so they probably think I have completed their stated desire – to stop Nolan.
I did ask for someone – anyone – to help and report him to the ATO because I had spent so much time reporting him elsewhere and just ran out of time. Unfortunately no one put up their hand. I guess I delivered more than they ever expected.
It will have to wait until I have time.
I will track the police action – nothing yet – and see what Fair trading has to say. I am off overseas soon for work and I will be quiet for a few weeks.
Anyway I will still be around and taking a great interest.
Robert
June 8th, 2010 at 11:04 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
I think part of Nolan’s strategy might be to let this thing drag on long enough that people let it drop or forget. We just have to keep vigilant.
June 9th, 2010 at 5:19 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Thanks for the updates Robert and good luck getting your feet back on the ground. Hopefully things work out for you soon enough.
I can’t help but wonder what Nolan’s next move will be. He certainly does seem to like re-inventing himself with new schemes.
June 9th, 2010 at 10:27 am Robert Brand(Quote)
He will, but his future in film is dead in the water. He should have never taken me on board and I warned him that this had better be the real deal before I came on board.
Even though he checked out on the searches for a TV producer and even people in the industry haqd not heard anything bad – well the ones that I asked – I told him I had the knowledge and the artistic ability to make this a winner or if it was a scam, I had the will to take him down and out of the industry.
I expect that he thought that he could bully everyone he met into backing down. Even those with a court order to be paid and court ordered people to collect have only gotten a fraction of their money and they have given up. I will probably never see a cent, but justice will prevail. He will pay for what he did to me and all within the legal system.
It may take time, but unlike others, I will keep going while ever he can legally be challenged. I have a long memory when it comes to hurting my kids’ lives. They have felt the stress of this. We are car-less at the moment and have to face a tennancy tribunal because we were late witht he rent. I have cashed in a long term savings fund at horrible rates just to make up for 5 months without pay.
I bet Nolan is still in his house and has a car. He told the court guys that none of it was in his name so they couldn’t touch him. Sounds like someone that makes preparations for such eventualities. All my friends own their own cars and houses. While I’m hurting, it is hard to forget.
Nolan also claimed that he went overseas a month ago – this angered me greatly if it was real. It made me dob him in to a few more government agencies even though I really didn’t have the time to do this. The more he appears to thrive, the more I become reolute that legal processes must prevail.
If I am too busy to talk here, it may be that I am busy writing to a government agency somewhere about a Nolan violation of the rules of this land. Until someone visibly takes action against him, I have to keep the pressure on him.
Even Fair Trading said it was too big for them and tried to palm it off to other agencies, but they all said that it was not their responsibility. Fair trading in the ACT have to do something to investigate, but “too big”? What a joke. They should have taken immediate action if it was that big.
I cannot say that I am impressed with those tasked with looking after our laws. Not necessarily the people at the bottom, but the ones limiting the numbers available to investigate. The Federal Police may still have this one in their long queue. They will get aqround to it, but since he has stopped, they will put it on the back burner and like you said they may just forget it.
I will keep the pressure on them to do the right thing – what they are responsible to do to ensure all of our safety.
Enough said – my bus stop is coming up and I have to hit the submit button. Thanks for the space to have my say.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:31 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
Best of luck with this. I am sorry to hear that Fair Trading ACT have been so pathetic about chasing this up. Perhaps it is time to talk to ACA again for one of their “update” pieces, especially if you have a written response from Fair Trading ACT.
June 9th, 2010 at 2:19 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
It’s really quite disheartening to read in detail the problems Nolan and Starwalker have caused you Robert. It sounds like your life has been turned upside down.
I wouldn’t be too surprised with the reluctance of the Australian regulators inaction. Go a couple of km over the speed limit and then refuse to pay your fine and you’ll have half the government come down on you yesterday.
Report a multi-million dollar scam and they’ll tell you it’s ‘too hard’.
June 9th, 2010 at 9:05 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
I agree with getting in touch with ACA again, especially since he owes money to people and has apparently recently taken an overseas trip (maybe the money that paid for that trip was also not in his name…). Plus I think ACA love doing segments on government agencies not doing their job/ screwing people over.
I wonder if all his possessions are in his wife’s name. If so I am wondering why she hasn’t left Nolan and taken all his stuff like his last wife did.
June 26th, 2010 at 9:44 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
Any updates on this?
June 27th, 2010 at 11:53 am Robert Brand(Quote)
I’m in PNG (Port Moresby) at the moment. I have not had any updates on this as I need to be in Australia to follow up on police actions. I do note that the Facebook group is dead quiet, probably believing that their goal was achieved far past their expectations.
I certainly will not give up on Nolan and hope that action will be taken to properly make him brought to bare over his legal obligations to pay contracts.
Anyway, maybe in a week or so I can provide an update. I will be receiving my third pay cheque in a week or so and only just getting back on my feet fairly well.
I will then be free of distractions and get back to making the legal system chase Nolan for action in paying me the $216,000 he owes.
Although it is useless to expect full payment, if Nolan has to declare bankruptcy, then that is what needs to happen. He should not be a director in any company in my books.
June 27th, 2010 at 4:03 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Hi Robert!
PNG! Wow! Great stuff. I hope things are really looking up for you.
With all the info on that dirtbag available now, I doubt that he will ever trick his way into any position of authority again.
June 27th, 2010 at 6:40 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
If the law will allow, I want to make sure that he cannot be a director.
That should stop him from having a legal corporate vehicle. It would be harder for others to be tricked if there is not company structure.
Any director that partners with him would be taking the risk and that whole scenario would be pretty scary to anyone he knows.
July 31st, 2010 at 2:07 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Another nugget of fantasy from Jonathan Nolan, which is still online and “operating”:
http://www.hottestontv.com.au/index.php?section=voting_info
“How do my votes count?
We use a unique voting system that tallies all the votes of the website members. We also have industry judges who lodge votes each month. These people are gossip columnists, TV journalists and other people in the Australian television industry.
Now here’s the complicated bit. The industry judges votes will be multiplied by an amount that increases the value of their vote to equal the total value of the vote of the website members. The total number of votes lodged at any one time by an individual website member will total 55 (10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 55). So 1000 voters will submit a total of 55,000 votes. Ten industry judges will submit a total of 550 votes. We then multiply each of their votes by 100 (550 x 100 = 55,000) so that there is an even balance of power among the website members and the industry judges. So each month, the amount we multiply the industry judges votes by depends on how many website members have lodged votes.
Sounds fairly complicated, but we think this is the system that will give us the fairest and most credible result each month.”
In particular I love this bit of the fiction:
“How do I find out who’s been voted the Hottest on TV each month?
Just come back to website at the start of each month to see who was voted the Hottest on TV. While you’re back, you can lodge your vote for the next month and automatically go into the draw to win the monthly prize.
You may also be able to find out via some of the different media outlets in your city. You might want to check with the newspaper in your nearest city which day/s of the month they will be printing the results of the Hottest on TV Official Rankings. ”
Yes, I am sure that my local papers would pay to subscribe to this crap – NOT!!! As for contacting media outlets and papers – really? This was just a blatant attempt to get putzes calling up papers to generate publicity for the site.
Of note, the first quote above gives a little insight into how Mr Nolan operates. I wonder who the “industry judges” were? I have a sneaking suspicion, it was just him
August 19th, 2010 at 1:43 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I have just visited Mr Nolan’s abysmal excuse for a blog – inherited tigers. I have to ask, after reading that drivel, is he a man that I would trust when he calls somebody a liar or provides voting advice?
Probably not. He strikes me as a self-motivated crook who bends with the wind and chooses to say whatever benefits him to most. His behaviour during the Starwalker fiasco – telling us to not believe anyone – not be be one of the “sheeple”, and then abusing anyone who quizzed him on his own lies demonstrates the man’s hypocritical stance.
Robert, I am glad to hear that things are moving ahead against this deceitful prat. Hopefully he won’t have access to the internet from behind bars
August 21st, 2010 at 9:13 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Things are starting to come clear now. Apparently Mr Nolan’s company Pisces All Media sold partnerships with a “investment return” of 25% or so, in theory.
Now, under the old tax laws, under the Liberal Party, if Mr Nolan ran the company right, it would act as a Managed Investment Fund. There is evidence to suggest that Mr Nolan sold at least one partnership, but that is not concrete. With the number of fake profiles he has created, this is hard to verify
What has this to do with the elections?
It’s simple, under the new government, led by Kevin Rudd, MIFs were put under a lot of scrutiny. Pisces All Media could not possibly cut it if it fell under scrutiny, and I have a feeling that may be the reason why Mr Nolan is so vocally against Labor. He wants to start running another scam.
On a different track: Is there any truth to the rumour that Nolan and Smith are back on good terms again?
August 21st, 2010 at 9:47 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
Did the partnerships promise a return or was it just strongly indicated? I wonder if that’s what lured the $40 million dollar Russian investors in lol.
I’m kinda curious as to what Nolan is up to these days post Starwalker. Is he employed, living off Centrelink or what? Surely the money made via Starwalker SMS entries wasn’t enough to support him in the long term.
August 29th, 2010 at 10:24 am Robert Brand(Quote)
I doubt that he has any money. He seems to be living life on a daily basis financially. I certaqinly let CentreLink know about his various incomes in case he was drawing money and the fact that he spent many thousands of it on a space contact report from a friend in the US (the only one to make any money out of Nolan).
It indicated that Nolan thought he could pull of this backdoor fraud to get someone to buy the TV show and make it all real. The income was not significant and probably only paid for expenses. He may still owe money and the Sheriff was unable to collect it last I heard because nothing was in his name. He has been writing adult scifi comics that i thought we pretty low class, but could have created a small cash flow.
Last time I checked the ACT Fraud Squad had not started any investigations of the fraud. I will be chasing up the TV current affairs groups to do a story on how anyone in the ACT can get away with million dollar + fraud. It may stimulate some action.
I expect that Nolan and Smith aren’t likely to be good friends again, but Nolan is a good at manipulating various types of people. I put Smith into that category. Nolan owes Smith about half a million contractuallyu from what Smith told me and he lied continuously to Smith and called him some rather unflattering names in emails to various people. It would take some doing for them to team up again.
I hope that whoever got “done” by any financial arrangements takes him to the police or whoever is the right department. Anyway the fat lady hasn’t sung yet.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:48 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
@Robert
Thanks for the update Robert, hope things are going well on your side. This is one story I always eagerly await the next chapter to!
I had a look at some of his work months ago and from what I saw the comics Nolan wrote sold for a couple of bucks? Can’t be too much profit in that – I highly doubt there’s even a small cash flow coming out of them. I’d say he probably does the comics more for enjoyment then for money.
August 30th, 2010 at 3:03 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
I have heard that there is some legal action from other quarters headed his way very shortly. I also heard that he may have been advertising for actors to work for free in the hopes of getting something post production. He does not know to stay low by the looks of things. I am hunting for more information.
Robert
August 31st, 2010 at 10:57 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I know for a fact that his Harry Lime comics line has alos come to the attention of the Welles estate
September 1st, 2010 at 10:40 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
A friend sent me a link to an interesting book:http://www.ripoffREVENGE.com/
Any details of this “film” Nolan is working on?
September 1st, 2010 at 11:26 am Robert Brand(Quote)
Nice about the collections group – but involved debt of credit cards mainly and they are US based, but thanks for the thought.
The main issue is making sure that his activities in the TV sector are halted. If anyone sees the advert for actotrs – let me know.
On another note I see that the ACT fraud Squad are actually starting their Starwalker investigation!
September 1st, 2010 at 1:51 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
That’s great news! I wish you the best of luck with them this time.
Have you considered the Victims of Crime ACT and if it is applicable to your situation, since Nolan obviously does not have the money to pay what he owes you?
September 6th, 2010 at 1:21 am steel hydra(Quote)
I hope they completely take this scumbag to the cleaners. But a message to all the people he has hurt, go out and be successful in the pursuit of your dreams, that will be the biggest slap in the face to this fraudulent sociopath that you can deliver.
September 16th, 2010 at 2:11 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
Any updates on this scumbag?
Last I heard some butt-ache was headed his way from the Welles estate and/or from other quarters. What about him trying to com more actors again – did anyone ever find out what that was about?
While I agree with Steel Hydra about success being the best revenge, I think that ensuring that this con man can’t strike again should come a pretty close second and provide some closure to people.
September 16th, 2010 at 5:22 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
We found Sweet Cyanide of the Dendy list for future films and it was his poster. Seems to have been taken off the list again, but the poster seems to be there.
His latest “business” venture is solar powered ATMs in Vanuatu and solar farms. Pay him a flat fee of $165,000 and he will help you. Quite the entrepeneur. I have actually built solar powered systems. I wonder what his credentials are?
His is in the middle of a court case at the moment for not paying actors on past productions and he missed this weeks appearance with rather a flimsy excuse. The group that was claiming was asked what they would like to do and they happy granted him the extra week to make good with the money. He must be pretty hard pressed at the moment to come up with another excuse for next week.
This is actually from my viewpoint the start of the legal end for the guy. His wife and he are involved with the company he formed called IMFI Pty Limited. I had thought that she was not involved in his scams, but I have had to rethink this in recent times. I believe that she is really supporting this guy and protecting him.
September 17th, 2010 at 3:19 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Thanks for the update Robert.
Is Nolan’s wife rich or what? How the f do you come up with a solar powered base business charging $150,000+ so short after being nationally exposed as a scamster?!
September 17th, 2010 at 8:06 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
Hard-pressed for an excuse? He spent the day doing watercolors!!! His results are up on his blog.
I don’t think it would be his wife who is funding his “business” – I’d guess it’s a shelf company, like Pisces All Media was, and that he’s angling for a contract with the Vanuatu Government.
Here’s an interesting thought – what if he’s planning on using the same tactic he tried with zGeek and that crap book of his – he could claim he “lost” a contract because of the posts about him on various sites. It would be a way of trying to get back at Robert and other detractors.
September 22nd, 2010 at 9:51 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Robert,
When is this scumbag due back in court?
September 22nd, 2010 at 10:55 am Robert Brand(Quote)
Today – This Morning!!! He is almost ready to defend his name as I type this – the next hour will be very telling. I expect that he would be better not to turn up as things are afoot. I will be very keen to see the outcome of this.
He has no access to money from Mary’s family. I have heard stories of his penny pinching even in relation to a kids game. I will not go into details, but Mary’s family did not take to him.
He actually spent a lot of money on shares according to the info on IMFI Pty Limited. He and Mary are shareholders in the company. I hope he is keeping it legal and folloeing all the requirements of this type of operation. He needs an executive board of more than the two of them from my understanding. Lets see what the outcome is. I will be adding this to the police report tonight.
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:06 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
He was a “no show” at the court case and has another 2 weeks to complete an emergency fix of his mother’s roof.
He has surrendered financial documents to the court but I already know that these where not the full documents as I know that his sole trading company paid others money that are not in the files. It will be interesting to see if I can get a copy of the invoice from the US.
I now have proof that he was operating insolvently and this will be passed on to the police in my case. It seems that the 2 weeks extension has gone in my favour as it will give me time to provide documents that will assist in the current case.
I discussed the case with those opposing Nolan and they are adamant that they will not let go. There have been a significant number of “no-shows” but it appears that the judge has reached the limits and talk of an arrest warrant is in the wind just on any future failure to show up.
Nolan appears to be painting himself into a corner. If he goes to court he is in trouble. If he stays away he will be in more trouble.
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:08 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Maybe Ozsoapbox should start a new thread to bring this to the top again. Interest in his dodgy dealings shouldn’t be for those few that are reading this thread, including Nolan and friends
September 23rd, 2010 at 9:59 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Wow!
Robert, this is good news indeed! It is sad to hear that the nature of this man has brought misery to Mary’s family and it must be frustrating to see him persisting in these dodgy schemes.
If this next scheme of his in Vanuatu takes off, god only knows what damage it could do to the people of Vanuatu! You can bet they won’t get their solar-powered ATMs and phones.
I worked in a few remote locations, and know how important solar-powered phones are in some parts of the world. Something like this can influence the standard of living for an entire community. This is a whole scale of magnitude worse than Starwalker was (even in your case, I’m sorry) and a true act of selfish bastardry.
September 24th, 2010 at 3:33 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Wow this ongoing saga continues to be an interesting read! Thanks again for the updates Robert.
I’m hesitant to do this because it’d mean splitting up the information for those following what’s going on. This in the past has led to a bit of confusion over certain topics.
Still, if something major like an arrest was made I’d definitely be in for a writeup. I’m still a bit gobsmacked Nolan has gotten away with so much for seemingly so long! It’s almost as if there weren’t any repercussions for fraud in Australia!
September 24th, 2010 at 12:04 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
It seems that the longer that the police take and the longer he continues his scams, then the more people are gathering together to provide evidence to help each others cases.
Nolan’s non payment of others and court orders to pay them goes against him ever being able to start Starwalker as he signed Starwalker contracts in his own Sole Trading company (Starwalker Partnership).
If he owed money, then simply he was trading insolvently. Making up a fake loan agreement never changed that. There was never any money and he never declared any management fees or any incomes or loss from the supposed lender.
He even paid money for shares recently in a new company IMFI Pty Limited instead of paying off debt. It appears that he magically acquired the skills of something like carbon trading and solar technology. He has named and targetted the island nation of Vanuatu.
Again this flies in the face of a court order. He wants $165,000 up front as a fixed price for his involvement.
http://www.cdmbazaar.net/repo/sellers/seller-158828127
IMFI is owned by both him and his wife. I don’t know whether she understands her liability here, but it exists if she becomes more than a shareholder.
I also know that he paid about $3,000 of money to a US based consultant during Starwalker. Of course he continuously denies making money from premium phone calls so he had zero income from Starwalker, so did he again pay others ahead of the court order or did he borrow money that again shows that he traded insolvently? This is were his lies will trip him up totally.
He either lies in court and thus gets caught up in the current case and purgery, or he tells the truth and admits to trading insolvently and thus premediation to commit fraud.
It is also likely that I have proof that he has not submitted to the courts all of his bank accounts and thus will be seen to be hiding the truth from the court in his current case. Looks pretty bad for him either way.
Hiding evidence? Not sure of the consequences there, but I hope the punishment is something reasonable as non disclosure of court ordered documents must be illegal.
September 24th, 2010 at 2:31 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
Is he still based in Australia or how is he providing services in Vanuatu without a presence there?
Surely he hasn’t outsourced the entire operation to locals and just put his name on it?
September 24th, 2010 at 3:19 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
We are still trying to research what he is doing there so any info would help. He is claiming in court that he is due to receive an ammount of this very size – I doubt that it is true.
I expect that there will be a lot of due dilligence before a government would pay someone. You never know though so gettingt he word out is important. He owes money and thus should not be spending anything.
September 24th, 2010 at 4:08 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
I forgot to mention that if anyone is interested they can probably attend. You may only hear them read Nolan’s latest excuse, but you also might hear the judge issue an arrest warrant if he is a no-show.
Either way, it would be great way of seeing our justice dollars at work.
September 28th, 2010 at 9:30 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
He is trading out of his dump in Isabella Plains. The exact address is publicly listed on some of the ASIC info resellers pages. I wish I could go to see the reading of the warrant
September 28th, 2010 at 9:34 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Somebody should get in touch with the Vanuatu Embassy in Canberra and pass this info on. A lot of Pacific Island nations have had trouble with corruption in the past, so exposing this before it gets off the ground could be a good thing – especially if he has roped some gullible government official into his web of lies.
The damage this guy could do could ensure that any such genuine project never got off the ground. What an ar**hole!
October 14th, 2010 at 11:23 am Robert Brand(Quote)
I am told that Nolan was a “no-show” again in court this week over old debts to actors. I am told it will take 14 days to take effect, but a warrant has been issued for his arrest. There were no excuses this time – he just didn’t show.
The corner Nolan has painted himself into just got a lot smaller. Also Nolan appears to be touting his new company IMFI Pty Ltd as experts of climate change or similar. The Dept of Climate Change is investigating. If his company is clean, then he has no problems. If not, then…..
I am also told that as well as projects in Vanuatu, his company seems to be involved in Canberra with a partner with solar powered buses from the airport to the city. If this is all above board, I wish him well so that he can get the money to pay the $1.5M he owes to so many.
I am told that Nolan also sent an email stating that he has $165,000 in cleared funds (probably from his climate change business) in his bank account. If someone has paid him, then he will get off the hook. If he has lied and no payment is made for his court required payments, then the court will ask to see proof and if no proof is available, then I guess that the court will not take too kindly to that.
October 15th, 2010 at 3:52 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
Wonder if he’s fled to Vanuatu or is still operating out of Australia?
Seems kind of like a dumbarse move to avoid courts here in Australia, I mean there’s only so much time that will pass before they catch up with you – especially if you’re pursuing commercial interests over here.
October 18th, 2010 at 9:14 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Nobody has accused Nolan of being smart about how he conducts business.
October 18th, 2010 at 9:21 am Turbulent Priest(Quote)
He’s also active on Twitter now:
IMFI Carbon
October 22nd, 2010 at 12:55 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Nothing specific to report other than to say that the pressure on his company IMFI are increasing from a variety of directions. He may not know it yet, but it is coming. I hope he is running it according to the rules.
October 26th, 2010 at 4:22 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Nolan has missed his recent court appearances in the past, but we haven’t. Actually it was a bit of a waste. I am not sure who (if anyone) will be there tomorrow, but if anyone is free and can let us know what happened, it will be appreciated.
I love open court. It is a long way for me to travel if he is another no-show.
October 26th, 2010 at 4:30 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
I know Nolan reads these posts so I will issue him a challenge. If his IMFI company (Carbon Trading) is above board and we can meet and he can prove it to me with an independant assessor present from a carbon background, I will not only lay off the pressure on him, I will help him get work so that he can pay me off over time for what your sole trading company owes me for the failed Starwalker contract.
Now how can that be bad for you? Nolan, are you up to the challenge or is IMFI all another scam? Happy to have a non-disclosure agreement.
Getting me to be on your side and to effectively go away can’t be a bad outcome if your are serious. If you are not I exepct that I will not hear a response from you. Of course if you want to modify these conditions, I am happy to hear from you. I would prefer to sing your praises and get paid than anything else.
October 27th, 2010 at 3:22 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Interesting challenge to throw out their Robert. Apart from this IMFI thing has anyone heard or seen Nolan recently?
He seems to be pretty good at pulling dissappearing acts.
October 27th, 2010 at 3:47 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
He should have been in court today, but as I couldn’t get anyone to go there, I will have to get a copy of the transcript and see what happened. I’ll gt back to you soon
October 28th, 2010 at 3:08 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Although I have not yet received a copy of the Transcript, it appears that by its length, Nolan was undoubtedly at court on Wednesday!
October 28th, 2010 at 5:03 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
Lol, maybe he read your comment on not being able to make it and decided to show.
I eagerly await some highlights of the transcript. Should be a good laugh reading someone try to defend the indefencable.
October 28th, 2010 at 5:24 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
The only problem is that I cannot say too much from Transcripts. Just minimalistic stuff like Nolan turned up, but it will help me in my upcoming case against him.
October 29th, 2010 at 4:18 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Are the transcripts publicly available or is it a private hearing?
Seems strange for it to be an open court with protected private transcripts…
November 4th, 2010 at 3:12 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
I hope that this is over now and that people are getting paid (for real) this time.
November 5th, 2010 at 4:35 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Another no-show in court for Nolan, but he has paid the guys some token money and that seems to have put the courts at some sort of ease.
If he fails to pay them, then I am guessing that they will have to refile the case. If he continues to pay them, then Mr Nolan will have paid his debt to the claimants and he will have satisfied the court requirements.
Nolan, if you do this I commend you for making things right with these guys (after a lot of false starts). Now it is time to make things right with the others that you owe. Prop builders, other cast / crew and of course those from Starwalker.
I would be happy to receive a cheque for what you owe me. Lets say $1,000 dollars / month 20 years or so.
November 15th, 2010 at 3:58 pm Old friend(Quote)
In response to statements above about Jon’s background. His family father was not at all artistic as I remember it when I knew him when he was a pretensious role-playing gamer prat of a law student at Adelaide Uni.
Family wasn’t ‘old money’ either. Bourgeious enough to send only son Jon to Adelaide’s most expensive boy’s school. Jon was always so laissez faire that I cannot imagine the Solar panel thing would be something that would fit with his capitalist philosophy, unless the was a buck in it, of course.
November 19th, 2010 at 12:07 pm Turbulent Priest(Quote)
Could he have meant “autistic”, not “artistic”?
Easy mistake to make, I guess…
December 12th, 2010 at 11:22 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
So any news on what crazy jon is up to?
February 14th, 2011 at 3:28 am Steel Hydra(Quote)
Happy Chinese new year to all! Robert, if you are still checking this site out, how do things fare for you?
February 14th, 2011 at 2:35 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Nothing Happening. Looking out for Greg Smith. Need a date of birth for him, but we may have that. He has gone to ground and we are actively looking for him.
I had given him an ultimatum. Talk to us or we would check up on whether he really is in the reserve army as an officer. He may not have read it, but since he had promised to check in with me in time and he hasn’t then all bets are off.
I assume he is as guilty as Nolan in this whole sham. The Federal Police are doing nothing and sitting on their hands.
I will check with them again, but I am not expecting that they will have done their duty…
February 14th, 2011 at 9:46 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
I am also contacting the ACT police complaints line to find out why they are not progressing the Nolan Starwalker complaint.
February 16th, 2011 at 8:32 am Steel Hydra(Quote)
Hmmm. I do believe Greg is in the reserves, he was doing it, as far as I know, when I knew him. He also, apparently, has cancer so that may also be a factor.
But yes, I wouldn’t be surprised if he and Nolan are in cahoots the guy is basically a human rat.
February 16th, 2011 at 3:52 pm Robert Brand(Quote)
Well, I can confirm that Greg Smith is in the Reserves as an Officer. None the less that does not excuse him from acting in a way contary to certain codes of conduct expected by the defense Department. It could see his career end if this whole affair was reported to them.
Nolan currently seems to have gotten away with it as the ACT police say that telling people things – lying in public – is not against the law. It is a civil matter if his lies cost people money.
It seems that my only way of getting justice is to go after him myself and I can’t afford that right now…. I will have to wait, but the axe must fall one day.
February 17th, 2011 at 5:13 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Careful with civil litigation in Australia Robert. From what I understand unless you’re a big business with an inifnity legal fund, it’s an expensive nightmare for an individual to pursue.
March 5th, 2011 at 12:31 am Steel Hydra(Quote)
Has the parasite shown up yet? By parasite I mean Smith.
Out of curiosity, what does he do now for a living seeing that suing others for money seems to have fallen through for him.
Nolan has started up another shitty comics company, but he too must have money coming from somewhere. Wonder if he finally got a job?
March 10th, 2011 at 7:38 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
Hmmm anyone else notice that Charlie Sheen’s rants sound a lot like the crap Nolan shoots from his mouth? They should team up.
March 10th, 2011 at 8:07 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
One key difference; Sheen’s admitted he needs help.
March 21st, 2011 at 10:38 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
True, and Sheen has fans and has actually produced work of note.
April 6th, 2011 at 10:35 pm Steel Hydra(Quote)
I am waiting for Nolan to start his stand up tour. Ranting about how people plagiarize all his ideas and how the nay sayers are defaming him.
Should be a blast!