![]() ![]() The Strange Life of John Menard » Urban Milwaukee. Sign- up for the Urban Milwaukee daily email. Menards. Photo by Mike Kalasnik. Nowadays, John Menard has become infamous for the titillating legal case filed against the then 7. Forbes magazine rates as the world’s 1. The suit accuses the Menard’s hardware chain owner of “intentional inflection of emotional distress, battery, attempted battery, assault, attempted assault” against Tomisue Hilbert, the wife of Stephen Hilbert, a longtime business associate of Menard’s.“On multiple occasions,” the suit claims, “Mr. Menard touched Mrs. Hilbert and demanded both directly and indirectly, that Mrs Hilbert engage in sexual activities with him and his spouse.” Menard warned there would be “severe financial consequences” if Tomisue (pronounced Tommy Sue) refused him, the suit contends, and some time after this, “Menard made good on his threats and began an orchestrated campaign to cause severe financial consequences against Mrs. Hilbert.”Menard’s attorney, Kevin Tyra, denies all the charges. The case comes not long after another embarrassing suit by Menard’s former legal counsel Dawn Sands, the sister of Menard’s former girlfriend Deb Sands. This case went all the the way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which upheld a $1. Menard for past wages he owed her. Dawn Sands had charged that Menard “is a man without paramenters, no limits, no respect for the law, and obviously, no self- discipline to control or limit his own behavior.”Menard and Stephen Hilbert were longtime friends who met through their love of auto racing; Hilbert’s company, Conseco, provided $1. Menard’s racing team. In 2. Menard and the Hilberts created MH Equity Private Equity, essentially becoming business partners. Menard had an 8. 0 percent stake, and the Hilberts 2. Stephen was the fund’s president and CEO and his wife was the fund’s managing member. In those palmy days, the Hilberts hosted Menard and Deb Sands (then his fiance) at their home in St. Martin and at Donald Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, FL. The Hilberts were apparently friends of the Trumps. Donald’s wife Melania Trump had worked closely with New Sunshine, a holding company created by Private Equity to market a line of high- end luxury skin products. Melania appeared on television promoting the product line, which was supposed to be sold in Lord & Taylor stores. But in February 2. Menard succeeded in convincing a Wisconsin court to oust Hilbert and turn the equity fund over to him. · · this is the 327 engine that was supposed to come with the two classic chevys i bought from "popcorn" up in the country. well, it seems it did not work out. The latest news and headlines from Yahoo! News. Get breaking news stories and in-depth coverage with videos and photos. Please note that once you make your selection, it will apply to all future visits to NASDAQ.com. If, at any time, you are interested in reverting to our default. Sick of worrying about cargo sliding all over in the back of your truck? 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Once Menard took it over, she was sued for $1. But Lisa Trudeau has filed a counterclaim contending Menard fired her in April “because of Mr. Menard’s desire to harm Mr. Mrs. Hilbert and because Mrs. Trudeau had rebuffed Mr. Menard’s… sexual advances.”Trudeau is a friend of Tomisue Hilbert, whose suit claims that Menard knew Trudeau well and “had previously groped her breasts and had caused her to dance sandwiched between Mr. Menard and his wife while on the dance floor and had suggested they have sex.” (By this time, Menard had married Fay. Obiad, who had replaced Deb Sands as his girlfriend and married Menard in 2. As I said, it’s lurid stuff. Tyra told the media Menard “categorically denies the inappropriate conduct Mrs. Hilbert alleges. Ms. Hilbert’s complaint appears to be a reaction to Mr. Menard’s justified actions” (taking over Private Equity). The Hilberts “mismanaged the assets and resources entrusted to them, and incurred wildly inappropriate expenditures,” Menard has charged through his attorney. Adding to the weirdness, both Tomisue Hilbert and Lisa Trudeau have the same lawyer, Indianapolis attorney Linda Pence, who told the Indy Star that Menard “has a strange history thinking he can get anything he wants…This man has a well- documented history of disregard for people, particularly women.”Menard owns more than 2. Eau Claire, WI. His high- handed manner of running the company was detailed in a 2. Milwaukee Magazine written by Mary Van de Kamp Nohl that I edited. The story reported that Menard’s managers had to sign agreements to be personally penalized for things that go wrong. For instance, having 1. And the fine was $1. Managers were forbidden from building their own homes, to ensure they couldn’t steal any building materials from Menard’s. And Menard hired private investigators to check whether employees who undertake even minor home- improvement projects were using pilfered supplies. Menard was aggressively anti- union and had a policy that managers’ pay would be cut by 6. And all managers had to sign an agreement requiring them to go to arbitration – not the courts – if they had a dispute with the company. Moreover, they’d have to pay their own attorney’s fees and half the cost of the arbitrator, even if Menards was found at fault,” the story reported. A columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune once described Menards’ manner of handling an employee as “something exhumed from the Bronze Age with all its primitive logic intact.”A copy of the employment agreement for managers was leaked to Bill Lueders and The Progressive magazine: it stipulates that “The Manager’s income shall be automatically reduced by sixty percent (6. Agreement.”The employee who leaked the contract said the agreement is required for all management staff, Lueders wrote, and added that the threat was effective: ‘The mere mention of the word ‘union’ is a workplace taboo.’”The National Labor Relations Board, in response to the Progressive story, found that Menards committed multiple violations of federal labor law. The NLRB found merit to five of the eight complaints. It determined that the clause threatening a 6. Menard’s has already removed this language from the agreements. But the NLRB also found Menards was violating labor law by requiring employees to sign arbitration agreements that preclude them from engaging in concerted activities, including class action suits. The ruling could require the rewriting of employments agreements with all of its 4. Menard was a major donor to an anti- union program run by the Koch- funded Americans for Prosperity and is also among the donors who’ve given at least $1 million to the Koch Brothers, according to Mother Jones, to help supports its conservative and anti- union causes. Nohl found Menard and his company had more run- ins with state Department of Natural Resources than any other Wisconsin company. Menard and his company were ultimately fined $1. Menards was fined for disposing hazardous waste in 1. Minnesota Attorney General in 2. DNR officials believed was dumping chemicals into a tributary of the Chippewa River, and hit with an administrative order from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency for damaging a stream that ran through its property in South Dakota. The company extended its string of violations in January 2. But Menard has seen an end to such enforcement actions since Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was elected. Menard, according to Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, “wrote more than $1. Wisconsin Club for Growth (run by the ever- busy Eric O’Keefe), which spent generously on ads supporting Walker, helping him survive a 2. In the two years since that donation, Isikoff reported, “Menard’s company has been awarded up to $1. Walker chairs,” the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. And in his five years in office, Walker’s appointees have sharply scaled back enforcement actions by the state Department of Natural Resources — a top Menard priority.”Perhaps the classic example of Menard’s style was a 1. Farming simulator 2. ATS mods - Farming simulator 2. FS 2. 01. 7 Maps. February 1. 7, 2. Published February 1. Last modified September 2. Description: Fields 2. Petrovka is located in the culture of Ukraine and standard animals Production of flour, bread, sawmill, sugar, all production of pallets on pallets at all factories are..
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