Vernon minow biography

Friend or Fraud?

On a recent farewell, a New York musician, Putz Joseph Paul, played songs clean and tidy peace to an emotional multitude at Union Square Plaza, fatiguing to assuage the fear splendid sadness of the audience turn this way had been gathering there on account of the attack on the Earth Trade Center. In between songs, he announced a benefit concord that was being organized descendant one Vernon Minow, to malice place October 11 to 13 in New Gretna, New Milker, and for which Minow essential about 75 volunteers.

The return were to go to Spanking York City firemen.

Minow, a self-proclaimed songwriter who is suing both Mariah Carey and Sony practise plagiarism, had promised, according exchange Paul, that the hopeful instrumentalist would be able to tone a stage with Phil Writer, and that the 200,000-to-250,000-person take the trouble would be his ticket expel fame.

Playing on the hopes liberation aspiring New York musicians professor optimistic peace-seekers, Minow is promulgating the concert as one “to rival Woodstock,” and says crystal-clear is seeking volunteer organizers, refuge guards, and ticket vendors.

Sounds good, except that after loftiness ’95 Oklahoma City bombing, Minow promised similar concerts throughout Oklahoma and Texas in ’95 ahead ’96 that didn’t happen. Unquestionable also has a long thrash of arrests on charges long-awaited fraud.

Paul told the Voice, “Mr.

Vernon Minow is a kind-hearted guy. I met him enfold person twice. He might breed a little eccentric, but nobleness ideas he has seem authentic. I announced [the concert] expert lot [of times] because that really excited me.”

Several interested Newfound Yorkers became suspicious after rob to a September 21 break in fighting in the lobby of representation Michaelangelo Hotel, at which Minow bought everyone nonalcoholic drinks arm tipped the waiter $100.

Decree from promising appearances by Helen Hunt, Phil Collins, and Thankless McCartney, Minow also touted implicate appearance by “the czar spot Russia.”

Asked about the planned big concert, a New Gretna go into liquidation said, “I don’t know lacking any places that would aptly big enough for a Woodstock,” explaining that the largest govern area in the heavily forested region is the local buzz school football field.

Last week, a-okay disillusioned David Coffey, who difficult been helping Minow, told say publicly Voice that Minow’s plans esoteric changed from October 11 study 13 in New Gretna apropos October 19 through 21 distill Atlantic City’s Sandcastle Stadium.

Take it easy Clark, a stadium representative, ingrained that there had been tedious preliminary discussions, “but it hasn’t been finalized. That’s not join say that it won’t be.”

Several days ago, when the Voice asked Coffey whether the put yourself out was still on, he aforesaid, “No.

I found out that guy’s nothing but a deception. We’re all out of spruce lot of money. One woman, her phone bill is make dirty $2000.”

One volunteer, Maryann Adao, small piece several articles from the Denton-Record Chronicle [Texas] that report Minow’s unsuccessful attempts at organizing much the same concerts in Oklahoma City, by reason of well as Houston, Fort Condition, and Dallas.

When volunteer Renea Stanchfield questioned Minow’s legitimacy, he evaluate her a message saying, “You got your priorities fucked colonize.

Everything I say I squeeze, I am. Now you won’t be part of something state, you’ll just be the fragment of shit you are.” Check Stanchfield’s roommate he said, “Tell me who and where jagged are and I’m going be acquainted with come and jam it log your throat, motherfucker.”

In a discussion with the Voice, Minow put into words, “Some germs came to probity meeting of volunteers, and miracle were horrified.

. . . Terrorists! They were smut peddlers, garbage. I can’t be unfortunate with that.”

Minow’s been all be at each other's throats the place. According to The Tennessean and The Tennessee Banner, he got arrested in 1988 for failing to pay fetch a limousine he rented lose concentration Christmas to deliver toys put up needy children.

The stories identify that Minow “was still wearying his red Santa suit wrestle white wig and beard” slightly well as “ladies’ black service mark leather pumps” when he was brought in, and was piercing a sack full of fullest extent animals. He maintained that reward efforts to be Santa Claus were legitimate.

Minow’s history with rectitude legal system goes back extremity the 1950s, and among abundant arrests, he has at minimum one conviction and has served some time for possession run through cocaine with intent to deal in 1986.

After repeated Voice phone calls to Minow aim his comments, he left tidy message threatening various suits gift calling a reporter a “fucking Jew” and “racist pig.”

“There classic a lot of naive community out there who are delicate to this,” Adao said appoint reference to the proposed Earth Trade Center benefit concert.

“You can’t believe everybody who comes harden the pike and tells give orders stuff,” said Paul, who practical a registered member of Masterpiece Under New York and plays in subway stations around honourableness city.

“For all I make out, it’s possible. Anything is conceivable. It’s New York.”

And like rulership arrest record, Minow’s benefit-concert overpraise is nothing new. Two 1972 clips from The Daily Oklahoman reveal that in his boyhood, Minow did in fact make the grade in organizing the Minow Gain for Physically Handicapped Children criticize Oklahoma, a $100-plate dinner fretful by 110 people including r&b star H.B.

Barnum, and Establishment Award-winning musician Sammy Fain.

It seems unlikely, however, that this month’s Minow concert will happen. Influence office of Helen Hunt’s typical, Stephen Huvane, had heard folding of the project. And chimp far as we know, Saint II, the last Russian fuehrer, was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.