June 3, 2010

The May Report: 6/3/2010: A special just received warning from U.S. Scouting
Service Project board members to the Illinois Technology Association board
concerning their relationship with Terry Ivan Howerton II: Video link inside

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The Scoop section:

— A cautionary tale for the city of Chicago, the individuals on the ITA board,
and any group, businesses or organizations considering any type of transaction
with Terry Ivan Howerton II, by Ron May [Video link below]
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The Scoop section:
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A cautionary tale for the city of Chicago, the individuals on the ITA board,
and any group, businesses or organizations considering any type of transaction
with Terry Ivan Howerton II, by Ron May [Video link below]

If history is any indication of the kind of mistakes that are repeatedly made
by legitimate business people susceptible to the guile and charms of
professional confidence men, then the tale of the likes of Terry Ivan Howerton
II has been told since the days of Mark Twain.

This is the beginning of a week’s worth of reports that will lay bare the long
and checkered track record of Terry Ivan Howerton II and the damage that has
been suffered on a reputation and financial level of those who have had the
misfortune of any sort of business relationship with him.

While I know that I have been castigated by the board of the ITA which has
interpreted my findings of Mr. Howerton as some kind of personal attack on
them, it is actually their reputations I am concerned with because (for better
or worse) they represent Chicago’s technology community to the city and
presumably to the country. To see these people lead down the primrose path to
eventual destruction of reputation and financial ruin truly alarms me. I am not
personally attacking Mr. Howerton, but I am attempting to save our board from
the damage that will ensue should they continue down the same path that others
have taken with Mr. Howerton.

Mr. Howerton’s list of victims includes everyone from widows in their 80s and
children to the Boy Scouts of America to corporations large enough to have
extended him more than a million dollars in credit.

I have published the list of the lawsuits and his creditors, but this
information seems to have fallen on deaf ears — at least in the city of
Chicago. The rest of the country, however, including Ponca City, Oklahoma, has
been listening. The references to Mr. Howerton have brought forth additional
information from other parties who are concerned that the ITA board may be
taken as they themselves were taken.

Today’s report concerns letters I have received from two board members of the
U.S. Scouting Service Project.

Here is a link to a story that aired (I believe) on April 14, 1998 on the NBC
affilate (Channel 5) in Kansas City that concerned board members sent me
specifically to play to the ITA board as a caution to warn them away from
further involvement with Terry Howerton. It is of note that Mr. Howerton has
been making a living off the profession of bilking organizations and
individuals for over twelve years, qualifying him as a professional confidence
man. If 1998 is correct, Terry was 25 years old then.

Attention ITA board, this is how he makes his living:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgPg3f8np5Q

At the end of the day the ITA board may be a bunch of schmalzles but they are
our schmalzles and being taken advantage of by such an obvious con man makes
all of us look bad.

TO MITIGATE ANY CLAIMS BY MR. HOWERTON THAT THIS IS AN ANONYMOUS LETTER TO BE
SUMMARILY DISMISSED, I WILL PROVIDE A COPY WITH FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
INFORMATION DISCLOSED TO ANY ITA BOARD MEMBER THAT REQUESTS IT AND WILL ENTREAT
THAT MEMBER TO CONTACT THE SENDER FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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From:[Name withheld] Board Member USSSP [name withheld]@usscouts.org
Subject: RE: Terry Howerton
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 23:50:23 -0500
To: ron@themayreport.com

Ron,

As with [Name withheld]‘s letter about Roger Murphy, please keep my e-mail
confidential. Please do not publish this letter.

When you obtained the credit report on Terry from all of his activities in
Kansas City you only saw those corporations who took the time, and had the
where with all to file leans against him. There were many more small mom & pop
vendors, good trusting dedicated Scouters from around the country who self
published a book, had a small T-Shirt shop, etc. who also did not get paid but
who’s debts never made it to one of the three Credit Bureaus.

I have a VHS Video Tape from a Kansas City TV station segment about an old
widow in Oregon who was in her 80′s and was stiffed by Terry. Her husband had
made some Pewter Scouting Belt Buckles which he was selling locally before he
passed away.

As the then Catalog Manager for the 1-800-SCOUTER Catalog I arranged to acquire
her remaining inventory to sell at our 1-800-SCOUTER Catalog. The buckles were
a big hit, we sold all of them but after six months Terry had still not paid
the bill. Three times Terry assured me he had paid the bill when she kept
calling me to ask about it. I was still too naive to ask if the check had
cleared the bank.

After repeated promises to send her payment for the buckles she called one of
the Kansas City TV stations. The next day we had the local NBC affiliate “Five
on your side” reporter at our front door with the TV cameras about “A group of
Boy Scouts who stiffed an old widow.”

Terry of course did a song and dance, said it was all a clerical error and
overnighted the check after the report made the six and 11pm news shows. I
still have the video on VHS but I do not have the technology to get it moved on
to something like You Tube so you could link to it.

The funny thing was, Terry was about to close a deal with another investor for
his Sakima Group (by this point the magazine had already ceased publishing) but
after that report aired and the Kansas City Business Journal article came out
the following month, that finally led Terry to flee to Chicago and the
potential investor that Terry had almost closed the deal with totally backed
out.

If the VHS tape could be of use to you, please let me know where to mail it.

[Name withheld upon request]
Board Member – U.S. Scouting Service Project
[Contact information withheld]
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And this letter:

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From: [Email address withheld upon request]
Subject: Terry Howerton
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:26:30 -0500
To: ron@themayreport.com

Please don’t publish my email address.

I’ve been enjoying your Terry Howerton coverage. I CAN’T believe Terry
snowballed his way to ANY success in Chicago. You know, I almost sent this to
you back in 2005 when you called Terry a straight shooter. Very, very wrong
Ron. Terry is a sociopath with zero business acumen. He is addicted to money
and power and the only way he can collect either of those two things is to lie
and connive.

Terry Howerton is NOT an Eagle Scout. If he said so he was lying. He dropped
out before earning the rank of Eagle. Ask him to see his award certificate -
better yet, call BS HQ in Dallas and ask them to confirm.

I just cannot believe he still runs up $400 tabs at Ruth’s Chris. It’s his way
of rewarding himself, making himself feel like a big hot shot. It’s all a
farce.

As for Orbitz going after Terry’s assets – well, he has none. They will never
see that money.

Ron, if you want a great interview you need to get in touch with this guy:

uk.linkedin.com/pub/roger-murphy/a/a87/a45

Terry took this guy personally for over $650k back in 1999. It was an angel
investment…right into Terry’s pocket.
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May again. As an end note, I would like to add that it is no secret that Mr.
Howerton is trying to move beyond the ITA into a role influencing city
government through his effort with the charter school program for the CAAT
school. Our city has surely suffered enough scandals and I will make it my
personal responsibility to make sure that Mr. Howerton does not add to this
growing list of transgressions by helping to ensure that anyone involved in
green lighting any project Mr. Howerton may entertain with regard to the city
will be privy to this video and a full list of the lawsuits against him.

Terry, your mark on this city will be truly indelible and as welcome as
graffiti on the side of a bus.

A list of current ITA board members:

About ITA: Board of Directors
The ITA Board of Directors is made up of some of the state’s foremost
technology leaders:

Terry Howerton, Chief Executive Officer, FastRoot (Chairman)
Fred Hoch, President, Illinois Technology Association (ITA)
Joe Fuller, Managing Director, USA, Alterian (Treasurer)
John Jasper, Founder, Bolder Thinking LLC (Secretary)
Jack Noonan, President and CEO, SPSS Inc. (Executive Committee)
Peter Tapling, CEO, Authentify, Inc. (Executive Committee)
Bill Waas, CEC, IT Executive Exchange (Executive Committee)
Eric Wasowicz, UWantSavings.com (Executive Committee)
Michael Alter, President and CEO, SurePayroll
Steven D. Barnhart, President and CEO, Orbitz [sic: I believe that Steve
Barnhart is no longer the Orbitz CEO]
Hardik Bhatt, Chief Information Officer, City of Chicago
Denise Bindelglass, VP, Human Resources, Trading Technologies [sic: Denise is
no longer at Trading Technologies]
Bob Blee, Market Manager, Midwest Region, Silicon Valley Bank
Craig Bradley, Partner, K&L Gates [sic: Craig is no longer at K&L Gates]
Bill Burke, President and CEO, Merit Solutions, Inc.
Adam Caplan, President and CEO, Model Metrics
Paul Carlisle, Senior Vice President, Chase Bank
Sara Carlson, Partner, Grant Thornton, LLP
Aaron Crane, Vice President, Technology, Navteq, Inc.
Linda Darragh, Director, Entrepreneurship Programs, University of Chicago
Don DeLoach, Chief Executive Officer, Aleri Labs
Christine Detjen, Software Business Executive, IBM Corporation
Michael Domek, CEO, The Domek Group
John Fisher, EVP, Strategic Services, NET(net), Inc.
Jim Gagnard, President and CEO, SmartSignal
Scott Glickson, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP
Andrew Goldstein, Partner, Freeborn & Peters LLP
Gregory Gronowski, Senior Director of Sales, Acresso Software
Joe Jablonski, President, Acumence
Ari Kaplan, Senior Consultant, Datalink Corporation
Michael Lee, Partner, Reed Smith Sachnoff & Weaver
Neal Levin, Area Sales Manager – Midwest Area, SMPSP, Microsoft Corporation
Devin Mathews, Managing Partner, Baird Venture Partners
Lou Meshulam, Sr. VP & General Manager, Midwest Region, SAP, Inc.
Bruce Montgomery, CEO and CTO, Wi-Fi Technologies, LLC
Michele Mordacq, Chief Executive Officer, SSI Embedded Systems
Chris Morgan, Managing Partner, Lantern Partners
Jack Philbin, Co-Founder and President, Vibes Media
Dick Reck, President, Business Strategy Advisors, LLC
Art Roldan, Executive Chairman, ISD Corporation
Gina Sandon, Vice President, Marketing, Initiate Systems
Ted Stuart, Vice President, Oracle Corporation
James Treleaven, President and CEO, Via Strategy Group
William Vogelsang, Director, RSM McGladrey
David Weinstein, President, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC) [sic:
Weinstein is no longer at the CEC]
Kevin Willer, Central Region Development Manager, Google, Inc.
Kevin Williams, Executive Vice President, CustomCall Data Systems, Inc.
Scott Woodard, Chairman and CEO, ShowingTime.com
Bart Carlson, President and CEO, Napersoft, Inc. (Member Emeritus)
Doug Cogswell, Chief Executive Officer, ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc. (Member
Emeritus)
Bill Merchantz, Retired CEO, Lakeview Technology, Inc. (Member Emeritus)
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