One-Eye: Blue, Bluewater

As soon as I read that Beth Mason had handed out 52K in street money through Bluewater Operations, LLC I called GA super-sleuth One-Eye.  That was last night.

Did I ever tell you about how One-Eye became One-Eye?  I didn't?  Well, it's none of your business. Besides, I don't know.  Although rumor has it that it happened on safari.  Something about a rhinoceros horn. 

Anyway, some weeks ago, One-Eye had done research on Bluewater for GA, and as a follow-up I had asked him to run a Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) report for me.

Are  you familiar with those?  Basically it's a complete business history profile that includes all  credit  and banking  activity.  Now, they don't run cheap, but I hear One-Eye won a huge settlement from the  African Big Game Preserve, something about a faulty rhino fence- but you didn't hear that from me.  None of my business.  Or yours.

So, GA had asked One-Eye to get the business profile for Bluewater back on May 13th- but the FBI came to town days later and... well, GA got sidetracked.

It was back on the burner last night.

One Eye here, reporting for duty.

I circled back to the Bluewater Operations research that I did for you. As I advised, Dun and Bradstreet confirmed what I told you – it is a shell that does not have an ordinary place of business for public sales/interaction, housed in a residential two family in Clifton, not accessible to the public, and does not show any activity in the normal trade associations/publications or have any indications that it is actively marketing itself and has no real assets or measurable economic activity in the market of any kind.

This falls into the same pattern of Newton Lao Leonard & Locke,LLP.

Just a company to move cash around to hide the true source and purpose. The old shell game on the street.

There you go. No business activity, just a phantom that exists to funnel Mason money. 52K of "street money".  The attachment which would show the exact dispensation of the 52K- the checks made out to individuals by name, address, amount- was not filed.

But the money was channeled through Bluewater Operations,LLC.

For complete context, this is what One-Eye uncovered about that company here on May 13:

Here is a screen shot of the Blue Water filing certificate from the Secretary of State of New Jersey. Google map the street address and click on the street screen view.

It is some random two family house in a very residential neighborhood where apparently these two chuckle heads live together in the 2nd floor unit. Not a very fancy place either.

Run a search on them under any search engine, your choice, and you come up empty.  No office, telephone number, nothing.  So what exactly are they doing for the Mason campaign that justifies all those checks?  

It smells like another shell company that exists on paper as a way for Mason to hide the flow of money.

It does not appear to own anything, have any outward business presence and does appear anywhere as advertising for any business or promoting the business of Blue Water.  Checked in all of the usual places and come up ZERO!  

If they are in fact running a business out of the second floor, it seems that they are in violation of the Clifton Zoning Code.

Checked that as well. No office or business use of any kind in the zone where the property is located.  Here is the link to the Clifton Zoning Code.  It is all in there. I spoke to  the Zoning Officer to confirm.

It is weird that Mason does all this monkey business with non-functioning paper entities.

Her resume and the description of the company claimed this vast Fortune 500 client base.  People get fired for much less than this kind of fakery.  I guess I just don’t get politics.  

Below is the information from the Clifton Tax Assessor office for 119 Orono Street.

I wonder if the owner is aware that an illegal business is operating out of his building?

There you have it, people.  It's a shell.  Thank you, One-Eye.

52K is a huge sum of money to be handed out 'on the street'. If it was handed it.

If not, where was it handed?

I guess the Mason campaign's Treasurer knows.