Dear BEHL Shareholders,
This is Monique Berry and I will not hide behind a fictitious name to make my statements. As I wrote to Dennis Fisher verbatim in my resignation letter “ I believed in and supported you 100%...my word has value and I am ashamed to know you..... I hope you refrain from making derogatory statements or actions towards any of us." Obviously as you all know, this has not been the case.
Please know, what I know of Dennis by working closely together, I have watched repeatedly as he defames, lies and attacks people verbally and publicly when he feels wronged. I did not imagine I would be excluded, and therefore I was not surprised.
I know who I am as a person and do not need to defend his statements or accusations about me. His words and lies against me and my former colleagues are to confuses shareholders, and deflect blame.
The day we resigned, the company was $65,000+ in payroll arrears for approximately 15 employees. $45,000 was owed to the IRS (this check signed by Dennis bounced) $200,000 in trade debt, $22,000 in heath care etc. For several weeks and months employees were promised by Dennis that we would be compensated and we would be caught up. The employees stopped believing in Dennis after dozens of false promises to be paid. They came to work each day because I continued on , but they no longer trusted or believed in Dennis. I gave my employees my personal money for gas so that they could come to work, I bought lunch for those with no money to eat. I and other employees brought in toilet paper, coffee and creamer from our homes as the office had none or any money to purchase basic office necessities. This continued for months. Also, we were past due on rent for the office and eviction notices were in the works. Over Thanksgiving weekend, my home utilities and employees utilities were being turned off due to lack of us being paid. The algae in our carboy room was in dire need of supplies.. due to this the lab staff was unable to keep the algae healthy. I reached out to every potential investor / client asking for capital support to continue our operations, but my efforts were fruitless. With that stated and despite the dreary financial demise of the aforementioned, I, like my coworkers came to the office without fail without missing a day because of loyalty to the shareholders and the DVJ client. The average workday however consisted of a flood of calls from angry vendors regarding bad checks, lack of checks and payments due to them. Also, there were several calls and visits from the labor board and other government officials looking for Dennis Fisher. That was a basic synopsis of my last two weeks at BEHL.
I was questioned and asked a multitude of disturbing questions about Dennis Fisher by government officials. I performed some due diligence to confirm the information provided to me... needless to say, I became physically ill and was in disbelief.. Knowing what I knew about Dennis, I had no choice but to resign. The resignations of Nancy Fisher, Dennis Wife of 25 years, their best friends Helmut and Renate, Frank Rawson the controller, Marla Kennedy and the lab staff were all independent decisions but made for the same exact reason.
I had a major error in judgment by working with Dennis Fisher. I thought very highly of Dennis and considered him a friend and like a brother. At no time was he my friend nor was he concerned about the well being or liability of his employees. Shareholders will learn and will be informed as to the truth and what has transpired with the company through legal channels very soon. I promise it will not be thorough Ihub statements nor through statements made by Dennis Fisher.
Please note, that I will not make any further posting, nor will I respond to or defend the basing and the defamation of my character by Dennis or his friends following this post. Thank you for your time in reading my statement.
Monique Berry
