DD Support Board and Research Team

[MorningLightMountain]

indeed nodummy, Stanton signed that while a fugitive......what you posted was only the tip of the iceberg, Stanton has been a shady character now for many, many years.....just a sample:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35617995

http://web.archive.org/web/20040509073001/www.gwesys.com/screen16.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20030506135826/earthfirsttech.com/solid_equipment.shtml

I believe I even "caught" Rivera using pics from the EFTI site back in his Port Gibson GWESYS days......probably still on the wayback machine...

yep, there it is:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021230005420/http://www.earthfirsttech.com/solid_equipment.shtml


compared to the mirror image of "Rivera's" GWESYS machine

GWESYS.com/reactor.jpg'>

(from another board)

Then there is the Forbes article:

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/078.html

Things only get more confusing if you follow the trail to EarthFirst, a Tampa outfit that told the SEC it loaned $3.3 million to U.S. Sustainable Energy last year. EarthFirst Chairman John Stanton put out a news release in April trumpeting U.S. Sustainable's revolutionary biofuel process. In the days before the release EarthFirst's trading volume spiked to 5 million shares from several hundred thousand and the stock price bounced to 17 cents, briefly arresting a long slide to a nickel a share.

No, no, says Stanton. That's a different U.S. Sustainable Energy. Rivera wanted to use the same name for his company, explains Stanton, who admits doing business with Rivera in the past.

EarthFirst, John Stanton's firm, claims to be at "the forefront of alternative energy sources," according to its Web site, but still gets most of its revenue from moneylosing waste-disposal and biodiesel-import businesses, and recently filed to allow Laurus Capital to sell 76 million shares, whose proceeds would be used to retire convertible debt held by Laurus. A self-described turnaround expert, Chairman Stanton doesn't disclose in EarthFirst's sec filings anything about the $157 million collapse of Keller Financial, a used-car finance firm in Florida he briefly ran. A plaintiff attorney reportedly claimed that Keller preyed on unsophisticated, elderly investors. Stanton later paid $181,000 to settle a bankruptcy trustee's claim.

Stanton owns stakes in U.S. Energy Initiatives, which lost $4.5 million on sales of $426,000 in the first half of 2006 trying to sell kits to reconfigure diesel engines so they run on natural gas; and U.S. Sustainable Energy, which claims a catalytic vacuum distillation process that sounds remarkably similar to the one John Rivera is cranking up over in Natchez. Both involve heating organic materials in a vacuum until they break down into carbon and vapors that can be condensed into a low-grade fuel oil. "Why you'd put soybeans in there, I don't know," says Thomas Adams, a biofuels expert at the University of Georgia. "Sewage works just as well."