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wow, read this, he is INNOCENT!!!
http://home.comcast.net/~cshd/index.html
An Innocent Man Is Currently In Jail And Has Wrongly Been Accused - CSHD Shareholders Seek "True Justice"
Update: 3/18/2012
An appeal has been filed and granted, case number is 12-11126-D.
Update: 2/26/2012
Is this where "Justice" is headed - to find innocent scapegoat(s) instead of finding the true wrongdoers in this case? We sure hope not. If it is, then it is time for a reset. How do these people sleep at night, sending innocent people to jail for a select few?
Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. has wrongly sentenced Rufus Paul Harris 23 years in prison. See below:
JUDGMENT AND COMMITMENT as to Rufus Paul Harris (1), Count(s) 1s - 2s,CBOP 276 mos., to run concurrent with Counts 3s - 7s at 240 mos. and 8s at 120mos., for total of 276 mos., to be followed by Supervised Release of 5 yrs. on Counts 1s - 2s, to run concurrent with 3 yrs. on Counts 3s - 7s and 3 yrs. on Count 8s for total of 5 yrs. Special Assessment $800.00. Restitution in amt. of $44,025,620.06 to be paid jointly &severally with co-dfts. Probation Officer to provide Clerk of Court a list of victims. Dft to participate in BOP Financial Responsibility Program while incarcerated. Court recommends dft be incarcerated at FCI El Reno, Oklahoma. Dft remanded to custody of USMS. Signed by Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr on 2/24/12. --Please refer to http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov to obtain an appeals jurisdiction checklist-- (rsh) (Entered: 02/24/2012)
Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. has wrongly sentenced Benjamin Stanley 16 years in prison. See below:
JUDGMENT AND COMMITMENT as to Benjamin Stanley (2), Count(s) 1s-2s, CBOP 192 mos. to run concurrent with Counts 4s, 5s, 7s at 36 mos. each, for total of 192 mos., to be followed by Supervised Release of 5 yrs. on Counts 1s - 2s, to run concurrent with 36 mos. on Counts 4s, 5s, 7s each for total of 5 yrs. Special Assessment of $500.00. Restitution in amt of $44,025,620.06 jointly &severally with co-dfts. Probation Officer to provide Clerk of Court a list of victims. Dft to participate in BOP Financial Responsibility Program while incarcerated. Court recommends dft be incarcerated at FCI, Atlanta, GA. Dft remanded to custody of USMS. Signed by Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr on 2/24/12. --Please refer to http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov to obtain an appeals jurisdiction checklist-- (rsh) (Entered: 02/24/2012)
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Update: 02/14/2012
Case 1:2009-cr-00406 was initially filed on 09/15/2009. It is being held in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta). The case is assigned to Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. Sentencing for Rufus Paul Harris, Benjamin Stanley, and Darryl Horton which was set for 12/15/2011 at 02:00 PM in Atlanta, GA Courtroom 2106 has been CANCELLED. Presently, the current sentencing date for all defendents is now set for 2/23/2012 at 10:00AM in ATLA Courtroom 2106.
Rufus Paul Harris has been wrongfully accused and convicted of the pumping and dumping of CSHD stock, which is now delisted. He was facing charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, falsifying financial statements, and conspiracy. The evidence supposedly showed that the three defendants conspired to issue false press releases and financial statements about the company for the purpose of inflating the stock price, while at the same time they were secretly transferring shares to family members who sold at the inflated prices.
The SEC and the U.S. Government had no real case on Mr. Harris. So they drew a BOX around a dated range from 7/12/2006 to10/23/06. These dates are the BOX. This BOX was given to prosecutors by the SEC. They show Mr. Harris pumping, but there is much more they tell and there is much they block out. They block out WHY Mr. Harris was pumping (he never sold, by the way). We know why. It was to hang the NSS (Naked Short Selling) that oversold this company by 700 million shares. They essentially used a document and created a story around it, committing fraud in the act, because again they had no case and they feared that their game would be exposed via a certificate exchange.
Rufus had represented himself very well in court and it appeared that he had the jury on his side. Rufus' cross-examination of the defense's witnesses was very successful. On May 23, 2011, after the phenomenal representation of himself in front of the jury, he walked out of the courtroom, out of the building, and disappeared. He was later found in Provo, Utah by deputies of the U.S. Marshall Service on May 29, 2011. Due to this supposed "fleeing", it is believed that the jury's verdict of Mr. Harris was changed to guilty because the video of the "fleeing" was shown to the jury. He was convicted on all 8 counts. That is where we stand as of today.
The "True" CSHD Shareholders Have Been Robbed
The "true" CSHD shareholders (ones who actually purchased shares of CSHD) want justice and Rufus Paul Harris (ex-CEO of CSHD) is being used as a scapegoat for the wrongdoings of some very powerful, ruthless, corrupt people who would stop at nothing to get there way, even sending an innocent man to prison. Rufus Paul Harris does not have our money and he never did.
However, the 14,000 or so "true" shareholders will also stop at nothing to make justice prevail. We will fight to the bitter end and we will succeed, sending these financially destructive people to their firey pits where they belong. Their gig is up.
The SEC had their chance to make it right. They choose to side with the market makers. The market makers that had their dirty hands in this will pay as well as their crooked pawns. Every dirty person involved in this has pulled the wrong tiger's tail.
FIND OUR MONEY AND DO THE RIGHT THING!
The "true" shareholders have plenty of questions and so little answers. Where did our money go? According to this document (1 Page - 3,942KB) there are multiple people in that document that should have been in the place of Mr. Harris. A person by the name of Dave Perley (first entry) alone made $11,725,490 on the trading of the stock. Where is he? He bought 89,000 shares and sold 12,586,650 shares. How is this possible? Why is he not on trial for stealing our money in place of Mr. Harris for introducing fraudulent shares into the system that we purchased? There are some entries/accounts in the above document that did not own a single share but sold a ton for a handsome profit. How is it that a person can buy no shares of a stock yet sell a shitload? Some of these very people on this list were on the stand AGAINST Mr. Harris and for the prosecution, the U.S. Government. Something is very wrong here and this document speaks volumes.
There are no answers from the SEC, DOJ, FINRA, or the Postal Inspector. Where is Sabra Dobbs? Where is John Arlitt (a.k.a Tutt) who WAS a major pumper for the stock? Where is Michael Alexander who was CEO of Fronthaul? Where is Alana Black? She signed off on at least one of the bonds that was to be used in the comany. Where is the actual investigation?
What was (or is) Conversion Solutions Holdings Corp? This is the web site to find out.
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people SAY they believe....but do they???
I wasn't a close follower of this back in it's heyday......but did anyone really take that price reset seriously????
my guess is it was just the usual pretending to swallow the crock of BS, to enable the pump???.....how could any person with 2 brain cells think that a Co could "reset" their PPS, except via a split........
hey Tom, any chance of looking into getting that CE removed as well???
PS: our old pal is in my sig, RS was right about HIM.....
Good Evening, AIMHers
surreal stuff came out of that's guy's mouth.....price "reset" to 15 was a classic
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=76674454
anyone remember the Cast-Crete EFTI non-merger???
http://www.wastebusinessjournal.com/news/wbj20060711J.htm
(see my sig to see what happened to John Stanton and his Cast-Crete shenngians.....IRS is coming with a VENGEANCE...)
goodbye, John
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79462322
thx for the article....
The responsibilities of an organization's CEO (Chief Executive Officer)(US)or MD (Managing Director)(UK) are set by the organization's board of directors or other authority, depending on the organization's legal structure. They can be far-reaching or quite limited and are typically enshrined in a formal delegation of authority.
any link to his responsibilities??? (not being facetious, I have not seen it, or missed it, so would appreciate seeing the "formal delegation of authority")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer
nobody could beat Rufus!!!!....the number 23!!! (as in years)
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/profilea.aspx?user=77266
Thanks for the chart, things looking UP for C!!!
FB, trade 'em if you got 'em......just don't marry 'em!!!
wow, Stanton arrested, zero volume today....hmmmmm
if that is what you wish...
lol, some new Stanton connections:
(need to see IRS next!!!!)
[url=http://www.silobreaker.com/millionaire-alleged-deadbeat-dad-arrested-5_2265971652057628715]http://www.silobreaker.com/millionaire-alleged-deadbeat-dad-arrested-5_2265971652057628715[/url]
some new Stanton connections:
[url=http://www.silobreaker.com/millionaire-alleged-deadbeat-dad-arrested-5_2265971652057628715]http://www.silobreaker.com/millionaire-alleged-deadbeat-dad-arrested-5_2265971652057628715[/url]
a blocking bid????.....what does that mean, protecting the PPS or something????
not exactly....for example, if I was selling a subscription for access to specific software that picks stocks...
Is it OK for me to set up a premium board to promote a product I am selling???
(hypothetically, as I have no intention as of now, but just wondering....)
if it sounds too good to be true....
...providing Return of Capital in 9.6 months
Stanton pushed his cash — and Cast-Crete's capital — into dozens of penny stock ventures: munitions for the American military, research into nano-particles to find a cure for heart disease, Internet radio to bring shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge into local homes.
The once-prosperous Cast-Crete is now in survival mode, with an IRS bill looming, the economy bottomed out and nothing to show for the penny-stock investments.
A few months before his death, Hughes wrote a letter to Stanton demanding answers about his shady associates and what had happened to all the Cast-Crete cash pumped into the penny stocks. It didn't add up, Hughes said indignantly.
(excerpts)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/corporate/accusations-encircle-rise-fall-and-fight-over-cast-crete-corp/1159959
yeah, call the Co.....more HUMMING:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=76548285
I just spoke to Chris Irons. All is well in Thorold. Fight the good fight JBII Longs!! He states that the teamwork and work ethic of all at JBI is incredible. John works 18-20 hours daily. I asked about his family and he stated, 'they understand what he is trying to accomplish'. JBI is his family while at work.
He was 1 foot from the beast and asked me to let him know if I could hear it. It was a BEAUTIFUL sound. We are humming along nicely. The entire community is behind JBI and it has become a fight for what will be a huge benefit for many; local, nationally, and internationally! The process works and is the envy of all in the industry, especially, Agilyx. :)
He could take six months off as long as the company was producing positively.
May 2013 we'll see if these new execs are worth the salaries they seem to have given themselves.
I agree 100%.....the problem is, what if next year comes, and they are not "CFP" yet again????.....they are ASSuming they will be, so isn't the concept of "just give us some MORE time, while we work things out and take vacation" kind of passe at this point???....isn't it a little risky to not put in 110% between then and now.....and take your break AFTER????....(while the latest PIPE money burns away as well)
to me, this vacation is a SYMBOL that the Co was not operating at 110% effort during this critical period of "one more chance, this time it will be different"....after all, the crew follows the captain's leads and attitudes....no???
PS: there is one asset that can NEVER be recovered, once lost: TIME....you snooze, you lose....
I think EXCU is an available ticker.....that might be a name change reflecting the spirit of how the Co has operated:
(Excuses Unlimited, Inc)
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79473993
yep, things have changed:
we don’t get paid unless the shareholders gain value. And so far in the last six months, we’ve executed ten out of ten times perfectly.
since that release, shares have lost value as of today.....almost 3 years of waiting to lose PPS...HOW IS THAT GAINING VALUE LONG TERM???....but I forgot, that is a great thing, since it allows averaging down.....and in the future, the stock could go up....
that sounds more like speculating to me......or sort of like trading without the profit taking when the opportunities arise!!!!!
well, here is a thought.....and the past has LOTS to do with it.....maybe if he was WRONG about having "the world's largest engineering archive", he was wrong about stuff like this:
We have the only viable process that converts waste plastic into diesel fuel
(THE ONLY being a pretty similar concept as WORLD'S LARGEST....both are making a claim of being at some kind of an apex)
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=78531278
later, the WORLD'S LARGEST was changed to "a large archive"......maybe THE ONLY will get the same fate, since it's the same dude making these dubious claims????
(and the filings have shown nothing yet, years later, to prove it is THE ONLY VIABLE....does not seem viable at ALL so far, so what is the big change coming????)
but next year that will all be different.....as they work to make what was claimed over a year ago, (and if I recall, before THE PITCH also) to be THE ONLY
JBI, Inc (OTC BB: JBII) CEO Interview
Posted by Jack - 10/12/09 at 03:12 am
traders lose????.......shareholders win???.....who said that again????
maybe the same dude:
We have the largest engineering research archive on the planet, as I was out buying all sorts of recycled tape and old tape archives back just prior to the Y2K tech bubble. So, that’s basically how we got our engineering archive.
(kind of ironic, since even back in 2009 or so, JB was shown in a picture comparing how little data the old tapes (a big pallet of them) contain relative to a THUMB DRIVE he was holding!!!....I guess the the old lower tech, lower density tape storage medium somehow was made up for in vast numbers, to have a bigger engineering archive than, say, the IEEE.....yeah, OK)
http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2009/12/jbi-inc-otc-bb-jbii-ceo-interview/
Now, it's probably going to keep drifting until there's some evidence that the company is at least moving toward break even. Until then, I expect the slow downward drift and low volume to continue.
kind of like a stock on vacation!!!!
he has a lot more to worry about than his ex-wife.....like the IRS criminal indictments for 100s of millions in fraud:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79462322
PS: and yes, if someone else is awarded the shares, such as his ex, the IRS, BK trustee, etc, will they still be "locked up" for 3 years????....that is what I asked previously....
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=79418239
well, then maybe do something like reschedule until after the Co gets cash flow positive
If an emergency came up, would you still take a vacation????....JBII is a Co in such a dire situation, burning cash like crazy....stock sinking since the AGM....SEC charges.... machines not performing as expected....what should have happened years ago now being projected (yet again) down the road.....
PS: and if it does not MATTER if he was there or not, what real function is he serving????.....
as usual, MY Opinions, but what do I know, I used to reschedule my vacations for Cos I worked for that had an intense deadline........wow, I even drove once 14 hours straight when an emergency call came in from a client around 8PM, to be there ASAP (too late to get a flight).....maybe I should have told them WHAT, AND NOT GET MY SLEEP????, and lose the account.....
old school work ethics vs penny stock ones.....I'm sure Scandle34 can also relate to working slavish hours to get a project done on schedule....
20 seems to have some tough resistance.....
If the West acted like that, there would be riots and murder every time something like Life of Brian was released.....
instead, we have peaceful protest by those who were offended, using such tactics as boycotts, marches, etc....
BLVT got the big pump today.....lots of misinformation being posted, but most of the facts get swamped by the noise of the usual mindless pumping....
Stanton unsealed: WOW!!!!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/105601350/USA-v-Stanton-Doc-1-Filed-15-Aug-12
wow, he will be going away for awhile, me thinks!!!....looks like he broke every tax law there is!!!....a quarter billion dollar fraudulent backdated promissory note, then another one (he did that TWICE???)!!!!....filing false 1099s for many millions, ut oh!!!!
bribes????
now we know why he REALLY ran, he knew he was going down big-time....
thanks for the link.....John Stanton finally to face some JUSTICE....
“The 9/11 Surfer” Pasquale Buzzelli Cheats Death on Discovery Channel
http://guardianlv.com/2012/09/the-911-surfer-pasquale-buzzelli-cheats-death-on-discovery-channel/
(on the Discovery Channel tonight, might be OT, spam, etc, but please let this stand as a 9/11 interest story)
Pasquale Buzzelli fell and amazing 22 floors in the collapse of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 2001 and lived to tell his story. It’s taken eleven years for his account to be told. And tonight the Discovery Channel will air his story to a national audience. They’ll of course be skeptics that will ask, did it really happen, but the way the story unfolds it appears that Buzzelli may have cheated death.
Buzzelli, 43, who was working as a structural engineer for the Manhattan Port Authority, was one of the last to evacuate the North Tower as it began to collapse.
He claims that he had reached the 22nd floor when the building collapsed beneath him and he was carried down through a blizzard of debris to the seventh floor, where he was rescued by firefighters.
At the time his wife Louise was pregnant with their first child Hope, now ten, and they have since had a second daughter Mia, seven.
He suffered survivor’s guilt for years afterwards but has finally come to terms with the grief thanks to his family.
Pasquale Buzzelli said: “Time heals all wounds and you start to experience joy.
“With the birth of Mia I was finally able to experience those feelings and not feel guilt. In that sense I’ve realized that the best way to honor those that didn’t make it, is to be the best person that I can be.”
His story will be told on the Discovery Channel on the 11th anniversary of the disaster.
Holding the battered briefcase he was carrying that day, he said: “I haven’t opened this up in quite a few years. I came across it in my basement a couple of years after 9/11. I don’t even keep it in the house as it’s a constant reminder of that day. Its basically rode down the building with me and its battered and torn and just a reminder of how lucky I was to survive.”
His story of survival has divided experts. Shiya Ribowsky, who led the investigation into 9/11, said: “You know I have a healthy skepticism which is in no way a reflection on this man’s character.
“In forensics there are certain statistics about the likelihood of surviving a fall and once you get above five stories then statistics are pretty grim. So you’re talking about an exceptional situation. You’re talking the wings of angels here.”
However, Prof. Thomas Eager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has studied the physics of the collapse and believes that the hurricane force wind pushed him down 15 stories.
“His description of a rollercoaster clinched it for me in believing the whole thing,” he said.
Pasquale Buzzelli, who now works in emergency planning for the Port Authority, was in an elevator on his way up to his office the 64thfloor of the North Tower, when the first plane struck at 8:46 a.m.
But instead of evacuating the building, he felt a duty to remain at his desk. He and his colleagues at the Port Authority, were watching the news when the second plane hit.
They finally began to exit at Stairway B, reaching the 22nd floor at 10:28 a.m. when the tower began to collapse.
“I thought something heavy is falling through the stairs or part of the building is collapsing and falling through,” he said.
“I just dove into the stairwell, went into a foetal position, covered my face and hands and buried myself as close to the wall as possible to protect myself from anything falling through.
“It was then that I felt the wall that I was next to and the base of the floor crack open and give way. That’s when I knew that that was it: the entire building was going. I said to myself: I thought of my wife, my unborn child.”
Pasquale Buzzelli’s wife Louise, who was seven months pregnant with their oldest daughter Hope, now ten – they have a second daughter Mia, six – watched in horror as the tower collapsed.
“I knew it was over then at that point,” she said.
“I couldn’t watch anymore. I couldn’t believe that I was there watching this, carrying our first baby. I was a widow and I watched it and there was nothing I could do.”
But, incredibly, Pasquale Buzzelli began to freefall down the stairwell until he landed on the seventh floor. He regained consciousness three hours later, surrounded by twisted metal, with a badly injured ankle.
“I was totally numb,” he said.
“I felt nothing at all. I just opened my eyes and saw blue sky. I really thought I was dead until I started to cough and I started to feel pain in my leg. At that point I started calling out: “Help. Help.”
Back at Ground Zero, firefighters Mike Lyons and Mike Moribito, who disobeyed orders to search the wreckage, found Pasquale Buzzelli as he was beginning to fear he would be burnt alive.
“He looked like he was in a castle,” said Mike Moribito.
“He was sitting there in broad daylight like a king on top of a hill. I can remember it as clear as day.”
Within hours Paquale Buzzelli was in an ambulance on his way to hospital. His first thought was to call his wife Louise.
“I picked up the phone and said: Hello?” she said.
“I heard his voice and he said: Louise it’s me. And I said: Oh my god Pascale. It’s you. And everyone in the house just screamed.”
However, Pasquale Buzzelli began to suffer from survivors’ guilt and it was only a reunion with Mike Lyons, who was also suffered traumatic stress disorder that brought him out of his depression. Mike Lyons’ girlfriend Kathryn traced Pasquale Buzzelli and they now meet regularly.
“Time heals all wounds and you start to experience joy,” he said.
“With the birth of Mia I was finally able to experience those feelings and not feel guilt. In that sense I’ve realized that the best way to honor those that didn’t make it, is tot be the best person that I can be.”
Buzzelli kept in touch with Lyons and Morabito in the years after his rescue, sharing milestones like their children’s birthdays together. But another firefighter who created the rope device that rescued Buzzelli from the rubble, Jimmy Kiesling, had stayed well out of the spotlight. The two were reunited for the first time while working on the documentary.
“It was a really great feeling to just be able to give him a hug and shake his hand,” Buzzelli said.
“It wasn’t difficult to recount what happened to me physically,” he said. “It was more thinking about all the friends and co-workers I lost, about all the other husbands who died who didn’t get to see their children be born and grow up.”
Now on the 11th anniversary of the attacks, Buzzelli and his family feel more comfortable sharing their experiences with the public. Along with the documentary, Buzzelli and his wife wrote a book titled “We All Fall Down,” which tells his story along with the physical and emotional aftermath in the years following the attack. Daughter Hope drew the cover picture, and it can be purchased at 911survivor.com.
Buzzelli’s story is a chilling account of an experience that in all practicality should have ended up bad.
But fate had other plans for Buzzelli.
The Buzzelli’s are the proud parents of two beautiful daughters, Hope and Mia. They’re telling their story in a new book, We All Fall Down, and a Discovery Channel documentary, “The 9/11 Surfer.”
It’s an incredible story, but to some, a bit too incredible.
“Inside Edition’s” Lisa Guerrero said to Buzzelli, “Some skeptics are saying it is impossible to survive the way you did.”
“People are going to believe what they want to believe. I’d be skeptical too, but I know what happened,” he said.
What do you think?
“The 9/11 Surfer” Pasquale Buzzelli Cheats Death on Discovery Channel
http://guardianlv.com/2012/09/the-911-surfer-pasquale-buzzelli-cheats-death-on-discovery-channel/
(on the Discovery Channel tonight, might be "spam" as this is the 3rd post, but please let this stand as a 9/11 interest story)
Pasquale Buzzelli fell and amazing 22 floors in the collapse of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 2001 and lived to tell his story. It’s taken eleven years for his account to be told. And tonight the Discovery Channel will air his story to a national audience. They’ll of course be skeptics that will ask, did it really happen, but the way the story unfolds it appears that Buzzelli may have cheated death.
Buzzelli, 43, who was working as a structural engineer for the Manhattan Port Authority, was one of the last to evacuate the North Tower as it began to collapse.
He claims that he had reached the 22nd floor when the building collapsed beneath him and he was carried down through a blizzard of debris to the seventh floor, where he was rescued by firefighters.
At the time his wife Louise was pregnant with their first child Hope, now ten, and they have since had a second daughter Mia, seven.
He suffered survivor’s guilt for years afterwards but has finally come to terms with the grief thanks to his family.
Pasquale Buzzelli said: “Time heals all wounds and you start to experience joy.
“With the birth of Mia I was finally able to experience those feelings and not feel guilt. In that sense I’ve realized that the best way to honor those that didn’t make it, is to be the best person that I can be.”
His story will be told on the Discovery Channel on the 11th anniversary of the disaster.
Holding the battered briefcase he was carrying that day, he said: “I haven’t opened this up in quite a few years. I came across it in my basement a couple of years after 9/11. I don’t even keep it in the house as it’s a constant reminder of that day. Its basically rode down the building with me and its battered and torn and just a reminder of how lucky I was to survive.”
His story of survival has divided experts. Shiya Ribowsky, who led the investigation into 9/11, said: “You know I have a healthy skepticism which is in no way a reflection on this man’s character.
“In forensics there are certain statistics about the likelihood of surviving a fall and once you get above five stories then statistics are pretty grim. So you’re talking about an exceptional situation. You’re talking the wings of angels here.”
However, Prof. Thomas Eager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has studied the physics of the collapse and believes that the hurricane force wind pushed him down 15 stories.
“His description of a rollercoaster clinched it for me in believing the whole thing,” he said.
Pasquale Buzzelli, who now works in emergency planning for the Port Authority, was in an elevator on his way up to his office the 64thfloor of the North Tower, when the first plane struck at 8:46 a.m.
But instead of evacuating the building, he felt a duty to remain at his desk. He and his colleagues at the Port Authority, were watching the news when the second plane hit.
They finally began to exit at Stairway B, reaching the 22nd floor at 10:28 a.m. when the tower began to collapse.
“I thought something heavy is falling through the stairs or part of the building is collapsing and falling through,” he said.
“I just dove into the stairwell, went into a foetal position, covered my face and hands and buried myself as close to the wall as possible to protect myself from anything falling through.
“It was then that I felt the wall that I was next to and the base of the floor crack open and give way. That’s when I knew that that was it: the entire building was going. I said to myself: I thought of my wife, my unborn child.”
Pasquale Buzzelli’s wife Louise, who was seven months pregnant with their oldest daughter Hope, now ten – they have a second daughter Mia, six – watched in horror as the tower collapsed.
“I knew it was over then at that point,” she said.
“I couldn’t watch anymore. I couldn’t believe that I was there watching this, carrying our first baby. I was a widow and I watched it and there was nothing I could do.”
But, incredibly, Pasquale Buzzelli began to freefall down the stairwell until he landed on the seventh floor. He regained consciousness three hours later, surrounded by twisted metal, with a badly injured ankle.
“I was totally numb,” he said.
“I felt nothing at all. I just opened my eyes and saw blue sky. I really thought I was dead until I started to cough and I started to feel pain in my leg. At that point I started calling out: “Help. Help.”
Back at Ground Zero, firefighters Mike Lyons and Mike Moribito, who disobeyed orders to search the wreckage, found Pasquale Buzzelli as he was beginning to fear he would be burnt alive.
“He looked like he was in a castle,” said Mike Moribito.
“He was sitting there in broad daylight like a king on top of a hill. I can remember it as clear as day.”
Within hours Paquale Buzzelli was in an ambulance on his way to hospital. His first thought was to call his wife Louise.
“I picked up the phone and said: Hello?” she said.
“I heard his voice and he said: Louise it’s me. And I said: Oh my god Pascale. It’s you. And everyone in the house just screamed.”
However, Pasquale Buzzelli began to suffer from survivors’ guilt and it was only a reunion with Mike Lyons, who was also suffered traumatic stress disorder that brought him out of his depression. Mike Lyons’ girlfriend Kathryn traced Pasquale Buzzelli and they now meet regularly.
“Time heals all wounds and you start to experience joy,” he said.
“With the birth of Mia I was finally able to experience those feelings and not feel guilt. In that sense I’ve realized that the best way to honor those that didn’t make it, is tot be the best person that I can be.”
Buzzelli kept in touch with Lyons and Morabito in the years after his rescue, sharing milestones like their children’s birthdays together. But another firefighter who created the rope device that rescued Buzzelli from the rubble, Jimmy Kiesling, had stayed well out of the spotlight. The two were reunited for the first time while working on the documentary.
“It was a really great feeling to just be able to give him a hug and shake his hand,” Buzzelli said.
“It wasn’t difficult to recount what happened to me physically,” he said. “It was more thinking about all the friends and co-workers I lost, about all the other husbands who died who didn’t get to see their children be born and grow up.”
Now on the 11th anniversary of the attacks, Buzzelli and his family feel more comfortable sharing their experiences with the public. Along with the documentary, Buzzelli and his wife wrote a book titled “We All Fall Down,” which tells his story along with the physical and emotional aftermath in the years following the attack. Daughter Hope drew the cover picture, and it can be purchased at 911survivor.com.
Buzzelli’s story is a chilling account of an experience that in all practicality should have ended up bad.
But fate had other plans for Buzzelli.
The Buzzelli’s are the proud parents of two beautiful daughters, Hope and Mia. They’re telling their story in a new book, We All Fall Down, and a Discovery Channel documentary, “The 9/11 Surfer.”
It’s an incredible story, but to some, a bit too incredible.
“Inside Edition’s” Lisa Guerrero said to Buzzelli, “Some skeptics are saying it is impossible to survive the way you did.”
“People are going to believe what they want to believe. I’d be skeptical too, but I know what happened,” he said.
What do you think?