Is Themis Program Management and Consulting Ltd. a Thief? We Think So and Maybe You Can Help Us Prove It.

As we began our investigation of Themis, we found that Themis would hold back money it received from a payor, usually a father, at the beginning of the month, from his pay check that was deposited directly into their bank, so there was no issue of checks having to clear the bank, and hold onto that money for as long as possible right up to just before the next payment by the payor.

Themis was keeping the money for two, almost three weeks, and sometimes a month.

We don't yet know if this was a widespread practice and we are conducting more inquiries to check it out. 

If it was a widespread practice then you can bet Themis was making a whole pile of interest on the money it was keeping in its bank accounts that belonged to parents to help support their children.

With electronic transfers there is no need to hold money for even a single minute.  But Themis was holding it for weeks or longer.

If you have been in a case like this please contact us and let us know some of your details and keep all your banking records.

We are thinking of a class action lawsuit against Themis that could bankrupt the company and put a whole bunch of its executives and employees in jail because that interest doesn't belong to Themis and taking it is theft.

Was Themis Godfather, Brian Smith, A Crook? You Be The Judge!

In our post on December 26, 2010, we told you that Brian Smith was the Attorney General of British Columbia when one of the people working in the Attorney General 's office, Brian Pollick, set up Themis Program Mamagement and Consulting Ltd. and acquired the rights to the British Columbia Family Maintenance Enforcement Program.  

This is what is called  a "sweetheart deal" or "an inside job".  The insider Brian Pollick gets to buy the asset.  In a speech to the legislature, Brian Smith insisted the whole deal was above board and there was no cheating going on but we don't beleive him one little bit because Brain Smith was Attorney General of British Columbia when that Ministry was involved in the Canada's Greatest Scandal - The Water War Crimes.

The Water War Crimes were very active when Brian Smith was Attorney General for British Columbia and while we can't positively say Brian Smith was "on the take" something sure smells rotten because 20 days after the Government of British ColumbIa Ministry of the Attorney General signed a crooked deal to give preferential, unfair treatment to W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd.  a company with friends in the governnent in Ottawa and Victoria, Brian Smith announced he was leaving politics to join Canada's government railway, CN Rail, as Chairman of the Board.

Lots of money

On Spetember 29, 1989, four days after the deal was signed, two of Canada's major law firms closed a major insider trading transaction that saw 4.1 million shares in W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterrprises Ltd. go to a special group of investors and about one half of that went to institutions in England that held the shares for others.  These people stood to make a lot of money based on inside information.  We are not saying the people on the investors lists were guilty of a crime but their brokers and lawyers waited for deal to close before the transaction was closed and it sure looks like Brian Smith took a reward from the Government in Ottawa.  However, it is theoretically possible Brian Smith was appointed Chairman of the Board of CN Rail because he had lots of railway experience playing with his toy trains as a kid.  At the time Brain Smith was appointed, Glen Shortliffe was the Deputy Minister of Transport in Ottawa  who would have approved the appointment and, by co-incidence Glen Shortliffe dropped dead from a sudden unexpected heart attack on May 6, 2010 or at least that is what the Globe and Mail called it.

Allan Gregg

So, you may be asking who was W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. that they got such a benefit from the BC Government and Brian Smith was rewarded with a nice job at CN Rail that included use of a praivate rail car?  Well, look no further, because on the Board of Directions of  W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. was a guy named Allan Gregg who often appears on CBC Television and who has his own web site.

But let's be fair to Allan Gregg, he did not act alone.  There was a whole group of people assisting W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. who could go to jail except the police in Canada  only pick on small guys like Basi and Virk who got caught in the CN Rail deal that involved BC Premier Gordon Campbell and his pal Patrick Kinsella.

Patrick Kinsella

Partick Kinsella has been around BC politics for a very long time.  He worked for Bill Bennett, Bill Vander Zalm and Gordon Campbell.  He knows where all the skeletons are buried and he probably buried a few himself.

Now you are probably asking, so what makes all of this relate to Themis?  Well what you need to know is that Themis is owned by a company called Maximus Inc. as a result of a deal wheere Maximus bought shares in Themis for a whole pile of money and the owners of Themis got rich off the backs of children and  fathers and mothers who were screwed by and who continue to be screwed by Themis and, according to recent reports Brian Smith's son, Christopher Smith, is a registered under the Lobbyist Registration Act in British Columbia to be a registered lobbyist for Maximus.  How convenient??

 Edwards, Ebbels and Shortliffe 

There are a couple of guys, Robert Edwards and Jack Ebbels who were senior people at the British Columbia Ministry of the Attorney General from 1985 to 1993 who could tell us a lot about the deal that saw Brian Pollick set up Themis and aquire the Family Maintenance Enforcement Program and Brian Smith suddenly leave for CN Rail but, by another co-incidence Robert Edwards and Jack Ebbels both died from sudden heart attacks in the past couple of years when their involvement in these issues was published and they were seen as a liability.  Now, we aren't accusing Brian Pollick or Brian Smith of murder but we do think that there is good chance that Robert Edwards, Jack Ebbels and Glen Shortliffe were murdered because they knew a lot and now they can't talk - can they?

How Themis Was Created - Early History - Brian Pollick and Brian Smith.

Themis Program Management and Consulting Ltd. was created in 1988 as a "special project" by British Columbia Attorney General Brian Smith.   According to reliable sources, the Ministry of the Attorney General for British Colummbia has been one of the leading orgainzed crime groups in Canada.
The following is a quotation from the Debates of the Legislative Assembly 1988 Legislative Session: 2nd Session, 34th Parliament

HON. B.R. SMITH:  "Yesterday the member for Esquimalt-Port Renfrew (Mr. Sihota) asked a question of the Premier concerning conflict-of-interest guidelines, and [ Page 5332 ] question was deferred to me.  The question concerned Themis Program Management and Consulting Ltd., the successful bidder in a contract with the family maintenance enforcement program, and one Brian Pollick.  After I was in possession of further information, I thought I should bring a full answer back to this House.

The allegation made by the member for Esquimalt-Port Renfrew in his question was that there was a breach of the ministerial guidelines, in that Mr. Pollick, a senior public office-holder, had, within the preceding six-month period, access to information not available to the general public which he could use for personal gain. I'm happy to advise the House that that interpretation of those guidelines is absolutely erroneous and not supported by the facts.

The facts are, just very briefly, that Mr. Pollick worked in my ministry as director of a maintenance enforcement pilot project during 1985, resigned in July 1986 and then became director of the special projects division of my ministry. During that period he did not have responsibilities for maintenance enforcement.  Maintenance enforcement was separate, and a new maintenance enforcement act was put into planning stage in 1987, and was introduced and passed in late 1987.

The process to find out who would do the bid in this contract was in accordance with the exemplary guidelines of the privatization program. I say exemplary because everyone in my ministry was told that if they wished to bid for anything like this, they would have to announce it, take leaves of absence and step down when they prepared their bids.

Pollick, who had nothing to do with and no special knowledge of this program for over a year and a half, followed those guidelines.  He went forward and submitted his credentials to the privatization branch, and he made his bid. All proper procedures were followed by him. He took a leave of absence to make his bid in November 1987, the day the request for proposals was issued. He had no special knowledge of the tendering process. He had nothing to do with the drafting of the legislation, and no special considerations were given to him.  In fact, every effort was made during the whole thing to avoid the appearance and fact of any conflict of interest.

I state those things not to try and justify my role as a minister under that guideline, because I don't think that guideline applies at all to someone in this position.  I stand to simply set the record straight for Mr. Pollick, because I think that when good public servants like Mr. Pollick and Miss Gifford - who had nothing to do with this project, but is a partner in it - come forward with creative bids to try and do things in the private sector that we may sometimes do in government, they should be encouraged and not have slurs thrown at them. They should be encouraged in that process , and we should not be using good public servants like that as sticks to beat the privatization program or for some argument about ministerial guidelines, because it's not applicable.  I hope the member - because I know he's fair-minded - will correct the statements he made".

Comment: So, Brian Pollick working for the Brian  Smith, then Attorney General of British Columbia, bid on and bought the Government Program that has been accused of collecting child support money, holding it in the bank, for as long as it can to collect interest, and then, finally, pays it out, at the last moment, after profitting from starving mothers and children.

And Brian Smith . . . wants the Legislature, our representatives, to believe that Brian Pollick didn't know anything about the program when he bid on it.    

Well, I don't believe Brian Smith for one little minute because he was one of the key players in the Water War Crimes, one of the greatest crooked deals in Canadian history.

The Work of Destroying Themis Program Management and Consulting Ltd. begins.

This blog is dedicated to exposing the one of Canada's greatest human rights violators, Themis Program Management and Consulting Ltd.,  a company with a genuine gestapo mentaility that operates the Family Maintenance Enforcement Program in British Columbia on behalf of Raymond Ruddy and his billion dollar company, Maximus Inc.

We need your help.

The people who operate Themis and Maximus are bad - real bad - they need to be exposed for what they have done.  We want your stories and submissions.

We want information about every one of the employees of Maximus and Themis.  All information, good and bad is useful.

That information will be added to our databases and we will be able to track abuses by individual employees of Maximus and Themis and use that information to assist innocent victims of Maximus and Themis obtain redress.

So if you have any information, pass it along and let's get the job done and destroy these companies and the people who have profitted from harming innocent men, women, and especially children, in Canada.