Not legal advice but here's what I would do if I was Grant or one of these runners owed money and I'm not paid on July 31.
1) Send an email / letter to GST stating that money was owed and not paid on time
2) Speak with other runners and hire an attorney
3) Have attorney send email / letter demanding payment and information on GST finances
4) Press GST for amounts owed and information -- document communication
5) If 1-4 fail, file unvoluntary bankruptcy petition against GST
That’s what the fools do. El G wouldn’t do that, he would bat and eyelid and say ‘receipts all on me’ and it’s over, class act of a man. Grant has no class. He can use this opportunity to donate but he opted wrong. The corrupt litigating ways of the world has infected him and Jakob Ingy. Both toons going to court to solve lame problems.
I still stand by anybody competing in GST was doing more harm to the sport than good. As if they thought they were going to get $100k for winning a race, DL is the pinaccle and just about makes $10k work.
A vanity project praised by people like Bobby Kersee and SML who do more harm to the sport than good.
That’s what I thought as all of the names started signing contracts to compete in this sham. But how could they pass up such money? Listening to him give interviews about changing his prep to balance GST and WC, again, it did not seem worth it. But how could you pass up that type of money? It was a risk and the athletes were scammed. It happens. Not usually this public. That money was never “theirs” but it does hurt to be scammed. Fisher racked up a nice chunk and it seemed almost unbelievable, like Monopoly money, and maybe it was.
So these guys are supposed to compete & not get paid? How would you like to work as an accountant for 40-50 hours a week and not get paid?
It was a one off incident, unforeseen as stated by MJ, can you at least read? I’ll give another example. If Grant Fisher is running on the track unobstructed suddenly unexplainable collapses and dies mid race of a heart attack, totally unforeseen, are you going to enforce the meet organiser to bear all the consequences of his death? There was nothing they could do, there was no warning and Grant didn’t inform them that he was going ti drop dead mid race and stop him from racing. It was an act of God which has no real recourse except forgiveness and acceptance.
I still stand by anybody competing in GST was doing more harm to the sport than good. As if they thought they were going to get $100k for winning a race, DL is the pinaccle and just about makes $10k work.
A vanity project praised by people like Bobby Kersee and SML who do more harm to the sport than good.
That’s what I thought as all of the names started signing contracts to compete in this sham. But how could they pass up such money? Listening to him give interviews about changing his prep to balance GST and WC, again, it did not seem worth it. But how could you pass up that type of money? It was a risk and the athletes were scammed. It happens. Not usually this public. That money was never “theirs” but it does hurt to be scammed. Fisher racked up a nice chunk and it seemed almost unbelievable, like Monopoly money, and maybe it was.
You can only be scammed if you are scammable. Fools like Grant Hocker and Nuguse even Kerr are all gullible guys. Too young, haven’t seen the world like us engineers and accountants in the industry, they thought the world is all nice and dandy.
1990s El G would never have been swayed by fast cash.
GST was the Fyre Festival of track and field. MJ was Billy MacFarland and Merber was Ja Rule.
MJ was the master seductor and Grant Nuguse Kerr Hocker and Arop the seduced, the prey, the bait, the trafficked. You can see this sort of hierarchy in every industry and government in the world, in China and America.
Merber is one of those people who seems "BIG" in track and then you see her is a very normal guy at whatever basic job he works----BUT hes very good at the "runner sale" which is looking pretty, having some IQ, and doing that popular social media game crapp....
obviously I had no faith in him ahha. hes not a CEO? hes not the dominant kind of guy who gets things done.
Merber cares about being "cool" to track people lmao, hes never run a business. he wears ear rings and posts liberal semi-hippie pretending to be nice posts online, but it should be loathed that he is NOT what he trys to be.
He is not face or sport, hes not even much in his career. what idiots let this bratty millenial who always needs attention real money$ haha
Merber is an attention Hore. always was. he was fast, but then you see him try to rebrand as a smart savy busienss person. yeah no. stay in your lane making 75k a year at VISA and being a once sort of fast runner.
Merber still hasn't made a single comment. Disgusting. He's been friends with some of these athletes for 10 years.
Pretty obvious now that Merber is complicit alongside MJ.
If you work for a company, and your boss publicly promised something, and then maybe possibly broke the law or at least breached a contract by failing to fulfil said promise, you STFU until told otherwise by your lawyer (not your company's lawyer), regardless of what you did, lest you wind up being the fall guy. Save your fury for MJ, who clearly deserves it. He was captaining the ship, he deserves the blame.
Merber has free will to stay or leave GST. Staying there and remaining silent proves that he was in on the scam.
Why would Merber want to work for and protect a guy that stole 13 million from the athletes? Because Merber was involved in the crime, too!
Not legal advice but here's what I would do if I was Grant or one of these runners owed money and I'm not paid on July 31.
1) Send an email / letter to GST stating that money was owed and not paid on time
2) Speak with other runners and hire an attorney
3) Have attorney send email / letter demanding payment and information on GST finances
4) Press GST for amounts owed and information -- document communication
5) If 1-4 fail, file unvoluntary bankruptcy petition against GST
That’s what the fools do. El G wouldn’t do that, he would bat and eyelid and say ‘receipts all on me’ and it’s over, class act of a man. Grant has no class. He can use this opportunity to donate but he opted wrong. The corrupt litigating ways of the world has infected him and Jakob Ingy. Both toons going to court to solve lame problems.
Thankfully I think Fisher has the resources, savvy, and connections to hire a good lawyer or three and follow their advice, rather than yours. Grant will be fine at the end of this. Can’t say the same for everyone involved in this fiasco.
Citius mag is interesting because I think they've generally been a positive thing, but they're so sycophantic.
Aisha Praughtleer and that Eric guy have been given a spin off pod and they have much less loyalty to people or even Kyle, so have gone so much harder on topics like drugs, GST flopping, the Kipyegon attempt, than i've heard from an insider T+F pod.
Hope their listenership is high enough and they gain confidence so when they come back with the Citius guys at Champs and Trials, they keep calling out the bull as much.
As others have noted, I'm not surprised that Merber isn't making any statements. Any lawyer would tell him not to speak publicly about all of this (and I reckon he's spoken with one). I think he left a steady, well-paying job for this, so he must also be not thrilled by this whole development.
What I am surprised by is that he must have known that the 8-figure investor pulled out around the time of the Kingston meet and he didn't jump ship or otherwise indicate that anything was wrong to the athletes (I assume, given that athletes continued to show up). I just can't imagine how he--someone I view as reasonable--rationalized that this was going to all work out.
