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Edmonton's William Grosvenor, posing as AvoidGrosvenor <AvoidGrosvenor@Grosvomit.Capital.Canada.com> wrote in news:54gip8lnsp84jg89m8rgv7rmbhv6cji3mc@4ax.com:

> Edmonton Wants New GROSVENOR TAX and Many BILLIONS + 1000's laughing
> at the filthy dumb cunt.

"Master of Malice: The Ghermezians put an end to Bill 
Grosvenor's 'news tips'"
Alberta Report, July 3, 1989

The Ghermezians backed their application for the gag order with 
stories from Alberta Report and the West German newspaper Die 
Zeit. Alberta Report has also obtained numerous letters, court 
documents, newspaper articles - even Grosvenor's own resume - 
dating back to 1970, revealing that Grosvenor, 48, has a 
criminal record for assault and extortion, that he was diagnosed 
at Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in British Columbia in 1973 as 
suffering from a paranoid personality disorder, and that his 
harassment of the Ghermezians is only the latest in a 20-year 
series of vendettas against corporations and individuals, 
including leading figures of the British Columbia legislature 
and judiciary. The documents also reveal a remarkable 
willingness on the part of some newspapers to accept Grosvenor 
at face value. The Edmonton Journal, in particular, has 
described him over the years as a "consultant," an "import-
export consultant" and "president of an international management 
consulting firm," lending Grosvenor a credibility which his 
history shows is not deserved.

William David Michael Grosvenor's career as a self-described 
opponent of graft and corruption began shortly after he arrived 
in Toronto (he says from England) in the mid-1960s, and it got 
off to an inauspicious start. According to a Vancouver Sun story 
about Grosvenor in July 1970, Grosvenor was fined $50 in April 
1967 for assaulting a security guard who was attempting to eject 
him from a bank he was picketing over alleged "irregularity." At 
about the same time, Grosvenor claimed credit for uncovering 
wrongdoing in the affairs of Prudential Finance Corp., an 
Ontario company that collapsed owing creditors $20 million. But 
then-Finance minister Mitchell Sharp told parliament that 
Grosvenor had "revealed nothing of value." Indeed, Mr. Sharp 
believed that Grosvenor, who describes himself in his resume as 
"a registered expert on fraudulent bankruptcies with the RCMP," 
had probably been fired by Prudential's auditors. In 1968, after 
a brief stint with an accounting firm in Halifax (where he 
changed his name from Gruber), Grosvenor left for Prince Rupert, 
B.C., where he found work with accountant Odd Eidsvik. A source 
claims Mr. Eidsvik soon became disenchanted with Grosvenor's 
work and cut his pay in half.

It was while living in Prince Rupert that Grosvenor discovered a 
new avenue for pursuing his many grievances: the courts. In 
February 1970, Grosvenor charged Prince Rupert MLA William 
Murray and provincial court Judge W.N. Poole under the B.C. 
Companies Act with failing to file an annual return for 
companies of which he claimed they were directors. A district 
judge promptly threw out the charges, noting that Grosvenor had 
failed to make even a prima facie case that Mr. Murray and Judge 
Poole were directors of the companies in question - but not 
before the story was picked up and prominently displayed by the 
Vancouver Province, which printed the news of the charges 
without comment. At about the same time, Grosvenor charged the 
local Bank of Montreal with forgery. Again the case was 
dismissed, with Judge J.T. Harvey labelling Grosvenor a "master 
of malice" for bringing an action against a bank that had 
intended only to spare him the embarrassment of having a cheque 
bounce.

All told, Grosvenor brought seven court cases in less than a 
year while living in Prince Rupert. Four never got to trial, two 
were dismissed and one ended with Grosvenor being ordered to pay 
a counter-claim larger than the amount owed him. In July 1970, 
Mr. Justice A.B. Macfarlane of the B.C. Supreme Court invoked a 
law designed to prevent abuse of the courts to prohibit 
Grosvenor from instituting any new legal proceedings in the 
province without the permission of a court. In the meantime, 
Grosvenor himself had faced charges. In April 1970 he was 
convicted of attempting to extort $50 from Prince Rupert 
businessman Campbell McLeod by threatening to prosecute him 
under the B.C. Companies Act. He was sentenced to one day in 
jail and fined $400.

Shortly thereafter Grosvenor moved to suburban Vancouver, where 
he found a new target in General Motors Canada Ltd. (GM), 
manufacturers of the problem-plagued Firenza. In May 1973 he and 
a woman named Hendrika Peeters, with whom he shared a New 
Westminster address, stationed themselves outside a Vancouver GM 
dealership and attempted to steer potential customers to another 
GM dealership a few blocks away. "It is utterly incredible to 
me," said Mr. Justice A.A. Mackoff of the B.C. Supreme Court in 
issuing an injunction barring Grosvenor from the site, "that a 
group saying it seeks to relay information about General Motors 
should have the temerity to say this GM dealer is a good guy and 
the other GM dealer, who sells the same products they labelled 
as junk, is a bad guy." Throughout the affair, Grosvenor passed 
himself off as the B.C. representative of the respected 
Automobile Protection Association (APA), prompting APA president 
Phil Edmonston to ask B.C.'s attorney- general to investigate 
whether Grosvenor had been "soliciting money or carrying out 
other undesirable activities in our name."

Grosvenor dropped out of sight during the mid-1970s, during 
which time he claims to have been a consultant, "processed for 
top secret and military security clearance," to the prime 
minister of Malaysia. In 1980 he surfaced in Edmonton where he 
threatened to sue the city for $200 when a tent belonging to a 
Malaysian cultural group with which he was associated blew down 
in a storm during the city's Heritage Days festival. In February 
1980, he also gained attention when he apologized to the Iranian 
Embassy for Canada's role in spiriting six U.S. diplomats out of 
Tehran in the days following the Islamic revolution. Grosvenor 
called the assistance given to the diplomats by Kenneth Taylor, 
Canada's ambassador to Iran, a "criminal act" intended to aid 
U.S. "spies."

In the intervening years, Grosvenor has waged an unceasing 
campaign intended, in his words "to put the Ghermezians out of 
business." After returning from West Germany last week, 
Grosvenor was holed up in his home in Edmonton's Dickinsfield 
neighbourhood, reportedly refusing service of the Triple Five 
gag order. The company's lawyers were preparing to go to court 
again Monday morning for an order allowing them to nail the 
injunction to the door of Grosvenor's home, which is in fact 
owned by his wife, Sario. Grosvenor could also face extortion 
charges in connection with his campaign against the Ghermezians. 
According to a $22-million lawsuit filed against him by the 
family, Grosvenor told a Ghermezian associate that a payment of 
$1.2 million would leave him "too busy to continue his 
harassment of the plaintiffs for at least three year." The 
Ghermezians intend to keep him quiet for a lot longer than that.

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http://tinyurl.com/GROSVENORPRESS  My Ugly Self
http://tinyurl.com/GROSVENORSUCKS  My Court Shellacking
http://tinyurl.com/GROSVENORLEGAL  My Shameful Legal History
My Name is William Grosvenor       Certified General Asshole