Interesting choice of colors there McBerg
Posted on 05/14/2004 3:43:32 AM PDT by calcowgirl
Prometheus Methods Tower Services Inc., the business that cost Nick Berg his life in Iraq, has no records with the Pennsylvania Department of State.
The company that specialized in building communications towers never registered with the Pennsylvania Corporation Bureau, said Brian McDonald, spokesman for the state department.
McDonald conducted a search of the bureau’s online list of registered businesses, but found no matches.
The same search done by a Daily Local News reporter produced the same results -- several businesses contained the word "Prometheus" in their names. Only one is located in West Chester, and it is not related to Berg’s business.
Companies are not legally required to register with the state, but McDonald explained it is usually the first step an owner takes.
"You’d be very foolish not to register your business with the department," he said. "It is nearly impossible to exist without doing it."
Registering allows an owner to set up his business’s tax structure. It also establishes how the business is run, for example, whether or not it is for-profit or nonprofit.
"It is basically the infrastructure by which businesses are set up in the commonwealth," McDonald said.
McDonald added it is possible the business could be listed in the bureau’s records under a different name.
Searching the statewide yellow pages online found two company names containing the word "Prometheus" in Philadelphia. One is an Internet consulting business.
An employee at the second one, which is called Prometheus Radio Project, said it was not affiliated with the business owned by the local man slain in Iraq by members of al-Qaida.
Officials at the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue and the Internal Revenue Service said state and federal laws prohibited their agencies from providing any records they had of Prometheus Methods Tower Services -- even whether the company had ever filed a return.
"Any information that we get or is contained on a tax return I can’t release," said Steve Kniley, press secretary for the state revenue department. "It is considered confidential under tax law."
Tax records become public information only if a lien is filed against a business. According to Kniley, there are no liens against Berg’s company.
Bill Cressman, spokesman at the IRS’s Philadelphia office, said the only companies with public tax records are nonprofit corporations.
At least one person claims he can confirm Prometheus’ existence.
Jay Shur, who works at the radio station WCHE 1520 AM in West Chester, said on Wednesday he was in the process of hiring Berg to build a communications tower for the station when news of his death came out.
The station was awaiting approval of plans from both the borough and an environmental agency before construction could begin, according to Shur.
"There’s a lot of paperwork to go through, and the area we were looking at was a marsh- land so we had to get clearance," he said."When I do get the OK, I’ll have to look for another contractor."
Michael Berg briefly spoke about Prometheus during a press conference Thursday morning outside his home.
"My son was not over there to make money," Michael Berg said. "My son’s business, which was very profitable before he went to Iraq ..I will make good on anything the company owes anybody, but it’s pretty much going to be defunct."
It is unclear how many employees Prometheus had. Michael Berg spoke of a "foreman" during the press conference. However, Nick Berg traveled to Iraq alone.
Staff Writer Jill Nawrocki contributed to this article.
damn,,now I am unsure,,let me check and get back.
You win the tinfoil cup for best imaginative interpretation of a name.
I'm beginning to think Nick Berg's DADDY has some explaining to do. I get the feeling that Michael Berg is part of the problem.
But it makes me FURIOUS when Michael Berg blames President Bush and Rumsfeld for his son's hideous murder. It was the five hooded THINGS who did the ghastly beheading!
Isn't this absolutely grotesque beyond belief. Our country has turned upside down.
Nick Berg, like Danny Pearle - American Jews - this is starting to get really scary. Actually I'm an adopted Jew according to the Scriptures. Yikes!
When in DC for the Second Amendment Sisters rally Mother's Day, we visited the Holocaust Museum. I can't tell you what an awesome experience. People were speaking in whispers if they spoke at all. It is a sacred place. Never forget.
Bump to read later...can't keep up.
The plot thickens.
yep, Uganda,,on the Thread Beheading Victim Loved Adventure and Risk. He was there spring of 1998 as part of Cornells semester abroad. He did not return to Cornell. Uganda was a hotbed of al quaeda then,,they were trying to set up cells. He came home in bad shape I do believe. Now when were the africa bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. And are there any terrorists connections in Cornell? I sound tin foilish but there is something here.
It's about a 30 minutes drive between the two areas
Also .. Lafayette Hill has a large jewish population .. I wouldn't be surprised if you found a other Jewish Lawyers named Berg that worked on lived lived in Lafayette Hill
Me too. Have you seen what they are doing at Rumsfeld's house - demonstrating about Abu Ghraib? The photos were on Yahoo... under images, top news stories.
These creatures were dressed up like all the prisoners, including the one with the cape and wires being "electrocuted"... staging out all the pictures on his front lawn (almost). Outrageous!
worked on lived = worked or lived
Ding...ding...ding. We have a winner!
You are correct. The whole “Bush supporter”, over there to make money BS, etc., is a PHONY cover story. The father and son were cut from the same cloth. Unfortunately, typical naïve liberal thinking and it cost the boy his life. Daddy is guilt ridden and can’t accept the truth.
Sad.
Thanks! I'll conclude that they are probably NOT related then.
Post 22 on the thread Beheading Victim loved adventure and risk. It is an article from Wash Post. It talks about his trip to Uganda. And the post 22 has a bit about the al quaeda funded activities in Uganda at the very same time. Coincedence????
Try Mossad - double agent style.
Forget my last post
Hello??
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5348
He wasn't "a friend" of Moussoai. Moussoai ended up with access to Berg's e-mail passwords. No telling how.
To be honest .. I can't say for sure .
Lafayette Hill is an upper class neighborhood and with the Montgomery County Courthouse close by, there are a lot of law firms around .. a number of them are jewish
Interesting choice of colors there McBerg
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