Tim Brown (aka Aaron Timmer Brown) sacked by Wine.Pop

Tim Brown (aka Aaron Timmer Brown)

The very good news is that Tim Brown (aka Aaron Timmer Brown) has been sacked by Wine.Pop. His consultant contract as market manager for Wine.Pop was terminated by Tom Voltz, founder and editor in chief, on Thursday 8th December 2016. Brown's contract was due to end on 31st December 2016. Voltz informed Brown that his contract would not be prolonged. 

Tom Voltz

Sinisa Curovic

Wine.Pop 

I hope that getting rid of Brown will now allow Wine.Pop to progress and fulfill its aim to support small wineries in offering oenotourism.

I want to make it clear that I have never been against Wine.Pop per se. Instead I was very concerned that Brown was part of this project. I would like to see Tom Voltz and Sinisa Curovic now making Wine.Pop a success. 

Comment from Tom Voltz of Wine.Pop (14.12.16): 

'Dear Jim,

Pursuant to our tele conversation:

I advised Tim Brown last week, that I would not be prolonging the contract running out on December 31st 2016 and asked him to cease any activity for WinePop effective December 8th 2016.

With WinePop I am trying to level the playing field especially for smaller and medium sized wineries, so that they can present themselves equally well as the big players. The project started two years ago as ArteBacchus. Originally I planned a series of books in multiple languages about the many unknown wineries (in the public eye). It turned out, that books these days are not the way to reach the general public. While the first edition of the app had it’s focus on offering an audio guide system for winery tours, without wineries having to invest in expensive equipment, it quickly turned out, that the extensive information section was considered much more valuable. So this is, what we are focusing on now (the audio guide being integrated). Me from an editor’s point of view and Sinisa Curovic from a wine expert’s view.

Best regards

Tom Voltz

•••

Tim Brown

As for Tim Brown, the abrupt and early ending of his contract with Wine.Pop, tells you all you need to know about Brown along with his theft of the bulk of the Paul Kimmage Defense Fund and his failure to honor the maintenance payments in Canada to his wife.  

This latest episode should persuade anyone in the wine industry in Catalonia and the rest Spain that it is a very bad idea to employ Tim Brown (aka Aaron Timmer Brown) in any capacity whatsoever.   

Further insights into the character of Tim Brown (aka Aaron Timmer Brown) who trousered the Paul Kimmage Fund.

 

 

 Tim Brown: 'His lies are so deep rooted, he, 

himself has no idea what the truth is or is not.'
Comment on Cycling Tips: October 2013

Interesting piece here from Cycling Tips (published October 2013) on Aaron Timmer Brown (now known as Tim Brown in Spain's Catalonia). I found some of the comments on Brown's 'character' particularly illuminating.
 

Regarding Wine.Pop (Twitter), where Brown is marketing director, several Ambassadors, who were supposed to be selling the advantages of the Wine.Pop app to wineries for a commission, report that they have heard nothing from Wine.Pop since my first piece on fraudster Tim Brown (aka Aaron Timmer Brown) went up last Sunday. Either Brown should cease to have any involvement with this business or the app should indeed go pop and disappear.     

I see that the reputable wine luggage company Lazenne have an association with Wine-Pop. I trust they are fully aware of Tim Brown's background. 

It is clear that Aaron Timmer Brown has many friends and admirers as my initial post has to date proved to be the 3rd most popular since launching the blog in August 2008.  

Catching up on Brown:
Aaron Timmer Brown – the fraudster involved in Wine.Pop (the initial post)
Wine-Pop + Paul Kimmage Defense Fund: response from Aaron Timmer Brown/ Tim Brown + court doc quotes

Wine Pop + Paul Kimmage Fund – Lesli Cohen's response to Aaron Brown's assertions

Yesterday Aaron Timmer Brown (aka Tim Brown) made a number of claims in his response to my post – Aaron Timmer Brown – the fraudster involved in Wine.Pop.

Below is the reply from Lesli Cohen, Brown's former business partner in Cyclismas:

'I don’t even know where to begin with this.

1. As a journalist, you don’t have to reveal your sources to Aaron. He’s a sputtering bloviate and cites specious facts in support of his delusions.

2. You can be sure that if Aaron is involved in a venture, he is pulling strings behind the scenes. He never takes on a minor role in anything, ever. 

3. The money was stolen, it was proved in a court of law that he unlawfully took possession of it (the definition of stealing), and if, as he claims, the funds aren’t missing, then where are they and why has he refused to return them in spite of promises to the contrary on his ridiculous KimmageFundRefund.com blog? https://kimmagefundrefund.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/refunds-to-commence-january-2014-refund-request-extension/ There were two separate litigations in Massachusetts. One was my lawsuit against Aaron to dissolve the Cyclismas partnership and seek the reimbursement of embezzled company monies, and the second was the class action lawsuit for the return of the Kimmage Fund. Aaron’s claims that Bill violated Wisconsin judicial ethics is a lie. Further, Aaron’s claim that the Cyclismas business was not an established business is rubbish. We had a website, salaried employees, a weekly Internet television show, a PayPal account, and as Cyclismas, had conducted monetary business transactions with several leading companies in the cycling industry. That is considered a legitimate business pretty much anywhere in the world. The primary reason the lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts is because that is the state in which I reside. When Aaron retained a Massachusetts lawyer to represent him and then filed countersuits against me, he acknowledged and accepted this fact as a legitimate legal action.

4. Aaron didn’t withdraw from the case; his attorney realized her client was not going to pay her, and that his fabrications and failures to provide truthful information to the discovery process made it impossible for her to represent him. She repeatedly requested of the court to be removed as his counsel, only to have the court refuse as this would allow Aaron to slip away from the process and hide in Spain out of the court’s reach. And this business about my request to provide the names and addresses of the donors is a complete lie. I didn’t request that information as I already had it as I was the curator of the donation process for the Kimmage Fund. Aaron was NOT the custodian of this campaign. He had very little to do with it except for illegally taking the money donated and using it for his own purposes. Further, I never said I didn’t want responsibility for maintaining that information. I already *had* that responsibility. It boggles my mind that Aaron can continue to make up such blatant lies like this and repeat them with a straight face. It reminds me of Donald Trump, another great sociopath and compulsive liar. Honestly. This paragraph has me shaking my head in dismay and outrage: "Based upon the well-known activities of the plaintiff in the case, there was no guarantee of that information remaining safe, nor court censure for any violations. This lawsuit filed was nothing more than a smokescreen to engage in defamatory activity of supposed illegal conduct."

5. The basis for the campaign to raise funds for Paul Kimmage’s defense was so that he would have money available to defend himself, no matter when. There wasn’t an endpoint to when or how he could use the money we raised. It’s true that we paid the initial legal bills, but Aaron stole the remaining money before the UCI dropped their suit against Kimmage. There was no way for Aaron to know whether or not Paul would need money in the future. Aaron’s assertion that it’s my fault that he took the money because I didn’t agree with what should be done with the remainder of the fund is fucking ridiculous.

6. Blah blah blah.

7. I did not harass any of the wineries for two years. Just ask them. Two years ago I didn’t even know Aaron was involved in the wine business in Catalunya. 

8. "Additional steps." Idle threats. What a windbag.'

Wine-Pop + Paul Kimmage Defense Fund: response from Aaron Timmer Brown/ Tim Brown + court doc quotes

I have just received the following responses (see below) from Aaron Timmer Brown in reply to my post Aaron Timmer Brown  – the fraudster involved in Wine.Pop and the questions sent to Brown on Saturday 5th November 2016. 

The complaint filed by Lesli Cohen against 

Aaron Brown and Siroque Holdings Inc

30.4.2013. The disappearance of part of the 

Paul Kimmage Fund formed part of this case

– from para 18 onwards 

 O

The final judgment – document dated 15.1.2015 

My comment:
I hope that Aaron Brown did not spend too much time over the weekend compiling his response (below). 

However Brown chooses to dress/spin this up the salient facts are: 

* The court judgment in the Massachusettes Superior Court
* Evidence from Nova Scotia that Aaron Brown has not paid maintenance (alimony/child support)  

The US court judgment:

In the light of Brown's response tt is worth quoting paras 4 and 5 of the final judgment as well as the Order for Judgment section: 

'4. Ms Cohen's affidavit addressing Counts IV, V, VI establishes that donors contributed a total of $93,099.09 to the Kimmage Defence Fund, which was deposited into the Cyclismas PayPal account. Aaron Brown disbursed $23,164.00 from the Cyclismas account to legitimately pay the legal expenses of Paul Kimmage. The balance that remained in the Kimmage Defense Fund  after deducting those expenses, as of April 30, 2013, should have been $69,935.00. Despite repeated demands and orders of this Court including an order that was issued from the bench on January 16, 2014 and written orders dated January 31 and July 9, 2014, Defendants have refused to return or account for the Kimmage Defense Fund. Mr Hue, as Rule 23 representative of donors to the Kimmage Defense Fund, is therefore entitled to damages in the amount of $69,935.00 plus prejudgment interest from April 30, 2013, which is both the date on which this action commenced and the date of the first formal demand for an accounting of the Kimmage Defense Fund. 

5. In addition, by order dated July 9, 2014, this court adjudged Mr. Brown and Siroque Holdings, Inc, to be in contempt based on failure to provide information relating to the Kimmage Defense Fund and, and it awarded contempt damages in the amount of $11,169.16 to compensate Ms. Cohen for attorney' fees and costs she incurred in securing the Order for Contempt. Therefore, Ms Cohen is entitled to an additional award of $11,169.16, plus prejudgment interest and costs from July 9, 2014.'     

Order for judgment

'Based on the foregoing it is hereby ORDERED that judgment shall enter on Count 1 declaring that: (1) the Cyclismas partnership terminated effective as of April 30, 2013; 2) Plaintiff Lesli Cohen shall recover from the Defendants Aaron Brown and Siroque Holdings, Inc. the sum of $28,802 representing her share of the Cyclismas partnership assets with prejudgment interest from April 30, 2013 in the amount of $5,918.22; 3) Plaintiff Lesli Cohen shall recover from Defendants Aaron Brown and Siroque Holdings, Inc. the additional sum of $11,169.16 with prejudgment interest from July 9, 2014 in the amount of $697.68 based on this Court's Order dated July 9, 2014; and 4) Plaintiff Lesli Cohen shall also recover of Aaron Brown her statutory costs of $275, such that the combined total amount that Lesli Cohen shall recover of Aaron Brown and Siroque Holdings, Inc shall be $46,862.06 with post judgment interest as provided by law from the date of entry of final judgment; and 

It is further ORDERED that a separate judgment shall enter on Counts IV, V, VI in favour of William Hue, in his capacity as Rule 23 representative of that class of persons who contributed to the Kimmage Defense Fund against Aaron Brown and Siroque Holdings, Inc for the sum of $69,935.00 plus prejudgment interest from April 30, 2013 in the amount of $14,370.25 plus statutory costs of 275 such that the combined total amount that William Hue shall recover of Aaron Brown and Siroque Holdings, Inc. shall be $84,580.25 with post judgment interest as provided by law from the date of entry of final judgment.             

Dated 15th January 2015.

•••

I am amused that Brown describes citing the US court judgment and his failure to pay maintenance (alimony/child support) as as 'smear' campaign. I fancy the judicial authorities of Massachusettes and Nova Scotia will find this less amusing.

Brown is the first 'marketing director' I know to claim his work number as 'private' and to object to it being made public.  

I am also amused that Brown has threatened me with the Protection of Harassment Act 1997. The last person to threaten me with this act was my old friend Stephen Cleeve, whose solicitors sent me a legal stiffy. Details see here. I suggest that Brown takes a look at: Court of Appeal – Iqbal v Dean Manson EWCA Civ 123 Section 34 paras 32-35 on page 12 of the judgment. 

Two responses from Aaron Brown: 

Dear Mr. Budd,

1. First and foremost, I expressly forbid you from sharing/discussing details of any personal information including address, phone numbers, email addresses, identification documents or any documents identifying alleged personal transactions or accounts. You have posted my passport photo, and a purported court document, along with private contact information. Please remove all within 24 hours, or I will be filing complaints with Wordpress, and also the authorities in your jurisdiction. These are my rights protected by EU and UK laws. I would also like you to answer where you procured these documents, and also where you procured the confidential information about WinePop’s sales programs.

2. Secondly, my involvement with WinePop is in a marketing capacity. I am not the "figure behind the Wine.Pop app". All management and ownership of WinePop are fully aware of the four year smear campaign orchestrated and conducted by an ex-business associate.

3. On the topic of the ex-business associate, it is unfortunate the campaign conducted for Kimmage concluded so poorly. I will state that your assertion of money being “stolen," is completely false, and unproven. As well, the supposed “missing funds” are not missing and will be dealt with appropriately in due course. The litigation in Massachusetts was a business dissolution action, not a “class action lawsuit”. An elected judge in Wisconsin, part of the smear campaign, injected himself into the proceedings, by attempting to attach a “class action", which in itself is a violation of the Wisconsin Judicial Code of Ethics for involving himself in a lawsuit while a presiding judge. The other peculiarity of the civil filing is the “business” was not an established business, but under Massachusetts law, anyone can say anything is a business and dissolve a “relationship”. This was the primary reason why the lawsuit was filed in that jurisdiction, as opposed to Canada or Spain, my two nations of residence, as neither would have accepted the filing.

4. The reason why there is a judgement of any sort, is due to the fact I withdrew from the case and from my countersuit for defamation because of the plaintiff’s request to provide the names, email addresses, and donation amount of the donors, and also the same information of those who requested refunds via https://kimmagefundrefund.wordpress.com. As the custodian of this campaign, I was obliged to protect this information, otherwise it could have resulted in additional legal battles in multiple jurisdictions worldwide, if I shared this information. As this was a business dissolution case, this information was not pertinent to the proceedings. As it was my responsibility, and it was fully stated in the court proceedings that my ex-business associate did NOT want the legal responsibility of this information, I still needed to protect and maintain this information. I chose to deal with the ramifications of  the US civil lawsuit loss to maintain those legal requirements, as advised by several lawyers, from UK, EU, Australia and Canadian jurisdictions. Based upon the well-known activities of the plaintiff in the case, there was no guarantee of that information remaining safe, nor court censure for any violations. This lawsuit filed was nothing more than a smokescreen to engage in defamatory activity of supposed illegal conduct.

5. As far as Kimmage’s legal costs, he received $20,000 to cover his expenses up until the UCI dropped its lawsuit against him in 2013, which was the entire basis for the campaign. Any other legal challenges Kimmage faced were not part of the campaign launched. This is where the issues arose, what to do once if/when UCI dropped their lawsuit, and the disagreements which ensued. I had already received indications from one candidate for the UCI presidency that he would drop the lawsuit if he won the election. He did win the election, and did drop the lawsuit. However, due to the lawsuit filed by this ex-associate earlier in 2013, it made any attempts to peacefully find a resolution impossible by this point, as her position was further entrenched by defamatory comments shared on every social media platform available to her. 

This defamatory smear campaign included calls for people to “assault” me, stating on social media I was a wanted felon in Canada (untrue), a fraudster (defamatory and untrue), facing criminal charges in variety of changing jurisdictions (untrue) and hundreds of other false statements about me, my personal life, and friends associated with me.  This has led to additional filings against her, police reports against her and her associates, and led to Twitter suspending two of her accounts permanently for gross breaches of Twitter rules, including the publication of personal information and targeted harassment. 

6.The fact that you have a publicly declared friendship with this ex-associate (as tweeted by her on Sunday, November 6th, 2016) and the fact you were also allegedly a donor to the campaign, puts serious doubts as to your true intentions of this publication. Some of your assertions, comments, and opines are of a similar ilk as her smear campaign commentary, surprising behaviour from someone as esteemed in the wine industry.

7. I have chosen to move on to new ventures, including website/social media promotion as catalunyawine.com, also a documentary shot entirely on mobile filming platforms (which did not finish principal filming until April of 2016, and is still in post-production due to some significant changes including the title) and assisting companies and individuals with PR, marketing, and social media, in a consulting capacity. This includes WinePop, one of the supposedly defrauded wineries from the documentary (all of which were harassed for the past two years by my ex-associate and those associated with her), and others in various industries.

8 I have passed on a copy of your blog entry to the management of WinePop. They will get in touch with you if they have any concerns. 

Further to the points above, I politely request your mailing address in order to facilitate additional steps, should it be necessary to do so.

Sincerely 

Aaron Timothy Brown 

aka Tim Brown

aka Timmer Brown

aka Timmer

**

A further response (7.11.16) from Aaron Timmer Brown:

Dear Mr. Budd,

Thank you. However please find your post, with the remaining information can have legal ramifications under these UK Laws.

Protection from Harassment Act 1997

Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

Malicious Communications Act 1988

Communications Act 2003

Defamation Act 2013

As your assertions and comments are not true in any legal sense whatsoever, and are not protected under freedom of speech legislation, there is jeopardy for you in this post. If you do not comply with all requests, my representation in the UK will follow through with a formal criminal complaint, and will also be lodging a formal complaint to Wordpress, who hosts your domain, as it is in violation of their policies.

Sincerely,

Tim Brown

Wine.Pop: Questions to Aaron Timmer Brown (the man who trousered the Paul Kimmage Fund)

Questions to Aaron Timmer Brown:   
Yesterday (5th November 2016) I sent a series of questions (see separate post) to Brown.

Dear Aaron

As one of the chief organisers of the WinePop app I would like to ask you some questions before posting on my blog Jim's Loire and other media.

Paul Kimmage Defence Fund

a) You have a 2015 US court judgment against you for $84,925.22 in respect to the Paul Kimmage Defence Fund. I understand that as there is interest due on this sum the total continues to climb at the rate of $27.92 a day, so it would appear that you now owe a little over $100,000.

Do you intend to repay the money that you took from the Paul Kimmage Fund? Have you repaid any of this sum and, if you do intend to pay, when do you anticipate that the full debt will have been paid?   

I should declare that I was a small contributor to the fund but was not involved in the class action. 

Earlier this year Paul Kimmage was fined by a Swiss Court for libelling Hein Verbruggen.  The money you stole would have assisted his defence. Have you made any attempt to pay Kimmage's fine from the fund that you stole? 

b) Maintenance to Jennifer Brown in Nova Scotia, Canada

As of 22nd June 2011 maintenance payments due from Aaron Brown to Jennifer Brown totaled $77,031.01. You are due to pay $1700 a month. During the period 17.6.2009 and 22.6.2011 you paid a total of $248, so your debt rose from $38,178.01 to $77,031. What is the current position in respect to the maintenance that you owe to Jennifer Brown please?    

c) Video – Grapes of Catalunya

Four wineries paid a monthly retainer to you to be featured on a video (Grapes of Catalunya) that was due to appear in January 2016. The video has not appeared. The associated website disappeared and it can now be bought for $12.99. Why did this video not appear as promised in January 2016?

d) WinePop

Given your past history – outlined above – why would any winery/producer have any confidence that they will receive the promised benefits – 149€ special 2016 introductory price or 249€ in 2017. Equally can any of your representatives/ambassadors have confidence that they will receive their promised commission? Furthermore, have you explained to your representatives your background as Aaron Timmer Brown – The Paul Kimmage Fund, failure to pay maintenance etc? 

I look forward to hearing from you. I will be posting on Jim's Loire over this weekend, so it would be helpful to have any response you wish to make by 21.00 GMT today (5.11.16).

Regards

Jim Budd

 

Former Chair of the Circle of Wine Writers
Ex-editor of Circle Update, newsletter of the Circle of Wine Writers (1991-2015 for 122 issues) : http://www.circleofwinewriters.org 
www.investdrinks.org: dubious wine investment schemes
Also: investdrinks-blog – http://investdrinks-blog.blogspot.com/

Jim's Loire: http://jimsloire.blogspot.com/
The Loire: the vineyards, the producers and their wines.

Les 5 du Vin: http://les5duvin.wordpress.com

Twitter: @jymbudd

#winelover


This was his response – sent 5.11.16 4.31 pm: 

Dear Jim Budd 
 
Thank you for your email. I will say your email contains inaccurate and false information.

I won’t be able to give you a proper response by your deadline, but will review this in detail on Monday.

Sincerely,

Tim Brown'

 
I look forward to receiving his more detailed response, which I will post on this blog.

Associated post: Aaron Timmer Brown – the fraudster involved in Wine.Pop

Aaron Timmer Brown – the fraudster involved in Wine.Pop

Aaron Timmer Brown (aka Tim Brown) in his bike correspondent days

as a partner in Cyclismas

(above and below)

Episode 7 Highlights

 Aaron Timmer Brown now in Catalonia as Tim Brown –

wine expert and figure behind the Wine.Pop app
+ founder of Catalunya Wine
twitter – @CatalunyaWine; facebook: @CatalunyaWine 

The jovial and enthusiastic Sinisa Curavic

 – the public face of Wine.Pop
Sinisa was very shocked to discover Aaron Brown's past yesterday

Aaron Timmer Brown, the man who trousered the Paul Kimmage Fund * is now a figure behind the recently launched app – Wine.Pop. For someone who was frequently on camera during his biking correspondent days, Aaron Timmer Brown is now curiously camera shy. I searched the promotional videos for Wine.Pop in vain for a glimpse of Aaron – or Tim Brown as he now calls himself. 

In 2014 Tim Brown or Timmer Brown set up Catalunya Wine – the 'Aaron' had conveniently gone AWOL.....too easily found on Google, especially if you add Timmer?

a) The Paul Kimmage Fund
Of course Aaron Timmer Brown has good reason to shorten his name to Tim Brown and to be reticent – almost reclusive. He has a Massachusetts Superior Court judgment against him for wrongfully appropriating the Paul Kimmage Fund. On 27th February 2015 he was ordered to pay a total of $84,925.22 including costs.  Since then, at a rate of 12% interest, this judgement has increased to a total sum of a little over $100,000 and will continue to increase at a rate of $27.92 a day.

The Paul Kimmage Fund was set up in 2012 and some 30,000 people donated around $92,000. Of this some $65,000 is unaccounted for and this led to the court case in Massachusetts and the judgment against Aaron Timmer Brown. 

Kimmage hit for damages, while Timmer Brown enjoys good life in Catalonia
On 27th May 2016 Paul Kimmage was fined 12,000 Swiss Francs plus costs by a Swiss Court, who found that he had libelled Hein Verbruggen, who was the only one of the original claimants in the libel case to continue the action. Shane Stokes reported in The Irish Times that Kimmage had been 'Left vulnerable after a legal fund to support him was stolen'. 

b) Maintenance (child support/alimony) to Jennifer Brown in Nova Scotia, Canada 

Covering letter 28.6.2011 from Nova Scotia Department of Justice
on support payments owed by Aaron Brown

 Maintenance Enforcement Program of Nova Scotia
Department of Justice

Recipient: Brown, Jennifer, 
Payer: Brown, Aaron

 

As of 22nd June 2011 maintenance payments due from Aaron Brown to Jennifer Brown totaled $77,031.01. Brown is due to pay $1700 a month. During the period 17.6.2009 and 22.6.2011 he paid a grand total of $248, so the debt rose from $38,178.01 to $77,031. It is not known what the current level of debt on these maintenance payments now is.

c) Video – Grapes of Catalunya

Four wineries – La Cooperativa Agrícola de Garriguella, Saó del Coster, Terra Remota and Bodegas Torre del Veguer –  paid a monthly retainer to Brown to be featured on a video (Grapes of Catalunya) that was due to appear in January 2016. The video has not appeared, although a few clips can be found on the net including this introduction to the project on Vimeo. The associated website disappeared and it can now be bought for $12.99. 

I trust the four wineries involved thought a few video clips was money well spent.....    

 

d) Wine.Pop

Wine.Pop home page 

 Tim Brown, marketing director – Wine.Pop tel: 34 667 155 803

Wine.Pop Facebook group of Ambassadors, who

seek to persuade wineries/producers to sign up to Wine.Pop

for a promised 10% on all sales 

The Wine.Pop app is the latest wine venture to involve Tim Brown (aka Aaron Timmer Brown) where he is marketing director. This app started life as ArteBacchus developed by Tomas Volts.

 ArteBacchus has transformed into WinePop... (26th September 2016)

Wine.Pop has signed up a number of Ambassadors to persuade producers/wineries to sign up to the Wine.Pop app. In return they are promised 

10% on all sales, for the sign up and for all the bookings coming through the booking system, which is due to be released in November. Ambassadors' 10% fee is fixed and they will be receiving this fee for as long as the winery continues to be a member of Wine.Pop. Ambassadors are able to offer producers a discount for the first year as long as the sign up fee doesn't go below 110€. 

Payments are made through Fact Advertising & Consulting, AG Neugutstrasse 52, CH-8600 Dübendoff/Zurich.   

Yesterday I contacted several of the Ambassadors outlining Mr Brown's history in respect to the Paul Kimmage Fund and the non-payment of Maintenance. They were shocked as clearly Brown has been careful to hide his past from them – hence the disappearing 'Aaron' and 'Timmer'.    

I am told that Wine.Pop is a 'serious project and that Tim has nothing to do with the day to day running, and certainly not with the finances. He is only doing marketing.' However, given Brown's past history Wine.Pop will surely be crippled, while Aaron Trimmer Brown is in any way involved.
 

Questions to Aaron Timmer Brown:   
Yesterday I sent a series of questions (see separate post) to Brown. This was his response – sent 5.11.16 4.31 pm: 

'Dear Jim Budd,

 Thank you for your email. I will say your email contains inaccurate and false information.

I won’t be able to give you a proper response by your deadline, but will review this in detail on Monday.

Sincerely,

Tim Brown'

 
I look forward to receiving his more detailed response, which I will post on this blog.

I expect that I will be posting further on Aaron Timmer Brown and Wine.Pop and trust that Mr Brown's many friends and admirers will appreciate being informed of his latest ventures.      

* I should declare that I was a small contributor to the fund but was not involved in the class action. Clearly I contributed to assist Paul Kimmage's legal defence and not to line the sticky pockets of Mr Aaron Timmer Brown.