Federal Government Seizure of Camp Zoe

Non-Phish General
#1

Has anybody heard anything more about this? I used to go to Schwagstock…this place has hosted some serious throwdown music festivals (see Big Summer Classic).

"HELP SAVE CAMP ZOE!!!

Dear friends and family of Camp Zoe. We are sad to report the federal government is apparently attempting to shut down Camp Zoe. They raided the campground on Monday, November 1, 2010 around 7:30 a.m… They had a search warrant looking for gate revenue from the Spookstock 9 (Oct. 29+30) festival weekend and any financial records. They came in with 70+ officers from the IRS, DEA, Homeland Security, Highway patrol, and local & regional police officers. They confiscated gate receipt money from the weekend that was not already deposited in the bank. They also confiscated some computers and some paperwork from the file cabinets in the offices onsite. One patron was arrested for previous warrants unrelated to Camp Zoe. The same day the DEA seized all the money in the Camp Zoe bank account - which included most of the gate receipts for the Spookstock 9 weekend. This money was to be used to pay staff, artists, security, production (lights & sound), trash pickup, etc. for the festival weekend. It was also to be used for the basic bills for Camp Zoe to get the business through the winter - mortgage, electric, insurance, phones, advertising, staff, etc. On November 8 they also filed an application to seize the Camp Zoe property. No arrest warrants have yet been issued for any of the Camp Zoe staff or owners. All of us at Camp Zoe are doing everything we can to prevent the land seizure and to get the money back they took from the business. We have hired a team of attorneys to represent us on all these matters. Many of you have already reached out to offer financial help as well as moral support. We do really appreciate it. There has been another account set up to collect donations to help pay for attorney fees and basic bills for Camp Zoe while all of this gets sorted out. Our goal is to prove our innocence and to stay in business."

Hope everything turns out OK for Jimmy…a pretty amazing dude. There are a bunch of articles posted on this…thoughts?

#2

Never heard of it. But from the sounds of it (and I am by no means a lawyer here), but it sounds like they must have been up to something not on the level. I don’t mean to make that a character against your boy, as I don’t know him, but it just seems like if they came with all those police, the IRS, Homeland Security (whatever the hell that really is), AND the DEA, then they might have been up to something more than just throwing a bad-ass festi.

Either way, I hope it all works out, and if this Camp Zoe is legit, and a cool place taboot, then I really hope nothing comes of this. Best of luck to your boy Jimmy and the rest of those involved.

#3

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#4

From the OP it looks like they wanted their cut of the dough.

I swear the hijacked fed government is just like the mafia with better funding and weapons.

#5

stop nuking our imaginations

#6

Ridiculous.

I used to be good friends with James Mullins who does (or used to do) the pirate radio for all the events at Camp Zoe. Pure sadness :frowning:

#7

The Man’s a real thing and the hippies have been right all along.

::preaches to choir::

#8

I’m with this. As bad as ya’ll think the government is, you don’t get seized by government unless you draw some attention to yourself. There are festivals everywhere with tons of drugs sold, so why did this one get singled out?

#9

^ Bingo!

#10

BUT WHERE WILL I SEE THE SCHWAG NOW?

#11

^Heh.