This is Gary W. Ridge’s response to the closing of the website, www.southern-cherokee.com, based on evidence submitted to Hypermart. To the right of Mr. Ridge’s response, please find our response point by point. All these other websites claiming to be Southern Cherokee also have nothing to do with the Southern Cherokee Nation.
From: [email protected]
To:
[email protected]
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Subject:
Re: trust / TOS Violation - Account Suspended [C02847328000000000]
I
received the attached email.
GARY
RIDGE EMAIL RESPONSE
I am Gary Ridge the elected Principal
Chief of the Ridge was never elected as Chief, he
was appointed
Southern Cherokee Nation
located in Webbers Falls by General Council under false
pretenses including his
Oklahoma, and owner of the trust
account and website claims to familial relationship to Major Ridge
and belief
called southern-cherokee.com. that
Ridge was a Southern Cherokee.
The name Southern Cherokee
Nation is registered by the This is partly so, the name is
actually Southern
US Treasury Dept. to me Gary Ridge with
Federal ID Cherokee Tribal Nation. It is not registered
to Ridge,
number 81-0551895, and has been registered to Gary
it is registered to the tribe itself as per the IRS.
Ridge
since 15 May 2002.
As you know and according to the IRS
regulations the Not Ridge or anyone else can own an Indian
tribe.
only authorized use of the name "Southern Cherokee
All the incorporations all over the U.S. have no
Nation"
is to the registered owner recognized by the connection
to the Southern Cherokee.
US Treasury Dept.(IRS).
I
will be happy to fax you a copy of the IRS form SS-4 His name
was on it only as the person filing the app.
to show to whom
the Southern Cherokee Nation name is It is registered to the
tribal address at tribal house and
registered to. is registered
to the tribe, not personally to Ridge.
This is not the
first time hypermart has suspended our This gentleman at
Hypermart was involved the last
account on unsubstantiated
rumors from individuals time it was shut down and can
verify that the website
regarding our name and website. was not
“hacked into” but rather shut down by
Hypermart. Andrew Light never turned on a computer
The last
time our site (cherokee) was illegally hacked in his life
until 2 years ago. The Southern Cherokee
into by former members
of our organization (Andrew are not an organization, they
are an Indian tribe.
Light) of whom we had to go to Federal
Court District The web site was not shut down until
2/28/05.
Court in Muskogee Oklahoma to disprove their rumors,
The court case was filed on 1/28/05 and had nothing
hypermart
allowed this to happen at a legal cost to us to do with the
website other than the lies and criminal
of over $85,000.00.
Phone calls to hypermart legal activities still being
committed by Ridge and
went unanswered at that time and we were
forced to hundreds of others in the name of Southern
Cherokee.
open another account (trust) to restore our website
The “us” is non-Indians, crooks and thieves
without
although much of the original website was lost during
morals or conscience to anyone but themselves
the
transfer, again costing us more money to restore. and their
greed. Where did the $85,000.00 come
from,
Ridge? - the tens of thousands of people you
Andrew Light also
filed falsified affidavits to the US and your band of
cutthroats lied to and scammed to
Postal Service alledging
Fraud, causing our offices to make some believe these falsehoods as
truth.
be raided by the US Postal Service. Again this proved
As for falsified affidavits, we have evidence by the
to
be false in Federal District Court in Muskogee ,
boxes full. The only thing federal court did was to
Federal
District Judge Ronald White presiding.
intimidate our lawyer and turn a bunch of
thieves and crooks out to keep on doing the same
Please
quit listening to rumors and restore our site thing
because of this kangaroo court. These Southern
immediately.
Cherokee have sprung up all over the U.S. There are
thousands of people out there that have been
conned by these frauds. The tribe does not
have
Thanking you in advance
jurisdiction over most of these people. Thanks to
Mr. William Grimmer of South Bend, Indiana for
Respectfully dealing with seven of this kind of people. This
is
seven convicted who were all brought in and can
Gary
Ridge be connected back to Gary W. Ridge. Any evidence
Southern
Cherokee Nation sent to the tribal office will be forwarded on to the
appropriate authority.
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