Facts About Mount Warning Eco Village Scam

By Gi Linda.

“Truthology” was the deceptive front used as a database by Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock in 2014, when they first began calling for investors to buy land and form a “Village Community.”

 Mark Darwin aka 'FYJ Boofhead"

Darwin and Brennock acquired $1.5 million to purchase the land, plus loans and superannuation, and established “Bhula Bhula Village Community”  at 3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell, NSW, Australia.  

But the “Village Community.” was governed by an improperly executed Trust that enabled Darwin and Brennock to betray the trust of the supposed "unit holders".  

Potential investors were misled by false representations and the silent omission of known restrictions on potential land use.  Investors who paid for the land were then disenfranchised with only a beneficial interest in an empty Trust.

Online “Truthology” marketing material was removed after the land-share scam was exposed in local newspapers in 2016.

Tweed Daily News: "Living in a Nightmare"

Many assurances were given to potential investors that development approval was in process, yet Darwin and Brennock never applied for the required permits, knowing that the land was protected as water catchment for a proposed future drinking water dam.

More than 21 investors who had purchased the communal property at Mt Burrell, were forcibly driven off the land during 2016-17, without return of their funds. 

Despite much pretense, investors have received no restitution as Darwin and Brennock attempt to take private control of the land through a deceptive “phoenix move.”

Adrian Brennock aka "Jimmy the Maggot"

Darwin and Brennock, after fleecing the purchasers of the 640 acre property, are again rattling the can, asking credulous investors to believe their "new promises" and give them money, as they aspire to purchase 3,000 acres and form another “Village Community” on adjoining property, together with landowner Peter van Lieshout.

Landowner Peter van Lieshout

"Mount Warning Eco Village” is again marketed by Darwin and Brennock with assurances that dwelling is permitted, and cabins are offered for sale. Yet the intended "Eco Village", like the failed "Bhula Bhula Village Community", is located on environmentally protected land. Again, there is NO DA in place for multiple occupancy on the land, and no application for development of a "Village Community" has been submitted to Tweed Shire Council, although Darwin and Brennock are, as before, loudly stating their "intention to extend existing permissions".

Mt Warning Eco Village - baiting with "alternative lifestyle" lures

The continual soliciting by Darwin and Brennock, of "mezzanine finance," "loans,” “advances," “ethical investments,” "superannuation funds"   and “pre-DA purchase of home-sites" on environmentally protected land without development approval has been ongoing since 2014. This is a SCAM that has already left more than 20 investors with trust betrayed and shattered lives, defrauded of over $2 million.

Buyer Be Warned!

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Mark Darwin - "Scammer"

Mark Darwin "Scammer"

Comment by a Concerned Neighbour:

"Mark Darwin - So many lies! People who 'invested' in Bhula Bhula have not received their money back. The Land and Environment Court on behalf of the council stopped you at Bhula Bhula and now you are doing the same thing on different land under the name of Mount Warning Eco Village. You are a scammer."

Living A Nightmare

Failed Community Leaves Families Broke

By Alina Rylko / 12th Aug 2017 / Tweed Daily News
 

Defrauded family - the Kirkwoods

"A COLLAPSED shared-living community at Mt Burrell serves as a warning to potential investors of alternative housing schemes. With its court-ordered dismantling this week, the Bhula Bhula Intentional Community has left in its wake at least 20 financially ruined investors and a litany of complex legal clashes.
 
"Investors were lured with the concept of a self-sustainable community, with permaculture gardens and shared labour. Former investor Neil Pascoe and his partner poured $80,000 into the project in 2014 when it was marketed at an "anti-government" Freedom Summit at Byron Bay. "Everyone wanted to get together and make something amazing, to grow food, and to try to create an oasis," Mr Pascoe said. "We wanted to live in self-sustainable container ships - earth ships - and beautiful log cabins. Now people are on the verge of losing their life savings, living in a nightmare."
 
"Suffolk Park resident Emanuele Agus and his wife claimed to have invested $120,000 into Bhula Bhula after they heard about an "off-the- grid community" from a friend. "Things started (to) go wrong when people started asking too many questions about the increasing amount of money missing, and the lack of financial transparency."

According to emails seen by the Tweed Daily News, a man described by some as the co-founder of the community, Mark Darwin, promoted units for $180,000 each in the 'intentional community' via email in 2014, under his "Truthology" and Freedom Summits movements.

 

Mark Darwin - Co-Founder Bhula Bhula Community

"But in a statement to the TDN, Mr Darwin denied any leadership over the Bhula Bhula community, instead saying his involvement was limited to that of an interested "community member"."

Read more:
https://www.tweeddailynews.com.au/news/living-in-a-nightmare8221-community-collapse-leave/3211697/

Open Letter to the Editor

To: Editor, Tweed Daily News

Re: "Living a Nightmare" - Request for correction

From: Gi Linda

Thank you for covering this story, I hope the warning will save many people from loss and harm, but, as one of the defrauded investors in the community featured in Alina Rylko's "Living a Nightmare", I'm disappointed with her report. Perhaps a "poor victim" tearjerker sells better than more complex truth, but "Living in a Nightmare" misses the real story!

I’m a former BBC reporter and independent documentary filmmaker working on social justice issues. Alina phoned me for a quote, saying she was past deadline with only moments to talk about criminal charges I am bringing against the kingpins running the scam and the mega-million-dollar defamation charges they have brought against me for exposing their fraud. As a professional journalist I'm sorry to say that your reporter either ignored what I said, or didn't listen.

I would like to request a correction, including the following facts:

The fraudulent "Bhula Bhula" venture was a set-up by Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock to sell home sites on land protected for rainwater catchment, where no dwelling is permitted. Some investors knew no development approval would be granted, but were encouraged to take the risk, so they fought council for a year in court, and lost. Others, misled by Darwin's dreamweavers, were not told of environmental restrictions.

I was deceived by dishonest marketing. In 2015, Mark Darwin was inviting participation in a progressive community as an escape from a dysfunctional society on the brink of collapse. I have lived several years in successful self-sufficient communities that were built on Christian principles of love, truth and justice. I hoped this new community, founded by Darwin and Brennock under a banner of "Truthology", would uphold integrity. 

In 2015, on the basis of false assurances and mistaken trust, I invested $120,000 for a 3-acre site to build a garden, not a home, before realizing I had bought into a scam.

I soon saw that Darwin and Brennock had formed a tightly controlled Sovereignty Cult, attempting to establish a pirate community on land where no habitation is allowed, by hiding known environmental restrictions from investors.

Defrauded investors who woke up to the scam and requested restitution were threatened, harassed and defamed. We were rejected from the “community” without return of our money and driven off the land with gag orders. I refused to leave without return of my investment, so they smashed my garden, stole my mobile home and belongings, then charged me for "cleanup".

Adrian Brennock, the delinquent fiduciary, controls the company owning our land. As self-appointed director and sole shareholder with a single share value $1,  Brennock is currently attempting to crash the company, burn investors and buy back the land for the private commercial profit of the Darwin/Brennock Sovereignty Cult.

To achieve this phoenix move, on July 7th, Brennock took a $1m loan on the company he claimed was insolvent, to pay their front company, Mt Warning Eco Village Pty Ltd, to purchase the land for $1m over market value!

Together with other defrauded investors, I publish an online blog exposing this scam, and have brought criminal charges of fraud and larceny against Darwin & Co in a private prosecution pressing for restitution and retribution. I am also litigating against them in Sydney Supreme Court for defamation.

A warning! Darwin, Brennock & Phillip Dixon have now expanded their scam to "Mount Warning Eco Village" on a neighboring property, where they continue selling dream home-sites on environmentally protected land. It’s their brazen audacity that stands out; as they menace disenfranchised investors into silence, they continue selling fake dreams in a failed community on land where dwelling is forbidden. As more and more defrauded investors are spat out, new victims are needed, so buyer be warned, before your dreams disappear into the back-pocket of a slick stranger’s snakeskin pants... 

Health Celeb Tyler Tolman Spruiks Mount Warning Ecovillage Scam

By Gi Linda.

American celebrity Don Tolman’s son, Tyler Tolman, describes himself as the "money man" behind Mt Warning Ecovillage.   

Tyler Tolman invites all who “resonate” with the dream of a healthy, happy alternate lifestyle on 3,500 acres of pristine paradise, to check out this “fantastic community” — Mt Warning Ecovillage. In his video appeal the Bali-based  health coach doesn't warn potential investors that since 2014, the "developers" of this prospective “community” have been running an ever-expanding land-share scam. 

Tyler Tolman  Spruiks Mount Warning Ecovillage Scam

 

Tyler Tolman knows that the kingpins behind the dystopic "Village Community", (who he does not name), have, since 2014, left a long trail of angry, disenfranchised investors, who have been deceived and defrauded in this scam. Despite warnings, Tyler continues to promote their false narrative.

The notorious “creator” of the Mt Warning Ecovillage Scam is Mark Darwin, with his colorful pseudonym “Dummass Boofhead”. He shows no empathy and never any remorse for the hurt and harm he has caused to those he has defrauded. In bullying emails he boasts that when it comes to playing dirty pool, he and the "Bully-Bully Boyz" are the best of the best: “All legal, of course, Bah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!”

Since :MARK DARWIN: has declared himself a “sovereign citizen”, he does not recognize the rule of law or the authority of Australia’s courts over his “Straw Man”. So, in Darwin’s sovereignty cult, dishonorable conduct that trustworthy people habitually avoid, such as deception, fraud, larceny, even perjury and subornation of perjury, are just well-refined tools of trade in a large quiver of tricks intended to advance private commercial interests.

With decades of experience in launching failed projects using other people's money, Mark Darwin is a smooth, slick salesman with blue eyes spinning sweet honey lies, and long digits fingering the wallets of too many trusting people. Skilled in  arts of intimidation, Boofhead stalks and silences any who might expose or oppose him, as he underscores vicious ad hominem attacks with malicious acts of harassment by sycophant followers at his bidding.

Adrian Brennock with Tyler Tolman

Darwin is founder and marketing manager of the land-share scams at Mt Burrell, northern NSW, Australia. His diminutive partner, Adrian Brennock / Andrew Brennan, also maintains anonymity, flying under the radar as “Mr X” or “AB”, a "former plumber". Marketing assistant Kelly McSween and puppet directors of shell companies Steven McSween and “Richy-Rich”, Richard Moate, were set up to carry the can should the scam hit the fan.

Those who have recently discovered their trust was betrayed join the growing number of defrauded investors clamoring to recover money that disappeared on a one-way trip down the scamsters' greedy gullets.

In a rare appearance on camera, an ecstatic Adrain Brennock shows Tyler Tolman celebrating on property owned by Peter van Lieshout, the intended site of “Mt Warning Eco Village.

Tyler Tolman invites his followers: “If you want to be part of the community - the dream — come along. It’s worth it!”
 

Get in quick!

There is a big discount for all who bite the cherry and buy a share in the utopian Ecovillage knowing there is no development approval by Tweed Shire Council for the advertised idyllic home-sites beside lagoons and waterfalls that are protected as water catchment for a proposed future dam to provide drinking water to the Gold Coast.

Tolman boasts that the projected Mt Warning Eco Village will cover 6,000 acres: “The size of a small country... that’s what’s required for things to work.”

No, Tyler Tolman! A land scam the size of a small country with a dash of celebrity and a dose of perjury can land the dishonorable in jail. What’s required for the dream to work is not big land and lying lips, but integrity and authenticity.

Selling shares in a village without development approval is like building the proverbial house on sand. It will not succeed. Many defrauded investors in Darwin/Brennock's last fraudulent fiasco, the "Bhula Bhula Village Community" have painfully discovered this truth.

Heal thyself, Tyler Tolman: corrupt roots don't produce good fruits.

Truth on Trial — Part 2: The Truth About Truthology

By Gi Linda

I am one of four defrauded creditors who questioned the unaccountable fiduciary misconduct of Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock during 2015-2016. As a result we were menaced, defamed and rejected as “unit holders” on false pretexts, while our invested moneys, being personal life-savings, superannuation and inheritances, total about $720,000, were dishonestly retained by Darwin and Brennock, who by deception and fraud obtained land and enjoyed personal financial advantage while causing loss and disadvantage to others.

Defrauded investors had responded to misleading marketing materials used by Darwin and Brennock to facilitate the sale of home-sites in a proposed multiple occupancy “Village Community” at Mt Burrell without appropriate disclosure of known land-use restrictions.

Victims of the fraud include “unit holders” and “rejected unit holders”, who invested in the failed venture between 2015-2016, only to discover that the “home-sites” in the “Village Community” are located on land where no habitation is permitted.

Ten defrauded investors are preparing civil class action to recover losses. I have taken independent legal action. After first applying for protection orders, I served Court Appearance Notices on Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock, Steven McSween and Richard Moate to initiate a private prosecution bringing criminal charges of fraud and larceny at Murwillumbah Local Court regarding the “Bhula Bhula Village Community”.

The defendants, Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock, Steven McSween and Richard Moate were represented at a directions hearing on May 23 by lawyer Ian McKay, who did not attempt to dismiss my claims. A full evidence hearing is listed for October 24, 2017 at Murwillumbah Local Court.

In addition to Court Appearance Notices I have filed a statutory demand on Wollumbin Horizons Pty Ltd, the company dishonourably controlled by Darwin and Brennock that owns the shared land. I am seeking restitution of the acknowledged debt to me of $120,000.  Darwin and Brennock filed an application to set aside my demand.

At the first hearing of their application in Brisbane Federal Court on April 21, it was evident that company director Richard Moate had filed a perjured affidavit presenting a false offsetting claim of $120,000. He later retracted the claim, admitting it was false, and resigned as puppet director of the company that is used by Darwin and Brennock to defraud trusting investors in their “village community”.

With their evidence of a supposed offsetting claim admittedly perjured, Darwin and Brennock requested the court to stay proceedings for a month. Their request was granted. That gave them time to continue attempts to liquidate the company to their benefit, harass me further and cookup other false claims.

On May 26, at the second hearing before Registrar Belcher at Brisbane Federal Court of Darwin/Brennock’s application to set aside my statutory demand, their barrister spent seventy minutes presenting over 200 pages of obfuscating mendacity, that gives new meaning to the “weight of evidence”. They flaunted page after legal page of company bills incurred by Darwin/Brennock and charged to me. They even charged me the cost of the skip they used to steal my belongings after they smashed my Garden in December 2016.

Perjured affidavits in the suit are graphically illustrated with Darwin’s pictures of strangled goats linked to his familiar malicious defamatory claims.  Darwin’s false narrative focuses on my supposed “conduct” to justify his “rejection” of me as a “unit holder” in the “village community”, while retaining my $120,000 investment. Fabricated offsetting claims of over $224,000, dishonestly make it appear I am indebted to them.

Towards the end this 90 minute hearing, I was left with fully seven minutes to present my defense. Registrar Belcher commented that he failed to understand why the company refused to make restitution, since the debt is due and payable, the company is solvent and there does not appear to be a valid offsetting claim. Stone Group’s barrister, instructed by Darwin and Brennock, replied that her clients refused to return my $120,000 investment because of blogs exposing their fraud that I publish for the “Association of Investors Defrauded by Darwin” (AIDD):
thetruthabouttruthology.blogspot.com.au
mountwarningecovillagescam.blogspot.com.au

I offered to request authority from AIDD to remove these blogs if my investment of $120,000 would first be returned or held by the court pending compliance. To date no restitution has been made or offered.

I also advised Stone Group Lawyers that I would correct any errors in anything I’ve published, if Darwin and Brennock would supply a list of everything they consider to be factually wrong. No list has been provided.

Besides filing a statutory demand to recover my investment, and initiating a private prosecution to bring Darwin and Brennock’s fraud to justice, I have also applied for protection orders because of theft, stalking, threats, harassment, intimidation and malicious defamation that has continued since publication of my exposé of the fraud in October 2016, until the present.
 
After Tweed Shire Council filed charges against Darwin & Co in the Land and Environment Court for attempting, without development approval, to build a "Village Community" on environmentally protected land where no habitation is permitted, Darwin & Co went tropical. When exposure of their fraud in several local newspapers caused people to stop buying units in their failed venture, they slapped defamation charges on the Nimbin GoodTimes and myself for an article I authored that was published by the Nimbin GoodTimes in October 2016, p4: “The Truth About Bhula Bhula”.  

With Darwin & Co claiming damages around $4 million in lost sales and commissions, allegedly as an unhappy consequence of our exposure of their fraud, this is by far the biggest defamation case in Australian history.

In response to Darwin & Co’s offer of discontinuance of defamation claims against Nimbin GoodTimes, editor Bob Dooley deleted the offending article from the newspaper's online archive, prepared a draft retraction and offered free full page ads to Darwin and Brennock for the next year. Hopefully they get colour.



The article in contention, “The Truth About Bhula Bhula” is copied online at:

thetruthabouttruthology.blogspot.com.au
and
mountwarningecovillagescam.blogspot.com.au