Intro to Mark’s Story

My name is Mark Turner and what started as a Civil Trial resulted in me facing a 90-year sentence.  I am standing my ground against power, corruption and greed.  I need your help in getting this website recognized.  This website contains the exculpatory evidence that would have resulted in my freedom.  I am speaking out against the corruption in my area and fully expect to be arrested or killed with the launch of this site.  

At the bottom of my webpage you will find 12 Volumes of Trial Transcripts.  Please allow time for them to load as they are extensive.  Throughout the website, I will be providing the Volume, Page Number and Line to validate the statements I make.  The State provided extensive evidence that I will also include in “Evidence That Should Have Been Shown”.  I will attempt to provide summaries to save you time but the evidence is available if you wish to read it directly from the transcripts.  I have included depositions from my civil as well as criminal proceedings.  My friends will continue to update the website as more information becomes available.  Please continue to check even the transcripts for additional information.  My Blog Site will also provide a forum for everyone’s input.   The more voices we have, the more power the site has.

As you’ve read on the introductory page, I have been in the car business most of my life.  I developed a business system which sold cars on the internet unlike any other technique at the time.  I assembled a team of computer specialists and pioneered the automotive internet industry.  My working business model is available on this webpage (See CarCityDirect.com Link).  In 2002 my business was appraised at $2.25 Million with a conservative projected value of over $12 Million by 2006.  We sold more cars on the internet in 2003 than anyone in the world.  The theft of my business and its monetary value has resulted in attempts made on my life as well as facing 3-Life sentences, ALL OVER A CIVIL MATTER.  I have stood my ground for what is right and collected the evidence that exposes this corruption.  The opposing team of ruthless individuals and their role in this conspiracy will be explained and links to evidence will be provided. 

September 11, 2001 devastated the automobile industry.  Automobile values plummeted.  My internet car sales business was growing leaps and bounds but this came to a halt when air travel was suspended.  Within a matter of months, my internet sales were recovering.  By the following year, I sold half my business to some close friends, Lisa and Joe Zolnoski, who wanted to take advantage of the growth potential they were witnessing first hand.  Due to irreconcilable differences, we rescinded the agreement.  I approached my best friend Rick Hamilton about the rescission with the Zolnoskis.  Rick had lent me money through the years and the rescission would negatively affect my growth potential.  Rick recognized my business was in a highly competitive situation and that we were currently in the lead.  Rick explained that his employer Pete Moore had showed interest in my business.  I had established a 20-year business relationship with this company.  They had been attempting to enter the race of internet sales with little to no success.  Rick was the General Manager and backbone to Pete Moore’s automotive team.  He realized the opportunity to merge Pete with me would catapult Pete Moore into first place in international internet car sales.  He brought Pete Moore out to my business and I explained my situation to Pete as well as my operation.  Pete agreed to help me and we joined forces.  As agreed, I relocated my operation next to Pete Moore Chevrolet.  Pete asked me to write up a Business Proposal listing my assets and debt.  Pete agreed to purchase half my business for $500,000.  This was a significantly reduced figure from its appraisal and what I had previously sold half of it for to the Zolnoskis.  However, I agreed to the amount because Pete had a lot more to offer my company than the Zolnoskis did.  This would provide everything I needed to promote my $1 A Day Program.  My focus was on getting all the car dealers in the country to use my website.  See CarCityDirect’s original website for further information on the $1 A Day Program.  Pete said we would “work the mechanics out on the partnership” as my debt reduced.  He knew he could give me the horsepower I needed to structure my business successfully.  So Rick agreed to hand over all the titles he had been holding for me in the line-of-credit he provided for me.  Pete agreed to do the same.  Pete’s cars came from the Slush Fund.  Rick said Pete would agree this because the money was coming from the slush fund.    Although this was not the $500,000 we talked about, I had partnered with a very powerful player. 

Months passed and I was continuing the process of restructuring my personal life.  My past had run me into a state prosecutor named Russ Edgar.  He forced me into taking a plea for 1-year or facing a 40-year sentence on a racketeering and loan-sharking charge.  This charge was related to my car business and the interest rates I charged in 1993.  After 2 years of torture from the State, I took the plea to the lesser.  After all, 40-years is a life sentence.  I had 2 small children and was no longer in a position to fight.  I later realized this tactic was Prosecutor Edgar’s MO.  He charges everyone with RICO so most bend over and take the Plea rather than face life in prison.  I spent 5-months 1-day in a hard labor county road camp.  All my restitution was paid.  In 1995 I was back in the car business working under my friend David Swanson’s license.  As a convicted felon, I was unable to attain my own dealer’s license.  My brother David Turner approached me in 1998 telling me he was getting a dealer’s license in Alabama.  He offered to get me a dealer license in Florida if I would mentor him in his own wholesale business.  I opened Auto Gallery of Pensacola and he opened Stateline Wholesale.  I could now retail cars with my own dealer’s license that he provided.  I incorporated my business in 1999 and had my rights restored in 2000.  I was on my way back to the top.  My brother David was seeing my success but witnessing his own failure in his company Stateline Wholesale.  I had mentored him as agreed but after 9-11 he had given up.  His bills began to mount as he continued to live on borrowed money.  He plotted to rob me and I was completely unaware of his intent to steal my company’s funds.  I was lending him the money he needed to stay ahead of his bill collectors.  David’s laziness and lifestyle put a wedge between us.  David knew that as of January 1st of 2004, I would have my own dealer’s license under the name CarCityDirect.com. 

On or about December 5, 2003, one of the lending institutions I used, AFC, came to my business to check my inventory.  This was a monthly inspection.  On the 7th, I FedEx’d AFC about $50,000 to pay off cars I had previously sold.  On the 8th, my brother David and his son-in-law Anthony Ramsey (my general manager) robbed me.  At the time, I was unaware of Anthony’s involvement.  Evidence surfaced showing Anthony’s participation in the conspiracy.  David and Anthony stole all my paid for inventory (PFI), title file, my deposit of nearly $40,000 and intended to empty my business account of the $200,000 + funds available at that time.  They went to my bank (BOP) where David informed my banker Annette Cruz he was going to “fire Mark” and he was there to empty the checking account.  Annette informed David that he could not empty the account.  It seemed his laziness had caught up with him.  When the BOP had previously purchased my former bank, he neglected to go to the bank and sign the new signature card.  I was in Mobile Alabama buying cars when I got a call from Anthony informing me “You may want to call your brother.  He came by and got the checkbook, the title file and the deposit from this morning”.  I called David and he told me that I needed to give him the money in the account or he would have Curtis Golden, former state attorney and his wife’s uncle, arrest me or my wife.   I informed him that the money in the account was not his.  It belonged to the customers who had paid me for cars not yet delivered.  You see I offered my customers a 100% money back guarantee.  If the buyer was not satisfied, they would be getting a refund.  The funds in the account belonged to them. 

I drove to BOP and Annette informed me that David had tried to empty the account.  She explained why he couldn’t get any of the money out of the account.  I told her that I had never removed him from the account and requested her advice.  She advised me to open another business account and put all the funds in that account so that David could not access it.  I told her I had about $50,000 worth of outstanding checks.  See this in Evidence That Should Have Been Shown.  Annette personally transferred the funds from the new account to the old account to cover checks clearing for AFC. 

This transfer of money landed me with Money Laundering charge #1.  
My civil attorney Jim Chase, David’s civil attorney and the BOP’s attorney Phillip Bates determined ownership of the account belonged to me.  After nearly 2-weeks, the BOP’s employee Robbie Yould told me to come pick up my money.  I told him to wire transfer the funds to my attorney’s trust fund.  Mr. Yould informed me that Sara Williams already had the checks waiting for me and he did not want to do anymore business with me or my brother.  I went to BOP as I was told.  I took the checks to Jim Chase and he placed them into his Trust Account, regulated by the State of Florida.  This landed me Money Laundering Count #2. The 2 checks were made out to Auto Gallery Of Pensacola Inc.  The first check was for $8,000 and the other was for $138,000.  The one for $138,000 was the balance left in the new account.  The other check was from money that continued to come into the old account.  You see my business did not stop.  It was wire transfers from buyers.  We also continued to receive cashier’s checks via UPS.  I took these checks across the street to Pete Moore’s comptroller Roxanne Sawyer and/or Rick Hamilton.  You will see in State’s Evidence that I did get credit for these checks and that they deposited these checks made out to AGOP into the Pete Moore Chevrolet checking account.  The dates on these checks will show you that we had an agreement for the purchase of my business.  I continued to transfer my business as agreed.  My employees were relocated to Pete’s business along with all of my equipment and all the cars AGOP had previously sold and not yet delivered.  Rick delivered the cars per our agreement.  I instructed my employees to treat Rick as if he were me.  They continued to use my website and intellectual property including my server located in Texas.  Pete now had my team and my business.  When he returned, Pete decided he did not have to honor their agreement with me.  He would not pay me for my business. 

After sharing this information with my civil attorney Jim, we sent a demand letter.  Later we filed a civil suit for Pete’s theft of my business. 

Out of nowhere, I am arrested on July 6, 2006, years after I filed the civil suit against Pete.  But it was not Pete who claimed I had done him any wrong.  Pete’s attorneys were now representing my brother David.  They fabricated 4 volumes of allegations that I had wronged David Turner and the Zolnoskis.  The criminal trial proved all allegations made by Pete’s attorneys were false.  The charges for David and the Zolnoskis were dropped.  Interestingly, Pete was not identified as a victim but Pete Moore’s attorneys were responsible for my arrest.  See Motives Link and Criminal Case Link.