However, based on the correspondence circulated, all have been stiffed or mislead. But let’s give Mr. Senninger the benefit of the doubt. He claims everyone has been paid to date…

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But everyone to date has be paid.

But everyone to date has be paid.

And this doesn’t include active duty service personnel that have contacted me personally, once reading about the activities of Mr. Senninger, who’ve written their accounts of being directly solicited for cash. I would hope any competent attorney would take the time to contact all of the investors, colleagues, and employees of Rick Senninger before taking on a client who has either mislead them, or taken money from them and not given back the promised restitution or services. And seeing how Rick Senninger still owes me pay for two months, well, you can’t squeeze blood from a stone.

He played up the whole patriotism thing, repeating “Thank you for your service” a few times, and then hit up veterans and their organizations. He regularly interviewed people on his show like retired Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, military wives, homeland security supporters, as well as soldiers presently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a veteran myself, I probably gave him the added credibility to go after a segment of our society respected and admired. Apparently it required getting a traitor onboard as well… It appears he found his man.

Rick Senninger finally is getting what he deserves. But he wasn’t alone. He and his partner, Captain Trip Bellard, ran up a tab of nearly $50,000 at our facility doing the Troop Talk show. In the end, Trip Ballard just turned his back on us and walked away after personally promising to help us out. This past fall, Bellard acknowledged taking more than $2,000 out of the Hero Radio Network bank account and promised to send it to us. That hasn’t happened. His shirking of his responsibility and misleading us about his intent, shows how bad character can be contagious. Rick and Trip, another fine example of conservative values being jettisoned when one’s personal comfort and wallet are at stake. Ray Hays PRC Digital Media Jacksonville, Florida

Texas-born, West Point grad, Captain Emory “Trip” Bellard appears to be one of Senninger’s partners in crime. Judging from the funding request that Trip posted on the Go Big networking site seeking $100k in start-up capital, his involvement and goals appear to mirror those of Senninger: target veterans and those who support and love them. When the “Troop Talk” show floundered to its end, Bellard in an August 20, 2007 email to Hays, seemingly blamed his audience for the lack of patriotism and support…

I appreciate all that you have done in support of Troop Talk and bringing the voices of our American Patriots forward to our nation. It is my sincere opinion that our military is fighting around the clock to defend our freedoms, but our country has yet to awaken to the reality of the time and fully mobilize for war. This ambivalence is dangerous and irresponsible. As many of our Presidential Candidates and Congressional Leaders are discussing defeat and withdrawal, the enemy is looking for new ways to exploit our new found weakness. Any minor defeat on the battlefield is used as propaganda for recruiting new waves of terrorists, but a withdrawal from Iraq or any major front in this war on terror will embolden generations of radical Islamists to take up arms in the fight against the great Satan. It has been my honor to facilitate the message of our brave heroes as they fight on distant shores, but it is with great reservation that I must resign the opportunity afforded me in Troop Talk. This past Sunday was my last show. I will be in later today, but I wanted to prepare you for the decision that I have made.

Respectfully, EMORY D. BELLARD III (TRIP) West Point Class of 1999, “With Duty in Mind” MIT Sloan Class of 2009, “mens et manus”

I’ve just received yet another email from a Marine presently stationed at Camp Pendelton who contributed to a respected veterans organization Senninger latched onto. Senninger later contacted this Marine and solicited $3000 cash from him. If any of you reading this have been approached by, or have given money to Rick Senninger or Trip Bellard for any of their radio adventures and feel you have not received the services promised (and have any correspondence via the Internet), please file an complaint with the FBI’s IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center).

According to a phone conversation with a Florida state attorney fraud investigator, Senninger also has bench warrants issued on him in Michigan for non payment of child support. Additional charges may be pending. Senninger will be extradited to Michigan.

Developing…

As many of you may know, the radio show “Outside The Wire” is no more, and its producer Rick “Wright” Senninger is in a Florida jail awaiting extradition to Michigan.

I met Rick last summer when he asked me to appear weekly as a guest on his “Troop Talk” radio show. After many subsequent discussions, he offered me the hosting gig on his “Outside The Wire” program starting up in the fall. While there were many red flags that went up along the way, I was full of the traditional conservative optimism and trust. To help make this successful, I introduced Rick to several of my personal friends who are talents in their own right. Little did I know the adverse effect he would now have on their lives. When, after a few months, they contacted me asking me why he hadn’t paid them, I could only reply that I’d talk with Rick, as I too was one of the unpaid.

“Everything you do affects someone else.”

As it turned out, over the last nine or so weeks, none of us had been paid while doing our jobs for the Intel Radio Network. I personally had written close to 100 columns, produced and edited 10 television programs, and appeared almost every night on the OTW program. What made matters worse was not that we weren’t being paid, but the numerous lies Rick told us just to keep the product coming.

There were numerous phantom electronic funds transfers never sent, special delivery checks never sent, and according to some, checks that did arrive, bounced. Mortgage payments were missed, utilities were shut off and on, and to add insult to injury, we were being strung along by someone who it turns out was living large in the “Land of Good Living.”

What made matters even more worse, is that some of the people who’ve read my columns over the years, and viewed my videos, contacted Rick to advertise on the radio show. They were misled about the dozens of radio stations around the nation where and when OTW would be aired. It was only after their investments, did they find out just whom they were dealing with.

Personally, the last straw was the promises of payment last week that never came. It was apparent, we were being strung along and as I began to outlive my usefulness to Rick, we would never be paid unless drastic measures were taken. Here’s one of those life’s quandaries. Rick was essentially ripping off his advertisers, some personal acquaintances of mine. If I continue to allow this to go on there was a chance, albeit remote, that we would all be made whole. But if I warn them and they pull back or out, Rick loses revenue and then he’ll really have payroll issues.

“Everything you do affects someone else.”

Last Saturday, I began contacting his advertisers and Monday, Florida law enforcement authorities.

When they told me of just whom my boss was, I felt like one of those astonished housewives in a bad Lifetime movie, where the husband’s double life was revealed. When I began to share this information with associates and advertisers, that was the beginning of the end of “Outside The Wire”. The ironic part was that if he had paid his employees and not pissed us off, who knows how long this would have continued.

You can only imagine my surprise when I got a phone call from Florida Wednesday afternoon saying that Rick had been arrested and was going to be heading back to Michigan.

Rick Senninger has hurt many people. The people he took money from, and the people he will probably never have to pay. Many of us, who were previously trusting people, may be more cynical in our future dealings. It’s unfortunate that one person can so adversely change so many people. Obviously, there are many details that I just don’t need to rehash in this format. An explanation is in order.

When a company’s head goes down, the motives and involvement of those around him or her are also usually suspect. I can assure you that everyone who Rick enlisted for involvement with “Outside The Wire” are good conservatives. We just didn’t expect to get screwed over by one of our own.